Applied Sciences category: 551 books

From the beginning of 21st century, there has been an awareness of risk in the environment along with a growing concern for the continuing potential damage caused by hazards. In order to ensure environmental sustainability, a better understanding of natural disasters and their impacts is essential....

First developed in the 1880s as a way to monitor glaciers in Europe, repeat photography —the practice of taking photographs at differpoints in times from the same physical vantage point—remains an essential and cost-effective technique for scientists and researchers working to track and study...

Electron storage rings play a crucial role in many areas of modern scientific research. In light sources, they provide intense beams of x-rays that can be used to understand the structure and behavior of materials at the atomic scale, with applications to medicine, the life sciences, condensed matter...

Access to clean water and energy are critical to economic growth and sustainable development. Providing water and energy services has important environmental impacts. Understanding the inextricable linkages among water, energy, and environment – the water-energy-environment nexus – will be a priority...

Série du système du corps: Le Système Circulatoire et ses Fonctions Ayant problème sur biologie? Devez trouver de l'information au sujet des systèmes de l'organe et comment ils travaillent? Pour les gens qui veulent profondément et information détaillée...

Advances in Wastewater Treatment presents a compendium of the key topics surrounding wastewater treatment, assembled by looking at the future technologies, and provides future perspectives in wastewater treatment and modelling. It covers the fundamentals and innovative wastewater treatment processes...

This book proposes Regenerative Sanitation as the next era of sanitation management and attempts to provide a foundation for the study of sanitation on the premise that sanitation is a complex and dynamic system that comprises of social-ecological, technological and resource systems. The preconception...

The world of single-board computing puts powerful coding tools in the palm of your hand. The portable Raspberry Pi computing platform with the power of Linux yields an exciting exploratory tool for beginning scientific computing. Science and Computing with Raspberry Pi takes the enterprising...

Die Innenentwicklung und der Lärmschutz sind zentrale Zielsetzung der räumlichen Entwicklung. Sie stehen jedoch in einem gewissen Spannungsverhältnis zueinander: Im Rahmen der Innenentwicklung soll die kleinräumige Nutzungsmischung gefördert werden. Der Grundgedanke des Lärmschutzes ist hingegen...

Au cours des âges, l’homme a mis en œuvre des savoirs et des savoir-faire pour maîtriser les matériaux. Il est passé des matériaux de rencontre disponibles dans son environnement aux matériaux sur mesure, conçus pour répondre à des cahiers des charges multicritères. Aujourd’hui nous...

.Gli studi di Proteomica descritti in questo libro riguardano la neutralizzazione delle tossine del veleno di serpente attraverso l’uso di molecole vegetali. Questo lavoro è stato svolto presso il Dipartimento di Biochimica dell’Università degli Studi di Siena, ed è nato anni fa da una collaborazione...

Solar photo-voltaic (PV) and wind offer to bring both clean energy and clean water to remote regions and peri-urban areas in the world, outside the conventional electric grids. One out of seven people has no electric power available that would bring light to the home, cook the food, pump to access...

La caractéristique du système de cultures primitif traditionnel dans les régions intertropicales est le déplacement des aires cultivées à travers la forêt à un rythme rapide : agriculture nomade-itinérante, aussi baptisée "shifting cultivation" en anglais. Cet ouvrage, réédition...

"I stood on the shoulders of giants." Isaac Newton What did Newton mean by the statement above? Was he talking about giants such as Abu Musa Khawrizmi who invented algebra or Ibn Sina whose book was used as the standard text in Europe for over 400 years? The two above were...