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QGIS and Applications in Territorial Planning
Nicolas Baghdadi
These four volumes present innovative thematic applications implemented using the open source software QGIS. These are applications that use remote sensing over continental surfaces. The volumes detail applications of remote sensing over...
The Scramble for the Poles
Klaus Dodds
In August 2007 a Russian flag was planted under the North Pole during a scientific expedition triggering speculation about a new scramble for resources beneath the thawing ice. But is there really a global grab for Polar territory and resources?...
Evidence-Based Evolutionary Medicine
John Torday S.
A groundbreaking, evidence-based text to the growing field of evolutionary medicine Evidence-Based Evolutionary Medicine offers a comprehensive review of the burgeoning field of evolutionary medicine and explores vital topics such as evolution,...
Dynamics of the Bacterial Chromosome
Wolfgang Schumann
This book provides an unique overview on bacterial genetics, bacterial genome projects and gene technology and its applicaitons in biological and biomedical research and medicine. The author guides the reader up the front in research within the...
Entwicklung der Gentherapie
Senatskommission f?r Grundsatzfragen der Genforschung
Seit die DFG im Jahre 1995 eine erste Stellungnahme zum Thema Gentherapie ver?ffentlichte, hat sich dieses Forschungsfeld ernorm weiterentwickelt. Diese neue Stellungnahme zeigt nun die aktuellen Themen und Perspektiven der gentherapeutischen...
Gr?ne Gentechnik im Widerstreit
Alfred Puhler
Gentechnisch veranderte herbizidresistente Pflanzen eroffnen neue Optionen der chemischen Unkrautbekampfung, sie erweitern den Anwendungsbereich von nichtselektiven Herbiziden, die bisher nicht eingesetzt werden konnten, weil sie auch die...
The Modeling Process in Geography
Yves Guermond
This title focuses on the evolution of the modeling process and on new research perspectives in theoretical and applied geography, as well as spatial planning. In the last 50 years, the achievements of spatial analysis models opened the way to a...
A Companion to Economic Geography
Eric Sheppard
A Companion to Economic Geography presents students of human geography with an essential collection of original essays providing a key to understanding this important subdiscipline. The contributions are written by prominent international...
A New Deal for Transport?
Iain Docherty
Comprising contributions from a range of experts, this volume offers a critical commentary on the government's sustainable transport policy. A critical commentary on the Blair government's sustainable transport policy and its implementation....
Transnational Geographies Of The Heart
Katie Walsh
Transnational Geographies of the Heart explores the spatialisation of intimacy in everyday life through an analysis of intimate subjectivities in transnational spaces. Draws on ethnographic research with British migrants in Dubai, United Arab...
Cryptic Concrete
Ian Klinke
Cryptic Concrete explores bunkered sites in Cold War Germany in order to understand the inner workings of the Cold War state. A scholarly work that suggests a reassessment of the history of geo- and bio-politics Attempts to understand the...
Global Asian City
Francis Collins L.
Global Asian City provides a unique theoretical framework for studying the growth of cities and migration focused on the notion of desire as a major driver of international migration to Asian cities. Draws on more than 120 interviews of...
A Companion to Feminist Geography
Joni Seager
A Companion to Feminist Geography captures the breadth and diversity of this vibrant and substantive field. Shows how feminist geography has changed the landscape of geographical inquiry and knowledge since the 1970s. Explores the diverse...
The Periglacial Environment
Hugh French M.
The Periglacial Environment, Third Edition, provides an authoritative overview of the world???s cold, non-glacial environments. Emphasis is placed upon the North American and Eurasian polar lowlands, but examples are also drawn from Antarctica,...
The Mapping of Geological Structures
K. McClay R.
Detailed mapping and analysis of the structural features of rocks enable the 3D geometry of their structures to be reconstructed. The resulting evidence of the stresses and movement patterns which rocks have undergone indicates the processes by...
The Periglacial Environment
Hugh French M.
The Periglacial Environment, Fourth Edition, is an authoritative overview of the world’s cold, non-glacial environments. First published in 1976 and subsequently revised in 1996 and 2007, the text has been the international standard for nearly...
