Wspc imprint: 2707 books
Diamondoid Molecules
With Applications in Biomedicine, Materials Science, Nanotechnology & Petroleum Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Diamondoids are cage-like, ultra stable, saturated ringed hydrocarbons, which have a diamond-like structure consisting of a number of six-member carbon rings fused together. Adamantane is the cage compound prototype and the simplest diamondoid molecule. Diamondoids Molecules aims to present these...
by Eng San Thian, Jie Huang, Mamoru Aizawa
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive coverage on nanobioceramics and their potential applications in healthcare. Ground-breaking new discoveries in bioceramics and their properties have meant an increasing interest in the development of how this can be related to nanobiomaterials, and in treating various...
by Jin-Ye Wang
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
With the increasing worldwide prevalence of tissue damage, there is an urgent, growing demand for tissue engineering materials to mimic autologous tissue for surgical repair. Many attempts have been made to produce long-lasting, biocompatible implants. To overcome the mechanical and biological limitations...
Research on the Physics of Cancer
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
There is something special about cancer compared to other diseases. It is a horrific disease that has defied attempts to find a reliable cure. Life spans after diagnosis have increased, but the mortality rate has remained about the same even after 40 years of extensive research. Cancer provides a...
by Zhonghua Sun
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the author's work which includes significant developments of coronary CT angiography in the diagnosis of coronary plaques. The main contributions of the book lie in the following areas: both 2D and 3D analysis of coronary plaques with coronary CT angiography,...
Modern Thoracic Oncology
(In 3 Volumes)Volume 1: General Principles of Thoracic OncologyVolume 2: Trachea, Lung, and PleuraVolume 3: Esophagus, Mediastinum, Chest Wall, and Diaphragm
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Modern Thoracic Oncology is the first comprehensive publication on thoracic oncology. Contributors who are world experts have authored concise, relevant and current topics in this field. Whether one desires information regarding l
Understanding and Preventing Sudden Death
Your Life Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Sudden death is an uncommon condition. But when it occurs, especially in a young person, the acute loss can generate a substantial amount of grief with a great sense of disbelief. This mysterious and dreadful condition instils much fear and anxiety into the living, and more specifically for family...
by Guilherme Carmona
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
The book aims at describing the recent developments in the existence and stability of Nash equilibrium. The two topics are central to game theory and economics and have been extensively researched. Recent results on existence and stability of Nash equilibrium are scattered and the relationship between...
by C N R Rao, U V Waghmare
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Two-dimensional materials have had widespread applications in nanoelectronics, catalysis, gas capture, water purification, energy storage and conversion. Initially based around graphene, research has since moved on to looking at alternatives, including transitions metal dichalcogenides, layered topological...
by James Emil Avery, John Scales Avery
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Hyperspherical harmonics are extremely useful in nuclear physics and reactive scattering theory. However, their use has been confined to specialists with very strong backgrounds in mathematics. This book aims to change the theory of hyperspherical harmonics from an esoteric field, mastered by specialists,...
by Milton W Cole, Angela D Lueking, David L Goodstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Whether on personal health, politics, or climate change, we are constantly bombarded with more numerous 'breaking news' articles than we have time for. In such an environment, how can we tell which to read, or which is even true.
Science of the Earth, Climate and Energy helps readers understand...
The Origin of Natural Order
An Axiomatic Theory of Biology
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
All sorts of biological activities are processed thermodynamically, and at the utmost fundamental level, the laws of biology must be thermodynamics. However, the current laws of thermodynamics are unable to give reasonable explanation of biological processes. In order to do so, irreversible thermodynamics...
by Thomas L Curtright, David B Fairlie, Cosmas K Zachos
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This is a text on quantum mechanics formulated simultaneously in terms of position and momentum, i.e. in phase space. It is written at an introductory level, drawing on the remarkable history of the subject for inspiration and motivation. Wigner functions — density matrices in a special Weyl representation...
Meaning of Life and the Universe
Transforming
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
The scope of this extraordinary selection of essays, distilled from nearly a thousand works that the author has written, is literally the entire universe and universe of knowledge. It charts the author's quest for the meaning of l