Mathematics and Science

This book explores the effectiveness of Dynamic Image Analysis (DIA) in granulometry studies of sand, and presents criteria for soil characterization using DIA, including test parameters, specimen size, efficacy in gap-graded soils, and its limitations.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization, ISCO 2024, held in La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, during May 22-24, 2024.

Different from traditional research on the mind-body problem often discussed from an epistemological viewpoint, which assumes that mental processes are internal to the person, this book demonstrates the crucial role of contextual relevance in the workings of the mind and illustrates how mind emerges from the individual's interactions with her physical, social, and cultural environments.

This book systematically develops the theory of continuous representations on p-adic Banach spaces.

This book addresses the problems of mathematical relations between global and classical coordinate references from the practical applications point of view.

This book presents various theories and algorithms to create a quantum computer.

This book gives the practical introduction for medical physics students and clinical physicists to learn MATLAB programming.

This book examines the latest manifestations of resource competition.

This book dispenses a comprehensive coverage of up-to-date account of genomics and genome editing enriched smart plant breeding approaches for enhancing genetic gains in vegetable crops in the post-genomics era.

The book focuses on the emerging anti-aging approaches for maintaining better health in old age.

This book highlights theoretical and experimental facts about selective nano-metal oxides.

The book investigates acoustic cloaking for elliptical targets, starting from the development of a systematic approach to deal with such non-axisymmetrical shapes by adopting transformation acoustics in elliptic coordinates, and concluding with numerical and experimental validation of a microstructured cloak in the underwater environment.

Because of continuing debates about foundational issues as well as the recent consensus about non-locality, it is time to resolve the long-standing quantum enigmas.

This is superb cross-sectional atlas of human brainstem, which based on color images with 0.

This book briefly looks at numerical modeling and micromagnetic simulation results of magnonic crystals, which are periodically modulated magnonic devices regarded as the magnetic counterpart of photonic crystals with spin waves acting as the information carrier.

This book provides a self-contained introduction of mixed-effects models and small area estimation techniques.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of a computationally efficient approach for modelling the phase behaviour of multicomponent alloys from first principles, describing both short- and long-range atomic ordering tendencies.

Le Rose siciliane autoctone costituiscono una ricca fonte di biodiversità finora poco utilizzata (e conosciuta) ma che merita di essere adeguatamente valorizzata.

This volume presents the contributions of the 6th International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Health Care through Technology - MediTech 2018, held between 17 - 20  October 2018 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

This book is the first comprehensive presentation of a central topic of stochastic geometry: random mosaics that are generated by Poisson processes of hyperplanes.

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from INCREASE 2023, Indonesia.

This book highlights the origin of low external quantum efficiency for deep ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (DUV LEDs).

This book offers a novel examination of the relations, actions, and practices of healthcare workers, analysed in terms of collective mobilisation.

This book contains mostly the author's up-to-date research results in the area.

This book focuses on performing hands-on meta-analysis using MetaXL, a free add-on to MS Excel.

Leading researchers are specially invited to provide a complete understanding of a key topic within the multidisciplinary fields of physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology.

This book gathers selected papers from the Chinese Materials Conference 2018 (CMC2018) held in Xiamen City, Fujian, China, on July 12-16, 2018.

The book systematically introduces the mathematical models and solutions of generalized hydrodynamics of soft-matter quasicrystals (SMQ).

This book highlights the latest advances in functional micro/nano imaging probes and their applications for biomedical imaging and therapy.

This book offers a self-contained introduction to the world of robust combinatorial optimization.

This book explains the misuses and abuses of Null Hypothesis Significance Tests, which are reconsidered in light of Jeffreys' Bayesian concept of the role of statistical inference, in experimental investigations.

This book studies the low-carbon transformation path of the automotive industry.

This book elucidates the role of microbial genomic islands (GEIs) in genome stability, plasticity, evolutionary adaptation, and pathogenicity in the bacterial population.

This volume deals with topical problems concerning technology and design in construction of modern metamaterials.

This book focuses on advances in our understanding of the regulatory mechanisms of brain iron uptake, iron homeostasis and iron metabolism in the pathophysiology and pharmacology of CNS disease models.

This comprehensive book offers an accessible introduction to Fourier analysis and distribution theory, blending classical mathematical theory with a wide range of practical applications.

This brief explains the principles and fundamentals of carbon dioxide utilization and highlights the transformation to fuels and value-added chemicals such as formic acid and methanol.

This thesis considers molecular orientation in thin films and introduces an optical model describing this orientation as applied to organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs).

This book explores two Rubus species from South America.

This book presents articles from the World Conference on Acoustic Emission 2019 (WCAE-2019) held at Guangdong, China.

‘Twenty-first Century Drug Discovery – an Expanding Landscape’ follows on from the author’s previous book ‘The Science and Business of Drug Discovery – Demystifying the Jargon’, published by Springer as a second edition in 2020.

This book delves into optics and photonic materials, describing the development of an intelligent all-optical system capable of replicating the functional building blocks of the biological brain.

The second edition of this textbook provides a comprehensive and detailed overview of MATLAB and specific tools for creating experiments and analysing data in psychology.

Cereal grains are gaining interest from food manufacturers and pharmaceutical industries because of their health benefits.

This book spares you the entry-level problems of mathematics by entertainingly building a bridge that gently guides you over any shoals and into the heart of college mathematics.

This protocol book provides detailed procedures for the isolation of cyanobacteria, extraction, quantification, and detection of cyanotoxins.

This book explores the world of amyloid, consisting of heterogeneous deposits that have captivated scientists for decades.

This book is concerned with optimal control problems of dynamical systems described by partial differential equations (PDEs).