Applied physics

This book covers various fields relevant to navigation, including Earth's magnetic field, gravity field, topography, celestial polarization field, electrostatic field, and relativistic celestial field effects.

This landmark monograph presents the most recent mathematical developments in the analysis of ionospheric distortions of SAR images and offers innovative new strategies for their mitigation.

The consequences of recent floods and flash floods in many parts of the world have been devastating.

This volume describes the state-of-knowledge in the study of the relationships between mechanical loading states in tissues and common pathophysiologies related to increase in mass of adipose tissues and/or hyperglycemia which eventually lead to obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, hyperlipidemia, metabolic inflammations, certain types of cancer and other related diseases.

Numerical Methods in Astrophysics: An Introduction outlines various fundamental numerical methods that can solve gravitational dynamics, hydrodynamics, and radiation transport equations.

The text develops the principal aspects of applied Fourier analysis and methodology with the main goal to inculcate a different way of perceiving global and regional geodetic and geophysical data, namely from the perspective of the frequency, or spectral, domain rather than the spatial domain.

Published under the auspices of the Royal Astronomical Society, this volume contains a set of extensive school tested lectures, with the aim to give a coherent and thorough background knowledge of the subject and to introduce the latest developments in N-body computational astrophysics.

Introduction to the Fast Multipole Method introduces the reader to the theory and computer implementation of the Fast Multipole Method.

Some economic phenomena are predictable and controllable, and some are impos- sible to foresee.

This book offers a new approach to interpreting the geodetic boundary value problem, successfully obtaining the solutions of the Molodensky and Stokes boundary value problems (BVPs) with the help of downward continuation (DC) based methods.

The progress of science during the past centuries has been in some measure energized by the development of new technologies.

This volume on spin glasses, structural glasses and biological macromolecules collects pedagogically written lecture notes of internationally renowned - perts from eight countries, who work on di?

Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) continues to mature as a research field and is primed to make a swift transition to routine preclinical and clinical applications.

The present volume, the fourth one in the "e;Space Sciences Series of ISSI"e; (Inter- national Space Science Institute), contains the proceedings of a workshop on "e;Pri- mordial Nuclei and Their Galactic Evolution"e;, which was held at ISSI in Bern on 6-10 May 1997.

This book outlines the computational fluid dynamics evolution and gives an overview of the methods available to the engineer.

Describes and analyses the environmental problems of Third World cities, showing how they affect human health and the local ecology.

Astrophysics is facing challenging aims such as deep cosmology at redshift higher than 10 to constrain cosmology models, or the detection of exoplanets, and possibly terrestrial exoplanets, and several others.

Journeys to the Ends of the Universe presents a tour through the universe from the big bang onward.

Advances in Geophysics

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This book describes in full detail the surgical principles and technology of Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA), providing evidence-based data on the biomechanics of the knee joint and biomaterials in arthroplasty.

The Moon: Resources, Future Development and Settlement describes feasible human settlement of the Moon in the coming century.

This book highlights contemporary state of research in multi-disciplinary areas in Physics, Biomedical Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science/Engineering, Life Sciences, and Healthcare.

Finally, someone has written a comprehensive, easily readable explanation of the tides on earth that is both simple enough for students and solid enough for their professors.

Herausforderung Zukunft, die zweite Auflage von Jischas Einführungsbuch für Naturwissenschaftler und Ingenieure zur Implementierung moderner Technik in modernen globalen und ökologisch anspruchsvollen Gesellschaften, vermittelt das Kontextwissen für Studierende, das man für die Entwicklung moderner Technikanwendungen benötigt.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to current state-of-the-art auto-segmentation approaches used in radiation oncology for auto-delineation of organs-of-risk for thoracic radiation treatment planning.

Biosensors are analytical devices that combine a biologically sensitive element with a physical or chemical transducer to selectively and quantitatively detect the presence of specific compounds.

This book focuses on proposing a tsunami early warning system using data assimilation of offshore data.

This book describes insight mechanisms for designing molecular probes and methods that these agents can be used for medical diagnosis in preclinical animal models via optical, MRI and PET imaging.

This book provides a detailed description of the modern variational methods available for solving the nuclear motion Schrodinger equation to enable accurate theoretical spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules.

This book provides detailed insights into how space and its applications are, and can be, used to support the development of the full range and diversity of African societies, as encapsulated in the African Union's Agenda 2063.

This book consists of tributes written by friends, colleagues, teachers, students and family members of Professor Shu Chien on the occasion of his 70th birthday, which was celebrated in San Diego, California on 23 June 2001, and in Taipei, Taiwan on 12 August 2001.

Quaternary studies provide the essential context for evaluation of what is happening with the earth's climate today, and to clarify our vulnerability to hazardous natural processes.

Because of their ability to differentiate and develop into functional vasculature, stem cells hold tremendous promise for therapeutic applications.

Cryo-EM, as it is currently practiced in many laboratories, is limited to the visualization of molecules that are in thermal equilibrium at the time before freezing.

Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterization collects the papers presented at the Third International Conference on Site Characterization (ISC 3) that took place in Taipei from April 1-4, 2008.

Reference volume examining historical evidence from the last 4000 years to analyse earthquakes in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East.

Advances in Geophysics

This book contains essentially two parts.

This book describes at the introductory level how modern technology has made the scenario of the classic science-fiction movie Fantastic Voyage a reality.

A best-selling resource now in its fifth edition, Paul Davidovits' Physics in Biology and Medicine provides a high-quality and highly relevant physics grounding for students working toward careers in the medical and related professions.

Bringing together leading researchers from particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, Lepton and Baryon Number Violation in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology presents reviews of current theoretical ideas, experimental results, and future perspectives in this topical field.

Provides an up-to-date overview of the theoretical, experimental and analytical tools for carrying out asteroseismological observations and inferences.

The monograph discusses models of synthetic protocells, which are cell-like structures obtained from non-living matter endowed with some rudimentary kind of metabolism and genetics, but much simpler than biological cells.

This book provides researchers at the forefront of nonlinear optical technologies with robust procedures and software for the systematic investigation of the fundamental phenomena in nonlinear optical waveguide structures.

Describes the use of inverse scattering theory in seismic imaging for seismic processing practitioners and theoretical geophysicists.

This volume explores open-source based image analysis techniques to provide a state-of-the-art collection of workflows covering current bioimage analysis problematics, including colocalization, particle counting, 3D structural analysis, ratio imaging and FRET quantification, particle tracking, high-content screening or machine learning.

This book provides the mathematical foundations of the theory of hyperhamiltonian dynamics, together with a discussion of physical applications.

This Brief provides a clear insight of the recent advances in the field of cancer theranostics with special emphasis upon nano scale carrier molecules (polymeric, protein and lipid based) and imaging agents (organic and inorganic).

The Plasma Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetic Control, Second Edition, Volume V explores the contribution of molecular biology and gene cloning approaches to the advancement of plasma protein structure, function, and genomic organization studies.