Fundamentals of Tribology deals with the fundamentals of lubrication, friction and wear, as well as mechanics of contacting surfaces and their topography. It begins by introducing the reader to the importance of tribology in everyday life and offers a brief history of the subject. It then describes the nature of rough surfaces and the mechanics of contacting elastic solids and their deformation under load and friction in their relative motion. The book goes on to discuss the importance of lubricant rheology with respect to viscosity and density. Then, the principles of hydrodynamic lubrication are covered with derivations of the governing Reynolds and energy equations. Applications of hydrodynamic lubrication in various forms of bearings — journal bearings, thrust bearings and externally pressurised bearings — are outlined. The important and still evolving subject of elastohydrodynamic lubrication is treated in some detail, both at its fundamentals and its applications in thin shell or overlay bearings, cam-followers and internal combustion engine pistons. The fundamentals of biotribology are also covered, particularly its applications to endo-articular mammalian joints such as hip and knee joints and their arthroplasty. In addition, there is a treatment of the rapidly emerging knowledge of tribological phenomena in lightly loaded vanishing conjunctions (nanotribology), in natural systems and very small devices, such as MEMS and high density data storage media. There is also a new chapter on the rapidly emerging subject of surface texturing to promote retention of microreservoirs of lubricant, acting as microbearings and improving lubrication of otherwise poorly lubricated conjunctions. 
 This book targets the undergraduate and postgraduate body as well as engineering professionals in industry, where often a quick solution or understanding of certain tribological fundamentals is sought. The book can also form an initial basis for those interested in research into certain aspects of tribology. 
 Readership: Students in an undergraduate course in Mechanical, Chemical or Automotive Engineering or Material Science in later years of their courses. Postgraduate students on taught course within the same disciplines. Early career researchers (working towards a PhD degree or as Research Associates) as well as researchers in an R&amp;D environment in industry.

FUNDAMENTALS OF TRIBOLOGY (THIRD EDITION)

Engineering & Transportation

Ramsey Gohar

Homer Rahnejat

Engineering

World Scientific Publishing Co.

The use of organocatalysts able to photocatalyze an organic reaction is a rapidly growing field. These photocatalyzed transformations are more environmentally sustainable with respect to the use of expensive/toxic metal-based photocatalysts. 
 Based on the authors' extensive experience in photogenerated intermediates, this book presents an overview on photocatalyzed organic processes having a synthetic significance, where an organic molecule functions as the photocatalyst. 
After a brief introduction defining the nature and the characteristics of a photo-organocatalyst (POC), the chapters are organized according to the class of POC used, as detailed below.
<ul>
<li>Ketones and aldehydes</li>
<li>Quinones</li> <li>Aromatics and cyano(hetero)aromatics</li> <li>Sulfur heterocycles: thiapyrylium salts, thiazines, methylene blue</li> <li>Oxygen heterocycles: pyrylium salts, eosin derivatives, fluorescein, rhodamines, rose bengal</li> <li>Nitrogen heterocycles: porphyrins, acridinium salts, carbazoles, imides, mpg-C3N4, tetrazines, riboflavin, bodipy</li> </ul> Each chapter begins with a summary of the photophysical characteristics of the POCs and is followed by selected examples of synthetic applications. The last two chapters are devoted to the applications of photo-organocatalysis in polymerizations and to flow photo-organocatalysis. These in-depth explanations and practical applications make this title an essential reading for any chemistry student interested in organic (sustainable) synthesis. Readership: Any chemistry student interested in organic (sustainable) synthesis.

PHOTOORGANOCATALYSIS IN ORGANIC SYNTHESIS (Catalytic Science, 18)

Science & Math

Maurizio Fagnoni

Chemistry

The book focuses on how leaders are learning to develop the creative capabilities of their team members and themselves. Through this learning, teams are developing original approaches to their work, benefitting their customers, patients, employees and other stakeholders.Using a strong interdisciplinary approach, How Leaders Learn to Boost Creativity in Teams introduces insights from the domains of psychology, creativity, leadership and power, and integrates these through a proposed framework for leading innovation. It contains nine in-depth, current-day cases of learning and workplace-based applications and has an optimistic message: creativity can be learnt. Making connections between current day research, learning and application in work contexts, it will appeal to leaders and students alike seeking to think outside of the box.

