Books in Physical sciences and engineering

Organic Laboratory Experiments of the Future

1st Edition
January 2, 2026
Bruce H. Lipshutz + 1 more
English

This lab manual offers students the opportunity to learn organic chemistry through a green chemistry lens, resulting in a more sustainable, future-looking course. Lipshutz and Muchalski’s Organic Laboratory Experiments of the Future: Doing Chemistry in Water approaches the subject with experiments, diagrams, and illustrations shaped by student feedback and honed through years of research and laboratory experience.Organic Laboratory Experiments of the Future: Doing Chemistry in Water includes material on reactions run in water, including but not limited to: ppm Pd-catalyzed couplings, SNAr reactions, nitro group reductions, enzyme-catalyzed reactions, catalytic hydrogenation of olefins, olefin metathesis, reductive aminations, and chemoenzymatic sequences. This lab manual is ideal for courses in organic chemistry, biochemistry, sustainable and green chemistry, and environmentally-resp... lab courses.

An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling

5th Edition
January 2, 2026
Gabriel Lord + 1 more
English

An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling, Fifth Edition bridges the gap between basic probability and an intermediate level course in stochastic processes, serving as the foundation for either a one-semester or two-semester course in stochastic processes for students familiar with elementary probability theory and calculus. The objectives are to introduce students to the standard concepts and methods of stochastic modeling, to illustrate the rich diversity of applications of stochastic processes in the applied sciences, and to provide an integrated treatment of theory, applications and practical implementation. A well-regarded resource for many years, the text is an ideal foundation for a one-semester course in stochastic processes for students familiar with elementary probability theory and calculus.

Fundamentals and Practice of Nuclear Logging

1st Edition
January 1, 2026
Ahmed Badruzzaman
English

Fundamentals and Practice of Nuclear Logging: A Subsurface Measurement Technique delves into the basic physics employed in nuclear measurements. It explores the use of these principles in tool design and interpretation. First used in 1939 to probe the subsurface, nuclear/atomic techniques now play a crucial role in down-hole physics measurements of geological media. This book is a valuable resource for upper division and graduate students, offering insight into the fundamentals and serving as a reference for practitioners.In addition, the book discusses the safety and security challenges associated with radionuclide-based techniques and highlights the research aimed at mitigating these risks through advanced generator-based methods. It emphasizes the dynamic characterization of geological formations and well-bores, providing a range of interpretations unattainable through other subsurface techniques. This comprehensive guide is essential for those seeking to understand the evolving landscape of nuclear logging practices.

Humanizing Artificial Touch

1st Edition
January 1, 2026
John-John Cabibihan
English

Humanizing Artificial Touch: Skin, Sensing, and Structures contains recent advances in artificial skin modelling and robotic tactile sensing technologies, integrating these in the structure of an artificial hand mimicking its important features. This book will give special treatment to the relationship between the artificial skin material and embedded tactile sensors, describing how artificial skin and embedded sensors can be designed and constructed using 3D printing technologies with case examples on how these were created for amputees achieve a more a natural and rich human-robot tactile interaction.This book is oriented towards students, researchers, and clinical practitioners who are working in the design and construction of artificial hands for prosthetics and social robotics.

Ultrasonic Chemical Process Intensification

1st Edition
January 1, 2026
Xiaoping Lu + 2 more
English

Ultrasonic Chemical Process Intensification focuses on acoustic foundations and ultrasound cavitation. The book describes the theory and methodologies of ultrasonic enhanced chemical reaction, mass and heat transfer process, mechanical separation, pulverization process and other unit operation processes. It introduces various sonochemical reactors and industrial ultrasonic processing equipment and devices, as well as the application and progress of ultrasonic enhanced chemical reaction process, electrochemistry, materials chemistry and process industries. Finally, the book specifies the main problems and challenges and provides suggestions and prospects for future development of ultrasonic chemical process intensification.

Basics of Air Pollution

1st Edition
January 1, 2026
Kirpa Ram
English
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Basics of Air Pollution: Sources and Monitoring delivers a comprehensive reference for those seeking understanding of air pollution basics, including sources, transformations, and effects. The book covers a full range of related topics—from the very basics to the advanced level—not typically found in other books on air pollution. The book explains concepts using case studies and offers good comprehensive understanding of air pollution sources, transformations and effects. The book offers relevant fundamental knowledge which can facilitate future in-depth studies aimed at solving real world problems.

