The Architecture of Jens Fredrick Larson
After becoming an ace with the Royal Flying Corps, Jens Fredrick Larson became an architect for more than thirty-five colleges. This text explores his major projects and the challenges faced late in his career when Modernism denigrated and misunderstood the Georgian style.
This book presents insights into manganese oxides, materials with important technological applications in magnetic refrigeration and sensors. With elegant and didactic mathematical proofs, it will interest both researchers and the general reader interested in the subject.
This book explores the mechanics of smart nanocomposite sandwich plates, covering theories of buckling, vibration and dynamic instability. It presents models for material properties and derives governing equations using the energy method and Hamilton’s principle.
Climate Crisis and Creation Care
Our constant consumption of resources has had a negative impact on the world—affecting everything from the weather to the social fabric of our society. This book explores how we arrived at such an unstable world and offers sustainable solutions to a global crisis.
This book describes wireless channels for mobile communication system design. It explains mobile propagation and analyses multi-path channel properties, validated by experiments. Topics include street cell design, antenna diversity, and SU/MU-MIMO channel models for 5G systems.
This book sums up over half a century of research in derivative spectroscopy. For the first time, it offers the big picture of all spectroscopic and non-spectroscopic derivative methods, with reproducible calculations, serving as a practical guide for researchers and students.
Antimicrobial Coatings for Biodegradable Polymers
This book provides new insights into methodologies for the preparation of antimicrobial coatings using diverse nanoparticles. These can be applied to medical textiles and hospital devices, reinforcing polymers’ functionality, even against microorganisms resistant to antibiotics.
This book presents one hundred solved problems in Classical Mechanics to support students of Physics and Engineering. Detailed solutions feature practical applications, numerical examples, and result analysis. Key topics include Newtonian, Lagrangian, and Hamiltonian Mechanics.
This book shows how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are used to prevent security assaults on blockchain. It explores use cases and security methods, arguing that integrating AI and ML is crucial for increasing blockchain security.
This book challenges traditional consensus on groundwater flow. Revising the theory’s mathematical and physical foundations, it improves analytical equations, debunks myths, and bridges the gap between steady-state and time-dependent calculations from a new perspective.
This book provides a clear understanding of the fundamentals of materials science and engineering, written in simple language with practical examples. It is immensely useful for students of various engineering and science fields, as well as for technical professionals.
This book introduces Kolmogorov-Zurbenko Filters, powerful data analysis tools that discover phenomena hidden within data. Rather than forcing models, these methods obtain accurate results in noisy environments by separating sources of influence to explain the total picture.
Climate Crisis and Sustainable Creaturely Care
Global academics tackle the climate crisis through the lens of creation care. This volume reviews the damage to our environment and how our misuse of resources threatens all life, offering a global voice on our impact and presenting creation care as a way out of this crisis.
Science and Biotechnology in Africa
This volume provides a selection of papers from the conference “Translational Science and Biotechnology Advances in Africa.” Encompassing fields from biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences to agriculture, it reflects the tangible advancement of science in Africa.
This introductory textbook for undergraduates presents the physical background, mathematical modeling, and dynamical analysis of linear vibrations in discrete and continuous systems, offering analytical solutions and key engineering applications.
Lost World of Rēkohu
Lost World of Rēkohu explores the extraordinary fossil record of the Chatham Islands. This ancient land was forested with dinosaurs, and its warm waters hosted the largest sea monsters that ever lived—a tale of life in Zealandia never told before.
Enhanced Learning Environments
This book looks beyond buzzwords for the ground truth in how technology can enhance education. It makes a strong case for how innovations like immersive virtual reality, accessible Hollywood technology, and the metaverse can create a new frontier for future-focused learning.
Ethnochemistry
This guide to ethnosciences links traditional knowledge with modern scientific inquiry. It examines ethnochemistry, from the medicinal marvels of plants to traditional dyes, envisioning it as a catalyst for innovation, conservation, and cultural preservation.
The key to advancing clean energy lies in developing organic functional materials. This book is a valuable reference for graduate students, researchers, and engineers, providing a fundamental understanding and a global perspective on the current state of this growing field.
This book explores the ponderomotive wave forces of space plasma and their theoretical implications. The theory offers a vital tool for analyzing plasma data from the terrestrial and Martian environments, providing a roadmap for interpreting distant stellar and galactic objects.
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