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Ion Tracks in Apatite and Quartz

And Their Behaviour with Temperature and Pressure

By: Daniel Schauries

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Ion Tracks in Apatite and Quartz

And Their Behaviour with Temperature and Pressure

By: Daniel Schauries

This book pioneers a novel approach to investigate the effects of pressure on fission tracks, a geological problem that has remained unsolved for 60 years. While conventional techniques to study fission tracks were limited in precision, this book overcomes such issues by using state-of-the-art synchrotron-based x-ray scattering; a technique initially developed for applications in material science and biomedical research. The book provides an overview of the theory and application of small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) on cylindrical ion tracks, including in-situ SAXS on ion tracks with simultaneous increases in temperature and pressure. As such it demonstrates a degree of characterisation normally not achievable with in-situ techniques. Further, it compares SAXS with small angle neutron scattering (SANS). This book has led to a range of publications and attracted the interest of the geological and material science communities. Daniel Schauries has been awarded several prizes for this research, including the Graduate Student Award of the Materials Research Society.

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Springer

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3319962833

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Looking for Mo

By: Daniel Duane

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Looking for Mo

By: Daniel Duane

A man climbs a mountain in Yosemite to win his friend's respect. On the first attempt, Ray chickened out which forced his friend, Mo, to cancel the climb. Now, after weeks of anguish, Ray follows Mo for another try. A first novel.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671034839

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9780671034832

Taking the Floor

Models, Morals, and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room

By: Daniel Beunza

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Taking the Floor

Models, Morals, and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room

By: Daniel Beunza

An inside look at a Wall Street trading room and what this reveals about today’s financial system Debates about financial reform have led to the recognition that a healthy financial system doesn’t depend solely on how it is structured—organizational culture matters as well. Based on extensive research in a Wall Street derivatives-trading room, Taking the Floor considers how the culture of financial organizations might change in order for them to remain healthy, even in times of crises. In particular, Daniel Beunza explores how the extensive use of financial models and trading technologies over the recent decades has exerted a far-ranging and troubling influence on Wall Street. How have models reshaped financial markets? How have models altered moral behavior in organizations? Beunza takes readers behind the scenes in a bank unit that, within its firm, is widely perceived to be “a class act,” and he considers how this trading room unit might serve as a blueprint solution for the ills of Wall Street’s unsustainable culture. Beunza demonstrates that the integration of traders across desks reduces the danger of blind spots created by models. Warning against the risk of moral disengagement posed by the use of models, he also contends that such disengagement could be avoided by instituting moral norms and social relations. Providing a unique perspective on a complex subject, Taking the Floor profiles what an effective, responsible trading room can and should look like.

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Princeton University Press

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0691204772

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THE MASTERFUL WAY

THE 5-STEPS OF BEING THE WELL-MANIFESTED LIFE

By: Daniel Wingate

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THE MASTERFUL WAY

THE 5-STEPS OF BEING THE WELL-MANIFESTED LIFE

By: Daniel Wingate

The Masterful Way is intentional, deliberate and powerful. It is a life of joy and happiness which is what we all seek. This book is about Mastering this kind of life. You will find this book to be different. It is not another book on the Law of Attraction. Nor is it a treatise on the next generation of New Thought. This is a book about Mastery; the Tool-Set, the Skill-Set and the Mind-Set. It is an in-depth perspective on Universal truths and the Laws governing all energy. This is the journey of living your highest Self and taking full charge of your Co-Creative power. An unfolding of truths will help you understand the suite of Universal Laws that define all that Is. You will find perspectives on what is actually real and what is not. You will be given tools to help you work with the Universal Laws, and therefore how to get out of your own way. Most importantly you will define your desires and put yourself on the road of Mastery. You will get help on being clear about your intention, on removing obstacles, mostly of your own making, and on defining that which is your Being. Your journey of Mastery must be expressed in absolute truth and belief. It is what you have to say. This is why we are all here. Take this journey, and the Universe will be privileged to experience your voice.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1838591869

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Core Techniques and Algorithms in Game Programming

By: Daniel Sánchez-Crespo Dalmau

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Core Techniques and Algorithms in Game Programming

By: Daniel Sánchez-Crespo Dalmau

To even try to keep pace with the rapid evolution of game development, you need a strong foundation in core programming techniques-not a hefty volume on one narrow topic or one that devotes itself to API-specific implementations. Finally, there's a guide that delivers! As a professor at the Spanish university that offered that country's first master's degree in video game creation, author Daniel Sanchez-Crespo recognizes that there's a core programming curriculum every game designer should be well versed in-and he's outlined it in these pages! By focusing on time-tested coding techniques-and providing code samples that use C++, and the OpenGL and DirectX APIs-Daniel has produced a guide whose shelf life will extend long beyond the latest industry trend. Code design, data structures, design patterns, AI, scripting engines, 3D pipelines, texture mapping, and more: They're all covered here-in clear, coherent fashion and with a focus on the essentials that will have you referring back to this volume for years to come.

