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Endohedral Fullerenes
From Fundamentals to Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Endohedral fullerenes represent a novel family of carbon nanostructures, which are characterized by a robust fullerene cage with atoms, ions, or clusters trapped in its interior. Since the first separation of the endohedral metallofullerene La@C82 in 1991, a large variety of endohedral structures...
Handbook of Porphyrin Science (Volumes 41 44)
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 comprise the red color in blood (heme) and the green in leaves (chlorophyll); they are also excellent ligands that can...
Basic Principles of Chinese Philosophy
Volumes 1 & 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Among world's three major philosophic traditions, Chinese philosophy excels in ethical discourse. As a collective wisdom on a par with Aristotle's 'Ethics' and Kant's 'Critique of Practical Reason', Chinese philosophy now needs to be systematized and developed. Today, Chinese philosophy per se has...
by Hamza M Abdulghani, Gominda Ponnamperuma, Zubair Amin
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive and practical guide for developing and implementing an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) for the medical educators/health sciences educators/tutors/faculty/clinicians/OSCE planners, who are involved in clinical teaching and assessment...
by Yvonne Choquet–Bruhat
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
In A Lady Mathematician, the distinguished mathematician and physicist, Yvonne Choquet–Bruhat, at the urging of her children, recounts and reflects upon various key events and people from her life — first childhood memories of France, then schooling, followed by graduate studies, and finally her...
Standing Together in Troubled Times
Unpublished Letters by Pauli, Einstein, Franck and Others
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
"This book is fascinating not only because through the various documents, readers get to know about the predicament and concerns of some of the (mostly) Germanic physicists of the time, but also because, for the first time, the work offers previously unpublished documentation. The presentation...
Women's Cancers
Pathways to Living
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Taking patients through all aspects of cancer care, this book provides specific, accurate information on various tumour types and treatment modalities, surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and complementary therapy. Unlike many patient guides, it explores holistic health and wellbeing as well as psychological...
by Susanne Durst, Serdal Temel, Helio Aisenberg Ferenhof
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
The book studies the interplay between open innovation and knowledge management issues in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). With the proliferation of the open innovation paradigm and against the backdrop of increasing external knowledge transfer activities, knowledge management is more important...
The Kish Cypher
The Story of KLJN for Unconditional Security
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Designed to offer a thorough account of the KLJN key exchange system (also known as the Kish Cypher, the Kish Key Distribution, etc.) and its unconditional security, this book explains the scheme's foundation in classical statistical physics and its superiority to its quantum-based competitors for...
Effective Mathematics Lessons through an Eclectic Singapore Approach
Yearbook 2015, Association of Mathematics Educators
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
With this seventh volume, as part of the series of yearbooks by the Association of Mathematics Educators in Singapore, we aim to provide a range of learning experiences and teaching strategies that mathematics teachers can judiciously select and adapt in order to deliver effective lessons to their...
Sustainability and Development in Asia and the Pacific
Emerging Policy Issues
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a common global agenda for development. However, the emerging policy issues vary greatly across the world.
With 32 contributors, this volume provides a timely, research-based overview for the need for policy interventions to improve the sustainability...
Risk and Stochastics
Ragnar Norberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
with an autobiography from Ragnar Norberg
The Risk and Stochastics Conference, held at the Royal Statistical Society in April 2015, brought together academics from the worlds of actuarial science, stochastic calculus, finance and statistics to celebrate the achievements of Professor Ragnar...
China's Rise in Mainland ASEAN
New Dynamics and Changing Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The rationale for this volume on China's Rise in Mainland ASEAN: New Dynamics and Changing Landscapes stems from the rise in recent years of China, ASEAN's giant neighbor, and in its wake the significant economic, political, and socio-cultural developments in the ASEAN region. In the last two decades,...
by Institute for Strategic Studies, National Defense University of People's Liberation Army
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
The international strategic relations have been undergoing great turbulence, readjustment and reformation since the financial crisis in 2008. This round of transition is mainly driven by economic competition instead of wars. International competition, crises and collisions will ebb and flow and happen...