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A Theory of the Drone

New Press, 2015

Drone warfare has raised profound ethical and constitutional questions both in the halls of Congress and among the U.S. public. Not since debates over nuclear warfare has American military strategy been the subject of discussion in living rooms, classrooms, and houses of worship. Yet as this groundbreaking new work shows, the full...

Time Series Analysis and Its Applications: With R Examples (Springer Texts in Statistics)

Springer, 2010

Time Series Analysis and Its Applications presents a balanced and comprehensive treatment of both time and frequency domain methods with accompanying theory. Numerous examples using nontrivial data illustrate solutions to problems such as discovering natural and anthropogenic climate change, evaluating pain perception...

Global Activism and Humanitarian Disarmament

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book analyses the politics of the humanitarian disarmament community?a loose coalition of activist and advocacy groups, humanitarian agencies and diplomats?who have successfully achieved international treaties banning landmines, cluster munitions and nuclear weapons, as well as restricting the global arms trade. Two campaigns have won Nobel...

Obsessed by a Dream: The Physicist Rolf Widerøe – a Giant in the History of Accelerators (Springer Biographies)

Springer, 2019

This Open Access biography chronicles the life and achievements of the Norwegian engineer and physicist Rolf Widerøe. Readers who meet him in the pages of this book will wonder why he isn't better known.

The first of Widerøe's many pioneering contributions in the field of accelerator physics was the...

PET/CT for Inflammatory Diseases: Basic Sciences, Typical Cases, and Review

Springer, 2019

This comprehensive guide sheds new light on the benefits of FDG PET/CT in diagnosing inflammatory diseases. Although FDG PET/CT offers an invaluable tool for diagnosing inflammatory diseases, the clinical evidence on its application remains limited.

To remedy this gap, each chapter of this book includes detailed...

Nonlinear Differential Equations in Physics: Novel Methods for Finding Solutions

Springer, 2019

This book discusses various novel analytical and numerical methods for solving partial and fractional differential equations. Moreover, it presents selected numerical methods for solving stochastic point kinetic equations in nuclear reactor dynamics by using Euler–Maruyama and strong-order Taylor numerical methods. The book...

Mathematical Foundations of System Safety Engineering: A Road Map for the Future

Springer, 2019

This graduate-level textbook elucidates low-risk and fail-safe systems in mathematical detail. It addresses, in particular, problems where mission-critical performance is paramount, such as in aircraft, missiles, nuclear reactors and weapons, submarines, and many other types of systems where “failure” can result in...

Dynamics and Control of Energy Systems (Energy, Environment, and Sustainability)

Springer, 2019

This book presents recent advances in dynamics and control of different types of energy systems. It covers research on dynamics and control in energy systems from different aspects, namely, combustion, multiphase flow, nuclear, chemical and thermal. The chapters start from the basic concepts so that this book can be useful even for researchers...

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation

Skyhorse Publishing, 2019

Lanza turns his attentions to the production, reception, social climate, and impact of a movie that rattled the American psyche in the wake of Nixon, Watergate, and Vietnam.

When Tobe Hooper’s low-budget slasher film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, opened in theaters in 1974, it was met in equal measure...

Complete General Science for IAS: Includes physics, chemistry and biology by sifox publication.

Independent Publishers Group, 2017

Science is valued mostly for its practical advantages though it is also valued of gratifying disinterested curiosity and as an object of great aesthetic charm. It is quite obvious that the bulk of mankind, value science, chiefly for the practical advantages it brings with it. PART – I PHYSICS Sl. No. TOPICS PAGE No. 1. Wave Theory...

The Thyroid and Its Diseases: A Comprehensive Guide for the Clinician

Springer, 2019

This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive guide to all the common thyroid disorders that may be seen by internists, endocrinologists, nuclear medicine physicians, and endocrine surgeons. While the fundamentals of thyroid hormone function and regulation in health and disease are well covered, the primary focus is on the...

Energy Geotechnics: SEG-2018 (Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering)

Springer, 2018

This book collects selected full papers presented at the International Symposium on Energy Geotechnics 2018 (SEG-2018), held on 25^th – 28^th

September 2018, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). It covers a wide range of topics in energy geotechnics, including...

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