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A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions

This book examines health trajectories and health transitions at different stages of the life course, including childhood, ...

Agroecology Now! Transformations Towards More Just and Sustainable Food Systems

This book develops a framework for advancing agroecology transformations focusing on power, politics and governance. It ...

Analysis and Simulation of Fluid Dynamics

This volume collects the contributions of a Conference held in June 2005, at the laboratoire Paul Painlev́ e (UMR CNRS 8524) ...

Asphaltenes, Heavy Oils, and Petroleomics

Petroleomics is the prediction of all properties of petroleum based on the Petroleome, or complete listing of all components ...

Classical Nucleation Theory in Multicomponent Systems

Nucleation is the initial step of every first-order phase transition, and most phase transitions encountered both in everyday ...

Complex Nonlinearity : Chaos, Phase Transitions, Topology Change and Path Integrals

The book starts with a textbook-like expose on nonlinear dynamics, attractors and chaos, both temporal and spatio-temporal, ...

Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics XVI

This status report features the most recent developments in the field, spanning a wide range of topical areas in the computer ...

Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics XVIII

This volume represents a "status report" emanating from presentations made during the 18th Annual Workshop on Computer ...

Computer Simulations in Condensed Matter: From Materials to Chemical Biology - Vol. 2

This extensive and comprehensive collection of lectures by world-leading experts in the field introduces and reviews all ...

Crystallography and the World of Symmetry

Symmetry exists in realms from crystals to patterns, in external shapes of living or non-living objects, as well as in the ...

Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions Practices of legitimation and accountable governance

This book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates ...

Energy Justice Across Borders

This book unites the fields of energy justice and comparative philosophy to provide an overarching global perspective and ...

Equilibrium Statistical Physics : Phases of Matter and Phase Transitions

This is a textbook which gradually introduces the student to the statistical mechanical study of the different phases of ...

Ester Boserup’s Legacy on Sustainability : Orientations for Contemporary Research

The contents are organized in three sections reflecting important focal points of Boserup’s own work: Long-Term Socio-Ecological ...

From Nucleons to Nucleus : Concepts of Microscopic Nuclear Theory

From Nucleons to Nucleus deals with single-particle and collective features of spherical nuclei. Each nuclear model is introduced ...

Hartree-Fock-Slater Method for Materials Science

Molecular-orbital calculations for materials design such as alloys, ceramics, and coordination compounds are now possible ...

Indigenous Pathways, Transitions and Participation in Higher Education

This book brings together contributions by researchers, scholars, policy-makers, practitioners, professionals and citizens ...

Interphases and Mesophases in Polymer Crystallization II

Polymer crystallisation is a field of science whose widespread practica! and technological implications add to its scientific ...

Magnetism and Structure in Functional Materials

Magnetism and Structure in Functional Materials addresses three distinct but related topics: (i) magnetoelastic materials ...

Nanomaterials and Nanochemistry

Nanomaterials are a fast developing field of research and applications lie in many separate domains, such as in hi-tech (optics, ...

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