Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2025. — 362 p. Bacteria are the most ubiquitous life-forms on Earth, and are studied extensively to gain insight into their function and understand how they interact with their environment. In recent years, bacterial biophysics has added a new dimension to this research by using the tools of physics to investigate the quantitative...
М.: Буки Веди, 2021. – 388 с. Учебное пособие содержит материалы лекций «Физические основы генерации ионных пучков в плазменных источниках нейтронных трубок» в рамках читаемой автором части курса «Основы физики электрических разрядов и их применение». В процессе изучения материала, представленного в данном пособии, студенты знакомятся с основными понятиями в области создания и...
New York, Plenum Press, 1983. — 595 p. This volume is an overview of research examining the relationship between hormones and aggressive behavior. The last 15 years have witnessed a tremendous growth of knowledge in this area, yet reviews written by specialists are virtually nonexistent. This work is an attempt to provide a comprehensive and cohesive synthesis of this...
New York, Springer, 2003. — 418 p. In addition to filling a need within the field of parental behavior, this book contributes importantly to the growing area of emotional and motivational neuroscience. A major part of neuroscience research at the whole organism level has been focused on cognitive neuroscience, with an emphasis on the neurobiology of learning and memory, but...
Third Edition. — Academic Press, 2017. — 2491 p. Third Edition offers a state-of-the-art overview of hormonally-mediated behaviors, including an extensive discussion of the effects of hormones on insects, fish, amphibians, birds, rodents, and humans. Entries have been carefully designed to provide a valuable source of information for students and researchers in...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 471 p. — ISBN 9780511802218. Designed for teaching astrophysics to physics students at advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level, this textbook also provides an overview of astrophysics for astrophysics graduate students, before they delve into more specialized volumes. Assuming background knowledge at the level of a physics major,...
CRC Press, 2019. — 160 p. — ISBN: 9781138390638, 1138390631 CRC focus series.; Intelligent signal processing and data analysis The Book presents an overview of newly developed watermarking techniques in various independent and hybrid domains. Covers the basics of digital watermarking, its types, domain in which it is implemented and the application of machine learning...
Springer Nature Singapore, 2020. — 330 p. — ISBN 978-981-13-9531-4, 978-981-13-9532-1. This book is a collection of specific research problems in signal processing and their solutions. It touches upon most core topics, including active and passive processing, discrete-time and continuous signals, and design of filters and networks for specific applications. This unique...
Delphic Associates, 1986. — 187 p. — ISBN 1558310126, 9781558310124. The present monograph is principally a summary of the author's and his group's published theoretical and experimental work on RF capacitive discharges. It is written in a style frequently found in Soviet technical. papers and often misunderstood by Western readers. As described in the first chapter, Soviet...
CRC Press, 1995. — 304 p. — ISBN 0-8493-8644-6, 9780849386442, 9781351419963, 135141996X. The first publication of its kind in the field, this book describes comprehensively and systematically radio-frequency (RF) capacitive gas discharges of intermediate and low pressure and their application to gas laser excitation and to plasma processing. Text presents the physics...
CRC Press, 2018. — 342 p. — ISBN 9780429470608, 0429470606, 9780429894220, 0429894228, 9780429894237, 0429894236. This book describes the physical mechanism of high-frequency (radio-frequency) capacitive discharge (RFCD) of low and medium pressure and the properties of discharge plasma in detail. The main properties and characteristics of RFCD, the features of electric...
Springer International Publishing, 2018. — 107 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-93969-8, 978-3-319-93970-4 The research in this book represents the culmination of a drive to build the first discharge gas laser unencumbered by the effects of diffraction. This breakthrough has been achieved through careful implementation of a discharge within a hollow-core optical fibre, and by developing...
Springer Singapore, 2019. — 314 p. — (Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology). — ISBN: 978-981-13-3073-5, 978-981-13-3074-2. This book offers a comprehensive collection of micro electrical discharge machining (EDM) processes, including hybrid processes. It discusses the theory behind each process and their applications in various technological as well as biomedical domains,...