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New Riders

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0131020099

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9780131020092

Hypercomplex Iterations: Distance Estimation And Higher Dimensional Fractals (With Cd Rom)

By: Yumei Dang,Louis H Kauffman,Daniel Sandin

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Hypercomplex Iterations: Distance Estimation And Higher Dimensional Fractals (With Cd Rom)

By: Yumei Dang,Louis H Kauffman,Daniel Sandin

This book is based on the authors' research on rendering images of higher dimensional fractals by a distance estimation technique. It is self-contained, giving a careful treatment of both the known techniques and the authors' new methods. The distance estimation technique was originally applied to Julia sets and the Mandelbrot set in the complex plane. It was justified, through the work of Douady and Hubbard, by deep results in complex analysis. In this book the authors generalise the distance estimation to quaternionic and other higher dimensional fractals, including fractals derived from iteration in the Cayley numbers (octonionic fractals). The generalization is justified by new geometric arguments that circumvent the need for complex analysis. This puts on a firm footing the authors' present work and the second author's earlier work with John Hart and Dan Sandin. The results of this book will be of great interest to mathematicians and computer scientists interested in fractals and computer graphics.

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World Scientific

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9814496804

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9789814496803

Hendee's Radiation Therapy Physics

By: Todd Pawlicki,Daniel J. Scanderbeg,George Starkschall

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Hendee's Radiation Therapy Physics

By: Todd Pawlicki,Daniel J. Scanderbeg,George Starkschall

The publication of this fourth edition, more than ten years on from the publication of Radiation Therapy Physics third edition, provides a comprehensive and valuable update to the educational offerings in this field. Led by a new team of highly esteemed authors, building on Dr Hendee’s tradition, Hendee’s Radiation Therapy Physics offers a succinctly written, fully modernised update. Radiation physics has undergone many changes in the past ten years: intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) has become a routine method of radiation treatment delivery, digital imaging has replaced film-screen imaging for localization and verification, image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) is frequently used, in many centers proton therapy has become a viable mode of radiation therapy, new approaches have been introduced to radiation therapy quality assurance and safety that focus more on process analysis rather than specific performance testing, and the explosion in patient-and machine-related data has necessitated an increased awareness of the role of informatics in radiation therapy. As such, this edition reflects the huge advances made over the last ten years. This book: Provides state of the art content throughout Contains four brand new chapters; image-guided therapy, proton radiation therapy, radiation therapy informatics, and quality and safety improvement Fully revised and expanded imaging chapter discusses the increased role of digital imaging and computed tomography (CT) simulation The chapter on quality and safety contains content in support of new residency training requirements Includes problem and answer sets for self-test This edition is essential reading for radiation oncologists in training, students of medical physics, medical dosimetry, and anyone interested in radiation therapy physics, quality, and safety.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111857527X

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Nuclear Medicine

Practical Physics, Artifacts, and Pitfalls

By: Daniel A. Pryma

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Nuclear Medicine

Practical Physics, Artifacts, and Pitfalls

By: Daniel A. Pryma

A readable explanation of the physics behind radiobiology, radiation detection, and molecular imaging with gamma and PET cameras. Case-based scenarios illustrate common artifacts and pitfalls, and a concluding chapter provides 20 annotated questions and answers.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199918031

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Geometric Algebra for Computer Science (Revised Edition)

An Object-Oriented Approach to Geometry

By: Leo Dorst,Daniel Fontijne,Stephen Mann

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Geometric Algebra for Computer Science (Revised Edition)

