Mathematics and Science

In the last decades, various mathematical problems have been solved by computer-assisted proofs, among them the Kepler conjecture, the existence of chaos, the existence of the Lorenz attractor, the famous four-color problem, and more.

This book provides a series of compelling evidence that shows that humans have innate fear of snakes.

This book introduces recent advances in the deterministic design of photonic structures, which overcome the current limitation in conventional disordered materials.

Turbulence and magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the Universe.

The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.

This thesis provides multidisciplinary perspectives on changes in global mass transports, especially in the global water cycle.

This book introduces readers to the biology of leukemia stem cells (LSCs) and emphasizes the necessity and importance of targeting LSCs in the treatment of hematopoietic malignancies.

This volume presents a collection of some of the seminal articles of Professor K.

 This book provides a comprehensive overview of chitin biology and chitin metabolism related enzymes.

This book discusses the latest investigations into the electronic structure of narrow-gap semiconductors in extreme conditions, and describes in detail magnetic field and pressure measurements using two high-quality single crystals: black phosphorus (BP) and lead telluride (PbTe).

This proceedings provides novel concepts and techniques for air traffic management (ATM) and communications, navigation, and surveillance (CNS) systems.

This book explains the notion of Brakke's mean curvature flow and its existence and regularity theories without assuming familiarity with geometric measure theory.

This book highlights the contributions of the eminent mathematician and leading algebraist David F.

This book addresses the static and dynamic analysis of linear elastic size-dependent structures based on the modified couple stress theory.

Solid-State NMR Characterization of Heterogeneous Catalysts and Catalytic Reactions provides a comprehensive account of state-of-the-art solid-state NMR techniques and the application of these techniques in heterogeneous catalysts and related catalytic reactions.

This Festschrift volume is published in honor of Takao Terano on the occasion of his retirement.

This book presents a novel method of synthesizing sequence-specific DNA binding pyrrole-imidazole (Py-Im) polyamides and demonstrates polyamides targeting longer base pairs than those previously reported and their cellular application.

This book explores gendered perceptions of the Sundarbans Forest in Bangladesh, and the extent to which these perceptions are affected by extreme weather events (specifically, cyclones Aila and Sidr).

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of current understanding of periostin and its importance for human health and disease.

This book consists of survey articles and original research papers in the representation theory of reductive p-adic groups.

This book presents the latest insights and developments in the field of socio-cultural inspired algorithms.

This tutorial book offers an in-depth overview of the fundamental principles of micro/nano technologies and devices related to sensing, actuation and diagnosis in fluidics and biosystems.

This book introduces readers to the development of novel optical biosensors for environmental analysis.

This book discusses the findings of research on the human dimensions of wildlife management conducted in Japan, demonstrating how such research and approaches have contributed to mitigating human-wildlife conflicts.

This book discusses the water and carbon cycle system in the permafrost region of eastern Siberia, Providing vitalin sights into how climate change has affected the permafrost environment in recent decades.

This volume covers the science of ALDH enzymes in relation to chronic disease processes and the future therapeutic potentials of targeting ALDH in these processes.

This book introduces readers to statistical methodologies used to analyze doubly truncated data.

This book focuses on state-of-the-art microfluidic research in medical and biological applications.

This book provides a concise introduction to the behavior of mechanical structures and testing their stochastic stability under the influence of noise.

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

This book investigates phase transitions and critical phenomena in disordered systems driven out of equilibrium.

This volume presents selected papers from the 2nd International Conference on Optical and Wireless Technologies, conducted from 10th to 11th February, 2018.

This book systematically discusses the pathogenesis, prevention, and the current and potential clinical treatment of hearing loss, as well as the latest advances in hearing research.

This book gives a contemporary overview of the technologies of single-frequency fiber lasers.

This book presents high-quality contributions in the subject area of Aerospace System Science and Engineering, including topics such as: Trans-space vehicle systems design and integration, Air vehicle systems, Space vehicle systems, Near-space vehicle systems, Opto-electronic system, Aerospace robotics and unmanned system, Aerospace robotics and unmanned system, Communication, navigation and surveillance, Dynamics and control, Intelligent sensing and Information fusion, Aerodynamics and aircraft design, Aerospace propulsion, Avionics system, Air traffic management, Earth observation, Deep space exploration, Bionic micro-aircraft/spacecraft.

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 describes the luminescence mechanism of polynuclear lanthanide complexes, focusing on energy transfer processes using a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches.

This book presents an overview of the recent technologies in single molecule and single cell sequencing.

This book covers the works of Bhaskara, in particular, his monumental treatise on astronomy, the Siddhantasiromani, his astronomical handbook, the Karanakutuhala, and his two mathematical treatises, the Lilavati and the Bijaganita, on arithmetic and algebra, respectively.

This book presents the major research advances relating to Chinese Danxia landforms over the past 80 years.

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

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

This book presents the commonality and heterogeneity of the mechanisms underlying smooth muscle spontaneous activity in various smooth muscle organs and in addition discusses their malfunctions in disease and their potential as novel therapeutic targets.

This book reviews the application of  semiconductor nanocrystals also known as colloidal quantum dots (QDs) to LED lighting for indoors and outdoors as well as LED backlighting in displays, summarizing the color science of QDs for lighting and displays and presenting recent developments in QD-integrated LEDs and display research.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Development of Biomedical Engineering in Vietnam which was held from June 27-29, 2018 in Ho Chi Minh City.

This book highlights the latest advances in algebraic topology, from homotopy theory, braid groups, configuration spaces and toric topology, to transformation groups and the adjoining area of knot theory.

This book presents the basic theories of Plastic Mechanics of Geomaterial, including the static and dynamic mechanical properties, nonlinear and classical plastic theory, yield surface theory, hardening model, flow rule and loading-unloading criterion, the calculation theory of principal stress axe rotation, and limit analysis of geomaterial and the latest advances in FEM limit analysis.

This book presents the topic of underwater real-time 3-D acoustical imaging covering the theory, algorithms and system design.

This book presents a detailed study on the vibration analysis of functionally graded piezoelectric actuators excited under the shear effect.