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Classical and Stochastic Laplacian Growth

By: Björn Gustafsson,Razvan Teodorescu,Alexander Vasil’ev

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Classical and Stochastic Laplacian Growth

By: Björn Gustafsson,Razvan Teodorescu,Alexander Vasil’ev

This monograph covers a multitude of concepts, results, and research topics originating from a classical moving-boundary problem in two dimensions (idealized Hele-Shaw flows, or classical Laplacian growth), which has strong connections to many exciting modern developments in mathematics and theoretical physics. Of particular interest are the relations between Laplacian growth and the infinite-size limit of ensembles of random matrices with complex eigenvalues; integrable hierarchies of differential equations and their spectral curves; classical and stochastic Löwner evolution and critical phenomena in two-dimensional statistical models; weak solutions of hyperbolic partial differential equations of singular-perturbation type; and resolution of singularities for compact Riemann surfaces with anti-holomorphic involution. The book also provides an abundance of exact classical solutions, many explicit examples of dynamics by conformal mapping as well as a solid foundation of potential theory. An extensive bibliography covering over twelve decades of results and an introduction rich in historical and biographical details complement the eight main chapters of this monograph. Given its systematic and consistent notation and background results, this book provides a self-contained resource. It is accessible to a wide readership, from beginner graduate students to researchers from various fields in natural sciences and mathematics.

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Russian Rule in Samarkand 1868-1910

A Comparison with British India

By: Alexander Morrison

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Russian Rule in Samarkand 1868-1910

A Comparison with British India

By: Alexander Morrison

Russian Rule in Samarkand examines the structures, personnel, and ideologies of Russian imperialism in Turkestan, taking Samarkand and the surrounding region as a case-study. The creation of a colonial administration in Central Asia presented Russia with similar problems to those faced by the British in India, but different approaches to governance meant that the two regimes often stood in stark contrast to one another. While the Russian administration was characterised by corruption and inefficiency, British rule in India was often more violent, and its subjects much more heavily taxed. Opening with the background to the political situation in Central Asia and a narrative of the Russian conquest itself, the book moves on to analyse official attitudes to Islam and to pre-colonial elites, and the earliest attempts to establish a functioning system of revenue collection. Uncovering the religious and ethnic composition of the military bureaucracy, and the social background, education and training of its personnel, Alexander Morrison assesses the competence of these officers vis-à-vis their Anglo-Indian counterparts. Subsequent chapters look at the role of the so-called 'native administration' in governing the countryside and collecting taxes, the attempt to administer the complex systems of irrigation leading from the Zarafshan and Syr-Darya rivers, and the nature and functions of the Islamic judiciary under colonial rule. Based on extensive archival research in Russia, India, and Uzbekistan, and containing much rare source material translated from the original Russian, Russian Rule in Samarkand will be of interest to all those interested in the history of the Russian Empire and European Imperialism more generally.

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The Bear Watches the Dragon

Russia's Perceptions of China and the Evolution of Russian-Chinese Relations Since the Eighteenth Century

By: Alexander Lukin

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The Bear Watches the Dragon

Russia's Perceptions of China and the Evolution of Russian-Chinese Relations Since the Eighteenth Century

By: Alexander Lukin

China and Russia share a history of understanding and misunderstanding whose nuances are not well appreciated by outsiders. In his interpretation of this relationship from a Russian point of view, Lukin shows how, over the course of three centuries, China has been seen by Russia.

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M.E. Sharpe

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0765610264

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Waveguide Spectroscopy of Thin Films

By: Alexander Vasil'evich Khomchenko

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Waveguide Spectroscopy of Thin Films

By: Alexander Vasil'evich Khomchenko

In Waveguide Spectroscopy of Thin Films new methods of study of the linear and nonlinear optical properties of thin films are presented. These techniques are based on the principles of the spatial Fourier spectroscopy of the light beam reflected from a prism-coupling device with the tunnel excitation of guided lightmodes in thin-film structures. Measurement techniques of determination of the absorption coefficient, refractive index and thickness of the dielectric, semiconductor or metallic films are considered. This book is highly recommended for specialists in the fields of integrated and thin film optics and for graduated students in related specialties. There are new techniques of measurement of thin-film parameters stated

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0080457894

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Conformal and Potential Analysis in Hele-Shaw Cells

By: Björn Gustafsson,Alexander Vasil'ev

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Conformal and Potential Analysis in Hele-Shaw Cells

By: Björn Gustafsson,Alexander Vasil'ev

This monograph presents recent and new ideas arising from the study of problems of planar fluid dynamics, and which are interesting from the point of view of geometric function theory and potential theory. the book is concerned with geometric problems for Hele-Shaw flows. Additionally, Hele-Shaw flows on parameter spaces are discussed, and connections with string theory are revealed. Assumes a graduate level understanding of real and complex analysis, and fluid mechanics.

