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The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian
crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa,
imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards
third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart
as the Balkans and East Timor. However haltingly and selectively,
that trend towards extra-systemic means of managing ethnic and
national conflict is still discernible, motivated as it was in the
1990s by the inability of in-house accommodation methods to resolve
ethno-political conflicts peacefully and the tendency of such
conflicts to spill into the international system in the form of
massive refugee flows, regional instability, and failed states
hosting criminal and terrorist elements. In its various forms,
third party intervention has become a fixed part of the current
international system Our book examines the various forms in which
that intervention occurs, from the least intrusive and costly forms
of third party activity to the most intrusive and expensive
endeavors. More specifically, organized in the form of overview
essays followed by case studies that explore the utility and
limitations, successes and failures of various forms of third party
activity in managing conflict, the book begins by examining
diplomatic intervention and then proceeds to cover, in turn, legal,
economic, and military instruments of conflict management before
concluding with a section on political tutelage arrangements and
nation/capacity building operations. The chapters themselves are
authored by a mix of contributors drawn from relevant disciplines,
both senior and younger scholars, academics and practitioners, and
North Americans and Europeans. All treat a common theme but no
attempt was made to solicit work from contributors with a common
orientation towards the value of third party intervention. Nor were
the authors straight-jacketed with heavy content guidelines from
the editors. Their essays validate the value of this approach. Far
from being chaotic in nature, they generally supplement one
another, while offering opposing viewpoints on the overall topic;
for example, our Italian contributor who specializes in
non-government organizations offers a chapter illustrating their
utility under certain conditions, whereas the chapter from an
Afghan practitioner notes the downside of too much reliance on NGOs
in nation-building operations. The essays also cover topics not
often treated, and are written from the viewpoint of those on the
ground. The chapter on creating a police force in post-Dayton
Bosnia-Herzegovina, for example, reads much like a diary from the
American colonel who was sent to Bosnia in early 1996 charged with
that task.
Provides a stimulating introduction to the structures and functions
of ion channels of membranes of biological cells and discusses the
biophysics of ion channels in condensed matter state and
physiological condition Addresses natural processes and
nanotechnology opportunities for their purposeful manipulation Lays
the groundwork for vitally important medical advances
This book provides a comprehensive knowledge of linear algebra for
graduate and undergraduate courses. As a self-contained text, it
aims at covering all important areas of the subject, including
algebraic structures, matrices and systems of linear equations,
vector spaces, linear transformations, dual and inner product
spaces, canonical, bilinear, quadratic, sesquilinear, Hermitian
forms of operators and tensor products of vector spaces with their
algebras. The last three chapters focus on empowering readers to
pursue interdisciplinary applications of linear algebra in
numerical methods, analytical geometry and in solving linear system
of differential equations. A rich collection of examples and
exercises are present at the end of each section to enhance the
conceptual understanding of readers. Basic knowledge of various
notions, such as sets, relations, mappings, etc., has been
pre-assumed.
This textbook will provide an introduction to the fundamental and
applied aspects of biophysics for advanced undergraduate and
graduate students of physics, chemistry, and biology. The
application of physics principles and techniques in exploring
biological systems has long been a tradition in scientific
research. Biological systems hold naturally inbuilt physical
principles and processes which are popularly explored. Systematic
discoveries have been made helping to understand the structures and
functions of individual biomolecules, biomolecular systems, cells,
organelles, tissues, and even the whole physiological systems of
the animal and plant kingdoms. The trend in utilizing the
physics-based scientific understanding of biological systems in
exploring disease states and finding relevant cures through
discovering drugs is considered to be at the forefront of applied
scientific and socioeconomic interests. This book will cover most
of the relevant breakthroughs biophysics has been making since its
inception. A futuristic guideline will be provided. A lot of models
based on both classical and quantum mechanical treatments of
biological systems and future scientific research outlooks will be
presented. Diseases related to physical alterations in biomolecular
structures and organizations and concerned drug discovery
strategies will be scrutinized. Nanotechnology application in
manipulating nanoprocesses in biological systems will be addressed.
Key Features: • Presents an accessible introduction to how
physics principles and techniques can be used to understand
biological and biochemical systems. • Addresses natural
processes, mutations, and their purposeful manipulation. • Lays
the groundwork for vitally important natural scientific,
technological and medical advances. Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman, a
biophysicist and condensed matter scientist, is passionate about
investigating biological and biochemical processes utilizing
physics principles and techniques. He is a professor of Biophysics
at King Saud University’s Biochemistry Department of College of
Science, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the co-founder of MDT Canada Inc.,
and the founder of Child Life Development Institute, Edmonton,
Canada. He authored Biophysics and Nanotechnology of Ion channels,
Nanoscale Biophysics of the Cell, and Membrane Biophysics. He also
published around 50 peer-reviewed articles, edited two books, and
has been serving on editorial boards of Elsevier and Bentham
Science journals. Dr. Ashrafuzzaman has had held research and
academic ranks at Bangladesh University of Engineering &
Technology, University of Neuchatel (Switzerland), Helsinki
University of Technology (Finland), Weill Medical College of
Cornell University (USA), and University of Alberta (Canada). Dr.
