Applied physics

Python is used in a wide range of geoscientific applications, such as in processing images for remote sensing, in generating and processing digital elevation models, and in analyzing time series.

This book focuses on all of the major problems associated with the absence of body weight in space, by analyzing effects, adaption, and re-adaptation upon returning to Earth, using sound scientific principles embedded in a historical context.

Using observations of the 2011-Tohoku and some other tsunamis in rivers as a starting point for analytical and numerical exploration, this book suggests a basis for predicting tsunami impacts in a river after the wave has transitioned into the river's channel.

This volume offers a comprehensive guide to the prevention, management of injury, risk factor mitigation, and rehabilitation in track and field athletes.

This book provides systematic knowledge of basic principles in the design of fluorescence sensing and imaging techniques together with critical analysis of recent developments.

This book begins with the basic terms and definitions and takes a student, step by step, through all areas of medical physics.

This book provides a practical guide to applying soft-computing methods to interpret geophysical data.

This book presents findings from research into the Precambrian history of the Indian shield obtained using state-of-the-art technology.

In September 1969, several months after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Richard M.

This book focuses on the most recent, relevant, comprehensive and significant aspects in the well-established multidisciplinary field Laboratory Astrophysics.

The overall goal of the book is to provide access to the regularized solution of inverse problems relevant in geophysics without requiring more mathematical knowledge than is taught in undergraduate math courses for scientists and engineers.

This volume proposes an integral approach to studying the geophysics of Earth.

This book offers extensive and comprehensive knowledge to the researchers and academicians who are working on decontamination of radioactively contaminated areas.

This book describes the two excursions accessed from the Monterrey International Airport on the north side of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

This book presents the proceedings of the IVth Azores International Advanced School in Space Sciences entitled "e;Asteroseismology and Exoplanets: Listening to the Stars and Searching for New Worlds"e;.

This book describes current advances in the research on membranes and applications in industry, groundwater, and desalination processes.

Revealing essential roles of the tumor microenvironment in cancer progression, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research on how different signaling pathways are important in the tumor microenvironment.

This atlas illustrates the characteristics of present-day bedforms, from the shoreline to deep-sea environments, and it also includes short reviews of the main mechanisms that generate such bedforms.

This textbook serves as an introduction to nonlinear dynamics and fractals for physiological modeling.

This thesis presents studies of the starless core populations of three nearby molecular clouds made as part of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Gould Belt Survey.

This textbook presents the principles and methods for the measurement of radioactivity in the environment.

This book, based on a selection of invited presentations from a topical workshop, focusses on time-variable oscillations and their interactions.

This book shows the results of structural, compositional and evolutionary investigations of the Precambrian crust of the East European Craton in Lithuania and adjacent areas.

This book offers a comprehensive review of our current understanding of the planetary boundary layer, particularly the turbulent exchanges of momentum, heat and passive scalars between the surface of the Earth and the atmosphere.

This book, now in an extensively revised and updated second edition, provides a comprehensive overview of both machine learning and deep learning and their role in oncology, medical physics, and radiology.

This book deals with the interdisciplinary areas of nuclear physics, supernovae and neutron star physics.

This book takes the reader on a journey through the history of extremely ambitious, large and complex space missions that never happened.

The raw numbers of high-energy-density physics are amazing: shock waves at hundreds of km/s (approaching a million km per hour), temperatures of millions of degrees, and pressures that exceed 100 million atmospheres.

This book presents a string-theoretic approach to new ideas in particle physics, also known as Physics Beyond the Standard Model, and to cosmology.

This thesis develops the dispersive optical model into a tool that allows for the assessment of the validity of nuclear reaction models, thereby generating unambiguous removal probabilities of nucleons from valence orbits using the electron-induced proton knockout reaction.

This book contains the most complete description of the geologic and geophysical data of the  structure of Arctic Basin including structures of the earth's crust, crustal and acoustic basement, and sedimentary cover.

This book series is composed of peer-reviewed proceedings of selected symposia organized by the International Association of Geodesy.

In recent decades, the number of satellites being built and launched into Earth's orbit has grown immensely, alongside the field of space engineering itself.

The flight of Gemini 4 in June 1965 was conducted barely four years after the first Americans flew in space.

This user-friendly, pragmatic book discusses the normal and pathological conditions of the appendicular skeleton, with a focus on the preservation of joint function, providing a detailed overview of strategies for both common and complex joint preservation.

This modern textbook guides the reader through the theory and practice of the motion and attitude control of space vehicles.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of one of the oldest and best-exposed Archaean cratons on this planet.

This book includes nine chapters written by internationally recognized experts, covering all aspects of millisecond pulsars in one concise and cohesive volume.

This thesis addresses the feasibility of the production of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays in starburst galaxies and active galactic nuclei.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to confocal microscopy - with a particular focus on spectral confocal microscopy.

This book is devoted to the rapidly growing area of science dealing with structure and properties of biological surfaces in their relation to particular functions.

The monograph is devoted to ball lightning (BL) observed in natural conditions in the air and artificial BL, long-lived luminous formations (LLF), usually obtained in laboratories experimentally.

This volume is part of collection of contributions devoted to analytical and experimental techniques of dynamical systems, presented at the 15th International Conference "e;Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications"e;, held in Lodz, Poland on December 2-5, 2019.

This book presents novel observational evidence toward detecting and characterizing the products of massive, interacting binary stars.

This book provides a detailed, state-of-the-art overview of key observational and theoretical aspects of the rapidly developing and highly interdisciplinary field of exoplanet science, as viewed through the lenses of eight world-class experts.

This book presents the formulations and solutions of the wave equation for the Earth's free oscillations concerning the particular nodal, bifurcation, perspectival, and projective reference points within the framework of the three "e;great geometries"e; of Euclid, Lobachevsky, and Riemann.

This book focuses on important interfacial phenomena, such as interfacial potential and interfacial multi-functionality, responsible for determining the fate of nanoparticles inside the biological milieu.

This book provides a showcase for the incredibly well-preserved flight-textured tektites of southern Australia, which are the world's finest known examples.

This book presents the structure formation and dynamics of animate and inanimate matter on the nanometre scale.

This book focuses on new experimental and theoretical advances concerning the role of strange and heavy-flavour quarks in high-energy heavy-ion collisions and in astrophysical phenomena.