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by Sourajeet Roy (Editor)Uncertainty Quantification of Electromagnetic Devices, Circuits, and Systems describes the advances made over the last decade in the topic of uncertainty quantification (UQ) and stochastic analysis. The primary goal of the book is to educate and inform electronics engineers about the most recent numerical techniques, mathematical theories, and computational methods to perform UQ for electromagnetic devices, circuits, and systems. Importantly, the book offers an in-dep...
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by Ross Birney (Guest Editor)Today, thin films are near-ubiquitous and are utilised in a very wide range of industrially and scientifically important areas. These include familiar everyday instances such as anti-reflective coatings on ophthalmic lenses, smartphone optics, photovoltaics, decorative, and tool coatings. A range of somewhat more exotic applications also exists, such as astronomical instrumentation (e.g., ultra-low loss dielectric mirrors and beam splitters in gravitational wave d...
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by Amedeo Henry Galvani (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, ...
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by Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be pres...
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by Jenny Kellett (Author)"Discover the Enchanting World of Red Pandas!"Welcome to Red Pandas: The Ultimate Book, an unforgettable journey into the captivating lives of these charming creatures. This beautifully illustrated and engaging guide is perfect for curious minds aged 9 and up, as well as for adults who share a love for these fascinating animals.What's Inside?���� Adorable Physical Features: Learn about red pandas' unique characteristics that make them one of the most endearing animals...
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by Jacqueline Ley (Author)The Veterinary Psychiatry of Cats introduces veterinary behavioral medicine and veterinary psychiatry using the domestic cat as its model. This book combines the most up-to-date understanding of biology of this beloved, revered and often maligned species with learnings from the fields of normal and abnormal psychology. Written by a leading expert in feline behavior, this book begins by assessing "normal" factors of feline behavior, from neuroanatomy, neuroendocrinolo...
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by Hannah Ritchie (Author)This "eye-opening and essential" book (Bill Gates) will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems--and explains how we can solve them. It's become common to tell kids that they're going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, and that we should reconsider having children. But in this bold, radically hopeful book, data scientist...
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by Kelby Ouchley (Author)In this sequel to his previous exploration of Louisiana's bayou country, conservationist Kelby Ouchley continues his journey through the vast ecosystems of the state with a fresh array of historical and cultural narratives, personal anecdotes, and reflections. Informative and entertaining, Bayou-Diversity 2 revisits familiar flora and fauna like endangered black bears, infamous feral hogs, and the ghostly bald cypress forest and also explores a new selection of plants...
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by Dan Harary (Author)After Dan's late Grandfather Joseph Harary (1896-1967) began haunting his Beverly Hills apartment during Spring 2003, Dan became convinced that "supernatural stuff" really can happen to normal people in everyday life. The evidence of his grandfather's presence was so powerful, it could not be denied or simply explained away as his imagination.Dan's beloved dead grandfather had become a Poltergeist!About that same time, Dan began to reflect upon the various supernatural, ...
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by Robert Reeves (Author) Written by a dedicated selenophile (a person who loves the Moon), this guide to Earth's celestial companion is a non-technical narrative that quickly elevates the lunar novice to lunar authority. Photographic Atlas of the Moon explains how the Earth and the Moon are locked together in a co-dependent embrace, each affecting the other in ways that impact our lives. The reader will learn in comprehensible, jargon-free language about the Moon we see, its orbit, its crea...
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by Adam Fish (Author)Drones are revolutionizing ocean conservation. By flying closer and seeing more, drones enhance intimate contact between ocean scientists and activists and marine life. In the process, new dependencies between nature, technology, and humans emerge, and a paradox becomes apparent: Can we have a wild ocean whose survival is reliant upon technology? In Oceaning, Adam Fish answers this question through eight stories of piloting drones to stop the killing of porpoises, sharks,...
