EVOLUTIONARY EQUATIONS :PICARD'S THEOREM FOR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, …

This open access book provides a solution theory for time-dependent partial differential equations, which classically have not been accessible by a unified method. Instead of using sophisticated techniques and methods, the approach is elementary in the sense that only Hilbert space methods and some basic theory of complex analysis are required. Nevertheless, key properties of solutions can be r…

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…

COMPUTATIONAL PHYSIOLOGY :SIMULA SUMMER SCHOOL 2021 − STUDENT REPORTS

This open access volume compiles student reports from the 2021 Simula Summer School in Computational Physiology. Interested readers will find herein a number of modern approaches to modeling excitable tissue. This should provide a framework for tools available to model subcellular and tissue-level physiology across scales and scientific questions. In June through August of 2021, Simula held th…

OXYGEN ISOTOPES OF INORGANIC PHOSPHATE IN ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES :PURIFICATION…

This open access book distinguished itself from other publications by offering step-by-step instructions on how to extract, purify, provide modifications, and major issues to be encountered during the process. For the δ18OP method to progress, further fundamental research as well as field and laboratory studies need to be conducted for a better understanding of P cycling in the environment. Ch…

OPEN SCIENCE:THE VERY IDEA

This open access book provides a broad context for the understanding of current problems of science and of the different movements aiming to improve the societal impact of science and research. The author offers insights with regard to ideas, old and new, about science, and their historical origins in philosophy and sociology of science, which is of interest to a broad readership. The book …

CREATING FUTURE PEOPLE :THE ETHICS OF GENETIC ENHANCEMENT

Creating Future People offers readers a fast-paced primer on how new genetic technologies will enable parents to influence the traits of their children, including their intelligence, moral capacities, physical appearance, and immune system. It deftly explains the science of gene editing and embryo selection, and raises the central moral questions with colorful language and a brisk style. Jonath…

IMMUNOGENETICS :METHODS AND PROTOCOLS

This open access book explores techniques for working in the field of immunogenetics, i.e. fundamental and translational research into the adaptive immune receptor repertoire. Many chapters are dedicated to lab protocols, bioinformatics, and immunoinformatics analysis of high-resolution immunome analysis, exemplified by numerous applications. Additionally, the newest technological variations on…

SCIENCE POLICY UNDER THATCHER

Margaret Thatcher was prime minister from 1979 to 1990, during which time her Conservative administration transformed the political landscape of Britain. Science Policy under Thatcher is the first book to examine systematically the interplay of science and government under her leadership. Thatcher was a working scientist before she became a professional politician, and she maintained a close…

LAW AND POLICY FOR THE QUANTUM AGE

It is often said that quantum technologies are poised to change the world as we know it, but cutting through the hype, what will quantum technologies actually mean for countries and their citizens? In Law and Policy for the Quantum Age, Chris Jay Hoofnagle and Simson L. Garfinkel explain the genesis of quantum information science (QIS) and the resulting quantum technologies that are most exciti…

CERITA SI POHON LONTAR

Buku cerita bergambar ini berkisah tentang Bora, Si Pohon Lontar yang tinggal di Pulau Rote, pulau berpenghuni paling selatan di Indonesia. Di Rote, Bora tinggal bersama teman-temannya. Masyarakat di pulau ini sangat menghargai keberadaan lontar karena tanaman tersebut memiliki beragam manfaat dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Tak heran jika kemudian Bora dan teman-temannya mendapat julukan istimewa…

INDONESIA POST-PANDEMIC OUTLOOK:STRATEGY TOWARDS NET-ZERO EMISSIONS BY 2060 F…

COVID-19 has disrupted all aspects of human life. To mitigate the impact of the pandemic, several efforts have been taken, including by Indonesian scholars abroad. This book entitled Indonesia Post-Pandemic Recovery Outlook: Strategy towards Net-Zero Emissions by 2060 from the Renewables and Carbon-Neutral Energy Perspectives explores energy sustainability and climate change issues and how it c…

