Edited by Kuiling Ding and Yasuhiro Uozumi Handbook of Asymmetric Heterogeneous Catalysis Wiley-VCH, 2008, 448 pp. (hardcover) ISBN-10 3-527-31913-1 ISBN-13 978-3-527-31913-8

Thin film analysis by X-ray scattering. By Mario Birkholz, with contributions by P. F. Fewster and C. Genzel. Pp. xxii+356. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH Co., 2005. Price (hardcover) EUR 119, SFR 188. ISBN-10: 3-527-31052-5; ISBN-13: 978-3-527-31052-4

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incompressible fluid between two infinite vertical parallel plates in the presence of constant temperature and mass diffusion has been investigated analytically. The method of Laplace transform is used to solve the dimensionless governing partial differential equations. The velocity, temperature and concentration profiles have been presented for different parameters like Prandtl number, Schmidt...

U . K . Isbn : 978 - 988 - 17012 - 3 - 7 Wce 2008

than the initial shapes do. By this optimal design method, the algorithm introduced more parameters (twisted angles) for aerodynamic configuration design, and thus demonstrates better of feasibility, robustness, and design outcome for subsonic wing configuration. The resulting outcomes confirm that the method shows quicker in convergence, in comparison to the traditional genetic algorithms.

U . K . Isbn : 978 - 988 - 17012 - 3 - 7 Wce 2008

used to address assembly line balancing problems (ALBP), not much attention has been given to the population initialization procedure. In this paper, a comparison is made between a randomly generated initial population and a heuristics-treated initial population. A heuristics-treated population is a mix of randomly and heuristics generated individuals in the initial population. Both populations...

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The theory of profinite groups is flourishing! This is the first immediate observation from looking at the four books on the subject which have come out in the last two years. The subject, which only two decades ago was somewhat remote, has made its way to mainstream mathematics in several different ways. What is a profinite group? A profinite group G is a topological group which is Hausdorff, ...