Based on 60 years of research, this book reveals a powerful message: qualitative data is more informative than quantitative data. Learn how to analyze it quantitatively to extract more information, using simple illustrations of difficult topics that anyone can understand.
This book solves scattering problems for elastic waves in solids using analytical approaches. It provides benchmark solutions for numerical methods and introduces applications in ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation, material characterization, and geophysics.
This illustrated guide explores moiré patterns in 1D, 2D, 3D, and time. Learn to identify, distinguish, evaluate, and control the moiré effect, and to use it in modern technologies.
A guide for process systems engineers to design environmentally conscious chemical processes. It introduces the Composite Sustainability Indicator (CSI), a tool integrating risk assessment and environmental impact models, and uses case studies to demonstrate its effectiveness.
A groundbreaking exploration of N-heterocycles, from their historical significance to diverse biological applications. This crucial reference connects the past, present, and future of these remarkable compounds, inspiring innovation and serving as a vital educational resource.
This textbook presents the first systematic exposition of the new X-ray optics. Once limited to electronic density, the X-ray reflectivity method now detects magnetic and electronic depth-profiles. It develops the theory for students, postgraduates, and researchers.
This book presents a theory of nonlinear response in charged media, yielding Burnett transport coefficients to model heat and mass flows. It applies these methods to extreme scenarios, from gas-phase nuclear reactors to a spacecraft landing on Mars. For specialists.
This book explores tectonic affects in architecture, where building technology and aesthetics are not separated. Affects are preconscious feelings that can generate aesthetic value and meaning. The book adopts a practical position, concentrating on these tectonic affects.
This monograph analyses skeletal rearrangements, which are of exceptional importance in synthetic organic chemistry. It details the mechanisms for synthesizing valuable natural bioactive compounds, with over 100 examples. Essential for chemists, researchers, and students.
Next Generation Peer-to-Peer Engineering
This book provides a history of peer-to-peer technology and defines the “peer-to-peer spectrum,” which expands the idea of a P2P network. It also clarifies overlay networks and provides the in-depth technical description of security and protocols to implement a P2P system.
This book reviews gem corundum origins worldwide, exploring the formation of rubies and sapphires. Using key evidence like trace elements and mineral inclusions, it is a valuable reference for geologists, gemmologists, and traders to identify gemstone origins.
Climate Change and Water-Related Challenges in Pakistan
Pakistan is one of the countries most affected by climate change, facing crises in water and food security. This collection by leading academics examines the burden of the problem and presents feasible, affordable solutions to inspire discourse and accelerated action.
This book explains basic concepts of mathematical analysis, including functions, numerical sequences, convergence, and limits. It also covers the continuity and differentiability of functions, their applications, and the graphic representation of parametric functions.
The Evolution of the Net
This book describes the evolution of the Net for nonspecialists. It explains the infrastructure’s journey from the network transmission of Telephony, the medium of the 20th century, to the knowledge navigation of Telesophy, the future medium for moving from data to wisdom.
Digitalization leads to complex applications encoded by simple Boolean variables. However, their exponential growth creates challenges. This book gathers research on the Boolean domain to help readers solve these real-life scientific and practical tasks.
This book explores how artificial intelligence (AI) interprets behavioral patterns and their influence on personality. It discusses AI’s uses, from controlling diseases to modern personality analysis, and its challenges. Perfect for data scientists, academics, and students.
Nanomaterials
Explore the transformative power of nanomaterials in energy storage, medicine, and environmental remediation. This book presents nanotechnology as a key driver of sustainable development, offering vital insights for researchers, professionals, and students.
This book offers an amazing collection of analyzed images from the Red Planet, suggestive of ancestral life on Mars. It evidences possible microbial life and complex structures reminiscent of terrestrial fossils, a presentation of importance for astrobiologists and space lovers.
The author studies dynamic processes in lithospheric plates, developing a mathematical apparatus based on Laplace and Fourier transforms. This collection of articles is for geophysics researchers and senior students, and is recommended reading for university geodynamics courses.
Statistics Meets Sports
In the world of sports, data science and analytics are leading to game-changing insights. This book provides a solid understanding of these new trends and offers the interested reader a starting point from which to dive into this blossoming field.