Applied physics

Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities: Emerging Approaches and Tools for Climate-Sensitive Urban Development starts with a presentation of three widespread Urban Metaphors, which are gaining increasing attention from urban planners and decision-makers: Smart City, Resilient City and Transition Towns, being all of them focused on the need for enhancing cities' capacities to cope with the multiple and heterogeneous challenges threatening contemporary cities and their future development and, above all, with climate issues.

High Pressure Effects in Molecular Biophysics and Enzymology is designed to acquaint biochemists, biophysicists, and graduate students with advances in the application of high pressure in connection with spectroscopy as a research tool in the study of biomolecules.

To understand the history, accomplishments, failures, and meanings of astronomy requires a knowledge of what has been said about astronomy by philosophers, novelists, playwrights, poets, scientists, and laymen.

The book addresses instability and bifurcation phenomena in frictional contact problems.

The purpose of the symposium is to discuss current experimental and theoretical studies of weak and electromagnetic interactions in nuclei, emphasizing fundamental problems of particle, nuclear and astrophysics.

Centrifugal Separations in Molecular and Cell Biology focuses on the application of modern centrifugation technology in molecular and cell biology, including the separation and fractionation of biological particles by centrifugation on the preparative and analytical scales.

In this book the author presents the state-of-the-art electromagnetic (EM)theories and methods employed in EM geophysical exploration.

The past 40 years have seen a phenomenal growth in globally oriented public and private initiatives related to chemical and environmental issues.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book deals mainly with gravitational physics and its application to the very early universe and models for relativistic objects.

This book presents the findings of recent theoretical and experimental studies of processes in the atmosphere, oceans and lithosphere, discussing their interactions, environmental issues, geology, problems related to human impacts on the environment, and methods of geophysical research.

The Living Barrier: A Primer on Transfer across Biological Membranes provides information pertinent to the movement of molecules across cell membranes.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Here is a fascinating reader-friendly exploration of "e;the phosphorus enigma.

When we look at a starry night sky, we are looking out through vast invisible expanses of our own Solar System.

This textbook provides advanced undergraduates and graduates with up-to-date coverage of space physics from the Sun to the interstellar medium.

This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to modern cosmology from an astrophysical viewpoint.

This title was originally published in 1970.

This book presents a conceptual approach to atomic structure.

This pioneering book explores how machine learning and other AI techniques impact millions of cancer patients who benefit from ionizing radiation.

Introducing new, multidisciplinary concepts, this book explains how we have reached a critical threshold in the study of astrobiology.

The Advances in Chemical Physics series the cutting edge of research in chemical physics The Advances in Chemical Physics series provides the chemical physics and physical chemistry fields with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline.

Macroscopic cellular structures and functions are generally investigated using biological and biochemical approaches.

Hormones, Fourth Edition provides a report on the field of human hormones viewed in light of our current understanding of cellular and subcellular architecture, along with the molecular details of their modes of action.

This book covers recent advances in the study of structure, function, and regulation of metabolite, protein and ion translocating channels, and transporters in mitochondria.

Over the last decade, statisticians have developed new statistical tools in the field of spatial point processes.

What exactly made the earth round?

This book is the result of collaboration within the frames of the 5th International Conference "e;Trigger Effects in Geosystems"e; held in the Institute of Geosphere Dynamics of Russian Academy of Sciences, June 2019.

This book introduces the modern field of 3+1 numerical relativity.

This book is the result of collaboration within the framework of the Third International Scientific School for Young Scientists held at the Ishlinskii Institute for Problems in Mechanics of Russian Academy of Sciences, 2017, November.

A self-contained graduate-level introduction to the physical processes that shape planetary systems, covering all stages of planet formation.

This book highlights the principles, design and characterization of mechanically compliant soft and foldable robots.

This book presents the essential characteristics of the different satellite motions.

Advances in Heat Transfer

Europe has a long history of managing coastal erosion through a variety of protection strategies, from the defences of the Venice lagoons to coastal land reclamation in the Netherlands.

Filling a gap in the literature of biophysical methodology, this book explains the fundamentals in the theory and practice of AUC.

This book offers an overview of solar physics with a focus on solar activity, particularly the activity cycle.

These proceedings contain a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Symposium on Geodesy for Earthquake and Natural Hazards (GENAH), Matsushima, Japan, 22-26 July, 2014.

Structural and Morphological Evolution in Metal-Organic Films and Multilayers presents major results of the authors' work carried out on Langmuir monolayers and Langmuir-Blodgett multilayers.

Recognition receptors play a key role in the successful implementation of chemical and biosensors.

Astrocytes: Development, Morphology, and Regional Specialization of Astrocytes, Volume 1 provides an overview of the development and diversity of astrocytes in the whole central nervous system and serves as a guide to the members of the astrocyte family.

During the past 15 years, there has been remarkable progress in the analysis and manipulation of DNA and its use in nanotechnology.

During the last ten to fifteen years, researchers have made considerable progress in the study of inorganic scintillators.

This book shows how energy flow plays a major role in: plate tectonics; the formation of continents; ocean basins; and building mountains.

Tissue Elasticity Imaging: Volume Two: Clinical Applications offers an extensive treatment of the fundamentals and applications of this groundbreaking diagnostic modality.

Scientists challenging dominant paradigms are either ignored or attacked by the scientific mainstream.

A General Meeting of the lAG was held in Edinburgh, Scotland, to commemorate its 125th Anniversary.