By Alex M George;Amman Madan

ISBN-10: 8178299046

ISBN-13: 9788178299044

This booklet explores the instructing of social technological know-how in Indian faculties, and explains the reason for a brand new method that was once introducted by way of India's nationwide Council of academic examine and coaching (NCERT) in 2005. The ebook starts by means of explicating the bigger objective of the NCERT social technological know-how textbooks within the merchandising of highbrow freedom and significant pondering. It emphasizes that the recent new release of textbooks has reinvented educating and organizing the social technology disciplines. educating Social technology in colleges is a guide that explains the reason for the recent strategy, and illustrates how the recent textbooks can be utilized successfully.

By Gerald Weissmann

ISBN-10: 1934137510

ISBN-13: 9781934137512

“[Weissmann] has emerged within the final 3 many years as America's finest and demanding essayist. He has accomplished this prestige either epigenetically and during Twitter, notice of mouth, so that you could converse. . . . very like Susan Sontag, Weissmann likes being a latest, and doesn't think shackled by means of culture. . . . This ebook is a pleasure for the guts and instructive for the mind." —ERIC KANDEL, Nobel Laureate and writer of looking for Memory

“Only a brain as nimble and good traveled as Gerald Weissmann's may well see, by no means brain make and expound on, the connections among salamanders and Prohibition . . . white blood cells, Hollywood and erectile disorder . . . future health care reform and Marie Antoinette . . . micro organism, the equivalent Rights modification and the “Miracle at the Hudson." higher but, Weissmann does so with wit and perception. a desirable journey via heritage, technology and pa culture." —MAX GOMEZ, MD, Emmy Award-winning WCBS-TV scientific Correspondent

“Erudite strength leaps from this energetic commingling of artwork, tradition and technological know-how. . . . In each one [essay], Weissmann unearths hyperlinks among learn and components of historical past and pa tradition, which play off one another to illuminating impact. So US baby-kisser Sarah Palin pops up in a dialogue of 'Marie Antoinette syndrome'. . . and the 'meltdown' of the legendary Icarus meets the nuclear model on the Fukushima Daiichi strength plant in Japan." —Nature

Epigenetics, which makes an attempt to give an explanation for how our genes reply to the environment, is the newest twist at the old nature vs. nurture debate. In addressing this and different controversies in modern technological know-how, Gerald Weissmann faucets what he calls “the social community of Western Civilization," together with the various missed girls of technology: from the martyred Hypatia of Alexandria, the 1st girl scientist, to the Nobel laureates Marie Curie, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, and Elizabeth Blackburn, between different luminaries within the box. continually instructive and sometimes hilarious, it is a one-volume advent to fashionable biology, considered throughout the lens of today's mass media and the longer ancient culture of the clinical Revolution. even if conducting the healthcare debate or imagining the long run prose styling of the clinical learn paper within the age of Twitter, Weissmann proves to be considered one of our such a lot incisive cultural critics and satirists.

By Charles Fernyhough

ISBN-10: 0062237896

ISBN-13: 9780062237897

Leading psychologist Charles Fernyhough blends the most up-tp-date technological know-how with literature and private tales in Pieces of sunshine: How the hot technological know-how of reminiscence Illuminates the tales We inform approximately Our Pasts.

A new consensus is rising between cognitive scientists: instead of owning fastened, unchanging thoughts, they've got stumbled on that we create memories anew whenever we're known as upon to recollect. based on psychologist Charles Fernyhough, remembering is an act of narrative mind's eye up to it's the fabricated from a neurological process.

An NPR and Psychology Today contributor, Dr. Fernyhough courses readers throughout the interesting new technological know-how of autobiographical reminiscence, masking subject matters reminiscent of: navigation, mind's eye, and the ability of feel institutions to cue remembering. Exquisitely written and meticulously researched, Pieces of Light brings jointly technological know-how and literature, the standard and the extreme, to assist us higher comprehend our powers of keep in mind and our courting with the past.

By James Longuski

ISBN-10: 1441921591

ISBN-13: 9781441921598

This booklet interprets "thinking like a rocket scientist" into each day considering so it may be utilized by a person. It’s brief and snappy and written via a rocket scientist. The e-book illustrates the tools (the 7 secrets and techniques) with anecdotes, quotations and biographical sketches of well-known scientists, own tales and insights, and sometimes a few house heritage. the writer finds that rocket technological know-how is simply logic utilized to the terribly unusual atmosphere of outer house and that rocket scientists are humans, too. it really is meant for "armchair" scientists, and for these drawn to well known psychology, house background, and technological know-how fiction motion pictures.

