Mathematics & Science Books

In an era of unprecedented global change, this book constitutes a valuable source for researchers, students, natural resource managers, and other conservation practitioners interested in delving deeper into disturbance ecology.

This book provides one of the first unified accounts of the dynamic aspects involved in the strategic behavior in queues. The author presents the material in an easy style with mostly non-technical language, emphasizing models and qualitative insights...

The goal of this book is to present a detailed exposition of the quantum field renormalization-group (RG) technique and its applications to various problems in the classical theory of critical behaviour and stochastic dynamics.

Using a wide range of OR optimization examples, this book demonstrates how the OR procedures in SAS work. The text is one of the first to extensively cover the application of SAS procedures to OR problems, such as single criterion optimization, project...

This book considers the problem of estimating the percent of nonconforming items in a process from the ground up. It examines methods based on both attribute data and variable data. For variable data, it looks at the basic techniques that were initially...

The aim of Understanding Analytic Hierarchy Process book is to provide the reader with a critical guide to AHP. In this book, the AHP method is considered primarily as a mathematical technique supporting the decision-making process. 

In the view of many probabilists, author Anatolii Puhalskii's research results stand among the most significant achievements in the modern theory of large deviations. In fact, his work marked a turning point in the depth of our understanding of the...

This multi-disciplinary volume weaves together the fields of biology, archaeology, anthropology, and history to produce an in-depth analysis of the biological history of past human populations. With contributions from a panel of experts, the book fully...

This is the second book in a new series that explores chromosome engineering for crop improvement. Focusing on cereal crops, the book covers economic importance, world wide production and distribution, utilization, and the origin of the crop and its...

Martin Gardner has entertained the world with his puzzles for decades and inspired countless mathematicians and scientists. As he rounds out another decade, his colleagues are paying him tribute with this special collection that contains contributions...

A groundbreaking theory has emerged for spectral analysis of pseudo-Riemannian locally symmetric spaces, extending beyond the traditional Riemannian framework. The theory introduces innovative approaches to global analysis of locally symmetric spaces...

Discover the complete guide to understanding and managing hair loss in men with "Understanding Hair Loss in Men: Causes, Solutions, and Treatments." This book explains the science of hair growth, exploring the different phases and the structure of hair...

Dieses Buch aus der Reihe Schriften zum Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen behandelt die Klassische Newtonsche Mechanik, die Fluidik von Flüssigkeiten und Gasen, Schwingungen, Elektrostatik sowie Magnetostatik. Es richtet sich an Studierende des...

The German residential building sector plays a crucial role in achieving net greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045. However, current renovation rates remain insufficient to meet climate targets. To improve the efficiency of the sector’s transformation,...

Maschinelles Lernen prägt zunehmend unseren Alltag, doch fehlt bislang eine Fachdidaktik, die das Thema als Lerngegenstand für Schulen und Hochschulen systematisch untersucht. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden Methoden der fachdidaktische...

This book is the second volume of a work on complex analytic cycles and the results, stated without proof in the first volume, are proved here. It begins with the construction of the reduced complex space formed by all compact cycles of a given complex...

This book presents the results of basic and applied studies on the solution of burning issues within the analysis of anomalous changes in marine environment under the influence of climatic changes and economic activities in the Azov-Black Sea basins. The...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to continual and reinforcement learning for edge AI, which investigates how to build an AI agent that can continuously solve new learning tasks and enhance the AI at resource-limited edge devices. The...

The establishment of fruit juice companies in the 20th century marked the beginning of the widespread use of citrus fruits. Around 18% of the total citrus fruit production in the world is used industrially, primarily for the manufacture of juice. Citrus...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in prehistoric times alongside massive dangerous creatures like Megalodon, Mosasaurus, or Tyrannosaurus? Wonder no more! Award-winning author-historian Lochlainn Seabrook's unique book, When Monsters...

Anthropologist Robert Bates Graber's 165 sonnets constitute a sort of "dig"-- the kind which unearths connections between a volcano spewing hot lava and Pluto, Roman god of the underworld, or the kind a comedian might use to bury a politician--or the...

In his unique science book, The Hunter-Gatherer Principle: Evolutionary Biology and the Case for Sex-Based Female Sports, bestselling author, award-winning historian, and women's sports advocate Lochlainn Seabrook, zeroes in on a seldom discussed topic:...

