Mathematics & Science Books

Значительное место в этой книге уделено повторению материала главы 7 т.2 Физической физики (Электричество) - частично с целью внесения исправлений в этот материал, частично для того, чтобы у читателя, интересующегося природой магнетизма не было...

DÓNDE ESTÁ LA REALIDAD? es un libro crítico que plantea la misma interrogante vista desde distintas situaciones de vida. Estimula al lector a tomar consciencia de la verdad educativa y los propósitos para los cuales es utilizada. Pone el acento en...

Un volume scritto da un astronomo dedicato alle meravigliose proprietà delle galassie, i mattoni dell'Universo, delle immense e ancora misteriose isole di stelle che permeano tutto lo spazio conosciuto.

Una volta, quando ero ancora un bambino, mio padre mi chiese: "Pesa di più 1 chilo di ferro o 1 chilo di piume?"Mi ricordo che sicuro del fatto mio subito mi affrettai a rispondergli: "Sicuramente pesa di più 1 chilo di ferro papà, perché le cose di...

Updated throughout, this second edition of a bestseller illustrates the usefulness of PDEs through numerous applications and helps students appreciate the beauty of the underlying mathematics. It shows students how PDEs can model diverse problems,...

Written as a stand-alone textbook for students and a useful reference for professionals in government and private agencies, academic institutions, and consultants, Ecology and Conservation of Fishes provides broad, comprehensive, and systematic coverage...

Resampling methods-techniques for repeatedly resampling data to obtain results-are being used in virtually every research area. This practical guide discusses the applications of these methods in a wide variety of subject areas. Each chapter contains a...

This handbook presents many methodological advances and the latest applications of missing data methods in empirical research. It outlines a general taxonomy of missing data mechanisms and their implications for analysis and describes alternatives for...

Interaction of Radiation with Matter focuses on the physics of the interactions of ionizing radiation in living matter and the Monte Carlo simulation of radiation tracks. Clearly progressing from an elementary level to the state of the art, the text...

Based on the authors' lecture notes, this text presents concise yet complete coverage of statistical inference theory, focusing on the fundamental classical principles. Unlike related textbooks, it combines the theoretical basis of statistical inference...

Adaptive clinical trial designs, unlike traditional fixed clinical trial designs, enable modification of studies in response to the data generated in the course of the trial. This often results in studies that are substantially faster, more efficient,...

Environmental pollution by man-made persistent organic chemicals (POCs) has been a serious global issue for over half a century. POCs are prevalent in air, water, soil, and organisms including wildlife and humans throughout the world. They do not degrade...

Neuronal communication forms the basis for all behavior, from the smallest movement to our grandest thought processes. Among the many mechanisms that support these functions, spike timing is among the most powerful and-until recently-perhaps the least...

Wood has played a major role throughout human history. Strong and versatile, the earliest humans used wood to make shelters, cook food, construct tools, build boats, and make weapons. Recently, scientists, politicians, and economists have renewed their...

The use of honey can be traced back to the Stone Age. Evidence can be found for its nutritional and medicinal use beginning with prehistoric and ancient civilizations. Currently, there is a resurgence of scientific interest in natural medicinal products,...

Once the privilege of a secret few, cryptography is now taught at universities around the world. Introduction to Cryptography with Open-Source Software illustrates algorithms and cryptosystems using examples and the open-source computer algebra system of...

Experimental design is often overlooked in the literature of applied and mathematical statistics: statistics is taught and understood as merely a collection of methods for analyzing data. Consequently, experimenters seldom think about optimal design,...

Like engineering systems, biological systems must also operate effectively in the presence of internal and external uncertainty-such as genetic mutations or temperature changes, for example. It is not surprising, then, that evolution has resulted in the...

This book presents innovative approaches in Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis, which are relevant to a wide variety of applications, including medical imaging, cancer research, epidemiology, and bioinformatics. The covered topics include...

Discussing existing techniques, ongoing research, new approaches, and basic concepts in the treatment of nail diseases, Topical Nail Products and Ungual Drug Delivery summarizes the current knowledge and represents a jumping-off point for creating novel...