Ashrafuzzaman obtained his highest academic degree, Doctor of
Science (D.Sc.) in condensed matter physics from the University of
Neuchatel, Switzerland in 2004.
The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian
crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa,
imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards
third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart
as the Balkans and East Timor. However haltingly and selectively,
that trend towards extra-systemic means of managing ethnic and
national conflict is still discernible, motivated as it was in the
1990s by the inability of in-house accommodation methods to resolve
ethno-political conflicts peacefully and the tendency of such
conflicts to spill into the international system in the form of
massive refugee flows, regional instability, and failed states
hosting criminal and terrorist elements. In its various forms,
third party intervention has become a fixed part of the current
international system Our book examines the various forms in which
that intervention occurs, from the least intrusive and costly forms
of third party activity to the most intrusive and expensive
endeavors. More specifically, organized in the form of overview
essays followed by case studies that explore the utility and
limitations, successes and failures of various forms of third party
activity in managing conflict, the book begins by examining
diplomatic intervention and then proceeds to cover, in turn, legal,
economic, and military instruments of conflict management before
concluding with a section on political tutelage arrangements and
nation/capacity building operations. The chapters themselves are
authored by a mix of contributors drawn from relevant disciplines,
both senior and younger scholars, academics and practitioners, and
North Americans and Europeans. All treat a common theme but no
attempt was made to solicit work from contributors with a common
orientation towards the value of third party intervention. Nor were
the authors straight-jacketed with heavy content guidelines from
the editors. Their essays validate the value of this approach. Far
from being chaotic in nature, they generally supplement one
another, while offering opposing viewpoints on the overall topic;
for example, our Italian contributor who specializes in
non-government organizations offers a chapter illustrating their
utility under certain conditions, whereas the chapter from an
Afghan practitioner notes the downside of too much reliance on NGOs
in nation-building operations. The essays also cover topics not
often treated, and are written from the viewpoint of those on the
ground. The chapter on creating a police force in post-Dayton
Bosnia-Herzegovina, for example, reads much like a diary from the
American colonel who was sent to Bosnia in early 1996 charged with
that task.
Provides a stimulating introduction to the structures and functions
of ion channels of membranes of biological cells and discusses the
biophysics of ion channels in condensed matter state and
physiological condition Addresses natural processes and
nanotechnology opportunities for their purposeful manipulation Lays
the groundwork for vitally important medical advances
This book clarifies some misunderstandings about money by tying the
concept of money to the goods and services sector of the economy.
In addition, it demystifies the process of money creation on the
part of central banks. The phenomenon of money is ubiquitous; it
has been around for tens of thousands of years, if not longer.
Indeed, no modern economy could function without money. For many,
however, the concept of money remains elusive. Worse still,
misinformation abounds, which leaves the uninitiated vulnerable to
fraud. This lack of understanding has serious policy implications
as well. When policymakers lack a firm grasp of the concept, policy
is likely to be flawed and its effects are likely to be detrimental
to the body politic. After providing a brief history of money, the
author details the role of money in the division of labor and
specialization, in economic growth, and in an interconnected world.
Throughout the book, he points out the pitfalls of fallacious
thinking. In recent policy debates, such thinking has led to
proposals ranging from the re-institution of the gold standard to
supplying limitless money as suggested by Modern Monetary Theory.
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Differential Geometry, Algebra, and Analysis - ICDGAA 2016, New Delhi, India, November 15-17 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Mohammad Hasan Shahid, Mohammad Ashraf, Falleh Al-Solamy, Yasunori Kimura, Gabriel Eduard Vilcu
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This book is a collection of selected research papers, some of
which were presented at the International Conference on
Differential Geometry, Algebra and Analysis (ICDGAA 2016), held at
the Department of Mathematics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi,
from 15-17 November 2016. It covers a wide range of topics-geometry
of submanifolds, geometry of statistical submanifolds, ring theory,
module theory, optimization theory, and approximation theory-which
exhibit new ideas and methodologies for current research in
differential geometry, algebra and analysis. Providing new results
with rigorous proofs, this book is, therefore, of much interest to
readers who wish to learn new techniques in these areas of
mathematics.
Macroscopic cellular structures and functions are generally
investigated using biological and biochemical approaches. But these
methods are no longer adequate when one needs to penetrate deep
into the small-scale structures and understand their functions. The
cell is found to hold various physical structures, molecular
machines, and processes that require physical and mathematical
approaches to understand and indeed manipulate them. Disorders in
general cellular compartments, perturbations in single molecular
structures, drug distribution therein, and target specific
drug-binding, etc. are mostly physical phenomena. This book will
show how biophysics has revolutionized our way of addressing the
science and technology of nanoscale structures of cells, and also
describes the potential for manipulating the events that occur in
them.
