Mathematics & Science Books

Introduction.- Section 1: Changes in the Teaching-Learning Process.- From Assenting to Asserting: Stimulating Learners to Take Initiative.- Problem-Oriented and Project-Organized University Studies: How to Develop Mathematical Modelling Competency.- A...

Conceptualizing and Theorizing about IT-Enabled Services.- Exploring the Diversity of Service Worlds in the Service Economy.- ICTs and Global Working in a Non-Flat World.- Exploring the Influence of Socio-Emotional Factors on Knowledge Management...

Developing a Festschrift with a Difference.- In Conversation with Alan Bishop.- Teacher Decision Making.- Decision-Making, the Intervening Variable.- Teachers' Decision Making: from Alan J. Bishop to Today.- Spatial Abilities, Visualization, and Geometry...

Saving Biological Diversity: An Overview.-What Are We Trying to Save? And Why? Toward a Policy-Relevant Definition of Biodiversity.-Part I Protecting Populations of Particular Species.-Navigating for Noah, Setting New Directions for Endangered Species...

Preface.- Inferring Evolutionary History through Inter- and Intraspecific DNA Sequence Comparison: The Drosophila janus and ocnus Genes.- Rapid Evolution of Sex-Related Genes: Sexual Conflict or Sex-Specific Adaptations?- Selective Sweep in the Evolution...

Field emission is a phenomenon described by quantum mechanics. Its emission capability is millions times higher than that of any other known types of electron emission. Nowadays this phenomenon is experiencing a new life due to...

The contributions in this volume were first presented at a symposium organized by the editors and held at the 214th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Las Vegas in September, 1997. The symposium was sponsored...

Solid State Gas Sensing offers insight into the principles, applications, and new trends in gas sensor technology. Developments in this field are rapidly advancing due to the recent and continuing impact of nanotechnology, and...

S is a high-level language for manipulating, analysing and displaying data. It forms the basis of two highly acclaimed and widely used data analysis software systems, the commercial S-PLUS® and the Open Source R. This book...

In this book the author presents the Opial, Poincaré, Sobolev, Hilbert, and Ostrowski fractional differentiation inequalities. Results for the above are derived using three different types of fractional derivatives, namely by...

Although it has long been possible to make organic materials emit light, it has only recently become possible to do so at the level and with the efficiency and control necessary to make the materials a useful basis for...

This concise and unified text reviews recent contributions to the principles of convective heat transfer for single and multi-phase systems. This valuable new edition has been updated throughout and contains new examples and...

Preface.-1 Manufacturing Systems: Types and Modeling.- 1.1 Manufacturing Systems: Evolution and Classification.- 1.2 Models and Modeling.- 1.3 Classification of Manufacturing Systems.- 1.4 Models of Manufacturing Systems.- 1.5 Methods of Analysis.- 1.6...

Part 1. Concepts of Brain Theory 1. Lettvin's challenge2. Issues concerning the nature of neuronal response3. 'Events' in the brain4. Cell assemblies5. Surprise, statistical inference, and conceptual notes6. A new term: ignitions which 'reach' or 'don't...

Evidence now suggests that the roles of essential fatty acids as growth promoters and as indices of health and nutrition are fundamentally similar in freshwater and marine ecosystems. Lipids in Aquatic Ecosystems integrates...

Background on Functional Analysis.- Preliminaries.- Function Spaces.- Variational Inequalities.- Elliptic Variational Inequalities.- Evolutionary Variational Inequalities with Viscosity.- Evolutionary Variational Inequalities.- Volterra-type Variational...

This book is devoted to physical bases of magnetoelectronic millimetric waves. Magnetoelectronic represents a direction on a joint of physics of the magnetic phenomenainmagnetoarrangedenvironments,radiophysicsofwaveandoscilla-...

Stack Components.- Dissolution and Stabilization of Platinum in Oxygen Cathodes.- Carbon-Support Requirements for Highly Durable Fuel Cell Operation.- Chemical Degradation of Perfluorinated Sulfonic Acid Membranes.- Chemical Degradation: Correlations...

Weareenteringintoaneraofre-awakeningoftheimportanceandinterestinthe role ofaltered intermediary metabolisminthedevelopmentandprogressionof malignancy. Therefore,thisbookMitochondriaandCanceristimelyandrelevant ...

Electroporation in Biological Cell and Tissue: An Overview.- Pulsed-Electric-Fields-Induced Effects in Plant Tissues: Fundamental Aspects and Perspectives of Applications.- Moderate Electrothermal Treatments of Cellular Tissues.- DC Electrical Field...

Environmental Impact of Pesticides in Egypt.- Biodegradation of Perfluorinated Compounds.- Lead Stress Effects on Physiobiochemical Activities of Higher Plants.- Environmental Fate and Toxicology of Carbaryl.- Managing Hazardous Pollutants in Chile:...

Structural Stability.- Spatial Decay.- Convection in Porous Media.- Stability of Other Porous Flows.- Fluid - Porous Interface Problems.- Elastic Materials with Voids.- Poroacoustic Waves.- Numerical Solution of Eigenvalue Problems.

Basic Ideas of Special Functions and Statistical Distributions.- Mittag-Leffler Functions and Fractional Calculus.- An Introduction to q-Series.- Ramanujan's Theories of Theta and Elliptic Functions.- Lie Group and Special Functions.- Applications to...

