"Version: 20151201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction : geometrically confined magnetic systems -- 1.1. Magnetic order, dipoles and fields -- 1.2. Effects due to geometry -- 1.3. Exchange interactions -- 1.4. Anisotropic exchange couplings -- 1.5. Local anisotropies -- 1.6. Theory for linear and nonlinear magnetism -- 1.7. Simulations in magnetismp…
"Version: 20150701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Of snails and snakes -- 1.2. The three key elements -- 1.3. Stochasticity -- 1.4. Towards a mathematics of evolution -- 1.5. Organization of this book2. Cell biology and molecular genetics -- 2.1. Cellular architecture and proliferation -- 2.2. DNA, RNA and proteins -…
"Version: 20141001"--Title page verso.Preface -- Author biography -- Introduction : getting started -- List of the simulation programs -- How to operate the simulation programs -- Keplerian motions in celestial mechanics -- Numerical and analytical methodsReview of the simulations -- Kepler's laws -- Kepler's first law -- Kepler's second law -- Kepler's third law -- The approximate nature of Ke…
"Version: 20150801"--Title page verso.EPUB version includes embedded videos.Includes bibliographical references.10. Hot carriers in mesoscopic devices -- 10.1. Energy-loss rates -- 10.2. The energy-relaxation time.9. Open quantum dots -- 9.1. Conductance fluctuations in open dots -- 9.2. Pointer states -- 9.3. Hybrid states -- 9.4. Imaging the pointer state scar8. Tunnel devices -- 8.1. Coulomb…
"Version: 20160501"--Title page verso.EPUB version includes embedded videos.Includes bibliographical references.9. Mistakes made and lessons learnt -- 9.1. Windscale--Pile 1 -- 9.2. Three Mile Island--Reactor 2 -- 9.3. Chernobyl--Reactor 4 -- 9.4. Fukushima Daiichi -- 9.5. How do the incidents compare?8. Materials and nuclear fusion -- 8.1. Atomic background and recap -- 8.2. Requirements for f…
"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. A new era of tailor-made optical media -- 1.1. Structural evolution : from composites to artificial atoms -- 1.2. The l/a rule : when structure matters -- 1.3. Quest for a negative refractive index2. Effective medium of metamaterials -- 2.1. Constitutive relationship -- 2.2. Understanding metamaterials with a dipolar m…
"Version: 20150901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- About the author -- Introduction -- part 1. Introduction to tumor biology from a biophysical point of view -- 1. Initiation of a neoplasm or tumor -- 1.1. Initiation of a neoplasm, tumor growth and neoangiogenesis -- 1.2. Malignant progression of cancer (metastasis) -- 1.3. Hallmarks of cancer -- 1.4. The impac…
"Version: 20150101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- Introduction : bringing together Darwinian evolution and games -- Transmission, development, selection : the Price equation and the role of games -- Extensive-form games : from genomes to genes -- Symmetry and collective fluctuations : large deviations and scaling in population processes -- …
"Version: 20150501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- The discovery of the atomic nucleus -- The nuclear radius -- Nuclear masses -- Radioactive decay -- Nuclear stability -- The nuclear shell model -- Elementary particles -- Relativistic kinematics -- Accelerators and detectors -- The quark model -- Conservation laws -- Hadronic interactions -…
"Version: 20150801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgements -- About the editors -- List of contributors -- part 1. Technical -- 1. The technique of infrared imaging in medicine -- 2. The reproducibility of standard positions used for image capturing within the standard protocol for thermal imaging -- 3. The reliability of temperature readings from sele…