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Books in Physical sciences and engineering

Social Justice and Library Work
A Guide to Theory and Practice
1st Edition
October 6, 2017
Stephen Bales
English
Although they may not have always been explicitly stated, library work has always had normative goals. Until recently, such goals have largely been abstract; they are things like knowledge creation, education, forwarding science, preserving history, supporting democracy, and safeguarding civilization. The modern spirit of social and cultural critique, however, has focused our attention on the concrete, material relationships that determine human potentiality and opportunity, and library workers are increasingly seeing the institution of the library, as well as library work, as embedded in a web of relations that extends beyond the library’s traditional sphere of influence. In light of this critical consciousness, more and more library and information science professionals are coming to see themselves as change agents and front-line advocates of social justice issues. This book will serve as a guide for those library workers and related information professionals that disregard traditional ideas of "library neutrality" and static, idealized conceptions of Western culture. The book will work as an entry point for those just forming a consciousness oriented towards social justice work and will be also be of value to more experienced "transformative library workers" as an up-to-date supplement to their praxis.
Functional 3D Tissue Engineering Scaffolds
Materials, Technologies, and Applications
1st Edition
October 5, 2017
Ying Deng + 1 more
English
In order to grow replacement tissues, 3D scaffolds are widely used as a template for tissue engineering and regeneration. These scaffolds, which are typically ‘seeded’ with cells, support the growth of new tissues. However, in order to achieve successful tissue growth, the scaffold must meet specific requirements and are often ‘functionalized’ to accentuate particular properties. Functional 3D tissue engineering scaffolds: materials, technologies, and applications, is a comprehensive review of functional 3D scaffolds, providing information on the fundamentals, technologies, and applications. Part 1 focuses on the fundamentals of 3D tissue scaffolds, examining information on materials, properties, and trends. Part 2 discusses a wide range of conventional technologies for engineering functional 3D scaffolds, leading the way to a discussion on CAD and advanced technologies for functional 3D scaffold engineering. Chapters in part 3 study methods for functionalizing scaffolds to support a variety of in vivo functions whilst the final set of chapters provides an important review of the most significant applications of functional 3D scaffolds within tissue engineering. This book is a valuable resource for biomaterial scientists and biomedical engineers in academia and industry, with interests in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Service Life Prediction of Polymers and Plastics Exposed to Outdoor Weathering
1st Edition
October 3, 2017
Christopher White + 2 more
English
Service Life Prediction of Polymers and Plastics Exposed to Outdoor Weathering discusses plastics and polymers and their unique applications, from sealants used in construction, to polymer composites used in planes. While these materials are important enablers for advanced technologies, exposure to weather changes the very properties of plastics that make them so useful. This book reviews current research needs and provides a consensus roadmap of the scientific barriers to validated predictive models for the response of polymers and plastics to outdoor exposure. Despite extensive efforts over the past 20-30 years, testing of polymeric materials in accelerated or natural weathering conditions and the interpretation of the weathering results still require substantial improvements. This book represents the state-of-the-art in the prediction techniques available and in development. Engineers and materials scientists working in this field will be able to use the content of this book to assess the strengths and challenges of a range of different methods and approaches.
Science and Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia
Potentials and Challenges
1st Edition
October 3, 2017
Rajib Shaw + 2 more
English
Science and Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia: Potentials and Challenges provides both a local and global perspective on how to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Topics demonstrate the advancement of scientific research as it applies to early warning systems, including identifying risk and the strengthening of infrastructure for different types of hazards. Through different major disasters, it has become evident that there must be a balance between hard and soft technology and physical, process and social solutions. This book demonstrates how this has been successfully implemented in Asia, and how these applications can apply on a global basis.
Organosilicon Compounds, Two volume set
1st Edition
October 1, 2017
Vladimir Ya Lee
English
Organosilicon Compounds provides readers with the state-of-the-art status of organosilicon chemistry, including its theoretical, synthetic, physico-chemical and applied aspects. By including high quality content in a key strategic signing area, this work is a strong addition to chemistry offerings in organic, main group and organometallic research. Organosilicon chemistry deals with compounds containing carbon–silicon bonds, an essential part of organic and organometallic chemistry. This book presents the many milestone in the field that have been discovered during the last few years, also detailing its usage in commercial products, such as sealants, adhesives and coatings.
