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110 times wider than Earth; 15 million degrees at its core; an atmosphere so huge that Earth is actually within it: come and meet the star of our solar systemLight takes eight minutes to reach Earth from the surface of the Sun. But its journey within the Sun takes...
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Penguin
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2016-03-31
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This thesis reports on outstanding work in two main subfields of quantum information science: one involves the quantum measurement problem, and the other concerns quantum simulation. The thesis proposes using a polarization-based displaced Sagnac-type interferometer to...
Editeur :
Springer
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2016-03-31
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This volume is a tutorial for the study of dynamical systems on networks. It discusses both methodology and models, including spreading models for social and biological contagions. The authors focus especially on “simple” situations that are analytically tractable,...
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Springer
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2016-03-31
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From the characterization of materials to accelerated life testing, experimentation with solids and structures is present in all stages of the design of mechanical devices. Sometimes only an experimental model can bring the necessary elements for understanding, the...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2016-03-31
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The Series will provide microbiologists, hygienists, epidemiologists and infectious diseases specialists with well-chosen contributed volumes containing updated information in the areas of basic and applied microbiology involving relevant issues for public health,...
Editeur :
Springer
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2016-03-31
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Fiesers' Reagents for Organic Synthesis provides an up-to-date, A-to-Z listing of reagents cited in synthetic literature. • Covers, in volume 28, chemical literature and methodologies from July 2011 - December 2012• Features entries with concise descriptions,...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2016-03-31
Collection :
Fiesers' Reagents for Organic Synthesis
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This volume of Advances in Chemical Physics is dedicated, by the contributors, to Moshe Shapiro, formerly Canada Research Chair in Quantum Control in the Department of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia and Jacques Mimran Professor of Chemical Physics at...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2016-03-31
Collection :
Advances in Chemical Physics
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The book sets the standard on carbon materials for electrode design. For the first time, the leading experts in this field summarize the preparation techniques and specific characteristics together with established and potential applications of the different types of...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2016-03-31
Collection :
Advances in Electrochemical Sciences and Engineering
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**WINNER OF THE 2020 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS** The Road to Reality is the most important and ambitious work of science for a generation. It provides nothing less than a comprehensive account of the physical universe and the essentials of its underlying mathematical...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2016-03-31
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Astronomical concepts can be truly hard to comprehend, especially those of planetary sizes and distances from Earth and from each other. These concepts are made more comprehensible by the group of illustrations in this book, which put scale extraterrestrial...
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Springer
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2016-03-31
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Weeds are variously defined as plants growing where they are not wanted, plants that interfere with human activity.Weeds affect everyone in the world by reducing crop yield and quality, delaying or interfering with harvesting, interfering with animal feeding, reducing...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-03-31
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This thesis presents significant new results on the problem of understanding the origin of dark energy in cosmology. The work develops an original approach based on modifications of General Relativity at cosmological scales, introducing non-local effective terms that...
Editeur :
Springer
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2016-03-31
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This book reviews the general acute effects and adaptations
of small-sided and conditioned games (SSCGs) in terms of physiological
responses, technical performance and methodology/periodization in the game of
soccer. It also reviews the many studies conducted in the...
Editeur :
Springer
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2016-03-31
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This volume gives an overview of
state of the art technologies and future developments in the field of
preclinical pharmaceutical research. A balanced mix of experts from academia
and industry give insight in selected new developments in the drug discovery
pathway. The...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-30
Collection :
Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology
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This book provides the mathematical foundations for Feynman's operator calculus and for the Feynman path integral formulation of quantum mechanics as a natural extension of analysis and functional analysis to the infinite-dimensional setting. In one...
Editeur :
Springer
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2016-03-30
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This book is a critical survey of and guidebook to the literature on biological functions. It ties in with current debates and developments, and at the same time, it looks back on the state of discourse in naturalized teleology prior to the 1970s. It also presents three...
Editeur :
Springer
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2016-03-30
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The book bridges the gap between existing health physics textbooks and reference material needed by a practicing health physicist as the 21st century progresses. This material necessarily encompasses emerging radiation-generating technologies, advances in existing...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2016-03-30
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Human iPS cells have a great potential to be cell sources for
regenerative medicine because of the promise of infinite self-renewal and the
capability to differentiate into multiple cell types. This book focuses on
another great potential of human iPS cells, which is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-30
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Applies basic field behavior in circuit design and demonstrates how it relates to grounding and shielding requirements and techniques in circuit design This book connects the fundamentals of electromagnetic theory to the problems of interference in all types of...
Editeur :
Wiley-IEEE Press
Parution :
2016-03-30
Collection :
IEEE Press
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Based on simple examples, this book offers a short introduction to the general-purpose finite element program MSC Marc, a specialized program for non-linear problems (implicit solver) distributed by the MSC Software Corporation, which is commonly used in academia and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-30
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