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Purinergic Signalling and the Nervous System

By: Geoffrey Burnstock,Verkhratsky Alexei

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Purinergic Signalling and the Nervous System

By: Geoffrey Burnstock,Verkhratsky Alexei

In the first 20 years that followed the purinergic signalling hypothesis in 1972, most scientists were sceptical about its validity, largely because ATP was so well established as an intracellular molecule involved in cell biochemistry and it seemed unlikely that such a ubiquitous molecule would act as an extracellular signalling molecule. However, after the receptors for ATP and adenosine were cloned and characterized in the early 1990s and ATP was established as a synaptic transmitter in the brain and sympathetic ganglia, the tide turned. More recently it has become clear that ATP is involved in long-term (trophic) signalling in cell proliferation, differentiation and death, in development and regeneration, as well as in short-term signalling in neurotransmission and secretion. Also, important papers have been published showing the molecular structure of P2X receptors in primitive animals like Amoeba and Schistosoma, as well as green algae. This has led to the recognition of the widespread nature of the purinergic signalling system in most cell types and to a rapid expansion of the field, including studies of the pathophysiology as well as physiology and exploration of the therapeutic potential of purinergic agents. In two books, Geoffrey Burnstock and Alexej Verkhratsky have aimed at drawing together the massive and diverse body of literature on purinergic signalling. The topic of this first book is purinergic signalling in the peripheral and central nervous systems and in the individual senses. In a second book the authors focus on purinergic signalling in non-excitable cells, including those of the airways, kidney, pancreas, endocrine glands and blood vessels. Diseases related to these systems are also considered.

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3642288634

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Contact Geometry and Nonlinear Differential Equations

By: Alexei Kushner,Valentin Lychagin,Vladimir Rubtsov

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Contact Geometry and Nonlinear Differential Equations

By: Alexei Kushner,Valentin Lychagin,Vladimir Rubtsov

Shows novel and modern ways of solving differential equations using methods from contact and symplectic geometry.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521824761

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Polar Seas Oceanography

An integrated case study of the Kara Sea

By: Vladimir A. Volkov,Ola M. Johannessen,Victor E. Borodachev,Gennadiy N. Voinov,Lasse H. Pettersson,Leonoid P. Bobylev,Alexei V. Kouraev

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Polar Seas Oceanography

An integrated case study of the Kara Sea

By: Vladimir A. Volkov,Ola M. Johannessen,Victor E. Borodachev,Gennadiy N. Voinov,Lasse H. Pettersson,Leonoid P. Bobylev,Alexei V. Kouraev

Rapid development of Earth observation satellite using remote sensing techniques enables observations of the oceanic processes by sea and airborne study to be carried out over vast areas in a short time. This first book written by Russian and Norwegian scientists is an analysis of studies of the Kara Sea and presents a unique catalogue of environmental and pollution data of the joint Norwegian and Russian oceanographic expedition studies of the Kara Sea spanning three decades.

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3540429697

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Orthogonal Decompositions and Integral Lattices

By: Alexei Kostrikin,Pham Huu Tiep

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Orthogonal Decompositions and Integral Lattices

By: Alexei Kostrikin,Pham Huu Tiep

The aim of the series is to present new and important developments in pure and applied mathematics. Well established in the community over two decades, it offers a large library of mathematics including several important classics. The volumes supply thorough and detailed expositions of the methods and ideas essential to the topics in question. In addition, they convey their relationships to other parts of mathematics. The series is addressed to advanced readers wishing to thoroughly study the topic. Editorial Board Lev Birbrair, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brasil Victor P. Maslov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Walter D. Neumann, Columbia University, New York, USA Markus J. Pflaum, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Dierk Schleicher, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110901757

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Theory of Interacting Quantum Fields

By: Alexei L. Rebenko

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Theory of Interacting Quantum Fields

By: Alexei L. Rebenko

This monograph is devoted to the systematic presentation of foundations of the quantum field theory. Unlike numerous monographs devoted to this topic, a wide range of problems covered in this book are accompanied by their sufficiently clear interpretations and applications. An important significant feature of this monograph is the desire of the author to present mathematical problems of the quantum field theory with regard to new methods of the constructive and Euclidean field theory that appeared in the last thirty years of the 20th century and are based on the rigorous mathematical apparatus of functional analysis, the theory of operators, and the theory of generalized functions. The monograph is useful for students, post-graduate students, and young scientists who desire to understand not only the formality of construction of the quantum field theory but also its essence and connection with the classical mechanics, relativistic classical field theory, quantum mechanics, group theory, and the theory of path integral formalism.