DOING RESEARCH:A NEW RESEARCHER’S GUIDE

This book is about scientific inquiry. Designed for early and mid-career researchers, it is a practical manual for conducting and communicating high-quality research in (mathematics) education. Based on the authors’ extensive experience as researchers, as mentors, and as members of the editorial team for the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education (JRME), this book directly speaks to re…

NATURAL VEGETATION AND ETHNOBOTANY OF BALI

Bali Island has a vast extent of vegetation, and the Balinese have good use of this in cultural, religious, and daily access aspects. This book uncovers the study of vegetation in Bali, extending from the seaside to the mountains. Moreover, in the ethnobotanical aspect, this book presents the result of a study on how Balinese people utilize the biodiversity bestowed on them. The first part of t…

PARTICLE PHYSICS REFERENCE LIBRARY :VOLUME 1:T AND EXPERIMENTS

This first open access volume of the handbook series contains articles on the standard model of particle physics, both from the theoretical and experimental perspective. It also covers related topics, such as heavy-ion physics, neutrino physics and searches for new physics beyond the standard model. A joint CERN-Springer initiative, the “Particle Physics Reference Library” provides revis…

MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS IN THE REAL AND COMPLEX DOMAINS

This book explores topics in multivariate statistical analysis, relevant in the real and complex domains. It utilizes simplified and unified notations to render the complex subject matter both accessible and enjoyable, drawing from clear exposition and numerous illustrative examples. The book features an in-depth treatment of theory with a fair balance of applied coverage, and a classroom lectu…

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ANIMAL RATIONALITY

In Animal Rationality: Later Medieval Theories 1250-1350, Anselm Oelze offers the first comprehensive and systematic exploration of theories of animal rationality in the later Middle Ages. Readership: Everyone interested in medieval philosophy and psychology in general, as well as the history of the concept of animal rationality and of the animal/human boundary in particular.

PLANAR MAPS, RANDOM WALKS AND CIRCLE PACKING

This open access book focuses on the interplay between random walks on planar maps and Koebe’s circle packing theorem. Further topics covered include electric networks, the He–Schramm theorem on infinite circle packings, uniform spanning trees of planar maps, local limits of finite planar maps and the almost sure recurrence of simple random walks on these limits. One of its main goals is t…

TARGET SUITABILITY AND THE CRIME DROP

This is a chapter from The Criminal Act: The Role and Influence of Routine Activity Theory edited by Martin A. Andresen and Graham Farrell. This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license. Target suitability is a cornerstone of Marcus Felson's routine activities approach, and critical in determining crime rates. Recent research identifies reduced target suitability, via improved sec…

SENSING ABSENCE:HOW TO SEE WHAT ISN'T THERE IN THE STUDY OF SCIENCE AND SECURITY

This is a chapter from Absence in Science, Security and Policy edited by Brian Rappert and Brian Balmer. This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license. Part reflection on the forthcoming chapters, part analysis of academic literature, and part programmatic agenda setting, this introduction chapter forwards the importance of questioning taken for granted assumptions in sensing what…

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…

LANDSCAPES OF INVESTIGATION CONTRIBUTIONS TO CRITICAL MATHEMATICS EDUCATION

Creating landscapes of investigation is a primary concern of critical mathematics education. It enables us to organise educational processes so that students and teachers are able to get involved in explorations guided by dialogical interactions. It attempts to address explicit or implicit forms of social injustice by means of mathematics, and also to promote a critical conception of mathematic…

SAFETY FOR PARTICLE ACCELERATORS

The use of non-standard technologies such as superconductivity, cryogenics and radiofrequency pose challenges for the safe operation of accelerator facilities that cannot be addressed using only best practice from occupational safety in conventional industry. This book introduces readers to different occupational safety issues at accelerator facilities and is directed to managers, scientists, t…

EVOLUTIONARY EQUATIONS :PICARD'S THEOREM FOR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, …

This open access book provides a solution theory for time-dependent partial differential equations, which classically have not been accessible by a unified method. Instead of using sophisticated techniques and methods, the approach is elementary in the sense that only Hilbert space methods and some basic theory of complex analysis are required. Nevertheless, key properties of solutions can be r…

