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Radiation eBooks

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  • Cherenkov Reflections: Gamma-ray Imaging And The Evolution Of Tev Astronomy

    by David Fegan ...
    'This book is recommended to those interested in knowing how TeV astronomy began, evolved, and remains a growth area.The author has captured the difficulties of being a pioneer, amply demonstrating the need to keep the faith and work the problem until you succeed. Cherenkov telescopes are now in operation around the world, and at the dawn of the CTA era TeV astronomy has a lot of evolving still to ... Read more

    75,57 €

  • Environmental Monitoring with Arduino

    Building Simple Devices to Collect Data About the World Around Us

    by Emily Gertz, Patrick Di Justo ...
    After the devastating tsunami in 2011, DYIers in Japan built their own devices to detect radiation levels, then posted their finding on the Internet. Right now, thousands of people worldwide are tracking environmental conditions with monitoring devices they’ve built themselves. You can do it too!This inspiring guide shows you how to use Arduino to create gadgets for measuring noise, weather, ... Read more

    4,34 €

  • Functional Lipid Nanosystems in Cancer

    Edited by Marlene Lúcio, Carla M. Lopes, Maria Elisabete C.D. Real Oliveira ...
    Cancer remains one of the most challenging issues in modern medicine, being responsible for a high number of deaths every year. Recent important developments in cancer diagnosis and therapy based on the versatility of nanosystems have made it possible to incorporate multifunctional synergistic actions into a single delivery system.This book compiles the research on the use of functional lipid ... Read more

    280,61 €

  • Strange Glow

    The Story of Radiation

    by Timothy J. Jorgensen ...
    The fascinating science and history of radiationMore than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as mammograms, and submit to full-body security scans at airports. We worry and debate about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the safety of nuclear power plants. But how much do we really know about ... Read more

    16,84 €

  • Radiestesia

    by Tomás Fisset ...
    Series series Alternativa
    Básicamente, podemos decir que la radiestesia también llamada rabdomancia es el arte o la ciencia de percibir, a través de ciertos instrumentos, las energías que nos rodean en todas direcciones, haciendo uso de este conocimiento con un fin determinado.Este fin puede ser, generalmente, el hallazgo de objetos, personas u otros seres vivos extraviados. Del mismo modo y desde antiguo, la radiestesia ... Read more

    5,99 €

  • Emergency Planning for Nuclear Power Plants

    by Paul Elkmann ...
    This book provides a history of emergency planning with respect to nuclear power plant accidents from the 1950’s to the 2000’s. It gives an overview of essential concepts that a working emergency planner should know, including brief overviews of the health physics and plant engineering that applies to emergency planning. Each chapter covers topics unique to radiological planning that distinguish ... Read more

    46,15 €

  • Ion Exchange and Solvent Extraction

    A Series of Advances, Volume 19

    Edited by Bruce A. Moyer ...
    Series series Ion Exchange and Solvent Extraction Series
    The growth in the world's nuclear industry, motivated by peaking world oil supplies, concerns about the greenhouse effect, and domestic needs for energy independence, has resulted in a heightened focus on the need for next-generation nuclear fuel-cycle technologies. Ion Exchange and Solvent Extraction: A Series of Advances, Volume 19 provides a com ... Read more

    100,81 €

  • Geologic Disposal of Low- and Intermediate-Level Radioactive Waste

    by Roland Pusch, Raymond N. Yong, Masashi Nakano ...
    This book will address concepts and techniques for preparation and disposal of low- (LLW) and intermediate-level (ILW) radioactive waste from the nuclear industry, the weapons industry, university labs, research institutes, and from the commercial industry. It will aid decision-makers in finding optimal technical/economical solutions, including how site investigations, design, construction, ... Read more

    249,03 €

  • Radiation Synthesis of Materials and Compounds

    Edited by Boris Ildusovich Kharisov, Oxana Vasilievna Kharissova, Ubaldo Ortiz Mendez ...
    Researchers and engineers working in nuclear laboratories, nuclear electric plants, and elsewhere in the radiochemical industries need a comprehensive handbook describing all possible radiation-chemistry interactions between irradiation and materials, the preparation of materials under distinct radiation types, the possibility of damage of material ... Read more

    215,00 €

  • Decommissioning Health Physics

    A Handbook for MARSSIM Users, Second Edition

    by Eric W. Abelquist ...
    Experienced Guidance on the Technical Issues of Decommissioning ProjectsWritten by one of the original MARSSIM authors, Decommissioning Health Physics: A Handbook for MARSSIM Users, Second Edition is the only book to incorporate all of the requisite technical aspects of planning and executing radiological surveys in support of decommissioning. Extensively revised and updated, it covers survey ... Read more

    65,58 €

  • Non-melanoma Skin Cancer

    Essentials for Oncologists

    Edited by Agata Rembielak, Luca Tagliaferri ...
    This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the current state-of-the-art in skin cancer, exploring the recent developments, appraising the current evidence and providing future directions with particular emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration and need for clinical trials. It covers all aspects of skin cancers, including epidemiology, pathology, surgical and non-surgical treatments.It ... Read more

