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Principles of Nucleic Acid Structure, Second Edition, provides the
most complete and concise summary of underlying principles and
approaches to studying nucleic acid structure, including
discussions of X-ray crystallography, NMR, molecular modelling and
databases. The book's focus is on a survey of structures that are
especially important for biomedical research and pharmacological
applications. This updated edition includes the latest advances
relevant to recognition of DNA and RNA by small molecules and
proteins, including sections on RNA folding, ribosome structure and
antibiotic interactions, DNA quadruplexes, DNA and RNA protein
complexes and short interfering RNA (siRNA). This reference is a
must-have for those seeking an authoritative, comprehensive and
up-to-date source on all aspects of nucleic acid structure, from
basic first principles to details of recent research results.
This second edition of Medical Biochemistry is supported by more
than 45 years of teaching experience, providing coverage of basic
biochemical topics, including the structural, physical, and
chemical properties of water, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and
nucleic acids. In addition, the general aspects of thermodynamics,
enzymes, bioenergetics, and metabolism are presented in
straightforward and easy-to-comprehend language. This book ties
these concepts into more complex aspects of biochemistry using a
systems approach, dedicating chapters to the integral study of
biological phenomena, including cell membrane structure and
function, gene expression and regulation, protein synthesis and
post-translational modifications, metabolism in specific organs and
tissues, autophagy, cell receptors, signal transduction pathways,
biochemical bases of endocrinology, immunity, vitamins and
minerals, and hemostasis. The field of biochemistry is continuing
to grow at a fast pace. This edition has been revised and expanded
with all-new sections on the cell plasma membrane, the human
microbiome, autophagy, noncoding, small and long RNAs, epigenetics,
genetic diseases, virology and vaccines, cell signaling, and
different modes of programmed cell death. The book has also been
updated with full-color figures, new tables, chapter summaries, and
further medical examples to improve learning and better illustrate
the concepts described and their clinical significance.
Despite the urgent need for action, there is a widespread lack of
understanding of the benefits of using green energy sources for not
only reducing carbon emissions and climate change, but also for
growing a sustainable economy and society. Future citizens of the
world face increasing sustainability issues and need to be better
prepared for energy transformation and sustainable future economic
development. Cases on Green Energy and Sustainable Development is a
critical research book that focuses on the important role renewable
energy and energy efficiency play in energy transition and
sustainable development and covers economic and promotion policies
of major renewable energy and energy-efficiency technologies.
Highlighting a wide range of topics such as economics, energy
storage, and transportation technologies, this book is ideal for
environmentalists, academicians, researchers, engineers,
policymakers, and students.
Today, air-to-surface vessel (ASV) radars, or more generally
airborne maritime surveillance radars, are installed on maritime
reconnaissance aircraft for long-range detection, tracking and
classification of surface ships (ASuW--anti-surface warfare) and
for hunting submarines (ASW--anti-submarine warfare). Such radars
were first developed in the UK during WWII as part of the response
to the threat to shipping from German U boats. This book describes
the ASV radars developed in the UK and used by RAF Coastal Command
during WWII for long-range maritime surveillance.
Renewable energy (RE) is a subject of great interest today. It is
one of the two main means for implementing climate change
mitigation programmes, and presently the only perceived means for
replacing the declining global fossil fuel reserves. It also helps
fight poverty and assists in the global quest for gender equity by
taking clean energy where it is needed most for development. It is
perhaps not surprising therefore that there is so much coverage of
RE in both the conventional media and the internet by media and
tech writers, economists and bloggers, many of who only have a
partial understanding of the technology itself. The end result is
mostly promotional rhetoric that says little about the true value
of the technology, and leads to a confused picture for the serious
individual or decision-maker who wants to know what the technology
is really capable of doing. This book provides a clear and factual
picture of the status of RE and its capabilities today. The need
for such a book was first realized by the author when he was
engaged in a renewable energy capacity-building project
encompassing countries from Europe, the Caribbean, Africa, and the
Pacific. The book is largely non-technical in nature; it does
however contain enough mention of the science and technology to
enable readers to go further with their own investigations should
they wish to. The book covers all areas of renewable energy (RE),
starting from biomass energy and hydropower and proceeding to wind,
solar and geothermal energy before ending with an overview of ocean
energy. It begins with a simple introduction to the physical
principles of the RE technologies, followed by an enumeration of
the requirements for their successful implementation. The last two
chapters consider how the technologies are actually being
implemented today and their roles in climate change mitigation and
poverty alleviation.
The present theme concerns the forces of nature, and what
investigations of these forces can tell us about the world we see
about us. The story of these forces is long and complex, and
contains many episodes that are not atypical of the bulk of
scientific research, which could have achieved greater acclaim 'if
only...'.The intention of this book is to introduce ideas of how
the visible world, and those parts of it that we cannot observe,
either because they are too small or too large for our scale of
perception, can be understood by consideration of only a few
fundamental forces. The subject in these pages will be the
authority of the commonly termed, laws of physics, which arise from
the forces of nature, and the corresponding constants of nature
(for example, the speed of light, c, the charge of the electron, e,
or the mass of the electron, me).
"Advanced Power Generation Systems" examines the full range of
advanced multiple output thermodynamic cycles that can enable more
sustainable and efficient power production from traditional
methods, as well as driving the significant gains available from
renewable sources. These advanced cycles can harness the
by-products of one power generation effort, such as electricity
production, to simultaneously create additional energy outputs,
such as heat or refrigeration. Gas turbine-based, and industrial
waste heat recovery-based combined, cogeneration, and trigeneration
cycles are considered in depth, along with Syngas combustion
engines, hybrid SOFC/gas turbine engines, and other
thermodynamically efficient and environmentally conscious
generation technologies. The uses of solar power, biomass,
hydrogen, and fuel cells in advanced power generation are
considered, within both hybrid and dedicated systems.
