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Resonant Nonlinear Interactions of Light with Matter

By: Valerii S. Butylkin,Alexander E. Kaplan,Yury G. Khronopulo,Evsei I. Yakubovich

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Resonant Nonlinear Interactions of Light with Matter

By: Valerii S. Butylkin,Alexander E. Kaplan,Yury G. Khronopulo,Evsei I. Yakubovich

This book is devoted primarily to the various kinds of resonant nonlinear in teractions of light with two-level (or, in many cases, multilevel) systems. The interactions can involve one-photon as well as multiphoton processes in which some combinations of frequencies of participating photons are close to tran sitions of atoms or molecules (e.g., we consider stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) as a resonant interaction). This approach involves a broad spectrum of problems. Discussion of some of the basic phenomena as well as the pertinent theory could be found, for instance, in such well-known books as the ones due to N. Bloembergen; S.A. Akhmanov and R.V. Khokhlov; L. Allen and J.H. Eberly, and to V.M. Fain and Ya.1. Khanin. The book "Quantum Electronics" by A. Yariv could serve as an introductory guide to the subject. Thus, some of the basic material in the present book will already be well known to the reader who is an expert in the field. There are, for instance, general density matrix equations; two-level model and basic effects associated with this model, such as saturation of one-photon absorption and Raby oscillations; some basic multiphoton processes such as two-photon absorption, SRS, etc.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642688918

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9783642688911

Performance and Power

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander

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Performance and Power

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander

Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender and the philosophy of action. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander demonstrates how performance can reorient our study of politics and society. Alexander develops a cultural pragmatics that shifts cultural sociology from texts to gestural meanings. Positioning social performance between ritual and strategy, he lays out the elements of social performance - from scripts to mise-en-scène, from critical mediation to audience reception - and systematically describes their tense interrelation. This is followed by a series of empirically oriented studies that demonstrate how cultural pragmatics transforms our approach to power. Alexander brings his new theory of social performance to bear on case studies that range from political to cultural power: Barack Obama's electoral campaign, American failure in the Iraqi war, the triumph of the Civil Rights Movement, terrorist violence on September 11th, public intellectuals, material icons, and social science itself. This path-breaking work by one of the world's leading social theorists will command a wide interdisciplinary readership.

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402

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745655661

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9780745655666

Biodegradation and Bioremediation

By: Martin Alexander

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Biodegradation and Bioremediation

By: Martin Alexander

Alexander presents the basic principles of biodegradation and how these principles relate to bioremediation. All the subject's microbiological, chemical, toxicological, environmental, engineering and technological aspects are covered.

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Gulf Professional Publishing

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0120498618

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Reform Judaism for the Rest of Us

Faith Versus Political Activism

By: Alexander Maller

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Reform Judaism for the Rest of Us

Faith Versus Political Activism

By: Alexander Maller

Reform Judaism has been tested by the spiritual torments and ideological upheavals of the last two centuries. Now, Reform Judaism for the Rest of Us brings into discussion key tenets and opinions that shape current thinking within the faith and introduces ideas for its future development. Author Alexander Maller believes that the core message of Reform Judaism, a modern faith inspired by the Jewish heritage and the Jewish and American Enlightenment, is entering a new phase in its history. Free from the defunct extremist ideologies of the last centuries, American Reform Judaism can expand its reach into the new millennium if it strengthens its grassroots appeal to be of, by, and for the Reform congregants. It must also have a strong Jewish divine faith orientation, be open-minded to the realities of modern living, bear a deep love of Zion, and uphold a strong defense of the Constitution. The arguments brought forth in this study stem from the authors position as a lay congregant. They also arise from the fact that he is a participant in and an observer of the continuous dialogue between rank-and-file congregants and clergy, as well as among congregations and various denominations of faith. Reform Judaism for the Rest of Us encourages congregants to adopt a sustainable, modern, deity-based orientation inspired by Jewish heritage and the American spirit.

