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Aims to represent a comprehensive treatment of the subject, covering the theoretical principles, experimental status, and applications of short-pulse laser-matter interactions. This book looks at the physical phenomena, which arise as a result of this form of "light-matter" interaction.

Merkel cell carcinoma is an uncommon but not rare aggressive cutaneous malignancy. This book summarizes the knowledge about Merkel cell carcinoma and provides a perspective on future opportunities for diagnostic and therapeutic advances. It also offers practical how to advice on diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.

An introduction to basic ideas in differential topology, covering smooth manifolds and maps, the structure of the tangent bundle and its associates, the calculation of real cohomology groups using differential forms, and applications. Each chapter contains exercises and solutions are provided.

Aims to counteract the fashion for theories of "chaos" and unpredictability by describing a theory that underpins the accuracy of deterministic weather forecasts. This book suggests that further improvements are possible.

Covers the very wide spectrum of all aspects of railway engineering for all engineering disciplines, in a 'broad brush' way giving a good overall knowledge of what is involved in planning, designing, constructing and maintaining a railway.

A description of models and algorithms that are capable of performing face recognition in a dynamic setting. The key question is how to design computer-vision and machine-learning algorithms that can operate robustly and quickly under poorly-controlled and changing conditions.

Builds on the fluid and kinetic theory of equilibria and waves presented in a companion textbook, "Basic Space Plasma Physics". The book provides a representative selection of the many possible macro- and microinstabilities in a space plasma.

Addresses one of the key problems facing the EU such as: Why is the 'new' EU so much poorer than the 'old', and how will EU enlargement help to solve the problem? Focusing on the productivity problems underlying the East-West gap, this book looks in particular at the role that foreign investment and R&D can play in closing it.

Structures cannot be created without engineering theory, and design rules have existed from the earliest times for building Greek temples, Roman aqueducts and Gothic cathedrals ΓÇö and later, for steel skyscrapers and the frames for aircraft. This book is, however, not concerned with the description of historical feats, but with the way the structural engineer sets about his business. Galileo, in the seventeenth century, was the first to introduce recognizably modern science into the calculation of structures; he determined the breaking strength of beams. In the eighteenth century engineers moved away from this ΓÇÿultimate loadΓÇÖ approach, and early in the nineteenth century a formal philosophy of design had been established ΓÇö a structure should remain elastic, with a safety factor on stress built into the analysis. This philosophy held sway for over a century, until the first tests on real structures showed that the stresses confidently calculated by designers could not actually be measured in practice. Structural engineering has taken a completely different path since the middle of the twentieth century; plastic analysis reverts to Galileo''s objective of the calculation of ultimate strength, and powerful new theorems now underpin the activities of the structural engineer.This book deals with a technical subject, but the presentation is completely non-mathematical. It makes available to the engineer, the architect and the general reader the principles of structural design.

This volume introduces the important methods used in the solution of partial differential equations. Aimed at second-year and final-year students taking physics and engineering courses, it should also be of value to mathematicians studying mathematical methods as part of their course.

An introduction to the physics of the photovoltaic cell. It covers the fundamental principles of semiconductor physics and simple models used to describe solar cell operation. It presents theoretical approaches to efficient solar cell design and examines the main practical types of solar cell.

Concern about groundwater contamination has focused attention on the processes that influence chemical fate in soil water systems. This work presents estimation techniques and transfer processes of required input data from existing databases in geographic information systems.

Sir Joseph Banks was a man of science, of affairs and of letters. He circumnavigated the globe with Cook, became President of the Royal Society, and was at the centre of Georgian life for over five decades. This is a collection of his letters, selected from the remaining 6000 letters he wrote.

Brodmann's text is often considered on of the major classics in the neurological world and forms the basis for so-called "localization" of function in the cerebral cortex, but few have seen the original 1909 monograph. This book provides a translation of the original text.

Within the discipline of environmental sciences, the stable-isotope methodology is being increasingly used, especially in the study of the water cycle and of paeleo-climatology. This book reviews the natural variability of stable isotopes in the hydrosphere.

Unlike publications that concentrate mainly on the theoretical aspect of flow visualization, this text focuses on the techniques required to perform high quality flow visualization. Each chapter of the book has been written by an expert in a particular technique.

This book is intended to provide a thorough coverage of the fundamental principles and techniques of classical mechanics. The new edition has also been revised to give more emphasis to specific examples worked out in detail.

Setting out the principles of operation of the semiconductor devices, this work explains clearly and concisely how these devices may be modelled. It also provides a foundation in semiconductor physics, and in circuit models and fabrication processes for diodes, bipolar transistors and MOSFETs.

Examples of interdependent meteorological phenomena in nature and interdependence in medical, social, economic and political aspects of our existence are numerous. This study of dependence concepts and measures requires a modest background in statistics, probability and integral calculus.

A guide to good dissertation and thesis writing. It outlines the rules and conventions of scientific writing and provides practical advice about planning, writing, editing, presenting and submitting a successful dissertation or thesis. The text features cartoons and real-life anecdotes.

Based on material taught to final-year students of theoretical physics, this is an introduction to the essentials of vector spaces and linear operators. It builds bridges between the concepts and mathematics of classical physics, and the mathematical framework employed in quantum mechanics.

Offers the practical means of finding asymptotic solutions to differential equations, and relates WKB methods, integral solutions, Kruskal-Newton diagrams, and boundary layer theory. This book focuses on the techniques of analysis: obtaining asymptotic limits, connecting different asymptotic solutions, and obtaining integral representation.

Tolerance design techniques are playing an increasingly important role in maximizing the manufacturing yield of mass-produced electronic circuits. This work offers an account of design and analysis methods used to minimize the unwanted effects of component tolerances.