"Version: 20220901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. The discovery of accreting binaries -- 1.2. Celestial laboratories of extreme physics -- 1.3. Structure of this book2. Astrophysical basics for single stars -- 2.1. Concise stellar evolution -- 2.2. Fundamental properties of compact objects -- 2.3. Reviews, catalogs and references3. Astrophysical b…
"Version: 20221001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Electrostatics principles -- 2.1. Coulomb's law and the principle of superposition -- 2.2. The electric field -- 2.3. Gauss's law -- 2.4. Electric potential -- 2.5. Conductors in electrostatic fields -- 2.6. Capacitance -- 2.7. Electrostatic breakdown -- 2.8. Dielectrics in electric fields -- 2.9. Di…
"Version: 20220701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Physical principles of radiation detection in sample counters / Sofia Michopoulou -- 2. Nucleonic equipment / Sofia Michopoulou -- 3. Quality control charts / Andrew Fenwick -- 4. Gamma counters / Lucy Pike and Fergus McKiddie -- 5. Intraoperative gamma probes / Anne-Marie Stapleton and Fergus McKiddie -- 6. Liquid sci…
"Version: 20220701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Types of excitations or waves -- 1.2. Survey of different nanostructures -- 1.3. Experimental techniques for dynamic properties -- 1.4. Theoretical methods for dynamic properties -- 1.5. Photonic band gaps in periodic structures2. Phonons -- 2.1. One-dimensional models of lattice dynamics for films…
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction / Tanya Kairn and Tomas Kron -- 2. 3D printing / Rance Tino and Martin Leary -- 3. Materials / Amirhossein Asfia, Giorgio Andrew Katsifis, James I. Novak and Scott B. Crowe -- 4. Design / Rance Tino, Martin Leary, Gorgio Andrew Katsifis, James I. Novak and Scott B. Crowe -- 5. Processing / Rance Tino, Amir…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. An FPGA implementation of the RSA algorithm using VHDL and a Xilinx system generator for image applications / Sandeep Saini, Kusum Lata, Abhishek Sharma and G R Sinha -- 2. Modern ML methods for object detection / Abhishek Choubey, Shruti Bhargava Choubey, Anees Banu and Ipseeta Nanda -- 3. Embedded intelligence for trac…
"Version: 20220701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Biomedical image signal processing and its VLSI implementation--past, present and future / G.R. Sinha, Sandeep Saini, Kusum Lata and Abhishek Sharm -- 2. Methodology for real-time processing of medical images, based on GPU architecture / Wilver Auccahuasi, Lucas Herrera, Karin Rojas, Kitty Urbano, Nicanor Benites, Edwa…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for gemological testing / Francesco Poggialini, Beatrice Campanella, Stefano Legnaioli, Simona Raneri and Vincenzo Palleschi -- 2. Raman spectroscopy for the non-destructive analysis of gemstones / Danilo Bersani, Laura Fornasini, Peter Vandenabeele and Anastasia Rousaki -- 3. Appli…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Entropy as missing information : from Shannon's information theory to Jaynes' maximum entropy principle -- 1.1. Information and its processing in biology, economics and physics -- 1.2. Uncertainty in communication systems : Shannon entropy -- 1.3. Entropy as missing information -- 1.4. Working with incomplete informati…
"Version: 20220901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. A review on flexible sensors for soft robotics / Debasrita Kar, Boby George and K. Sridharan -- 2. Recent advances in laser-induced graphene (LIG)-based flexible electronic devices / Khairunnisa Amreen and Sanket Goel -- 3. Printable flexible sensors for hydration monitoring and moisture measurement in concrete structu…