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Description Singapore’s demographic diversity was the driving force for the country's founding leaders as they forged a nation. They sought to ...

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

Description The political, economic and social changes that have occurred over the past 60 years have shaped and transformed the childhood of c...

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 Editors Singapore's well-documented economic progress since independence owes a big debt to the initial investment that t...

Description This book is an annual effort by the economists at the Nanyang Technological University to provide analysis, interpretations and in...

Description This book is a spin-off from a highly successful seminar series jointly organized by the Division of Economics of the Nanyang Techn...

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

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

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

Description Given that scientific material can be hard to comprehend, sustained attention and memory retention become major reader challenges. ...

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 Authors This book documents short stories of inspirational local runners who were involved in the creation of Sundown Mar...

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

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

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

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...

Description Shown here is how basic concepts of physics can be used to improve models in finance, economics, psychology and biology. Readers ar...

Description This book on quantum optics is from the point of view of an experimentalist. It approaches the theory of quantum optics with the la...

Description The matter in our universe is composed of electrons and quarks. The dynamics of electrons and quarks is described by the Standard M...

Description The complex field of analytical chemistry requires knowledge and application of the fundamental principles of numerical calculation...

Description About the Author Not much has been written about the private education sector in Singapore despite the fact that the sector houses ...

Description This book is the solution manual to the textbook "A Modern Course in University Physics". It contains solutions to all the problems...

Description About the Author The first edition of this book appeared over three decades ago (Wiley-Interscience, 1983), whereas the second one ...

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 Project-based and industry-linked learning are increasingly pursued in undergraduate studies at the university as well as at the po...

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

Description About the Author The OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is gaining increasing attention among education a...

Description About the Authors Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723): The First Microbiologist (523 KB) Pasteurizatio...

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

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

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...