The present volume is a collective monograph devoted to applications of the optimal design theory in optimization and statistics. The chapters re?ect the topics discussed at the workshop "W-Optimum Design and Related ...

Foreward - Preface - Microbially Derived Off-flavor from Geosmin and 2-Methylisoborneol: Sources and Remediations - Mercury in the San Francisco Estuary - DDE REmediation and Degradation - Surfactant Effects on Environmental Behavior of Pesticides.

Over the period of last two decades, there has been significant resurgence in solid-state fermentation due to the numerous benefits it offers, especially in the engineering and environmental aspects. SSF has shown much promise...

Mathematics for the Semiclassicist.- Semiclassical Phase Integrals.- Semiclassical Method for Hyperspherical Coordinate Systems.- Ion-Atom Collisions.- Diffusion in Liquids and Solids.

Nature has long used nucleic acid aptamers and enzymes for regulatory activities, such as the recently discovered "riboswitches" involved in gene expression. The existence of a large array of natural and artificial functional...

Preface.- Part One: Perspectives and Approaches in Urban Forestry: Introduction: The Growth of Cities and Urban Forestry.- Towards a Landscape Ecology of Cities: Beyond Buildings, Trees, and Urban Forests.- Principles for Guiding Eco-City Development.- A...

and Examples.- Dispersion Models.- Inference Functions.- Modeling Correlated Data.- Marginal Generalized Linear Models.- Vector Generalized Linear Models.- Mixed-Effects Models: Likelihood-Based Inference.- Mixed-Effects Models: Bayesian Inference.-...

This book presents the Riemann Hypothesis, connected problems, and a taste of the body of theory developed towards its solution. It is targeted at the educated non-expert. Almost all the material is accessible to any senior...

Here is a modern introduction to the theory of tensor algebra and tensor analysis. It discusses tensor algebra and introduces differential manifold. Coverage also details tensor analysis, differential forms, connection forms,...

Background and Preparations.- Background in Statistics.- to Experimental Genetics.- Fundamentals of Genetics: Inbreeding, Recombination, Random Mating, and Identity by Descent.- Experimental Genetics.- Testing for Linkage with a Single Marker.- Whole...

Some Recent Studies in Ruthenium Electrochemistry and Electrocatalysis.- High-Performance Electrodes for Medium-Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells.- Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Metal Electrodes.- Induced Codeposition of Alloys of Tungsten,...

The Mechanosensory Heart.- Origin of Mechanotransduction.- The Role of the Sarcomere and Cytoskeleton in Cardiac Mechanotransduction.- Mechanoelectric Transduction/Feedback: Physiology and Pathophysiology.- Mechanotransduction in Cardiac Remodeling and...

Homology is a powerful tool used by mathematicians to study the properties of spaces and maps that are insensitive to small perturbations. This book uses a computer to develop a combinatorial computational approach to the...

Probabilistic guarded commands and their refinement logic.- to pGCL: Its logic and its model.- Probabilistic loops: Invariants and variants.- Case studies in termination: Choice coordination, the dining philosophers, and the random walk.- Probabilistic...

CtBP Family Proteins.- Transcriptional Repression by the CtBP Corepressor in Drosophila.- CtBP and Hematopoietic Transcriptional Regulators.- CtBP.- The Significance of the CtBP - AdE1A Interaction during Viral Infection and Transformation.- CtBP...

Heat Shock Proteins.- Small Heat Shock Proteins and the Cytoskeleton.- The Role of Hsps in Neuronal Differentiation and Development.- Heme Oxygenase as a Therapeutic Funnel in Nutritional Redox Homeostasis and Cellular Stress Response.- Heat Shock...

The worthy purpose of this text is to provide a complete, self-contained development of the trace formula and theta inversion formula for SL(2,Z[i])\SL(2,C). Unlike other treatments of the theory, the approach taken here is to...

Contents Foreword by Alicia V. Linzey iv Preface vii List of Contributors xii Section I: History and Current Status 1 History and Current Status of the Allegheny Woodrat 2 Janet Wright 2 Multiple Causes of the Allegheny Woodrat Decline: A...

This three-week summer program considered the symmetries preserving various natural geometric structures. There are two parts to the proceedings. The articles in the first part are expository but all contain significant new...

This book is drawn from across many active fields of mathematics and physics. It has connections to atmospheric dynamics, spherical codes, graph theory, constrained optimization problems, Markov Chains, and Monte Carlo methods...

Foreword Preface Chemistry and Fate of Simazine.- Ethanol Production: Energy, Economic, and Environmental Losses.- Arsenic Behaviour from Groundwater and Soil to Crops: Impacts on Agriculture and Food Safety.- Health Effects of Arsenic, Flourine, and...

This timely work draws implications from scientific studies for the wise management of old field ecosystems in the neotropics, where conversion of land to cropping systems is the most common kind of disturbance and many...

The book gives an extended review of theoretical and observational aspects of neutron star physics. With masses comparable to that of the Sun and radii of about ten kilometres, neutron stars are the densest stars in the Universe. This book describes all...

This authoritative book presents the basic knowledge and state-of-the-art techniques necessary to carry out investigations of the cardiovascular system using modeling and simulation. This volume contains chapters on anatomy,...

High-Dimensional Data.- Characteristics of an Analysis Method.- Estimation of the Intrinsic Dimension.- Distance Preservation.- Topology Preservation.- Method comparisons.- Conclusions.