Elsevier Science: 13458 books
Earth's Magnetosphere
Formed by the Low-Latitude Boundary Layer
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011
The author argues that, after five decades of debate about the interactive of solar wind with the magnetosphere, it is time to get back to basics. Starting with Newton's law, this book also examines Maxwell's equations and subsidiary equations such as continuity, constitutive relations and the Lorentz...
by Karl K. Turekian, Heinrich D. Holland
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
This extensively updated new edition of the widely acclaimed Treatise on Geochemistry has increased its coverage beyond the wide range of geochemical subject areas in the first edition, with five new volumes which include: the history of the atmosphere, geochemistry of mineral deposits, archaeology...
Extreme Events in Geospace
Origins, Predictability, and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Extreme Events in Geospace: Origins, Predictability, and Consequences helps deepen the understanding, description, and forecasting of the complex and inter-related phenomena of extreme space weather events. Composed of chapters written by representatives from many different institutions and fields...
by Boris V. Alexeev
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2004
The most important result obtained by Prof. B. Alexeev and reflected in the book is connected with new theory of transport processes in gases, plasma and liquids. It was shown by Prof. B. Alexeev that well-known Boltzmann equation, which is the basement of the classical kinetic theory, is wrong in...
Elementary Molecular Quantum Mechanics
Mathematical Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
The second edition of Elementary Molecular Quantum Mechanics shows the methods of molecular quantum mechanics for graduate University students of Chemistry and Physics. This readable book teaches in detail the mathematical methods needed to do working applications in molecular quantum mechanics, as...
Nanomagnetism
Ultrathin Films, Multilayers and Nanostructures
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2006
Nanoscience is of central importance in the physical and biological sciences and is now pervasive in technology. However nanomagnetism has a special role to play as magnetic properties depend uniquely on both dimensionality and lengthscales. Nanomagnetism is already central to data storage, sensor...
Optical, Electric and Magnetic Properties of Molecules
A Review of the Work of A.D. Buckingham
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 1997
This book celebrates the career and scientific accomplishments of Professor David Buckingham, who is due to retire from his Chair at Cambridge University in 1997.
The adopted format comprises reprints of a number of David Buckingham's key scientific papers, each one or two of these preceded...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
A superb compilation of reviews from leading experts in the field of Wnt signaling (signaling molecules that regulate cell-to-cell interactions during embryogenesis), volume 17 in the Advances in Developmental Biology series offers 7 chapters, each devoted to a separate area of research on Wnt signaling....
Structural and Evolutionary Genomics
Natural Selection in Genome Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2005
Structural genomics is the study of the DNA of living organisms. Evolutionary genomics is the study of the history of the genome. These subjects are closely interlinked. They are approached in this book using as a guideline the investigations carried out in the author's laboratory, relevant literature...
by Salim Momtaz, Zobaidul Kabir
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Evaluating Environmental and Social Impact Assessment in Developing Countries, Second Edition, outlines an evaluation framework that supports environmental professionals, researchers and academics in evaluating the effectiveness of impact assessment within limited budgets, promotes standardization...
by John F. Shroder
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Volcanic Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in volcano and volcanic research, including causality, impacts, preparedness, risk analysis, planning, response, recovery, and the economics of loss and remediation. It takes a geoscientific approach to the...
Climate Change
Observed Impacts on Planet Earth
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
Earth's climate is always changing. As the debate over the Earth's climate has grown, the term "climate change" has come to refer primarily to changes we've seen over recent years and those that are predicted to be coming, mainly as a result of human behavior. Climate Change: Observed Impacts...
NMR of Paramagnetic Molecules
Applications to Metallobiomolecules and Models
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
NMR of Paramagnetic Molecules: Applications to Metallobiomolecules and Models, Second Edition is a self-contained, comprehensive reference for chemists, physicists, and life scientists whose research involves analyzing paramagnetic compounds. Since the previous edition of this book was published,...
Tsunamis in the European-Mediterranean Region
From Historical Record to Risk Mitigation
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Tsunamis in the European-Mediterranean Region: From Historical Record to Risk Mitigation provides readers with a much needed, reliable, and up-to-date history of the region, including descriptions and parameters of the main events from pre-history to the present that are supported by parametric catalogues,...