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Roads and Kingdoms: Two Encounters with the Nazarenes Beyond the River

By: Alexei Savchenko

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Roads and Kingdoms: Two Encounters with the Nazarenes Beyond the River

By: Alexei Savchenko

This book solves the long-standing mystery of a Christian monastery near Samarkand, seen and described by two Arab travellers in the tenth century.

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BRILL

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9004527532

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Computational Aspects of Polynomial Identities

By: Alexei Kanel-Belov,Louis Halle Rowen

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Computational Aspects of Polynomial Identities

By: Alexei Kanel-Belov,Louis Halle Rowen

A comprehensive study of the main research done in polynomial identities over the last 25 years, including Kemer's solution to the Specht problem in characteristic O and examples in the characteristic p situation. The authors also cover codimension theory, starting with Regev's theorem and continuing through the Giambruno-Zaicev exponential rank. T

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1439863725

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Specific Intermolecular Interactions of Nitrogenated and Bioorganic Compounds

By: Alexei K. Baev

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Specific Intermolecular Interactions of Nitrogenated and Bioorganic Compounds

By: Alexei K. Baev

After his first book on the topic "Specific Intermolecular Interactions of Organic Compounds", Baev extends in this book the development of the thermodynamic theory of specific intermolecular interactions to a wider spectrum of nitrogenated and bioorganic compounds: amino alcohols, amino acids, peptides and urea derivatives. The fundamentals of an unconventional approach to the theory of H-bonding and specific interactions are formulated based on a concept of penta- coordinated carbon atoms. New types of hydrogen bonds and specific interactions are substantiated and on the basis of the developed methodology their energies are determined. The new concept of the extra stabilizing effect of isomeric methyl groups on the structure and stability of nitrogenated organic molecules and bioorganic compounds is introduced and the destabilization action on specific interactions is outlined.

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3642374727

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Judging Russia

The Role of the Constitutional Court in Russian Politics 1990–2006

By: Alexei Trochev

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Judging Russia

The Role of the Constitutional Court in Russian Politics 1990–2006

By: Alexei Trochev

This is a study of the actual role that the Russian Constitutional Court played in protecting fundamental rights and resolving legislative-executive struggles and federalism disputes in both Yeltsin's and Putin's Russia. Trochev argues that judicial empowerment is a non-linear process with unintended consequences and that courts that depend on their reputation flourish only if an effective and capable state is there to support them. This is because judges can rely only on the authoritativeness of their judgments, unlike politicians and bureaucrats, who have the material resources necessary to respond to judicial decisions. Drawing upon systematic analysis of all decisions of the Russian Court (published and unpublished) and previously unavailable materials on their (non-)implementation, and resting on a combination of the approaches from comparative politics, law, and public administration, this book shows how and why judges attempted to reform Russia's governance and fought to ensure compliance with their judgments.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139471104

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Quest for Status

Chinese and Russian Foreign Policy

By: Deborah Welch Larson,Alexei Shevchenko

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Quest for Status

Chinese and Russian Foreign Policy

By: Deborah Welch Larson,Alexei Shevchenko

A look at how the desire to improve international status affects Russia's and China's foreign policies Deborah Welch Larson and Alexei Shevchenko argue that the desire for world status plays a key role in shaping the foreign policies of China and Russia. Applying social identity theory—the idea that individuals derive part of their identity from larger communities—to nations, they contend that China and Russia have used various modes of emulation, competition, and creativity to gain recognition from other countries and thus validate their respective identities. To make this argument, they analyze numerous cases, including Catherine the Great’s attempts to westernize Russia, China’s identity crises in the nineteenth century, and both countries’ responses to the end of the Cold War. The authors employ a multifaceted method of measuring status, factoring in influence and inclusion in multinational organizations, military clout, and cultural sway, among other considerations. Combined with historical precedent, this socio-psychological approach helps explain current trends in Russian and Chinese foreign policy.

