Peregrinations From Physics To Phylogeny

Author : Kok Khoo Phua
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814759104
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peregrinations from Physics to Phylogeny written by Kok Khoo Phua and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ' "Professor Hao Bailin is one of China''s most talented and most versatile theoretical physicists. He has made important contributions to a wide variety of research fields, including biology in which he pioneered a multidimensional method for studying the evolutionary pathways of bacteria. Indeed he calls himself, appreciatively I believe, a guerrilla fighter." Nobel Laureate, Chen-Ning Yang Contents: C N Yang on Hao Bailin, 2015 (Chen-Ning Yang)Skeleton Graph Expansion of Critical Exponents in "Cultural Revolution" Years (Hao Bailin)The Virial Expansion Re-visited: A New Interpretation (Fa-Yueh Wu and Ron Aaron)Chaos in the Belousov–Zhabotinsky Reaction (Richard J Field)Discrete Resonances (Franco Vivaldi)Exact Solution of the Planar Motion of Three Arbitrary Point Vortices (Robert Conte and Laurent de Seze)A Cognitive Network for Oracle-Bone Characters Related to Animals (Andreas Dress, Stefan Grünewald and Zhenbing Zeng)Periodic Oscillations of the Forced Brusselator (Jason A C Gallas)Genomes: At the Edge of Chaos with Maximum Information Capacity (Sing-Guan Kong, Hong-Da Chen, Andrew Torda, and H C Lee)Low Temperature Glassy Systems: Present Understanding, Open Problems and Future Developments (Giorgio Parisi)CVTrees Support the Bergey''s Systematics and Provide High Resolution at Species Levels and Below (Bailin Hao)My Days as a Student of Prof. Hao (1982–1986) (Mingzhou Ding)Teacher and Friend (Yong-Shi Wu) Readership: This book is suitable for students of physics and mathematics and all members of the general public interested in science. Keywords:Hao Bailin;Virial Expansion;Chaos;Complex Systems;Glassy Systems'

Author : Freeman John Dyson
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814759090
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Professor Dyson written by Freeman John Dyson and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Freeman Dyson has designed nuclear reactors and bomb-powered spacecraft; he has studied the origins of life and the possibilities for the long-term future; he showed quantum mechanics to be consistent with electrodynamics and started cosmological eschatology; he has won international recognition for his work in science and for his work in reconciling science to religion; he has advised generals and congressional committees. An STS (Science, Technology, Society) curriculum or discussion group that engages topics such as nuclear policies, genetic technologies, environmental sustainability, the role of religion in a scientific society, and a hard look towards the future, would count itself privileged to include Professor Dyson as a class participant and mentor. In this book, STS topics are not discussed as objectified abstractions, but through personal stories. The reader is invited to observe Dyson's influence on a generation of young people as they wrestle with issues of science, technology, society, life in general and our place in the universe. The book is filled with personal anecdotes, student questions and responses, honest doubts and passions"--

Author : Chandre Dharma-wardana
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814425427
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Physicist's View of Matter and Mind written by Chandre Dharma-wardana and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a highly interdisciplinary book straddling physics and complex systems such as living organisms. The presentation is from the perspective of physics, in a manner accessible to those interested in scientific knowledge integrated within its socio-cultural and philosophical backgrounds. Two key areas of human understanding, namely physics and conscious complex systems, are presented in simple language. An optional technical presentation is also given in parallel where it is needed.

Author : Rafael A Barrio
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1783260351
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Topics In Physics: In Honor Of Sir Roger J Elliott written by Rafael A Barrio and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable book is a compilation of invited talks delivered at the symposium, “Current Topics in Physics” held in Mexico City in June 2003, to celebrate the 75th birthday of Professor Sir Roger Elliott. The contributions have been prepared by research associates, former students, post-doctoral fellows and colleagues of Professor Elliott, many of them leading scientists — as Sir Roger himself — in important research institutes around the world. The book gives a very timely and comprehensive overview of various key areas of modern condensed matter and statistical physics. 19 original contributions are included, grouped in three main areas: disorder and dynamical systems, structures and glasses, electrical and magnetic properties.The contributions are by many of the foremost researchers in the field of condensed matter and statistical physics. In particular, contributions by such prominent scientists as M E Fisher, A A Maradudin, M F Thorpe, M Balkanski, T Fujiwara, and of course Sir Roger Elliott himself make this book a rewarding read.

