A murder mystery that is out-of-this world! Time and crime are intertwined between the Earth and the moon. Detective Robin Mulvania is hired by Barish International to find out why the company is having financial problems and construction accidents while building a moon base. When the Project Manager of Lunar Base Camp is murdered, Mulvaina realizes there is more to the Barish International investigation than he was hired to solve. People, lik...
Receptor and Ion Channel Detection in the Brain provides state-of-the-art and up-to-date methodological information on molecular, neuroanatomical and functional techniques that are currently used to study neurotransmitter receptors and ion channels in the brain. The chapters have been contributed by world-wide recognized neuroscientists who explain in an easy and detailed way well established and tested protocols embracing molecular, cellular,...
It's Spring. It's Saturday. School is out in two weeks. Life is good. Joey Dent and his best friend Whiz Tanner are on a leisurely bike ride when they find an injured bird under a tree. The bird happens to be a carrier pigeon wounded by a shotgun. The pigeon is also carrying a mysterious coded message! The Tanner -Dent Detective Agency is back with a new case to solve. Can Agents M and K handle it, or will this case prove to be the downfall of...
Edizione annotata delle lettere ricevute in Italia dall'Abate Gomes Eanes, prelato portoghese a capo del Monastero di Santa Maria di Firenze (Badia Fiorentina) fra il 1419 e il 1439. I testi permettono di ricostruire nel dettaglio molte attività dell'abate e la sua comunicazione assidua con donne e uomini da diverse regioni d'Europa. Il volume include uno studio introduttivo proponendo una sintesi sulla vita e sulla carriera di Gomes Eanes, nu...
It's Spring. It's Saturday. School is out in two weeks. Life is good. Joey Dent and his best friend Whiz Tanner are on a leisurely bike ride when they find an injured bird under a tree. The bird happens to be a carrier pigeon wounded by a shotgun. The pigeon is also carrying a mysterious coded message! The Tanner -Dent Detective Agency is back with a new case to solve. Can Agents M and K handle it, or will this case prove to be the downfall of...
Environmental remediation technology has become a rapidly emerging branch of science in the 21st century. This technology is helping many branches of life sciences in solving the problems. This book therefore presents a holistic view of the complex and dynamic responses of our biodiversity to environmental pollution and their remediation strategies, in particular plant eco physiological adaptations which vary from species to species. The topic...
This volume of proceedings includes 32 original contributions presented at the 12th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2014), held in November 2014. The selected papers in this volume are authored by leading researchers from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, thereby providing a broad coverage and perspective of the state-of-the-art technologies, algorithms, system architectures, and applications in distribute...
This book covers seismic probabilistic risk assessment (S-PRA) and related studies which have become more important to increase the safety of nuclear facilities against earthquakes and tsunamis in the face of the many uncertainties after the Fukushima accident. The topics are (1) Active faults and active tectonics important for seismic hazard assessment of nuclear facilities, (2) Seismic source modeling and simulation and modeling techniques i...
This book provides a comprehensive introduction into photonics, from the electrodynamic and quantum mechanic fundamentals to the level of photonic components and building blocks such as lasers, amplifiers, modulators, waveguides, and detectors.The book will serve both as textbook and as a reference work for the advanced student or scientist. Theoretical results are derived from basic principles with convenient, yet state-of-the-art mathematica...
This fascinating, colourful book offers in-depth insights and first-hand working experiences in the production of art works, using simple computational models with rich morphological behaviour, at the edge of mathematics, computer science, physics and biology. It organically combines ground breaking scientific discoveries in the theory of computation and complex systems with artistic representations of the research results. In this appealing ...
This new edition of the
well-established text Scheduling:
Theory, Algorithms, and Systems provides an up-to-date coverage
of important theoretical models in the scheduling literature as
well as important scheduling problems that appear in the real
world. The accompanying website includes supplementary material
in the form of slide-shows from industry as well as movies that show actual
implementations of scheduling systems.The main structure ...
Providing the latest evidence-based information on etiology, evaluation and treatment, this unique text provides an in-depth, comprehensive discussion of the epidemiology, genetic and endocrinologic factors and medical and surgical management of recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL). Taking a multidisciplinary approach including psychological treatment and patient perspectives, all aspects of current RPL prevention and treatment are elucidated. Detai...