All ebooks in the collection "NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry" - Springer

The Conversion of Liquid Rocket Fuels, Risk Assessment, Technology and Treatment Options for the Conversion of Abandoned Liquid Ballistic Missile Propellants (Fuels and Oxidizers) in Azerbaijan

Wolfgang Spyra , Kay Winkelmann

Prof. Dr. -Ing. Wolfgang Spyra Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus, Germany The demilitarization and conversion of military properties wor- wide has been a topic of growing importance since the end of the Cold War. The slowing of the arms race brought on by...

Scientific and Technical Issues in the Management of Spent Fuel of Decommissioned Nuclear Submarines

Ashot Sarkisov , Alain Tournyol Du Clos

Similar to the three previous publications, which collected the materials of the NATO-Russia ARWs held in Moscow in 1995, 1997 and 2002, this fourth book addresses a very important challenge of the present – complex decommissioning of the nuclear-powered vessels taken...

Frontiers in Planar Lightwave Circuit Technology

Jiri Ctyroky , Siegfried Janz , Stoyan Tanev

This book is the result of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Frontiers in Planar Lightwave Circuit Technology, which took place in Ottawa, Canada from September 21-25, 2004. Many of the world’s leading experts in integrated photonic design, theory and experiment...

The Role of VLBI in Astrophysics, Astrometry and Geodesy

Andrzej Kus , Franco Mantovani

A masterly survey of the last 13 years of Very Long Baseline Interferometry, reviewed in light of the most advanced astronomical observations. Topics covered include: Nonthermal emission from extragalactic radio sources; Principles of synchrotron emission in relation to...

Learning from Nature How to Design New Implantable Biomaterials: From Biomineralization Fundamentals to Biomimetic Materials and Processing Routes

Rui L. Reis , S. Weiner

The development of materials for any replacement or regeneration application should be based on the thorough understanding of the structure to be substituted. This is true in many fields, but particularly exigent in substitution and regeneration medicine.The demands...

Zinc Oxide - A Material for Micro- and Optoelectronic Applications

Norbert H. Nickel , Norbert H. Nickel , Evgenii Terukov

Recently, a significant effort has been devoted to the investigation of ZnO as a suitable semiconductor for UV light-emitting diodes, lasers, and detectors and hetero-substrates for GaN. Research is driven not only by the technological requirements of state-of-the-art...

Engineering Theories of Software Intensive Systems

Manfred Broy , Johannes Gruenbauer , David Harel , Tony Hoare

Software engineering has over the years been applied in many different fields, ranging from telecommunications to embedded systems in car and aircraft industry as well as in production engineering and computer networks. Foundations in software technology lie in models...

Cyberspace Security and Defense: Research Issues

Janusz Gorski , Janusz S. Kowalik , Anatoly Sachenko

Cyberspace security is a critical subject of our times. On one hand the development of Internet, mobile communications, distributed computing, computer software and databases storing essential enterprise information has helped to conduct business and personal...

Frontiers of Cosmology

Alain Blanchard , Monique Signore

Particle Physics and Cosmology: The Interface

Dmitri Kazakov , G. Smadja