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Gasmesstechnik in Theorie und Praxis: Messgeräte, Sensoren, Anwendungen

In dem Buch werden die physikalischen Eigenschaften der Gase beschrieben und die unterschiedlichen Messverfahren und Sensorprinzipien zur Analyse von Gasgemischen dargestellt. Die Anwendung von Gassensoren in den unterschiedlichen Applikationen wird anhand praxisnaher Beispiele dargestellt. Diese Anwendungsfälle der messtechnischen Erfassung von Gasen stammen aus vielen Bereichen der Technik, insbesondere der Energietechnik, Lebensmitteltechnik, Verfahrenstechnik, Biotechnik, Sicherheitstechnik, Medizintechnik und der Umwelttechnik.

Gasoline Compression Ignition Technology: Future Prospects (Energy, Environment, and Sustainability)

This book focuses on gasoline compression ignition (GCI) which offers the prospect of engines with high efficiency and low exhaust emissions at a lower cost. A GCI engine is a compression ignition (CI) engine which is run on gasoline-like fuels (even on low-octane gasoline), making it significantly easier to control particulates and NOx but with high efficiency. The state of the art development to make GCI combustion feasible on practical vehicles is highlighted, e.g., on overcoming problems on cold start, high-pressure rise rates at high loads, transients, and HC and CO emissions. This book will be a useful guide to those in academia and industry.

Gasoline Engine Management: Systems and Components (Bosch Professional Automotive Information)

The call for environmentally compatible and economical vehicles necessitates immense efforts to develop innovative engine concepts. Technical concepts such as gasoline direct injection helped to save fuel up to 20 % and reduce CO2-emissions. Descriptions of the cylinder-charge control, fuel injection, ignition and catalytic emission-control systems provides comprehensive overview of today´s gasoline engines. This book also describes emission-control systems and explains the diagnostic systems. The publication provides information on engine-management-systems and emission-control regulations.

Gasotransmitters Signaling in Plant Abiotic Stress: Gasotransmitters in Adaptation of Plants to Abiotic Stress (Signaling and Communication in Plants)

This book deals with the gasotransmitters signaling in redox reactions and homeostasis for the adaptation of plants to unfavorable abiotic stress environments. There are lots of interesting chapters in this book that cover both research and educational objectives. This book serves as a reference illustrated book for all who are interested in the regulation of gasotransmitters and redox homeostasis in agriculture. Maintenance of redox homeostasis strengthens the potentiality of plants to resist abiotic stress conditions through the enhanced antioxidant system and the subsequent impact on other signaling molecules. The book presents novel outcomes and implications in plant biology concerning the study of different types of gasotransmitters signaling such as nitric oxide (NO), ethylene, hydrogen sulfide (H2S), etc. under diverse abiotic stresses in one place. The chapters of the book discuss the recent progress and current perspectives on the role of gasotransmitters relevance to plant functions and adaptations to abiotic stresses, the influence of gasotransmitters on the physiology of plants with respect to abiotic stress tolerance, gasotransmitters and omics for abiotic stress tolerance, advancement in the biology of gasotransmitters in regulating salinity and drought stress response in plants, new insights of gasotransmitters and cellular redox homeostasis in plants and the chapter also deliberate the emerging role of gasotransmitters in regulating redox homeostasis for plant stress management. This book is the first comprehensive book covering all aspects and advancements in the biology of gasotransmitters in redox homeostasis conferring different abiotic stress tolerance, from which readers from all backgrounds can get benefitted. This book will appeal to researchers, students, scientific societies, agriculturists, etc.

Gasotransmitters Signaling in Plants under Challenging Environment (Plant in Challenging Environments #5)

Abiotic stressors, such as drought, extreme temperatures, heavy metals, or high salinity, are causing huge crop losses worldwide. These abiotic stressors are expected to become more extreme, less predictable, and more widespread in the near future. The harm of abiotic stresses includes the disruption of cellular redox homeostasis, reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, and oxidative stress in the plant. Plants have different mechanisms to fight stress, and these mechanisms are responsible for maintaining the required homeostasis in plants. Research on gasotransmitters is rapidly expanding and knowledge regarding the potential of gasotransmitters in biology and medicine is accumulating. Over the past few decades, the roles of these signaling molecules, especially NO and H2S, have been extensively studied for their application in plants. Recently, the emissions of endogenous gasotransmitters in plants have been widely studied and analyzed, thereby providing information to facilitate our understanding of new gasotransmitters signaling pathways. Given the multidimensional role of these signaling molecules, research over the past decades in mitigating abiotic stresses in plant biology and from an agriculture point of view, we intend to bring forth a comprehensive volume “Gasotransmitters Signaling in Plants under Challenging Environment". We are hopeful that this comprehensive volume will furnish the requisite of all those who are working or have an interest in the proposed topic