HOW LEADERS LEARN TO BOOST CREATIVITY IN TEAMS: INNOVATION CATALYSTS

Business & Money

Rob Sheffield

Management & Leadership

Adventures In Quantumland: Exploring Our Unseen Reality

This title is a self-contained follow-up to Understanding Our Unseen Reality: Solving Quantum Riddles (2015). Intended for the general reader but including more advanced material and an appendix of technical references for physics students and researchers, it reviews the basics of the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics in its newer incarnation as a fully relativistic, realist interpretation of quantum theory, while embarking on further explorations of the implications of quantum theory. This interpretation is applied to new experiments and alleged 'paradoxes' that are found to be fully explicable once various misconceptions are identified. There is currently much disagreement about the meaning of quantum theory, as well as confusion about the implications of various experiments such as 'weak measurements,' 'quantum eraser,' and delayed choice. This book provides a clear way forward, presenting new developments and elaborating a promising interpretational approach that has completely nullified earlier objections (such as the Maudlin objection). It also explains why some prominent competing interpretations, such as 'decoherence' in an Everettian ('Many Worlds') approach, do not work as advertised. Adventures in Quantumland: Exploring Our Unseen Reality offers a fully relativistic interpretation of quantum mechanics with no discontinuity between non-relativistic and relativistic domains and shows how quantum theory allows for free will and for reconciliation of science and spiritual traditions.Readership: Intended for the general reader but includes more advanced material and an appendix of technical references for physics students and researchers.

ADVENTURES IN QUANTUMLAND: EXPLORING OUR UNSEEN REALITY

Ruth E Kastner

Astronomy & Space Science

"This is the first major textbook on the emerging specialty of remote healthcare. This started in the 1970s when the medical directors of the main oil companies then involved — BP, Shell and Mobil — sought help from the University sector. Together with Aberdeen University they developed a system of healthcare for the industry which brought down the mortality and morbidity levels to reduced levels. The system worked well and was validated by duplication for the different scientific populations of the British Antarctic Survey. Subsequently it was translated to the oilfields of the Middle East — Qatar (Offshore and Onshore), Abu Dhabi (ADMA and ADCO) and Oman (PDO) where its success was repeated. The Aberdeen Universities next collaborated with the UAE University in Abu Dhabi to evaluate telemedicine and achieved similar inroads in remote education and remote healthcare, particularly in both undergraduate and postgraduate transcontinental medical education. The various chapters in this book discuss the background to these conclusions together with practical aspects on the management of medical, surgical and psychiatric emergencies in remote places and the establishment of general practice and pharmaceutical services in remote locations. It also covers such areas as preparation for disasters, diving and hyperbaric medicine, environmental medicine: Heat and cold and basic travel medicine together with the special first aid approach for all these situations. Finally, it describes remote occupational medicine, show its distinction from the emerging specialty of remote medicine and how rig medics are now emerging as international remote healthcare practitioners with a career structure in both oil and gas industry and civilian community medicine."

REMOTE MEDICINE: A TEXTBOOK FOR TRAINEE AND ESTABLISHED REMOTE HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS

Medical Books

Nelson, Norman

Administration & Medicine Economics

The EU has undergone a deep transformation in the last 25 years. The goals adopted by the EU at the international level in climate negotiations have led to the internal adoption of goals by the EU member states. The book examines the changes experienced by the European Union that have gone on in parallel to its leadership in climate negotiations since 1992 and analyses whether combating climate change has contributed to the transformation of European policies.The book takes an in-depth look at the greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions reduction goals adopted by European states, the leadership of the EU in climate negotiations, the creation of the Energy Union, the commitment to a model of sustainable development, the promotion of a circular economy and the enhancement of cities, as relevant actors in the reduction of emissions and boosting of sound environmental practices.

TRANSFORMATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, THE: THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN EUROPEAN POLICIES

Xira Ruiz-campillo

Earth Sciences

This book examines the intersections of bioethics, human rights and health equity. It does so through the contextual lenses of nation states while presenting global themes on rights, colonialism and bioethics. The book is framed by the following propositions on indigenous health: it is a human rights issue; it is located within the politics of colonization; and subjugated indigenous knowledges require restoring.

INDIGENOUS HEALTH ETHICS: AN APPEAL TO HUMAN RIGHTS (Intercultural Dialogue in Bioethics, 3)

Deborah Zion

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Where is the world heading? What choices need to be made to help humanity to thrive? These questions are more acute than ever in a context of growing inequalities, populism, social disorder, environmental challenges, and global health threats.The Future of the Global Order explores the six fundamental transformations ahead that will define the future of the world in the next three decades. Each chapter provides a unique and fact-based analysis of the situation at hand, reviews underlying uncertainties, and studies their inter-dependencies. As a tool to trigger debate, the book provides possible evolutions in global activity with four baseline scenarios, grasping the key issues which will shape the global order to 2050.Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the massive forces of global change at play and the key decisions facing the future of humanity and the world.

