"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Voices from European big science organizations / editor, Juliette Forneris -- part II. Economic and innovation impact of big science projects / editor, Jason Li-Ying -- part III. Historical perspectives on big science / editor, Theo Arabatzis -- part IV. big science in culture and education / editor, H. Cliff -- p…
"Version: 20230501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. General introduction to the karst problem -- 1.1. Definitions -- 1.2. Distribution of karst types around the world -- 1.3. Some aspects of the karst problem -- 1.4. Sinkholes, their classification, and nomenclature2. An overview of geophysical methods suitable for karst problem resolving -- 2.1. Aspects of sinkhole haz…
"Version: 20210301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to molecular-scale electronics -- 1.1. Background -- 1.2. The theoretical challenges addressed by this book -- 1.3. De Broglie wave patterns -- 1.4. The Landauer formula -- 1.5. Resonant transport -- 1.6. Thermoelectricity -- 1.7. Off-resonance transport -- 1.8. Intuitive picture of Green's functions -- 1.…
"Version: 20221001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Introduction to challenges in Risk Analysis for science and engineering: development of a common language -- 1. An introduction to risk analysis for scientists and engineers / F. Persico and E. Gutierrez Carazo -- 2. On the tolerability of risk, public and private / M.R. Williams -- 3. Storage of military ammunition and e…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Observing the cryosphere -- 1.1. Components of the cryosphere -- 1.2. Importance of cryospheric knowledge -- 1.3. Techniques for observing changes -- 1.4. Deposition climate records -- 1.5. Climate tipping points and the high latitudes2. Basic physics -- 2.1. Thermodynamics of the cryosphere -- 2.2. Conservation equati…
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Discrete symmetries -- 3. Antiparticles and CP symmetry -- 3.1. Elementary particles -- 3.2. Dirac equation and antiparticles -- 3.3. Left- and right-handed particles -- 3.4. CP transformation of Dirac spinors4. CP violation in the quark sector -- 4.1. Lagrangian of weak interaction -- 4.2. Flavor mi…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.8. Continuum forces -- 8.1. The basic concepts of fluid mechanics -- 8.2. Drag forces -- 8.3. Bubbles in fizzy drinks -- 8.4. Magnetic-braking : the terminal velocity of a magnet falling in a tube of a non-magnetic metal9. Why is the sky blue? -- 9.1. Quantifying light intensity : subjectively and in absolute terms -- 9.2. …
"Version: 20210301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Fundamentals 1. Lasers -- 1.1. Why lasers? -- 1.2. Laser action -- 1.3. Oscillators and amplifiers2. Laser light and laser beams -- 2.1. Laser light -- 2.2. Gaussian beams3. Dispersion -- 3.1. Origins of dispersion -- 3.2. Dispersion, ultrafast pulses, and chirp -- 3.3. Propagation through a dispersive medium -- 3…
"Version: 20210205"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Internet of things (IoT) -- 1.1. IoT overview -- 1.2. IoT common uses -- 1.3. IoT--security -- 1.4. Functional view of IoT -- 1.5. Application domains -- 1.6. Summary2. Industrial Internet of things -- 2.1. Industrial IoT overview -- 2.2. How does the IIoT system work? -- 2.3. IIoT advantages -- 2.4. IIoT versus IoT di…
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to protein microarrays / Navid Rabiee, Sakineh Hajebi, Sepideh Ahmadi, Mohammad Rabiee, Mojtaba Bagherzadeh, Saeid Maghsoudi and Michael R. Hamblin -- 2. Protein and peptide-based microarrays / Navid Rabiee, Sakineh Hajebi, Sepideh Ahmadi, Mohammad Rabiee, Mojtaba Bagherzadeh, Saeid Maghsoudi and Michael R…