Bormashenko Edward Yu.(Berlin Boston De Gruyter, 2019)
The revealing of the phenomenon of superhydrophobicity (the "lotus-effect") has stimulated an interest in wetting of real (rough and chemically heterogeneous) surfaces. In spite of the fact that wetting has been exposed ...
"This book explores how to overcome structural failures and guarantee a long life and go to tap hidden structural capacities, by touching different axes in field of civil engineering by optimizing the design, like ...
Uthayakumar M.,; Raj S. Aravind,; Ko Tae Jo; Kumaran S. Thirumalai,; Davim J. Paulo,(2019)
"This book addresses the challenges in new manufacturing and industrial engineering techniques focuses towards green manufacturing, reduction of pollutants and implementation of sustainability concepts in current scenario. ...
"The book discusses how the extraction of fossil fuels affects the rituals and artifacts of people's daily lives. The author asks readers to view fossil fuels as an intellectually intriguing topic rather than one better ...
"Climate models are some of our most powerful tools for exploring human-induced global warming. These models, derived from numerical weather prediction models, are based upon the fundamental laws of physics. Using powerful ...
"This book is the first and only comprehensive guide to the snakes of Central and Western Africa. In North America, field guides are taken for granted, but for much of the world these guides don't exist. In many high ...
Jonathan Lusthaus lifts the veil on cybercriminals in the most extensive account yet of the lives they lead and the vast international industry they have created. Having traveled to hotspots around the world to meet with ...
"In Roots Quest, sociologist Jackie Hogan digs into our current genealogy boom to ask why we are so interested in our family history. She shows how the surging popularity of genealogy is a response to large-scale social ...
When invading a host cell, viruses seize cell machinery to make copies of their own genes. The immune system recognizes the invasion. In contrast, retroviruses colonize host cells through the process of reverse transcriptase. ...
The future of smart cities has arrived, courtesy of citizens and their phones. To prove it, Dan O'Brien explains the transformative insights gleaned from years researching Boston's 311 reporting system, a sophisticated ...