Cosmology or cosmological ideas are often sought to solve problems in our daily lives. This book aims to rethink the topic of cosmology in anthropology through an ethnographic description of the many entanglements of cosmological ideas and the personal...

This volume brings together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds to discuss how women contributed to the making, pedagogy, institutionalisation and communication of scientific knowledge in the twentieth century, and to reflect on the...

This book examines under what circumstances, and with which techniques, one can reasonably infer cause and effect in a business setting, and use the insight to drive business decisions. It is written at a level accessible to anyone with a master's degree...

This updated volume explores the technically challenging study of brain tumor stem cells (BTSCs) with their unique capacity to self-renew, proliferate, and initiate tumor formation. The book collects up-to-date methodologies to isolate and propagate...

Offering an overview of heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, organocatalysis, and thermal catalysis, this book will be useful in courses on the design, synthesis, and application of chiral catalysts, asymmetric...

Copula additive distributional regression enables the joint modeling of multiple outcomes, an essential aspect of many real-world research problems. This book provides an accessible overview of this modeling approach, with a particular focus on its...

Intended to provide a nearly comprehensive account of methods, theory, applications, as well as open problems related to robust SAE, that the monograph will help persuade practitioners, such as those in government agencies, to more readily adopt robust...

This book consolidates information on modeling, coating, material preparation, characterization, fabrication, and applications of anti-icing surfaces. It offers a comprehensive understanding of icephobic coating strategies and their industrial...

Mathematics of Networks: Modulus Theory and Convex Optimization is a book that seeks to answer the question: "What can be learned by adapting the theory of p-modulus (and related continuum analysis concepts) to discrete graphs?"

Sarah Knowles Bolton (September 15, 1841 - February 21, 1916) was an American writer. She was born in Farmington, Connecticut. In 1866, she married Charles E. Bolton, a merchant and philanthropist. She wrote extensively for the press, was one of the...

The main purpose of the work is to showcase the interdisciplinary engineering approaches in modeling and understanding human behaviors during interpersonal interactions those that could be typical, distressed, or atypical. The ability to measure human...

This book gives readers an overview of the important principles, concepts and analytical techniques pertaining to thermodynamics, written in a fashion that makes this abstract and complex subject relatively easy to comprehend.

Updated with new material, this book shares the author's secrets for simplifying complex energy calculations, and shows you how to use these time-saving methods.

Every minute several huge "snowballs" break up as they approach the Earth and deposit a large cloud of water vapor in Earth's upper atmosphere. That's the startling finding of world-renowned physicist Louis A. Frank after an examination of the images...

This book provides innovative chapters covering new methodologies and important applications in the fields of nanoscience and computational chemistry. The book offers scope for academics, researchers, and engineering professionals to present their...

With chapters by the editors and other experts in the field of polymer science, this book covers a broad selection of important research advances in the field, including updates on enzymatic destruction and photoelectric characteristics, studies on the...

Data Analysis from Scratch.2 Books in 1Book 1: Basic Python in FinanceBook 2: Time Series in Python.....................

Rethinking the School is one of the first major applications of Foucault's genealogical method to the school system, and will be widely debated by educationalists, policy-makers and those interested in the interaction of government and subjectivity.

In England, perhaps more than most places, people's engagement with the landscape is deeply felt and has often been expressed through artistic media.

Discusses the microbiological analysis of milk and milk products, including bacterial enumeration, pathogen detection, quality testing for starter cultures, isolation and characterization of lactic acid bacteria, safety assessment protocols for...

Details sustainable marketing, and the promotion of environmentally and socially responsible products, practices, and brand values. Explores integrating sustainability into a marketing strategy and how to develop, broaden, and maintain an effective...

A sampling of bio-inspired technologies created by scientists and inventors who study the characteristics of things in nature to come up amazing and astonishing technologies and products. It considers bio-inspired technologies applied in water...

Addresses the arsenic-rice problem, with effective mitigation strategies. It reviews long-distance translocation, arsenic-induced phytotoxicity, economic measures to reduce arsenic load, and techniques that are agronomically and environmentally safe.

Presents the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical values of 175 species of bony and cartilaginous fishes and the uses of fish processing byproducts and wastes. Aspects covered include biology, ecology, diagnostic features, and pharmaceutical and...

Explores the various microbial responses of plants and soils caused directly or indirectly by climate change resulting from rising greenhouse gases and other factors. It considers the rapidly changing environment and the important role of microbiomes in...