World Scientific Publishing Company: 3040 books
Our Warming Planet
Topics in Climate Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
The processes and consequences of climate change are extremely heterogeneous, encompassing many different fields of study. Dr David Rind in his career at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and as a professor at Columbia University has had the opportunity to explore many of these subjects...
by Jian-Qiao Sun, Qian Ding
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Analysis and control of time-delayed systems have been applied in a wide range of applications, ranging from mechanical, control, economic, to biological systems. Over the years, there has been a steady stream of interest in time-delayed dynamic systems, this book takes a snap shot of recent research...
Handbook of Porphyrin Science (Volumes 36 40)
With Applications to Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, Engineering, Biology and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Porphyrins, phthalocyanines and their numerous analogs and derivatives are materials of tremendous importance in chemistry, materials science, physics, biology and medicine. They are the red color in blood (heme) and the green in leaves (chlorophyll); they are also excellent ligands that can coordinate...
Applications of Calculus to Biology and Medicine
Case Studies from Lake Victoria
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Biology majors and pre-health students at many colleges and universities are required to take a semester of calculus but rarely do such students see authentic applications of its techniques and concepts. Applications of Calculus to Biology and Medicine: Case Studies from Lake Victoria is designed...
Mindanao
The Long Journey to Peace and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Across more than four decades, the conflict between the national government and Muslim liberation forces in the southern Philippines has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions. Two landmark agreements under the presidency of Benigno S Aquino III — the first in 2012 and the second in 2014...
by Job Dronkers
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
The book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the physical processes which, according to the present state of knowledge, determine the evolution of coastal systems and their response to human interventions. This response depends to a large degree on the self-organising properties of...
by Steven Rosefielde, Daniel Quinn Mills
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The global financial crisis of 2008 was resolved over the course of two years after the collapse of the US housing bubble, but the world economy did not vigorously rebound as expected. The West has been torpid, while Asian economic vitality has steadily waned. These developments have been diversely...
DNA Nanotechnology for Bioanalysis
From Hybrid DNA Nanostructures to Functional Devices
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This book is intended for non-specialists and students, presenting a unique introduction to the field of DNA nanotechnology. The primary focus is on the extraordinary advantages of specificity and sensitivity obtained by integrating DNA nanostructures in bioanalytical devices.
DNA Nanotechnology...
Future in Retrospect
China's Diplomatic History Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
What were the new People's Republic of China's policies to the Universal Postal Union in its early years? How did they help China promote its national interests in the world stage? Why did China train Albanian interns in the Cold War? Was it out of "communist fraternity" or was it part of...
by Joseph Pelzman
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a large, complex, and diverse region, which faces a wide range of economic issues. The MENA group includes Algeria, Bahrain, Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey,...
Neurons
A Mathematical Ignition
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
This unique volume presents a fruitful and beautiful mathematical world hidden in Caianiello's neuronic equations, which describe the instantaneous behavior of a model of a brain or thinking machine. The detailed analysis from a viewpoint of “dynamical systems”, even in a single neuron case, enables...
by M B Liu, G R Liu
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Multi-scale and multi-physics modeling is useful and important for all areas in engineering and sciences. Particle Methods for Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics systematically addresses some major particle methods for modeling multi-scale and multi-physical problems in engineering and sciences. It contains...
Grammar of Complexity
From Mathematics to a Sustainable World
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
The book is an introduction, for both graduate students and newcomers to the field of the modern theory of mesoscopic complex systems, time series, hypergraphs and graphs, scaled random walks, and modern information theory. As these are applied for the exploration and characterization of complex systems....
by Amol Sasane
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The book constitutes an elementary course on Plane Euclidean Geometry, pitched at pre-university or at advanced high school level. It is a concise book treating the subject axiomatically, but since it is meant to be a first introduction to the subject, excessive rigour is avoided, making it appealing...