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  • The End of Rationality and Selfishness

    A Story on the Asymmetry, Uncertainty and the Evolution of Cooperation

    by Rui-Wu Wang ...
    Translated by Juan Wang ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book reviews the antinomy of rationality and selfishness raised from egoism, though rationality and selfishness are understood as basic evolutionary dynamics of humans and other organisms in both classical economics and evolutionary biology. Based on the research and a comparison with human’s social cooperative behavior, the author presents his belief that the social cooperative system, in ... Read more

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  • Mass Transfer Driven Evaporation From Capillary Porous Media

    Edited by Rui Wu, Marc Prat ...
    Series series Advances in Drying Science and Technology
    Mass Transfer–Driven Evaporation from Capillary Porous Media offers a comprehensive review of mass transfer–driven drying processes in capillary porous media, including pore-scale and macro-scale experiments and models. It covers kinetics of drying of a single pore, pore-scale experiments and models, macro-scale experiments and models, and understanding of the continuum model from pore-scale ... Read more

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  • Molecular Mechanisms of Programmed Cell Death

    The 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, and John E. Sulston for their seminal discoveries concerning "genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death." This clearly marked the prime importance of understanding the molecular mechanisms controlling cell death. The 1 st International Symposium on Programmed Cell Death was held ... Read more

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  • Spontaneous Evolution

    Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here

    We’ve all heard stories of people who’ve experienced seemingly miraculous recoveries from illness, but can the same thing happen for our world? According to pioneering biologist Bruce H. Lipton, it’s not only possible, it’s already occurring.In Spontaneous Evolution, this world-renowned expert in the emerging science of epigenetics reveals how our changing understanding of biology will help us ... Read more

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  • Flow and Transport in Porous Media and Fractured Rock

    From Classical Methods to Modern Approaches

    In this standard reference of the field, theoretical and experimental approaches to flow, hydrodynamic dispersion, and miscible displacements in porous media and fractured rock are considered. Two different approaches are discussed and contrasted with each other. The first approach is based on the classical equations of flow and transport, called 'continuum models'. The second approach is based on ... Read more

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  • The Precipice

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    by Jean Berthier ...
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    After spending over 12 years developing new microsystems for biotechnology – especially concerned with the microfluidic aspects of these devices – Jean Berthier is considered a leading authority in the field. Now, following the success of his book, Microfluidics for Biotechnology, Dr. Berthier returns to explain how new miniaturization techniques have dramatically expanded the area of microfluidic ... Read more

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    Modern membrane engineering is critical to the development of process-intensification strategies and to the stimulation of industrial growth. Membrane Distillation (MD) is a broad reference that covers specific information on membranes available and methods for MD membrane preparation and characterization. The book offers an introduction to the terminology and fundamental concepts as well as a ... Read more

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  • Colloidal Suspension Rheology

    Series series Cambridge Series in Chemical Engineering
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