The detailed energy and exergy analysis of each type of system
provided by globally recognized author Dr. Ibrahim Dincer will
inform effective and efficient design choices, while emphasizing
the pivotal role of new methodologies and models for performance
assessment of existing systems. This unique resource gathers
information from thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer,
and energy system design to provide a single-source guide to
solving practical power engineering problems.
The only complete source of info on the whole array of multiple
output thermodynamic cycles, covering all the design options for
environmentally-conscious combined production of electric power,
heat, and refrigerationOffers crucial instruction on realizing more
efficiency in traditional power generation systems, and on
implementing renewable technologies, including solar, hydrogen,
fuel cells, and biomass Each cycle description clarified through
schematic diagrams, and linked to sustainable development scenarios
through detailed energy, exergy, and efficiency analysesCase
studies and examples demonstrate how novel systems and performance
assessment methods function in practice
This book uses a hands-on approach to nonlinear dynamics using
commonly available software, including the free dynamical systems
software Xppaut, Matlab (or its free cousin, Octave) and the Maple
symbolic algebra system. Detailed instructions for various common
procedures, including bifurcation analysis using the version of
AUTO embedded in Xppaut, are provided. This book also provides a
survey that can be taught in a single academic term covering a
greater variety of dynamical systems (discrete versus continuous
time, finite versus infinite-dimensional, dissipative versus
conservative) than is normally seen in introductory texts.
Numerical computation and linear stability analysis are used as
unifying themes throughout the book. Despite the emphasis on
computer calculations, theory is not neglected, and fundamental
concepts from the field of nonlinear dynamics such as solution maps
and invariant manifolds are presented.
Hyperbolic metamaterials were originally introduced to overcome the
diffraction limit of optical imaging. Soon thereafter it was
realized that hyperbolic metamaterials demonstrate a number of
novel phenomena resulting from the broadband singular behavior of
their density of photonic states. These novel phenomena and
applications include super resolution imaging, new stealth
technologies, enhanced quantum-electrodynamic effects, thermal
hyperconductivity, superconductivity, and interesting gravitation
theory analogs. Here I review typical material systems, which
exhibit hyperbolic behavior and outline important new applications
of hyperbolic metamaterials, such as imaging experiments with
plasmonic hyperbolic metamaterials and novel VCSEL geometries, in
which the Bragg mirrors may be engineered in such a way that they
exhibit hyperbolic properties in the long wavelength infrared
range, so that they may be used to efficiently remove excess heat
from the laser cavity. I will also discuss potential applications
of self-assembled photonic hypercrystals. This system bypasses 3D
nanofabrication issues, which typically limit hyperbolic
metamaterial applications. Photonic hypercrystals combine the most
interesting features of hyperbolic metamaterials and photonic
crystals.
Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics publishes
reviews of recent developments in a field that is in a state of
rapid growth, as new experimental and theoretical techniques are
used on many old and new problems. Topics covered include related
applied areas, such as atmospheric science, astrophysics, surface
physics and laser physics. Articles are written by distinguished
experts and contain relevant review material and detailed
descriptions of important recent developments.
Advances in Imaging & Electron Physics merges two long-running
serials-Advances in Electronics & Electron Physics and Advances
in Optical & Electron Microscopy. The series features extended
articles on the physics of electron devices (especially
semiconductor devices), particle optics at high and low energies,
microlithography, image science and digital image processing,
electromagnetic wave propagation, electron microscopy, and the
computing methods used in all these domains.
"Applications of Quantum and Classical Connections in Modeling
Atomic, Molecular and Electrodynamical Systems" is a reference on
the new field of relativistic optics, examining topics related to
relativistic interactions between very intense laser beams and
particles. Based on 30 years of research, this unique book connects
the properties of quantum equations to corresponding classical
equations used to calculate the energetic values and the symmetry
properties of atomic, molecular and electrodynamical systems. In
addition, it examines applications for these methods, and for the
calculation of properties of high harmonics in interactions between
very intense electromagnetic fields and electrons.
This resource is the only one of its kind, a valuable tool for
scientists and graduate students interested in the foundations of
quantum mechanics, as well as applied scientists interested in
accurate atomic and molecular models.
Features detailed explanations of the theories of atomic and
molecular systems, as well as wave properties of stationary atomic
and molecular systemsProvides periodic solutions of classical
equations, semi-classical methods, and theories of systems composed
of very intense electromagnetic fields and particles Offers models
and methods based on 30 years of research
This book leapfrogs over the usual pedagogical progression, taking
readers to a real understanding of quantum, relativistic, nuclear
and particle physics. These areas are usually reserved for the end
of one's undergraduate career or even for graduate students in
physics programs, but do not need to be. The Scenic Route is really
created out of the joy of science; it is not designed to produce
problem-solving ability but rather is designed to reveal some
physics that is just plain nifty. Guided by an understanding that
much of modern physics is available to almost everyone with a
moderate mathematical vocabulary, we lead the student through a
short, trenchant tour of quantum physics, relativity, modern
particle physics and its history.Related Link(s)
This book leapfrogs over the usual pedagogical progression, taking
readers to a real understanding of quantum, relativistic, nuclear
and particle physics. These areas are usually reserved for the end
of one's undergraduate career or even for graduate students in
physics programs, but do not need to be. The Scenic Route is really
created out of the joy of science; it is not designed to produce
problem-solving ability but rather is designed to reveal some
physics that is just plain nifty. Guided by an understanding that
much of modern physics is available to almost everyone with a
moderate mathematical vocabulary, we lead the student through a
short, trenchant tour of quantum physics, relativity, modern
particle physics and its history.Related Link(s)
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