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by Ronald P. Gruber (Author)Time does not exist, according to modern physics. Yet somehow you experience it in all its dynamic, flowing glory. You don't really move through time as a single persisting being, so feeling that you're not the same person as before is literally true. Last, time flies when you're having fun-and drags when you aren't.In Time, a Useful Illusion, Ronald Gruber takes you on a mind-bending journey of discovery through time illusions. He introduces the Dualistic Mind The...
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by Carlos Montemayor (Author)In this open access book, Carlos Montemayor illuminates the development of artificial intelligence (AI) by examining our drive to live a dignified life. He uses the notions of agency and attention to consider our pursuit of what is important. His method shows how the best way to guarantee value alignment between humans and potentially intelligent machines is through attention routines that satisfy similar needs. Setting out a theoretical framework for AI Montemayo...
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by Jamie Lorimer (Author), Timothy Hodgetts (Author)This text offers the first book-length introduction to more-than-human geography, exploring its key ideas, main debates, and future prospects.An opening chapter traces the origins and emergence of this field of enquiry and positions more-than-human geography as a response to a set of intellectual and political crises in Western thought and politics. It identifies key literatures and thinkers and reflects on the varying usages and meanings of...
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by Jan Harmsen (Author), André B. de Haan (Author), Pieter L. J. Swinkels (Author)"Product and process design - driving sustainable innovation" is the 2nd edition of a comprehensive textbook for product and process design courses at BSc, MSc, EngD, and PhD level. It covers both heuristics based design methods as well as systems engineering approaches. It contains specific methods to co-design products and processes, so that both designs are better than when these designs are made separately. ...
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by Ariel Fern?ndez (Author)The dark universe contains matter and energy unidentifiable with current physical models, accounting for 95% of all the matter and energetic equivalent in the universe. The enormous surplus brings up daunting enigmas, such as the cosmological constant problem and the apparent distortions in the dynamics of deep space, and so coming to grips with the invisible universe has become a scientific imperative.This book addresses this need, reckoning that no cogent physical...
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by Larry Culver (Author)The field of astronomy has witnessed numerous groundbreaking discoveries and advancements throughout history. It is a field that has captivated the minds of both amateur astronomers and Catholics alike. In the book "Catholic Astronomy: The Vatican Observatory's Pioneering Contributions," readers are provided with an in-depth exploration of the remarkable contributions made by the Vatican Observatory to the field of astronomy.
Number of Pages: 100
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by Chunlei Guo (Editor)This comprehensive handbook gives a fully updated guide to lasers and laser systems, including the complete range of their technical applications. The first volume outlines the fundamental components of lasers, their properties and working principles. The second volume gives exhaustive coverage of all major categories of lasers, from solid-state and semiconductor diode to fiber, waveguide, gas, chemical, and dye lasers. The third volume covers modern applications in eng...
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by Gunjan Mukherjee (Editor), Sunny Dhiman (Editor)Solid and liquid wastes generated as a result of various agricultural, municipal, industrial and several other processes have become a global concern. This book provides detailed information on eco-friendly approaches and low-cost strategies for solid and liquid waste management. It emphasizes how these wastes can be utilized as alternatives to expensive raw materials thus encouraging sustainable development. This book will be useful to all t...
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by Younsung Kim (Editor)Through an enlightening collection of academic articles, Environmental Policy and Management deepens and broadens students' knowledge of the root causes of environmental policy and management, while providing various solutions to mitigate environmental impacts. Students are encouraged to understand the complex nature of environmental issues, today's environmental policy approaches, and technologies that can create a more sustainable future.Unit I covers the fundamental...
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by Tricia Carmichael (Editor), Hyun-Joong Chung (Editor) Stretchable electronics is a dynamic field of research with the potential to revolutionize human health, robotics, cameras, energy storage, and even building construction. Electronics with rubber-like form factors can integrate with irregularly shaped moving substances in a seamless manner; electronic skins for prosthesis is a good example. The field of stretchable electronics has evolved and matured over the past 20 years, training gen...