Author : Piers E. T. Al COLEMAN
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814733636
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pwa90 written by Piers E. T. Al COLEMAN and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a remarkable career spanning more than six decades, Philip W. Anderson has made many fundamental contributions to physics. As codified in his oft-quoted phrase "More is Different", Anderson has been the most forceful and persuasive proponent of the radical, but now ubiquitous, viewpoint of emergent phenomena: truly fundamental concepts that can and do emerge from studies of Nature at each layer of complexity or energy scale. Anderson's ideas have also extended deeply into other areas of physics, including the Anderson-Higgs mechanism and the dynamics of pulsars. PWA90: A Lifetime of Emergence is a volume of original scientific essays and personal reminiscences of Philip W Anderson by experts in the field, that were presented as part of "PWA90: Emergent Frontiers of Condensed Matter" meeting held at Princeton in December 2013 to highlight Anderson's contributions to physics"--

Author : Joseph Fracchia
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004471596
Total Pages : 1450 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies and Artefacts: Historical Materialism as Corporeal Semiotics (2 vols.) written by Joseph Fracchia and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an offhand, never systematically elaborated comment Karl Marx deemed ‘human corporeal organisation’ the ‘first fact for the study of human history’. This book explores the implications of Marx’s radically corporeal insight for historical-materialist analysis of socio-economic and cultural forms.

Author : Lorcan M. Folan
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789810248833
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Physics and Technology for Undergraduates written by Lorcan M. Folan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook connects an undergraduate course in physics with modern science and technology. The first part of the book gives an overview of "hot" directions in modern physics and technology. The second part contains problems which are related to those directions. Where necessary, the problems have detailed solutions. The text also includes a brief review of undergraduate physics.A huge chasm has developed between modern science and undergraduate education. The result of this chasm is that students who are graduating from college are unable to exploit the many opportunities offered by modern science and technology. Consequently, student interest in undergraduate physics is very low. The authors purpose to try to bridge this chasm between modern science and technology and undergraduate education.Modern science and technology widely uses the methods of classical physics, but these modern applications are not reflected in the problems on physics often suggested to students. Solving practical problems is a very effective way to inform students about contemporary science, to show the important relationships between modern and classical physics, and to prepare them for future activity in the modern technological environment. The authors have prepared a set of problems based on some of the latest development in science and technology which can be solved using the classical physics accessible in a standard undergraduate program.

Author : Peter Rowlands
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9789814618373
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of Physical Law written by Peter Rowlands and published by World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-09 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book originated in a series of lectures given at Liverpool in 2013 to a group that included postgraduate and undergraduate students and staff of the Physics Department. They followed from two very successful lectures given to the undergraduate Physical Society. It seemed that there was a very large interest among the students in investigating the foundations of physics in a way that was never done in physics courses, and was not available in books or other outlets. However, the idea was to create a framework in which students (and interested staff) could develop their own thinking relative to the ideas in the lectures. So it was important to create both conceptual and mathematical structures on the issues that are important at this level. The book has the right sort of technical content to allow for this development, but doesn't lose itself in excessive details. The ideal use for this book would be on postgraduate courses where students would be encouraged to think about the foundations in a way that is well beyond the superficial. However, a course on aspects of this material would also be valuable at the undergraduate level, where students could be stimulated into believing that creative thinking could solve the problems that emerge when we confront foundational problems.

Author : Abraham Verghese
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679752927
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Own Country written by Abraham Verghese and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995-04-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Covenant of Water and New York Times bestseller Cutting for Stone: a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears. “Remarkable.... An account of the [AIDS] plague years in America. Beautifully written…by a doctor who was changed and shaped by his patients.” —The New York Times Book Review Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. But when the local hospital treated its first AIDS patient, a crisis that had once seemed an “urban problem” had arrived in the town to stay. Working in Johnson City was Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor specializing in infectious diseases. Dr. Verghese became by necessity the local AIDS expert, soon besieged by a shocking number of male and female patients whose stories came to occupy his mind, and even take over his life. Verghese brought a singular perspective to Johnson City: as a doctor unique in his abilities; as an outsider who could talk to people suspicious of local practitioners; above all, as a writer of grace and compassion who saw that what was happening in this conservative community was both a medical and a spiritual emergency.

