Applied physics

During teaching NMR to students and researchers, we felt the need for a text-book which can cover modern trends in the application of NMR to biological systems.

This book includes selected papers presented at the international expert forum on "e;Mainstreaming Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction in Education,"e; held at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand on 1-2 December 2017.

The Journal of Fluorescence's fourth Who's Who directory is to publish the names, contact details, specialty keywords, and a brief description of scientists employing fluorescence methodology and instrumentation in their working lives.

This new edition features a completely new chapter on digital seismic data processing, numerous examples and 100 problems.

An astrophysicist chronicles his quest to photograph a black hole and reflects on its spiritual ramifications in this international-bestselling memoir.

This text presents the modeling, analysis, and design methods for systems biology.

An accessible book for graduate students and researchers that describes how the laws of thermodynamics apply to Earth system processes.

From earthquakes to the northern lights and tsunamis to glacier movement, the author explains thousands of phenomena in the world around us.

The contributions in this volume emphasize analysis of experimental data and analytical biochemistry, with examples taken from biochemistry.

Safety and Wearable Technology tackles the profound issue of workplace safety, as each day unacceptable numbers of workers lose their lives in accidents, with even more succumbing to work-related illnesses across the globe.

The book is a developed history of the radiological sciences - covering the back-story to Rontgen's discovery, the discovery itself and immediate reception the early days of radiology leading to classical radiology (the pre-digital world).

The remarkable story of how our solar system came to beThe birth and evolution of our solar system is a tantalizing mystery that may one day provide answers to the question of human origins.

This volume addresses a fundamental puzzle in biology and medicine, namely, how does tissue develop, repair and replace itself.

The Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences has become one of the world's premiere centers for studies of polymeric materials; in use, during processing, and in harsh environments.

Geologists must be able to "e;read"e; a geological map.

"e;Relativity In our Time"e; is a book concerning the relevance of Einstein's theory to human relations in contemporary times.

Over recent years electronic spectroscopy has developed significantly, with key applications in atmospheric chemistry, astrophysics and astrochemistry.

Reviews the historical development of all the key areas of modern astrophysics.

The past half century has seen an extraordinary growth in the fields of cellular and molecular biology.

This book provides the reader with a contemporary and comprehensive introduction to Quantum Mechanics.

This bestselling reference bridges the gap between the introductory and highly specialized books dealing with aspects of food biochemistry for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and professionals in the fi elds of food science, horticulture, animal science, dairy science and cereal chemistry.

The third of these texts focuses on the sunspot cycle and its effects on space weather and planetary climates.

A comprehensive graduate textbook explaining key physical methods in biology, reflecting the very latest research in this fast-moving field.

Prevention of Pressure Sores: Engineering and Clinical Aspects collects together material from throughout the literature.

The technological age has seen a range of catastrophic and preventable failures, often as a result of decisions that did not appropriately consider safety as a factor in design and engineering.

This introduction to compact star physics explains key concepts from general relativity, thermodynamics and nuclear physics.

The Handbook of Borehole Acoustics and Rock Physics for Reservoir Characterization combines in a single useful handbook the multidisciplinary domains of the petroleum industry, including the fundamental concepts of rock physics, acoustic logging, waveform processing, and geophysical application modeling through graphical examples derived from field data.

Written in an engaging and highly readable style, The Handbook of Geoscience is ideal for students, administrators, legal professionals, non-scientific professionals, and general readers with little or no science background.

To this day, there is a great amount of controversy about where, when and how the so-called supercontinents--Pangea, Godwana, Rodinia, and Columbia--were made and broken.

Professor Eric Forbes left behind at his death an important collection of the letters of John Flamsteed (1646-1719), First Astronomer Royal.

Using LEGO blocks to create a uniquely visual and clear depiction of the way our universe is put together.

Harmonic analysis plays an essential role in understanding a host of engineering, mathematical, and scientific ideas.

Biomechanics of Living Organs: Hyperelastic Constitutive Laws for Finite Element Modeling is the first book to cover finite element biomechanical modeling of each organ in the human body.

The Beauty of Protein Structures and the Mathematics behind Structural BioinformaticsProviding the framework for a one-semester undergraduate course, Structural Bioinformatics: An Algorithmic Approach shows how to apply key algorithms to solve problems related to macromolecular structure.

To improve efficiency and reduce administrative costs, healthcare providers, insurance companies, and governments are increasingly using integrated electronic health record (EHR) and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) to manage patients' medical information.

Since the publication of the first edition, miniaturization and nanotechnology have become inextricably linked to traditional surface geometry and metrology.

Graphene is giving new impetus to the electronics industry because its band structure allows its properties to be dramatically altered and modified by chemical or electrochemical doping methods.

Free Radicals in Biology, Volume VI covers the significant biological implications of arachidonic acid chemistry in free radical biology.

Machine Learning for Planetary Science presents planetary scientists with a way to introduce machine learning into the research workflow as increasingly large nonlinear datasets are acquired from planetary exploration missions.

The book presents an integrated approach to studying the geomechanical processes occurring in oil and gas-bearing formations during their development.

Neuronal communication forms the basis for all behavior, from the smallest movement to our grandest thought processes.

Essential Dynamics & Relativity provides students with an introduction to the core aspects of dynamics and special relativity.

This essential book is the first comprehensive exposition in the area of optimal low-thrust orbit transfer using non-singular variables.

Understanding Faults: Detecting, Dating, and Modeling offers a single resource for analyzing faults for a variety of applications, from hazard detection and earthquake processes, to geophysical exploration.

The Atmosphere and Ocean The Atmosphere and Ocean is a fully revised and updated student friendly physical introduction to the atmosphere and ocean.

The Eye, 3rd Edition, Volume lA: Vegetative Physiology and Biochemistry is devoted to the vegetative physiology and biochemistry of the eye.

In spite of the growing importance of Species Sensitivity Distribution models (SSDs) in ecological risk assessments, the conceptual basis, strengths, and weaknesses of using them have not been comprehensively reviewed.

"e;a gem of a textbook which manages to produce a genuinely fresh, concise yet comprehensive guide"e;-Mark Leake, University of York"e;destined to become a standard reference.