Take a journey through Jean-Paul Sartre's trans-phenomena of consciousness, into Gilbert Ryle's Linguistic Behaviourism and on to the outer reaches of Wilfrid Sellars' Rylean ancestors and their 'Messianic Behaviourist' Jones.Phenomenology and the Ghost...

Периодическое многопрофильное научно-техническое издание

A survey of basic oscillatory concepts with the aid of Mathematica® computer algebra system to represent them and to calculate with them. It is written for students, teachers, and researchers needing to understand the basic of oscillatory motion or...

International periodic multiple-discipline scientific and technical printing journal

This is a lively study of the autobiographical instinct in a variety of 16th and 17th century modes of writing in English, from letters and memoirs to pastoral, polemic and street ballads. The book's central concern is how "selves" are "betrayed" in...

Development has been elusive for Latin America in the 1990s. Notwithstanding tough neoliberal reforms, defeated hyperinflation, and large capital inflows, development of productive capacity and social equity shows a poor performance. These selected...

Darrell West argues against prevailing wisdom that the media has increased in influence in the past decade. Covering over 200 years of American history, beginning in colonial America and ending with the present day, The Rise and Fall of the Media...

When we look at the human understanding of beasts in the past what we see are not only the foundations of our own perception of animals but humans contemplating their own status. Perceiving Animals argues that what is revealed in a wide range of writing...

This volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Approaching these works from historical,...

This interdisciplinary and international collection explores the role of the arts in shaping contemporary religion and politics. The authors ask about the future of viable communities and democratic cultures in a postmodern world, looking for clues in...

Combining documents with an interpretive essay, this book is the first to offer a much-needed guide to the emergence of the women's rights movement within the anti-slavery activism of the 1830s. A 60-page introductory essay traces the cause of women's...

Sudduth provides a critical exploration of classical empirical arguments for survival arguments that purport to show that data collected from ostensibly paranormal phenomena constitute good evidence for the survival of the self after death. Utilizing the...

'Psychiatry and Empire' brings together scholars in the History of Medicine and Colonialism to explore questions of race, gender and power relations in former colonial states across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific. The volume advances our...

The technological revolution in shipbuilding in the early twentieth century had a great impact on the military, industrial, commercial worlds. Matsumoto focuses on the relationship between this revolution and the structure and function of 'technology...

The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between modern medicine and earlier practices. This book uses new information from John Snow's casebooks and London hospital archives to revise many of the existing historical...

Dangerous Motherhood is the first study of the close and complex relationship between mental disorder and childbirth. Exploring the relationship between women, their families and their doctors reveals how explanations for the onset of puerperal insanity...

Предлагается новое решение уравнений Максвелла для вакуума, для провода с постоянным и переменным током, для конденсатора, для сферы и т.д. Предварительно отмечается, что доказательство единственности известного решения основано на законе сохранения...

This is the book for families of patient's with Dementia. Alzheimer's disease is treatable. I want every body to know about it that something can be done early on. This book will help them cope with some of the important things in the care of their loved...

El descubrimiento reciente de una forma geométrica en la tierra, revelará conexiones, sobre la formación de los planetas, el inicio de la vida... y la existencia de otros mundos.

This book is a must have for all premedicine students or even youngsters who would like become doctors. The book talks about all the science you must know, important skills that you need to have,and offer tips towards the MCAT and medical school...

Take a microscopic journey into the world that is insectwith this theoretical piece written for the homeopath. E.J.Doucette provides you a complete list of North Americanarthropods and the constitutional marriage of thesecreatures to the human body...

G Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) represent a versatile family of plasma membrane receptors that elicit downstream intracellular signaling events. GPCRs play central roles in many physiological processes from sensory to neurological, cardiovascular,...

A thrilling and interesting tale of the past and current scientists and their contributions to the field of quantum physics. Covering everything from the effects, rules, and mathematical expressionsencompassing this riveting field. The structured...

Targets containing the Benzoxazole moiety, either isolated from plants or accessed by total synthesis have remarkable biological activities. For example Gram-positive antibacterials polycyclic antibiotics, antiparasitic, anti-inflammatories, elastase...

The cosmos itself is not governed or regulated by time but by chance, so cosmology can never appear consistently logical. Time and regulation are human concepts. The 'points and instants' notion is no longer credible. Points are our basic intellectual...