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by Gary L. Shapiro (Author)A recently divorced graduate student is offered an opportunity of a lifetime. Asked to teach an orangutan sign language to solve a murder, he finds himself in an exotic land to discover a world of ex-captive red-haired great apes of Borneo who are learning to return to the wild.Out of the Cage recounts Shapiro's studies and adventures from field notes and memory to demonstrate the many otherwise human interactions he has had with the unique orangutan personalities h...
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by Nicholas Tsoulfanidis (Author), Sheldon Landsberger (Author)As useful to students and nuclear professionals as its popular predecessors, this fifth edition provides the most up-to-date and accessible introduction to radiation detector materials, systems, and applications. There have been many advances in the field of radiation detection, most notably in practical applications. Incorporating these important developments, Measurement and Detection of Radiation, Fifth Edition provides the mos...
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by Aiden Cooper (Author)Embark on a Journey to the Edge of Tomorrow's TechnologyIn a world where the boundaries of science and technology are constantly being redefined, Quantum AI: The Future of Intelligence offers a mesmerizing exploration into the merger of two groundbreaking disciplines-Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence. This book invites you to delve into the heart of the digital revolution, uncovering the potential that lies at the intersection of these transformative techno...
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by Edward W. Chester (Author), S. Eugene Wofford (Author), Joey Shaw (Author)The product of twenty-five years of planning, research, and writing, Guide to the Vascular Plants of Tennessee is the most comprehensive, detailed, and up-to-date resource of its kind for the flora of the Volunteer State, home to nearly 2,900 documented taxa. Not since Augustin Gattinger's 1901 Flora of Tennessee and a Philosophy of Botany has a work of this scope been attempted. The team of editors, authors, and co...
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by James D. Pickering (Author)This book is an accessible introduction to the world of ultrafast lasers and optics, explaining key principles and practical use cases.
Number of Pages: 228
Dimensions: 0.56 x 10 x 7 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: March 15, 2025
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by Michele Coscia (Author)Network science is the field dedicated to the investigation of complex systems by representing them as networks. We model such networks as graphs: sets of nodes connected by edges. This deceptively simple object is the starting point of never-ending complexity, as it can represent almost every facet of reality. This book aims at providing an introductory access to the large and interdisciplinary analytic toolbox necessary to master network science: graph and probabil...
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by Satoshi Kanazawa (Author)A book that challenges common misconceptions about the nature of intelligenceSatoshi Kanazawa's Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters (written with Alan S. Miller) was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "a rollicking bit of pop science that turns the lens of evolutionary psychology on issues of the day." That book answered such burning questions as why women tend to lust after males who already have mates and why newborns look more like Dad than Mom. Now Kanazaw...
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by Michael Specter (Author)"A superb and convincing work." -Malcolm Gladwell At a time when our planet is in dire peril, Americans mistrust science more than ever. Few journalists appreciate what is at stake better than Michael Specter, who has spent the last twenty years reporting on everything from the AIDS epidemic to the digital revolution. In Denialism, he eloquently shows how, in a world where protesters march against childhood vaccines and Africans starve to death rather than import...
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by Lovleen Marwaha (Author)This reference book is the definitive guide to drone honey bees. The book equips readers with all the knowledge they need to know about drone bee biology and development, their role in the colony and improving the health of their colony. The book starts by providing a detailed review of the development of drone honey bees, their biology, morphometric features, interaction with the Queen and the haploid parthenogenesis. The book then delves into the pheromone profile...
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by Christopher Freeland (Author), Jeremy Massey (Foreword by)An investigation of the round towers of Ireland and Scotland - Reveals how the round towers were built over the crossing of underground waterways and with every stone in magnetic polarity alignment - Explains how the siting and magnetic properties of the towers energetically enhances the surrounding environment, akin to feng shui and vastu- Presents a guide to the energetic principles behind the creation and purpose of the round tow...
