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Description About the Editors Water scarcity due to climate change, population growth, and economic development is a critical issue in many sem...

Description This unique volume is not just an in-depth analysis of Professor Swaminathan's brilliant contributions to basic cytogenetics, radia...

Description This volume presents a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in loop quantum gravity from the perspective of younger leading researchers...

Description This book narrates the uniquely intertwined life and scientific career of Nobel laureate Osamu Shimomura, with particular attention...

Description This book is devoted to the study of elliptic second-order degenerate quasilinear equations, the model of which is the p-Laplacian,...

Description About the Author Light and Vacuum presents a synthesis of selected fundamental topics of electromagnetic wave theory and quantum el...

Description About the Author While the first 30 years of new China's scientific development was a self-reliant era marked by the detonations of...

Description Why should we use white noise analysis? Well, one reason of course is that it fills that earlier gap in the tool kit. As Hida would...

Description Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries give us an alternative to the more prevalent lithium-ion (Li-ion) versions, and are known for their...

Description About the Author Everyone is familiar with the amazing performance of a modern smartphone, powered by a billion-plus nanotransistor...

Description About the Author Written for undergraduates, this book is dedicated to fixed income fundamentals that do not require modeling the d...

Description Functional Integrals is a well-established method in mathematical physics, especially those mathematical methods used in modern non...

Description This volume consists of nine lectures on selected topics of Lie group theory. We provide the readers a concise introduction as well...

Description About the Author Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: First-Order Differential Equations (674 KB This unique book on ordinary differential ...

Description About the Author This volume will introduce the reader to basic topics of corporate finance. The notes will provide an integrative ...

Description Since the invention of the laser, the variety of lasers and their uses have grown at a phenomenal rate. Scientists and engineers ha...

Description This book serves as a textbook on labour economics and public policy in labour markets. It also shows how Singapore has been succes...

Description This book explains and demonstrates the methods involved in scientific glassblowing. It describes elementary to advanced glass mani...

Description About the Author This book presents clinical and research aspects of medicine and social dimensions of healthcare. It is designed f...

Beaches in Japan have been eroding since the 1970s because of artificial land alterations and unsustainable coastal development. Almost all causes ...

Description About the Author Sample Chapter(s)Introduction (86 KB)Safeguarding Asia's Growth (4 MB) Is This the Asian Century? comprises 25 ar...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Islamic Ethics: Sources, Methodology and Application (382 KB)  Islamic Bioethics presents a wide variet...

Description This book deals with quantum field theory, the language of modern elementary particles physics. Based on university lectures given ...

Description This book is written from the viewpoint that a deep connection exists between cosmology and particle physics. It presents the resul...

Description Stoicheiosis Astronomike ("Elements of Astronomy") is a late Byzantine comprehensive introduction to Astronomy. It was written by a...

Description Fluid distribution during spaceflight and impact on brain and vision health is an emerging field of high-priority research in the N...

Description It is important for every physicist today to have a working knowledge of Einstein's theory of general relativity. Introduction to G...

Description About the Authors Science has made great strides in modeling space, time, mass and energy. Yet little attention has been paid to th...

Description Geophysics is concerned with the physical processes and properties of the Earth and its surrounding environment, and with the use o...

Description International Economics: Global Markets and Competition integrates the microeconomics of international trade with open economy macr...

Description About the Author It is interesting to analyze the application of mid-infrared (MIR, 1000–5000 nm) radiation to study the dynamics o...

Description About the Author International Economic Integration and Domestic Performance brings together the essays of Mary E Lovely focused on...

Description This book is the second volume of a two-volume edition based on the International Society for Information Studies Summit Vienna 201...

Description This book is about the definition of the Shannon measure of Information, and some derived quantities such as conditional informatio...

Description This book showcases the innovative research of Professor Skovgaard, by providing in one place a selection of his most important and...

Description About the Editor Group III-Nitrides semiconductor materials, including GaN, InN, AlN, InGaN, AlGaN and AlInGaN, i.e. (Al, In, Ga)N,...

Description Two large international conferences on Advances in Engineering Sciences were held in Hong Kong, March 16–18, 2016, under the Intern...

Description About the Editor Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: IAEA Programmes in Tissue Banking in Asia-Pacific Region (5,359 KB) This book is a com...

Description Proceedings of the 20th International Conference Clawar 2017. Sample Chapter(s)Compliant Whole-Body Control for Humanoid Robots (54...

Description This book is an excursion into the drug development process, from the initial conception in a chemical or molecular biology lab, vi...

Description About the Editors Holistic Business Process Management focuses on building business process management (BPM) as a model to address ...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Introduction (100 KB)Chapter 1: Third-Order Boundary Value Problems (162 KB) This volume provides a comprehensive ...

Description About the Authors This book offers a unified approach to the study of crises, large fluctuations, dependence and contagion effects ...

Description Written by 30 worldwide leading scientists, experts and medical doctors, this comprehensive book provides a broad, multi-disciplina...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Preliminary (621 KB) This book is a monograph on harmonic analysis and fractal analysis over local fiel...

Description About the Editors Handbook of the Management of Creativity and Innovation: Theory and Practice is a collection of theories and prac...

Description About the Editor Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Probability and Probability Distributions (637 KB) This unique volume focuses on the "...

Description About the Editor A Compendium of 20 Years of Research On Innovation Economics. This invaluable book provides a comprehensive overvi...