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Global warming, pollution, food shortage, security, and health care are major issues facing us and our planet. These global challenges have inspired scientists and engineers to design materials, processes, and enabling tools that mimic nature and are less intrusive. The aim of the "Handbook of Biomimetics and Bioinspiration" is to serve as a...

Although contact geometry and topology is briefly discussed in V I Arnol'd's book "Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics" (Springer-Verlag, 1989, 2nd edition), it still remains a domain of research in pure mathematics, e.g. see the recent monograph by H Geiges "An Introduction to Contact Topology" (Cambridge U Press, 2008). Some attempts to...

In the last five decades, the gauge approach to gravity has represented a research area of increasing importance for our understanding of the physics of fundamental interactions. A full clarification of the gauge dynamics of gravity is expected to be the last missing link to the hidden structure of a consistent unification of all the fundamental...

Written by an international team of leading experts in neuroscience, this book presents an overview of some of the main schools of thought as well as current research trends in neuroscience. It focuses on neural top-down causation applied to hot topics like consciousness, emotions, the self and the will, action and behavior, neural networks, brains...

The book contains the proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics held at the University of Guelph from August 28 through September 2, 2011. The proceedings cover topics of nuclear structure, nuclear reactions, nuclear astrophysics, fundamental symmetries in nuclei, statistical aspects of...

edited by Luigi Accardi (Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy), Wolfgang Freudenberg (Brandenburgische Technische Universitat Cottbus, Germany), Masanori Ohya (Tokyo University of Science, Japan) This volume is based on the fifth international conference of quantum bio-informatics held at the QBI Center of Tokyo University of Science. This...