Название: Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour
Автор: Neil deGrasse Tyson and Michael A. Strauss
Издательство: Princeton University Press
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 18 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all--from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel.

Название: Host Response to Biomaterials
Автор: Stephen F Badylak
Издательство: Academic Press
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Размер: 14 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Host Response to Biomaterials: The Impact of Host Response on Biomaterial Selection explains the various categories of biomaterials and their significance for clinical applications, focusing on the host response to each biomaterial. It is one of the first books to connect immunology and biomaterials with regard to host response. The text also explores the role of the immune system in host response, and covers the regulatory environment for biomaterials, along with the benefits of synthetic versus natural biomaterials, and the transition from simple to complex biomaterial solutions.

Название: Freeze-Drying of Pharmaceutical and Food Products
Автор: Tse-Chao Hua and Bao-Lin Liu
Издательство: Woodhead Publishing
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Размер: 14 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Freeze-drying is an important preservation technique for heat-sensitive pharmaceuticals and foods. Products are first frozen, then dried in a vacuum at low temperature by sublimation and desorption, rather than by the application of heat. The resulting items can be stored at room temperature for long periods. This informative text addresses both principles and practice in this area.

Название: Engineering and the Ultimate
Автор: Jonathan Bartlett, Dominic Halsmer
Издательство: Blyth Institute Press
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Размер: 12 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The discipline of engineering presumes certain foundational truths that are not reducible to mathematical formulas. It presupposes certain things about creativity, beauty, and abstraction in order to operate effectively. In short, engineering relies on philosophy. Conversely, philosophy can draw profound truths from principles derived from engineering experience. Engineering and the Ultimate crosses boundaries between a wide variety of disciplines to find truths both new and old that can be transformative to modern thought and practice.

Название: Aerosols Handbook: Measurement, Dosimetry, and Health Effects
Автор: Lev S. Ruzer and Naomi H. Harley
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2012
Формат: PDF
Размер: 12 Мб
Язык: английский / English

With the rapid growth of the nanotechnology industry, the need to understand the biological effects of aerosol exposure has become increasingly important. Featuring contributions by leading experts in the field, Aerosols Handbook: Measurement, Dosimetry, and Health Effects, Second Edition offers an up-to-date overview of many aspects of aerosols, from properties to health effects and epidemiology.

Название: Environanotechnology
Автор: Fan, Maohong, I and C.P. Huang
Издательство: Elsevier
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Размер: 12 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Understanding and utilizing the interactions between environment and nanoscale materials is a new way to resolve the increasingly challenging environmental issues we are facing and will continue to face. Environanotechnology is the nanoscale technology developed for monitoring the quality of the environment, treating water and wastewater, as well as controlling air pollutants. Therefore, the applications of nanotechnology in environmental engineering have been of great interest to many fields and consequently a fair amount of research on the use of nanoscale materials for dealing with environmental issues has been conducted.

Название: Bio-Inspired Nanotechnology
Автор: Marc R. Knecht and Tiffany R. Walsh
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Размер: 10 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This book focuses on the use of bio-inspired and biomimetic methods for the fabrication and activation of nanomaterials. This includes studies concerning the binding of the biomolecules to the surface of inorganic structures, structure/function relationships of the final materials and extensive discussions on the final applications of such biomimetic materials in unique applications including energy harvesting/storage, biomedical diagnostics and materials assembly.

Название: Gene Cloning and DNA Analysis
Автор: T. A. Brown
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 10 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Known world-wide as the standard introductory text to this important and exciting area, the seventh edition of Gene Cloning and DNA Analysis addresses new and growing areas of research whilst retaining the philosophy of the previous editions. Assuming the reader has little prior knowledge of the subject, its importance, the principles of the techniques used and their applications are all carefully laid out, with over 250 clearly presented four-colour illustrations.

Название: Going, Going, Gone: 100 Animals and Plants on the Verge of Extinction
Автор: Editors
Издательство: Bloomsbury Natural History
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 55 Мб
Язык: английский / English

We asked 100 conservation groups around the world: 'if you could pick one species that epitomises your work, which would it be?' From the RSPB to WWF to the Cheetah Conservation Fund, and many, many more, the answers came rolling in. Each provided a synopsis of the threats faced by their selected species, a summary of their degree of threat, an outline of the work being done to save them, and a number of ways in which the reader could help to conserve that species.

Название: The Annotated Turing
Автор: Charles Petzold
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons
Год: 2008
Формат: PDF
Размер: 12 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Mathematician Alan Turing invented an imaginary computer known as the Turing Machine; in an age before computers, he explored the concept of what it meant to be computable, creating the field of computability theory in the process, a foundation of present–day computer programming. The book expands Turing’s original 36–page paper with additional background chapters and extensive annotations; the author elaborates on and clarifies many of Turing’s statements, making the original difficult–to–read document accessible to present day programmers, computer science majors, math geeks, and others.