Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 – Hysteresis Effects and First Passage Time Densities under Alternative Modeling Architecture Assumptions (pp. 1-18)
José Carlos Dias and Manuela Larguinho (BRU-UNIDE and ISCTE-IUL Business School, Lisbon, Portugal, and Coimbra Business School, Coimbra, Portugal)

Chapter 2 – Hysteresis Effects in Economics: Different Methods for Describing Economic Path-Dependence (pp. 19-42)
Ansgar Belke, Matthias Göcke and Laura Werner (University of Duisburg-Essen, and Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Germany)

Chapter 3 – Hysteretic Properties of Magnetic Composite Microwires (pp. 43-58)
A. Chizhik, A. Stupakiewicz, V. Zablotskii, A. Zhukov, A. Maziewski and J. Gonzalez (Departamento de Física de Materiales, Facultad de Química, Universidad del Pais Vasco, UPV/EHU, San Sebastián, Spain and others)

Chapter 4 – Theoretical and Experimental Study of Magnetic Hysteresis Cycle (pp. 59-88)
R. Masrour, O. Mounkachi, H. El Moussaoui, M. Hamedoun, A. Benyoussef and E. K. Hlil (Laboratory of Materials, Processes, Environment and Quality, Cady Ayyed University, National School of Applied Sciences, Safi, Morocco and LMPHE, Faculté des Sciences, Université Mohammed V-Agdal, Rabat, and Institute for Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies, MAScIR, Rabat, Morocco)

Chapter 5 – Hysteretic Behavior in Some Natural Processes (pp. 89-106)
Jenő Takács and Akos Nemcsics (Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK and others)

Chapter 6 – Hysteresis Phenomena in Aerodynamics (pp. 107-142)
G. Alonso and J. Meseguer (IDR/UPM, E.T.S.I.A.E., Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)

Chapter 7 – Hysteresis Modulation in Structural Control Systems and Semi-Active Implementation (pp. 143-164)
Marco Domaneschi (Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Milan, Italy)

Chapter 8 – Percolation Analysis of Tendencies of Relative Permeability Hysteresis Behavior (pp. 165-186)
V. V. Kadet and A. M. Galechyan (Department of Petroleum and Underground Hydromechanics, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, Moscow, Russian Federation)

Chapter 9 – Threshold/Flat-Band Voltage Hysteresis of Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory Devices (pp. 187-214)
Zs. J. Horváth (Óbuda University, Kandó Kálmán Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Microelectronics and Technology, Budapest, Hungary and HAS RCNS, Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, Budapest, Hungary)

Chapter 10 – Behavior Patterns, Origin of Problems and Solutions Regarding Hysteresis Phenomena in Complex Battery Systems (pp. 215-226)
Mohammad Rezwan Khan, Jorge V. Barreras, Ana I. Stan, M. Swierczynski, Søren J. Andreasen and Søren K. Kær (Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark)

Chapter 11 – Biological Hysteresis Illustrated from Different Study Cases: Control Factors, Response Parameters and Functional Meanings (pp. 227-284)
Nabil Semmar and Asma Hammami-Semmar (Institut Supérieur des Sciences Appliquées de Tunis (ISSBAT), Unité de Protéomique Fonctionnelle, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia and Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie Marine et Continentale (IMBE), Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France and others)

Chapter 12 – Neuromechanical Models Revealing Hysteresis Mechanism in Gait Transitions of Animals (pp. 285-300)
Shinya Aoi (Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto Daigaku-Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyot, Japan and JST, CREST, 5 Sanbancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan)

Index