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Malaria Vaccines
The Continuing Quest
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
In 2013, 200 million people were infected with malaria, resulting in over 584,000 deaths, with the potential to affect over half the world's population. Such is the widespread nature of malaria that it is increasingly believed only a vaccine will lead to its eradication.
Although the first...
Commemorations and Memorials
Exploring the Human Face of Anatomy
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
A major component of many modern human anatomy programs is commemorating people who have donated their body for education and research. In addition, some institutions have also organized memorial places to honor the body donors. This book is an edited volume which explores the phenomena of commemorations...
The Much Troubled Alliance
USChina Military Cooperation During the Pacific War, 19411945
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
The topics of World War II and US-China relationship have been of much interest to academics and general public alike. This book challenges the conventional wisdom that has been produced on the topics over the past 50 years and offers the readers a new and balanced treatment of the topics. The scope...
Cyberterrorism
The Legal and Enforcement Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Cyberterrorism in the 21st century is now one of the greatest threats to global security and information. It transcends national borders (and by extension national legal systems), making it difficult for individual countries to formulate a cohesive defence plan against it. The world has yet to see...
What It Takes to Thrive
Techniques for Severe Trauma and Stress Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This book deals with all aspects of severe trauma and stress recovery. It offers tools and techniques to manage triggers, flashbacks or intrusive thoughts, helping survivors of severe trauma and stress to regain control of their lives.
The techniques and advice described here are organised...
by Jozsef Beck
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
It is the first book about a new aspect of Uniform distribution, called Strong Uniformity. Besides developing the theory of Strong Uniformity, the book also includes novel applications in the underdeveloped field of Large Dynamical Systems.
Contents:
From Uniform Distribution to the...
Moving Up the Ladder
Development Challenges for Low and Middle-Income Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Besides export expansion, a growing middle class in Asia has contributed to the area's economic expansion, providing Asian countries with a window of opportunity to leap from low/middle income levels to high income levels. It may sound easy for these countries to run up the ladder of economic growth,...
Global Sustainability Inside and Outside the Territory
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
This book contains the proceedings of the international workshop on global sustainability held in Benevento, Italy, on February 2014. The proceedings consist of 10 invited and contributed papers related to the broad range of aspects of sustainability in a global scenario including food safety, monitoring,...
by Peter Brimblecombe
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Episodes of air pollution throughout the 20th and 21st centuries have had a huge influence socially, economically and politically. From the Great Smog of London to the Kuwait Oil Fires, and from the ashes of Mount St Helens to air pollution in Beijing, this book chronicles their enduring legacies...
From Atomic to Mesoscale
The Role of Quantum Coherence in Systems of Various Complexities
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
This volume presents the latest advancements and future developments of atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics and its vital role in modern sciences and technologies. The chapters are devoted to studies of a wide range of quantum systems, with an emphasis on understanding of quantum coherence...
The Physics of Reality
Space, Time, Matter, Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
A truly Galilean-class volume, this book introduces a new method in theory formation, completing the tools of epistemology. It covers a broad spectrum of theoretical and mathematical physics by researchers from over 20 nations from four continents. Like Vigier himself, the Vigier symposia are noted...
The Fundamental Constants
A Mystery of Physics
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
The speed of light, the fine structure constant, and Newton's constant of gravity — these are just three among the many physical constants that define our picture of the world. Where do they come from? Are they constant in time and across space? In this book, physicist and author Harald Fritzsch...
Fundamental Forces of Nature
The Story of Gauge Fields
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
Gauge fields are the messengers carrying signals between elementary particles, enabling them to interact with each other. Originating at the level of quarks, these basic interactions percolate upwards, through nuclear and atomic physics, through chemical and solid state physics, to make our everyday...
After the Beginning
A Cosmic Journey through Space and Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2004
In a brilliant flash about fourteen billion years ago, time and matter were born in a single instant of creation. An immensely hot and dense universe began its rapid expansion everywhere, creating space where there was no space and time where there was no time. In the intense fire just after the beginning,...