Result of an effort in to bring the results and planning activities related to earth and space science in Asia and the international arena. This volume highlights the scientific issues essential to the study of earthquakes, tsunamis, climate change, drought, flood, typhoons, space weathers, and planetary exploration.
This book is the bible of bioluminescence and a must-read not only for the students but for those who work in various fields relating to bioluminescence. It summarizes current structural information on all known bioluminescent systems in nature, from well-studied ones to those that have been seldom investigated.This book remains an important source of chemical knowledge on bioluminescence and, since the second edition's publication in 2012, has been revised to include major developments in two systems: earthworm Fridericia and higher fungi whose luciferins have been elucidated and synthesized. These two new luciferins represent an essential addition to seven previously known, with fully rewritten sections covering this new subject matter.
This book presents an overall, unitary view of the carbon nanoparticle world, in which both the positive and negative aspects of these recently discovered nanomaterials are critically described. Contributors include experts in the study of materials biocompatibility and toxicity, mainly because the book concerns carbon-nanoparticles toxicity.
Presents a successful surgical strategy to repair the spinal root and the associated spinal cord injury that follows from severe traction injuries to the brachial and lumbosacral nerve plexus. This work decribes the basic science background to this novel surgical technique, and the contemporary palliative procedures.
Processes involving randomly moving particles, which react either upon encounter or via distance-dependent reaction rates, are ubiquitous in nature. A few stray examples are recombination of ions or holes and electrons, excitation energy migration and quenching, trapping of particles by other species, coagulation, binding of ligands and proteins to specific sites, chemotaxis, catalytically-induced self-propulsion, polymerization, growth of dendrites or aggregates, or nuclei of a new phase.Several decades ago, it was recognized that the kinetic behavior in some systems with reactions and random transport is strongly affected by many factors, which were not taken into account in previous studies. These are, to name but a few, fluctuations in the spatial distributions of
The idea of coherent states was suggested in QED in the middle of 1960's and in QCD at the end of the 1970's to introduce a realistic definition of initial and final states, where the number of quanta is not determined, unlike the usual approach in perturbation theory. In addition to simply solving conceptual infrared divergences of the S-Matrix, it allows a description of the properties of the QED and QCD radiation to all orders in perturbation theory.In lepton colliders, it gives a precise determination of the line-shape production of the J/ , the Z and the Higgs bosons, while in QCD it allows a realistic description of quark and gluon jets, of the transverse momentum distribution of W, Z and H produced in hadron collisions, and other related quantities.The book
This book covers a new frontier of research in Critical Materials that provides insight in terms of the possible sustainable mitigation strategies, the complexity, broadness and multi-disciplinarity of the subject. By exploring in both 'systems view' and 'in-depth materials view' in light of the circular economy, this book tackles the problem of sustainable usage of materials that is closely intertwined with the energy issue and climate change. Topics covered include: geopolitics of materials, the energy-materials nexus, definitions of the criticality of materials, circular product design, the development of alternative materials (substitution), sustainable mining and recycling.
Contains material from the lecture courses conducted at the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI, Colorado, USA) on high energy physics and cosmology in 2008. This book presents in parallel series of lectures in the areas of Large Hadron Collider phenomenology and experimentation; and advanced theoretical topics beyond the standard model.
Understanding the mechanism of the high-temperature superconductors has been a very important topic in condensed matter physics. Researchers have been trying to explain the role of electron-phonon interaction (EPI) in cuprates. Some important properties of the cuprates could not be explained by conventional BCS theory. This book contains the experimental and theoretical studies on the EPI. The experimental part covers the results of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), isotopic effect, elastic neutron scattering study of electron-phonon, lattice role and so on. The theoretical part covers the electron-phonon, polaron and bipolaron, effect of lattice, fine structure in the tunnelling spectra of electron-doped cuprates, identification of the bulk pairing
The primary objective of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Engineering Plasticity and Its Applications (AEPA) is to provide a free forum for exchanging ideas and introducing the research findings in the field of engineering plasticity. This volume consists of papers presented at AEPA2008.
