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Focuses on the interactions between mathematics, physics, biology, and neuroscience by exploring geometrical and topological modeling in these fields. This book highlights the central roles played by multilevel and scale-change approaches in these disciplines.

Presents a comprehensive survey of the development of the theory of scale relativity and fractal space-time.

Syngas is a mixture of hydrogen and carbon oxides which can be made from hydrocarbons, coal and biomass. It is an important intermediate in the chemical industry for manufacture of ammonia, methanol and other petrochemicals as well as hydrogen for refineries and fuel cells. This book provides a general overview of syngas technologies.

Focuses on what can be learned about protein-protein interactions from the analysis of protein-protein complex structures and interfaces. This title intends to serves as a bridge between studying/analyzing protein-protein complex structures (interfaces), predicting interactions, and influencing/designing interactions.

Presents an introduction to practical aspects of atomic-resolution imaging in aberration-corrected electron microscopy. This book addresses advances in electron optical instrumentation used for ultra-high resolution imaging in materials and nano-science.

Covers the functional significance and properties of erythrocytes, their generation, senescence, and suicidal death. This book summarizes knowledge about hormones influencing erythrocyte formation including erythropoietin as well as disorders affecting and involving erythrocytes such as anemia, malaria, and sepsis.

Anaerobic technology has been accepted by the environmental industry as a cost-effective alternative to the conventional aerobic process. This book summarizes the application experiences of anaerobic technology worldwide, including food, beverage, distillery wastewaters, municipal, agricultural, chemical and petrochemical wastewaters.

The boundary element method (BEM), also known as the boundary integral equation method (BIEM), is a modern numerical technique. It is an established alternative to traditional computational methods of engineering analysis. This book provides a comprehensive account of the method and its application to problems in engineering and science.

Ultrawideband (UWB) technology paves the way to meet the emerging demands set by broadband wireless applications, such as high-speed data transmission, medical imaging, short-range radars, electromagnetic testing, etc. This title focuses on the UWB antenna design and includes practical prediction techniques based on simple formulas and models.

In chemical processes, the progressive deactivation of solid catalysts is a major economic concern and mastering their stability has become as essential as controlling their activity and selectivity. This book covers in a comprehensive way both the fundamental and applied aspects of solid catalyst deactivation.

Morbid obesity is a chronic medical illness that has long-reaching consequences and is caused by multiple factors. This title reviews problems that these patients face in the perioperative period and in the long term, as well as their adjustments in lifestyle and healthcare management.

Considers how to go about designing, explaining and interpreting experiments centered around various forms of voltammetry (cyclic, microelectrode, hydrodynamic, etcetera). This textbook gives references to important research papers to provide an introductory entry into the literature.

Intends to prepare non-science students to make life and political decisions involving science and to understand the advances in sciences as covered and reported in the mass media. This book provides the essential background to discuss the selected topics in biological and neurological sciences, as well as astronomy and geology.

Neurology has been rated as the most difficult subject in MRCP examinations. This title is written by two neurologists who have taught both the written (Part 1 and Part 2) and clinical (PACES) sections of the exam. It is suitable for medical students sitting for their final examinations and for doctors preparing for the PLAB examination.

Describes theories of mutation pathogen systems showing critical fluctuations, as a paradigmatic example of an application of the mathematics of critical phenomena to the life sciences. This book enables the reader to understand the implications and future impact of these findings.

Covers solid continuum mechanics, finite element method and stochastic modeling comprehensively. This book explains the numerical simulation of strong ground motion and faulting. It details examples of applying computational science technology to earthquake engineering problems.

Presents a historical review of four major theories for the origin of the Solar System in particular, or of planets in general, which highlight the major problems that need to be solved by any plausible theory.

Presenting interdisciplinary research at the forefront of the advances in information technologies and their foundations, this work contains pieces of work exemplifying the application of formal language tools in such fields as logic and discrete mathematics, natural language processing, natural computing and bioinformatics.

These are the reflections of a nonagenarian polymath describing the shift from a fifty-year-long career as a world-famous chemist to a subsequent twenty-five-year immersion in "science-in-fiction" and "science-in-theater," which is virtually unique among contemporary scientists.

Focuses on the identification of the organising concepts of some physical and biological phenomena, by means of an analysis of the foundations of mathematics and of physics.

Helps analytical chemists feel comfortable with the commonly used statistical operations and make effective use of the results. This title is intended for analytical chemists working in industry but is at the level required for students taking first degrees or an MSc in analytical chemistry.

The idea that ΓÇ£measuring quality is the key to developing high-quality software systemsΓÇ¥ is gaining relevance. Moreover, it is widely recognised that the key to obtaining better software systems is to measure the quality characteristics of early artefacts, produced at the conceptual modelling phase. Therefore, improving the quality of conceptual models is a major step towards the improvement of software system development.Since the 1970s, software engineers had been proposing high quantities of metrics for software products, processes and resources but had not been paying any special attention to conceptual modelling. By the mid-1990s, however, the need for metrics for conceptual modelling had emerged. This book provides an overview of the most relevant existing proposals of metrics for conceptual models, covering conceptual models for both products and processes.

Explains how group theory underpins some of the key features of particle physics. This book examines symmetries and conservation laws in quantum mechanics and relate these to groups of transformations.

Gives an overview of the technologies and economics in the production of olefins in the petrochemical industries. This compendium highlights the options and costs for producing olefins using different technologies and different feedstocks at a time when the cost of carbon dioxide emissions are set to be included in the production cost.

Presents an exposition of the research on the impacts, adaptation, and mitigation of climate change in relation to agroecosystems.

Presents a comprehensive introduction of polymer membranes' preparation, functionalization and applications in biotechniques including affinity membrane chromatography, membrane-based biosensor and membrane-based bioreactor. This book discusses the preparation of polymeric membranes.

In many fields of modern physics, classical mechanics plays a key role. This book provides an illustration of classical mechanics in the form of problems (at the bachelor level) inspired - for most of them - by contemporary research in physics, and resulting from the teaching and research experience of the authors.

Potential strategies to replace, repair and restore the function of damaged tissues or organs include stem cell transplantation, and transplantation of tissues engineered in the laboratory. This volume explores novel stem cell therapeutic strategies for myriad diseases, including renal failure, retinal disease and myocardial infarction.