Other Sciences category: 9579 books
by Antonio Navarra, Valeria Simoncini
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Climatology and meteorology have basically been a descriptive science until it became possible to use numerical models, but it is crucial to the success of the strategy that the model must be a good representation of the real climate system of the Earth. Models are required to reproduce not only the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Various effects of the atmosphere have to be considered in space geodesy and all of them are described and treated consistently in this textbook. Two chapters are concerned with ionospheric and tropospheric path delays of microwave and optical signals used by space geodetic techniques, such as the...
by Juan Federico Ponce, Marilén Fernández
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
This book is the result of ten years’ of scientific research carried out by the authors on Isla de los Estados. The research includes their doctoral thesis and many published scientific papers related to the island.
The book is divided into two principal parts. The first part covers different...
by John Blackwell, Jan Martin
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
This guide provides a framework, starting from simple statements, for writing papers for submission to peer-reviewed journals. It also describes how to address referees’ comments, approaches for composing other types of scientific communications, and key linguistic aspects of scientific writing.
Vertebrate Myogenesis
Stem Cells and Precursors
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2014
This book addresses the differentiation control of skeletal muscle in different locations of the vertebrate body Particular attention is paid to novel regulatory molecules and signals as well as the heterogeneity of origin that have revealed a developmental overlap between skeletal and cardiac muscle....
by Giamila Fantuzzi
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Whether classified as regulators of inflammation, metabolism, or other functions, a distinctive set of molecules enables the body to convey information from one cell to another. Giamila Fantuzzi offers a primer on molecular mediators that coordinate complex bodily processes, and explores the consequences of their discovery for modern medicine.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
This streamlined "essential" version of the Molecular Pathology (2009) textbook extracts key information, illustrations and photographs from the main textbook in the same number and organization of chapters. It is aimed at teaching students in courses where the full textbook is not needed,...
Photo-oxidants, Acidification and Tools: Policy Applications of EUROTRAC Results
The Report of the EUROTRAC Application Project
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
EUROTRAC is the EUREKA environmental project studying the transport and chemical transformation of pollutants in the troposphere over Europe. At its inception in 1988 it had three aims: * to increase the basic understanding of atmospheric science; * to promote the technological development of sensitive,...
Ball Lightning
An Unsolved Problem in Atmospheric Physics
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2006
Down comes a deluge of sonorous hail, Or prone-descending rain. Wide-rent, the clouds Pour a whole flood, and yet, its flame unquenched, Th’unconquerable lightning struggles through. Ragged and fierce, or in red whirling balls, And fires the mountains with redoubled rage. Black from the stroke,...
A Mathematician's Journeys
Otto Neugebauer and Modern Transformations of Ancient Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
This book explores facets of Otto Neugebauer's career, his impact on the history and practice of mathematics, and the ways in which his legacy has been preserved or transformed in recent decades, looking ahead to the directions in which the study of the history of science will head in the twenty-first...
by Erwin Hiebert
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
This book explores the interactions between science and music in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century. It examines and evaluates the work of Hermann von Helmholtz, Max Planck, Shohé Tanaka, and Adriaan Fokker, leading physicists and physiologists who were committed to understanding crucial...
Historical Epistemology of Space
From Primate Cognition to Spacetime Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
This monograph investigates the development of human spatial knowledge by analyzing its elementary structures and studying how it is further shaped by various societal conditions. By taking a thoroughly historical perspective on knowledge and integrating results from various disciplines, this work...
Discovering Reality
Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This collection of essays, first published two decades ago, presents central feminist critiques and analyses of natural and social sciences and their philosophies. This work provides a splendid opportunity for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy and the social sciences to...
A Rich and Diverse Fauna
The History of the Australian National Insect Collection 1926-1991
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
This volume is the first comprehensive account of the formation of CSIRO Entomology and the Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC) and covers the growth of this national collection over its first 65 years. In 1927, Robin John Tillyard stated that "the future of Australian entomology depends to...