Filter by
EcoJustice, Citizen Science and Youth Activism
This volume draws on the ecojustice, citizen science and youth activism literature base in science education and applies the ideas to situated tensions as they are either analyzed theoretically or praxiologically within science education pedagogy. It uses ecojustice to evaluate the holistic connections between cultural and natural systems, environmentalism, sustainability and Earth-friendly mar…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-11607-5
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- XV, 460
Task-Space Sensory Feedback Control of Robot Manipulators
This book presents recent advances in robot control theory on task space sensory feedback control of robot manipulators. By using sensory feedback information, the robot control systems are robust to various uncertainties in modelling and calibration errors of the sensors. Several sensory task space control methods that do not require exact knowledge of either kinematics or dynamics of robots, …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-287-062-9
- Collation
- VII, 223
- Series Title
- Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering
- Call Number
- -
Eco-friendly Polymer Nanocomposites
This book contains precisely referenced chapters, emphasizing environment-friendly polymer nanocomposites with basic fundamentals, practicality and alternatives to traditional nanocomposites through detailed reviews of different environmental friendly materials procured from different resources, their synthesis and applications using alternative green approaches. The book aims at explaining bas…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-81-322-2472-3
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- XII, 576
Eco-friendly Polymer Nanocomposites
This book contains precisely referenced chapters, emphasizing environment-friendly polymer nanocomposites with basic fundamentals, practicality and alternatives to traditional nanocomposites through detailed reviews of different environmental friendly materials procured from different resources, their synthesis and applications using alternative green approaches. The book aims at explaining bas…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-81-322-2469-3
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- XII, 579
Tartaglia’s Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century
This volume consists of three main parts. In the first, a historical excursus regarding Tartaglia’s lifetime, his scientific production and the Scientia de ponderibus in the Arabic-Islamic culture, and from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, is presented. Secondly, all the propositions of Books VII and VIII, by relating them with the Problemata mechanica by the Aristotelian school and Iordan…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-017-9710-8
- Collation
- XVIII, 504
- Series Title
- History of Mechanism and Machine Science
- Call Number
- -
Targeting the Broadly Pathogenic Kynurenine Pathway
Tryptophan metabolism via kynurenine pathway plays a critical role in both health and a variety of human diseases. This book highlights the known associations between kynurenine pathway and various disease states, as well as examines the current status of drug development and clinical trials of compounds known to alter tryptophan metabolism. The research plays a critical role in molecular targe…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-11870-3
- Collation
- XV, 430
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Eco-Landscape Design
The ability to adapt to a changing environment has ensured the continued survival of the human race into the 21st century. The challenges to be faced in this century are now well documented by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The effects of drought, melting polar ice and increased incidences of extreme weather events will impact on the diverse landscapes of the eart…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-07205-0
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- IV, 227
Eclipses, Transits, and Comets of the Nineteenth Century
Grabbing the attention of poets, politicians and the general public alike, a series of spectacular astronomical events in the late 1800s galvanized Americans to take a greater interest in astronomy than ever before. At a time when the sciences were not yet as well established in the United States as they were in Europe, this public interest and support provided the growing scientific community …
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-08340-7
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- XI, 336
Beijing Urban Memory : Historic Buildings and Historic Areas, Central Axes an…
From the cross-disciplinary perspective of urban management and planning, geography and architecture, this book explores the theory and methods of urban memory, selecting Beijing's historic buildings, historic areas, central areas and city walls as research cases. It is divided into three parts: factors analysis, modeling and practical application. It lays a scientific foundation and provides p…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-10-0678-4
- Collation
- XXVI, 248
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 306
Earthquake-Induced Structural Pounding
This books analyzes different approaches to modeling earthquake-induced structural pounding and shows the results of the studies on collisions between buildings and between bridge segments during ground motions. Aspects related to the mitigation of pounding effects as well as the design of structures prone to pounding are also discussed. Earthquake-induced structural pounding between ins…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-16323-9
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- XV, 156
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography