Oilseed rape is a major arable crop in both Europe and North America. This book, in its 17 chapters each led by a world expert, reviews research progress towards developing integrated pest management systems for the crop that enhance conservation biocontrol.
This book explores the properties and behavior of silicone surfaces, including polydimethylsiloxane, spread monolayers, self-assembled monolayers, hydrophobicity and super-hydrophobicity, surfactants, fluorosilicones, surface treatments and more.
The book is about the seed development in the model and crop plants. Seed development is a key step of the plant life cycle that determines the nutrient value of seeds – the life for human civilization, growth, and development.
Land degradation in drylands is a multi-faceted problem. The second section of the book explores methods for... Læs mere
This book tests the critical potential of happiness research to evaluate contemporary high-performance societies. The ubiquitous maximization principle opens up a systematic gateway to the pleasures and pains of contemporary life.
This book examines the relationships between cities and nation-states over the sweep of history, and in particular the role of trust networks in mediating this relationship. It includes a chapter from an unfinished manuscript by sociologist Charles Tilly.
These techniques create hierarchies of information process based descriptions on different levels of detail, where higher levels contain less information and can therefore describe complete cognitive phenomena, but are more approximate.
The aim of this book is to analyse historical problems related to the use of mathematics in physics as well as to the use of physics in mathematics and to investigate Mathematical Physics as precisely the new discipline which is concerned with this dialectical link itself.
Intended for doctoral students, academics, staff and administrators, this book provides several perspectives on the topic of doctoral education and contains the actual voices of doctoral students and new academics to illustrate its discussion.
This book describes a new approach for the design of electromagnetic metamaterials which combines numerical optimization routines with electromagnetic simulations. It features examples that describe how each method is used to optimize specific design problems.
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), a type of adult stem cells, have attracted the attention of scientists and physicians alike due to their unique biological properties and potential for disease treatment.