This is the first complete account of the physics of the creep and fracture of ice, and their interconnectivity. It investigates the deformation of low-pressure ice, which is fundamental to glaciers, polar ice sheets and the uppermost region of icy moons of the outer Solar System. The book discusses ice structure and its defects, and...
Scientific computation has a long history, dating back to the astronomical tables of the Babylonians, the geometrical achievements of the Egyptians, the calendars of the Mayans, and the number theory of the ancient Chinese. The success of these activities led in many parts of the world to the development of mathematical theories trying to explain...
Phylogenetics is the science of the evolutionary relationships among species.
Recently, the term has come to include broader issues such as estimating rates
of evolution, dating divergence among species, reconstructing ancestral characters,
or quantifying adaptation, all these using phylogenies as frameworks.
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"The first book to deal specifically with the 'GenXpat' generation - the 25-39 age group that typically sets off for the expatriate life when career is their primary consideration. This is my kind of book - it's informative, practical, and you get a real sense that the author knows what she is talking about." Ian Burns of Blackwell's...
"The ancient Egyptian sources come alive, speaking to us without seeming alien to our modern ways of thinking. Andreas Schweizer invites us to join the nocturnal voyage of the solar barque and to immerse ourselves, with the 'Great Soul' of the sun, into the darkness surrounding us. Here in the illustrations and texts of the...
An award-winning psychologist exposes the truth behind life's little oddities and absurdities in this quirky and practical guide to life.
For over twenty years, psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman has examined the quirky science of everyday life. In Quirkology, he navigates the backwaters of human behavior, discovering the...
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has been recognized in printed records dating from the sixteenth century, and since the eradication of rinderpest (cattle plague) in the early part of the twentieth century it has been rec- nized as the most important and feared disease of cattle and other dom- tic livestock. The beginning of the twenty-first...
A large number of papers dealing with silyl radicals, dating back to the late
1940s, have been published. To my knowledge, there are no books on this
subject. Several reviews and book chapters on silyl radicals have appeared
from time to time on specific aspects. This book focuses on the recent literature
of silyl radicals in...
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With Apple's iPhone, you have the world virtually in your pocket. But because it does so much, there's much to know about using it! This full-color guide shows you...
The objective of Document Analysis and Recognition (DAR) is to recognize the text and graphical components of a document and to extract information. With first papers dating back to the 1960’s, DAR is a mature but still growing research field with consolidated and known techniques. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engines are some of the...
The 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED-2005) is being held July 18–22, 2005, in Amsterdam, the beautiful Dutch city near the sea. AIED-2005 is the latest in an on-going series of biennial conferences in AIED dating back to the mid-1980’s when the field emerged from a synthesis of artificial...
