Other Sciences category: 9579 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
The journal Biomaterials was launched in 1980. The subject of biomaterials science was then in its infancy, being largely cofined to the study of the characteristics of materials used for medical devices.
Twenty-five years on, we can truly say that biomaterials science has matured at an incredible...
Cyberemotions
Collective Emotions in Cyberspace
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This first monograph of its kind introduces the reader to fundamental definitions, key concepts and case studies addressing the following issues of rapidly growing relevance for online communities: What are emotions? How do they emerge, how are they transmitted? How can one measure emotional states?...
Doubt-Free Uncertainty In Measurement
An Introduction for Engineers and Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
This volume presents measurement uncertainty and uncertainty budgets in a form accessible to practicing engineers and engineering students from across a wide range of disciplines. The book gives a detailed explanation of the methods presented by NIST in the “GUM” – Guide to Uncertainty of Measurement....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Heat Shock Proteins and Plants provides the most up-to-date and concise reviews and progress on the role of heat shock proteins in plant biology, structure and function and is subdivided into chapters focused on Small Plant HSPs (Part I), Larger Plant HSPs (Part II) and HSPs for Therapeutic Gain...
Conflict and Multimodal Communication
Social Research and Machine Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
This book explores the use of technology to detect, predict and understand social cues, in order to analyze and prevent conflict. Traditional human sciences approaches are enriched with the latest developments in Social Signal Processing aimed at an automatic understanding of conflict and negotiation....
Philosophy of Systems Biology
Perspectives from Scientists and Philosophers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The emergence of systems biology raises many fascinating questions: What does it mean to take a systems approach to problems in biology? To what extent is the use of mathematical and computational modelling changing the life sciences? How does the availability of big data influence research practices?...
Scientific Method
The Hypothetico-Experimental Laboratory Procedure of the Physical Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
There remains only the obligation to thank those who have helped me with specific suggestions and the editors who have kindly granted permission to reprint material which first appeared in the pages of their journals. To the former group belong Alan B. Brinkley and Max O. Hocutt Portion of chap...
Mathematical Technology of Networks
Bielefeld, December 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Dynamical models on graphs or random graphs are increasingly used in applied sciences as mathematical tools to study complex systems whose exact structure is too complicated to be known in detail. Besides its importance in applied sciences, the field is increasingly attracting the interest of mathematicians...
by Swadhin Kumar Behera, Toshio Yamagata
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
This book aims to compile some of the important results from the latest research in climate variation and prediction studies with a focus on the role of the ocean, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region. Several new modes of ocean-atmosphere climate variations have been discovered in the last decade,...
Atmospheric Turbulence and Air Pollution Modelling
A Course held in The Hague, 21–25 September, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The study of turbulence in the atmosphere has seen considerable progress in the last decade. To put it briefly: boundary-layer meteorology, the branch of atmospheric science that concentrates on turbulence in the lower atmosphere, has moved from the surface layer into the boundary layer itself. The...
Satellite Soil Moisture Retrieval
Techniques and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Satellite Soil Moisture Retrieval: Techniques and Applications offers readers a better understanding of the scientific underpinnings, development, and application of soil moisture retrieval techniques and their applications for environmental modeling and management, bringing together a collection...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010
We increasingly view the world around us as a product of science and technology. Accordingly, we have begun to appreciate that science does not take its problems only from nature and then produces technological applications, but that the very problems of scientific research themselves are generated...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
This book provides the proceedings of the 13th International Conference of Meteorology, Climatology and Atmospheric Physics (COMECAP 2016) that is held in Thessaloniki from 19 to 21 September 2016. The Conference addresses fields of interest for researchers, professionals and students related to the...
High-Mountain Atmospheric Research
The Italian Mt. Cimone WMO/GAW Global Station (2165 m a.s.l.)
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
This book presents the results of 20 years of atmospheric composition research studies carried out at the high-mountain (2,165 m a.s.l.) Observatory "O. Vittori" in Italy, part of the only global station in the Mediterranean region that belongs to the World Meteorological Organization’s...