Posted:2010-01-26 | Category:Science

The southern coast of the North Sea is mainly protected by a single line of defence against flooding. The traditional means for heightening and strengthening the existing coastal barriers are limited due to the increased enormous resource costs, i.e....
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Posted:2010-01-26 | Category:Science

Due to the current revolution in brain research the search for the “moral brain” became a serious endeavour. Nowadays, neural circuits that are indispensable for moral and social behaviour are discovered and the brains of psychopaths and ...
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Posted:2010-01-26 | Category:Science

The main role of grasses, clovers and alfalfa in temperate agriculture is still to provide forage for ruminant animals but, in the last decades, the importance of amenity grasses increased markedly and, in the near future, new developments in the are...
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Posted:2010-01-26 | Category:Science

This book is a part of Books Series on Integrated Microanalytical Systems. It discusses the latest applications of photonic technologies in bio-chemical sensing. Based on the photonic structures, the book is divided into four sections:
Photonic cry...
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Posted:2010-01-20 | Category:Science

The presence of xenobiotics in the aquatic environment is seen as one of the biggest challenges for a sustainable water future. Thus, there is a need to understand, in an integrated manner, the sources, flow paths, fate and effects of xenobiotics in ...
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Posted:2010-01-20 | Category:Science

Mammalian Toll-like receptors (TLRs) were first identified in 1997 based on their homology with Drosophila Toll, which mediates innate immunity in the fly. In recent years, the number of studies describing TLR expression and function in the nervous s...
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Posted:2010-01-20 | Category:Science

Why this book? Simply because it is due. Cognitive automation and its system-ergonomic introduction into work systems have been advanced in the meantime to such a degree that already applications for operational work systems are slowly becoming reali...
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Posted:2010-01-20 | Category:Science

Random Vibration in Spacecraft Structures Design is based on the lecture notes "Spacecraft structures" and "Special topics concerning vibration in spacecraft structures" from courses given at Delft University of Technology. The mo...
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Posted:2010-01-20 | Category:Science

Problems of stochastic optimization and various mathematical aspects of risk are the main themes of this contributed volume. The readers learn about the recent results and techniques of optimal investment, risk measures and derivative pricing. There ...
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Posted:2010-01-19 | Category:Science

How Does One Cut a Triangle? is a work of art, and rarely, perhaps never, does one find the talents of an artist better suited to his intention than we find in Alexander Soifer and this book.
—Peter D. Johnson, Jr.
This delightful book con...
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