Macroscopic cellular structures and functions are generally
investigated using biological and biochemical approaches. But these
methods are no longer adequate when one needs to penetrate deep
into the small-scale structures and understand their functions. The
cell is found to hold various physical structures, molecular
machines, and processes that require physical and mathematical
approaches to understand and indeed manipulate them. Disorders in
general cellular compartments, perturbations in single molecular
structures, drug distribution therein, and target specific
drug-binding, etc. are mostly physical phenomena. This book will
show how biophysics has revolutionized our way of addressing the
science and technology of nanoscale structures of cells, and also
describes the potential for manipulating the events that occur in
them.
Physics, mathematics and chemistry all play a vital role in
understanding the true nature and functioning of biological
membranes, key elements of living processes. Besides simple
spectroscopic observations and electrical measurements of membranes
we address in this book the phenomena of coexistence and
independent existence of different membrane components using
various theoretical approaches. This treatment will be helpful for
readers who want to understand biological processes by applying
both simple observations and fundamental scientific analysis. It
provides a deep understanding of the causes and effects of
processes inside membranes, and will thus eventually open new doors
for high-level pharmaceutical approaches towards fighting membrane-
and cell-related diseases.
Physics, mathematics and chemistry all play a vital role in
understanding the true nature and functioning of biological
membranes, key elements of living processes. Besides simple
spectroscopic observations and electrical measurements of membranes
we address in this book the phenomena of coexistence and
independent existence of different membrane components using
various theoretical approaches. This treatment will be helpful for
readers who want to understand biological processes by applying
both simple observations and fundamental scientific analysis. It
provides a deep understanding of the causes and effects of
processes inside membranes, and will thus eventually open new doors
for high-level pharmaceutical approaches towards fighting membrane-
and cell-related diseases.
This book clarifies some misunderstandings about money by tying the
concept of money to the goods and services sector of the economy.
In addition, it demystifies the process of money creation on the
part of central banks. The phenomenon of money is ubiquitous; it
has been around for tens of thousands of years, if not longer.
Indeed, no modern economy could function without money. For many,
however, the concept of money remains elusive. Worse still,
misinformation abounds, which leaves the uninitiated vulnerable to
fraud. This lack of understanding has serious policy implications
as well. When policymakers lack a firm grasp of the concept, policy
is likely to be flawed and its effects are likely to be detrimental
to the body politic. After providing a brief history of money, the
author details the role of money in the division of labor and
specialization, in economic growth, and in an interconnected world.
Throughout the book, he points out the pitfalls of fallacious
thinking. In recent policy debates, such thinking has led to
proposals ranging from the re-institution of the gold standard to
supplying limitless money as suggested by Modern Monetary Theory.
This volume showcases mostly the contributions presented at the
International Conference in Algebra and Its Applications held at
the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India during November
12-14, 2016. Refereed by renowned experts in the field, this
wide-ranging collection of works presents the state of the art in
the field of algebra and its applications covering topics such as
derivations in rings, category theory, Baer module theory, coding
theory, graph theory, semi-group theory, HNP rings, Leavitt path
algebras, generalized matrix algebras, Nakayama conjecture, near
ring theory and lattice theory. All of the contributing authors are
leading international academicians and researchers in their
respective fields. Contents On Structure of -Prime Rings with
Generalized Derivation A characterization of additive mappings in
rings with involution| Skew constacyclic codes over Fq + vFq + v2Fq
Generalized total graphs of commutative rings: A survey
Differential conditions for which near-rings are commutative rings
Generalized Skew Derivations satisfying the second Posner's theorem
on Lie ideals Generalized Skew-Derivations on Lie Ideals in Prime
Rings On generalized derivations and commutativity of prime rings
with involution On (n, d)-Krull property in amalgamated algebra
Pure ideals in ordered -semigroups Projective ideals of
differential polynomial rings over HNP rings Additive central
m-power skew-commuting maps on semiprime rings A Note on
CESS-Lattices Properties Inherited by Direct Sums of Copies of a
Module Modules witnessing that a Leavitt path algebra is directly
infinite Inductive Groupoids and Normal Categories of Regular
Semigroups Actions of generalized derivations in Rings and Banach
Algebras Proper Categories and Their Duals On Nakayama Conjecture
and related conjectures-Review On construction of global actions
for partial actions On 2-absorbing and Weakly 2-absorbing Ideals in
Product Lattices Separability in algebra and category theory
Annihilators of power values of generalized skew derivations on Lie
ideals Generalized derivations on prime rings with involution
This book provides a comprehensive knowledge of linear algebra for
graduate and undergraduate courses. As a self-contained text, it
aims at covering all important areas of the subject, including
algebraic structures, matrices and systems of linear equations,
vector spaces, linear transformations, dual and inner product
spaces, canonical, bilinear, quadratic, sesquilinear, Hermitian
forms of operators and tensor products of vector spaces with their
algebras. The last three chapters focus on empowering readers to
pursue interdisciplinary applications of linear algebra in
numerical methods, analytical geometry and in solving linear system
of differential equations. A rich collection of examples and
exercises are present at the end of each section to enhance the
conceptual understanding of readers. Basic knowledge of various
notions, such as sets, relations, mappings, etc., has been
pre-assumed.
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Syed Mohammad Ashraf Jamal
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