Springer Nature Switzerland, 2019. — 261 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-04590-6, 978-3-030-04591-3 This book provides a concise introduction to the physical foundations of the electro-discharge technology and applies it to the drilling of wells, the demolition of reinforced concrete objects, and the cutting of cracks in rocks and concrete. The electro-physical basis of this technology...
Springer US, 1979. — 355 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4684-6990-5,978-1-4684-6988-2 The First Asilomar Conference on Electron- and Photon-Molecule Collisions was held August 1-4, 1978 in Pacific Grove, California. This meeting brought together forty scientists who are actively involved in theoretical studies of electron scattering by, and photoionization of, small molecules. In this...
Springer-Verlag New York, 1987. — 423 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4612-9104-6,978-1-4612-4662-6 Proceedings of the Meeting of the Fourth International Swarm Seminar and the Inelastic Electron-Molecule Collisions Symposium, July 19–23, 1985, Tahoe City, California, USA This volume presents the contributions of participants in the Symposium on Swarm Studies and Inelastic Electron-Molecule...
Springer US, 1995. — 364 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4757-9799-2,978-1-4757-9797-8 The collision of electrons with molecules and molecular ions is a fundamental pro cess in atomic and molecular physics and in chemistry. At high incident electron en ergies, electron-molecule collisions are used to deduce molecular geometries, oscillator strengths for optically allowed transitions, and in...
Springer US, 1983. — 354 p. — (Series: Physics of Atoms and Molecules). — ISBN: 978-1-4899-2150-5,978-1-4899-2148-2 The papers collected in this volume have been presented during a workshop on "Electron-Atom and Molecule Collisions" held at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Bielefeld in May 1980. This workshop, part of a larger program concerned with...
Springer-Verlag New York, 1994. — 231 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4612-8727-8,978-1-4612-4294-9 In the years since the book of Lozanskii and Firsov "The Theory of Spark" [1975] was published, a number of experimental and theoretical studies in the physics of electric breakdown in gases were conducted. As a result of these studies, the concept of a wavelike nature of breakdown initiated by...
Plenum Press, 1984. — 570 p. — (Series: Physics of Atoms and Molecules). — ISBN: 978-1-4612-9443-6,978-1-4613-2357-0 Scattering phenomena play an important role in modern physics. Many significant discoveries have been made through collision experiments. Amongst diverse kinds of collision systems, this book sheds light on the collision of an electron with a molecule. The...
15th International Meeting, CIBB 2018 Caparica, Portugal, September 6-8, 2018 Revised Selected Papers. — Springer Nature, 2020. — 334 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-34584-6 This book contains the revised selected papers of CIBB 2018, the 15th International Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics. This international conference provided a...
CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2012. — 433 p. — ISBN: 9781420079043, 1420079042. The spectroscopy of highly charged ions plays a key role in numerous areas of physics, from quantum electrodynamics (QED) and parity nonconservation (PNC) testing to fusion and plasma physics to x-ray astronomy. Handbook for Highly Charged Ion Spectroscopic Research brings together many of the techniques...
CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2014. — 230 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4665-9407-4, 978-1-4665-9408-1. Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry of Light Gas-Forming Elements explores different methods of isotope analysis, including spark, secondary ion, laser, glow discharge, and isotope ratio mass spectrometry. It explains how to evaluate the isotopic composition of light elements (H, C, N, O) in solid,...
World Scientific Publishing, London, 2009. — 108 p. — ISBN: 9789814280587, 9814280585. Although everyone is familiar with the concept of time in everyday life and has probably given thought to the question of how time began, latest scientific developments in this field have not been accessible in a simple understandable form. This book is important as it presents to readers...
CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2013. — 586 p. — ISBN: 9814267333. Over the past few decades, the rapid development of ultrafast lasers, such as femtosecond lasers and picosecond lasers, has opened up new avenues for material processing due to their unique features such as ultrashort pulse width and extremely high peak intensity. These techniques have become a common tool for micro- and...
