There are 42 million native Korean speakers, including more than 1 million in the U.S. , and knowledge of Korean is increasingly in demand due to South Koreaa s growing economic influence and North Koreaa s continuing international security issues. This fun and easy guide helps people pick up basic [...]
This book explores a collection of natural surfaces, their scientific characteristics and their unique engineering potential - demonstrating that engineering applications can be found in unexpected places. The surfaces covered range from botanical ones, like rice and lotus leaves, to insect surfaces[...]
The Third Edition of the leading reference on survival data analysis The study of survival data attempts to predict the probability of response, survival, or mean lifetime; compare; the survival distributions of experimental animals or of human patients; and identify risk and/or prognosis factors. S[...]
This book reviews the latest developments and applications of modeling and simulation techniques in aluminum shape castings, and the need for improvement of these computational techniques. Specifically, topics include design of both the cast aluminum alloy as well as aluminum casting and gating syst[...]
Upgraded to reflect the latest research and software applications on the topic, this new edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the statistical methods for analyzing survival data.[...]