This book examines the 2011 edition of U.S. Geological Survey's Mineral Commodity Summaries (MCS), which includes information on events, trends and...

Mountaintop removal mining involves removing the top of a mountain in order to recover the coal seams contained there. It creates an immense quanti...

NASA’s mission is to drive advances in science, technology, aeronautics, and space exploration to enhance knowledge, education, innovation, economi...

This book presents an overview of NASA’s past operations and provides detailed accounts of some current missions and how they will form the future ...

Weaknesses in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) export control policy and implementation of foreign national access procedur...

The idea of human spaceflight beyond Earth's orbit has captivated many Americans for more than half a century. As U.S. space policy has evolved, ne...

Since the retirement of the Space Shuttle Program in July 2011, the United States has lacked a domestic capability to transport crew and -- until r...

Missiles came of age after World War II and the United States has pursued missile defences ever since. The issue has turned out to be one of the mo...

Department of Defense (DOD) development work on high-energy military lasers, which has been underway for decades, has reached the point where laser...

The opening chapter aims at reviewing the mechanism of the use of Nd:YAG lasers in vascular lesions, specific indications for its use and treatment...

Scientists classify comets and asteroids that pass within 28 million miles of Earth's orbit as near-Earth objects (NEOs). Asteroids that collide an...

Neutron stars are gold mines for the study of nuclear systems under extreme conditions of density and isospin asymmetry. Spanning many orders of ma...

This book illustrates observed values and properties of neutron stars, field theoretical approaches of hadrons to high density matter, such as nucl...

It is expected that ongoing advances in optics will revolutionise the 21st century as they began doing in the last quarter of the 20th. Such fields...

Both military and civilian components of space technologies are used for modern countries or nations anxious to develop rapidly as well as to struc...

Electronic and optoelectronic devices using organic materials as active elements are attractive because they can take advantage of organic material...

This book the newest research on the physical properties of optical materials used in all types of lasers and optical systems. The scope includes t...

It is expected that ongoing advances in optics will revolutionise the 21st century as they began doing in the last quarter of the 20th. Such fields...

It is expected that on going advances in optics will revolutionise the 21st century as they began doing in the last quarter of the 20th. Such field...

The aim of this book is to present new results in rapidly developing fields of non-linear optics such as atomic coherence, magneto-optics of atomic...

In March 2012, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics requested that the Defense Science Board develop recommend...

In Noise Reduction: Methods, Applications and Technology, the authors open with an overview of image denoising approaches. The review covers additi...

Ocean engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the design, analysis and operation planning of systems that operate in an oceanic env...

'Optical and Electro-Optical Properties of Liquid Crystals: Nematic and Smectic Phases' describes the general properties of the most popular liquid...

The formation, deformation, and break-up of liquid interfaces are ubiquitous phenomena in nature. In the present book the authors discuss the defor...

This book is a collection of contributions by renowned scientists in the optical fibre technology field, covering a wide range of recent progress p...

Non-linear optical phenomena are easily observable in high-power fibre-optic communication systems. The generation of new frequencies due to these ...

An optical fibre is a glass or plastic fibre designed to guide light along its length by confining as much light as possible in a propagating form....

Non-linear behaviours of light have been recognised as the penalty in the subject of optical science and technology. However, the authors have show...

Optical Spectroscopy is an interdisciplinary science dedicated to generating and building knowledge in the field of spectroscopy and as a tool for ...

It is expected that ongoing advances in optics will revolutionise the 21st century as they have the last quarter of the 20th. Such fields as commun...

The book presents the recent advances in studies of phase transitions induced by short laser pulses in solids and the interface solid-liquid. The r...

High order harmonic generation (HHG) produced by the interaction of an intense laser pulse and a gas medium can provide a table top scale coherent ...

This book is primarily concerned with fundamental components of solar physics, terrestrial geophysics and general climate issues. Phenomena such as...