Mathematics and Science

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This thesis focuses on an unresolved problem in particle and nuclear physics: the relation between two important non-perturbative phenomena in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) - quark confinement and chiral symmetry breaking.

This thesis investigates the combustion chemistry of cyclohexane, methylcyclohexane, and ethylcyclohexane on the basis of state-of-the-art synchrotron radiation photoionization mass spectrometry experiments, quantum chemistry calculations, and extensive kinetic modeling.

This thesis presents an experimental study of quantum memory based on cold atomic ensembles and discusses photonic entanglement.

This book presents the latest advances in Discrete Element Methods (DEM) and technology.

This book highlights the experimental investigations that have been carried out on magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography (MRI & CT) images using state-of-the-art Computational Image processing techniques, and tabulates the statistical values wherever necessary.

This book systematically illustrates the underlying mechanisms of spatial variation in ecosystem carbon fluxes.

This book first introduces the background of spatial audio reproduction, with different types of audio content and for different types of playback systems.

This brief summarizes the most commonly used sulfur dioxide surrogates and also shows the diverse reactivities to highlight the advances made in the development of synthetic methods through the insertion of sulfur dioxide.

This book primarily focuses on the radiation effects and compact model of silicon-germanium (SiGe) heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs).

This book highlights what is now achievable in terms of materials characterization with the new generation of cold-field emission scanning electron microscopes applied to real materials at high spatial resolution.

This thesis focuses on the growth of a new type of two-dimensional (2D) material known as hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) using chemical vapor deposition (CVD).

This book mainly focuses on the experimental research of rf breakdown and field emission with novel methods, including triggering rf breakdown with high intensity laser and pin-shaped cathodes as well as locating field emitters with a high resolution in-situ imaging system.

This thesis analyzes aerodynamic forces in viscous and compressible external flows.

This brief provides a broad overview of protein-engineering research, offering a glimpse of the most common experimental methods.

This book provides the latest scientific understanding of the Sun, sharing insights gleaned from the international solar physics project Hinode.

This thesis describes one of the most precise experimental tests of Lorentz symmetry in electrodynamics by light-speed anisotropy measurement with an asymmetric optical ring cavity.

Unlike bacteria and viruses, which are based on DNA and RNA, prions are unique as disease-causing agents since they are misfolded proteins.

This book studies the structural, magnetic and electronic properties of, as well as magnetic excitations in, high-temperature BaFe2-xNixAs2 superconductors using neutron diffraction and neutron spectroscopic methods.

This book explores the use of various plant polysaccharides for pharmaceutical purposes, including drug delivery.

This book introduces and reviews several topics for each human herpesvirus.

This edited book contains a compilation of 14 advanced academic chapters dealing with the structure and function of membrane protein complexes.

This Brief will focus on the functional uses and applications of FRET, starting with the derivation of FRET in the assemblies of nanostructures and subsequently giving application cases for biologists, physicists, chemists, material scientists, engineers, and those in many other fields whoever would like to FRET as a tool.

This introductory volume provides the basics of surface-knots and related topics, not only for researchers in these areas but also for graduate students and researchers who are not familiar with the field.

This thesis studies the impact of food processing on the stability and antioxidant capacity of anthocyanins in aqueous and real food systems.

This thesis demonstrates the novel magnetic functionalities in cyanido-bridged metal assemblies, and as such appeals to readers in the field of materials science.

The series is designed to bring together those mathematicians who are seriously interested in getting new challenging stimuli from economic theories with those economists who are seeking effective mathematical tools for their research.

This book is placed at the interface between string theory and elementary particle physics and shows novel results in the search for a heterotic string vacuum that reproduces those matter particles and interactions observed in our universe.

This book describes a comparative study of the primary science learning objectives (from the cognitive domain) in the curriculum of six high-achieving East Asian states - mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Singapore.

The book discusses invasive-species problems in agriculture, forests and aquatic ecosystems, highlighting the invasive mechanisms and management of the selected invasive species.

This book presents interdisciplinary research on cognition, mind and behavior from an information processing perspective.

This book addresses selected topics in the theory of generalized inverses.

This book comprises selected contributions to the Computer Society of India's annual convention.

In the context of coupled-coordination control mechanisms, this book focuses on the delay robustness of consensus problems with asynchronously coupled and synchronously coupled consensus algorithms respectively.

This thesis mainly focuses on the design and synthesis of novel multifunctional nanoprobes, investigating their feasibility for applications involving sensing, molecular imaging, and the simultaneous diagnosis and therapy of cancer.

This book highlights the current state of the art in single cell analysis, an area that involves many fields of science - from clinical hematology, functional analysis and drug screening, to platelet and microparticle analysis, marine biology and fundamental cancer research.

This volume presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (ICBHI).

This book focuses on a topical and timely aspect of prokaryotic biology - the biology of prokaryotic multiple chaperonins.

This brief describes studies conducted by the authors on mid-size drugs utilizing peptides and peptidomimetics, and on the development of anti-HIV agents.

This book introduces readers to copula-based statistical methods for analyzing survival data involving dependent censoring.

This book mainly focuses on the study of photon + 3 jets final state in Proton-Proton Collisions at vs = 7TeV,  searching for patterns of two (or more) distinct hard scatterings in the same collision, i.

This dictionary offers clear and reliable explanations of over 100 keywords covering the entire field of non-classical continuum mechanics and generalized mechanics, including the theory of elasticity, heat conduction, thermodynamic and electromagnetic continua, as well as applied mathematics.

This book moves away from the frameworks that have traditionally guided ethical decision-making in the Western clinical setting, towards an inclusive, non-coercive and, reflective dialogic approach to moral decision-making.

This book deals with the classical theory of Nevanlinna on the value distribution of meromorphic functions of one complex variable, based on minimum prerequisites for complex manifolds.

This book gathers a collection of papers by international experts that were presented at the International Conference on NextGen Electronic Technologies (ICNETS2-2016).

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This thesis introduces the concept of "e;thermal pure quantum (TPQ) states"e;, which are pure quantum states in equilibrium.

This book presents the fundamentals and applications of Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-ToF-MS) technique.

This book provides an overview of hydrogen production from renewable resources such as ethanol using plasma or plasma-catalytic technologies.

This book is a collection of papers from international experts presented at International Conference on NextGen Electronic Technologies (ICNETS2-2016).