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Experimental Techniques in Nuclear and Particle Physics
I have been teaching courses on experimental techniques in nuclear and particle physics to master students in physics and in engineering for many years. This book grew out of the lecture notes I made for these students. The physics and engineering students have rather different expectations of what such a course should be like. I hope that I have nevertheless managed to write a book that can sa…
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- 978-3-642-00829-0
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- X, 306
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- 530 TAV e
Values for a Post-Pandemic Future
This open access book shows how value sensitive design (VSD), responsible innovation, and comprehensive engineering can guide the rapid development of technological responses to the COVID-19 crisis. Responding to the ethical challenges of data-driven technologies and other tools requires thinking about values in the context of a pandemic as well as in a post-COVID world. Instilling values must …
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- 978-3-031-08424-9
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- X, 250
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- Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET, volume 40)
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- 600 VAL
Continental Philosophy of Technoscience
The key objective of this volume is to allow philosophy students and early-stage researchers to become practicing philosophers in technoscientific settings. Zwart focuses on the methodological issue of how to practice continental philosophy of technoscience today. This text draws upon continental authors such as Hegel, Engels, Heidegger, Bachelard and Lacan (and their fields of dialectics, p…
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- 978-3-030-84570-4
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- VII, 245
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- Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET, volume 38)
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- 500 ZWA c
Conservation of Contemporary Art : Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice
This open access book investigates whether and how theoretical findings and insights in contemporary art conservation can be translated into the daily work practices of conservators or, vice versa, whether and how the problems and dilemmas encountered in conservation practice can inform broader research questions and projects. For several decades now, the conservation of contemporary art has be…
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- 1
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- 9783031423574
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- VIII, 401 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- 9
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Reality Lost: Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation
This open access book looks at how a democracy can devolve into a post-factual state. The media is being flooded by populist narratives, fake news, conspiracy theories and make-believe. Misinformation is turning into a challenge for all of us, whether politicians, journalists, or citizens. In the age of information, attention is a prime asset and may be converted into money, power, and influ…
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- 9783030008130
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- XXII, 144hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road
This open access book discusses socio-environmental interactions in the middle to late Holocene, covering specific areas along the ancient Silk Road regions. Over twenty chapters provide insight into this topic from various disciplinary angles and perspectives, ranging from archaeology, paleoclimatology, antiquity, historical geography, agriculture, carving art and literacy. The Silk Road is a …
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- 9783030007287
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- XXVI, 525 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Nuclear Risks and Arms Control - Problems and Progresses in the Time of Pande…
This open access book is based on the conference organised by Accademia dei Lincei and the US National Academy of Sciences and supported by the Italian Ministero degli Affari Esteri. It was attended by about 60 scientists and researchers from 13 countries, including, besides Europe, Iran, Israel, Iraq, Pakistan, India, Japan, Russian Federation and the USA. In an international scenario shaken b…
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- 978-3-031-29708-3
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- XVI, 212
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Proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference, Volume 1: PBNC 2022…
This is the first in a series of three volumes of proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference (PBNC 2022) which was held by Chinese Nuclear Society. As one in the most important and influential conference series of nuclear science and technology, the 23rd PBNC was held in Beijing and Chengdu, China in 2022 with the theme “Nuclear Innovation for Zero-carbon Future”. For taking s…
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- 978-981-99-1023-6
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- XVI, 1163
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Bruno Touschek 100 Years
This open access book celebrates the contribution of Bruno Touschek to theoretical physics and particle colliders in Europe. It contains direct testimonials from his former students, collaborators, and eminent scientists, among them, two Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Giorgio Parisi and Carlo Rubbia. It reviews the main developments in theoretical and accelerator physics in the second half of …
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- 978-3-031-23042-4
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- X, 307
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Alternatives to Animal Testing
This open access book presents recent advances in the pure sciences that are of significance in the quest for alternatives to the use of animals in research and describes a variety of practical applications of the three key guiding principles for the more ethical use of animals in experiments – replacement, reduction, and refinement, collectively known as the 3Rs. Important examples from acro…
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- 9789811324475
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- VI, 130 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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