“jie xu”

The results of marketing research can inform marketing decisions such as in concept/product testing, market segmentation, competitive analysis, customer satisfaction studies, etc. and illustrates the need for measurement. The book summarizes all essential measurements widely adopted by researchers w... More

Volume one of this two volume sequence focuses on the basic characterization of known protein structures as well as structure prediction from protein sequence information. The 11 chapters provide an overview of the field, covering key topics in modeling, force fields, classification, computational m... More

Volume two of this two volume sequence focuses on protein structure prediction and includes protein threading, De novo methods, applications to membrane proteins and protein complexes, structure-based drug design, as well as structure prediction as a systems problem. A series of appendices review th... More

This volume summarizes the papers presented at the Chinese Peptide Symposium-96. The topics of the Symposium comprised six sections: approach and methods; a molecular diversity-peptide library; conformation of peptides and proteins; structure and design; bioactive peptides; anda chemistry-biology in... More

Environments needing information technology and management skills combined often find that strategic information and intelligence is not always readily available. How to scan management environments for relevant information and then make sense of the information remains a challenge.Managing Strategi... More

Contents : PrefaceNomenclatureChapter 1: Stamping Engineering and Production 1.1: Stamping Engineering and Production Systems 1.2: Characterization of Sheet Metal Forming 1.3: Stamping Variables 1.4: Stamping Defects 1.5: Formability Engineering Analysis Chapter 2: Universal Formability Technolo... More

Aiming to improve work efficiency in such areas as tillage in agriculture, earth-moving in civil engineering, and tunnel-making in sea-bed operations, this work offers an introduction to Finite Element Method (FEM) analysis of soil-machine systems. It explains the advantage of FEM's numerical approa... More

Presenting basic concepts, problems, and possible solutions, Distributed System Design serves graduate students in distributed system design as well as computer professionals analyzing and designing distributed/open/parallel systems. Chapters discuss-- the scope of distributed computing systems-- ge... More

This is the first reference and handbook since the satellite era began, which describes and derives systematically the orbit theory with analytical solutions of the equations of satellite motion, with respect to all of the extraterrestrial and geopotential disturbances of the second order. The equat... More