Space missions subject human beings or any other target of a spacecraft to a radiation environment of an intensity and composition not available on earth.
Space missions subject human beings or any other target of a spacecraft to a radiation environment of an intensity and composition not available on earth.
This book is a masterful collection limited to students, researchers, engineers, scientists, pharmacists, and experts in the evolving field of existing extraction technologies.
This book delves into Europe's urgent quest for energy independence as a foundation for the EU and national sovereignty, economic resilience and climate leadership.
In this book are reported the main results presented at the "e;Fourth International Workshop on Data Analysis in Astronomy"e;, held at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily, Italy, on April 12-19, 1991.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Acoustical Imaging at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany during April 3 -5, 1991.
This book contains the lectures delivered at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the "e;Intersubband Transistions in Quantum Wells"e; held in Cargese, France, between the t 9 h and the 14th of September 1991.
The Tenth International Workshop on "e;Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena"e; was held November 11-15, 1991, at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.
'The review articles in this series are invariably of a high standard, and those contained in the most recent volumes to appear (Volumes 14-16), are no exception.
The optical properties of semiconductors have played an important role since the identification of semiconductors as "e;small"e; bandgap materials in the thinies, due both to their fundamental interest as a class of solids baving specific optical propenies and to their many important applications.
The twenty-second Coral Gables conference "e;UNIFIED SYMMETRY: In the Small and In the Large"e; continued with the efforts to unify the small and the large.
Since the study of wavelets is a relatively new area, much of the research coming from mathematicians, most of the literature uses terminology, concepts and proofs that may, at times, be difficult and intimidating for the engineer.
The need for a general collection of electroacoustical reference and design data in graphical form has been felt by acousticians and engineers for some time.
This volume represents the proceedings of the 21 st International Symposium on Acoustical Imaging, which was held at the Surf and Sand Hotel in Laguna Beach, California, March 28-30, 1994.
This volume contains the lectures and contributions presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "e;Frontier Topics in Nuclear Physics"e;, held at Predeal in Romania from 24 August to 4 September 1993.
The present volume comprises the contributions of some of the participants of the NATO Advance Studies Institute "e;Turbulence, Weak and Strong"e;, held in Cargese, in August 1994.
The Olympia conference Frontiers of Fundamental Physics was a gathering of about hundred scientists who carryon their research in conceptually important areas of physical science (they do "e;fundamental physics"e;).
The last decade has been witness to many exciting and rapid developments in the fields of Nuclear Physics and Intermediate Energy Physics, the interface between Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics.
Ingeometrical optics, light propagation is analyzed in terms of light rays which define the path of propagation of light energy in the limitofthe optical wavelength tending to zero.
This handbook contains up-to-date existing structures, computer applications, and infonnation on planning, analysis, and design seismic design of wood structures.
In the preliminary stage of designing new structural hardware to perform a given mission in a fluctuating load environment, there are several factors that the designer should consider.
PREFACE This book deals with the new developments and applications of the geometric method to the nonlinear stability problem for thin non-elastic shells.
The purpose of this book is to place a resource in the hands of experimental mechanics researchers to enable them to understand and to obtain a working familiarity with certain of the numerical methods particularly useful to the field.
The new series, International Mathematical Series founded by Kluwer / Plenum Publishers and the Russian publisher, Tamara Rozhkovskaya is published simultaneously in English and in Russian and starts with two volumes dedicated to the famous Russian mathematician Professor Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, on the occasion of her 80th birthday.
Nanotribology: Critical Assessment and Research Needs is an excellent reference for both academic and industrial researchers working in the fields of nanotechnology, tribology, mechanical engineering, materials science and engineering, MEMS, NEMS, magnetic recording, and biomedical devices.
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Materials Processing at High Gravity, held at Clarkson University, May 29 to June 2, 2000.