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Yale University Press

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0300245157

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Specific Intermolecular Interactions of Element-Organic Compounds

By: Alexei K. Baev

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Specific Intermolecular Interactions of Element-Organic Compounds

By: Alexei K. Baev

This book extends the development of the thermodynamic theory of specific intermolecular interactions to element-organic and specific organometallic compounds. The fundamentals of an unconventional approach to the theory of H-bonding and specific interactions are formulated, based on a concept of pentacoordinate carbon atoms. Prof. Baev has introduced the theory already in his successful books "Specific Intermolecular Interactions of Organic Compounds" and "Specific Intermolecular Interactions of Nitrogenated and Bioorganic Compounds". In this book he also demonstrates it for element organic and specific organometallic compounds, a class of substances which is of great importance in synthetic chemistry and catalysis. Furthermore, organic compound classes, that have not been treated in the previous books, are included. New types of hydrogen bonds and specific interactions are substantiated and their energies are determined on the basis of the developed methodology. In this way, the influence of the molecular structure on the energy and on intermolecular interactions can be discussed for these particular compound classes.

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3319085638

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New Aspects of Biotechnology and Medicine

By: Alexei M. Egorov,Gennadiĭ Efremovich Zaikov

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New Aspects of Biotechnology and Medicine

By: Alexei M. Egorov,Gennadiĭ Efremovich Zaikov

This book pays special attention to the behaviour of antioxidants and bioantioxidants in chemical and biological media, creation of new biochips, behaviour of enzymes in vitro and in vivo, usage of polymers for treatment of radiation, problems of cancer diagnostics, new biotests and new methods of the chemical and biochemical analysis, ways of increasing in the trombolitic efficiency, new therapeutic agents, the usage of nanotubes in biostimulators, biotechnology of receptions of antidotes, industrial production of vaccines, novel antiulcerogenic factors, analytical methods in control for food production, some neuroprotective properties of agonistics of protease activated receptions, aspectic controlled release from films and some more problems.

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Nova Publishers

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1600214657

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Complex Plasmas And Colloidal Dispersions: Particle-resolved Studies Of Classical Liquids And Solids

By: Alexei Ivlev,Gregor Morfill,Hartmut Lowen,C Patrick Royall

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Complex Plasmas And Colloidal Dispersions: Particle-resolved Studies Of Classical Liquids And Solids

By: Alexei Ivlev,Gregor Morfill,Hartmut Lowen,C Patrick Royall

Many fundamental issues in classical condensed matter physics can be addressed experimentally using systems of individually visible mesoscopic particles playing the role of “proxy atoms”. The interaction between such “atoms” is determined by the properties of the surrounding medium and/or by external tuning. The best-known examples of such experimental model systems are two different domains of soft matter — complex plasmas and colloidal dispersions.The major goal of this book — written by scientists representing both complex plasmas and colloidal dispersions — is to bring the two fields together. In the first part of the book the basic properties of the two systems are summarized, demonstrating huge conceptual and methodological overlap of the fields and emphasizing numerous cross-connections between them and their essential complementarity. This “introductory part” should serve to help each community in understanding the other field better. Simultaneously, this provides the necessary basis for the second part focused on particle-resolved studies of diverse generic phenomena in liquids and solids — all performed with complex plasmas and/or colloidal dispersions. The book is concluded with the discussion of critical open issues and fascinating perspectives of such interdisciplinary research.

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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9813108169

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The Ukrainian Question

Russian Empire and Nationalism in the 19th Century

By: Alexei Miller

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The Ukrainian Question

Russian Empire and Nationalism in the 19th Century

By: Alexei Miller

This pioneering work treats the Ukrainian question in Russian imperial policy and its importance for the intelligentsia of the empire. Miller sets the Russian Empire in the context of modernizing and occasionally nationalizing great power states and discusses the process of incorporating the Ukraine, better known as "Little Russia" in that time, into the Romanov Empire in the late 18th and 19th centuries. This territorial expansion evolved into a competition of mutually exclusive concepts of Russian and Ukrainian nation-building projects.

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Central European University Press

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6155211183

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9786155211188

The Little Devil and Other Stories

By: Alexei Remizov

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The Little Devil and Other Stories

By: Alexei Remizov

In a dilapidated and isolated old house, something peculiar seems to happen whenever the town’s bestial exterminator visits. On a seemingly bucolic country estate, the head of the household is a living corpse obsessed with other corpses. An adolescent boy who passes his days in private dream worlds experiences a sexual awakening spurred by his family’s scandalous tenant. In these and other stories, the modernist writer Alexei Remizov offers a panorama of Russian mythology, the supernatural, rural grotesques, and profound religious faith in fiery revolutionary settings. Alexei Remizov was one of the greatest writers of the Russian symbolist movement of the early twentieth century. In the thirteen stories collected in this volume, his exceptional stylistic achievements are on full display. Equally drawing on rural colloquial speech, the language of Russian fairy tales, and the customs of the Old Believers and Russian Orthodoxy, they transport the reader into a mysterious world in between uncanny folktales and encroaching modernity. The Little Devil and Other Stories includes works from across Remizov’s career, encompassing his thematic preoccupations and stylistic experimentation. Antonina W. Bouis’s translation captures Remizov’s many registers to offer English-language readers a sampling of a remarkable Russian writer.

