Energy rules the world, shaping policies and sparking conflicts in the race for domination. This book examines the subject from a multidimensional view, covering key energy zones like Russia and the Middle East, as well as the policies pursued by leading nations.
This book explores efficient energy utilization in industrial sites, offering a recipe to minimize Global Warming and Ozone Depletion. It presents insights into thermodynamics and energy management to help engineers deal with energy issues from a more global perspective.
This book contains recent and important results on the deep study of the universe, with great impact on space-time research and the creation of future technologies. It will appeal to mathematicians, scientists, cosmologists, researchers, and postgraduate students.
This book describes physical effects caused by impurity atoms that localize electrons and phonons in nanosystems. It presents the first-ever application of the method of local perturbations to describe the physical properties of a wide range of nanosystems.
This book covers production planning and scheduling for high-volume, high-mixture semiconductor manufacturing. It explores topics such as work-in-process management, setup times, techniques of lot batching and splitting, lot sizing, and rescheduling questions.
A practical guide to characterizing and overcoming drawbacks in electro-optical devices. It explores noise and fading phenomena in optical communication links, both wireless (LIDAR) and fiber-optic, for students and professionals in optical communication and device design.
This book presents basic results in functional and classical analysis, emphasizing convexity, optimization, and operator theory. It reveals the connection between linear and convex operators and establishes their relationship with other fields of mathematics and physics.
This book is the first complete overview of data compression methods in analytical spectroscopy and imaging. Its rigorous mathematical basis, detailed examples, and reproducible computer calculations make it a valuable guide for theorists, practitioners, and students.
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 discusses mathematical techniques for stellar kinematics, from classical methods like least squares to modern ones not in other texts, such as total least squares and semi-definite programming. For astronomers, students, engineers, and mathematicians.
Earth Science and Deuterium Nuclear Reactions
Many of Earth’s greatest mysteries—its internal heat, atmospheric composition, and the creation of elements—remain unsolved. This book shows these phenomena could be explained by nuclear fusion in our planet’s core, offering solutions to the problems now threatening our world.
This book assesses the risks of debris flows in Georgia, calculating the damage they cause. It presents innovative, patented structures to regulate them, designed using theoretical, laboratory, and field studies to ensure reliability. For scientists, engineers, and students.
The Fundamental Principles of Physics
This book provides a precise idea of what an atom or molecule is using quantum theory. To overcome student comprehension difficulties, it insists on the importance of underlying physical principles, such as particle-wave duality, indeterminism, and presence probability.
A Political History of Post-WWII Architecture in Europe
Has architecture lost the connection to public and private life? This book explores architecture from a political perspective, examining how it has mirrored political developments in Europe since the Second World War to reveal the meanings generated from this relationship.
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.
This book sets forth the theory of optimal manoeuvring near a circular orbit for transfer and rendezvous problems. It presents simple analytical methods for real spacecraft and details effective methods for manoeuvre assessment to more accurately propagate collision hazards.
Ion Channels in Biomembranes and Their Mimics
This volume provides a unified treatment of the structure and function of ion channels, clarifying how electrophysiological and electrochemical tools are essential to understanding ion transport. It bridges the gap between biology and electrochemistry for all life scientists.
Membrane technology is a sustainable, low-energy solution for water treatment, but its implementation is hampered by inadequate process modeling. This book focuses on using models as a mathematical background to design, analyze, and optimize these crucial processes.
The Mysteries of Mystery Snails
This book is a comprehensive review of Chinese and Japanese mystery snails around the globe. It discusses fascinating facts on their dispersal, biology, ecology, impacts, and control, drawing from more than 900 peer-reviewed articles. For anyone interested in invasive molluscs.
An expert guide to integrating sustainable green chemistry into your work. This book provides a comprehensive overview of green techniques and is an essential resource for academic and industrial researchers in chemistry, environmental science, and pharmaceutical science.