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Product Description: Recent years have seen considerable research activity at the interface of mathematics and fluid mechanics, particularly partial differential equations. The 2007 workshop at the University of Warwick was organized to consolidate, survey and further advance the subject...read more

Product Description: The first edition of "Performance Consulting" introduced a concept which has since become a cornerstone of the human resource, learning and organizational development fields: training and HR solutions must be tied to an organization's business goals...read more

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Product Description: This introduction to ordinary differential and difference equations is suited not only for mathematicians but for scientists and engineers as well. Exact solutions methods and qualitative approaches are covered, and many illustrative examples are included...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Combines a fast-moving business parable with step-by-step instructions on problem solving and performance improvement, outlining the GAPS approach that covers 'Going for the SHOULDs,' 'Analyzing the IS,' 'Pin Down the Causes,' and 'Select the Right Solutions.' Simultaneous.

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Product Description: This book develops the theory of global attractors for a class of parabolic PDEs that includes reaction-diffusion equations and the Navier-Stokes equations, two examples that are treated in detail. A lengthy chapter on Sobolev spaces provides the framework that allows a rigorous treatment of existence and uniqueness of solutions for both linear time-independent problems (Poisson's equation) and the nonlinear evolution equations which generate the infinite-dimensional dynamical systemss of the title...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The central theme of this book is how ideas familiar from finite dimensional dynamical systems may be used in the study of infinite dimensional dynamical systems, such as partial differential equations. After an introduction to the study of partial differential equations from the perspective of dynamical systems, some of the ideas are applied to the equations of fluid dynamics and the application of low-dimensional models of turbulence...read more

Product Description: The central theme of this book is how ideas familiar from finite dimensional dynamical systems may be used in the study of infinite dimensional dynamical systems, such as partial differential equations. After an introduction to the study of partial differential equations from the perspective of dynamical systems, some of the ideas are applied to the equations of fluid dynamics and the application of low-dimensional models of turbulence...read more

Product Description: One of the country's leading health economists presents a provocative analysis of the transformation of American medicine from a system of professional dominance to an industry under corporate control. James Robinson examines the economic and political forces that have eroded the traditional medical system of solo practice and fee-for-service insurance, hindered governmental regulation, and invited the market competition and organizational innovations that now are under way...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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