Giving an account of the history of ferment, this book takes an in-depth look at the events of 1897 when Eduard Buchner demonstrated that cell-free extracts of yeast could catalyze alcoholic fermentation. He was the first to be awarded Nobel Prize for purely biochemical work.
Contains pedagogical and elementary introductions to genetics for mathematicians and physicists as well as to mathematical models and techniques of population dynamics. This book offers a physicist's perspective on modeling biological processes.
Author:Charles Kegley
Charles W., Jr. Kegley
Gregory Raymond
Publishing date:2009
Offers concepts and analytical tools to help readers understand contemporary events and global trends. This book contains case studies, box inserts with rival views on controversies, and a marginal glossary, as well as graphs, maps, and photographs.
The Global Nexus: Political Economies, Connectivity, and the Social Sciences is a provocative critique of the social sciences in the age of neoconservative and alt-right globalisation sweeping across modern democracies globally. The writer persuasively argues that the mainstream western social science modality of describing indigenous knowledge and sub-altern discourses as 'alternative knowledge' is due for serious review, for it describes, devalues, and renders it the same renegade status as the 'alternate realities' of the alt-right, neo-conservative agencies of Western and Asian governments. The abuse of indigenous knowledge by neoconservative governments to promote racism, ethno-centricities, and misogyny has also reduced vital sources of local knowledge to fodder,
The field of knowledge for development occupies a top position on the agenda of all Asian governments as well as large development organizations. This book covers this mega-trend of development towards KBEs (Knowledge Based Economies).
Vladimir Naumovich Gribov was one of outstanding theorists, a key figure in the creation of the modern elementary particle physics. The Gribov Memorial Workshop, organized on his 75th birthday in Budapest, demonstrated the wealth and fertilization force of his ideas. This book collects the talks presented at the Gribov-75 Memorial Workshop.
This volume collects theoretical papers on the labor market effects of international trade that Udo Kreickemeier has published, together with different co-authors, over the past decade. Many contributions contained in this volume feature labor market imperfections that give rise to involuntary unemployment, and in those contributions, the question of how trade affects aggregate employment typically takes center stage in the analysis. Another recurring theme in many papers is the link between international trade and the income distribution within countries. The channels explored in the different papers include union wage premia, exporter wage premia due to firm-level rent sharing, and ability premia to entrepreneurs that are able to capitalize on their high productivity
Treats reproduction, cloning, stem cell research and regenerative medicine in an integrative manner. This book takes an integrative and balanced approach. It explains the diverse topics from a scientific angle, a social perspective, and as a natural business development.
Murray Gell-Mann is one of the leading physicists in the world. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969 for his work on the SU(3) symmetry. This book features a collection of his works.
Prof Leopoldo Garcia-Colin will become 80 years old in 2010. Prof Garcia-Colin has worked in many different fields of statistical physics, and has applied it to biological physics, solid state physics, relativity and cosmology. This book intends to offer original and peer-reviewed articles from his friends and former students.
Features the presentation speeches and the Nobel lectures, and also includes an introduction to each lecture, endnotes of explanation and selected bibliographies. This book features an introduction taking note of any relevant developments since the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded as well as any fresh biographical information.
Author:N.H. Euler
N. H. Euler
N Euler
W.-H. Steeb
Willi-Hans Steeb
Publishing date:1988
This book is an edited version of lectures given by the authors at a seminar at the Rand Afrikaans University. It gives a survey on the Painleve test, Painleve property and integrability. Both ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations are considered. "This excellent book is more than a survey on the Painlev test, Painlev property and integrability of both ordinary and partial differential equations; it also presents the recent progress in a rapidly growing field." C Popa Mathematics Abstracts, 1991
A compilation of research papers presented at a symposium in September 2006, when research leaders in the field of coastal engineering, fluid mechanics, and wave theory met at Cornell University to celebrate the 60th birthday of Prof. Philip L-F Liu. It discusses topics such as nonlinear wave theory, tsunamis, and smoothed particle hydrodynamics.
A guide to scientific writing for researchers whose first language is not English. Constructs such as sentence structure and word use are discussed, then the style and convention used in scientific publications is covered. Examples and exercises clarify the rules and guidelines presented.