Global Flood Hazard
Heiko Apel
Global Flood Hazard Flooding is a costly natural disaster in terms of damage to land, property and infrastructure. This volume describes the latest tools and technologies for modeling, mapping, and predicting large-scale flood risk. It also...
A Continental Plate Boundary
David Okaya
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 175. A Continental Plate Boundary offers in one place the most comprehensive, up-to-date knowledge for researchers and students to learn about the...
Bioenergy and Land Use Change
Zhangcai Qin
Although bioenergy is a renewable energy source, it is not without impact on the environment. Both the cultivation of crops specifically for use as biofuels and the use of agricultural byproducts to generate energy changes the landscape, affects...
Reservoir Modelling
Steve Cannon
The essential resource to an integrated approach to reservoir modelling by highlighting both the input of data and the modelling results Reservoir Modelling offers a comprehensive guide to the procedures and workflow for building a 3-D model....
Micro and Nano Scale NMR
Oliver Brand
This must-have book is the first self-contained summary of recent developments in the field of microscale nuclear magnetic resonance hardware, covering the entire technology from miniaturized detectors, the signal processing chain, and detection...
Monte Carlo Methods, Volume 1
Paula Whitlock A.
This introduction to Monte Carlo Methods seeks to identify and study the unifying elements that underlie their effective application. It focuses on two basic themes. The first is the importance of random walks as they occur both in natural...
Movement Equations 4
Michel Borel
An important instance of the application of unbuckled solid mechanics is that of its stability and small movements from this situation. The problem expressing goes through the linearization of the movement equations set up in the 3rd volume of...
Fluid Mechanics in Channel, Pipe and Aerodynamic Design Geometries
Christina Georgantopoulou G.
Fluid mechanics is an important scientific field with various industrial applications for flows or energy consumption and efficiency issues. This book has as main aim to be a textbook of applied knowledge in real fluids as well as to the...
Fluid Mechanics in Channel, Pipe and Aerodynamic Design Geometries
Christina Georgantopoulou G.
Fluid mechanics is an important scientific field with various industrial applications for flows or energy consumption and efficiency issues. This book has as main aim to be a textbook of applied knowledge in real fluids as well as to the...
The Dawn of Fluid Dynamics
Michael Eckert
This is the first publication to describe the evolution of fluid dynamics as a major field in modern science and engineering. It contains a description of the interaction between applied research and application, taking as its example the...
A Climate Modelling Primer
Ann Henderson-Sellers
As a consequence of recent increased awareness of the social and political dimensions of climate, many non-specialists discover a need for information about the variety of available climate models. A Climate Modelling Primer, Third Edition...
The Sugar Code
Hans-Joachim Gabius
A reader friendly overview of the structure and functional relevance of natural glycosylation and its cognate proteins (lectins), this book is also one of the few books to cover their role in health and disease. Edited by one of the pioneering...
Screening Constant by Unit Nuclear Charge Method
Ibrahima Sakho
The reader will find in this collection a clear exposition of the method of the Screen Constant by Nuclear Charge Unit which can be applied in a simple and immediate way to many fields of Physics in relation to atomic spectroscopy.
Accelerator X-Ray Sources
Richard Talman
This first book to cover in-depth the generation of x-rays in particle accelerators focuses on electron beams produced by means of the novel Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) technology. The resulting highly brilliant x-rays are at the centre of this...
Resistive Gaseous Detectors
Vladimir Peskov
This first book to critically summarize the latest achievements and emerging applications within this interdisciplinary topic focuses on one of the most important types of detectors for elementary particles and photons: resistive plate chambers...
Modern Nonlinear Optics, Part 1
Stanislaw Kielich
The Advances in Chemical Physics series provides the chemical physics and physical chemistry fields with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Filled with cutting-edge research reported in a...
Modern Nonlinear Optics, Part 2
Stanislaw Kielich
The Advances in Chemical Physics series provides the chemical physics and physical chemistry fields with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Filled with cutting-edge research reported in a...
