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Dealing with the prediction of thermodynamic and transport properties of gases and liquids, this text presents several methods which are capable of practical application. It begins with basic scientific principles and formal results, which are then developed into practical methods of prediction.

Suitable for graduate students and ambitious undergraduates in mathematics and mechanics, this title offers an introduction to the subject of Fractional Calculus of Variations (FCV). It describes non-conservative systems in mechanics.

Examines the questions: What can science do for the theatre? And what can the theatre do for science? which raise challenges for both theatre professionals and scientists. This book includes texts of the author's two plays, "Insufficiency" and "Phallacy", to offer concrete examples of plays dealing with actual (rather than invented) chemistry.

Suitable for undergraduates in the physical and biological sciences, as well as graduates in engineering and materials science, this title deals with single-site heterogeneous catalysts (SSHCs) and presents both principles of design and applications, such as the benign synthesis of nylon 6 and vitamin B3.

Focuses on nano-biomedical engineering. This title follows four groups within the field, namely nano-biomechanics, nano-bioimaging, nano-biodevices, and nano-biointervention.

There continues to be much interest in the business and academic communities in the concept of strategic competencies or core capabilities, in other words, how organisations define and differentiate themselves. This book attempts to integrate strategic and knowledge management approaches to capability-building and the development of competencies.

Deals with the requirements of space physics. This title describes the Earth's plasma environment, followed by a derivation of single particle motions in electromagnetic fields, with applications to the Earth's magnetosphere. It discusses the origin and effects of collisions and conductivities and solar wind-magnetosphere coupling.

Presents the important results of probability and statistics without making heavy mathematical demands on the reader. This title enables an intelligent reader to properly assess statistical information and to understand that the same information can be presented in different ways.

Presents an introduction to modern asset pricing theory. This book also tackles recent advancement on inversion problems raised in asset pricing theory, which include the information role of financial options and the information content of term structure of interest rates and interest rates contingent claims.

Presents a comprehensive overview of the modern theory of spectral line broadening and shifting by pressure of atmospheric gases. This book describes semi-classical methods for calculating vibrotational line widths and shifts, including various modifications and developments realised by the authors themselves.

Presents a description of the physiologic manifestations of sleep that are significant from the viewpoint of the principle of homeostasis. This book shows that the systemic homeostatic regulation of many physiologic variables underlying cellular life is not active in a particular state of the ultradian sleep cycle in mammals.

Covers the studies and achievements in some adaptive and very functional polymers such as chitosan, cyclodextrin, dendrimer and hyper-branched polymers in terms of principles of adaptiveness, properties, structure design and characterization with an emphasis on their applications, particularly in textiles and related areas.

Intends to present several main advances in Natural Language Semantics and the interface between syntax and semantics, based on logical theories of linear logic and ludics, and on sharp analyses of computing due to advanced theories in Theoretical Computer Sciences.

Explores the concept of knowledge discovery processes and enhances decision-making capability through the use of intelligent agents like ants, termites and honey bees. This title provides readers with an integrated set of concepts and techniques for understanding knowledge discovery and its practical utility.

Between 1941 and 1945 almost 70,000 inmates died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northwestern Germany. Almost half of these deaths were caused by disease, mainly typhus, in the first few months of 1945, shortly before and after the liberation. It was at this time, in April of 1945, that Michael Hargrave answered an advertisement at the Westminster Hospital Medical School for 'volunteers'. On the day of his departure the 21-year-old learned that he was being sent to Bergen-Belsen, liberated only a few weeks before. This firsthand account, a diary written for his mother, details Michael's month-long experience at the camp. He compassionately relates the horrendous living conditions suffered by the prisoners, describing the sickness and disease he encountered and his desperate, often fruitless, struggle to save as many lives as possible. Amidst immeasurable horrors, his descriptions of the banalities of everyday life and diagrams of the camp's layout take on a new poignancy, while anatomic line drawings detail the medical conditions and his efforts to treat them. Original newspaper cuttings and photographs of the camp, many previously unpublished, add a further layer of texture to the endeavors of an inexperienced medical student faced with extreme human suffering.

Privacy is an unwieldy concept that has eluded an essentialised definition despite its centrality and importance in the body of bioethics. The compilation presented in this volume represents continuing discussions on the theme of privacy in the context of genetic information. It is intended to present a wide range of expert opinion in which the notion of privacy is examined from many perspectives, in different contexts and imperatives, and in different societies, with the hope of advancing an understanding of privacy through the examination and critique of some of its evolving component concepts such as notions of what constitute the personal, the context of privacy, the significance and impact of the relational interests of others who may share the same genetic inheritance, and mechanisms for the protection of privacy (as well as of their limitations), among others. More specifically, the discussions in this volume encourages us to think broadly about privacy, as encompassing values that are entailed in the sociality of context and of relations, and also as freedom from illegitimate and excessive surveillance. A long-standing question that continues to challenge us is whether genetic information should be regarded as exceptional, as it is often perceived. A conclusion that could be derived from this volume is that while genetic information may be significant, it is not exceptionally so. The work presented in this volume underlines the continuing and growing relevance of notions of privacy to genomic science, and the need to take ownership of a genetic privacy for the future through broad, rigorous and open discussion.Contributors: Alastair V Campbell, Benjamin Capps, Jacqueline JL Chin, Oi Lian Kon, Kenji Matsui, Thomas H Murray, Nazirudin Mohd Nasir, Dianne Nicol, Anh Tuan Nuyen, Onora O'Neill, Margaret Otlowski, Yvette van der Eijk, Chunshui Wang, Ross S White.