WADI FLASH FLOODS :CHALLENGES AND ADVANCED APPROACHES FOR DISASTER RISK REDUC…

This open access book brings together research studies, developments, and application-related flash flood topics on wadi systems in arid regions. The major merit of this comprehensive book is its focus on research and technical papers as well as case study applications in different regions worldwide that cover many topics and answer several scientific questions. The book chapters comprehensivel…

A MEMORY OF ICE:THE ANTARCTIC VOYAGE OF THE GLOMAR CHALLENGER

In the southern summer of 1972/73, the Glomar Challenger was the first vessel of the international Deep Sea Drilling Project to venture into the seas surrounding Antarctica, confronting severe weather and ever-present icebergs. A Memory of Ice presents the science and the excitement of that voyage in a manner readable for non-scientists. Woven into the modern story is the history of early ex…

MAVERICK MATHEMATICIAN:THE LIFE AND SCIENCE OF J.E. MOYAL

J.E. Moyal has been pronounced ‘one of Australia’s most remarkable thinkers’. Yet, he was, essentially, a scientific maverick. Educated in a modest high school in Tel Aviv, he took himself to France to train as an engineer, statistician and mathematician and escaped to England as France fell. It was from outside academia that he entered into communication with the ‘high priest’ of …

USES OF TECHNOLOGY IN LOWER SECONDARY MATHEMATICS EDUCATION :A CONCISE TOPICA…

Digital technology1 is omnipresent in society. Revolutionary technological developments change the character of professional environments, and therefore put new demands on workers (Hoyles, Noss, Kent, & Bakker, 2010). Consequently, there are new demands on educational systems in order to prepare students for future professions. Importantly, technology also offers opportunities for teaching a…

UNCERTAINTY IN ENGINEERING :INTRODUCTION TO METHODS AND APPLICATIONS

This open access book provides an introduction to uncertainty quantification in engineering. Starting with preliminaries on Bayesian statistics and Monte Carlo methods, followed by material on imprecise probabilities, it then focuses on reliability theory and simulation methods for complex systems. The final two chapters discuss various aspects of aerospace engineering, considering stochastic…

PUBLISHING SACROBOSCOS DE SPHAERA IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE MODES OF MATERIAL AN…

This open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern period. It investigates the rich edition history of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera, by far the most widely disseminated textbook on geocentric cosmology, from the unique standpoint of the many printers, publishers, and booksellers who steered…

THE STANDARD MODEL AND BEYOND

This new edition of The Standard Model and Beyond presents an advanced introduction to the physics and formalism of the standard model and other non-abelian gauge theories. It provides a solid background for understanding supersymmetry, string theory, extra dimensions, dynamical symmetry breaking, and cosmology. In addition to updating all of the experimental and phenomenological results from t…

QUANTIZATION ON NILPOTENT LIE GROUPS

This book presents a consistent development of the Kohn-Nirenberg type global quantization theory in the setting of graded nilpotent Lie groups in terms of their representations. It contains a detailed exposition of related background topics on homogeneous Lie groups, nilpotent Lie groups, and the analysis of Rockland operators on graded Lie groups together with their associated Sobolev spaces.…

SIMPLICIAL AND DENDROIDAL HOMOTOPY THEORY

This open access book offers a self-contained introduction to the homotopy theory of simplicial and dendroidal sets and spaces. These are essential for the study of categories, operads, and algebraic structure up to coherent homotopy. The dendroidal theory combines the combinatorics of trees with the theory of Quillen model categories. Dendroidal sets are a natural generalization of simplic…

PROBABILITY IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE :AN APPLICATION-DR…

This revised textbook motivates and illustrates the techniques of applied probability by applications in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). The author presents information processing and communication systems that use algorithms based on probabilistic models and techniques, including web searches, digital links, speech recognition, GPS, route planning, recommendation systems, c…

