Morgan Claypool Publishers: 318 books
Photomedicine and Stem Cells
The Janus Face of Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) to Kill Cancer Stem Cells, and Photobiomodulation (PBM) to Stimulate Normal Stem Cells
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Janus, the ancient Roman god depicted with two faces is an appropriate metaphor for light therapy. In the right photodynamic therapy conditions, light is able to kill nearly anything that is living such as cancers, microorganisms, parasites, and more. On the opposite face, light of the correct wavelength...
A Journey into Reciprocal Space
A Crystallographer's Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
The concept of reciprocal space is over 100 years old, and has been of particular use by crystallographers in order to understand the patterns of spots when x-rays are diffracted by crystals. However, it has a much more general use, especially in the physics of the solid state. In order to understand...
by Lavakumar Avala
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The progress of civilization can be, in part, attributed to their ability to employ metallurgy. This book is an introduction to multiple facets of physical metallurgy, materials science, and engineering. As all metals are crystalline in structure, it focuses attention on these structures and how the...
Quantum Field Theory
An Arcane Setting for Explaining the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
While there are many good books in particle physics, very seldom if ever a non-specialist comprehensive description of Quantum Field Theory has appeared. The intention of this short book is to offer a guided tour of that innermost topic of Theoretical Physics, in plain words and avoiding the mathematical...
by Julian Goldsmid
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This book outlines the principles of thermoelectric generation and refrigeration from the discovery of the Seebeck and Peltier effects in the nineteenth century through the introduction of semiconductor thermoelements in the mid-twentieth century to the more recent development of nanostructured materials....
by Joe Khachan
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The ancient Greeks believed that all matter was composed of four elements: earth, water, air, and fire. By a remarkable coincidence (or perhaps not), today we know that there are four states of matter: solids (e.g. earth), liquids (e.g. water), gasses (e.g. air) and plasma (e.g. ionized gas produced...
by Gordon Kane
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book attempts to explain why 'string theory' may provide the comprehensive underlying theory that describes and explains our world. It is an enthusiastic view of how compactified string/M-theories (plus data that may be reachable) seem to have the possibilities of leading to a comprehensive underlying...
Keplerian Ellipses
The Physics of the Gravitational Two-Body Problem
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
The development of man's understanding of planetary motions is the crown jewel of Newtonian mechanics.
This book offers a concise but self-contained handbook-length treatment of this historically important topic for students at about the third-year-level of an undergraduate physics curriculum....
Order from Force
A Natural History of the Vacuum
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The present theme concerns the forces of nature, and what investigations of these forces can tell us about the world we see about us. The story of these forces is long and complex, and contains many episodes that are not atypical of the bulk of scientific research, which could have achieved greater...
Gravity, Magnetic and Electromagnetic Gradiometry
Strategic Technologies in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Gradiometry is a multidisciplinary area that combines theoretical and applied physics, ultra-low noise electronics, precision engineering, and advanced signal processing. All physical fields have spatial gradients that fall with distance from their sources more rapidly than the field strength itself....
Sound-Power Flow
A Practitioner's Handbook for Sound Intensity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Sound-Power Flow: A practitioner's handbook for sound intensity is a guide for practitioners and research scientists in different areas of acoustical science. There are three fundamental quantities in acoustics: sound pressure, sound particle velocity, and sound intensity. This book is about sound...
Understanding the Magic of the Bicycle
Basic scientific explanations to the two-wheeler's mysterious and fascinating behavior
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
The bicycle is a common, yet unique mechanical contraption in our world. In spite of this, the bike's physical and mechanical principles are understood by a select few. You do not have to be a genius to join this small group of people who understand the physics of cycling. This is your guide to fundamental...
by Julian Shun
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Parallelism is the key to achieving high performance in computing. However, writing efficient and scalable parallel programs is notoriously difficult, and often requires significant expertise. To address this challenge, it is crucial to provide programmers with high-level tools to enable them to develop...
by Shih-Fu Chang
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
The field of multimedia is unique in offering a rich and dynamic forum for researchers from “traditional” fields to collaborate and develop new solutions and knowledge that transcend the boundaries of individual disciplines. Despite the prolific research activities and outcomes, however, few efforts...