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Introduction to Imaging from Scattered Fields

By: Michael A Fiddy,R. Shane Ritter

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Introduction to Imaging from Scattered Fields

By: Michael A Fiddy,R. Shane Ritter

Obtain the Best Estimate of a Strongly Scattering Object from Limited Scattered Field Data Introduction to Imaging from Scattered Fields presents an overview of the challenging problem of determining information about an object from measurements of the field scattered from that object. It covers widely used approaches to recover information about the objects and examines the assumptions made a priori about the object and the consequences of recovering object information from limited numbers of noisy measurements of the scattered fields. The book explores the strengths and weaknesses of using inverse methods for weak scattering. These methods, including Fourier-based signal and image processing techniques, allow more straightforward inverse algorithms to be exploited based on a simple mapping of scattered field data. The authors also discuss their recent approach based on a nonlinear filtering step in the inverse algorithm. They illustrate how to use this algorithm through numerous two-dimensional electromagnetic scattering examples. MATLAB® code is provided to help readers quickly apply the approach to a wide variety of inverse scattering problems. In later chapters of the book, the authors focus on important and often forgotten overarching constraints associated with exploiting inverse scattering algorithms. They explain how the number of degrees of freedom associated with any given scattering experiment can be found and how this allows one to specify a minimum number of data that should be measured. They also describe how the prior discrete Fourier transform (PDFT) algorithm helps in estimating the properties of an object from scattered field measurements. The PDFT restores stability and improves estimates of the object even with severely limited data (provided it is sufficient to meet a criterion based on the number of degrees of freedom). Suitable for graduate students and researchers working on medical, geophysical, defense, and industrial inspection inverse problems, this self-contained book provides the necessary details for readers to design improved experiments and process measured data more effectively. It shows how to obtain the best estimate of a strongly scattering object from limited scattered field data.

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CRC Press

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1466569581

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Mahoney’s Camaro

A Crime Novel

By: Michael J. Clark

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Mahoney’s Camaro

A Crime Novel

By: Michael J. Clark

Racing to find a killer before he strikes again, an unlikely investigator is haunted by an even more unlikely source in this gripping crime novel “Clark writes well and has created some amusingly zany characters.” — Publishers Weekly on Clean Sweep It’s the summer of 1985 and mechanic Steve Mahoney is dreaming big about owning his own shop. He’s getting there as slowly as possible, working one night shift at a time for a local towing company. One night, called to retrieve a car from the murky Red River, Mahoney finds the replacement body to his prized but damaged ’67 Camaro. There’s also a body inside the car, handcuffed to the steering wheel. Mahoney’s able to snap the Camaro up cheap at a salvage auction, but once he’s restored the car to its former glory, he discovers that its last driver is standard spectral equipment on his new ride, and she’s not leaving until she finds out who sent her to a watery grave. Mahoney’s Camaro is a gritty, fast-paced crime novel that will appeal to fans of Ron Corbett and Stuart MacBride. Combining expertise in the automotive world and a passion for storytelling, Michael J. Clark delivers an action-packed joyride that will grip you until the last page.

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ECW Press

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1773052934

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Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party

A Times Book of the Year

By: Michael Cragg

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Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party

A Times Book of the Year

By: Michael Cragg

A Times Book of the Year A Telegraph Book of the Year A Guardian Book of the Year A Rock 'n' Roll Book Club Book of the Year A Guardian 50 Best Holiday Reads An Independent Book of the Year A Mojo Music Book of the Year A Resident Book of the Year A Classic Pop Book of the Year 'This really is a wonderful book for pop kids everywhere' - RICHARD OSMAN Using the arrival of the Spice Girls as a jumping-off point, this fascinating new narrative will explore, celebrate and contextualise the thus-far-uncharted period of British pop that flourished between 1996 and 2006. A double-denim-loving time before the glare of social media and the accession of streaming. The bastions of '00s pop - armed with buoyant, immaculately crafted, carefree anthems - provided entertainment, escapism and fun for millions. It was a heady, chorus-heavy decade - populated by the likes of Steps, S Club 7, Blue, 5ive, Mis-Teeq, Hear'Say, Busted, Girls Aloud, McFly, Craig David and Atomic Kitten, among countless others - yet the music was often dismissed as inauthentic, juvenile, not 'worthy' enough: ultimately, a 'guilty pleasure'. Now, music writer Michael Cragg aims to redress that balance. Using the oral-history format, Cragg goes beneath the surface of the bubblegum exterior, speaking to hundred's of the key players about the reality of their experiences. Compiled from interviews with popstars, songwriters, producers, choreographers, magazine editors, record-company executives, TV moguls and more, this is a complete behind-the-scenes history of the last great movement in British pop - a technicolour turning-point ripe for re-evaluation, documented here in astonishing, honest and eye-opening detail.