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The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands

By: Alexander Statiev

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The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands

By: Alexander Statiev

This book investigates the Soviet response to nationalist insurgencies between 1944 and 1953 in the regions the Soviet Union annexed after the Nazi-Soviet pact.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521768330

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Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia

Public Health and Urban Disaster

By: John T. Alexander

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Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia

Public Health and Urban Disaster

By: John T. Alexander

John T. Alexander's study dramatically highlights how the Russian people reacted to the Plague, and shows how the tools of modern epidemiology can illuminate the causes of the plague's tragic course through Russia. Bubonic Plauge in Early Modern Russia makes contributions to many aspects of Russian and European history: social, economic, medical, urban, demographic, and meterological. It is particularly enlightening in its discussion of eighteenth-century Russia's emergent medical profession and public health institutions and, overall, should interest scholars in its use of abundant new primary source material from Soviet, German, and British archives.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195158180

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Einstein and Soviet Ideology

By: Alexander Vucinich

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Einstein and Soviet Ideology

By: Alexander Vucinich

This book traces the historical trajectory of one of the most momentous confrontations in the intellectual life of the Soviet Union—the conflict between Einstein's theory of relativity and official Soviet ideology embodied in dialectical materialism. It describes how Soviet attitudes toward Einstein's theory of relativity changed again and again during the eras of Soviet history: pre-Stalin, Stalin, post-Stalin, and perestroika.

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Stanford University Press

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080474209X

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Moduli of Families of Curves for Conformal and Quasiconformal Mappings

By: Alexander Vasil'ev

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Moduli of Families of Curves for Conformal and Quasiconformal Mappings

By: Alexander Vasil'ev

The monograph is concerned with the modulus of families of curves on Riemann surfaces and its applications to extremal problems for conformal, quasiconformal mappings, and the extension of the modulus onto Teichmüller spaces. The main part of the monograph deals with extremal problems for compact classes of univalent conformal and quasiconformal mappings. Many of them are grouped around two-point distortion theorems. Montel's functions and functions with fixed angular derivatives are also considered. The last portion of problems is directed to the extension of the modulus varying the complex structure of the underlying Riemann surface that sheds some new light on the metric problems of Teichmüller spaces.

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The Russian Conquest of Central Asia

A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914

By: Alexander Morrison

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The Russian Conquest of Central Asia

A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914

By: Alexander Morrison

A comprehensive diplomatic and military history of the Russian conquest of Central Asia, spanning the whole of the nineteenth century.

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1107030307

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Russia

A Thorny Transition From Communism

By: Alexander Lukin

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Russia

A Thorny Transition From Communism

By: Alexander Lukin

This book is based on the collection of articles centered around Russia and its policies. The articles are grouped under three parts. The first part contains articles on international relations, Russian foreign policy, and the situation in the world. The main themes they cover include Russian policy in Asia and the Eurasian integration – in which Moscow plays the most active role. The second part looks at the theorization of Russia's internal processes, issues concerning reforms to the communist system, its troubled transition from Communism, and analysis of the country's current political regime. While elaborating on various reforms and transition from the communist system, the author has suggested certain alternatives concepts. Many of the articles analyze the shortcomings and inconsistencies of the modern Russian political system. The third part is devoted to current issues in Russian politics, the democratization process, growing authoritarian tendencies, mass protests, and that evaluate the programs and policies of individual leaders. The book will be of interest to those specializing in Russian foreign and domestic policy as well as to all those interested in following the developments of this country, its role in the world, and the global situation in general.