    61,94 €

  • Electromagnetic Radiations

    Exposure and Impact

    by Prutha Prashant Kulkarni, Parikshit N.Mahalle ...
    The book delivers an understanding of emission theory and its effects on different strata of life. It contains seven chapters including probable remedial measures and solutions to increase reduced radiation life expectancy. The text explains important topics such as the compatibility of the human body and wireless communication, applications and effectiveness of radiating power, energy harvesting, ... Read more

    71,66 €

  • Benjamin Lax - Interviews on a Life in Physics at MIT

    Understanding and Exploiting the Effects of Magnetic Fields on Matter

    Edited by Donald Stevenson, Marion Reine, Roshan L. Aggarwal ...
    This book covers the life and 60-year career of Prof. Benjamin Lax (1915-2015), a preeminent physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who played major roles in the development and applications of solid state and plasma physics.In an extensive series of autobiographical interviews, Lax describes the challenges he overcame, the opportunities he embraced, and the many outstanding ... Read more

    74,09 €

  • The Effects of Low Dose Radiation

    New aspects of radiobiological research prompted by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

    by Elena Burlakova, Valeria Naiditch ...
    The papers collected in this book show the results of investigations performed by Russian scientists in the field of low dose irradiation action. It is confirmed that low doses do have effects on the human organism and the environment and that the most serious consequences are observed in the far post-irradiation period. This branch of radiobiology ... Read more

    498,05 €

  • Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Fast Particles in Solids

    by Yurii Kashlev ...
    Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Fast Particles in Solids examines the kinetics and non-equilibrium statistical thermodynamics of fast charged particles moving in crystals in different modes. It follows a line of research very different from traditional ways of constructing a theory of radiation effects, which gives a purely mechanistic interpretatio ... Read more

    86,24 €

  • Radiation Transfer

    by Apresyan ...
    The authors expound on non-traditional phenomena for transfer theory, which are nevertheless of considerable interest in wave measurements, and bring the advances of transfer theory as close as possible to the practical needs of those working in all areas of wave physics. The book opens with a historical overview of the topic, then moves on to examine the phenomenological theory of radiative ... Read more

    85,02 €

  • Microtron

    Development and Applications

    by Yuri M. Tsipenyuk ...
    The Microtron: Development and Applications is a comprehensive monograph that sums up more than 30 years of research and development in microtron technology and applications and provides a systematic presentation of results from investigations carried out in Russia and abroad. The first part describes the basic principles of various types of microt ... Read more

    88,67 €

  • Negotiating Radiation Protection in the Nuclear Age

    by John Krige ...
    The development of nuclear technologies for war, medicine, and energy production dramatically increased the number of people exposed to artificial radioactivity and raised new stakes and questions about protecting them. This volume examines how the establishment of standards and protocols for radiation protection was not only a technical process, but also the byproduct of extensive and ongoing ... Read more

    33,38 €

  • Hurlburt Effect

    by Jason Hurlburt ...
    Hurlburt Effect depicts the effect of total mass of unobservable space on quantum levels and radiation of the astrophysics of the localized, observable big bang and universe. ... Read more

    4,55 €

  • Schrödinger’s Cat

    And 49 other Experiments that Revolutionised Physics

    by Adam Hart-Davis ...
    From Galileo’s stargazing to quantum teleportation, Newton’s work with optics to the splitting of the atom, Schrödinger’s Cat tells the story of physics through fty of its greatest experiments. Featuring engaging writing and clear explanations, Schrödinger’s Cat introduces the reader to the scienti c experiments that have shaped the modern world. ... Read more

    6,27 €

  • Unos Segundos para la Medianoche

    by Andrew Parry ...
    Unos segundos para la medianoche: una guía completa para sobrevivir a una guerra nuclearEl mundo está más cerca que nunca de una catástrofe. ¿Está preparado?En una época de crecientes tensiones geopolíticas y la amenaza siempre presente de un conflicto global, la posibilidad de una guerra nuclear parece más cercana que en décadas. Unos segundos para la medianoche es la guía de supervivencia ... Read more

    8,49 €

  • Fire Beneath the Earth

    by Albert Allen III ...
    Dr. Ethan Parker, a renowned geologist, is plagued by haunting dreams of a catastrophic volcanic eruption at Yellowstone. As he investigates, he discovers alarming increases in seismic activity that suggest an impending disaster. Despite his warnings, the scientific community and government officials dismiss his concerns as overblown. When Yellowstone erupts in a massive explosion, it unleashes a ... Read more

    5,49 €

  • The Theory of Heat Radiation

    by Max Planck ...
    The profoundly original ideas introduced by Nobel laureate Max Planck in this endeavor to reconcile the electromagnetic theory of radiation with experimental facts have proved to be of the greatest importance. Few modern introductions to the theory of heat radiation can match this work for precision, care, and attention to details of proof. ... Read more

    0,89 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Crime of Chernobyl: The Nuclear Goulag

    by Wladimir Tchertkoff ...
    Hundreds of books, long and short, have been written about the Chernobyl tragedy. Few people are left indifferent once they understand a little about the biggest technological catastrophe in history. Wladimir Tchertkoff’s book “The Crime of Chernobyl - the Nuclear Gulag” occupies a central place in this library aboutChernobyl.Many journalists, like Wladimir Tchertkoff, a documentary film maker for ... Read more

    Was 10,90 € Now 9,32 € or Free with Kobo Plus