CUDA Programming
A Developer's Guide to Parallel Computing with GPUs
2nd Edition
October 1, 2017
Shane Cook
English
CUDA Programming: A Developer's Guide to Parallel Computing with GPUs, Second Edition is a fully revised, updated, practical guide that provides a solid foundation for developers learning parallel programming with CUDA. This guide iincludes updates that cover both the Kepler and Maxwell GPUs from NVIDIA, as well as the latest heterogeneous systems from AMD. Suitable for someone without a parallel programming background or previous CUDA experience, as well as those who already have dabbled in GPU programming, the contents range from installation and getting started, to building your own GPU workstation. This revision includes a new chapter on visualizing data, and new content on the latest CUDA features including data caching, shared memory, and dynamic parallelism. Author Shane Cook also covers the latest host systems and changes to the installation process, NVIDIA’s Parallel NSight IDE, and hardware systems that run CUDA applications. The final new chapter looks ahead to future GPU platforms and releases including on-core ARM CPU and NVlink technologies.
Future Sources of Organic Raw Materials: CHEMRAWN I
CHEMRAWN Chemical Research Applied to Words Needs
1st Edition
September 29, 2017
L.E. St-Pierre + 1 more
English
Future Sources of Organic Raw Materials: CHEMRAWN I is a collection of lectures presented at the World Conference on Future Sources of Organic Raw Materials, held in Toronto, Canada, on July 10-13, 1978. The conference focused on potential future sources of organic raw materials such as non-conventional fossil hydrocarbons, coal, industrial and agricultural wastes, and renewable resources like wood and other plant materials. This book is comprised of 52 chapters and opens with an assessment of the likely future availability of conventional oil and gas as they relate to possible demands for petrochemical feedstocks, paying particular attention to the availability and demand patterns for fossil hydrocarbons. The following chapters discuss the reserves and worldwide distribution of oil shale and tar sands; climate and its impact on renewable resources; research and management of natural resources; and production of chemicals directly from synthesis gas. Pyrolysis of solid carbonaceous materials is also considered, along with natural rubber production and biomass for non-food use. This monograph will be a useful resource for organic chemists and energy policymakers.
Bioreactor Modeling
Interactions between Hydrodynamics and Biology
1st Edition
September 29, 2017
Jerome Morchain
English
Dynamic simulation of bioreactors is a challenge for both the industrial and academic worlds. Beyond the large number of physical and biological phenomena to be considered and the wide range of scales involved, the central difficulty lies in the need to account for the dynamic behavior of suspended microorganisms. In the case of chemical reactors, knowledge of the thermodynamic equilibrium laws at the interfaces makes it possible to produce macroscopic models by integrating local laws. Microorganisms, on the other hand, have the ability to modulate the rate of substrate assimilation. Moreover, the nature of the biochemical transformations results from a compromise between the needs of the cell and the available resources. This book revisits the modeling of bioreactors using a multi-scale approach. It addresses issues related to mixing, phase-to-phase transfers and the adaptation of microorganisms to variations in concentration, and explores the use of population balances for the simulation of bioreactors.By adopting a multidisciplinary perspective that draws on process engineering, fluid mechanics and microbiology, this book sheds new light on the particularity of bioprocesses in relation to physical and chemical phenomena.
Dynamical Geology of Salt and Related Structures
1st Edition
September 29, 2017
I. Lerche
English
Dynamical Geology of Salt and Related Structures deals with many aspects of the dynamical evolution of salt bodies in sedimentary basins. This book consists of four major sections. Section A deals with salt dynamics and the motion of salt. The impact of a mobile salt mass on the structural development of the overlying formations is considered in Section B, while the development of caprock, which is commonly found overlying salt diapirs, is emphasized in Section C. The last section deliberates the interrelationships between fluid flow, salt dissolution, and heat flow in the vicinity of a salt diapir, including the connections with maturation of source rocks, migration, and trapping of hydrocarbons in salt-related structures. This publication is valuable to professional geoscientists interested in processes involved in salt dynamics.
Physical Organic Chemistry — 3
Plenary Lectures Presented at the Third IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Montpellier, France, 6 - 10 September, 1976
1st Edition
September 29, 2017
A. Fruchier
English
9780080211978 Physical Organic Chemistry - 3 (Montpellier, 1976) is a collection of plenary lectures presented at the Third IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, held in Montpellier, France on September 6-10, 1976. This book is composed of nine chapters and begins with an examination of the concept of absolute equilibrium acidity scale and its application to structure-activity relationship evaluation. The succeeding chapters deal with micellar catalysis and inhibition, as well as the application of quantum chemical ab initio methods to CO, CS, and related double bonds. These topics are followed by discussions of the hydrolysis of acetals and hemiacetals; the mechanisms and catalysis in vinyl ester hydrolysis; and the acid-base catalysis of carbonyl and acyl group reactions. The final chapters explore the strain energy modeling of simple and crowded aliphatic ketones. These chapters also look into the stereochemistry of dissolving metal reduction of ketones and the hydrolysis of phosphate esters. This book will be of value to physical chemists and physical chemistry researchers and students.

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