FUTURE OF THE GLOBAL ORDER, THE: THE SIX PARADIGM CHANGES THAT WILL DEFINE 2050

Vincent Petit

Economics

Introduction To Machine Learning In Quantitative Finance, An (Advanced Textbooks In Mathematics)

In today's world, we are increasingly exposed to the words "machine learning" (ML), a term which sounds like a panacea designed to cure all problems ranging from image recognition to machine language translation. Over the past few years, ML has gradually permeated the financial sector, reshaping the landscape of quantitative finance as we know it. 
An Introduction to Machine Learning in Quantitative Finance aims to demystify ML by uncovering its underlying mathematics and showing how to apply ML methods to real-world financial data. In this book the authors Provide a systematic and rigorous introduction to supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning by establishing essential definitions and theorems.Dive into various types of neural networks, including artificial nets, convolutional nets, recurrent nets and recurrent reinforcement learning.Summarize key contents of each section in the tables as a cheat sheet. Include ample examples of financial applications.Showcase how to tackle an exemplar ML project on financial data end-to-end.Supplement Python codes of all the methods/examples in a GitHub repository. 
Featured with the balance of mathematical theorems and practical code examples of ML, this book will help you acquire an in-depth understanding of ML algorithms as well as hands-on experience. After reading An Introduction to Machine Learning in Quantitative Finance, ML tools will not be a black box to you anymore, and you will feel confident in successfully applying what you have learnt to empirical financial data! 
The Python codes contained within An Introduction to Machine Learning in Quantitative Finance have been made publicly available on the author's GitHub: https://github.com/deepintomlf/mlfbook.git 
Readership: This textbook is suitable for MSc students or final year undergraduate students in financial mathematics, machine learning or computational finance. It would serve as a graduate textbook in introducing machine learning and its applications in quantitative finance. It may also be appropriate for those interested in pursuing a career in quantitative finance or for practitioners in the financial sector who wish to develop an in-depth understanding of machine learning and its applications to finance.\nFrom the Back Cover\nIn today's world, we are increasingly exposed to the words "machine learning" (ML), a term which sounds like a panacea designed to cure all problems ranging from image recognition to machine language translation. Over the past few years, ML has gradually permeated the financial sector, reshaping the landscape of quantitative finance as we know it. 
An Introduction to Machine Learning in Quantitative Finance aims to demystify ML by uncovering its underlying mathematics and showing how to apply ML methods to real-world financial data. In this book the authors 
Provide a systematic and rigorous introduction to supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning by establishing essential definitions and theorems. 
Dive into various types of neural networks, including artificial nets, convolutional nets, recurrent nets and recurrent reinforcement learning. 
Summarize key contents of each section in the tables as a cheat sheet. 
Include ample examples of financial applications. 
Showcase how to tackle an exemplar ML project on financial data end-to-end. 
Supplement Python codes of all the methods/examples in a GitHub repository. 
Featured with the balance of mathematical theorems and practical code examples of ML, this book will help you acquire an in-depth understanding of ML algorithms as well as hands-on experience. After reading An Introduction to Machine Learning in Quantitative Finance, ML tools will not be a black box to you anymore, and you will feel confident in successfully applying what you have learnt to empirical financial data! 
The Python codes contained within An Introduction to Machine Learning in Quantitative Finance have been made publicly available on the author's

INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING IN QUANTITATIVE FINANCE, AN (Advanced Textbooks in Mathematics)

Hao Ni

Xin Dong

Jinsong Zheng

Guangxi Yu

Computers & Technology

This book provides a concise introduction to stochastic calculus with some of its applications in mathematical finance, engineering and the sciences. Applications in finance include pricing of financial derivatives, such as options on stocks, exotic options and interest rate options. The filtering problem and its solution is presented as an application in engineering. Population models and randomly perturbed equations of physics are given as examples of applications in biology and physics.Only a basic knowledge of calculus and probability is required for reading the book. The text takes the reader from a fairly low technical level to a sophisticated one gradually. Heuristic arguments are often given before precise results are stated, and many ideas are illustrated by worked-out examples. Exercises are provided at the end of chapters to help to test readers' understanding. This book is suitable for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students as well as research workers and practitioners.

Introduction to Stochastic Calculus with Applications

Klebaner, Fima C.

C, Klebaner Fima

Mathematics

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