An Object-Oriented Approach to Geometry

By: Leo Dorst,Daniel Fontijne,Stephen Mann

Geometric Algebra for Computer Science (Revised Edition) presents a compelling alternative to the limitations of linear algebra. Geometric algebra (GA) is a compact, time-effective, and performance-enhancing way to represent the geometry of 3D objects in computer programs. This book explains GA as a natural extension of linear algebra and conveys its significance for 3D programming of geometry in graphics, vision, and robotics. It systematically explores the concepts and techniques that are key to representing elementary objects and geometric operators using GA. It covers in detail the conformal model, a convenient way to implement 3D geometry using a 5D representation space. Numerous drills and programming exercises are helpful for both students and practitioners. A companion web site includes links to GAViewer, a program that will allow you to interact with many of the 3D figures in the book; and Gaigen 2, the platform for the instructive programming exercises that conclude each chapter. The book will be of interest to professionals working in fields requiring complex geometric computation such as robotics, computer graphics, and computer games. It is also be ideal for students in graduate or advanced undergraduate programs in computer science. - Explains GA as a natural extension of linear algebra and conveys its significance for 3D programming of geometry in graphics, vision, and robotics. - Systematically explores the concepts and techniques that are key to representing elementary objects and geometric operators using GA. - Covers in detail the conformal model, a convenient way to implement 3D geometry using a 5D representation space. - Presents effective approaches to making GA an integral part of your programming. - Includes numerous drills and programming exercises helpful for both students and practitioners. - Companion web site includes links to GAViewer, a program that will allow you to interact with many of the 3D figures in the book, and Gaigen 2, the platform for the instructive programming exercises that conclude each chapter.

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Morgan Kaufmann

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0080958796

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Real-Time Volume Graphics

By: Klaus Engel,Markus Hadwiger,Joe Kniss,Christof Rezk-Salama,Daniel Weiskopf

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Real-Time Volume Graphics

By: Klaus Engel,Markus Hadwiger,Joe Kniss,Christof Rezk-Salama,Daniel Weiskopf

Based on course notes of SIGGRAPH course teaching techniques for real-time rendering of volumetric data and effects; covers both applications in scientific visualization and real-time rendering. Starts with the basics (texture-based ray casting) and then improves and expands the algorithms incrementally. Book includes source code, algorithms, diagr

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CRC Press

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1439864292

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9781439864296

The Sacred Place

A Novel

By: Daniel Black

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The Sacred Place

A Novel

By: Daniel Black

In the summer of 1955, fourteen-year-old Clement enters a general store in Money, Mississippi to purchase a soda. Unaware of the consequences of flouting the rules governing black-white relations in the South, this Chicago native defies tradition, by laying a dime on the counter and turns to depart. Miss Cuthbert, the store attendant, demands that he place the money in her hand, but he refuses, declaring, "I ain't no slave!" and exits with a sense of entitlement unknown to black people at the time. His behavior results in his brutal murder. This event sparks a war in Money, forcing the black community to galvanize its strength in pursuit of equality.

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St. Martin's Press

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146681859X

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Image Synthesis

Theory and Practice

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

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Image Synthesis

Theory and Practice

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

Image Synthesis: Theory and Practice is the first book completely dedicated to the numerous techniques of image synthesis. Both theoretical and practical aspects are treated in detail. Numerous impressive computer-generated images are used to explain the most advanced techniques in image synthesis. The book contains a detailed description of the most fundamental algorithms; other less important algorithms are summarized or simply listed. This volume is also a unique handbook of mathematical formulae for image synthesis. The four first chapters of the book survey the basic techniques of computer graphics which play an important role in the design of an image: geometric models, image and viewing transformations, curves and surfaces and solid modeling techniques. In the next chapters, each major topic in image synthesis is presented. The first important problem is the detection and processing of visible surfaces, then two chapters are dedicated to the central problem of light and illumination. As aliasing is a major problem in image rendering, the fundamental antialiasing and motion blur techniques are explained. The most common shadow algorithms are then presented as well as techniques for producing soft shadows and penumbrae. In the last few years, image rendering has been strongly influenced by ray tracing techniques. For this reason, two chapters are dedicated to this important approach. Then a chapter is completely dedicated to fractals from the formal Mandelbrot theory to the recursive subdivision approaches. Natural phenomena present a particularly difficult challenge in image synthesis. For this reason, a large portion of the book is devoted to latest methods to simulate these phenomena: particle systems, scalar fields, volume density scattering models. Various techniques are also described for representing terrains, mountains, water, waves, sky, clouds, fog, fire, trees, and grass. Several techniques for combining images are also explained: adaptive rendering, montage and composite methods. The last chapter presents in detail the MIRALab image synthesis software.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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4431680608

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9784431680604

The Discoverers

By: Daniel J. Boorstin

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The Discoverers

By: Daniel J. Boorstin

An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and the seas, nature and society, he gathers and analyzes stories of the man's profound quest to understand his world and the cosmos.

