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by Alexander K Hartmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
This book teaches you all necessary (problem-independent) tools and techniques needed to implement and perform sophisticated scientific numerical simulations. Thus, it is suited for undergraduate and graduate students who want to become experts in computer simulations in Physics, Chemistry, Biology,...
Solving Everyday Problems with the Scientific Method
Thinking Like a Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
This book describes how one can use The Scientific Method to solve everyday problems including medical ailments, health issues, money management, traveling, shopping, cooking, household chores, etc. It illustrates how to exploit the information collected from our five senses, how to solve problems...
Personal and Scientific Reminiscences
Tributes to Ahmed Zewail
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
A compilation of wonderful tributes to the late Ahmed Zewail (1946-2016), considered the 'Father of Femtochemistry', a long-standing icon in the field of physical chemistry, and the father of ultrafast electron-based methods. The book contains testimonies by friends and relatives of Zewail and by...
Solving Everyday Problems with the Scientific Method
Thinking Like a Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This book describes how one can use The Scientific Method to solve everyday problems including medical ailments, health issues, money management, traveling, shopping, cooking, household chores, etc. It illustrates how to exploit the information collected from our five senses, how to solve problems...
Ivan Stranski
The Grandmaster of Crystal Growth
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Who is Ivan Stranski, you ask? If you Google his name you will find thousands of sites that talk about him. In fact, the Kossel-Stranski model of crystal growth and the Stranski-Krastanov mode of growth of thin epitaxial films are named after him — just two of the many scientific ideas and concepts...
Building the H Bomb
A Personal History
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
IN THE NEWSQ&A: Kenneth Ford on Textbooks, Popularizations, and Scientific SecrecyPhysics Today, June 2017Building the H Bomb: A Personal HistoryForum on Physics and Society, January 2017Don McCauley's audio interview with Kenneth FordThe Authors Show, 11 August 2016Mt....
by Richard M Scheffler
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This Handbook covers major topics in global health economics and public policy and provides a timely, systematic review of the field. Edited by Richard M Scheffler, Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy and Director of the Global Center for Health Economics and Policy Research...
World Scientific Reference on Globalisation in Eurasia and the Pacific Rim
Volume 1: Foreign InvestmentVolume 2: InnovationVolume 3: Energy: Policy, Legal and Social-Economic Issues under the Dimensions of Sustainability and SecurityVolume 4: Migration: Economic Drivers of Contemporary Labour Mobility in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This multi-volume set focuses on a key region of the world which contains four of the biggest emerging economies, a large number of highly dynamic small- and medium-sized emerging economies, and one of the leading advanced industrial countries. It is a region which contains some of the biggest hydrocarbon...
When the Scientist Presents
An Audio and Video Guide to Science Talks(With DVD-ROM)
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Check out the author's website at www.scientific-presentations.com
This book looks at the presenting scientist from a novel angle: the presenter-host. When scientists give a talk, the audience (“guests”) expects the title of the talk to determine presentation content, they require understandable...
The Road to Scientific Success
Inspiring Life Stories of Prominent Researchers(Volume 2)
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
This is Volume 2 of the book series The Road to Scientific Success: Inspiring Life Stories of Prominent Researchers. Authoritative scientists describe their life experiences in relation to how success was attained, how their careers were developed, how their research was steered, how priorities were...
Doing Science
In the Light of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Nearly all philosophers have dealt with the outcomes of scientific research, and have overlooked its philosophical presuppositions, such as those of rationality and realism. Although these presuppositions are mostly tacit and thus easily overlooked, actually they are supremely important, since some...
by Catherine Louis, Olivier Pluchery
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
The fascination with gold is a story which spans millennia, however scientists have recently found a new interest for gold when it is divided into miniscule grains, such as gold nanoparticles. This scientific enthusiasm started in various fields of science in the middle of the 1980s and the present...
by Guichun Guo, Chuang Liu
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
This volume contains the contributed papers of invitees to SEMS 2012 who have also given talks at the conference. The invitees are experts in philosophy of science and technology from Asia (besides China), Australia, Europe, Latin America, North America, as well as from within China.
The papers...
by Qing-Bin Lu
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
This monograph reviews the establishment of new theories of the ozone hole and global climate change, two major scientific problems of global concern. It provides a comprehensive overview of the author's work including significant discoveries and pioneering contributions, such as the discovery of...