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Empire of Knowledge

The Academy of Sciences of the USSR 1917 - 1970

By: Alexander Vucinich

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Empire of Knowledge

The Academy of Sciences of the USSR 1917 - 1970

By: Alexander Vucinich

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

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Chemical Physics of Nanostructured Semiconductors

By: Alexander I. Kokorin,Detlef Bahnemann

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Chemical Physics of Nanostructured Semiconductors

By: Alexander I. Kokorin,Detlef Bahnemann

Deep and detailed discussions on chemistry, chemical physics, photoelectrochemistry, photophysics, photocatalysis and possible applications of nanostructured semiconductor materials have shown increasing interest in the matter by scientists representing various research areas as well as industrial enterprises. Indeed, solar energy conversion and ch

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Inorganic Scintillators for Detector Systems

Physical Principles and Crystal Engineering

By: Paul Lecoq,Alexander Gektin,Mikhail Korzhik

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Inorganic Scintillators for Detector Systems

Physical Principles and Crystal Engineering

By: Paul Lecoq,Alexander Gektin,Mikhail Korzhik

This second edition features new chapters highlighting advances in our understanding of the behavior and properties of scintillators, and the discovery of new families of materials with light yield and excellent energy resolution very close to the theoretical limit. The book focuses on the discovery of next-generation scintillation materials and on a deeper understanding of fundamental processes. Such novel materials with high light yield as well as significant advances in crystal engineering offer exciting new perspectives. Most promising is the application of scintillators for precise time tagging of events, at the level of 100 ps or higher, heralding a new era in medical applications and particle physics. Since the discovery of the Higgs Boson with a clear signature in the lead tungstate scintillating blocks of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter detector, the current trend in particle physics is toward very high luminosity colliders, in which timing performance will ultimately be essential to mitigating pile-up problems. New and extremely fast light production mechanisms based on Hot-Intraband-Luminescence as well as quantum confinement are exploited for this purpose. Breakthroughs such as crystal engineering by means of co-doping procedures and selection of cations with small nuclear fragmentation cross-sections will also pave the way for the development of more advanced and radiation-hard materials. Similar innovations are expected in medical imaging, nuclear physics ecology, homeland security, space instrumentation and industrial applications. This second edition also reviews modern trends in our understanding and the engineering of scintillation materials. Readers will find new and updated references and information, as well as new concepts and inspirations to implement in their own research and engineering endeavors.

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All Solid State Thin-Film Lithium-Ion Batteries

Materials, Technology, and Diagnostics

By: Alexander Skundin,Tatiana Kulova,Alexander Rudy,Alexander Miromemko

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All Solid State Thin-Film Lithium-Ion Batteries

Materials, Technology, and Diagnostics

By: Alexander Skundin,Tatiana Kulova,Alexander Rudy,Alexander Miromemko

A comprehensive, accessible introduction to modern all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries. All-solid-state thin-film lithium-ion batteries present a special and especially important version of lithium-ion ones. They are intended for battery-powered integrated circuit cards (smart-cards), radio-frequency identifier (RFID) tags, smart watches, implantable medical devices, remote microsensors and transmitters, Internet of Things systems, and various other wireless devices including smart building control and so on. Comprising four chapters the monograph explores and provides: The fundamentals of rechargeable batteries, comparison of lithium-ion batteries with other kinds, features of thin-film batteries. A description of functional materials for all-solid-state thin-film batteries. Various methods for applying functional layers of an all-solid-state thin-film lithium-ion battery. Diagnostics of functional layers of all-solid-state thin-film lithium-ion batteries. The monograph is intended for teachers, researchers, advanced undergraduate students, and post-graduate students of profile faculties of universities, as well as for developers and manufacturers of thin-film lithium-ion batteries.

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0429657196

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The Red Army and the Second World War

By: Alexander Hill

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The Red Army and the Second World War

By: Alexander Hill

In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from the industrialisation of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s through to the end of the Great Patriotic War in May 1945. Setting military strategy and operations within a broader context that includes national mobilisation on a staggering scale, the book presents a comprehensive account of the origins and course of the war from the perspective of this key Allied power. Drawing on the latest archival research and a wealth of eyewitness testimony, Hill portrays the Red Army at war from the perspective of senior leaders and men and women at the front line to reveal how the Red Army triumphed over the forces of Nazi Germany and her allies on the Eastern Front, and why it did so at such great cost.