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Vintage

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0307773558

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Hubble Revisited

New Images from the Discovery Machine

By: Daniel Fischer,Hilmar Duerbeck

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Hubble Revisited

New Images from the Discovery Machine

By: Daniel Fischer,Hilmar Duerbeck

Arguably the single most successful scientific instrument ever built, the Hubble Space Telescope continues to dazzle us. In recent months it has been at the front lines of all the most pressing questions in astrophysics. What is the age of the Universe? How are stars born? Are extrasolar planets similar to those in our galaxy? In Hubble Revisited: New Images from the Discovery Machine, the authors of the highly acclaimed Hubble: A New Window to the Universe present a new atlas of the latest full-color images, complete with easy-to-read explanatory text. This book provides readers with an exciting, detailed, and gorgeously illustrated account of Hubbles breathtaking new discoveries.

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146122232X

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Basics of Medical Physics

By: Daniel Jirák,František Vítek

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Basics of Medical Physics

By: Daniel Jirák,František Vítek

The textbook Basics of Medical Physics describes the basics of medical physics and the clinical and experimental methods which a physician can be frequently encountered with. Medical physics is specific in dealing with the application of physical methods on a living organism. Therefore, it represents an interdisciplinary scientific discipline that combines physics and biological sciences. The presented textbook covers a broad range of topics; it contains eight chapters: Structure of Matter; Molecular Biophysics; Thermodynamics; Biophysics of Electric Phenomena; Acoustics and Physical Principles of Hearing; Optics; X-ray Physics and Medical Application; Radioactivity and Ionizing Radiation. The text is supplemented by many figures, which help to facilitate the understanding of the phenomena. Methods, which are explained in the book, are based on the different physical principles. Some of these methods, e.g. using optical magnifying lenses or X-rays, have been known for more than 100 years, while others are more recent such as magnetic resonance imaging or positron emission tomography. After reading this book, the readers should get a comprehensive overview of the possibilities of using various physical methods in medicine. They should be able to understand to the mentioned physical relations in the broader context.

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Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press

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802463810X

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Metabolic Networks, Elementary Flux Modes, and Polyhedral Cones

By: Isaac Klapper,Daniel B. Szyld,Kai Zhao

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Metabolic Networks, Elementary Flux Modes, and Polyhedral Cones

By: Isaac Klapper,Daniel B. Szyld,Kai Zhao

This book presents a mathematical analysis of the relationship between the cell biology idea of metabolic networks and the mathematical idea of polyhedral cones. Such cones can be used to describe the set of steady state admissible fluxes through metabolic networks, and consequently they have become important constructs in the field of microbiology. Fundamental objects called elementary flux modes (EFMs) can be described mathematically via convex cone concepts; the fundamental algorithm of this relationship is the Double Description method. While this method has an extended history in the field of computational geometry, this monograph addresses its relatively recent use in the context of cellular metabolism, providing an easy-to-read introduction to a central topic of mathematical systems biology. Metabolic Networks, Elementary Flux Modes, and Polyhedral Cones addresses important topics in the mathematical description of metabolic activity that have not previously appeared in unified form and presents a careful study of the Double Description method in the context of metabolic analysis. It makes mathematical aspects of the material readily accessible to bioengineers and system biologists, and biological aspects readily accessible to mathematicians. This book is intended for readers from both mathematical and biological backgrounds, including mathematicians, engineers, and biologists interested in cell metabolism. It will also be helpful to mathematicians interested in applying computational geometry methods in computational biology as well as for systems biologists and modelers interested in the mathematical and algorithmic foundations of metabolic pathway analysis.

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SIAM

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1611976537

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Quasar Astronomy

By: Daniel W. Weedman

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Quasar Astronomy

By: Daniel W. Weedman

A current account of quasar astronomy that not only summarizes existing results from various techniques but refers to the potentialities of new instruments. All aspects of quasar spectroscopy are discussed and techniques for analyzing quasar data are summarized.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521356741

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Pitching on the Black

By: Daniel Pukstas

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Pitching on the Black

By: Daniel Pukstas

In these short stories Dan Pukstas presents realities that are often on the edge of our expectations. If the reader is looking for a fictional pitch that is down the center of the plate, he will often be disappointed. Some of these stories are semi-autobiographical; others are pure fantasy. All of them feature a glib pointedness that is so much a part of Dans prose style.

