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Gosling, Patricia |
Mastering Your PhD |
I12344 |
2022 |
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??chsner, Marco |
Advanced LaTeX in Academia |
I11967 |
2021 |
eBook |
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Nakasako, Masayoshi |
Hydration Structures of Proteins |
I11877 |
2021 |
eBook |
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Webb, Stephen |
All the Wonder that Would Be |
I10373 |
2017 |
eBook |
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Genta, Giancarlo |
A Man From Planet Earth |
I10269 |
2016 |
eBook |
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Schulze-Makuch, Dirk |
The Cosmic Zoo |
I09993 |
2017 |
eBook |
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Altshuler, Ernesto |
Guerrilla Science |
I09774 |
2017 |
eBook |
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K??ppers, Bernd-Olaf |
The Computability of the World |
I09667 |
2018 |
eBook |
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Parke, William C |
Biophysics |
I09115 |
2020 |
eBook |
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Mainzer, Klaus |
The Little Book of Time |
I11562 |
2002 |
eBook |
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| Title | Mastering Your PhD : Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond |
| Author(s) | Gosling, Patricia;Noordam, Bart |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer International Publishing, 2022. |
| Description | XII, 197 p. 11 illus., 1 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This bestselling book guides PhD students through their graduate years and beyond. Filled with practical advice on getting started, communicating with your supervisor, staying the course, and planning for the future, this book is an indispensable guide for graduate students who need that extra bit of help getting started and making it through. Who should read this book? Any student currently in, or curious about, a PhD programme, be it in the physical and life sciences, engineering, computer science, math, medicine, or the humanities ??? this book tackles the obstacles and hurdles that almost all PhD students face during their doctoral training. Whether you???re at the very beginning of your research, close to the end, or just feeling frustrated and stuck at any point in between???it???s never too early ??? or too late ??? to focus on your success! This third edition contains a variety of new material, including additional chapters and advice on how to make the most of remote learning, collaboration, and communication tools, as well as updated material on your next career step once you have your coveted doctoral degree in hand. Some of the material in the third edition appeared as part of a monthly column on the ScienceCareers website |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031114175 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. ENGINEERING
6. HUMANITIES
7. Humanities and Social Sciences
8. LIFE SCIENCES
9. MATHEMATICS
10. Mathematics and Computing
11. PHYSICAL SCIENCES
12. SCIENCE
13. SOCIAL SCIENCES
14. Technology and Engineering
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| Title | Advanced LaTeX in Academia : Applications in Research and Education |
| Author(s) | ??chsner, Marco;??chsner, Andreas |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2021. |
| Description | XI, 239 p. 225 illus., 87 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book contains a comprehensive treatment of advanced LaTeX features. The focus is on the development of high quality documents and presentations, by revealing powerful insights into the LaTeX language. The well-established advantages of the typesetting system LaTeX are the preparation and publication of platform-independent high-quality documents and automatic numbering and cross-referencing of illustrations or references. These can be extended beyond the typical applications, by creating highly dynamic electronic documents. This is commonly performed in connection with the portable document format (PDF), as well as other programming tools which allow the development of extremely flexible electronic documents |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030889562 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. ENGINEERING
4. HUMANITIES
5. Humanities and Social Sciences
6. LIFE SCIENCES
7. MATHEMATICS
8. Mathematics and Computing
9. Natural language processing (Computer science)
10. Natural Language Processing (NLP)
11. PHYSICAL SCIENCES
12. SCIENCE
13. SOCIAL SCIENCES
14. Technology and Engineering
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| Title | Hydration Structures of Proteins : Atomic Details |
| Author(s) | Nakasako, Masayoshi |
| Publication | Tokyo, Springer Japan, 2021. |
