1. Introduction. The human body is a complex system with vast numbers of unveiled mysteries. Billions of cells with diverse types composed of organs like the brain, heart, liver, and lung perform ...

IJSSD is a forum for research on stability and dynamics of land-based structures, aerospace structures, marine structures, as well as biostructures and micro- and nano-structures ...

This is a timely book that fills the gap in the study of Chinese overseas and their religions in the global context. Rich in ethnographic materials, this is the first comprehensive book that shows the ...

State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, P. R. China School of Civil Engineering, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Shenyang 110168, P. R.

This text serves as a pedagogical introduction to the theoretical concepts on application of topology in condensed matter systems. It covers an introduction to basic concepts of topology, emphasizes ...

This book is devoted to the history of chaos theory, from celestial mechanics (three-body problem) to electronics and meteorology. Many illustrative examples of chaotic behaviors exist in various ...

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The political and economic privileges of Chinese working class have generally declined significantly since the 1980s. New economically privileged groups have however emerged within the Chinese working ...

The fourth edition of this book has been widely revised. It includes additional chapters and some sections are complemented with either new ones or an extension of their content. In this latest ...

The book is a collection of research and review articles in several areas of modern mathematics and mathematical physics published in the span of three decades. The ICM Kyoto talk “Mathematics as ...

The concept of density functional theory is introduced. The history of nuclear density functional theory is briefly reviewed. The complexity and specialty of the density functional theories in nuclear ...

How to see physics in its full picture? This book offers a new approach: start from math, in its simple and elegant tools: discrete math, geometry, and algebra, avoiding heavy analysis that might ...