Other Sciences category: 9579 books
by Dennis Goldwater
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
This book introduces a new way to organize human understanding of nature. It reconsiders the commonly accepted yet quite arbitrary and unproven assumption about nature that space is infinite, and instead assumes that space is finite. Following the implications of this change in the most fundamental...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
The heart has a very high energy demand but very little energy reserves. In order to sustain contractile function, the heart has to continually produce a large amount of ATP. The heart utilizes free fatty acids mainly and carbohydrates to some extent as substrates for making energy and any change...
Realism in Action
Essays in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This is a selection of essays written by leading representatives in the fields of action theory and philosophy of mind, philosophy of the social sciences and especially the nature of social action, and of epistemology and philosophy of science. Practical reason, reasons and causes in action theory,...
Membrane Protein Purification and Crystallization
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2003
This second edition of Membrane Protein Purification and Crystallization, A Practical Guide is written for bench scientists working in the fields of biochemistry, biology, and proteomic research. This guide presents isolation and crystallization techniques in a concise form, emphasizing the critical...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This book devotes a chapter to each RTK family and the multiple receptors within each family, thoroughly covering all of the RTKs. The chapters all follow the same structure, presenting this essential information in an accessible and user-friendly format. Each chapter covers one specific family of...
Geology in the Nineteenth Century
Changing Views of a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In this clear and comprehensive introduction to developments in geological theory during the nineteenth century, Mott T. Greene asserts that the standard accounts of nineteenth-century geology, which dwell on the work of Anglo-American scientists, have obscured the important contributions of Continental...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
This volume considers the future of science learning - what is being learned and how it is being learned - in formal and informal contexts for science education. To do this, the book explores major contemporary shifts in the forms of science that could or should be learned in the next 20 years, what...
Free Convection Film Flows and Heat Transfer
Models of Laminar Free Convection with Phase Change for Heat and Mass Transfer Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
This book presents recent developments in our systematic studies of hydrodynamics and heat and mass transfer in laminar free convection, accelerating film boiling and condensation of Newtonian fluids, as well as accelerating film flow of non-Newtonian power-law fluids (FFNF). These new developments...
Magnetic Nanomaterials
Applications in Catalysis and Life Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Magnetic nanomaterials have undergone a significant evolution during the past decade, with supramolecular nanoparticle organization reaching unprecedented levels of complexity and the materials providing new approaches to treating cancer. Magnetic Nanomaterials will provide a comprehensive overview...
Theoretical Physics and Philosophical Problems
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
l. The work of Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906) consists of two kinds of writings: in the first part of his active life he devoted himself entirely to problems of physics, while in the second part he tried to find a philosoph 1 ical background for his activities in and around the natural sciences. Most...
by J.J. Kockelmans
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology
Volume 7: Colliders
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
The idea of colliding two particle beams to fully exploit the energy of accelerated particles was first proposed by Rolf Wideröe, who in 1943 applied for a patent on the collider concept and was awarded the patent in 1953. The first three colliders — AdA in Italy, CBX in the US, and VEP-1 in the...
Ecology Revisited
Reflecting on Concepts, Advancing Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
As concerns about humankind’s relationship with the environment move inexorably up the agenda, this volume tells the story of the history of the concept of ecology itself and adds much to the historical and philosophical debate over this multifaceted discipline. The text provides readers with an...
The Climate Connection
Climate Change and Modern Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Highlights the influence of saltatory evolution and rapid climate change on human evolution, migration and behavioural change. Growing concern over the potential impacts of climate change on our future is clearly evident. In order to better understand our present circumstances and deal effectively...