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Nine Eight Books

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1788707257

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Approximate Global Convergence and Adaptivity for Coefficient Inverse Problems

By: Larisa Beilina,Michael Victor Klibanov

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Approximate Global Convergence and Adaptivity for Coefficient Inverse Problems

By: Larisa Beilina,Michael Victor Klibanov

Approximate Global Convergence and Adaptivity for Coefficient Inverse Problems is the first book in which two new concepts of numerical solutions of multidimensional Coefficient Inverse Problems (CIPs) for a hyperbolic Partial Differential Equation (PDE) are presented: Approximate Global Convergence and the Adaptive Finite Element Method (adaptivity for brevity). Two central questions for CIPs are addressed: How to obtain a good approximations for the exact solution without any knowledge of a small neighborhood of this solution, and how to refine it given the approximation. The book also combines analytical convergence results with recipes for various numerical implementations of developed algorithms. The developed technique is applied to two types of blind experimental data, which are collected both in a laboratory and in the field. The result for the blind backscattering experimental data collected in the field addresses a real world problem of imaging of shallow explosives.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1441978054

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Inverse Problems and Carleman Estimates

Global Uniqueness, Global Convergence and Experimental Data

By: Michael V. Klibanov,Jingzhi Li

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Inverse Problems and Carleman Estimates

Global Uniqueness, Global Convergence and Experimental Data

By: Michael V. Klibanov,Jingzhi Li

This book summarizes the main analytical and numerical results of Carleman estimates. In the analytical part, Carleman estimates for three main types of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) are derived. In the numerical part, first numerical methods are proposed to solve ill-posed Cauchy problems for both linear and quasilinear PDEs. Next, various versions of the convexification method are developed for a number of Coefficient Inverse Problems.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110745488

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Youth, Training and the Training State

The Real History of Youth Training in the Twentieth Century

By: Michael Neary

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Youth, Training and the Training State

The Real History of Youth Training in the Twentieth Century

By: Michael Neary

This work uncovers the real history of modern youth, providing an explanation of its predicament that goes beyond the mainstream accounts as perpetrated by the sociology of youth. Tracing the development of training of young workers from 1814 the book reveals, for the first time, the creation by post-war legislation of the modern category of 'youth'. The book concludes that with the prevailing conditions of employment there is no longer any future for youth as 'youth'. The recent history of 'youth' is an attempt to recompose a sustainable existence for itself and society.

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Springer

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1349139556

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The Women's Club - Abusive partners are winding up dead... Criminals who target women are the victims of nasty accidents... Pretend it's not happening, you might live longer

By: Michael Crawley

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The Women's Club - Abusive partners are winding up dead... Criminals who target women are the victims of nasty accidents... Pretend it's not happening, you might live longer

By: Michael Crawley

When Jack Hale invested in the advertising agency that belonged to his daughter, Celia, it wasn t because he really had faith in her abilities. Inexplicably, however, she quickly becomes a success. When Jack takes her out to dinner to celebrate, they witness a daring murder, committed in full public view. There's no way the killer could have escaped without a precisely orchestrated plan... or were they just very, very lucky? Is it really possible that there is a female conspiracy, dedicated to ridding the world of men who are evil... or even just inconvenient? Jack must risk everything to uncover the truth about the Women's Club.

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Max Crime

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178219147X

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Lost in the Fog

By: Michael Ostrowski

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Lost in the Fog

By: Michael Ostrowski

Thriller enthusiasts will want to add this well-sculpted heist drama to their collections." —Kirkus Reviews It was supposed to be a simple heist. But running with art thieves could get them killed. San Francisco. Disgraced investigative journalist Camden Swanson spends his nights guzzling beer and penning nonsensical poetry. Forced into working as a museum guard after writing a drug-addled story that lost him his job, his life takes a wild twist when he’s offered a huge sum to help steal his employer’s prized Matisse statues. But when someone else mysteriously snatches the sculptures first, Camden’s beautiful benefactor accuses him of the crime and demands he return them ... or die. Unable to persuade the vengeful femme fatale that he didn’t double-cross her, Camden engages the help of Veronica Zarcarsky, a recent journalism school grad. When they discover a shocking secret and everything they’ve learned turns out to be a lie, Swanson suffers a brutal attack and his partner is nearly murdered. Can the ragtag duo crack the case before they end up in the obituaries?

