The muon is vital to particle, nuclear, and atomic physics, and a key component of the Standard Model. Muonic processes provide crucial information on the weak interaction. This book explores the various aspects of muon physics, highlighting the most recent experiments conducted.
Planting New Towns in Europe in the Interwar Years
The contributions here concern the prospects of building new urban environments and creating new societies in Europe during the interwar years, and serve to tease out connections between urban form and social aspirations, highlighting the moral basis of social planning.
Discover innovative methods and world-first digital tools for determining metallurgical slag properties. A unique formula allows you to determine slag suitability with 93% reliability. Essential for professionals and students in metallurgy and materials engineering.
The Hydropolitics of Africa
Water is an essential resource and a source of disease and conflict in Africa, where global warming threatens survival. This volume traces the dynamics of contemporary hydropolitics through technical, institutional, and social policy analyses.
This book explores the window’s transformation in Early Modern Europe. Driven by a classical revival and the climate change of the Little Ice Age, builders created new traditions that rivalled Italy, culminating in the iconic French casement and the English sash window.
From Foundations to Philosophy of Mathematics
Explore the 20th century’s foundational crisis in mathematics. From early paradoxes to the rise of logicism, intuitionism, and formalism, this guide examines the quest for certainty and the lasting impact of Gödel’s revolutionary theorems.
Many students struggle to visualize the frequency domain, essential for technologies like MRI. This book depicts the transformation in detail, from Fourier series to image filtering, with a progressive introduction to Matlab and numerical applications on functions and images.
This book explores the synthesis, characterization, and applications of graphene and its derivatives, including quantum dots. For the first time, both industrial and medical applications are gathered in one book, offering a unique perspective on the future of the field.
Fire is the essence of life. Journey into the science of combustion, from the thermodynamics of a flame to the amazing bombardier beetle. Using clear figures and analogies, this book demystifies one of the most important chemical reactions for humanity.
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.
Birthing the Computer
This volume, the first in a series, charts the progress of computer systems, including the Zuse machines and those by IBM. It details the transition from relays to vacuum tubes, and how this led to the first true computers, resulting in them becoming a commercial enterprise.
This book provides a graduate-level introduction to classical and quantum black holes. It details examples of integrable systems, hidden symmetries in black hole spacetime, and resolutions to the information paradox, presenting an overview of cutting-edge research.
Representing papers delivered at the EURAU2014 Istanbul “Composite Cities” Conference, this text addresses the importance of research on the complexity of today’s cities, while also shedding light on new models of urbanism discussed together with new decision-making actors.
From an expert team, this guide provides a comprehensive overview of green chemistry techniques. Learn to integrate sustainable approaches into your work, using fewer chemicals and less energy for higher yields. A useful guide for academic and industrial researchers.
This book is devoted to a quasi-classical treatment of quantum transitions, with an emphasis on magnetic and electric dipolar resonance. In addition to known results, it presents parametric resonance for electric dipoles, which may lead to spontaneous electric polarization.
This book covers new deep neural networks that synthesize their optimal structure in online mode. Based on the principle of self-organization, this approach solves a wide class of Data Stream Mining problems, including pattern recognition, forecasting, and classification.
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.
The 21st century presents many challenges to the hazard manager as changing conditions reshape disaster impacts and human vulnerability. This book examines evolving approaches to natural hazards, offering insights into applied research to inspire future work.
This study introduces a holistic workflow for evaluating complex carbonate and clastic reservoirs. By combining borehole imagery, petrophysical logs, and core samples, this research reveals new insights into reservoir structure, fracture detection, and permeability distribution.
Computational models must be adequate for real physical processes, yet the issue of adequacy is poorly understood. This is the first book to address constructing adequate mathematical descriptions, proposing two criteria and algorithms for specialists in mathematical modeling.
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