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iUniverse

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147593582X

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Derivative Spectrophotometry and Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Spectroscopy for Ecological and Biological Questions

By: Vladimir S. Saakov,Valery Z. Drapkin,Alexander I. Krivchenko,Eugene V. Rozengart,Yuri V. Bogachev,Mikhail N. Knyazev

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Derivative Spectrophotometry and Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Spectroscopy for Ecological and Biological Questions

By: Vladimir S. Saakov,Valery Z. Drapkin,Alexander I. Krivchenko,Eugene V. Rozengart,Yuri V. Bogachev,Mikhail N. Knyazev

This book provides a multidisciplinary overview to the application of high order derivative spectrophotometry and Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) spectroscopy in biology and ecology. The characteristics of the principle methods as well as the generation of reliable spectra are discussed in general terms allowing the reader to gain an idea of these methods’ potentials. Furthermore the authors give an extended overview to the spectroscopic and spectro-photometric analysis of specific biological materials. This volume is a well condensed description of an analytical method and a clear review to its application in biology and related fields and an essential tool for researchers who are new in the field of spectroscopic methods and their applications in the life sciences.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3709110068

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Derivative Spectrophotometry and PAM-Fluorescence in Comparative Biochemistry

By: Vladimir S. Saakov,Alexander I. Krivchenko,Eugene V. Rozengart,Irina G. Danilova

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Derivative Spectrophotometry and PAM-Fluorescence in Comparative Biochemistry

By: Vladimir S. Saakov,Alexander I. Krivchenko,Eugene V. Rozengart,Irina G. Danilova

This book presents various examples of how advanced fluorescence and spectroscopic analytical methods can be used in combination with computer data processing to address different biochemical questions. The main focus is on evolutionary biochemistry and the description of biochemical and metabolic issues; specifically, the use of pulse amplitude modulated fluorescence (PAM) for the functional analysis of the cellular state, as well as results obtained by means of the derivative spectroscopy method characterizing structural reorganization of a cell under the influence of external factors, are discussed. The topics presented here will be of interest to biologists, geneticists, biophysicists and biochemists, as well as experts in analytical chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry and radio chemistry and radio activation studies with protonen and alpha-particles. It also offers a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in biological, physical and chemical disciplines whose work involves derivative spectrophotometry and PAM-fluorescence.

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3319115960

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Singularities of Differentiable Maps

Volume I: The Classification of Critical Points Caustics and Wave Fronts

By: V.I. Arnold,Alexander Varchenko,S.M. Gusein-Zade

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Singularities of Differentiable Maps

Volume I: The Classification of Critical Points Caustics and Wave Fronts

By: V.I. Arnold,Alexander Varchenko,S.M. Gusein-Zade

... there is nothing so enthralling, so grandiose, nothing that stuns or captivates the human soul quite so much as a first course in a science. After the first five or six lectures one already holds the brightest hopes, already sees oneself as a seeker after truth. I too have wholeheartedly pursued science passionately, as one would a beloved woman. I was a slave, and sought no other sun in my life. Day and night I crammed myself, bending my back, ruining myself over my books; I wept when I beheld others exploiting science fot personal gain. But I was not long enthralled. The truth is every science has a beginning, but never an end - they go on for ever like periodic fractions. Zoology, for example, has discovered thirty-five thousand forms of life ... A. P. Chekhov. "On the road" In this book a start is made to the "zoology" of the singularities of differentiable maps. This theory is a young branch of analysis which currently occupies a central place in mathematics; it is the crossroads of paths leading from very abstract corners of mathematics (such as algebraic and differential geometry and topology, Lie groups and algebras, complex manifolds, commutative algebra and the like) to the most applied areas (such as differential equations and dynamical systems, optimal control, the theory of bifurcations and catastrophes, short-wave and saddle-point asymptotics and geometrical and wave optics).

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0817631879

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9780817631871

Singularities of Differentiable Maps, Volume 2

Monodromy and Asymptotics of Integrals

By: Elionora Arnold,S.M. Gusein-Zade,Alexander N. Varchenko

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Singularities of Differentiable Maps, Volume 2

Monodromy and Asymptotics of Integrals

By: Elionora Arnold,S.M. Gusein-Zade,Alexander N. Varchenko

The present volume is the second in a two-volume set entitled Singularities of Differentiable Maps. While the first volume, subtitled Classification of Critical Points and originally published as Volume 82 in the Monographs in Mathematics series, contained the zoology of differentiable maps, that is, it was devoted to a description of what, where, and how singularities could be encountered, this second volume concentrates on elements of the anatomy and physiology of singularities of differentiable functions. The questions considered are about the structure of singularities and how they function.

