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Exotic Nuclei
IASEN-2013Proceedings of the First International African Symposium on Exotic Nuclei
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book is a collection of talks presented at the First International African Symposium on Exotic Nuclei (IASEN-2013). The symposium was held at Cape Town, South Africa from 2 – 6 December 2013. The IASEN2013 was dedicated to the problems of producing and investigating nuclei far from the line...
Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology
Volume 5: Applications of Superconducting Technology to Accelerators
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Over the past several decades major advances in accelerators have resulted from breakthroughs in accelerator science and accelerator technology. After the introduction of a new accelerator physics concept or the implementation of a new technology, a leap in accelerator performance followed. A well-known...
by Oliver Brüning, Stephen Myers
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The past 100 years of accelerator-based research have led the field from first insights into the structure of atoms to the development and confirmation of the Standard Model of physics. Accelerators have been a key tool in developing our understanding of the elementary particles and the forces that...
Cremona Violins
A Physicist's Quest for the Secrets of Stradivari(With DVD-ROM)
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Cremona violins occupy a unique and storied place in violin history. This book contains a brief account of that history — the rise and fall of the Cremonese art of violin making that dominated over two centuries. It is primarily devoted, however, to the physics behind violin acoustics, specifically...
The Ultimate Chinese Martial Art
The Science of the Weaving Stance Bagua 64 Forms and its Wellness Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
The Ultimate Chinese Martial Art — The Science of the Weaving Stance Bagua 64 Forms and the Wellness Applications has three well integrated parts. Part One describes the cultural, historical and scientific background of the mysterious inner style martial
Physics and Biology
From Molecules to Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Do you often lose your keys? You will find in this book the best strategy to find them, or at least the one deduced from statistical physics. What is the link with biology? Some proteins use the same strategy to find their target inside a living cell. This example illustrates one of the many links...
Commemorations and Memorials
Exploring the Human Face of Anatomy
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
A major component of many modern human anatomy programs is commemorating people who have donated their body for education and research. In addition, some institutions have also organized memorial places to honor the body donors. This book is an edited volume which explores the phenomena of commemorations...
by Robert Weale
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
What exactly is human ageing? Can it be slowed down? These questions have puzzled scientists and laymen alike for generations, and continue to do so today. The author addresses these thought-provoking issues by challenging pre-conceived notions of age-perception, age-acceptance and inter-age relations....
China's Diplomacy
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
This book offers a comprehensive review of the Communist Party of China's approach to diplomacy, through an extensive evaluation of the major practices and theories behind the Party's diplomacy, with its main achievements in its 90 years of diplomacy highlighted. It delves into the views held by the...
by Chandra Wickramasinghe
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The idea that life is a cosmic, rather than a purely terrestrial phenomenon, has progressed from scientific heresy to mainstream science within the short timespan of a few decades. The theory of cometary panspermia developed by Fred Hoyle and the present author in the 1970's has been vindicated by...
by Rubem P Mondaini
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
This is a book of a series on interdisciplinary topics of the Biological and Mathematical Sciences. The chapters correspond to selected papers on special research themes, which were presented at BIOMAT 2012 International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology, in Tempe, Arizona, USA,...
From Bessel to Multi-Index MittagLeffler Functions
Enumerable Families, Series in them and Convergence
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Bessel and Mittag–Leffler functions are prominent within mathematical and scientific fields due to increasing interest in non-conventional models within applied mathematics. Since the analytical solutions of many differential and integral equations of arbitrary order can be written as series of...
The Enigma of Ferment
From the Philosopher's Stone to the First Biochemical Nobel Prize
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2005
This popular account of the history of ferment takes the reader on a fascinating journey from its obscure origins in medieval medicine and alchemy to the modern concept of the enzyme. During the 19th century, the question of the nature of the ferment led to a long and bitter conflict between those...
Dear Professor Dyson
Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson and Undergraduate Students on Science, Technology, Society and Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
IN THE NEWSExciting News: Book Published From "Science, Technology and Society" ClassThe Echo, 3 November 2016
Freeman Dyson has designed nuclear reactors and bomb-powered spacecraft; he has studied the origins of life and the possibilities for the long-term future; he showed...