Science: general issues

Biologist John Spicer shows how closely our future is linked with that of biodiversity while navigating readers through some key problems facing our planet, including mass extinctions, population explosions, habitat destruction, and pollution.

What happens if you fall into a black hole?

The exciting discoveries and newest revelations in the field of archeoastronomy present fascinating examples of the importance of astronomy to the ancient Maya Civilization.

This book takes an historical view to explain how social science arrived at its current state and proposes solutions to its problems.

Science is undergoing an identity crisis!

This book uses real-world examples from the aquaculture industry to demonstrate how deep technology is assisting farmers and vulnerable communities.

Every cell, tissue, organ and organism is competent to use signs to exchange information reaching common coordinations and organisations of both single cell and group behavior.

This book includes proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices.

This book is based on a course of lectures aimed at undergraduate and graduate students studying materials science and welding at the E.

This book systematically introduces the basic principles and technologies of Faraday lasers, starting from the development history and trends of diode lasers.

This comprehensive guide invites nations worldwide to embark on a transformative journey, implementing independent third-party verification systems that ensure medical devices comply with both international and national regulations.

This book systematically introduces the basic principles and technologies of Faraday lasers, starting from the development history and trends of diode lasers.

This book is about how statistics play a role in life, whether in business, psychology, biology, economics, or just about anything short of basket weaving.

This book comprehensively covers all aspects of distribution, taxonomy, life cycle, cultivation, application in traditional medicine, their secondary metabolites, and their biological properties, along with various parameters to yield improvement in selected species of Cordyceps.

This book is about how statistics play a role in life, whether in business, psychology, biology, economics, or just about anything short of basket weaving.

30+ Years of Peer-Reviewed Studies on the Corporate Ties and Vested Interests that Influence Scientific ResearchFor over 500 years, groups and organizations with political, economic, and personal interests have successfully exercised influence on the pursuit of scientific inquiry and knowledge.

This book offers an in-depth exploration of one of the fundamental particles that has shaped our understanding of the physical world and revolutionized technology, combining historical narrative with rigorous scientific analysis to provide a comprehensive account of the electron.

This book highlights the synthesis, luminescence, and applications of rare earth-doped phosphors materials for solid-state lighting.

This monograph offers a comprehensive guide to good research practices and mindsets, covering a wide range of topics across 8  chapters.

This monograph offers a comprehensive guide to good research practices and mindsets, covering a wide range of topics across 8  chapters.

This book is intended for students, academics, authors, and research-oriented professionals to store, organize, and manage their references for research papers, theses, dissertations, journal articles, and other publications.

This book connects recent developments in speculative realism, new materialism, and eco-phenomenology to articulate an approach to wonder that escapes the connected traps of anthropocentrism and correlationism.

“New Directions in Educational Technology and Administration” emphasize the integration of cutting-edge tools like artificial intelligence, big data, and augmented reality to enhance teaching and learning experiences.

The book describes the collection of the Museum Engines and Mechanisms of the University of Palermo, Italy, one of the most important and heterogeneous collections of engines and mechanisms in Europe, the first one in Italy to be awarded as Mechanical Engineering Heritage Collection by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

The aim of this text is to provide an account of the fundamentals of thermodynamics which is accessible at graduate level to physicists, mathematicians and philosophers of physics.

This book gives an account of the origins of theoretical mechanics in antiquity, its limited reception in the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages, and its recovery and subsequent development in Italy to the time of Galileo.

How can we teach machine learning to identify causal patterns in data?

This book includes proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices.

This edited book covers a wide range of novel scientific and engineering aspects of diamond films produced from chemical vapor deposition.

This book provides insights into the recent developments in the field of bioprocess technology and bioreactor design.

The Inkas (Quechua spelling) worshipped the Sun, and their emperor was thought to be the son of the Sun.

This book highlights the fundamentals of thin films and coatings, including deposition techniques and material properties.

The book describes the collection of the Museum Engines and Mechanisms of the University of Palermo, Italy, one of the most important and heterogeneous collections of engines and mechanisms in Europe, the first one in Italy to be awarded as Mechanical Engineering Heritage Collection by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

This book explores the scientific development in the field of algal-based nanomaterials synthesis, production methods, and commercial and utilization aspects of phyconanomaterials to address a range of problems of humanity.

This volume explores the diverse meanings and ways of implementing development programs and technical assistance projects, through several case studies grounded in Mexico but transcending its geography.

Now that cinema is offline and online, the capacity of cinema to relate to philosophy and science has increased.

The fascinating correspondence between Paul Levy and Maurice Frechet spans an extremely active period in French mathematics during the twentieth century.

This book provides insights drawn from the authors' extensive experience in teaching Puzzle-based Learning.

There is a significant difference between designing a new algorithm, proving its correctness, and teaching it to an audience.

Sloshing causes liquid to fluctuate, making accurate level readings difficult to obtain in dynamic environments.

Bimetallic nanoparticles, also called nanoalloys, are at the heart of nanoscience because of their ability to tune together composition and size for specific purposes.

Dimensional metrology is an essential part of modern manufacturing technologies, but the basic theories and measurement methods are no longer sufficient for today's digitized systems.

MATLAB®, a software package developed by Math Works, Inc.

Pneumatic, hydraulic and allied instrumentation schemes have given way to electronic schemes in recent years thanks to the rapid strides in electronics and allied areas.

The world of artificial systems is reaching complexity levels that es- cape human understanding.