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Columbia University Press

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0231545169

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9780231545167

Stalin's Great Science: The Times And Adventures Of Soviet Physicists

By: Alexei B Kojevnikov

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Stalin's Great Science: The Times And Adventures Of Soviet Physicists

By: Alexei B Kojevnikov

World-class science and technology developed in the Soviet Union during Stalin's dictatorial rule under conditions of political violence, lack of international contacts, and severe restrictions on the freedom of information. Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists is an invaluable book that investigates this paradoxical success by following the lives and work of Soviet scientists — including Nobel Prize-winning physicists Kapitza, Landau, and others — throughout the turmoil of wars, revolutions, and repression that characterized the first half of Russia's twentieth century.The book examines how scientists operated within the Soviet political order, communicated with Stalinist politicians, built a new system of research institutions, and conducted groundbreaking research under extraordinary circumstances. Some of their novel scientific ideas and theories reflected the influence of Soviet ideology and worldview and have since become accepted universally as fundamental concepts of contemporary science. In the process of making sense of the achievements of Soviet science, the book dismantles standard assumptions about the interaction between science, politics, and ideology, as well as many dominant stereotypes — mostly inherited from the Cold War — about Soviet history in general. Science and technology were not only granted unprecedented importance in Soviet society, but they also exerted a crucial formative influence on the Soviet political system itself. Unlike most previous studies, Stalin's Great Science recognizes the status of science as an essential element of the Soviet polity and explores the nature of a special relationship between experts (scientists and engineers) and communist politicians that enabled the initial rise of the Soviet state and its mature accomplishments, until the pact eroded in later years, undermining the communist regime from within.

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World Scientific

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1911298275

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Isaac Levitan

By: Alexei Fiodorov-Davydov

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Isaac Levitan

By: Alexei Fiodorov-Davydov

Isaac Levitan was one of the greatest landscape painters of the nineteenth century not only in Russian, but in European art as well. He created works of undying artistic merit. His art is for all time and for all people because it absorbed into itself the woes, the joys and the social realities of its age, because it converted that which men lived by into sublime works of art and translated the author’s emotions into lyrical images of his native land. At the end of the nineteenth century the landscape was one of the foremost genres in Russian painting. It was this influence that shaped Levitan’s art, an art fully and by right symbolic of the finest achievements of Russian landscape painting.

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Parkstone International

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1644618796

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Specific Intermolecular Interactions of Organic Compounds

By: Alexei K. Baev

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Specific Intermolecular Interactions of Organic Compounds

By: Alexei K. Baev

Prof. Baev presents in his book the development of the thermodynamic theory of specific intermolecular interactions for a wide spectrum of organic compounds: ethers, ketones, alcohols, carboxylic acids, and hydrocarbons. The fundamentals of an unconventional approach to the theory of H-bonding and specific interactions are formulated based on a concept of pentacoordinate carbon atoms. New types of hydrogen bonds and specific interactions are substantiated and on the basis of the developed methodology their energies are determined. The system of interconnected quantitative characteristics of the stability of specific intermolecular interactions is presented. The laws of their transformations are discussed and summarized. The new concept of the extra stabilizing effect of isomeric methyl groups on the structure and stability of organic molecules is introduced and the destabilization action on specific interactions is outlined.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642216218

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Group Theory, Statistics, and Cryptography

AMS Special Session Combinatorial and Statistical Group Theory, April 12-13, 2003, New York University

By: Alexei G. Myasnikov,Vladimir Shpilrain

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Group Theory, Statistics, and Cryptography

AMS Special Session Combinatorial and Statistical Group Theory, April 12-13, 2003, New York University

By: Alexei G. Myasnikov,Vladimir Shpilrain

This volume consists of contributions by speakers at the AMS Special Session on Combinatorial and Statistical Group Theory held at New York University. Readers will find a variety of contributions, including survey papers on applications of group theory in cryptography, research papers on various aspects of statistical group theory, and papers on more traditional combinatorial group theory. The book is suitable for graduate students and research mathematicians interested in group theory and its applications to cryptography.

