Authors:Igor Galaev, Bo Mattiasson,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: biomedicine, second, biotechnology, applications, polymers, smart
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-11-15
List price: $159.95
ISBN-10: 0415267986
ISBN-13: 9780415267984

Smart polymers are macromolecules capable of undergoing rapid, reversible phase transitions from a hydrophilic to a hydrophobic microstructure when triggered by small changes in their immediate environment, such as slight variations in temperature, pH or ionic strength. Until now, it has always been considered that polymers are passive participants within the Bioseparation procedure. Smart Polymers for Bioseparation and Bioprocessing addresses an entirely novel theory that advocates a much more active role for smart polymers within this process than has previously been envisaged, and therefore

Authors:Ashok Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Igor Yu Galaev, Bo Mattiass
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: advances, biochemical, engineering, biotechnology, methods, preparative, separation, fundamentals, analytical, cell
Number of Pages: 203
Published: 2007-11-28
List price: $239.00
ISBN-10: 3540752625
ISBN-13: 9783540752622

Authors:Boris Gnedenko, Igor V. Pavlov, Igor A. Ushakov, Suma
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: engineering, reliability, statistical
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 1999-04-19
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0471123560
ISBN-13: 9780471123569

Proven statistical reliability analysis methods-available for the first time to engineers in the West While probabilistic methods of system reliability analysis have reached an unparalleled degree of refinement, Russian engineers have concentrated on developing more advanced statistical methods. Over the past several decades, their efforts have yielded highly evolved statistical models that have proven to be especially valuable in the estimation of reliability based upon tests of individual units of systems. Now Statistical Reliability Engineering affords engineers a unique opportunity to lear

Author: Igor Primoratz and Aleksandar PavkovicIgor Primor
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: patriotism
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2008-05-08
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754671224
ISBN-13: 9780754671220

This collection of new essays by philosophers and political theorists engages with a wide range of conceptual, moral and political questions raised by the current revival of patriotism. It displays both similarities and differences between patriotism and nationalism, and considers the proposal of Habermas and others to disconnect the two.

Authors:Igor A. Sukhoivanov, Igor V. Guryev,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: series, optical, sciences, springer, modeling, crystals, physics, practical, photonic
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2009-10-29
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 3642026451
ISBN-13: 9783642026454

The great interest in photonic crystals and their applications in the past decade requires a thorough training of students and professionals who can practically apply the knowledge of physics of photonic crystals together with skills of independent calculation of basic characteristics of photonic crystals and modelling of various photonic crystal elements for application in all-optical communication systems. This book combines basic backgrounds in fiber and integrated optics with detailed analysis of mathematical models for 1D, 2D and 3D photonic crystals and microstructured fibers, as well as

Authors:Igor R. Shafarevich, Igor R. Shafarevich, Aleksej I.
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: mathematical, sciences, encyclopaedia, algebra, notions, basic
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 3540251774
ISBN-13: 9783540251774

This book is wholeheartedly recommended to every student or user of mathematics. Although the author modestly describes his book as ’merely an attempt to talk about’ algebra, he succeeds in writing an extremely original and highly informative essay on algebra and its place in modern mathematics and science. From the fields, commutative rings and groups studied in every university math course, through Lie groups and algebras to cohomology and category theory, the author shows how the origins of each algebraic concept can be related to attempts to model phenomena in physics or in oth

Author: Igor M. Diakonoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: history, paths
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1999-09-28
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0521643481
ISBN-13: 9780521643481

This is a broad and ambitious study of the entire history of humanity that takes as its point of departure Marx’s theory of social evolution. Professor Diakonoff’s theory of world history differs from Marx’s in a number of ways. First, he has expanded Marx’s five stages of development to eight. Second, he denies that social evolution necessarily implies progress and shows how "each progress is simultaneously a regress," and third, he demonstrates that the transition from one stage to another is not necessarily marked by social conflict and that sometimes this is achieve