Nonlethal weapons -- Government policy -- United States : Nonlethal technologies : progress and prospects : report of an independent task force sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations / Richard L. Garwin, Chairman ; W. Montague Winfield, Project Director
1999
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Nonlethal weapons -- Law and legislation. : Less-lethal weapons under international law : a three-dimensional perspective / Elisabeth Hoffberger-Pippan, Johannes Kepler University Linz
Nonlinear acoustics -- Congresses : Acoustics, mechanics, and the related topics of mathematical analysis : CAES du CNRS, Frejus, France, 18-22 June 2002 / editor, Armand Wirgin
Nonlinear Differential equations : Zeros of polynomials and solvable nonlinear evolution equations / Francesco Calogero (Sapienza University of Rome, retired)
The study of systems which respond disproportionately (nonlinearly) to initial conditions or perturbing stimuli. Nonlinear systems may exhibit "chaos" which is classically characterized as sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Chaotic systems, while distinguished from more ordered periodic systems, are not random. When their behavior over time is appropriately displayed (in "phase space"), constraints are evident which are described by "strange attractors". Phase space representations of chaotic systems, or strange attractors, usually reveal fractal (FRACTALS) self-similarity across time scales. Natural, including biological, systems often display nonlinear dynamics and chaos
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nonlinear dynamical systems. : Developments in control theory towards glocal control / edited by Li Qiu [and others]
Patterns (real or mathematical) which look similar at different scales, for example the network of airways in the lung which shows similar branching patterns at progressively higher magnifications. Natural fractals are self-similar across a finite range of scales while mathematical fractals are the same across an infinite range. Many natural, including biological, structures are fractal (or fractal-like). Fractals are related to "chaos" (see NONLINEAR DYNAMICS) in that chaotic processes can produce fractal structures in nature, and appropriate representations of chaotic processes usually reveal self-similarity over time
Nonlinear Evolution equations : Zeros of polynomials and solvable nonlinear evolution equations / Francesco Calogero (Sapienza University of Rome, retired)