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As a bridge between electronics and photonics, terahertz science and technology has made tremendous progress in the past decades. While terahertz wave generation from gas, solid and plasma with...

Offering a glossary of terms in both international trade and international finance, this book features a picture gallery of diagrams used to explain key concepts, such as the Edgeworth production box...

Assessment, mainly in the form of tests and examinations, plays a critical role in the schooling of Singaporean students. The results are often used to make irrevocable decisions on the students'...

Latest Edition: Textbook of Occupational Medicine Practice (4th Edition)This book provides a link between occupational health and clinical practice. It aims to provide a valuable starting point for...

Introduction -- Basics of protein structure -- The folding, folds, and functions of proteins -- Basics of membrane proteins -- Basics of nucleic acid structure -- Basics of lipids and membrane...

Latest Edition: Textbook of Structural Biology (2nd Edition)This is an important textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in structural biology, chemistry, biochemistry, biology and medicine...

This monograph develops chaos theory from properties of the graphs inverse to the parabolic map of the interval [0, 2], where the height at the midpoint x = 1 may be viewed as a time-like parameter,...

In modern physics, various fundamental problems have become topics of ongoing debate. There was the 20th century climb to a Standard Model, still accurate at the highest energy levels obtainable so...

We live in an unprecedented era of flourishing of scientific publishing. However, many professionals in the biomedical sciences find writing articles to be a daunting task. The book is meant to serve...

The Abdus Salam Memorial Meeting was held from the 19th to the 22nd of November, 1997 on the first anniversary of the death of Prof Abdus Salam, Nobel laureate and Founder-Director of the...

Maurice Baker is an academic and one of Singapore's pioneer diplomats. After graduating with honors in English from King's College, London in 1948, he returned to Singapore and taught at two...

Acknowledgments -- Beginning -- The early days in Adams and University of 4 Massachusetts in Amherst -- Reminiscences of the early days in Berkeley -- The start of a new department in Vancouver --...

This volume provides a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary overview of the aging lung, written by the main researchers in the field. Current physiological, cellular and molecular understanding of...

This is a kaleidoscopic account of the remarkable life story of Alladi Ramakrishnan (1923-2008), an internationally reputed physicist, and the son of Sir Alladi Krishnaswami Iyer (1883-1953), one of...

Commentary and reflections on, and lectures presented at, the Asia Pacific Programme for Senior Military Officers, 2002?-2015.Author: Keng Yong Ong, Mushahid Ali, Bernard ChinPublisher: World...

Real-world information is imperfect and is usually described in natural language (NL). Moreover, this information is often partially reliable and a degree of reliability is also expressed in NL. In...

Genomic uracil : dangers and benefits in processing / Hans Krokan -- The GO repair pathway : OGG1 and MUTYH / Sheila David -- The DNA glycosylases that recognize and remove free radical-damaged...

In the past five years, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has attracted increasing attention to promote the global economy. This book discusses new risks and challenges confronting the BRI,...

Of all the species that live on this planet, as far as we know, man is the only one capable of awareness; observing the sky, understanding its beauty, and asking questions about the meaning of life...

If the past few years have taught us anything, it is that the only thing we can predict about the future is: It is unpredictable. How do businesses - in particular smaller companies - ready...

The Birth of China Seen Through PoetryAuthor: Hong-Mo ChanPublisher: World Scientific Publishing CompanyPublication Date: 40627Number of Pages: 264 pagesBinding: Literary CollectionsISBN-10:...

The 1947 paper by John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine, "Numerical Inverting of Matrices of High Order" (Bulletin of the AMS, Nov. 1947), is considered as the birth certificate of numerical analysis...

Natural numbers are the oldest human inventions. This volume describes their nature, laws, history and current status. The first five chapters contain not only the basics of elementary number theory...

The theory of traces employs techniques and tackles problems from quite diverse areas which include formal language theory, combinatorics, graph theory, algebra, logic, and the theory of concurrent...

The aim of this book is to explain in simple language what we know about time and about the history of time. It is shown that the briefest (as well as the lengthiest) history of time can be described...

A book that enlightens the life of Ahmed H Zewail from his early childhood to his days at CalTech. Born in Damanhur, Egypt, Ahmed H Zewail grew up with his family, studied at a local primary school...

This book is intended to support faculty in designing and conducting case teaching. The book is a practical "how to" guide for faculty setting up and delivering a case based class. It can be used by...

The rate of urbanisation will accelerate in the years ahead. The massive influx of people to cities will result in the demand for more services, expending more resources and generating more waste...

Author: Moshe GittermanPublisher: World Scientific Publishing CompanyPublication Date: Sep 21, 2010Number of Pages: 156 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 9814322008ISBN-13: 9789814322003

Presents a novel development in fundamental aspects of algebraic topology and mathematical physics: existing extra-ordinary" and further generalized Cohomology theories enhanced to "twisted",...