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0817683437

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9780817683436

The Mirror of Laughter

By: Alexander Kozintsev

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The Mirror of Laughter

By: Alexander Kozintsev

The Mirror of Laughter presents a theory of humor and laughter by examining their relationship to human behaviors. Kozintsev is especially interested in the relationship between biological and cultural factors that influence behaviors. He divides his work into four chapters, the first of which establishes a theme of the book, focusing on the study of meaning from the perspective of philosophy and psychology, while examining linguistic theories of humor. The second chapter examines biological data regarding laughter and the evolutionary origins of laughter and humor. It demonstrates the author's interest in studying humor objectively by detailing physiological reactions and underlying psychological issues. The third section on play, including linguistic play, distinguishes between orderly and disorderly play. While orderly play has no biological roots and is synonymous with culture, disorderly play is rooted in the pre-human past. The final chapter discusses the conflict between culture and nature and how culture has transformed the original semantics of laughter. Kozintsev seeks to understand the relationship between the biological, cultural, and social origins of humor and, from here, he seeks to create new understanding that only the alliance of several disciplines could provide. All of this is done while the author challenges many popular ideas of humor, such as that humor is inherently related to hostility. Originally written in Russian, this work makes great strides towards its goal, and it does so in an interesting and enlightening way.

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Routledge

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1351479407

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Clinical Aspects of Dysphasia

By: M.L. Albert,H. Goodglass,N.A. Helm,A.B. Rubens,M.P. Alexander

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Clinical Aspects of Dysphasia

By: M.L. Albert,H. Goodglass,N.A. Helm,A.B. Rubens,M.P. Alexander

This volume is one in a series of monographs being issued under the general title of "Disorders of Human Communication". Each monograph deals in detail with a particular aspect of vocal communication and its disorders, and is written by internationally distinguished experts. Therefore, the series will provide an authoritative source of up-to-date scientific and clinical informa tion relating to the whole field of normal and abnormal speech communication, and as such will succeed the earlier monumental work "Handbuch der Stimm und Sprachheilkunde" by R. Luchsinger and G. E. Arnold (last issued in 1970). This series will prove invaluable for clinicians, teachers and research workers in phoniatrics and logopaedics, phonetics and linguistics, speech pathology, otolaryngology, neurology and neurosurgery, psychology and psychiatry, paediatrics and audiology. Several of the monographs will also be useful to voice and singing teachers, and to their pupils. G. E. Arnold, Jackson, Miss. F. Winckel, Berlin B. D. Wyke, London Preface Neurologists, neuropsychologists, speech pathologists and other clinicians who care for dysphasic patients have often complained that available books on dysphasia tend to be parochially theoretical, and insufficiently directed towards clinical reality. These books provide the categories, labels, and theoretical speculations of one school or another; but dysphasic patients as often as not do not fit neatly into a specific theoretical category. Clinical patterns of dysphasic syndromes of most patients with dysphasia rarely conform fully to the pictures painted in the textbooks.

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3709186056

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Book's by Alexander E. Kaplan

Resonant Nonlinear Interactions of Light with Matter

Resonant Nonlinear Interactions of Light with Matter

Performance and Power

Performance and Power

Biodegradation and Bioremediation

Biodegradation and Bioremediation

Reform Judaism for the Rest of Us

Reform Judaism for the Rest of Us

Derivative Spectrophotometry and Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Spectroscopy for Ecological and Biological Questions

Derivative Spectrophotometry and Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Spectroscopy for Ecological and Biological Questions

Derivative Spectrophotometry and PAM-Fluorescence in Comparative Biochemistry

Derivative Spectrophotometry and PAM-Fluorescence in Comparative Biochemistry

Singularities of Differentiable Maps

Singularities of Differentiable Maps

Singularities of Differentiable Maps, Volume 2

Singularities of Differentiable Maps, Volume 2

The Mirror of Laughter

The Mirror of Laughter

Clinical Aspects of Dysphasia

Clinical Aspects of Dysphasia

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