New titles Tuesday, June 19

Here are some of the dozen ebooks added to the collection in the past week. Click on a title for more information. TWU login may be required.

 60 years of CERN experiments and discoveries /editors, Herwig Schopper (University of Hamburg and CERN), Luigi Di Lella (University of Pisa and CERN). The book is a compilation of the most important experimental results achieved during the past 60 years at CERN – from the mid-1950s to the latest discovery of the Higgs particle. Covering the results from the early accelerators at CERN to those most recent at the LHC, the contents provide an excellent review of the achievements of this outstanding laboratory. Not only presented is the impressive scientific progress achieved during the past six decades, but also demonstrated is the special way in which successful international collaboration exists at CERN.

 Drug-acceptor interactions: modeling theoretical tools to test and evaluate experimental equilibrium effects /Niels Bindslev. The book provides an in-depth, yet controversial, exploration of existing tools for analysis of dose-response studies at equilibrium or steady state. The book is recommended reading for post-graduate students and researchers engaged in the study of systems biology, networks, and the pharmacodynamics of natural or industrial drugs, as well as for medical clinicians interested in drug application and combinatorial drug therapy. Even people without mathematical skills will be able to follow the pros and cons of reaction schemes and their related distribution equations.

 The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics, and Relativistic Field Theories: proceedings of the MG14 Meeting on General Relativity, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy, 12-18 July 2015 /editors, Massimo Bianchi, et al. The four volumes of the proceedings of MG14 give a broad view of all aspects of gravitational physics and astrophysics, from mathematical issues to recent observations and experiments. The scientific program of the meeting included 35 morning plenary talks over 6 days, 6 evening popular talks and 100 parallel sessions on 84 topics.

 Handbook of climate change and agroecosystems: the agricultural model intercomparison and improvement project integrated crop and economic assessments /editors,  Cynthia Rosenzweig, et al. Every chapter of the Handbook contributes to addressing the growing food-security challenges facing the world.

 The High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider: the new machine for illuminating the mysteries of universe /editors, Oliver Brüning and Lucio Rossi, CERN. This book provides a broad introduction to the physics and technology of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). The book consists of a series of chapters touching on all issues of technology and design, and each chapter can be read independently. The first few chapters give a summary of the whole project, of the physics motivation and of the accelerator challenges. The subsequent chapters cover the novel technologies, the new configurations of LHC and of its injectors as well as the expected operational implications. Altogether, the book brings the reader to the heart of technologies for the leading edge accelerator and gives insights into next generation hadron colliders.

  Mending and making [electronic resource] /by W.H.P. and M. Anderson. This profusely illustrated little book sets out to explain the work of the Mission to Lepers, now known as The Leprosy Mission.

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2018: Kohala Coast, Hawaii, USA, 3-7 January 2018 /edited by Russ B. Altman … [et al.] [Also available for 2014-2017] The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) is an international, multidisciplinary conference bringing together top researchers from the US, the Asian Pacific nations, and around the world to exchange research results and address open issues in all aspects of computational biology. Presentations are rigorously peer reviewed and are published in an archival proceedings volume. It is a forum for the presentation of work in databases, algorithms, interfaces, visualization, modeling, and other computational methods, as applied to biological problems, with emphasis on applications in data-rich areas of molecular biology. The PSB has been designed to be responsive to the need for critical mass in sub-disciplines within biocomputing.

  Single-use plastics: a roadmap for sustainability /International Environmental Technology Centre, United Nations Environment Programme. This paper sets out the latest thinking on how we can regulate businesses to innovate and individuals to act. It looks at what governments, businesses and individuals have achieved at national and sub-national levels to curb the consumption of single-use plastics. It offers lessons that may be useful for policymakers who are considering regulating the production and use of single-use plastics.