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1491727837

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Observational Astrophysics

By: Pierre Léna,Daniel Rouan,François Lebrun,François Mignard,Didier Pelat

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Observational Astrophysics

By: Pierre Léna,Daniel Rouan,François Lebrun,François Mignard,Didier Pelat

,This is the updated, widely revised, restructured and expanded third edition of Léna et al.'s successful work Observational Astrophysics. It presents a synthesis on tools and methods of observational astrophysics of the early 21st century. Written specifically for astrophysicists and graduate students, this textbook focuses on fundamental and sometimes practical limitations on the ultimate performance that an astronomical system may reach, rather than presenting particular systems in detail. In little more than a decade there has been extraordinary progress in imaging and detection technologies, in the fields of adaptive optics, optical interferometry, in the sub-millimetre waveband, observation of neutrinos, discovery of exoplanets, to name but a few examples. The work deals with ground-based and space-based astronomy and their respective fields. And it also presents the ambitious concepts behind space missions aimed for the next decades. Avoiding particulars, it covers the whole of the electromagnetic spectrum, and provides an introduction to the new forms of astronomy becoming possible with gravitational waves and neutrinos. It also treats numerical aspects of observational astrophysics: signal processing, astronomical databases and virtual observatories.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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ABADDON And The Space Between Eternities

By: Daniel R. Dow

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ABADDON And The Space Between Eternities

By: Daniel R. Dow

Prison is about survival; however, survival is more than simply the act of eating and breathing- there is the necessity for emotional, spiritual and psychological survival. The challenge for any prisoner is to find the space to facilitate survival on each of those levels. This is the story of one mans attempt to find that space.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493101307

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The Phoenix Wars

Armenta Paradox—Book 2

By: Daniel A. McClean

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The Phoenix Wars

Armenta Paradox—Book 2

By: Daniel A. McClean

New heroes arise to battle the ever changing landscape. Lady Carmen Armenta and Lord Andres Jaimes with her brothers Jerry and Isreal unwillingly embark on an adventure to save time itself. As the first round of the tournament comes to an end, time begins to correct itself with the revelation of the Final One Hundredgood versus evil! Shawneita realizes that she has an important task to save whats left of her family. What will happen when time and existence collide?

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1524694169

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GPU-Based Interactive Visualization Techniques

By: Daniel Weiskopf

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GPU-Based Interactive Visualization Techniques

By: Daniel Weiskopf

This book presents efficient visualization techniques, a prerequisite for the interactive exploration of complex data sets. High performance is demonstrated as a process of devising algorithms for the fast graphics processing units (GPUs) of modern graphics hardware. Coverage includes parallelization on cluster computers with several GPUs, adaptive rendering methods, and non-photorealistic rendering techniques for visualization.

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3540332634

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Fit to Die

A Thriller

By: Daniel Kalla

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Fit to Die

A Thriller

By: Daniel Kalla

From internationally bestselling author Daniel Kalla comes a riveting thriller about online body shaming, toxic diet pills, a vulnerable mega-celebrity, and a rapidly rising body count. When Owen Galloway, the track star son of a prominent US senator, is found dead of an overdose in his bedroom, LAPD Detective Cari Garcia suspects that he’s just another teenager who hid a drug addiction. In Vancouver, Dr. Julie Rees, an experienced toxicologist, notices a growing number of overdoses among the eating disordered and body builders, and mentions it to her boyfriend, Detective Anson Chen. Then Rain Flynn, a famous pop star and social media influencer, dies in her Vancouver hotel room showing the same symptoms of a fatally high fever and uncontrollable seizures as Julie’s other ER patients, including the coowner of a wildly popular wellness center with locations in both Vancouver and LA. After an autopsy confirms that Rain overdosed on illicit diet pills containing a deadly toxin known as DNP—an explosive agent originally used in the trenches of World War I—the media gets hold of the story and runs wild with it. But who’s behind the online marketing and distribution of DNP? And how is the wellness center connected? The daunting challenge of putting the pieces together falls to Detectives Garcia in LA and Chen in Vancouver. Can they solve these crimes before DNP becomes the next viral TikTok challenge?