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0821834444

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Abstract Cauchy Problems

Three Approaches

By: Irina V. Melnikova,Alexei Filinkov

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Abstract Cauchy Problems

Three Approaches

By: Irina V. Melnikova,Alexei Filinkov

Although the theory of well-posed Cauchy problems is reasonably understood, ill-posed problems-involved in a numerous mathematical models in physics, engineering, and finance- can be approached in a variety of ways. Historically, there have been three major strategies for dealing with such problems: semigroup, abstract distribution, and regularizat

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CRC Press

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1420035495

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Applied Radiation Chemistry

Radiation Processing

By: Robert J. Woods,Alexei K. Pikaev

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Applied Radiation Chemistry

Radiation Processing

By: Robert J. Woods,Alexei K. Pikaev

Deals with radiation processing as a whole using a chemical perspective. Offers basic information on the procedures taking place and covers radiation dosimetry plus a wide range of actual and potential applications. Provides excellent coverage of radiation processing literature with bibliographies pertaining to key areas of radiation chemistry.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471544523

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Nuclear Waste Disposal

Geophysical Safety

By: Alexei V. Byalko

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Nuclear Waste Disposal

Geophysical Safety

By: Alexei V. Byalko

This book provides an important review of the present state and possible future development of high-level nuclear waste disposals. The author discusses the structure, thermal history, and dynamics of the earth's crust, explaining their importance in nuclear safety. The author presents critical reviews of disposal methods and proposes an original method for high-level nuclear waste disposal that involves placing capsules with nuclear waste into deep boreholes filled with sulfur. The behavior of such a complex system is analyzed, considering such aspects as thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, possible chemical and mineralogical reactions, radionuclides diffusion, and mass transfer. The book takes a physical approach to nuclear waste disposal making it different from other books that take a geological viewpoint. A diskette included with the book provides modeling executive programs and Pascal computer codes that will be valuable for developing an in-depth understanding of calculations.

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CRC Press

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0849344697

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Alternative Fusion Fuels and Systems

By: Sergei V. Ryzhkov,Alexei Yu. Chirkov

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Alternative Fusion Fuels and Systems

By: Sergei V. Ryzhkov,Alexei Yu. Chirkov

Explores the systems of magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasma with closed and open magnetic field lines which relate to alternative compact devices of controlled thermonuclear fusion. Energy balance schemes of thermonuclear plasmas and main reactor characteristics are presented as the authors compare conceptual projects based on classical tokamak and stellarator, spherical tokamak and compact torus. They explore the questions and problems of new promising nuclear and thermonuclear power plants that source thermonuclear neutrons on a mixture of deuterium and tritium, and a low-radioactive reactor on a mixture of deuterium and helium-3.

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0429679009

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Everything was Forever, Until it was No More

The Last Soviet Generation

By: Alexei Yurchak

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Everything was Forever, Until it was No More

The Last Soviet Generation

By: Alexei Yurchak

Drawing on diaries, correspondence, interviews and memoirs, and applying historical, anthropological and linguistic analyses, this text explores late Soviet period (1960s-80s) through the eyes of the last Soviet generation.

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0691121176

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The Food Block

By: Alexei Ivanov

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The Food Block

By: Alexei Ivanov

The summer of 1980. The Moscow Olympics. A small pioneer camp on the banks of the Volga. The pioneers fall out, make up, play tricks. Romances start up among the young leaders. The river bus brings in drums of milk and boxes of pasta. Life in the quirky gingerbread cake buildings of the camp establishes its rhythms against the backdrop of the Volga’s ceaseless flow and the sunset’s daily blush over the Zhiguli mountains. But something, or someone, is at work. Something that no one except twelve-year-old Valerka can see for what it is. When he confides in the young leader Igor, only to be disbelieved, Valerka finds himself carrying the burden of what he knows completely alone. Valerka resists the vampires on principle, while Igor finally joins forces with him only when what is happening touches him personally. Together, they brace themselves to do battle with a power they have no reason to believe they can withstand. Ivanov brings us a gallery of colourful characters: idealistic, dogged Valerka; seventeen-year-old Igor, groping to find himself and on the way finding his first love; the spiky and beautiful Veronika; the blithely self-absorbed Anastasiika; the drunken doctor who knows too much; the steadily-growing cast of bloodsuckers and their ‘carcasses’. Through them, Ivanov gives us both a thriller and a book of subtlety and depth. Building steadily towards its enthralling climax, The Food Block crackles with delightful dialogue, exudes humour that does not make fun, and explores with apparently effortless insight the loves and energy, hopes and doubts, and fears and courage of childhood and youth.

