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Discrete Fractional Calculus
Applications in Control and Image Processing
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The main subject of the monograph is the fractional calculus in the discrete version. The volume is divided into three main parts. Part one contains a theoretical introduction to the classical and fractional-order discrete calculus where the fundamental role is played by the backward difference and...
Algebraic Coding Theory
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
This is the revised edition of Berlekamp's famous book, "Algebraic Coding Theory", originally published in 1968, wherein he introduced several algorithms which have subsequently dominated engineering practice in this field. One of these is an algorithm for decoding Reed-Solomon and Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem...
Counting
Solutions Manual
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This book is the essential companion to Counting (2nd Edition) (World Scientific, 2013), an introduction to combinatorics for secondary to undergraduate students. The book gives solutions to the exercises in Counting (2nd Edition). There is often more than one method to solve a particular problem...
How the Universe Works
Introduction to Modern Cosmology
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
This book is about the history and the current state of the art in the exciting field of cosmology — the science about the Universe as a whole, which is guaranteed to attract the attention of a wide range of readers. It mostly aims to explain the main ideas of modern cosmology: the expanding Universe,...
Breaches and Bridges
German Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Breaches and Bridges — German Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times features an agenda-setting speech by the Federal President of Germany, Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier, delivered as a GIGA Distinguished Speaker Lecture in June 2016, when he served as the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs.
This...
Shifting Sands
Essays on Sports and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
The Middle East and North Africa are experiencing the most fundamental transition in their post-colonial history. It is a transition that is changing the borders of nation states as well as their political and social structures. Conflicting visions of what those structures should look like have ensured...
Lesson Study
Challenges in Mathematics Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Classroom Innovations through Lesson Study is an APEC EDNET (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Education Network) project that aims to improve the quality of education in the area of mathematics. This book includes challenges of lesson study implementation from members of the APEC economies.
Lesson...
by Martin Schmaltz, Elena Pierpaoli
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
This volume is a compilation of the lectures at TASI 2012, held in Boulder, Colorado, June 2012. The program comprises two parallel lecture series on particle physics and on cosmology. The particle physics lectures covers LHC related experimental techniques, phenomenology, as well as basics in physics...
by Jerome Gauntlett
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Tom Kibble is an inspirational theoretical physicist who has made profound contributions to our understanding of the physical world. To celebrate his 80th birthday a one-day symposium was held on March 13, 2013 at the Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London. This important volume is a compilation...
Universal Quantum Computing
Supervening Decoherence — Surmounting Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This breakthrough volume touts having dissolved the remaining barriers to implementing Bulk Universal Quantum Computing (UQC), and as such most likely describes the most advanced QC development platform. Numerous books, hundreds of patents, thousands of papers and a Googolplex of considerations fill...
Lessons from Nanoelectronics
A New Perspective on Transport — Part A: Basic Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Everyone is familiar with the amazing performance of a modern smartphone, powered by a billion-plus nanotransistors, each having an active region that is barely a few hundred atoms long. The same amazing technology has also led to a deeper understanding of the nature of current flow and heat dissipation...
International Seminars on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies 48th Session
The Role of Science in the Third Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Proceedings of the 48th Session of the International Seminars on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies held in Erice, Sicily. This Seminar has again gathered, in 2015, over one hundred scientists from 43 countries in an interdisciplinary effort that has been going on for the last 32 years, to examine...
by Vasant Natarajan
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This is a collection of essays on physics topics. It is written as a textbook for non-physics science and arts students, at the undergraduate level. Topics covered include cellphone radiation, lasers, the twin paradox, and more.
Contents:
Oscillations
The Myth of Cell Phone Radiation
What...
Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology
Volume 9: Technology and Applications of Advanced Accelerator Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Since its invention in the 1920s, particle accelerators have made tremendous progress in accelerator science, technology and applications. However, the fundamental acceleration principle, namely, to apply an external radiofrequency (RF) electric field to accelerate charged particles, remains unchanged....