FITOPLANKTON DANAU-DANAU DI PULAU JAWA KEANEKARAGAMAN DAN PERANNYA SEBAGAI BI…

Sebagai negara kepulauan, tak ayal jika laut dan pesisir menjadi kekuatan utama Indonesia, yang mengandung sumber daya berlimpah. Namun, orang sering melupakan potensi perairan darat kita, yang sejatinya tak kalah penting dibandingkan lautan. Di Pulau Jawa, danau adalah salah satu sumber primer mata pencaharian masyarakat, selain juga sebagai penyedia sumber daya alam dan penghasil energi. Keru…

JENIS-JENIS POHON PENTING DI HUTAN NUSAKAMBANGAN

Hutan merupakan salah satu unsur penting penopang keberlangsungan Bumi dan kehidupan manusia. Selain sebagai penyedia oksigen dan pengatur cadangan air, hutan juga berperan penting dalam menyediakan habitat bagi berbagai macam jenis flora dan fauna, terutama yang sudah langka dan terancam punah. Hutan di Nusakambangan merupakan satu-satunya hutan pamah yang tersisa di daerah Jawa Tengah dan men…

KNOWLEDGE RESISTANCE IN HIGH-CHOICE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENTS

This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of our patterns of engagement with politics, news, and information in current high-choice information environments. Putting forth the notion that high-choice information environments may contribute to increasing misperceptions and knowledge resistance rather than greater public knowledge, the book offers insights into the processes that inf…

JENIS-JENIS BAMBU DI BALI DAN POTENSINYA

Bambu dapat tumbuh di banyak tempat dan dikenal sebagai tumbuhan serba guna yang dapat dimanfaatkan dalam aktivitas sehari-hari. Meskipun demikian, tidak mudah bagi pengguna, khususnya para perajin dan industriawan, untuk membedakan jenis-jenis bambu karena di Indonesia terdapat lebih dari 160 jenis bambu. Di sisi lain, buku panduan tentang pengenalan jenis bambu Indonesia juga dirasa kurang. O…

BIOLOGI KONSERVASI RAFFLESIA

Pelestarian Rafflesia sebagai puspa langka dan tumbuhan khas Indonesia perlu terus dibangun dan digalakkan oleh seluruh masyarakat. LIPI patut berbangga hati atas keberhasilan Kebun Raya LIPI Bogor dalam mengonservasi habitat Rafflesia, melestarikan, dan memperluas kehidupan populasinya di alam. Kupas dan telisik (kulik) lebih cermat semua informasi terkait puspa langka dan pelestariannya. Temu…

FAUNA JAWA SERI KRUSTASEA (DEKAPODA) PADA EKOSISTEM MANGROVE DAN ESTUARI DI P…

Ekosistem mangrove dan estuari di Pulau Jawa sebagian telah mengalami kerusakan akibat alih fungsi lahan dan kegiatan antopogenik di sekitar ekosistem. Seperti telah diketahui, ekosistem ini menyimpan keragaman fauna akuatik yang tinggi, salah satunya adalah Krustasea. Begitu banyak jenis-jenis yang belum terungkap dalam kawasan unik ini. Di antara jenis-jenis yang telah diketahui, beberapa tel…

101 IKAN HIAS AIR TAWAR NUSANTARA

Buku ini berisi informasi 101 jenis ikan hias air tawar Asli Indonesia yang selanjutnya disebut Ikan Hias Nusantara. Ikan-ikan tersebut tersebar di Papua Barat (Irian), Sulawesi, Kalimantan, Jawa, dan Sumatera. Akan tetapi cenderung didominasi oleh ikan hias yang berasal dari Papua yang berjumlah 49 jenis. Dua jenis di antaranya merupakan hasil rekayasa (hibridisasi) yang dilakukan di Laborator…

THE BUTTERFLIES OF JAMBI (SUMATRA, INDONESIA):AN EFFORTS FIELD GUIDE

Planet Earth hosts an astonishing degree of biodiversity, spread across the globe. Much of this biodiversity is still unknown to science and remains poorly documented, like butterflies. As an insect facing rapid species loss and population declines due to habitat conversion and climate change, the need to document butteries has become more urgent than ever. Butteries of Jambi contains names, oc…