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1316720519

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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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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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Microwaves in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry

By: C. Oliver Kappe,Alexander Stadler,Doris Dallinger

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Microwaves in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry

By: C. Oliver Kappe,Alexander Stadler,Doris Dallinger

Tailored to the needs of medicinal and natural products chemists, the second edition of this unique handbook brings the contents up to speed, almost doubling the amount of chemical information with an additional volume. As in the predecessor, a short introductory section covers the theoretical background and evaluates currently available instrumentation and equipment. The main part of the book then goes on to systematically survey the complete range of published microwave-assisted synthesis methods from their beginnings in the 1990s to mid-2011, drawing on data from more than 5,000 reports and publications. Throughout, the focus is on those reactions, reagents and reaction conditions that work, and that are the most relevant for medicinal and natural products chemistry. A much expanded section is devoted to combinatorial, highthroughput and flow chemistry methods.

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527331859

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Internal Colonization

Russia's Imperial Experience

By: Alexander Etkind

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Internal Colonization

Russia's Imperial Experience

By: Alexander Etkind

This book gives a radically new reading of Russia’s culturalhistory. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conqueredforeign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, therebycolonizing many peoples, Russians included. This vision ofcolonization as simultaneously internal and external, colonizingone’s own people as well as others, is crucial for scholarsof empire, colonialism and globalization. Starting with the fur trade, which shaped its enormous territory,and ending with Russia’s collapse in 1917, Etkind exploresserfdom, the peasant commune, and other institutions of internalcolonization. His account brings out the formative role of foreigncolonies in Russia, the self-colonizing discourse of Russianclassical historiography, and the revolutionary leaders’illusory hopes for an alliance with the exotic, pacifistsectarians. Transcending the boundaries between history andliterature, Etkind examines striking writings about Russia’simperial experience, from Defoe to Tolstoy and from Gogol toConrad. This path-breaking book blends together historical, theoretical andliterary analysis in a highly original way. It will be essentialreading for students of Russian history and literature and foranyone interested in the literary and cultural aspects ofcolonization and its aftermath.

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Singularities of Differentiable Maps, Volume 1

Classification of Critical Points, Caustics and Wave Fronts

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

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Singularities of Differentiable Maps, Volume 1

Classification of Critical Points, Caustics and Wave Fronts

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

Singularity theory is a far-reaching extension of maxima and minima investigations of differentiable functions, with implications for many different areas of mathematics, engineering (catastrophe theory and the theory of bifurcations), and science. The three parts of this first volume of a two-volume set deal with the stability problem for smooth mappings, critical points of smooth functions, and caustics and wave front singularities. The second volume describes the topological and algebro-geometrical aspects of the theory: monodromy, intersection forms, oscillatory integrals, asymptotics, and mixed Hodge structures of singularities. The first volume has been adapted for the needs of non-mathematicians, presupposing a limited mathematical background and beginning at an elementary level. With this foundation, the book's sophisticated development permits readers to explore more applications than previous books on singularities.

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0817683402

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Invariant Manifolds for Physical and Chemical Kinetics

By: Alexander N. Gorban,Iliya V. Karlin

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Invariant Manifolds for Physical and Chemical Kinetics

By: Alexander N. Gorban,Iliya V. Karlin

By bringing together various ideas and methods for extracting the slow manifolds, the authors show that it is possible to establish a more macroscopic description in nonequilibrium systems. The book treats slowness as stability. A unifying geometrical viewpoint of the thermodynamics of slow and fast motion enables the development of reduction techniques, both analytical and numerical. Examples considered in the book range from the Boltzmann kinetic equation and hydrodynamics to the Fokker-Planck equations of polymer dynamics and models of chemical kinetics describing oxidation reactions. Special chapters are devoted to model reduction in classical statistical dynamics, natural selection, and exact solutions for slow hydrodynamic manifolds. The book will be a major reference source for both theoretical and applied model reduction. Intended primarily as a postgraduate-level text in nonequilibrium kinetics and model reduction, it will also be valuable to PhD students and researchers in applied mathematics, physics and various fields of engineering.

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3540226842

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Rereadings in Russian Literary History

By: Alexander Zholkovsky

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Rereadings in Russian Literary History

By: Alexander Zholkovsky

Using structuralist and post-structuralist methods, this book analyzes a selection of influential Russian texts—classical, modernist, and contemporary—as dialogues with earlier works, in the light of new cultural contexts.