Author : Lotfia Mohamed el Nadi
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814504904
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Trends in Physics Research written by Lotfia Mohamed el Nadi and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objectives of the conference are to develop greater understanding of physics research and its applications to promote new industries; to innovate knowledge about recent breakthroughs in physics, both the fundamental and technological aspects; to implement of international cooperation in new trends in physics research and to improve the performance of the physics research facilities in Egypt. This proceedings highlights the latest results in the fields of astrophysics, atomic, molecular, condensed matter, laser, nuclear and particle physics. The peer refereed papers collected in this volume were written by international experts in these laser fields. Contents:Atomic, Molecular and Condensed Matter Physics:Solar Activities and Space Weather Hazards (Ahmed A Hady)Electron Beam Ion Trap and Its Applications (Yaming Zou)Fundamental Studies and Applications of Highly Charged Ions (Reinhold Schuch)Stark Broadening Calculations of Several Ti Lines (A I Refaie and H Sharkawy)Synthesis of Rare Earth Doped and Undoped GaN Nano-Crystallites (Lotfia El Nadi, S Ahmed, M Awaad, Magdy Omar and Y Badr)Conductivity Enhancement of Mn-Zn Ferrite by Gamma Irradiation (M A Ahmed, A M Diab and S F Mansour)Giant Enhancement in the Physical Properties of LaFeO3 by Substitution of Divalent Ions (M A Ahmed, S I Dek, M M Arman)High Density Short Pulse Lasers, Lasers and Applications:Advanced Laboratory for High Density Physics (Lotfia El Nadi, A Naser A Fettoh, A Refaie, Galila A Mehena, Hussien A Moniem, Hisham Imam, Khaled A Elsayed, Magdy Omar and Salah H Naby)High Energy Density Physics: The Laser Field of Tomorrow (Richard R Freeman)The Texas Petawatt Laser and Technology Development Towards an Exawatt Laser (Todd Ditmier)XUV and Soft X-ray Laser Radiation from Ni-like Au (Wessameldin S Abdelaziz and H M Hamed)Novel Process for Laser Stain Removal from Archeological Oil Paintings (Lotfia El Nadi, Osama El-Feky, Galila Abdellatif and Sawsan Darwish)Application of Laser Induced Plasma Spectroscopy on Breast Cancer Diagnoses (A Abd-Alfattah, A A Eldakrouri, H Emam and I M Azzouz)Ultrafast Process in Condensed Matter Studied with Ultrashort Laser Pulses (Panagnioti A Loukakous)Nuclear, Particle Physics and Astrophysics:Charge Measurements of Fragmented Nuclei of Si at Different Energies (M S EL-Nagdy, A Abdelsalam, A Algaood and M Ahmed)Research Studies Performed Using the Cairo Fourier Diffractometer Facility (R M A Maayouf)K-Surfaces in Schwarzschild Geometry (Ayub Faridi, Fazal-E-Aleem and Haris Rashid)Light-Strange Mesons Decays in the Quark Model (A M Yasser, E M Hassan, M A Fawzy and M A Allosh)Surprising Rapid Collapse of Sirius B from Red Giant to White Dwarf Through Mass Transfer to Sirius A (Shahinaz Yousef and Ola Ali)Evaluation of Radioactivity Concentration in Tilapia Nilotica and Radiation Dose to Egyptian Population (Hannan H Amer and Enas H El-Khawas)Solar Forcings on Nile and Earthquakes (Saad Mohammed Al-Shehri, Ismail Sabbah, Shahinaz Yousef and Magdy Y Amin)and other papers Keywords:Atomic;Astrophysics;Condensed Matter;Chemical;Laser;Molecular;Nuclear and Particle Physics