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by Matthew Y Ma
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
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Fundamentals of Patent Protection for Engineers
How to be a Prolific Inventor
This book is the first of its kind to teach scientists and engineers how to go beyond simply getting a patent granted. It covers various aspects, from basic concepts of patent laws, patent preparation...
A Half-Century of Physical Asymptotics and Other Diversions
Selected Works by Michael Berry
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Michael Berry is a theoretical physicist who has contributed to a wide variety of areas in quantum mechanics, optics and related mathematics, linked by the geometrical aspects of waves, especially phase. This collection of his selected published and unpublished papers, reviews, tributes to other scientists,...
Fundamentals of Atomic Force Microscopy
Part I: Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
The atomic force microscope (AFM) is a highly interdisciplinary instrument that enables measurements of samples in liquid, vacuum or air with unprecedented resolution. The intelligent use of this instrument requires knowledge from many distinct fields of study. These lecture notes aim to provide advanced...
Advances in Cooperative Robotics
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on CLAWAR 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
This book provides state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and associated support technologies around the theme of cooperative robotics. The book contains peer reviewed articles presented at the CLAWAR 2016 conference. The book...
Stochastic Dynamics of Complex Systems
From Glasses to Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Dynamical evolution over long time scales is a prominent feature of all the systems we intuitively think of as complex — for example, ecosystems, the brain or the economy. In physics, the term ageing is used for this type of slow change, occurring over time scales much longer than the patience,...
The Future Information Society
Social and Technological Problems
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
This book is the first volume of a two-volume edition based on the International Society for Information Studies Summit Vienna 2015 on "The Information Society at the Crossroads. Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information" (see summit.is4is.org).
The book represents...
Information Studies and the Quest for Transdisciplinarity
Unity through Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book is the second volume of a two-volume edition based on the International Society for Information Studies Summit Vienna 2015 on "The Information Society at the Crossroads. Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information" (see summit.is4is.org).
The book gives an...
Cooperative Innovation
Science and Technology Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Research cooperation in a nation is a fundamental key to national competitiveness in technology that supports growth in a national economy. To fully understand why some nations are more successful in innovation than others, one must examine the structure and process of knowledge creation and use —...
Inside CERN's Large Hadron Collider
From the Proton to the Higgs Boson
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
The book aims to explain the historical development of particle physics, with special emphasis on CERN and collider physics. It describes in detail the LHC accelerator and its detectors, describing the science involved as well as the sociology of big collaborations, culminating with the discovery...
Medical Philosophy
Conceptual Issues in Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
This is the first book that analyzes and systematizes all the general ideas of medicine, in particular the philosophical ones, which are usually tacit. Instead of focusing on one or two points — typically disease and clinical trial — this book examines all the salient aspects of biomedical research...
by Miao Li, Xiao-Dong Li, Shuang Wang;Yi Wang
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
This book introduces the current state of research on dark energy. It consists of three parts. The first part is for preliminary knowledge, including general relativity, modern cosmology, etc. The second part reviews major theoretical ideas and models of dark energy. The third part reviews some observational...
Going Underground
The Science and History of Falling through the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
This book follows the historical trail by which humanity has determined the shape and internal structure of the Earth. It is a story that bears on aspects of the history of science, the history of philosophy and the history of mathematics. At the heart of the narrative is the important philosophical...
Time in Powers of Ten
Natural Phenomena and Their Timescales
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
With a Foreword by Steven Weinberg
In this richly illustrated book, Nobel Laureate Gerard 't Hooft and Theoretical Physicist Stefan Vandoren describe the enormous diversity of natural phenomena that take place at different time scales.
In the tradition of the bestseller Powers of Ten,...
Under the Spell of Landau
When Theoretical Physics was Shaping Destinies
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
This invaluable collection of memoirs and reviews on scientific activities of the most prominent theoretical physicists belonging to the Landau School — Landau, Migdal, Zeldovich, Smorodinsky, Ter-Martirosyan, Kirzhnits, Gribov, Larkin and Anselm — are being published in English for the first...