Other technologies and applied sciences

This unique volume contains selected papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine (PIBM 2007), held on November 4-6, 2007 at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P R China.

This invaluable book offers a comprehensive overview of the technologies and applications of optoelectronic sensors.

This book provides unique perspectives on the state of the art in multispectral/hyperspectral techniques for early-warning monitoring against chemical, biological and radiological (CB&R) contamination of both surface (e.

This book collects a number of papers presented at the 13th Italian Conference on Sensors and Microsystems.

This book contains proposals to redesign the scanning electron microscope, so that it is more compatible with other charged particle beam instrumentation and analytical techniques commonly used in surface science research.

This Singaporean-French Symposium aims to strengthen existing research collaboration between French and Singapore scientists, and to explore and develop new collaborations in IPAL (Image Perception, Access & Language) - the Singaporean-French international research lab created between the French National Research Center (CNRS), the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2 R-A*STAR) and the Joseph Fourier University (UJF).

New Edition: Ocean Surface Waves: Their Physics and Prediction (3rd Edition)The book is an extended and updated edition of the book published in 1996 under the same title (World Scientific, ISBN 9810216866).

Exercise Personal Training 101 provides a message of empowerment for personal trainers who believe in the holistic development of their clients.

Polarization is a vector nature of light that plays an important role in optical science and engineering.

This book presents observations on the phenomena of fine sediment transport and their explanations under process-related divisions such as flocculation, erosion, and deposition.

The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview of Coastal Engineering from basic theory to engineering practice.

Our world is constantly changing, governed by continuity, dynamic interactions and boundary conditions.

There is an increasing need to construct engineering structures in the Arctic seas.

This book opens a new avenue to an engendering field of applied physics, located at the "e;crossing"e; of modern photonics, electromagnetics, acoustics and material science.

A mechanical oscillator coupled to the optical field in a cavity is a typical cavity optomechanical system.

This volume aims is to illustrate the state-of-the-art as well as the newest and latest applications of photonics in safety and security.

Coastal Structures are undergoing renewal and innovation to better serve the needs of our society, from environmental co-existence and habitat enhancement to risk management.

Significant progress in engineering has allowed the production of devices that can optically detect, differentiate and treat surface or near-surface cancers.

This is a compilation of papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts (APAC2011) held on December 14-16, 2011 in Hong Kong, China.

While there are several excellent books dealing with numerical analysis and analytical theory, one has to practically sift through hundreds of references.

This book tells you where beach sand comes from, how waves are formed and how they break and move sand down the coast, how "e;works of man"e; have blocked this movement and caused beach erosion, and what can be done to save the beaches for future generations of Americans.

This book provides a general introduction to fluid mechanics in the form of biographies and popular science.

This book provides an overview of advanced prediction and verification technologies for aerodynamics and aerothermodynamics and assesses a number of critical issues in advanced hypersonic vehicle design.

This book presents up-to-date concepts and design methods relating to space dynamics and control, including spacecraft attitude control, orbit control, and guidance, navigation, and control (GNC), summarizing the research advances in control theory and methods and engineering practice from Beijing Institute of Control Engineering over the years.

This book discusses the journey of Dr.

This book describes systematically the theory and technology of the precision forming of large, complex and thin-walled superalloy castings for aircraft engines, covering all the important basic aspects of the manufacturing process, including process design, wax pattern, ceramic molds, casting and solidification, heat treatment, repair casting and dimension precision control.

This book highlights the mathematical and physical properties of acoustical sources with singularities located in the complex plane and presents the application of such special elements to solve acoustical radiation and scattering problems.

This book contains a thorough and unique record of recent advances in the important scientific fields fluid-structure interaction, acoustics and control of priority interest in the academic community and also in an industrial context regarding new engineering designs.

This book describes systematically telemetry theory and methods for aircraft in flight test.

This book systematically introduces readers to the fundamental physics and a broad range of applications of acoustic levitation, one of the most promising techniques for the container-free handling of small solid particles and liquid droplets.

This book features the selected articles from the 25th annual symposiums Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Consortium (CMOC), that focus on micro/nano-electronics and optoelectronics/Nano-photonics, to cover not only the technologies, but also the applications ranging from biosensors/nano-biosystems, to cyber security.

The handbook contains a comprehensive compilation of topics that are at the forefront of many of the technical advances in ocean waves, coastal, and ocean engineering.

ICOLS features the latest developments in the area of laser spectroscopy and related topics in atomic, molecular, and optical physics and other disciplines.

This book is an introduction to oil and gas designed to be both accessible to absolute beginners who know nothing about the subject, and at the same time interesting to people who work in one area (such as drilling or seismic exploration) and would like to know about other areas (such as production offshore, or how oil and gas were formed, or what can go wrong).