Robotics for Intervention in Healthcare

1st Edition
January 1, 2026
Françoise J Siepel
English

Robotics for Intervention in Healthcare: From Technology to Clinical Practice bridges the gap between deep-core robotic intervention technology and clinical aspects including the physicians and the clinicians working and gives insight in the importance of connectivity at early stage but especially address which aspects are important to speed up the innovation chain.

Biomechanics of Orofacial Organs and Structures

1st Edition
January 1, 2026
Mohammad Ali Nazari + 2 more
English

Biomechanics of Orofacial Organs and Structures provides fundamental knowledge in functional anatomy and innervation of the orofacial region, in mechanical characteristics of orofacial soft tissues, in the biomechanical modeling of the orofacialorgans, and in their use in the context of clinical applications. The book covers the design of biomechanical models that take into account the anatomy, muscle organization, innervation, and specific mechanical properties of muscles and soft tissue. It also discusses how these functions work under normal conditions, and how they degrade after surgery in the context of aging, or in the context of neuropathy altering the efferent or afferent nervous system in the orofacial region. The book is organized into three parts: I. General knowledge about orofacial organs and structuresII. Biomechanical modelsIII. Clinical applications A new volume in the Biomechanics of Living Organs series, this book features the latest research developments in the truly multidisciplinary scientific domain that tackles the understanding and modeling of basic orofacial functions,which are essential for the quality of life of humans.

Data-Centric Civil Engineering

1st Edition
January 1, 2026
Nima Gerami-Seresht
English

Despite this rising enthusiasm among post-graduate students and R&D practitioners for new data-driven techniques in civil engineering, no comprehensive references book exist that introduces such techniques to the civil engineering audience and explores the applications of these techniques in civil engineering. Consequently, this enthusiastic audience often refers to textbooks published in other engineering disciplines to learn the fundamentals of data science techniques; and then refers to journal and conference articles to learn the civil engineering applications of these techniques.This approach often leads to familiarizing the readers with a set of techniques that suit other engineering disciplines and using irrelevant engineering examples. Additionally, this approach ignores the unique characteristics of civil engineering problems (e.g., empirical data limitation).This book addresses these limitations by providing the first reference book on data-centric civil engineering to introduce advanced data science theories to the civil engineering audience. This book uses a variety of problems from the different fields of civil engineering (e.g., transportation, structure, and construction) and considers the unique limitations that civil engineers deal with in their research and practices.

Mountain Biodiversity

1st Edition
January 1, 2026
Robert Marchant
English

Mountain Biodiversity: Pattern, Process and Challenges to our World's High-Altitude Areas explores the highly biodiverse, culturally rich, and often threatened mountain regions that comprise a quarter of the world's continental land surface. These complex areas play a fundamental role in shaping continental-scale climates and have long been recognized as globally important centers of biodiversity. Mountains cover only 25% of global continental land surface yet are home to more than 85% of the world’s amphibians, birds, and mammals, many of which are entirely restricted to mountains. Despite their importance as stores of biodiversity and drivers of global sustainability, high altitude areas are particularly vulnerable to climate change and human interventions.Writte... by a leading expert in tropical mountain ecology, this book explores the processes that define the world's high-altitude areas in an easily digestible manner. Early chapters characterize high-altitude areas according to topography, fire regime, and climate. Dr. Marchant collates palaeoecological, archaeological, and historical insights to synthesize the intersection between mountain societies, ecosystems, and climate. Middle chapters examine the relationship between mountain climates and insect, bird, and mammalian biodiversity. Final chapters describe the future of land use, climate, and biodiversity, and explore opportunities to combine insights from different disciplines to enable pathways for more sustainable futures in sustainable mountain development.High-alt... regions are not adequately protected, and many mountain ranges remain completely unprotected. The status of these important storehouses of biodiversity is under increasing threat via population growth, climatic extremes, and land use change. High-Altitude Biodiversity will present current biodiversity across the world's mountains and use this information to identify priorities for new ways to understand, value, protect, and conserve high altitude areas. By taking a novel interdisciplinary approach that combines temporally and spatially diverse datasets from high altitude areas around the world, this can be used to inform future development.

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