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Impossible Minds
My Neurons, My ConsciousnessRevised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness has been written to satisfy the curiosity each and every one of us has about our own consciousness. It takes the view that the neurons in our heads are the source of consciousness and attempts to explain how this happens. Although it talks of neural networks,...
Liquid Crystals with Nano and Microparticles
(In 2 Volumes)
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
While liquid crystals are today widely known for their successful application in flat panel displays (LCDs), academic liquid crystal research is more and more targeting situations where these anisotropic fluids are put to completely different use, in varying contexts. A particularly strong focus is...
Social Media Content Analysis
Natural Language Processing and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Social media platforms have been ubiquitously used in our daily lives and are steadily transforming the ways people communicate, socialize and conduct business. However, the growing popularity of social media adversely leads to wild spread of unreliable information. This in turn inevitably creates...
Materials Engineering and Environmental Science
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Materials Engineering and Environmental Science (MEES2015)
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
This book consists of one hundred and nine selected papers presented at the 2015 International Conference on Materials Engineering and Environmental Science (MEES2015), which was successfully held in Wuhan, China during September 25–27, 2015. All papers selected for this proceedings were subjected...
by W Gai
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
This proceedings volume, for the symposium in honor of Junwen Wang's 70th anniversary, is dedicated to his many important achievements in the field of accelerator physics.
It includes the discussions of recent advances and challenging problems in the field of high gradient accelerating structure...
by Marina A Dobrovolskaia, Scott E McNeil
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2012
The Handbook of Immunological Properties of Engineered Nanomaterials provides a comprehensive overview of the current literature, methodologies, and translational and regulatory considerations in the field of nanoimmunotoxicology. The main subject is the immunological properties of engineered nanomaterials....
Agroecological Practices for Sustainable Agriculture
Principles, Applications, and Making the Transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Good agroecological practices are indispensable for the development of sustainable agriculture. In this book, principles, diversity and applications of agroecological practices for a range of systems are presented, transforming scientific research and participatory knowledge of production into practical...
Nanomaterials for Tumor Targeting Theranostics
A Proactive Clinical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Nanomaterials offer great potential for effective tumor diagnosis and therapy combing diagnostic agents and therapeutic drugs into one platform. In this book, the most recent progress of main nanomaterials and their applications in tumor targeting theranostics is presented. It summarizes the recent...
by Gordon Woo
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
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Book Launch of Calculating Catastrophe
Calculating Catastrophe has been written to explain, to a general readership, the underlying philosophical ideas and scientific principles that govern catastrophic...
Aberration-Corrected Imaging in Transmission Electron Microscopy
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Aberration-Corrected Imaging in Transmission Electron Microscopy provides an introduction to aberration-corrected atomic-resolution electron microscopy imaging in materials and physical sciences. It covers both the broad beam transmission mode (TEM; transmission electron microscopy) and the scanning...
by Hernán Jara
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
qMRI is a rapidly evolving scientific field of high current interest because it has the potential of radically changing the clinical and research practices of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This focuses solely on the theoretical aspects of qMRI, which are treated and analyzed at three different...
Gold Catalysis
An Homogeneous Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Research on designing new catalytic systems has been one of the most important fields in modern organic chemistry. One reason for this is the predominant contribution of catalysis to the concepts of atom economy and green chemistry in the 21st century. Gold, considered catalytically inactive for a...
An Introductory Global CO2 Model
(with Companion Media Pack)
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
The increasing concentration of atmospheric CO2 is now a problem of global concern. Although the consequences of atmospheric CO2 are still evolving, there is compelling evidence that the global environmental system is undergoing profound changes as seen in the recent spike of phenomena: extreme heat...
BIOMAT 2014
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
This is a book of a series on interdisciplinary topics on the Mathematical and Biological Sciences. The chapters correspond to selected papers on special research themes, which have been presented at BIOMAT 2014 International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology which was held in the...