Principles of Polymer Science introduces several basic and advanced aspects of polymers for the undergraduate and graduate students in chemistry, chemical engineering, and materials science. The second and thoroughly revised edition includes the technical aspects of synthesis, characterization, behavior, and technology in a straightforward and lucid manner. Separate chapters on natural, inorganic, and specialty polymers will attract readers from inderdisciplinary courses. The book presents several laboratory experiments, multiple choice questions, a glossary of technical words, and brief sketches of polymer pioneers.
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Polymer Science
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Effective for undergraduate and postgraduate students, the single-volume Complex Analysis functions as both a textbook and a reference, depending on the conducted course's structure. The only prerequisites are rudiments of real analysis and linear algebra. Special features include an integrated approach to the concept of differentiation for complex valued functions of a complex variable, unified Cauchy Riemann equations, complex versions of real intermediate value theorem, and exhaustive treatment of contour integration. The book also offers an introduction to the theory of univalent functions on the unit disc, including a brief history of the Bieberbach's conjecture and its solutions.
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Mathematical Analysis
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Written by an international expert in the field, Geophysical Framework of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan focuses on the Indian subcontinent, encompassing detailed descriptions of the region's tectonic outline and geophysical parameters. It enables researchers and practitioners in the industry to visualize the extension of the structural and tectonic elements at depth, and the processes underlying the evolution of the Indian lithosphere and craton. The text integrates the emerging concepts and newly acquired data, keeping in view the framework of plate tectonics, seismicity, neotectonics, mid-continent rifting, and ridge formation, suturing together the disparate cratonic elements and covering a period of over three billion years.
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Environmental Geology
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One of the principal functions of drawing is to convey ideas from the design engineer to the fabricator. Hence, the skill to interpret and construct engineering sketches and drawings is of paramount importance. This second edition of the popular Engineering Graphics explains the principles and construction of engineering drawing in an elementary manner so that readers from different areas of engineering can understand it with a minimum effort. New conventions of designating the planes, ground lines and projections on the planes have been introduced to avoid confusion when a number of planes are involved. The authors structured the book to follow the syllabi used by most engineering institutes.
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Structural Engineering
Transportation Engineering
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Essential for students of both undergraduate and postgraduate classes, Modern Plant Physiology addresses new developments in tissue culture, stress physiology, and secondary metabolities. This detailed and comprehensive handbook, written by a renowned figure in botanical education, focuses on many essential concepts, including: the metabolisms of nitrogen, amino acids, protein, fat, and nucleic acid; photosynthesis; photorespiration; hormones; senescence, aging and abscission; photoperiodism; and the physiology of flowering. The text offers tabulated differences between allied processes such as Fluorescence and Phosphorescence, thus providing a clear conception and better understanding of the subject matter.
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Discussing recent developments in both theoretical and experimental nuclear physics, Contemporary Nuclear Physics presents thirty three articles presented at The National Seminar on "Contemporary Nuclear Physics" organized by the Institute of Physics. Topics range from structure to reaction dynamics, from hadrons to quarks, from the terrestrial to the astophysical, andfrom the conventional to the exotic. These include heavy ion collisions, quark gluon plasma, early universe, nucleons, mesons, quarks and QCD, neutron starts, nuclear astrophysics, exotic nuclei, nuclear masses, nuclear structure, deformations, mean fields, high spin states, superheavy nuclei and giant resonances.
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Physical Chemistry
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Nonlinear Systems covers a wide range of topics in nonlinear science, from general nonlinear dynamics, soliton systems, and the solution of nonlinear differential and difference equations to the integrability of discrete nonlinear systems, and classical and quantum chaos. Its chapters reflect the current status of important nonlinear theories in various areas of applied mathematics and mathematical physics and collectively provide a comprehensive picture of new areas and their applications.
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Differential Equations
Mathematical Physics
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A much awaited textbook, Developmental Biology covers the entire gamut of animal development, from gametogenesis to senescence and cell death. Fertilization, cleavage, gastrulation, organ formation and fetal membranes, experimental embryology, developmental processes after embryogenesis, and environmental regulation of animal development are discussed in different chapters. Many chapters integrate descriptive embryology with modern concepts in developmental biology. Developmental genetics of Drosophila also finds a spot in the book.
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Developmental Biology
Molecular Biology
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Neuro-Computers: Optimization Based Learning provides an intermediate-level exposition of the exciting world of neuro-computers. It presents the importance of neuro-computing to artificial intelligence, giving historical background and present-day implementation options. The book demonstrates the superiority of the adaptive search strategy over conventional fixed parameter searches performed by backpropagation algorithms. It then explores global optimization strategy and presents genetic algorithms as viable methods to train neuro computers on non-trivial problems. This self-contained volume is delivered in a format that is suitable for graduate students, as well as researchers who want to begin work in neuro-computing or related artificial intelligence applications.
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Intelligent Systems
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The study of wavelets has grown tremendously over the past decade and found myriad applications in areas such as image processing, signal processing, data compression, and numerical methods. This volume contains articles by eminent mathematicians on aspects of wavelet theory. These chapters include a systematic study of the approximation properties of neural networks and a look at several applications where classical approaches were found to be inadequate.
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Mathematics & Statistics for Engineers
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