Overview: Over forty-plus years, Joseph Donohue spent many days in London libraries researching theatrical subjects and many afternoons and evenings in London theatres, witnessing almost one hundred twenty-five productions of original plays and revivals and recording his experience in a series of meticulously kept journals.
Overview: This book was developed at Simon Fraser University for an upper-level physics course. Along with a careful exposition of electricity and magnetism, it devotes a chapter to ferromagnets. According to the course description, the topics covered were “electromagnetics, magnetostatics, waves, transmission lines, wave guides,antennas, and radiating systems.”
Overview: By engaging with this resource which presents texts by diverse world writers from 1650 to the present, learners will: (1) engage with diverse world writers in translation, including canonical and less canonical texts, and (2) identify literary conventions and trends across genres. The texts are in chronological order, but can be adapted by the faculty in whatever way they see fit. Eac…
The tremendous growth of bioinformatics and computational biology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has had an associated growth in software and algorithms for studying biological sequences. This book is designed to introduce students of the life sciences with little to no programming experience to the concepts and methodologies of bioinformatics, and contemporary software applications.…
The danger posed by nuclear weapons and fissile materials is ever present. The end of the Cold War and the significant reduction in the size of Russian and U.S. nuclear stockpiles did not change this fact of life. There are now nine states that possess nuclear weapons – the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea – and the number of…
This book presents a critical review of a criterion of risk, created to assess the flood risk to heritage buildings, and evaluates this criterion by applying it to the sample Portuguese heritage buildings. In a first approach, the total number of potential parameters is effectively reduced and the selected criteria are divided into two different groups: the monument’s location in relation to …
This is a thorough revision of the 2007 publication, and includes five new chapters and brings all existing chapters completely up to date. There have been many advances in hydropower and renewable technologies since the original publication, and Europe, and particularly Scandinavia, plan many more in the coming years. From a review of the original edition: “… it is important to …
Di Bagian 1 berikut ini, Melalui Mata yang Lain, saya mengingat masa kecil saya di dunia bebas diikuti oleh pengalaman saya yang kurang sehat di Jepang sebagai mahasiswa selama perang. Pada saat Jepang menyerang Pearl Harbor, saya telah bertemu Katsuma Dan (Katy), dan harapan baru dalam penelitian ilmiah mulai meresap dalam diri saya. Dari Bagian 2, saya menggambarkan hidup saya sebagai ilmuwan…
Seri buku Neuroscience and Respiration menyajikan kontribusi para peneliti ahli dan dokter di bidang gangguan paru. Bab-bab ini memberikan ikhtisar tepat waktu tentang isu-isu yang diperdebatkan atau kemajuan terkini dalam diagnosis, klasifikasi, dan pengobatan seluruh rangkaian gangguan paru, baik akut maupun kronis. Teks-teks tersebut dianggap sebagai penggabungan penelitian dasar dan klinis …
This brief highlights advances in DNA technologies and their wider applications. DNA is the source of life and has been studied since a generation, but very little is known as yet. Several sophisticated technologies of the current era have laid their foundations on the principle of DNA based mechanisms. DNA based technologies are bringing a new revolution of Advanced Science and Technology. For…