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Stanford University Press

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0804727031

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Carbon Cycle in the Russian Arctic Seas

By: Alexander Vetrov,Evgeny Romankevich

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Carbon Cycle in the Russian Arctic Seas

By: Alexander Vetrov,Evgeny Romankevich

This study analyzes carbon-cycle conditions controlling the state of the Arctic ecosystem and their seasonal variations. Territory covered includes the Barents, White, Kara, Laptev, East-Siberian and Chukchi Seas, considering inter-correlations between sources of organic carbon, their fluxes, recycling and burial in bottom sediments. All biological communities (phythoplankton, macrophythobenthos, microphythobentos, bacterioplankton, zooplankton and zoobenthos) are taken into account regarding their participation in the carbon cycle.

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3662062089

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APPLICATION OF POLYMER POSISTOR NANOCOMPOSITES IN SYSTEMS FOR PROTECTING PHOTOVOLTAIC COMPONENTS OF SOLAR ARRAYS FROM ELECTRICAL OVERLOADS

By: Alexander Tonkoshkur,Alexander Ivanchenko,Liliya Nakashydze,Alexander Lyashkov,Igor Gomilko

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APPLICATION OF POLYMER POSISTOR NANOCOMPOSITES IN SYSTEMS FOR PROTECTING PHOTOVOLTAIC COMPONENTS OF SOLAR ARRAYS FROM ELECTRICAL OVERLOADS

By: Alexander Tonkoshkur,Alexander Ivanchenko,Liliya Nakashydze,Alexander Lyashkov,Igor Gomilko

The experience of operating solar arrays indicates the need to solve the problem of creating effective and reliable switching elements to block defective and damaged photovoltaic cells. Available methods of solving this problem (for example, the use of transistor switches, electronic systems, etc.) either do not completely solve it, or are expensive. The tasks of increasing the reliability and efficiency of switching elements, preventing the destruction of photovoltaic cells which occurs during heating by dark current ("hot spots" and fire hazardous situations) are relevant. Recently, one of the promising solutions of this problem is the use of additional devices for isolating inactive (shaded or defective) areas of both separate photovoltaic cells and their modules. These devices are PPTC (polymeric positive temperature coefficient) resettable fuses of PolySwitch type, which are polymer composites with nanoscale carbon fillers. The basic functional property of PPTC fuse is an abrupt increase in electrical resistance by several orders of magnitude when a temperature is reached and a return to the initial high conductive state when the temperature drops. The advantages of such structures based on polymer composites with nanocarbon fillers include: – close to the metal resistance to the switching temperature and to the resistance of the insulator above the specified temperature; – possibility of realization in the form of discrete elements and continuous film-tapes (that is important at the decision of problems of realization of isolation of defective local area of the separate photovoltaic cell); – reaction in the form of temporary isolation of separate components of the solar array to increase their temperature. The research results are presented and the concept of overload protection by using resettable fuses based on polymer nanocomposite materials with nanocarbon fillers is substantiated in this paper. In particular, the expediency of series connection of PolySwitch fuses to photovoltaic modules with parallel connection of their strings is shown to prevent an abnormal situation, namely, a complete loss of electrical energy generated by such a string, which can occur when one of its modules is short-circuited. The circuit solutions in the form of combined structure based on layers of a varistor ceramics and a posistor polymer nanocomposite with carbon filler being in thermal contact are investigated. The prospect of its use to protect photovoltaic cells with a high reverse resistance from overvoltage is established. The problem of protection against local overheating in photovoltaic cells (or their parallel connections) by physical and technological methods, in particular, by creating photovoltaic cells with a built-in layer based on a posistor composite being in thermal contact with it, is analyzed. In general, the described results represent a new direction in the field of improving photovoltaic systems, in particular, in terms of increasing their efficiency, operating time and reliability by using solid-state devices based on polymer posistor nanocomposites and varistor ceramics as means of their protection from electrical and thermal overloads. Keywords: SOLAR ARRAY, PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE, PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL, ELECTRIC OVERLOAD, POLYMER POSISTOR NANOCOMPOSITE, HOT SPOT, VARISTOR CERAMICS

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1639720545

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Powerful Pulsed Plasma Generators

Research and Application

By: Victor Kolikov,Alexander Bogomaz,Alexander Budin

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Powerful Pulsed Plasma Generators

Research and Application

By: Victor Kolikov,Alexander Bogomaz,Alexander Budin

This book presents experimental and theoretical results on extremely powerful plasma generators. It addresses pulsed electrical mega-ampere arcs and the mechanisms of energy transfer from the arc into hydrogen, helium and air under pressures up to 250 MPa and currents up to 2 MA. Extreme plasma parameters and increased energy density in the arc were achieved. It was found experimentally that increasing the initial gas pressure to hundreds of MPa leads to improved arc stability, high efficiency of energy transfer from arc to gas, and plasma enthalpy growth. The data obtained data provides the basis for the development of electrophysical devices with high energy density, e.g. high intensity sources for visible, UV and X-ray irradiation for laser pumping, generators of high enthalpy plasma jets, and plasma chemical reactors.

