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Physics of earth’s radiation belts : theory and observations
This open access book serves as textbook on the physics of the radiation belts surrounding the Earth. Discovered in 1958 the famous Van Allen Radiation belts were among the first scientific discoveries of the Space Age. Throughout the following decades the belts have been under intensive investigation motivated by the risks of radiation hazards they expose to electronics and humans on spacecraf…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030821678
- Collation
- xx; 272 pg; ill.
- Series Title
- Astronomy and astrophysics library
- Call Number
- 525.2 PHY p
Providing orbit information with predetermined bounded accuracy
The exchange of orbit information is becoming more important in view of the increasing population of objects in space as well as the increase in parties involved in space operations. The aim of this thesis was to investigate how orbit information maintained by a space surveillance system can be provided to its users. Services like collision avoidance require very accurate information, while oth…
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- 22
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783832544058
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- 629.4643 PRO
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- -
Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society
Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960), prominent astronomer and world-renowned socialist theorist, stood at the nexus of the revolutions in politics, science and the arts of the early twentieth century. His astronomy was uniquely visual and highly innovative, while his politics were radical. Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society collects essays on Pannekoek and his contemporaries at the cr…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789048535002
- Collation
- 323 p ; ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 520.92 ANT
Golden years of Australian radio astronomy : an illustrated history
The evolution of Australian radio astronomy from 1945 to 1960 has been studied in detail by numerous historians of science in recent years. This book is the first to present an overview of this remarkable chapter in Australian science. The book begins in the post-war period, as the Radiophysics Laboratory in Sydney switched from secret wartime research on radar to peacetime applications of …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319918433
- Collation
- xviii, 268p, : ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 522.6820994 WAY g
Culinary turn: aesthetic practice of cookery
Kitchen, cooking, nutrition, and eating have become omnipresent cultural topics. They stand at the center of design, gastronomy, nutrition science, and agriculture. Artists have appropriated cooking as an aesthetic practice – in turn, cooks are adapting the staging practices that go with an artistic self-image. This development is accompanied by a philosophy of cooking as a speculative cultur…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839430316
- Collation
- 324 p. : ill. (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
- Series Title
- Aesthetic practice ; volume 1
- Call Number
- 641.013 CUL c
Non-equilibrium social science and policy : introduction and essays on new an…
The overall aim of this book, an outcome of the European FP7 FET Open NESS project, is to contribute to the ongoing effort to put the quantitative social sciences on a proper footing for the 21st century. A key focus is economics, and its implications on policy making, where the still dominant traditional approach increasingly struggles to capture the economic realities we observe in the world …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319424248
- Collation
- viii. 232p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 330.01 NON n
Interferometry and synthesis in radio astronomy
The third edition of this indispensable book in radio interferometry provides extensive updates to the second edition, including results and technical advances from the past decade; discussion of arrays that now span the full range of the radio part of the electromagnetic spectrum observable from the ground, 10 MHz to 1 THz; an analysis of factors that affect array speed; and an expanded discus…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319444314
- Collation
- xlvi, 872p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 522.682 THO i
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