This is an original and wide-ranging account of the careers of a close-knit group of highly influential ecologists working in Britain from the late 1960s onwards. The book can also be read as a history of some recent developments in ecology. One of the group, Robert May, is a past president of the Royal Society, and the author of what many see as the most important treatise in theoretical ecology of the later twentieth century. That the group flourished was due not only to May's intellectual leadership, but also to the guiding hand of T. R. E. Southwood. Southwood ended his career as Linacre Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford, where he also served a term as Vice-Chancellor. Earlier, as a professor and director of the Silwood Park campus of Imperial College London, he brought the group together. Since it began to coalesce at Silwood it has been named here the Silwood Circle. Southwood promoted the interests of its members with the larger aim of raising the profile of ecological and environmental science in Britain. Given public anxiety over the environment and the loss of ecosystems, his actions were well-timed.Ecology, which had been on the scientific margins in the first half of the twentieth century, came to be viewed as a science central to modern existence. The book illustrates its importance to many areas. Members of the Silwood Circle have acted as government advisors in the areas of conservation and biodiversity, resource management, pest control, food policy, genetically modified crops, sustainable agriculture, international development, defence against biological weapons, and epidemiology and infectious disease control. In recounting the science they carried out, and how they made their careers, the book reflects also on the role of the group, and the nature of scientific success.

Britain was the first country to exploit atomic energy on a large scale, and at its peak in the mid-1960s, it had generated more electricity from nuclear power than the rest of the world combined. The civil atomic energy programme grew out of the military programme which produced plutonium for atomic weapons. In 1956, Calder Hall power station was opened by the Queen. The very next year, one of the early Windscale reactors caught fire and the world's first major nuclear accident occurred. The civil programme ran into further difficulty in the mid-1960s and as a consequence of procrastination in the decision-making process, the programme lost momentum and effectively died. No nuclear power stations have been built since Sizewell B in the late 1980s. This book presents a study of Government papers that have recently become available in the public domain. For the first time in history, the research reactor programme is presented in detail, along with a study of the decision-making by the Government, the Atomic Energy Authority (AEA), and the Central Electricity Board (CEGB). This book is aimed at both specialists in nuclear power and the interested public as a technical history on the development and ultimate failure of the British atomic energy programme.

Provides a treatment of the modern and rigorous mathematical methods and models applied to composites modeling on micro-, meso- and macroscale. This book presents a selection of the useful mathematical methods and models which establish the fundaments for a meaningful and accurate theoretical and computer modeling of these materials in the future.

A collection of original scientific articles from a group of outstanding scientists around the world who have worked or are affiliated with the Nobel Laureate Professor William N Lipscomb throughout his scientific career. It is suitable to young students worldwide.

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of senile dementia, affecting more than 24 million people worldwide. This book provides a panoramic view across in vitro and in vivo studies along with computer simulations, designed to increase the readers' understanding of oligomerisation and fibril formation.

Based on published studies, this title takes a perspective on the 30-year collapse of pharmaceutical industry productivity in the search for small molecule "magic bullet" interventions. It adapts formalism across a number of disciplines to the strategy for design of mutilevel interventions, focusing, first, on molecular, and larger scale examples.

Contains 31 peer-reviewed papers based on the presentations at the 7th International Annual Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (IBSB 2007) held at the Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo from July 31 to August 2, 2007. This volume is dedicated to the memory of Prof Dr H C Reinhart Heinrich.

Contains papers presented at the 18th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW 2007) held at the Biopolis, Singapore from December 3 to 5, 2007. This book contains abstracts from the five invited speakers such as: Frank Eisenhaber, Sir David Lane, Hanah Margalit, Lawrence Stanton, and Michael Zhang.

Residue number systems (RNSs) and arithmetic are useful for several reasons. This book provides an account of RNSs and arithmetic. It covers the underlying mathematical concepts of RNSs; the conversion between conventional number systems and RNSs; and, the implementation of arithmetic operations. It introduces various related applications.

Aims to familiarize the reader with the properties of the chaotic dynamics of Hamiltonian systems by avoiding specialized mathematical tools. This book is suitable to those who are actively working on the problems of dynamical chaos as well as to those looking for new inspiration in this area.

Provides a novel and unique approach to the treatment of human diseases based on the study of natural animal models. This book shows how medical scientists can take advantage of the "research" that nature has already performed over billions of years in biological problem solving through animal design testing and selection.

Narrates the conversations with famous scientists from the biomedical sciences, chemistry, and physics. There are 31 Nobel laureates and 11 other luminaries among them.