| Description | XVIII, 309 p. 143 illus., 139 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book describes hydration structures of proteins by combining experimental results with theoretical considerations. It is designed to introduce graduate students and researchers to microscopic views of the interactions between water and biological macromolecules and to provide them with an overview of the field. Topics on protein hydration from the past 25 years are examined, most of which involve crystallography, fluorescence measurements, and molecular dynamics simulations. In X-ray crystallography and molecular dynamics simulations, recent advances have accelerated the study of hydration structures over the entire surface of proteins. Experimentally, crystal structure analysis at cryogenic temperatures is advantageous in terms of visualizing the positions of hydration water molecules on the surfaces of proteins in their frozen-hydrated crystals. A set of massive data regarding hydration sites on protein surfaces provides an appropriate basis, enabling us to identify statistically significant trends in geometrical characteristics. Trajectories obtained from molecular dynamics simulations illustrate the motion of water molecules in the vicinity of protein surfaces at sufficiently high spatial and temporal resolution to study the influences of hydration on protein motion. Together with the results and implications of these studies, the physical principles of the measurement and simulation of protein hydration are briefly summarized at an undergraduate level. Further, the author presents recent results from statistical approaches to characterizing hydrogen-bond geometry in local hydration structures of proteins. The book equips readers to better understand the structures and modes of interaction at the interface between water and proteins. Referred to as ???hydration structures???, they are the subject of much discussion, as they may help to answer the question of why water is indispensable for life at the molecular and atomic level |
| ISBN,Price | 9784431569190 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. BIOPHYSICS
2. CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
3. Crystallography and Scattering Methods
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. LIFE SCIENCES
7. MEASUREMENT
8. Measurement Science and Instrumentation
9. MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
10. PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
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| Title | All the Wonder that Would Be : Exploring Past Notions of the Future |
| Author(s) | Webb, Stephen |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017. |
| Description | XIII, 344 p. 80 illus., 71 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | It has been argued that science fiction (SF) gives a kind of weather forecast ??? not the telling of a fortune but rather the rough feeling of what the future might be like. The intention in this book is to consider some of these bygone forecasts made by SF and to use this as a prism through which to view current developments in science and technology. In each of the ten main chapters - dealing in turn with antigravity, space travel, aliens, time travel, the nature of reality, invisibility, robots, means of transportation, augmentation of the human body, and, last but not least, mad scientists - common assumptions once made by the SF community about how the future would turn out are compared with our modern understanding of various scientific phenomena and, in some cases, with the industrial scaling of computational and technological breakthroughs. A further intention is to explain how the predictions and expectations of SF were rooted in the scientific orthodoxy of their day, and use this to explore how our scientific understanding of various topics has developed over time, as well as to demonstrate how the ideas popularized in SF subsequently influenced working scientists. Since gaining a BSc in physics from the University of Bristol and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Manchester, Stephen Webb has worked in a variety of universities in the UK. He is a regular contributor to the Yearbook of Astronomy series and has published an undergraduate textbook on distance determination in astronomy and cosmology as well as several popular science books |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319517599 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. LIFE SCIENCES
5. PHYSICS
6. Popular Life Sciences
7. Popular Science in Astronomy
8. Popular Science in Physics
9. Popular Science in Technology
10. TECHNOLOGY
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| Title | A Man From Planet Earth : A Scientific Novel |
| Author(s) | Genta, Giancarlo |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2016. |
| Description | XI, 308 p. 6 illus., 1 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Sometime in the not-too-distant future ... unbeknownst to Earth, the Galaxy is home to a number of spacefaring societies. This confederation enforces a strict protocol forbidding any contact with civilizations that have not yet achieved both a substantial spacefaring capability and sufficient maturity to control the technology explosion before triggering their own extinction. ?? While this policy is intended to only bring in peaceful new members, matters change entirely when the confederation is threatened by some unknown entity - is the menace real or imagined? ??The confederation decides to break with the rules and sends a delegate to Earth to hire one of the supposedly belligerent Earthlings to investigate and to revive the confederation???s long-unused starfleet. The Earthman agrees, but demands a high price: should he succeed, the confederation will have to accept Earth as a new member. As the threat becomes ever more acute, the question soon becomes which mission will prove harder - saving the confederation or convincing it to accept the deal! ?? The extensive appendix, written in non-technical language, reviews the scientific and technological topics underlying the plot - ranging from the Fermi paradox, space travel and artificial/collective intelligence to theories on possible universal convergences in technological and biological development |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319211152 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROBIOLOGY
2. ASTRONOMY
3. EARTH
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. GEOLOGY
7. LIFE SCIENCES
8. PHYSICS
9. Popular Earth Science
10. Popular Life Sciences
11. Popular Science in Astronomy
12. Popular Science in Physics
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| Title | The Cosmic Zoo : Complex Life on Many Worlds |
| Author(s) | Schulze-Makuch, Dirk;Bains, William |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017. |
| Description | XII, 232 p. 33 illus., 31 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Are humans a galactic oddity, or will complex life with human abilities develop on planets with environments that remain habitable for long enough? In a clear, jargon-free style, two leading researchers in the burgeoning field of astrobiology critically examine the major evolutionary steps that led us from the distant origins of life to the technologically advanced species we are today. Are the key events that took life from simple cells to astronauts unique occurrences that would be unlikely to occur on other planets? By focusing on what life does - it's functional abilities - rather than specific biochemistry or anatomy, the authors provide plausible answers to this question. Systematically exploring the various pathways that led to the complex biosphere we experience on planet Earth, they show that most of the steps along that path are likely to occur on any world hosting life, with only two exceptions: One is the origin of life itself ??? if this is a highly improbable event, then we live in a rather ???empty universe???. However, if this isn???t the case, we inevitably live in a universe containing a myriad of planets hosting complex as well as microbial life - a ???cosmic zoo???. The other unknown is the rise of technologically advanced beings, as exemplified on Earth by humans. Only one technological species has emerged in the roughly 4 billion years life has existed on Earth, and we don???t know of any other technological species elsewhere. If technological intelligence is a rare, almost unique feature of Earth's history, then there can be no visitors to the cosmic zoo other than ourselves. Schulze-Makuch and Bains take the reader through the history of life on Earth, laying out a consistent and straightforward framework for understanding why we should think that advanced, complex life exists on planets other than Earth. They provide a unique perspective on the question that puzzled the human species for centuries: are we alone? |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319620459 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROBIOLOGY
2. ASTRONOMY
3. EARTH
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. Evolutionary Biology
7. GEOLOGY
8. LIFE SCIENCES
9. Popular Earth Science
10. Popular Life Sciences
11. Popular Science in Astronomy
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| Title | Guerrilla Science : Survival Strategies of a Cuban Physicist |
| Author(s) | Altshuler, Ernesto |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017. |
| Description | X, 147 p. 71 illus., 50 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Full of drama, dedication, and humor, this book narrates the author???s often frustrating experiences working as an experimental physicist in Cuba after the disintegration of the so-called socialist block. Lacking finance and infrastructure, faced with makeshift equipment, unpredictable supplies, and unreliable IT, Altshuler tells how he and his students overcame numerous challenges to make novel and interesting contributions to several fields of science. Along the way, he explains the science - from studies of ant colonies to superconductivity - either qualitatively or quantitatively, but always at a level fully understandable to an undergraduate student of natural sciences or engineering. An even wider audience, however, may skip the technical sections without missing the essence. With numerous anecdotes, photographs and the author???s own delightful cartoons, the book tells a remarkable, and often amusing story of how successful science can be performed against all odds |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319516240 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. CONDENSED MATTER
2. CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. Entomology
6. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
7. LIFE SCIENCES
8. PHYSICS
9. Popular Life Sciences
10. Popular Science in Physics
11. Science???Social aspects
12. Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education
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| Title | The Computability of the World : How Far Can Science Take Us? |
| Author(s) | K??ppers, Bernd-Olaf |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2018. |