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Simon and Schuster

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1982191430

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Distributed Tracing in Practice

Instrumenting, Analyzing, and Debugging Microservices

By: Austin Parker,Daniel Spoonhower,Jonathan Mace,Ben Sigelman,Rebecca Isaacs

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Distributed Tracing in Practice

Instrumenting, Analyzing, and Debugging Microservices

By: Austin Parker,Daniel Spoonhower,Jonathan Mace,Ben Sigelman,Rebecca Isaacs

Most applications today are distributed in some fashion. Monitoring the health and performance of these distributed architectures requires a new approach. Enter distributed tracing, a method of profiling and monitoring applications—especially those that use microservice architectures. There’s just one problem: distributed tracing can be hard. But it doesn’t have to be. With this practical guide, you’ll learn what distributed tracing is and how to use it to understand the performance and operation of your software. Key players at Lightstep walk you through instrumenting your code for tracing, collecting the data that your instrumentation produces, and turning it into useful, operational insights. If you want to start implementing distributed tracing, this book tells you what you need to know. You’ll learn: The pieces of a distributed tracing deployment: Instrumentation, data collection, and delivering value Best practices for instrumentation (the methods for generating trace data from your service) How to deal with or avoid overhead, costs, and sampling How to work with spans (the building blocks of request-based distributed traces) and choose span characteristics that lead to valuable traces Where distributed tracing is headed in the future

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149205660X

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Blue Collar Intellectuals

When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America

By: Daniel J. Flynn

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Blue Collar Intellectuals

When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America

By: Daniel J. Flynn

Stupid is the new smart—but it wasn’t always so Popular culture has divorced itself from the life of the mind. Who has time for great books or deep thought when there is Jersey Shore to watch, a txt 2 respond 2, and World of Warcraft to play? At the same time, those who pursue the life of the mind have insulated themselves from popular culture. Speaking in insider jargon and writing unread books, intellectuals have locked themselves away in a ghetto of their own creation. It wasn’t always so. Blue Collar Intellectuals vividly captures a time in the twentieth century when the everyman aspired to high culture and when intellectuals descended from the ivory tower to speak to the everyman. Author Daniel J. Flynn profiles thinkers from working-class backgrounds who played a prominent role in American life by addressing their intellectual work to a mass audience. Blue Collar Intellectuals tells the fascinating story of the unschooled hobo who migrated from skid row anonymity to White House chats with the president and prime-time TV specials. Blue Collar Intellectuals tells the fascinating story of: •The scandalous teacher-student romance that spawned a half-century labor of love in writing the history of the world. •The Ivy League Ph.D. who held neither a high school nor college degree, and fittingly launched a renaissance in reading the great books outside of formal schools. •The scholarship student who experienced the free market firsthand waiting tables and peddling socks, and who became one of capitalism’s most influential exponents. •The impoverished outcast who became the poet of the pulps, elevating millions of readers along with heretofore marginal genres. Guiding us through a world now vanished, Flynn causes us to look anew at our own digital age and its nostrums: Video gaming is just a new form of literacy, Reality shows . . . Challenge our emotional intelligence, and Who cares if Johnny can’t read? The value of books is overstated. Blue Collar Intellectuals shows us how much everyone intellectual and everyman alike has suffered from mass culture’s crowding out of higher things and the elite’s failure to engage the masses.

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Handbook of Optical Design

By: Daniel Malacara-Hernández,Zacarías Malacara-Hernández

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Handbook of Optical Design

By: Daniel Malacara-Hernández,Zacarías Malacara-Hernández

Handbook of Optical Design, Third Edition covers the fundamental principles of geometric optics and their application to lens design in one volume. It incorporates classic aspects of lens design along with important modern methods, tools, and instruments, including contemporary astronomical telescopes, Gaussian beams, and computer lens design. Written by respected researchers, the book has been extensively classroom-tested and developed in their lens design courses. This well-illustrated handbook clearly and concisely explains the intricacies of optical system design and evaluation. It also discusses component selection, optimization, and integration for the development of effective optical apparatus. The authors analyze the performance of a wide range of optical materials, components, and systems, from simple magnifiers to complex lenses used in photography, ophthalmology, telescopes, microscopes, and projection systems. Throughout, the book includes a wealth of design examples, illustrations, and equations, most of which are derived from basic principles. Appendices supply additional background information. What’s New in This Edition Improved figures, including 32 now in color Updates throughout, reflecting advances in the field New material on Buchdahl high-order aberrations Expanded and improved coverage of the calculation of wavefront aberrations based on optical path An updated list of optical materials in the appendix A clearer, more detailed description of primary aberrations References to important new publications Optical system design examples updated to include newly available glasses 25 new design examples This comprehensive book combines basic theory and practical details for the design of optical systems. It is an invaluable reference for optical students as well as scientists and engineers working with optical instrumentation.