Gasreinigung und Luftreinhaltung (VDI-Buch)

Praxisorientiertes Lehr- und Nachschlagewerk zu den wichtigsten Grundlagen der Gasreinigung und der Luftreinhaltung. Auszug aus dem Handbuch Umweltschutztechnik derselben Herausgeber.

Gastroenterologische Endoskopie Anleitung für die Praxis

Dies ist eine Informationsbroschüre für den Arzt. Jeweils auf gegenüberliegenden Doppelseiten finden sich rechts vier Farbbilder mit typischen endoskopischen Befunden, links schwarz-weiße Skizzierung mit Beschriftung der Befunde der gegenüberliegenden Bilddokumentation. Jede Doppelseite enthält noch kurze therapeutische, stichwortartige Empfehlungen.

Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease Nutrition Desk Reference

While the gastrointestinal tract ingests, digests, and absorbs nutrients, the liver transforms nutrients, synthesizes plasma proteins, and detoxifies bacteria and toxins absorbed from the gut. It is therefore not surprising that gastrointestinal and hepatic diseases have a major impact on the nutritional state of the individual. Integrating nutriti

Gastrointestinal Microbiology: Volume 1 Gastrointestinal Ecosystems and Fermentations (Chapman & Hall Microbiology Series)

Extremely diverse and complicated bacterial and protozoan populations inhabit the rumen and intestinal tract of animals, and there is a delicate balance among the individual populations within this complex microbial community. This authoritative edited volume, the first in a two-volume set, reviews the gut environment and the fermentations taking place in animal digestive tracts. It is an essential source of reference for microbial ecologists and physiologists, medical microbiologists and gastroenterologists, biochemists, nutritionists, veterinarians and animal scientists, and wildlife ecologists.

Gastrointestinal Tract Imaging E-Book: An Evidence-Based Practice Guide

This book offers a unique insight into the rapidly changing radiology service, and offers introductory chapters which provide the fundamental underpinning knowledge required for safe and effective GI practice. Subsequent chapters discuss the evidence base related to a range of imaging procedures suitable for investigation of upper and lower GI symptoms, supported by key pathology chapters. The book also explores the range of treatments available for the more common GI tract pathology.Multi professional authorship.Detailed evidence-informed explanations of a range of individual GI procedures, including suggestions for problem solving and adaptation of technique.With extensive illustrations, medical images, boxes and tables.References and further reading./ul>

Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating

A ground-breaking book by the world-leading expert in sensory science: Freakonomics for foodWhy do we consume 35% more food when eating with one more person, and 75% more when with three? Why are 27% of drinks bought on aeroplanes tomato juice? How are chefs and companies planning to transform our dining experiences, and what can we learn from their cutting-edge insights to make memorable meals at home?These are just some of the ingredients of Gastrophysics, in which the pioneering Oxford professor Charles Spence shows how our senses link up in the most extraordinary ways, and reveals the importance of all the "off-the-plate" elements of a meal: the weight of cutlery, the colour of the plate (his lab showed that red is associated with sweetness - we perceive salty popcorn as tasting sweet when served in a red bowl), the background music and much more. Whether dining alone or at a dinner party, on a plane or in front of the TV, he reveals how to understand what we're tasting and influence what others experience. Meal-times will genuinely never be the same again.

Gasturbinen Handbuch (VDI-Buch)

Dieses amerikanische Standardwerk wurde vom Übersetzer angepaßt auf die deutschen Verhältnisse. Es bietet wertvolle Informationen für Installation, Betrieb und Wartung, technische Details der Auslegung, Kennzahlen und vieles mehr.