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2018. — 284 p. — ISBN: 067497607X, 9780674976078. We know the universe has a history, but does it also have a story of self-creation to tell? Yes, in Roy R. Gould's account. He offers a compelling narrative of how the universe--with no instruction other than its own laws--evolved into billions of galaxies and gave rise to life, including...
Springer Netherlands, 2001. — 593 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4020-0057-7, 978-94-010-0997-3. Series: NATO Science Series 40. A fundamental, profound review of the key issues relating to the early universe and the physical processes that occurred in it. The interplay between cosmic microwave background radiation, large scale structure, and the dark matter problem are stressed, with a...
Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2015. — 119 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-20411-6, 978-3-319-20412-3. Doctoral Thesis accepted by the University of Genoa, Italy. This thesis is devoted to ANTARES, the first underwater neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean sea. As the main scientific analysis, a search for high-energy neutrino emission from the region of the Fermi...
Wellesley, Massachusetts: A.K. Peters, 2006. — 198 p. — ISBN: 1568812892, 9781568812892. It is well known that Einstein founded twentieth-century physics with his work on relativity and quanta, but what do we really know about these ground breaking ideas? How were they discovered? What should we retain today from the conceptual upheavals he initiated? Through a selection of...
Apple Academic Press, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2015. — 331 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4987-0954-5, 1498709540. Series: Innovations in chemical physics and mesoscopy. This important book presents a valuable collection of new research and new trends in nanomaterials, mesoscopy, quantum chemistry, and chemical physics processes. It highlights the development of nanomaterials as well as...
Springer, Berlin, 2002. — 578 p. — ISBN: 3540441328, 9783540441328. Aimed at those working to enter this rapidly developing field, this volume on biological physics is written in a pedagogical style by leading scientists giving explanations that take their starting point where any physicist can follow and end at the frontier of research in biological physics. These lectures...
CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2012. — 326 p. — ISBN: 1439814287, 9781439814284. Series: Scottish Graduate Series. High-pressure science has undergone a revolution in the last 15 years. The development of intense new x-ray and neutron sources, improved detectors, new instrumentation, greatly increased computation power, and advanced computational algorithms have enabled researchers to...
Imperial College Press, London, 2013. — 302 p. — ISBN: 1848162758, 9781848162754. This volume deals with the classical Navier-Stokes system of equations governing the planar flow of incompressible, viscid fluid. It is a first-of-its-kind book, devoted to all aspects of the study of such flows, ranging from theoretical to numerical, including detailed accounts of classical test...
Imperial College Press, London, 2013. — 312 p. — ISBN: 1908977248,9781908977243. This book looks behind the scenes at the Plasma Crystal laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS) to see how science and research is carried out on the first physical science laboratory in space. As well as the background story of the ISS and the many scientific discoveries that were...
Imperial College Press, London, 2013. — 291 p. — ISBN: 1908977124. Series: Materials for Engineering, Vol. 2. This volume provides a detailed treatment of half-metallic materials and their properties from both an experimental and theoretical point of view. It discusses the methods used to understand and predict the properties of half-metals and the gamut of other materials...
Imperial College Press, London, 2013. — 335 p. — ISBN: 1908977213. Organic materials with extraordinary magnetic properties promise a wide range of light, flexible, and inexpensive alternatives to familiar metal-based magnets. Individual organic molecules with high magnetic moments will be the foundation for design and fabrication of these materials. This book provides a...
Nova Science Pub. Inc., New York, 2014. — 190 p. — ISBN: 1634632583,9781634632584. Series: Polymers Science and Technology. Conducting polymers (CPs) such as polyaniline (PANI), polypyrrole (PPY), poly(3,4-ethylene dioxythiophene) (PEDOT), and poly(3- hexylthiophene) (P3HT), have been recognized as promising organic semiconductors due to their controllable...
