"Version: 20250401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The future of renewable energy systems--a long and winding transition pathway? / Graham T. Reader -- 2. A methodological framework for modeling passive solar greenhouses / Gurpreet Khanuja, Rajeev Ruparathna and David S-K. Ting -- 3. Technologies for utilizing solar energy in building / Eyup Ko?cak and Ece Ayl? -- 4. M…
"Version: 20241201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to advances in bio-based polymers : chemical structures and functional properties at the interface / Philip Biehl and Kai Zhang -- 2. Bio-based surface coatings / Yonggui Wang, Xiangyu Tang, Fanjun Yu and Xinyan Fan -- 3. Bio-based gas barriers/films for sustainable packaging and preservation / Jiaxiu Wang…
"Version: 20241201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Fundamentals. 1. Lasers and laser light -- 1.1. Why lasers? -- 1.2. Laser action -- 1.3. Laser light -- 1.4. Gaussian beams2. Bandwidth and dispersion -- 2.1. Origins of dispersion -- 2.2. Dispersion, ultrafast pulses, and chirp -- 2.3. Propagation through a dispersive medium -- 2.4. Group delay dispersion -- 2.5.…
"Version: 20241001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Fundamentals of the diatomic molecule. 1. Primer on diatomic spectroscopy -- 2. Formal quantum mechanics of diatomic molecular spectroscopy -- 3. Line strength computations -- 4. Framework of the Wigner-Witmer eigenfunction -- 5. Derivation of the Wigner-Witmer eigenfunction -- 6. Diatomic formula inferred from th…
Revised edition of: Practical radiobiology for proton therapy planning."Version: 20240701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Particle physics for biological interactions -- 1.1. Physical beam parameters, essential dosimetry and reference (or control) radiation requirements for RBE studies -- 1.2. Physics interacting with biology2. The essential radiobiology background -- …
"Version: 20241201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Background -- 1.2. Interface fretting test technology -- 1.3. Friction and wear behavior at joint interfaces -- 1.4. Contact modeling of joint interfaces -- 1.5. Contribution and organization of this bookpart I. Experiments. 2. Fretting test method for bolted joint interface -- 2.1. Fretting test a…
"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Science as a human endeavor -- 1.1. Our attempts to understand the Universe -- 1.2. Motivations and questions : how science evolves -- 1.3. Cautionary tales from "failed science" -- 1.4. The role of mathematics -- 1.5. Mathematical modeling : a crucial skill for physics -- 1.6. Exercises2. Celestial spheres and planeta…
"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Pulsed laser-induced nanoparticle formation : self-organization, dewetting and thin films -- 2.1. Pulsed laser-induced dewetting -- 2.2. Factors influencing laser irradiation -- 2.3. Liquid-film interactions -- 2.4. Nanoscale transport and dewetting -- 2.5. Experimental results on metallic film dewet…
"Version: 20250401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.part I. Basic concepts. 1. From Brownian motion to the Langevin equation -- 1.1. From the surprising behaviour of pollen grains to the existence of atoms -- 1.2. Toward a mathematical theory -- 1.3. Again about the Langevin equation -- 1.4. Further remarks2. The Boltzmann equation -- 2.1. Boltzmann equation in a…
"Version: 20241201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Cancer : an overview of its development, progression, detection and diagnosis / Nidhi Puranik and Minseok Song -- 2. Imaging techniques in current biosensor advancements in cancer diagnosis / Vikas Pitre, Megha Srivastava and Gayatri Rai -- 3. Invasive and non-invasive techniques and their challenges in the early detec…