Wspc imprint: 2707 books
by Anders Brahme
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Radiation therapy has developed and advanced dramatically in the last few decades. However, very little has been published or done in the area of biologically optimized treatment planning. Development of Biologically Optimized Radiation Therapy aims to fill and close an important gap in the literature...
MOSFET Modeling for VLSI Simulation
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2007
A reprint of the classic text, this book popularized compact modeling of electronic and semiconductor devices and components for college and graduate-school classrooms, and manufacturing engineering, over a decade ago. The first comprehensive book on MOS transistor compact modeling, it was the most...
Reporting the Middle East
Challenges and Chances
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Numerous studies address the flow of information between nations and states — especially in the era of globalization — and its contribution to the development of relations across physical borders. By contrast, little attention has been paid to the circumstances under which parties in conflict...
Essentials of Hospital Medicine
A Practical Guide for Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Hospital Medicine is the fasting growing field of Medicine, and the importance of hospitalists in the delivery of care and success of hospitals continues to increase. The practice of hospital medicine is both rewarding and challenging: hospitalists need to provide high-quality care using the best...
Autophagy of the Nervous System
Cellular Self-Digestion in Neurons and Neurological Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
What is autophagy? Why would neurons digest parts of themselves through autophagy? How can autophagy save the lives of cells under some conditions, but act as an accomplice to cell death in others? By what mechanisms are autophagy-related processes dysregulated in neurological diseases, and are there...
by Wen-Huei Chen, Hong-Hwa Chen
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This book provides a first hand and complete information on orchid biotechnology for orchid lovers, graduate students, researchers and industry growers. It contains comprehensive genomics and transcriptomics data, and a thorough discussion of the molecular mechanism of orchid floral morphogenesis....
The Power of Ideas
The Rising Influence of Thinkers and Think Tanks in China
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
China's momentous socioeconomic transformation is not taking place in an intellectual vacuum: Chinese scholars and public intellectuals are actively engaged in fervent discussions about the country's domestic and foreign policies, demographic constraints, and ever-growing integration into the world...
Energy from the Nucleus
The Science and Engineering of Fission and Fusion
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Nuclear energy is important both as a very large energy resource and as a source of carbon free energy. However incidents such as the Fukashima Daiichi nuclear disaster (2011), the Chernobyl disaster (1986), and the Three Mile Island accident (1979) have cast doubts on the future of nuclear fission...
Quantum Foundations and Open Quantum Systems
Lecture Notes of the Advanced School
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
The Advanced School on Quantum Foundations and Open Quantum Systems was an exceptional combination of lectures. These comprise lectures in standard physics and investigations on the foundations of quantum physics.
On the one hand it included lectures on quantum information, quantum open systems,...
Nuclear Physics and Gamma-Ray Sources for Nuclear Security and Nonproliferation
Proceedings of the International Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Nuclear nonproliferation is a critical global issue. A key technological challenge to ensuring nuclear nonproliferation and security is the detection of long-lived radioisotopes and fissionable nuclides in a non-destructive manner. This technological challenge requires new methods for detecting relevant...
Computational Physics
An Introduction to Monte Carlo Simulations of Matrix Field Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
This book is divided into two parts. In the first part we give an elementary introduction to computational physics consisting of 21 simulations which originated from a formal course of lectures and laboratory simulations delivered since 2010 to physics students at Annaba University. The second part...
by Gennady Ermak
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The book provides an overview of new technologies in medicine. It defines each technology and gives an account of its history, and the principles, technical problems, and applications as well as controversies involved. The goal of the book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the emerging medical...
Human Amniotic Membrane
Basic Science and Clinical Application
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
This book is a comprehensive guide for all tissue bank operators to screen, procure and process amniotic membrane for clinical application.
The amnion comes close to being the ideal biological membrane or dressing — readily available, inexpensive to procure and process. Its basic science...
Bioinformatics
A Practical Handbook of Next Generation Sequencing and Its Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Rapid technological developments have led to increasingly efficient sequencing approaches. Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is increasingly common and has become cost-effective, generating an explosion of sequenced data that need to be analyzed. The skills required to apply computational analysis...