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3319952498

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Contemplating Shostakovich: Life, Music and Film

By: Mr Alexander Ivashkin,Professor Andrew Kirkman

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Contemplating Shostakovich: Life, Music and Film

By: Mr Alexander Ivashkin,Professor Andrew Kirkman

Contemplating Shostakovich marks an important new stage in the understanding of Shostakovich and his working environment. Each chapter covers aspects of the composer's output in the context of his life and cultural milieu. The contributions uncover 'outside' stimuli behind Shostakovich's works, allowing the reader to perceive the motivations behind his artistic choices; at the same time, the nature of those choices offers insights into the workings of the larger world – cultural, social, political – that he inhabited. Thus his often ostensibly quirky choices are revealed as responses – by turns sentimental, moving, sardonic and angry – to the particular conditions, with all their absurdities and contradictions, that he had to negotiate. Here we see the composer emerging from the role of tortured loner of older narratives into that of the gregarious and engaged member of his society that, for better and worse, characterized the everyday reality of his life. This invaluable collection offers remarkable new insight, in both depth and range, into the nature of Shostakovich's working circumstances and of his response to them. The collection contains the seeds for a wide range of new directions in the study of Shostakovich's works and the larger contexts of their creation and reception.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409472027

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Soviet Partisan vs German Security Soldier

Eastern Front 1941–44

By: Alexander Hill

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Soviet Partisan vs German Security Soldier

Eastern Front 1941–44

By: Alexander Hill

The savage partisan war on the Eastern Front during World War II saw a wide variety of forces deployed by both sides. On the Soviet side, civilian partisans fought alongside and in co-operation with Red Army troops and Red Army and NKVD 'special forces'. On the German side, German Army security divisions, with indigenous components including cavalry, fought alongside SS police and Waffen-SS units and other front-line troops employed for short periods in the anti-partisan role. In addition to providing the background history of the forces of both sides, this study focuses upon three examples of German anti-partisan operations that show varied success in dealing with the Soviet partisan threat. Notably, it covers a major operation in north-west Russia during the spring of 1943 – Operation Spring Clean – that saw Wehrmacht security forces including local components fighting alongside troops under the SS umbrella against a number of Soviet partisan brigades. During the fighting, German forces even employed captured French tanks from earlier in the war against the partisans. Featuring specially commissioned artwork and drawing upon an array of sources, this is an absorbing account of the brutal fighting between German security forces and their Soviet partisan opponents during the long struggle for victory on World War II's Eastern Front.

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1472825640

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Catalogue of the Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Bulgaria

By: Albena Lapeva-Gjonova,Vera Antonova,Alexander G. Radchenko,Maria Atanasova

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Catalogue of the Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Bulgaria

By: Albena Lapeva-Gjonova,Vera Antonova,Alexander G. Radchenko,Maria Atanasova

The present catalogue summarizes the information on species composition and distribution of ants in Bulgaria, known until 2010 from literature and museum collections. The authors have worked intensively on Bulgarian myrmecofauna for the last 10 years. The Bulgarian myrmecofauna currently comprises 163 species from 40 genera and 6 subfamilies. The species list accounts synonyms and the respective publications they were used in, as well as all known localities in Bulgaria. Known localities are grouped by geographical regions and maps with concrete localities or regions for each species are provided. The conservation status of threatened ant species is discussed. The catalogue of Bulgarian ants may be of interest to myrmecologists, ecologists, biogeographers, conservationists and any zoological library.