Handbook of Optical Systems, Volume 2
Wolfgang Singer
The state-of-the-art full-colored handbook gives a comprehensive introduction to the principles and the practice of calculation, layout, and understanding of optical systems and lens design. Written by reputed industrial experts in the field,...
Quantum Theory of Optical Coherence
Roy Glauber J.
A summary of the pioneering work of Glauber in the field of optical coherence phenomena and photon statistics, this book describes the fundamental ideas of modern quantum optics and photonics in a tutorial style. It is thus not only intended as...
State Selected and State to State Ion Molecule Reaction Dynamics, Part 2
Ilya Prigogine
The Advances in Chemical Physics series provides the chemical physics and physical chemistry fields with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Filled with cutting-edge research reported in a...
The Physics of Granular Media
Haye Hinrichsen
Despite extensive empirical experience, there is both a scientific challenge and a technological need to develop an understanding of the mechanisms underlying the flow of grains. This new reference provides quick access to the current level of...
Verschr?nkte Systeme
Jurgen Audretsch
Dieses einfuhrende Lehrbuch fur Studenten hoherer Semester der Physik, Chemie und Informatik behandelt ein in jungster Zeit dynamisch expandierendes Gebiet der Physik. Das Buch befasst sich u.a. mit den Themen Quanteninformationstheorie ,...
The Physics of Alfv?n Waves
Neil Cramer F.
Low-frequency wave modes of magnetized inhomogeneous plasmas have been subject to intense study in the last decade because they play important roles in the transport of energy in the plasmas. The «Alfven wave heating» scheme has been...
Time, Emergences and Communications
Bernard Dugu?
This book presents an attempt to understand emergences in various situations where material components interact by coordinating their actions to «make system» with emerging properties (or functions) accessible to experimental investigation. I...
Automating with PROFINET
Mark Metter
PROFINET is the first integrated Industrial Ethernet Standard for automation, and utilizes the advantages of Ethernet and TCP/IP for open communication from the corporate management level to the process itself. PROFINET CBA divides distributed,...
GNSS Systems and Engineering
Shusen Tan
Comprehensive guide to the fundamentals and advanced engineering of the Beidou satellite system • The first book specifically describing the Chinese Beidou timing/navigation system – an increasingly important contributor to the GNSS •...
Handbook of Defence Electronics and Optronics
Anil Maini K.
Handbook of Defence Electronics and Optronics Anil K. Maini, Former Director, Laser Science and Technology Centre, India First complete reference on defence electronics and optronics Fundamentals, Technologies and Systems This book provides a...
The Freezing of Mammalian Embryos
CIBA Foundation Symposium
The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and...
Exploring Scanning Probe Microscopy with MATHEMATICA
Dror Sarid
This new and completely updated edition features not only an accompanying CD-ROM, but also a new applications section, reflecting the many breakthroughs in the field over the last few years. It provides a complete set of computational models...
Light-Matter Interaction, Volume 1
John Weiner
A thorough introduction to atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) science and engineering Atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) science and engineering stands at the confluence of strong scientific and technological currents in physics, chemistry,...
Physik der Atome und Molek?le
Klaus Bethge
Die Autoren prasentieren eine integrierte Darstellung von Atom- und Molekulphysik. Neben grundlegenden Themen wie Quantenmechanik und Statistik behandeln sie auch neuere Anwendungen, z.B. die Hochprazisionsspektroskopie. Das bewahrte didaktische...
The Digital Factory for Knowledge
Alain Bensoussan
This book explores how the technical upheavals of the 21st century have changed the structures and architecture of the creation, sharing and regulation of knowledge. From the new economic and technical models of production and dissemination of...
Why Democracies Need Science
Robert Evans
We live in times of increasing public distrust of the main institutions of modern society. Experts, including scientists, are suspected of working to hidden agendas or serving vested interests. The solution is usually seen as more public...
The SQUID Handbook
John Clarke
This two-volume handbook offers a comprehensive and well coordinated presentation of SQUIDs (Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices), including device fundamentals, design, technology, system construction and multiple applications. It is...