Gasturbinen und Flugantriebe: Grundlagen, Betriebsverhalten und Simulation (VDI-Buch)

Der Band führt in Grundlagen, Auslegung und rechnergestützte Simulation stationärer und mobiler Gasturbinenanlagen ein. Ausgehend von den realen, thermodynamischen Arbeitsprozessen werden die Hauptkomponenten wie Turboverdichter, Turbinen und Brennräume dargestellt. Darauf aufbauend wird das stationäre und instationäre Betriebsverhalten simuliert sowie die Anpassung an verschiedene Lastbereiche und Einsatzbedingungen behandelt. Strategien zur Auslegungsmethodik und -optimierung werden insbesondere an typischen Turbofan-Triebwerken demonstriert.

Gasturbinen und Gasturbinenanlagen: Darstellung und Berechnung

Die Stromerzeugung mit Gasturbinenanlagen gewinnt weltweit immer mehr an Bedeutung. Die Hersteller versuchen, mit technisch und wirtschaftlich ständig verbesserten Einheiten den großen Bedarf an Aggregaten zu befriedigen. Die Dokumentation der Berechnungsverfahren hat mit der zügigen Entwicklung jedoch nicht Schritt gehalten. Es fehlt vor allem die vollständige Beschreibung eines Modells für die energetische sowie wirtschaftliche Berechnung einer modernen Gasturbinenanlage. Das Buch füllt diese Lücke; es gibt Berechnungsverfahren an und stellt Zahlenmaterial und Ergebnisse bereit. Die Berechnungsgrundlagen schließen den Dampfteil der gegenwärtig überwiegend eingesetzten kombinierten Gas- und Dampfturbinenanlagen (GuD) ausführlich mit ein.

Gasturbinenanlagen: Komponenten - Betriebsverhalten - Auslegung - Berechnung

Dieses Lehrbuch zeigt sehr verständlich und umfangreich die technisch/energetische und wirtschaftliche Berechnung einer modernen Gasturbinenanlage und stellt auch Zahlenmaterial und Ergebnisse bereit. Die Berechnungsgrundlagen schließen den Dampfteil der gegenwärtig überwiegend eingesetzten kombinierten Gas- und Dampfturbinenanlagen (GuD) ausführlich mit ein. Neu hinzugekommen sind die, meist mehrwelligen, Flugtriebwerke. Die neue Auflage wurde überarbeitet und an einigen Stellen inhaltlich ergänzt.

Gasturbinenkraftwerke: Ihre Aussichten für die Elektrizitätsversorgung

Gaswerke und Elektrizitätsangelegenheiten

Gate Dielectrics and MOS ULSIs: Principles, Technologies and Applications (Springer Series in Electronics and Photonics #34)

Gated Communities and the Digital Polis: Rethinking Subjectivity, Reality, Exclusion, and Cooperation in an Urban Future (Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements)

This edited collection provides an alternative discourse on cities evolving with physically and virtually networked communities—the ‘digital polis’—and offers a variety of perspectives from the humanities, media studies, geography, architecture, and urban studies. As an emergent concept that encompasses research and practice, the digital polis is oriented toward a counter-mapping of the digital cityscape beyond policing and gatekeeping in physical and virtual gated communities. Considering the digital polis as offering potential for active support of socially just and politically inclusive urban circumstances in ways that mirror the Greek polis, our attention is drawn towards the interweaving of the development of digital technology, urban space, and social dynamics. The four parts of this book address the formation of technosocial subjectivity, real-and-virtual combined urbanity, the spatial dimensions of digital exclusion and inclusion, and the prospect of emancipatory and empowering digital citizens. Individual chapters cover varied topics on digital feminism, data activism, networked individualism, digital commons, real-virtual communalism, the post-family imagination, digital fortress cities, rights to the smart city, online foodscapes, and open-source urbanism across the globe. Contributors explore the following questions: what developments can be found over recent decades in both physical and virtual communities such as cyberspace, and what will our urban future be like? What is the ‘digital polis’ and what kinds of new subjectivity does it produce? How does digital technology, as well as its virtuality, reshape the city and our spatial awareness of it? What kinds of exclusion and cooperation are at work in communities and spaces in the digital age? Each chapter responds to these questions in its own way, navigating readers through routes toward the digital polis.Chapter "Introduction - The digital polis and its practices: Beyond gated communities" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Gatermann + Schossig Bauten für Industrie und Technik (architypus; Skala für Architektur und Typologie)