| Description | X, 200 p. 40 illus., 38 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | In this thought-provoking book K??ppers, an internationally renowned physicist, philosopher and theoretical biologist, addresses a number of??science's deepest??questions: Can??physics advance to the origin of all things and explain the unique phenomena of life, time and history? Are there unsolvable enigmas of the world? How did life originate? Is language a general phenomenon of Nature? What is time? Is it possible to express the history of the world in formulae? Where is science leading us? These and other provocative questions essential for a deeper understanding of the world are treated here in a refreshing and stimulating manner |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319673691 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
2. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
6. LIFE SCIENCES
7. PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE
8. PHYSICS
9. Popular Life Sciences
10. Popular Science in Physics
11. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
12. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
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| Title | Biophysics : A Student???s Guide to the Physics of the Life Sciences and Medicine |
| Author(s) | Parke, William C |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2020. |
| Description | XVIII, 695 p. 148 illus., 90 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This comprehensive and extensively classroom-tested biophysics textbook is a complete introduction to the physical principles underlying biological processes and their applications to the life sciences and medicine. The foundations of natural processes are placed on a firm footing before showing how their consequences can be explored in a wide range of biosystems. The goal is to develop the readers??? intuition, understanding, and facility for creative analysis that are frequently required to grapple with problems involving complex living organisms. Topics cover all scales, encompassing the application of statics, fluid dynamics, acoustics, electromagnetism, light, radiation physics, thermodynamics, statistical physics, quantum biophysics, and theories of information, ordering, and evolutionary optimization to biological processes and bio-relevant technological implementations. Sound modeling principles are emphasized throughout, placing all the concepts within a rigorous framework. With numerous worked examples and exercises to test and enhance the reader???s understanding, this book can be used as a textbook for physics graduate students and as a supplementary text for a range of premedical, biomedical, and biophysics courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It will also be a useful reference for biologists, physicists, medical researchers, and medical device engineers who want to work from first principles |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030441463 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics
2. BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS
3. BIOMATHEMATICS
4. Biomedical engineering
5. Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering
6. BIOPHYSICS
7. Biotechnology
8. EBOOK
9. EBOOK - SPRINGER
10. LIFE SCIENCES
11. Life Sciences, general
12. Physiological, Cellular and Medical Topics
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| Title | The Little Book of Time |
| Author(s) | Mainzer, Klaus |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Copernicus
2. Springer New York, 2002. |
| Description | XVI, 176 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | chapter 1 Time in the Classical and Medieval Worldviews From the Beginnings to the Pre-Socratic School Zeno's Time Arrow and Aristotle's Continuum 6 Time and Creation According to Saint Augustine 15 Time and Medieval Astronomy 18 20 Calendars and Clocks chapter 2 Time in the Worldview of Classical Physics 25 Absolute Time According to Newton 26 Relational Time According to Leibniz 30 Time in Classical Mechanics 31 Time in Kant's Epistemology 35 chapter 3 Relativistic Spacetime 43 Time in Special Relativity Theory 44 Time in General Relativity Theory 50 Time in Relativistic Cosmology 54 chapter 4 Time and the Quantum World 61 Time in Quantum Mechanics 62 Time in Quantum Field Theories 70 Time, Black Holes, and the Anthropic Principle 78 Time and Thermodynamics chapter 5 83 Time in Equilibrium Thermodynamics 84 Time in Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics 2 9 Time, Irreversibility, and Self-Organization 100 chapter 6 Time and Life 107 Time in Darwin's Theory of Evolution 108 Time in Molecular Evolution 111 Time Hierarchies and Biological Rhythms 117 chapter 7 Time and Consciousness 121 Temporal Rhythms and Brain Physiology 122 The Experience of Time and the Emergence of Consciousness 124 Computation Time and Artificial Intelligence 128 chapter 8 Time in History and Culture 137 Time in Historical Cultures 138 Time in Technological-Industrial Cultures 144 The Time Horizon of the Technological World and the Philosophy of Time 152 Further Reading 161 Index 167 Acknowledgments The Little Book of Time was inspired by my research in |
| ISBN,Price | 9781475743326 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
3. ASTROPHYSICS
4. Biomedicine, general
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. HISTORY
8. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
9. LIFE SCIENCES
10. Life Sciences, general
11. MEDICINE
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