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Workplace Safety

Establishing an Effective Violence Prevention Program

By: Randall W. Ferris,Daniel Murphy

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Establishing an Effective Violence Prevention Program

By: Randall W. Ferris,Daniel Murphy

Workplace Safety: Establishing an Effective Violence Prevention Program includes a powerful model on how to overcome organizational rationalization, objection, and denial when confronted with proposing a workplace violence protection program. The book offers real-life cases studies on how violence was successfully avoided using the book's program, and also shows how to recognize and report precursor behaviors that precede violence. In addition, the book demonstrates proven methods for properly, and effectively, responding to violence should it occur, and tactfully managing the aftermath. - Includes a powerful model on how to overcome organizational rationalization, objection, and denial when confronted with proposing a workplace violence protection program - Offers real-life cases studies on how violence was successfully avoided using the book's program - Presents best practices on how to recognize and report precursor behaviors that precede violence - Demonstrates proven methods for properly, and effectively, responding to violence and tactfully managing the aftermath

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Handbook of Optical Engineering

By: Daniel Malacara

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Handbook of Optical Engineering

By: Daniel Malacara

This handbook explains principles, processes, methods, and procedures of optical engineering in a concise and practical way. It emphasizes fundamental approaches and provides useful formulas and step-by-step worked-out examples to demonstrate applications and clarify calculation methods. The book covers refractive, reflective, and diffractive optical components; lens optical devices; modern fringe pattern analysis; optical metrology; Fourier optics and optical image processing; electro-optical and acousto-optical devices; spatial and spectral filters; optical fibers and accessories; optical fabrication; and more. It includes over 2,000 tables, flow charts, graphs, schematics, drawings, photographs, and mathematical expressions.

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Spotlight-Mode Synthetic Aperture Radar: A Signal Processing Approach

A Signal Processing Approach

By: Charles V. J. Jakowatz,Daniel E. Wahl,Paul H. Eichel,Dennis C. Ghiglia,Paul A. Thompson

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Spotlight-Mode Synthetic Aperture Radar: A Signal Processing Approach

A Signal Processing Approach

By: Charles V. J. Jakowatz,Daniel E. Wahl,Paul H. Eichel,Dennis C. Ghiglia,Paul A. Thompson

Modern airborne and spaceborne imaging radars, known as synthetic aperture radars (SARs), are capable of producing high-quality pictures of the earth's surface while avoiding some of the shortcomings of certain other forms of remote imaging systems. Primarily, radar overcomes the nighttime limitations of optical cameras, and the cloud- cover limitations of both optical and infrared imagers. In addition, because imaging radars use a form of coherent illumination, they can be used in certain special modes such as interferometry, to produce some unique derivative image products that incoherent systems cannot. One such product is a highly accurate digital terrain elevation map (DTEM). The most recent (ca. 1980) version of imaging radar, known as spotlight-mode SAR, can produce imagery with spatial resolution that begins to approach that of remote optical imagers. For all of these reasons, synthetic aperture radar imaging is rapidly becoming a key technology in the world of modern remote sensing. Much of the basic `workings' of synthetic aperture radars is rooted in the concepts of signal processing. Starting with that premise, this book explores in depth the fundamental principles upon which the spotlight mode of SAR imaging is constructed, using almost exclusively the language, concepts, and major building blocks of signal processing. Spotlight-Mode Synthetic Aperture Radar: A Signal Processing Approach is intended for a variety of audiences. Engineers and scientists working in the field of remote sensing but who do not have experience with SAR imaging will find an easy entrance into what can seem at times a very complicated subject. Experienced radar engineers will find that the book describes several modern areas of SAR processing that they might not have explored previously, e.g. interferometric SAR for change detection and terrain elevation mapping, or modern non-parametric approaches to SAR autofocus. Senior undergraduates (primarily in electrical engineering) who have had courses in digital signal and image processing, but who have had no exposure to SAR could find the book useful in a one-semester course as a reference.

