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Anyoneteaching physical biochemistry or structural biology will find this to be aconcise and thorough guide for their lectures on protein-protein association.Students and researchers will appreciate the clarity of presentation offundamental concepts, and the guided reading of informative classic papers.

This book concerns precise measurements and their inherent uncertainty,with an emphasis on time and frequency measurement. Improvements in theaccurate measurement of time and frequency play a pivotal role in thedevelopment of modern science and our questioning of the fundamentals ofour universe.

Experimental Particle Physics is written for advanced undergraduate or beginning postgraduate students starting data analysis in experimental particle physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Assuming only a basic knowledge of quantum mechanics and special relativity, the text reviews the current state of affairs in particle physics, before comprehensively introducing all the ingredients that go into an analysis.

This book serves as an excellent stepping stone from introductory physics to graduate-level physics, it provides a level field for the various techniques used to solve problems in classical mechanics, it explains the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian methods more simply, and is a must for junior and senior physics undergraduates.

This book focuses on major trends and challenges in the area of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and presents work aimed to identify new techniques and their use in biomedical analysis.

The central purpose of nanoparticle enhanced radiotherapy (NPRT) is to more precisely control where the radiation dose is to be delivered, desirably with subcellular precision. The contents of this text covers the rationale and fundamental principles of NPRT, optimal nanoparticle size, concentrations and clinical applications. This volume will serve as a resource for researchers, educators and industry.

This book accessible book explores how market forces expose opportunities for new solar technologies. The authors explain how two emerging thin-film PV technologies-metal halide perovskites and colloidal quantum dots-can benefit from rapid scalability, reduced manufacturing and installation costs, and new modes of deployment.

This book is an essential introduction to the basic principles of radiation protection and aerosol physics, including applications within international and UK law for the protection of the public against the dangers arising from ionising radiation. The text also discusses the difficulties with the monitoring and the health detriment associated with problematic radionuclides.

This volume focuses on energy devices such as supercapacitors, batteries, energy harvesters, solar cells, and the applications of flexible electronics in displays and light-emission devices, CNT field emitters, sensors, memories, antennas and RFID tags.

This volume focuses on thin-film transistors (TFTs) and their properties, as well as covering field effect transistors (FETs), including electrolyte-gated field-effect transistors such as EGOFETs and OECFETs.

As one of the most prominent diseases in our society, Cardio Vascular Disease (CVD) requires dedicated analysis and investigation to reduce the increasing mortality rate worldwide. Scholars, biomedical engineers and medical practitioners will greatly benefit from the detailed information in this book which gives a better understanding of the causes, diagnosis and treatment of CVD.

Modern optics is the physics of two-by-two matrices and harmonic oscillators. The one- and two-photon coherent states are based on the mathematics of harmonic oscillators. This comprehensive book examines the mathematical details of how two-by-two matrices, Wigner functions and the Lorentz group can be implemented in classical and quantum optics.

This text introduces the subject of Mott insulators and reviews present knowledge in the field, enabling students and researchers to get acquainted with this very interesting and emerging area of science and technology.

This volume covers the mechanical aspects of hard-film/soft-substrate structures and the impacts of stress and strain, including deformation and cycling of ductile films, and straining permeation barriers.

An excellent resource for students studying solid state science, as well as researchers and industry specialists, this book provides a deeper understanding of the benefits, drawbacks and overlap within different characterisation techniques, and it bridges the gap between theory and implementation by including informative exercises for readers and presenting a comprehensive overview of various characterisation techniques involved in solid state research.

Laser Safety: Practical knowledge and solutions provides an in-depth guide to laser safety for a wide variety of people who work regularly with lasers and similar products. The authors provide useful techniques and methods to create a safe working environment for laser culture and answer a number of laser user concerns seldom addressed. This book will be relevant to students, researchers and laser physicists.

Statistical Mechanics: Problems with Solutions contains detailed model solutions to the exercise problems formulated in the companion Lecture Notes volume. In many cases, the solutions include result discussions that enhance the lecture material. For reader's convenience, the problem assignments are reproduced in this volume.

Statistical Mechanics: Lecture Notes, is intended to be the basis for a one-semester graduate-level course,

This book contains a summary of the latest experimental and theoretical results on matter at high pressure and temperature. Providing critical analysis of data and models ranging from matter in extreme states in the laboratory, relativistic heavy ion collisions, strongly coupled electromagnetic plasma, and extreme matter in astrophysics.

Nano drug-delivery systems responding to cellular local stimuli, such as pH, temperature and reductive agent's activation, i.e. enzymes, could effectively provide passive-mode desirable release but fail in disease treatment following the biological rhythms of brain tumor. This book is a compilation of research development lead by expert researchers and it establishes a single reference module. It addresses, for the first time, all translational aspects and clinical perspectives of physically stimulated breast-cancer nanotheranostics from a wide-ranging and multidisciplinary perception providing unrivalled and comprehensive knowledge in the field.

Soft Biological Shells in Bioengineering integrates existing experimental data to construct multiscale models of various organs of the human body: the stomach, gravid uterus, urinary bladder, the small intestine and the large intestine. These models are used as in silico platforms to study intricate physiological and pathophysiological processes, and to assess pharmacological modulations on their dynamics. This book will be of value to postgraduate students, researchers and medical doctors interested in computational systems biology.

As one of the most prominent diseases in our society, Cardio Vascular Disease (CVD) requires dedicated analysis and investigation to reduce the increasing mortality rate worldwide. Scholars, biomedical engineers and medical practitioners will greatly benefit from the detailed information in this book which gives a better understanding of the causes, diagnosis and treatment of CVD.

Gamma-ray Burst Correlations presents an overview of the observational correlations; their physical interpretations, their use as redshift estimators, and their potential use as cosmological tools. The author describes the existing correlations as well as broaching the possible meaning and controversy behind the results of several GRB correlations.

Measurement of values are fundamental in science and technology. Masatoshi's book includes the importance of uncertainty, accuracy and precision of measurement and explains how laser technology has helped improve measurement and in redefining standards. SI units, standards and the importance of lasers for measurement in modern metrology are covered, including the redefinition of the SI units over time.

Commencing by defining a set of standards for benchmarkingthis book then proceeds to provide a review of the physics and workings of several optical and super optical biosensors, and introduces two more superoptical biosensors. Mathcad is used to analyse these virtual biosensors andthese codes and available to readers for use in their own research.

Lasers in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy: Basics, applications and future prospects provides an overview on medical lasers and laser systems as well as laser applications in medical diagnosis and therapy. Since it was written by physicists, it focusses on the physics and underlying mechanisms of laser diagnosis and therapy.

This book is essential reading for medical physicists in radiation protection, diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine, as well as radiographers and technologists, due to changes in global dosimetry requirements. Additionally, it presents guidelines for medical physicists and others using radiation.

This revised second edition isimproved linguistically with multiple increases of the number of figures andthe inclusion of several novel chapters such as actin filaments during matrixinvasion, microtubuli during migration and matrix invasion, nucleardeformability during migration and matrix invasion, and the active role of thetumor stroma in regulating cell invasion.

This book presents, in a concise and direct manner the appropriate mathematical formalism and fundamentals of differential topology and differential geometry together with their applications to many branches of physics.