PENANGGALAN RADIOAKTIF :MENGUNGKAP SEJARAH DAN PERADABAN BUMI DENGAN TEKNIK N…

Buku ini mengupas pemanfaatan radionuklida alamiah untuk penanggalan radioaktif (radioactive dating). Di dalamnya dibahas secara komprehensif hal-hal yang berkaitan dengan radionuklida primordial dan radionuklida kosmogenik. Dibahas pula hal-hal yang terkait dengan teknik penanggalan dengan mengandalkan kedua jenis radionuklida tersebut baik di bidang geologi maupun arkeologi, disertai dengan c…

PETA KEBUTUHAN JASA KALIBRASI BAGI INDUSTRI DI BAGIAN BARAT INDONESIA

Minimnya laboratorium kalibrasi di daerah masih diperparah dengan minimnya jumlah layanan yang dapat diberikan. Oleh karena itu, industri di daerah banyak yang memilih untuk mengirim alat ukur penginspeksinya ke Jabodetabek untuk dikalibrasi dengan biaya transpor yang tinggi, risiko kerusakan perjalanan yang besar, dan biaya asuransi yang tidak kecil. Berdasarkan kebutuhan jasa kalibrasi dari s…

TERMOMETER INFRAMERAH :TEORI DAN KALIBRASI

Secara khusus buku ini dapat digunakan untuk para teknisi kalibrasi guna membantu kelancaran dalam melakukan kalibrasi termometer inframerah di laboratorium. Buku ini juga merupakan salah satu sumber referensi yang tepat bagi berbagai kalangan yang menaruh minat terhadap termometer inframerah, seperti kalangan industri, dosen dan mahasiswa teknik di perguruan tinggi.

STASIUN NOL:TEKNIK-TEKNIK PEMETAAN DAN SURVEI HIDROLOGI GUA

Buku Stasiun Nol: Teknik-Teknik Pemetaan dan Survei Hidrologi Gua ini merupakan sebuah dokumentasi pemetaan gua yang dihasilkan oleh para penggiat speleologi dan penelusuran gua Indonesia yang telah mendedikasikan ilmu, tenaga dan waktu yang tidak sedikit hingga gua tersebut dapat dimanfaatkan secara luas. Membaca buku ini akan membawa Anda untuk mempelajari aktivitas penjelajah gua termasuk pr…

Calgary :city of animals

How have our interactions with animals shaped Calgary? What can we do to ensure that humans and animals in the city continue to co-exist, and even flourish together? This wide-ranging book explores the ways that animals inhabit our city, our lives and our imaginations. Essays from animal historians, wildlife specialists, artists and writers address key issues such as human-wildlife interactions…

STABLE ISOTOPES IN TREE RINGS :INFERRING PHYSIOLOGICAL, CLIMATIC AND ENVIRONM…

This Open Access volume highlights how tree ring stable isotopes have been used to address a range of environmental issues from paleoclimatology to forest management, and anthropogenic impacts on forest growth. It will further evaluate weaknesses and strengths of isotope applications in tree rings. In contrast to older tree ring studies, which predominantly applied a pure statistical approach t…

QUATERNION ALGEBRAS

This open access textbook presents a comprehensive treatment of the arithmetic theory of quaternion algebras and orders, a subject with applications in diverse areas of mathematics. Written to be accessible and approachable to the graduate student reader, this text collects and synthesizes results from across the literature. Numerous pathways offer explorations in many different directions, whi…

ADVANCED CONCEPTS IN PARTICLE AND FIELD THEORY

Uniting the usually distinct areas of particle physics and quantum field theory, gravity and general relativity, this expansive and comprehensive textbook of fundamental and theoretical physics describes the quest to consolidate the elementary particles that are the basic building blocks of nature. Designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students and abounding in worked examples and d…