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997. — 126 p. — (Oxford Portraits in Science). — ISBN: 9780195093421, 0195093429. Examines the personality, thought processes, scientific discoveries, and life of an important figure who helped to shape our understanding of the natural world. The scientific innovations of Galileo Galilei are pivotal to our understanding of the laws of the...
Imperial College Press, London, 2011. — 171 p. — ISBN: 1-84816-521-8, 978-1-84816-521-2, 1848165226, 9781848165229. Quantum dot nano structures are interesting for applications in information technology and play a growing role in data storage, medical and biological applications. Understanding quantum nanomaterials is thus the key for the conception and optimization of novel...
Imperial College Press, London, 2011. — 145 p. — ISBN: 1-84816-752-0, 978-1-84816-752-0, 1848167539, 9781848167537, 0521640083. Slow Light is a popular treatment of today's astonishing breakthroughs in the science of light. Even though we don't understand light's quantum mysteries, we can slow it to a stop and speed it up beyond its Einsteinian speed limit, 186,000 miles/sec;...
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013. — 558 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-03394-8 With the signing in 1996 of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, interest has grown in forensic seismology: the application of seismology to nuclear test ban verification. This book, based on over 50 years of experience in forensic seismology research, charts the development of methods of...
B. G. Teubner, Stuttgart, 2001. — 784 p. — ISBN: 978-3-322-80162-3,978-3-322-80160-9 The gauge theories for the strong and electroweak interaction have become the Standard Model of particle physics. They realize in a consistent way the requirements of quantum theory, special relativity, and symmetry principles. For the first time, we have a consistent theory of the fundamental...
Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2009. — 901 p. — ISBN: 3540706224,9783540706229 With contributions by many of today's leading quantum physicists, philosophers and historians, including three Nobel laureates, this comprehensive A to Z of quantum physics provides a lucid understanding of the key concepts of quantum theory and experiment. It covers technical and interpretational aspects...
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013. — 171 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-02413-7 Gravity surveys have a huge range of applications, indicating density variations in the subsurface and identifying man-made structures, local changes of rock type or even deep-seated structures at the crust/mantle boundary. This important one-stop book combines an introductory manual of practical...
Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2015. — 473 p. — ISBN: 0444626166,9780444626165 Electricity from renewable sources of energy is plagued by fluctuations (due to variations in wind strength or the intensity of insolation) resulting in a lack of stability if the energy supplied from such sources is used in ‘real time’. An important solution to this problem is to store the energy...
Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2017. — 394 p. — ISBN: 0444563539, 978-0-444-56353-8, 9780444563606, 0444563601. Energy Sources: Fundamentals of Chemical Conversion Processes and Applications provides the latest information on energy and the environment, the two main concerns of any progressive society that hopes to be sustainable in the future. Continuous efforts have to be exercised in...
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2017. — 889 p. — ISBN: 9781315305943, 978-1-1380-3353-5, 978-1-3153-0595-0, 9781315305936, 1315305933, 1315305941, 131530595X. The book details sources of thermal energy, methods of capture, and applications. It describes the basics of thermal energy, including measuring thermal energy, laws of thermodynamics that govern its use and transformation,...
Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2017. — 327 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-52693-5, 978-3-319-52694-2 This volume is a comprehensive guide to the use of geographic information systems (GIS) for the spatial analysis of supply and demand for energy in the global and local scale. It gathers the latest research and techniques in GIS for spatial and temporal analysis of...
Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2017. — 235 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-43412-4,978-3-319-43411-7. Series: Green Energy and Technology. This book focuses on the operating conditions of wind, photovoltaic and off-grid power systems. It provides data collected from long-term measurements of actual industrial wind and solar farms, and offers detailed analyses of the...
Springer Singapore, 2018. — 231 p. — ISBN: 978-981-10-7286-4,978-981-10-7287-1 Series: Renewable Energy Sources Energy Storage This book discusses a number of important topical technical and non-technical issues related to the global energy, environment and socio-economic developments for professionals and students directly and indirectly involved in the relevant fields. It...