"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…
"Version: 20180501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Scientists as entrepreneurs -- 2. Selling your invention--options 1 and 2 -- 3. Selling your invention--options 3 and 4 -- 4. A start-up--formalities -- 5. Patenting your invention -- 6. Writing a business plan -- 7. A business plan -- 8. Raising funds -- 9. Managing a start-up -- 10. In conclusion.Through patenting an…
"Version: 20200701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Essentials. 1. Basic properties of stars and the stellar plasma -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Blackbody radiation and luminosity -- 1.3. Abundances and mass fractions -- 1.4. Further thermodynamic relations -- 1.5. Equations-of-state for stellar plasmas -- 1.6. Basics of scattering -- 1.7. Spin, parity, and selecti…
"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso.EPUB and Kindle versions includes embedded videos.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. The components of lightning -- 1.1. Features of lightning plasma -- 1.2. Lightning is more than a spark -- 1.3. Conditions for leader propagation -- 1.4. Lightning leaders in nature2. Lightning leaders versus free-burning arcs -- 2.1. Similarities and differe…
"Version: 20170301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction and overview -- 1.1. Reasons for moving away from normal practices in electronics -- 1.2. Organization of the book -- 1.3. Temperature effects -- 1.4. Harsh environment effects -- 1.5. Discussion and conclusions2. Operating electronics beyond conventional limits -- 2.1. Life-threatening temperat…