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Strings, Gauge Fields, and the Geometry Behind
The Legacy of Maximilian Kreuzer
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
This book contains exclusively invited contributions from collaborators of Maximilian Kreuzer, giving accounts of his scientific legacy and original articles from renowned theoretical physicists and mathematicians, including Victor Batyrev, Philip Candelas, Michael Douglas, Alexei Morozov, Joseph...
by Masaru Shibata
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
This book is composed of two parts: First part describes basics in numerical relativity, that is, the formulations and methods for a solution of Einstein's equation and general relativistic matter field equations. This part will be helpful for beginners of numerical relativity who would like to understand...
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...
What We Learned from PISA
The Outstanding Performance of Students in Hong Kong and East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
The outstanding performance of East Asian societies in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is one of the most widely discussed topics in international assessments. PISA is a worldwide study of scholastic performance, conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
M. S. Swaminathan
Legend in Science and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This unique volume is not just an in-depth analysis of Professor Swaminathan's brilliant contributions to basic cytogenetics, radiation biology, mutagenesis and genomic affinities of cultivated potato and its wild derivatives, but also the application of the new knowledge gained to improve the productivity...
The Grant Writer's Handbook
How to Write a Research Proposal and Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
The Grant Writer's Handbook: How to Write a Research Proposal and Succeed provides useful and practical advice on all aspects of proposal writing, including developing proposal ideas, drafting the proposal, dealing with referees, and budgeting. The authors base their advice on many years of experience...
Engines of Discovery
A Century of Particle Accelerators
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The first edition of Engines of Discovery celebrated in words, images and anecdotes the accelerators and their constructors that culminated in the discovery of the Higgs boson. But even before the Higgs was discovered, before the champagne corks popped and while the television producers brushed up...
by Arun Kumar Sinha, R Rajesh, Prabhat Ranjan;Rajesh Pratap Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
This unique volume presents the scientific achievements, significant discoveries and pioneering contributions of various academicians, industrialist and research scholars. The book is an essential source of reference and provides a comprehensive overvi
Current Developments in Differential Geometry and its Related Fields
Proceedings of the 4th International Colloquium on Differential Geometry and its Related Fields
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This volume contains contributions by the main participants of the 4th International Colloquium on Differential Geometry and its Related Fields (ICDG2014). These articles cover recent developments and are devoted mainly to the study of some geometric structures on manifolds and graphs. Readers will...
New Trends in Differential Equations, Control Theory and Optimization
Proceedings of the 8th Congress of Romanian Mathematicians
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
The volume contains a collection of original papers and surveys in various areas of Differential Equations, Control Theory and Optimization written by well-known specialists and is thus useful for PhD students and researchers in applied mathematics.
Contents:
Dirichlet Problems with Mean...
by Anna M Gil-Lafuente, Luciano Barcellos de-Paula, José M Merigó-Lindahl;Fernando Augusto Silva-Marins;Antonio Carlos de Azevedo-Ritto
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
This book analyzes some of the most recent advances in the field of decision making and fuzzy systems applied to business and economics presented at the International Conference on Modeling and Simulation (MS'12 Rio de Janeiro), 10–13 December, 2012. In this conference, a special focus is given...
Assistive Robotics
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on CLAWAR 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
This book provides state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and associated support technologies around the theme of assistive robotics. The book contains peer reviewed articles presented at the CLAWAR 2015 conference. The book contains...
by Mark A Peterson, Yanir A Rubinstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
“The US National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program in mathematics is now 25 years old, and it is a good time to think about what it has achieved, how it has changed, and where this idea will go next.”
This was the premise of the conference held...
Juridification in Bioethics
Governance of Human Pluripotent Cell Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
What is 'legal' about bioethics? What are the ideas and artefacts that bioethics encompasses, and how are they related to law? What is the role of law in bioethics? In this work, Calvin Ho attempts to address these questions in the context of the governance of human pluripotent stem cell research....