In ‘Columbia: Final Voyage’ aerospace writer Philip Chien, who has over 20 years’ experience covering the US space program, provides a unique insight into the crew members who lost their lives in the Columbia disaster.
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Although pitch has been considered an important area of auditory research since the birth of modern acoustics in the 19th century, some of the most significant developments in our understanding of this phenomenon have occurred comparatively recently.
Few syndromes in psychopathology generate as much popular curiosity and clinical exploration as does obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
This book contains the papers that were presented at the XIIIth International Symposium on Hearing (ISH), which was held in Dourdan,... Læs mere
This second edition of Grune and Jacobs' brilliant work presents new developments and discoveries that have been made in the field of parsing, or syntax analysis. Parsing has been and continues to be an essential part of computer science and linguistics.
The square root of 2 is a fascinating number – if a little less famous than such mathematical stars as pi, the number e, the golden ratio, or the square root of –1.
It has only been a couple of decades since Benoit Mandelbrot published his famous picture of what is now called the Mandelbrot set.
Glycerophospholipid and sphingolipid-derived lipid mediators facilitate the transfer of messages not only from one cell to another but also from one subcellular organelle to another.