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Gribov-85 Memorial Volume: Exploring Quantum Field Theory
Proceedings of the Memorial Workshop Devoted to the 85th Birthday of V N Gribov
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Vladimir Naumovich Gribov is one of the creators of modern theoretical physics. The concepts and methods that Gribov has developed in the second half of the 20th century became cornerstones of the physics of high energy hadron interactions (relativistic theory of complex angular momenta, a notion...
by Phillip C-Y Sheu
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
As the first volume of World Scientific Encyclopedia with Semantic Computing and Robotic Intelligence, this volume is designed to lay the foundation for the understanding of the Semantic Computing (SC), as a core concept to study Robotic Intelligence in the subsequent volumes.
This volume aims...
Statistics and Experimental Design for Psychologists
A Model Comparison Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
This is the first textbook for psychologists which combines the model comparison method in statistics with a hands-on guide to computer-based analysis and clear explanations of the links between models, hypotheses and experimental designs. Statistics is often seen as a set of cookbook recipes which...
Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology
Volume 8: Accelerator Applications in Energy and Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
As accelerator science and technology progressed over the past several decades, the accelerators themselves have undergone major improvements in multiple performance factors: beam energy, beam power, and beam brightness. As a consequence, accelerators have found applications in a wide range of fields...
Colour
How We See It and How We Use It
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Colour makes our lives more interesting — how dull it would be in a black-and-white world! It pleases us aesthetically, entertains us and is useful to us. This unique book aims to describe the scientific nature of colour and light, and how we see it, in an accessible and easily understandable style....
by Chang Chieh Hang, Teck Seng Low, Raj Thampuran
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Ever since Singapore became independent in 1965, its leaders have invested tremendous efforts and resources to develop its economy in order to create jobs for its people and to support national development. This book describes the challenging journey of Singapore in developing a knowledge-based economy...
Advanced Textbook on Gene Transfer, Gene Therapy and Genetic Pharmacology
Principles, Delivery and Pharmacological and Biomedical Applications of Nucleotide-Based Therapies
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
This unique advanced textbook provides a clear and comprehensive description of the field of gene delivery, gene therapy and genetic pharmacology, with descriptions of the main gene transfer vectors and a set of selected therapeutic applications, along with safety considerations.
The use of...
Estrogen Action, Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators and Women's Health
Progress and Promise
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
This volume presents the evolution of the authors' ideas about estrogen action and its modulation by a new group of drugs called SERMs (Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators). The pioneering SERMs — tamoxifen and raloxifene — are known to have saved the lives of millions of women around the world...
by Zhanchun Tu, Zhongcan Ou-Yang, Jixing Liu;Yuzhang Xie
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This is the second edition of the book Geometric Methods in Elastic Theory of Membranes in Liquid Crystal Phases published by World Scientific in 1999. This book gives a comprehensive treatment of the conditions of mechanical equilibrium and the deformation of membranes as a surface problem in differential...
Material Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Proceedings of Material Engineering and Mechanical Engineering (MEME2015)
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
The aim of proceeding of International Conference on Material Engineering and Mechanical Engineering [MEME2015] is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, and academicians, as well as industrial professionals, to present their research results and applications developed for Material Engineering...
by Alexander Wu Chao, Karl Hubert Mess, Maury Tigner;Frank Zimmermann
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Edited by internationally recognized authorities in the field, this expanded and updated new edition of the bestselling Handbook, containing more than 100 new articles, is aimed at the design and operation of modern particle accelerators. It is intended as a vade mecum for professional engineers and...
International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies — 44th Session
The Role of Science in the Third Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Proceedings of the 44th Session of the International Seminars on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies held in Erice, Sicily. This seminar has again gathered, in 2011, over one hundred scientists in an interdisciplinary effort that has been going on for the last 31 years, to examine and analyze planetary...
Solid State Ionics
Ionics for Sustainable World
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Solid state ionics is a multidisciplinary scientific and industrial field dealing with ionic transport phenomena in solids. In a couple of decades, solid state ionics has become one of the largest disciplines closely related to energy technologies, such as batteries, fuel cells, and so on.
So...
Tsunami
To Survive from Tsunami
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
The book is organized into two parts: the first part covers (i) the precious lessons obtained from recent actual tsunami disasters including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster, (ii) fundamental knowledge of tsunami for our survival, and (iii) concludes the...