Based on a series of lectures for adult students, this lively and entertaining book proves that, far from being a dusty, dull subject, geometry is in fact full of beauty and fascination.
Current language technology is dominated by approaches that either enumerate a large set of rules, or are focused on a large amount of manually labelled data.
Blauert's and Xiang's "e;Acoustics for Engineers"e; provides the material for an introductory course in engineering acoustics for students with basic knowledge in mathematics.
This book highlights the relevance of perceptual processing to symptom formation across psychiatric disorders, written by experts in perceptual inference from the fields of human and animal sensory neurobiology.
Ocean Dynamics' is a concise introduction to the fundamentals of fluid mechanics, non-equilibrium thermodynamics and the common approximations for geophysical fluid dynamics, presenting a comprehensive approach to large-scale ocean circulation theory.
Jiji's extensive understanding of how students think and learn, what they find difficult, and which elements need to be stressed is integrated in this work.
This work, published in two volumes, contains descriptions of the wood and bark anatomies of 3000 dicotyledonous plants of 120 families, highlighting the anatomical and phylogenetic diversity of dicotyledonous plants of the Northern Hemisphere.
This work, published in two volumes, contains descriptions of the wood and bark anatomies of 3000 dicotyledonous plants of 120 families, highlighting the anatomical and phylogenetic diversity of dicotyledonous plants of the Northern Hemisphere.
Writing a new book on the classic subject of Special Relativity, on which numerous important physicists have contributed and many books have already been written, can be like adding another epicycle to the Ptolemaic cosmology.
Innovations in hardware architecture, like hyper-threading or multicore processors, mean that parallel computing resources are available for inexpensive desktop computers.
This textbook presents the classical topics of conduction heat transfer and extends the coverage to include chapters on perturbation methods, heat transfer in living tissue, and microscale conduction.
This new edition of the well-received introduction to solid-state physics provides a comprehensive overview of the basic theoretical and experimental concepts of materials science.
Over the last forty years, plasma supported processes have attracted ever - creasing interest, and now, all modern semiconductor devices undergo at least one plasma-involved processing step, starting from surface cleaning via coating to etching.
Considering the stupendous gain in importance, in the banking and insurance industries since the early 1990's, of mathematical methodology, especially probabilistic methodology, it was a very natural idea for the French "e;Academie des Sciences"e; to propose a series of public lectures, accessible to an educated audience, to promote a wider understanding for some of the fundamental ideas, techniques and new tools of the financial industries.
Most of the material covered in this book deals with the fundamentals of chemistry and physics of key processes and fundamental mechanisms for various combustion and combustion related phenomena in gaseous combustible mixture.
Technical Reports are usually written according to general standards, corporate - sign standards of the current university or company, logical rules and practical - periences.
The "e;Shock Wave Science and Technology Reference Library"e; is a numbered and bounded collection of specifically commissioned volumes on basic fundamental and applied aspects of shock wave science and technology.
Les Éléments de mathématique de Nicolas Bourbaki ont pour objet une présentation rigoureuse, systématique et sans prérequis des mathématiques depuis leurs fondements.
This book provides an in-depth exploration of microbiota profiling and precision medicine, including the underlying mechanisms, delivery methods, treatment strategies, and the impact of biomarker-targeted drug delivery.
This book provides an introduction to the forward and inverse modeling, information extraction techniques, and applications of the Short Offset Transient Electromagnetic Method (SOTEM).
Pandemie und Klimakrise rufen die herausragende Rolle der Wissenschaft und des wissenschaftlichen Wissens für Informierung und Orientierung der Gesellschaft sowie für die Beratung der Politik bei der Ausrichtung praktischer Maßnahmen ins Bewusstsein.
In der zeitgenössischen Reproduktionsethik werden intensiv moralische Probleme von Fortpflanzungstechniken wie Leihmutterschaft oder Gametenspende diskutiert.
This book introduces the scattering theory of nonrelativistic systems, a standard tool for interpreting collision experiments with quantum particles at energies not too high.
Dieses Buch stellt eine aktuelle Auswahl mathematisch-statistischer Methoden und Stichprobenstrategien zum Umgang mit kontinuierlichen Messgrößen in Raum und Zeit dar.
Dieses Buch erzählt die Entwicklung des Universums aus physikalischer Sicht: es nimmt Leserinnen und Leser mit auf eine Reise vom Beginn des Universums über seine Expansion, zur ersten Strukturbildung und schließlich zur Zukunft des Kosmos.
This introduction to Atomic and Molecular Physics explains how our present model of atoms and molecules has been developed over the last two centuries both by many experimental discoveries and, from the theoretical side, by the introduction of quantum physics to the adequate description of micro-particles.
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 42nd International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science, WG 2016, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in June 2016.
This textbook takes the reader on a tour of the most important landmarks of theoretical physics: classical, quantum, and statistical mechanics, relativity, electrodynamics, as well as the most modern and exciting of all: elementary particles and the physics of fractals.
The use of natural catalysts -enzymes -for the transformation of non-natural man-made organic compounds is not at all new: they have been used for more than one hundred years, employed either as whole cells, cell organelles or isolated enzymes [1, 2].