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PenSoft Publishers LTD

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954642563X

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Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era

By: Alexander Prokhorov,Elena Prokhorova

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Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era

By: Alexander Prokhorov,Elena Prokhorova

Most histories of Soviet cinema portray the 1970s as a period of stagnation with the gradual decline of the film industry. This book, however, examines Soviet film and television of the era as mature industries articulating diverse cultural values via new genre models. During the 1970s, Soviet cinema and television developed a parallel system of genres where television texts celebrated conservative consensus while films manifested symptoms of ideological and social crises. The book examines the genres of state-sponsored epic films, police procedural, comedy and melodrama, and outlines how television gradually emerged as the major form of Russo-Soviet popular culture. Through close analysis of well-known film classics of the period as well as less familiar films and television series, this groundbreaking work helps to deconstruct the myth of this era as a time of cultural and economic stagnation and also helps us to understand the persistence of this myth in the collective memory of Putin-era Russia. This monograph is the first book-length English-language study of film and television genres of the late Soviet era.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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150132408X

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Lectures on the Automorphism Groups of Kobayashi-Hyperbolic Manifolds

By: Alexander Isaev

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Lectures on the Automorphism Groups of Kobayashi-Hyperbolic Manifolds

By: Alexander Isaev

In this monograph the author presents a coherent exposition of recent results on complete characterization of Kobayashi-hyperbolic manifolds with high-dimensional groups of holomorphic automorphisms. These classification results can be viewed as complex-geometric analogues of those known for Riemannian manifolds with high-dimensional isotropy groups that were extensively studied in the 1950s-70s.

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3540691537

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The Soviet System In Crisis

A Reader Of Western And Soviet Views

By: Alexander Dallin,Gail W Lapidus

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The Soviet System In Crisis

A Reader Of Western And Soviet Views

By: Alexander Dallin,Gail W Lapidus

This reader is intended to fill the urgent need for up-to-date materials on the Gorbachev era and to provide scholars and students with source materials and interpretations not available in standard texts. In addition, the book will be regularly revised and updated to take account of rapidly changing events. Alexander Dallin and Gail Lapidus have brought together outstanding Western analyses, as well as Soviet documents and commentary, dealing with developments in the USSR's politics, economy, society, culture, and foreign policy since 1985. The collection covers the full spectrum of views—skeptical and enthusiastic, ideological and pragmatic—offered by journalists, politicians, observers, and participants. Introductory and concluding material by the editors provides the essential context to help students understand the myriad opinions put forth on the vast changes in the USSR and where its future may lie.

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1000305775

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Foundations of Atmospheric Remote Sensing

By: Dmitry Efremenko,Alexander Kokhanovsky

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Foundations of Atmospheric Remote Sensing

By: Dmitry Efremenko,Alexander Kokhanovsky

Theoretical foundations of atmospheric remote sensing are electromagnetic theory, radiative transfer and inversion theory. This book provides an overview of these topics in a common context, compile the results of recent research, as well as fill the gaps, where needed. The following aspects are covered: principles of remote sensing, the atmospheric physics, foundations of the radiative transfer theory, electromagnetic absorption, scattering and propagation, review of computational techniques in radiative transfer, retrieval techniques as well as regularization principles of inversion theory. As such, the book provides a valuable resource for those who work with remote sensing data and want to get a broad view of theoretical foundations of atmospheric remote sensing. The book will be also useful for students and researchers working in such diverse fields like inverse problems, atmospheric physics, electromagnetic theory, and radiative transfer.

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Springer Nature

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3030667456

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Foundations of Synergetics I

Distributed Active Systems

By: Alexander S. Mikhailov

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Foundations of Synergetics I

Distributed Active Systems

By: Alexander S. Mikhailov

This book gives an introduction to the mathematical theory of cooperative behavior in active systems of various origins, both natural and artificial. It is based on a lecture course in synergetics which I held for almost ten years at the University of Moscow. The first volume deals mainly with the problems of pattern fonnation and the properties of self-organized regular patterns in distributed active systems. It also contains a discussion of distributed analog information processing which is based on the cooperative dynamics of active systems. The second volume is devoted to the stochastic aspects of self-organization and the properties of self-established chaos. I have tried to avoid delving into particular applications. The primary intention is to present general mathematical models that describe the principal kinds of coopera tive behavior in distributed active systems. Simple examples, ranging from chemical physics to economics, serve only as illustrations of the typical context in which a particular model can apply. The manner of exposition is more in the tradition of theoretical physics than of in mathematics: Elaborate fonnal proofs and rigorous estimates are often replaced the text by arguments based on an intuitive understanding of the relevant models. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of this book, its readers might well come from very diverse fields of endeavor. It was therefore desirable to minimize the re quired preliminary knowledge. Generally, a standard university course in differential calculus and linear algebra is sufficient.

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3642785565

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9783642785566

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