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This is the first major history of Imperial College London. The book tells the story of a new type of institution that came into being in 1907 with the federation of three older colleges. Imperial College was founded by the state for advanced university-level training in science and technology, and for the promotion of research in support of industry throughout the British Empire. True to its name the college built a wide number of Imperial li...

This book is a compilation of selected speeches and articles from China's Minister of Water Resources, Chen Lei, which were delivered and published from February 2008 onwards. These speeches and articles reflect Minister Chen Lei's ideas about how to manage water resources in a vast and rapidly developing country. The book also sheds light on the prevalent water-related problems in China, the strategies to deal with them and a vision for futur...

This is a unique book that presents rigorous mathematical results on Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattices, a field of great interest in nonlinear analysis, nonlinear science, mathematical physics, etc. It considers travelling waves and time periodic oscillations in infinite Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattices, which are not necessarily spatially homogenous. Similar systems, infinite chains of linearly coupled nonlinear oscillators, are also discussed. The book is ...

This textbook is based on the lectures on turbulence given in the Masters programme at Universite Pierre et Marie Curie and Ecole Polytechnique. The book covers the classic topics on turbulence that includes: introduction to fundamentals of statistical and spectral analysis, dimensional analysis, Kolmogorov theory and energy cascade, the hierarchy of turbulent flows ranging from isotropic turbulence to non-homogeneous shear flows, and extensio...

This textbook is based on the lectures on turbulence given in the Masters programme at Universite Pierre et Marie Curie and Ecole Polytechnique. The book covers the classic topics on turbulence that includes: introduction to fundamentals of statistical and spectral analysis, dimensional analysis, Kolmogorov theory and energy cascade, the hierarchy of turbulent flows ranging from isotropic turbulence to non-homogeneous shear flows, and extensio...

This important book deals with the question of what the mechanical treatment of solids is, and why the reactivity of solids is changed as a result of mechanical treatment (called mechanical activation). It outlines the possible human activities where these phenomena can be used (including the synthesis of new materials processing of mineral raw materials, synthesis and modification of pharmaceuticals, preparation of catalyst, cosmetics).The bo...

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- A broad and systematic account of research on dynamics of coupled and driven chaotic oscillators

The scope of this book is two-fold: the first part gives a fully detailed and pedagogical presentation of the Hawking effect and its physical implications, and the second discusses the backreaction problem, especially in connection with exactly solvable semiclassical models that describe analytically the black hole evaporation process. The book aims to establish a link between the general relativistic viewpoint on black hole evaporation and th...

- Provides an up-to-date review of all aspects of supported metal catalysts for those working in the fieldbull, Provides newcomers, including research students, with an overview of the fundamentals associated with preparation, characterisation, theoretical aspects and applicationsbull, Acts as a valuable resource of referenced material for developments up to 2004

Engineering represents an ordered activity of creative design and inventive manufacture of ingenious devices. Its practitioners have thereby stimulated individuals, enlivened communities, enriched civilizations, and contributed to the shaping of cultures. The authors of this innovative text develop a systematic framework for engineering in time, making extensive use of adaptive heterogeneous progressions. When combined with considerations of f...

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Plant molecular biology came to the fore in the early 1980s and there has been tremendous growth in the subject since then. The study of plant genes and genomes and the development of techniques for the incorporation of novel or modified genes into plants eventually led to the commercialization of genetically modified (GM) crops in the mid-1990s. This was seen as the start of a biotechnological revolution in plant breeding. However, plant biot...

There has been a dramatic shift towards more open, democratised, forms of innovation that are driven by networks of individual users. Users are now visibly active within all stages of the innovation process and across many types of industrial output, and their influence is spreading across many sectors. They are actively engaged with firms in the co-creation of products and services, and firms can no longer control the innovation agenda. This ...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the most recent developments in both total oxidation and combustion and also in selective oxidation. For each topic, fundamental aspects are paralleled with industrial applications. The book covers oxidation catalysis, one of the major areas of industrial chemistry, outlining recent achievements, current challenges and future opportunities. One distinguishing feature of the book is the selection of ...

This book is based on a series of lectures taught by the author to all incoming first year Oxford University postgraduates in experimental particle physics. It begins by deriving the Dirac equation and incorporating the electro-magnetic interaction and calculating several "bread and butter" processes at tree level using the Feynman Stueckelberg approach: Mott scattering, electron electron scattering, electron positron scattering, Compton scatt...

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This book aims to equip readers with modern molecular biology concepts and techniques including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, metabolomics and systems biology. It will provide students, researchers and lecturers with a core understanding of a newly emerging field that is of relevance to the industrial/academic arenas. As a result, they can create insightful and inventive solutions to common problems, and describe and e...

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