Dörte Gatermann und Elmar Schossig planen Industriebau vom konstruktiven Detail bis zur Synthese von Industrie, Architektur und Stadt. Ihre Leidenschaft für komplexe und flexible Ordnungssysteme, für Material- und Lichtexperimente, für intelligente Fassaden, für Fragen der Stadtentwicklung, sogar für technische Experimente, mußte gerade auf diesem Gebiet zu besonderen Leistungen befähigen. Nach mehr als zehn Jahren reicht die Erfahrung der Architekten von einzelnen Pumpwerken, Umspannwerken und Brücken über Industrieanlagen und Produktionsstätten bis zur Planung ganzer Gewerbe- und Technologiezentren, wie Gladbeck, Köln, Dortmund und Dresden.

GATT Negotiations and the Political Economy of Policy Reform

This volume is dedicated to understanding the political economy obstacles to trade reform, especially global agricultural trade reform, and how these obstacles can be surmounted. The focus is on the trade reform under the GATT negotiations. New political-economic methodologies are used to assess and evaluate the obstacles and original scholarly analyses have been designed to explain why agriculture - among so many topics - became such a significant problem in the most recent Uruguay Round of the GATT.

Gauge Invariance Approach to Acoustic Fields

This book highlights the symmetry properties of acoustic fields and describes the gauge invariance approach, which can be used to reveal those properties. Symmetry is the key theoretical framework of metamaterials, as has been demonstrated by the successful fabrication of acoustical metamaterials. The book first provides the necessary theoretical background, which includes the covariant derivative, the vector potential, and invariance in coordinate transformation. This is followed by descriptions of global gauge invariance (isotropy), and of local gauge invariance (anisotropy). Sections on time reversal symmetry, reflection invariance, and invariance of finite amplitude waves round out the coverage.

Gaussian Scale-Space Theory (Computational Imaging and Vision #8)

Gaussian scale-space is one of the best understood multi-resolution techniques available to the computer vision and image analysis community. It is the purpose of this book to guide the reader through some of its main aspects. During an intensive weekend in May 1996 a workshop on Gaussian scale-space theory was held in Copenhagen, which was attended by many of the leading experts in the field. The bulk of this book originates from this workshop. Presently there exist only two books on the subject. In contrast to Lindeberg's monograph (Lindeberg, 1994e) this book collects contributions from several scale­ space researchers, whereas it complements the book edited by ter Haar Romeny (Haar Romeny, 1994) on non-linear techniques by focusing on linear diffusion. This book is divided into four parts. The reader not so familiar with scale-space will find it instructive to first consider some potential applications described in Part 1. Parts II and III both address fundamental aspects of scale-space. Whereas scale is treated as an essentially arbitrary constant in the former, the latter em­ phasizes the deep structure, i.e. the structure that is revealed by varying scale. Finally, Part IV is devoted to non-linear extensions, notably non-linear diffusion techniques and morphological scale-spaces, and their relation to the linear case. The Danish National Science Research Council is gratefully acknowledged for providing financial support for the workshop under grant no. 9502164.

GCEC 2017: Proceedings of the 1st Global Civil Engineering Conference (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #9)

This book gathers the proceedings of the 1st Global Civil Engineering Conference, GCEC 2017, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 25–28, 2017. It highlights how state-of-the-art techniques and tools in various disciplines of Civil Engineering are being applied to solve real-world problems. The book presents interdisciplinary research, experimental and/or theoretical studies yielding new insights that will advance civil engineering methods. The scope of the book spans the following areas: Structural, Water Resources, Geotechnical, Construction, Transportation Engineering and Geospatial Engineering applications.

GCSE Science 9-1 — AQA GCSE BIOLOGY 9-1 FOR COMBINED SCIENCE GRADE 5 BOOSTER WORKBOOK

This Workbook will support and motivate students to reach their full potential with targeted questions and support. Provides plenty of practice opportunities for short- and long-answer questions on every topic Builds confidence with worked examples demonstrating how to answer different types of questions Further support from hints and tips explaining command words, advising how to approach questions and more The questions begin with confidence-building, lower demand questions and they are ramped throughout each topic. The workbook provides coverage of maths and practical skills as well as offering synoptic questions. The range of questions available encourages students to develop their skills in applying and analysing as well as recall. Frequent support notes provide hints and tips on strategies for decoding questions (for example by identifying key words in the question), key terminology, and how to write explanations and give the right amount of detail.