By Sohel Rana, Raul Fangueiro

ISBN-10: 9811002320

ISBN-13: 9789811002328

ISBN-10: 9811002347

ISBN-13: 9789811002342

This booklet specializes in the fibers and textiles utilized in composite fabrics. It offers either latest applied sciences presently utilized in advertisement purposes and the newest complicated learn and advancements. It additionally discusses different fiber varieties and architectures, equivalent to brief fibers, unidirectional tows, directionally orientated constructions or complicated 2nd- and 3D-textile constructions which are utilized in composite fabrics. moreover, it examines numerous artificial, common and metal fibers which are used to enhance polymeric, cementitious and steel matrices, in addition to fiber homes, exact functionalities, production tactics, and composite processing and houses. complete chapters are devoted to complicated nanofiber and nanotube strengthened composite fabrics. The ebook is going directly to spotlight various floor remedies and finishes which are utilized to enhance fiber/matrix interfaces and different crucial composite houses.

Although loads of information regarding fibers and fabric buildings used for composite functions is already on hand, this is often the single ebook presently to be had that discusses all kinds of fibers and constructions used to enhance polymers, cement, steel or soil to enhance their common functionality and multi-functional behaviors. As such, it fills a tremendous hole within the to be had literature and offers a necessary source for a variety of scholars and researchers from academia and industry.

By Hideo Kozima

ISBN-10: 0080451101

ISBN-13: 9780080451107

ISBN-10: 0080463150

ISBN-13: 9780080463155

By Alphan Sennaroglu

ISBN-10: 0849335892

ISBN-13: 9780849335891

As a result favorable features of solid-state lasers, they've got develop into the popular applicants for quite a lot of functions in technological know-how and know-how, together with spectroscopy, atmospheric tracking, micromachining, and precision metrology. featuring the newest advancements within the box, Solid-State Lasers and purposes makes a speciality of the layout and purposes of solid-state laser systems.

With contributions from prime overseas specialists, the booklet explores the newest learn effects and purposes of solid-state lasers in addition to a number of laser platforms. the start chapters talk about present advancements and purposes of recent solid-state achieve media in several wavelength areas, together with cerium-doped lasers within the ultraviolet diversity, ytterbium lasers close to 1µm, rare-earth ion-doped lasers within the eye-safe sector, and tunable Cr2+:ZnSe lasers within the mid-infrared diversity. the remainder chapters examine particular modes of operation of solid-state laser platforms, reminiscent of pulsed microchip lasers, high-power neodymium lasers, ultrafast solid-state lasers, amplification of femtosecond pulses with optical parametric amplifiers, and noise features of solid-state lasers.

Solid-State Lasers and functions covers crucial features of the sphere to supply present, accomplished insurance of solid-state lasers.

ISBN-10: 0124171257

ISBN-13: 9780124171251

Cognitive Enhancement: Pharmacologic, Environmental and Genetic components addresses the distance that exists in learn at the subject, accumulating multidisciplinary wisdom and instruments that support the reader comprehend the fundamentals of cognitive enhancement. It additionally offers guidance in designing systems and pharmacological techniques to extra using novel cognitive enhancers, a box that gives capability gain to numerous populations, together with people with neurologic and psychiatric problems, gentle aging-related cognitive impairment, and people who are looking to enhance highbrow performance.

The textual content builds on our wisdom of the molecular/cellular foundation of cognitive functionality, providing the technological advancements that could quickly improve cognition. Separate sections conceal enhancement medicinal drugs, environmental stipulations, and genetic elements by way of either human and animal experiences, together with either healthy/young and aging/diseased individuals.