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Computer Animation

Theory and Practice

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

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Computer Animation

Theory and Practice

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

Computer Science Workbench is a monograph series which will provide you with an in-depth working knowledge of current developments in computer technology. Every volume in this series will deal with a topic of importance in computer science and elaborate on how you yourself can build systems related to the main theme. You will be able to develop a variety of systems, including computer software tools, computer gra phics, computer animation, database management systems, and compu ter-aided design and manufacturing systems. Computer Science Work bench represents an important new contribution in the field of practical computer technology. TOSIYASU L. KUNII Preface to the Second Edition Computer graphics is growing very rapidly; only computer animation grows faster. The first edition of the book Computer Animation: Theory and Practice was released in 1985. Four years later, computer animation has exploded. Conferences on computer animation have appeared and the topic is recognized in well-known journals as a leading theme. Computer-generated film festivals now exist in each country and several thousands of films are produced each year. From a commercial point of view, the computer animation market has grown considerably. TV logos are computer-made and more and more simulations use the technique of computer animation. What is the most fascinating is certainly the development of computer animation from a research point-of-view.

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4431681051

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Escape from Chaos

The Legend of Dynamite Sam and the Second American Revolution

By: Daniel C. Merrill M.D.

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Escape from Chaos

The Legend of Dynamite Sam and the Second American Revolution

By: Daniel C. Merrill M.D.

The author spins a tale of political intrigue that will keep readers riveted to their chairs. Dr. Merrills epic novel may hit to close to home for those who are unwilling to face the challenges that we face in our beloved country as the liberals proceed, like a malignant tumor, to devour every vestige of the America our forefathers envisioned for us. We do not have to follow Greece into the ash heap of history. A few good men can change the course of events as Dynamite Sam and his band of aging revolutionaries demonstrate in this fictional portrayal of the political events in the year 2015. You will never guess the ending, not in a million years you won't! After reading this book, you will have to decide whether to condemn the California liberal dingbats for the fools that they are, or sit back, with a glass of scotch, and marvel at their ability too even form words. -- Bill Frisk A marvelous description of the sad state of affairs in America today and an inspirational depiction of what it can be if a few good men and women are willing stand up for what they believe in, and fight! -- Bill Blumenstock

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Mosby's Exam Review for Computed Tomography - E-Book

By: Daniel N. DeMaio

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Mosby's Exam Review for Computed Tomography - E-Book

By: Daniel N. DeMaio

This study tool has everything you need to prepare for the ARRT CT exam! Written in outline format, Mosby's Exam Review for Computed Tomography, 2nd Edition serves as both a study guide and an in-depth review. It covers the three content areas on the CT advanced certification examination: patient care, imaging procedures, and physics/instrumentation. Developed by Daniel N. DeMaio, BS, RT(R) (CT), the book simulates the Registry exam with three 165-question mock exams. This title includes additional digital media when purchased in print format. For this digital book edition, media content is not included. - Review questions with answers help you prepare for the ARRT exam and identify areas that need additional study. - Rationales for correct and incorrect answers provide you with the information you need to make the most out of the Q&A sections. - Thorough review in outline format provides you with all the information you need to be well prepared for the Registry exam. - Mock exams in the book and on Evolve provide unlimited opportunities to test your knowledge and become familiar with the exam. - Study aids on Evolve help you organize your exam prep, track your progress, and indentify areas of weakness.

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0323065899

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America's Film Legacy

The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry

By: Daniel Eagan

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America's Film Legacy

The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry

By: Daniel Eagan

Collection of the five hundred films that have been selected, to date, for preservation by the National Film Preservation Board, and are thereby listed in the National Film Registry.

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Breast Imaging

By: Daniel B. Kopans

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Breast Imaging

By: Daniel B. Kopans

Dr. Kopans' best-selling text and reference on breast imaging is now in its thoroughly revised, updated Third Edition. The author combines a complete, superbly illustrated atlas of imaging findings with a comprehensive text that covers all imaging modalities and addresses all aspects of breast imaging--including breast anatomy, histology, physiology, pathology, breast cancer staging, and preoperative localization of occult lesions. This edition includes state-of-the-art information on a new modality, breast tomosynthesis, as well as on digital mammography, MRI, ultrasound, and percutaneous breast biopsy. The book contains more than 1,500 images obtained with the latest technology, including many new mammograms and scans using other imaging modalities. FEATURES: - Information on anatomy, histology, physiology, pathology, breast cancer staging, and preoperative localization of occult lesions - Discusses breast disease from a wider viewpoint than just how to perform and interpret mammography NEW TO THIS EDITION: - Digital mammography - Major revisions in the MRI, ultrasound, and interventional sections - Updated figures included in this edition - Updated information on MR, US, and percutaneous breast biopsy

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