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Description Pathogenic bacteria have unique biological properties, which enable them to invade a host and cause sickness. The molecular bases o...

Description The Abdus Salam Memorial Meeting was held from the 19th to the 22nd of November, 1997 on the first anniversary of the death of Prof...

Description ATP Binding Cassette (ABC) transporters are a family of integral membrane proteins present in all cells of all species of archaea, ...

Description In this book, the synthesis and applications of recent nanomaterials are discussed and reviewed in detail. The scope of the book co...

Description Sustainability Matters is a compilation of some of the best research papers submitted by students from the National University of S...

Description About the Author This book collects my scholarly research on the behavior of foreign exchange rates conducted over the past twenty-...

Description About the Author This book is a guide for advanced undergraduates, post-graduates and researchers to the fundamental principles in ...

Description About the Author Sample Chapter(s)Introduction (519 KB) This book examines the nature of the stock market and its implications for ...

Description This book presents studies of stock market crashes big and small that occur from bubbles bursting or other reasons. By a bubble we ...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: What is Science? (470 KB) This is the first textbook for psychologists which combines the model compari...

Description This book is the distilled essence of the author teaching statistical mechanics to juniors, seniors and graduate students for over ...

Description About the Author The book is devoted to the study of the correlation effects in many-particle systems. It presents the advanced met...

Description About the Authors This is the first book to specify the type of economic system that has arisen in Central Asia, replacing the simp...

Description This book provides a modern introduction to the study of star formation, at a level suitable for graduate students or advanced unde...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: American League (432 KB) The book focuses on, identifies, and analyzes various divisions and conference...

Description The totality of the eigenvalues of the Laplacian of a compact Riemannian manifold is called the spectrum. We describe how the spect...

Description About the Authors Until the mid-1950s nearly all the waters lying between the far-flung islands of the Indonesian archipelago were ...

Description About the Authors The recent uncertainties over the South China Sea have become one major issue in the relations between China and ...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Introduction (8,465 KB) This book investigates the development of sorption enhanced reaction processes ...

Description About the Authors Together with the noted Tang dynasty tales, Song dynasty tales have long been highly valued and widely read in th...

Description This new volume of the Mathematical Olympiad Series focuses on the topic of geometry. Basic and advanced theorems commonly seen in ...

Description About the Author Placing the modernization of China in a historical context, Social Construction in Contemporary China provides a p...

Description About the Editors Singapore's Real Estate: 50 Years of Transformation documents the transformation and development of the real esta...

Description About the Author Singapore is known internationally for its successful economic development. Key to its economic successes is a var...

Description Singapore’s rapid evolution from a modest trading post under colonial rule into a prosperous, self-confident nation is one of the n...

Description The narratives and analysis included in this book were written by and derived from teacher participants in a post-graduate course t...

Description About the Editors Showcasing the substantive and multi-faceted Singapore-China relationship, this book examines the political, econ...

Description About the Authors This book is the definitive volume on the history of chess in Singapore. Covering 1945–1990, it covers the post-w...

Description About the Editor As Singapore enters its 50th year of independence, it is a time for introspection to look back at the successes an...

Description About the Authors The book provides the background on simulating copulas and multivariate distributions in general. It unifies the ...

Description About the Author Shift register sequences cover a broad range of applications, from radar signal design, pseudo-random number gener...

Description The contents in this volume are based on the program Sets and Computations that was held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences...

Description Cancer is fast becoming one of the main causes of death worldwide. Unfortunately many cases are diagnosed at an advanced incurable ...

Description As the first volume of World Scientific Encyclopedia with Semantic Computing and Robotic Intelligence, this volume is designed to l...

Description About the Author The Dean of Harvard Business School, Nithin Nohria, declared that, "The public has lost trust in business, and som...

Description The book helps scientists write papers for scientific journals. Using the key parts of typical scientific papers (Title, Abstract, ...

Description Coined as the third revolution in electronics is under way; Manufacturing is going digital, driven by computing revolution, powered...

Description About the Editor Sustainability is going to be one of the most important issues of the coming decades. For the first time, institut...

Description Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) as a form of radar to create images of objects, uses the motion of the radar antenna over a targeted...

Description About the Author This book, a compilation of key speeches and articles by the late Mr S Rajaratnam, is a tribute to one of the foun...

Description Since its invention in the 1920s, particle accelerators have made tremendous progress in accelerator science, technology and applic...

Description This book aims to provide an overview of the importance of communities to mitigate the threat of terrorism, drawing key lessons and...

Description About the Editors Sample Chapter(s)Introduction — Conflict Mediatization in the Middle East (217 KB) Numerous studies address the f...

Description About the Editors Remembering S R Nathan: A Mentor for All Seasons is a collection of essays commemorating the life of Singapore's ...

Description The development of Reliability and Maintenance theory and applications has become major concerns of engineers and managers engaged ...

Description Reflections: The Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew is a collection of essays reflecting on Singapore's first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew's im...

Description This memorial volume is dedicated to physicist Gerald E Brown (1926–2013) or 'Gerry' as he was known to his many students, postdocs...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Foreword (55 KB)Chapter I.1: Schrödinger Equation (214 KB)Chapter II.1: Background on Heterostructures (214 KB)Cha...