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Glagoslav Publications

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1804841277

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Barbarossa Through Soviet Eyes

The First Twenty-Four Hours

By: Artem Drabkin,Alexei Isaev,Christopher Summerville

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Barbarossa Through Soviet Eyes

The First Twenty-Four Hours

By: Artem Drabkin,Alexei Isaev,Christopher Summerville

22 June 1941 changed the direction of the Second World War. It also changed the direction of human history. Unleashing a massive, three-pronged assault into Soviet territory, the German army unwittingly created its own nemesis, forging the modern Russian state in the process. Thus, for most Russians, 22 June 1941 was a critical point in their nation's history. After the first day of Barbarossa nothing would be the same again for anyone. Now, for the first time in English, Russians speak of their experiences on that fatal Sunday. Apparently caught off guard by Hitlers initiative, the Soviets struggled to make sense of a disaster that had seemingly struck from nowhere. Here are generals scrambling to mobilize ill-prepared divisions, pilots defying orders not to grapple with the mighty Luftwaffe, bewildered soldiers showing individual acts of blind courage, and civilians dumbstruck by air raid sirens and radio broadcasts telling of German treachery.

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1781598185

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German Nationalism and Indian Political Thought

The Influence of Ancient Indian Philosophy on the German Romantics

By: Alexei Pimenov

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German Nationalism and Indian Political Thought

The Influence of Ancient Indian Philosophy on the German Romantics

By: Alexei Pimenov

This book examines the influence of Indian socio-political thought, ideas, and culture on German Romantic nationalism. It suggests that, contrary to the traditional view that the concepts of nationalism have moved exclusively from the West to the rest of the world, in the crucial case of German nationalism, the essential intellectual underpinnings of the nationalist discourse came to the West, not from the West. The book demonstrates how the German Romantic fascination with India resulted in the adoption of Indian models of identity and otherness and ultimately shaped German Romantic nationalism. The author illustrates how Indian influence renovated the scholarly design of German nationalism and, at the same time, became central to pre-modern and pre-nationalist models of identity, which later shaped the Aryan myth. Focusing on the scholarship of Friedrich Schlegel, Otmar Frank, Joseph Goerres, and Arthur Schopenhauer, the book shows how, in explaining the fact of the diversity of languages, peoples, and cultures, the German Romantics reproduced the Indian narrative of the degradation of some Indo-Aryan clans, which led to their separation from the Aryan civilization. An important resource for the nexus between Indology and Orientalism, German Indian Studies and studies of nationalism, this book will be of interest to researchers working in the fields of history, European and South Asian area studies, philosophy, political science, and IR theory.

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Non-Equilibrium Phenomena near Vapor-Liquid Interfaces

By: Alexei Kryukov,Vladimir Levashov,Puzina Yulia

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Non-Equilibrium Phenomena near Vapor-Liquid Interfaces

By: Alexei Kryukov,Vladimir Levashov,Puzina Yulia

This book presents information on the development of a non-equilibrium approach to the study of heat and mass transfer problems using vapor-liquid interfaces, and demonstrates its application to a broad range of problems. In the process, the following peculiarities become apparent: 1. At vapor condensation on the interface from gas-vapor mixture, non-condensable components can lock up the interface surface and condensation stops completely. 2. At the evolution of vapor film on the heater in superfluid helium (He-II), the boiling mass flux density from the vapor-liquid interface is effectively zero at the macroscopic scale. 3. In problems concerning the motion of He-II bridges inside capillaries filled by vapor, in the presence of axial heat flux the He-II bridge cannot move from the heater as would a traditional liquid, but in the opposite direction instead. Thus the heater attracts the superfluid helium bridge. 4. The shape of liquid-vapor interface at film boiling on the axis-symmetric heaters immersed in liquid greatly depends on heat flux in the interface. Thus a new type of hydrostatic problems appears when in contrast to traditional statements the shape of the liquid-vapor interface has a complex profile with a point of inflection and a smooth exit on a free liquid surface.

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