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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Biochemistry of Lipids: Lipoproteins and Membranes, Volume Six, contains concise chapters that cover a wide spectrum of topics in the field of lipid biochemistry and cell biology. It provides an important bridge between broad-based biochemistry textbooks and more technical research publications, offering...
Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
Transport and Rate Processes in Physical, Chemical and Biological Systems
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
Natural phenomena consist of simultaneously occurring transport processes and chemical reactions. These processes may interact with each other and lead to instabilities, fluctuations, and evolutionary systems. This book explores the unifying role of thermodynamics in natural phenomena. Nonequilibrium...
Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
Transport and Rate Processes in Physical & Biological Systems
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2002
The book begins with a brief review of equilibrium systems and transport and rate processes, then covers the following areas: theory of nonequilibrium thermodynamics; dissipation function; entropy and exergy; analysis and case studies on using the second law of thermodynamics; economic impact of the...
by Joseph M J Gordon Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2002
Six Sigma is Business and Industry's newest recognized quality program. This text provides information and instructions for new and current quality professionals in order to help employ methods to attain Six Sigma defect quality assurance within their company.
All areas of business and manufacture...
by M.A. Slawinski
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2003
This book seeks to explore seismic phenomena in elastic media and emphasizes the interdependence of mathematical formulation and physical meaning. The purpose of this title - which is intended for senior undergraduate and graduate students as well as scientists interested in quantitative seismology -...
Environmental Changes
The Futures of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
This book addresses environmental changes and how they reconfigure society’s relationship to the future. It argues that Man does not build “his future alone: instead, environmental changes are also proof of the future-making capacity of non-human beings.
The author elaborates on the notion...
Optical Wireless Communications for Broadband Global Internet Connectivity
Fundamentals and Potential Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Optical Wireless Communications for Broadband Global Internet Connectivity: Fundamental and Potential Applications provides a comprehensive overview for readers who require information about the fundamental science behind optical wireless communications, as well as up-to-date advanced knowledge of...
by Eddy Y Zeng
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This book focuses on those organic chemicals that are regulated by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). as well as organic chemical with the attributes of being persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic to ecosystem and human beings, criteria used by the Stockholm Convention...
by Guozhen Wu
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Nonlinearity and Chaos in Molecular Vibrations deals systematically with a Lie algebraic approach to the study of nonlinear properties of molecular highly excited vibrations. The fundamental concepts of nonlinear dynamics such as chaos, fractals, quasiperiodicity, resonance, and the Lyapunov exponent,...
Carbon Based Magnetism
An Overview of the Magnetism of Metal Free Carbon-based Compounds and Materials
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
Carbon Based Magnetism is the most complete, detailed, and accurate guide on the magnetism of carbon, the main element of living creatures. Written by the leading experts in the field, the book provides a comprehensive review of relevant experimental data and theoretical concepts related to the magnetism...
by Jean-Paul Duroudier
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Crystallization and Crystallizers, part of the Industrial Equipment for Chemical Engineering set, defines how to perform the selection and calculation of equipment needed in the basic operations of process engineering, offering reliable and simple methods, with this volume providing a comprehensive...
Ionic Liquids
Physicochemical Properties
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2009
This comprehensive database on physical properties of pure ionic liquids (ILs) contains data collected from 269 peer-reviewed papers in the period from 1982 to June 2008. There are more than 9,400 data points on the 29 kinds of physicochemical properties for 1886 available ionic liquids, from which...
Solution Thermodynamics and its Application to Aqueous Solutions
A Differential Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
As the title suggests, we introduce a novel differential approach to solution thermodynamics and use it for the study of aqueous solutions. We evaluate the quantities of higher order derivative than the normal thermodynamic functions. We allow these higher derivative data speak for themselves without...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2005
Neutron Scattering from Magnetic Materials is a comprehensive account of the present state of the art in the use of the neutron scattering for the study of magnetic materials. The chapters have been written by well-known researchers who are at the forefront of this field and have contributed directly...