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Description This book starts from a set of common basic principles to establish the basic formalisms of all disciplines of fundamental physics,...

Description This descriptive textbook provides a clear look at the theories and process technologies necessary for understanding the modern pow...

Description Good biosecurity policy decisions, particularly in relation to plant industry protection, are of ever increasing importance. Growth...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Outline of the Physics (512 KB) The role of physics in our culture is examined from the time of Newton ...

Description Berry phase has been widely used in condensed matter physics in the past two decades. This volume is a timely collection of essenti...

Description This book presents invited reviews and original short notes of recent results obtained in studies concerning the fabrication and ap...

Description About the Editor Continuous-flow photochemistry is an expanding field within chemistry. It unites the mass transfer enhancement of ...

Description The potential for energy transformation from geothermal heat is limitless. For millennia natural sources of this energy, in the for...

Description Phototherapy, or the usage of light to treat diseases, is an important modality in a physician's therapeutic armamentarium. It is e...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Ahmed Zewail: Ultra-Scientist and Citizen (1,519 KB) A compilation of wonderful tributes to the late Ah...

Description About the Author This book gives an introduction to some central results in transcendental number theory with application to period...

Description Patterns of the Future explains the current world using the theory of long-term development waves (Kondratiev waves). Markku Wileni...

Description About the Editors Singapore's era of pluralism between the 1950s and 1970s was a time of extraordinary cultural, intellectual and p...

Description The volume of these proceedings is devoted to a wide variety of items, both in theory and experiment, of particle physics such as e...

Description Today's manufacturers are under tremendous pressure to develop new technological and high reliability products in record time. This...

Description About the Editor What is the profile to excel and lead in an open innovation environment, within and across organizational boundari...

Description About the Editor The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general ...

Description About the Editor The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general ...

Description About the Editor The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general ...

Description About the Authors This remarkable collaboration between a mathematical physicist and a science philosopher concerns foundational an...

Description It is known that nuclear shells play a particularly important role in the collective motion of nuclear matter and, as a consequence...

Description A timely presentation of new results, challenges, and opportunities in the quickly developing field of nuclear cluster physics, pre...

Description This book is a collection of the lectures and talks presented in the Tohoku Forum for Creativity in the thematic year 2015 "Fundame...

Description Kjelstrup, Bedeaux, Johannessen, and Gross describe what non-equilibrium thermodynamics is in a simple and practical way and how it...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Preview (1,034 KB) An Alternative to Morse-Novikov Theory This book is about new topological invariants...

Description This comprehensive reference text is a collection of important research findings on the latest developments in network modeling for...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Aspects of the Newtonian Methodology (224 KB) This book looks at how Newton's theories can be linked to...

Description This is an updated and abridged edition of the original volume published in 2004. Like its predecessor it is targeted for students ...

Description This review volume is motivated by the recent discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube. The aim of the book is t...

Description Dr Wai-Fah Chen – a Chinese-born American academic and widely recognized structural engineering specialist in the field of mechanic...

Description Super-Resolution imaging refers to modern techniques of achieving resolution below conventional limits. This book gives a comprehen...

Description Molecular Electronics is self-contained and unified in its presentation. It can be used as a textbook on nanoelectronics by graduat...

Description Mind computation is a hot topic of intelligence science. It is explored by computing to explain the theoretical basis of human inte...

Description About the Authors Lack of credit access is severe in low income and poor families that are normally considered to have fewer opport...

Description Microbial Biomass informs readers of the ongoing global revolution in understanding soil and ecosystem microbial processes. The fir...

Description About the Author This book is directed toward the numerical integration (solution) of a system of partial differential equations (P...

Description Proceedings of the 25th Annual Symposium of Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Consortium (CMOC 2016) The 25th Annua...

Description In honor of one of the most prolific and exciting scientists of the second half of the last century, a memorial meeting was organiz...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Mixed Matrix Membranes for Gas Separation Applications (5,691 KB)  This book aims at illustrating sever...

Stanley Mandelstam (1928–2016) was one of the most influential and respected particle theorists. Coming as a young chemical engineer from South Afr...

Description The biochemistry and cell biology of Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMPs) are not necessarily straightforward, but basic information on...

Description Held in Wuhan of China from August 20–21, 2016, the 2016 International Conference on Mechatronics and Manufacturing Technologies (M...

Description The 2nd Annual 2016 International Workshop on Materials Science and Engineering (IWMSE 2016) was held in Guangzhou, Guangdong, Chin...

Description About the Authors From the author of the New York Times bestseller, Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives, comes th...

Description This book covers the necessary aspects of mathematics for graduate students in physics and engineering. Advanced undergraduate stud...

Description This proceedings brings together 59 selected articles presented at the joint conferences of the International Conference on Managem...

Description About the Author The management of technological innovation is both an art, as well as a science; the process involves the know-how...

Description This book, developed in collaboration with the Rutgers Center for Supply Chain Management and based upon research projects conducte...