Provides a multidisciplinary wisdom, permitting an extra knowing of cognitive enhancement
Offers insurance of the pharmacologic, environmental, and genetic components correct to the topic
Discusses cognitive enhancement from the viewpoint of either fit and diseased or getting older populations
Topics are mentioned by way of either human and animal studies
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Cognitive enhancement deals a possible gain to quite a few populations: neurologic and psychiatric issues are linked to cognitive impairment, a growing to be inhabitants suffers from gentle aging-related cognitive impairment, and people with basic functioning could hope development of highbrow functionality. whereas there was a considerable elevate in examine instruments taking into consideration multiple-level research of cognition, development our wisdom of the molecular/cellular foundation of cognitive functionality and providing the prospect technological improvement to reinforce cognition, there's presently a spot in insurance within the examine marketplace. This quantity addresses that hole, collecting multidisciplinary wisdom and supplying instruments for realizing the fundamentals of cognitive enhancement and counsel in designing procedures/pharmacological techniques to additional using novel cognitive enhancers. Separate sections are awarded on enhancement medicinal drugs, environmental stipulations and genetic elements, in addition to on enhancement in regards to express ailments. those issues are mentioned when it comes to either human and animal reports, and in regards to either healthy/young and aging/diseased individuals.

About the Author

Shira Knafo is the top of the Molecular Cognition Laboratory and an Ikerbasque learn professor on the college of the Basque state (Biophysics Unit, Leioa). Her specific pursuits are in learning the molecular and synaptic mechanisms underlying studying and reminiscence tactics, cognitive malfunction and cognitive enhancement. Her event in several medical disciplines (medicine, animal behaviour, electrophysiology, molecular biology, morphology and imaging) permits her to undertake a multidisciplinary strategy that's thought of an excellent asset in sleek neuroscience examine. In 2012, she was once provided the Sieratzki Prize for Advances in Neuroscience (Tel-Aviv college) for her contributions within the box of cognitive neuroscience. within the similar 12 months, the Spanish nationwide examine Council stated her achievements in its annual tribute to its scientists. In 2013, the Spanish Ministry of technological know-how offered her an I3 certificates of excellence.

Associate Professor, division of Psychopharmacology on the Universidad de Educación a Distancia in Spain and is Director of the Lab for Neurobiology of tension and Neurodegenerative illnesses. He has authored books on psychopharmacology and reminiscence paintings. He co-chaired the “Cognitive Enhancement in wellbeing and fitness and Disease” symposium on the 2012 Federation for eu Neuroscience annual assembly.

By Ian Stewart

ISBN-10: 0199651981

ISBN-13: 9780199651986

Symmetry is an immensely vital thought in arithmetic and in the course of the sciences.

In this Very brief advent, Ian Stewart demonstrates symmetry's deep implications, displaying the way it even performs an immense position within the present seek to unify relativity and quantum concept. Stewart, a revered mathematician in addition to a well known popular-science and science-fiction author, brings to this quantity his deep wisdom of the topic and his reward for conveying technology to common readers with readability and humor. He describes how symmetry's purposes variety around the complete box of arithmetic and the way symmetry governs the constitution of crystals, innumerable sorts of development formation, and the way platforms switch their nation as parameters fluctuate. Symmetry is usually hugely visible, with functions that come with animal markings, locomotion, evolutionary biology, elastic buckling, waves, the form of the Earth, and the shape of galaxies. basic physics is ruled by means of symmetries within the legislation of nature--Einstein's element that the legislation can be an identical in any respect destinations and all occasions.

By Aage R. Moller, Aage Moller

ISBN-10: 0125042507

ISBN-13: 9780125042505

Uncomplicated Mechanisms in listening to is a set of papers that discusses the functionality of the auditory approach overlaying its ultrastructure, body structure, and the mechanism's reference to experimental psychology. Papers assessment the mechanics, morphology, and body structure of the cochlear, together with the body structure of person hair cells and their synapses. One paper examines the mixed physiological and anatomical reports of stimulus coding within the mammalian auditory frightened method. the result of those stories pertain to the latency, frequency selectivity, and time development of responses to brief tone bursts. different learn evaluate the cochlear nerve, behavioral, and psychophysical frequency selectivity which express that frequency selectivity of the auditory approach happens on the point of the cochlear nerve, turning into downgraded in end-organ deafness. different papers speak about neural coding at greater degrees reminiscent of the characteristic extraction within the auditory method of bats. a few papers additionally examine the really good listening to mechanisms in animals, for instance, the echolocation of bats and in a few bugs, the functionality of the swimbladder in fish listening to, in addition to the "invertebrate frequency analyzer" within the locust ear. Physiologists, neurophysiologists, neurobiologists, normal clinical practioners, and EENT experts will locate this assortment worthy.