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Quill

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1950301117

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Memoirs of Theresa Crawford but Watch out I'm an Addict

By: Michael Sims

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Memoirs of Theresa Crawford but Watch out I'm an Addict

By: Michael Sims

MY THREE MAIN HOBBIES ARE COOKING, READING COMIC BOOKS AND STUDING THE BIBLE. I HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PEOPLE'S PERSON. I LOVE AND ENJOY MEETING PEOPLE ESPECIALLY LEARNING ABOUT OTHER INDIVIDUALS HISTORIES AND CULTURES. IN THE LATTER YEARS OF MY LIFE WHILE WORKING AS A COOK, BARTENDER AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELOR. I HAVE GAIN A BROADER VEIW INTO MANY DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF LIFE BY SOCIALIZING WITH MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE. I HAVE MET PEOPLE SUCH AS FROM THE PROFFESSORS TO THE MENTALLY ILL. FROM THE WEALTHY TO THE HOMELESS. ALL THESE EXPERIENCE PLUS MY OWN PAST RELATIONSHIPS INSPIRED ME TO THIS BOOK. MOREOVER, I HOPE YOU ENJOY READING IT AND MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS YOU ALL!

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Xlibris Corporation

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1450098169

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9781450098168

March's Advanced Organic Chemistry

Reactions, Mechanisms, and Structure

By: Michael B. Smith

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March's Advanced Organic Chemistry

Reactions, Mechanisms, and Structure

By: Michael B. Smith

The completely revised and updated, definitive resource for students and professionals in organic chemistry The revised and updated 8th edition of March's Advanced Organic Chemistry: Reactions, Mechanisms, and Structure explains the theories of organic chemistry with examples and reactions. This book is the most comprehensive resource about organic chemistry available. Readers are guided on the planning and execution of multi-step synthetic reactions, with detailed descriptions of all the reactions The opening chapters of March's Advanced Organic Chemistry, 8th Edition deal with the structure of organic compounds and discuss important organic chemistry bonds, fundamental principles of conformation, and stereochemistry of organic molecules, and reactive intermediates in organic chemistry. Further coverage concerns general principles of mechanism in organic chemistry, including acids and bases, photochemistry, sonochemistry and microwave irradiation. The relationship between structure and reactivity is also covered. The final chapters cover the nature and scope of organic reactions and their mechanisms. This edition: Provides revised examples and citations that reflect advances in areas of organic chemistry published between 2011 and 2017 Includes appendices on the literature of organic chemistry and the classification of reactions according to the compounds prepared Instructs the reader on preparing and conducting multi-step synthetic reactions, and provides complete descriptions of each reaction The 8th edition of March's Advanced Organic Chemistry proves once again that it is a must-have desktop reference and textbook for every student and professional working in organic chemistry or related fields. Winner of the Textbook & Acadmic Authors Association 2021 McGuffey Longevity Award.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119371805

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9781119371809

Cyrano

By: Edmond Rostand,translated by Michael Hollinger,adapted by Michael Hollinger and Aaron Posner

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Cyrano

By: Edmond Rostand,translated by Michael Hollinger,adapted by Michael Hollinger and Aaron Posner

THE STORY: The most legendary nose in literature gets a makeover with this lively American adaptation of the 1897 French classic. Will Roxane fall for Christian’s dashing looks or Cyrano’s daring poetry? Find out in this timeless tale—full of wordplay and swordplay—that’s been an inspiration to writers and lovers for centuries.

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118

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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0822233037

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9780822233039

New Television, Globalisation, and the East Asian Cultural Imagination

By: Michael Keane,Anthony Y.H. Fung,Albert Moran

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New Television, Globalisation, and the East Asian Cultural Imagination

By: Michael Keane,Anthony Y.H. Fung,Albert Moran

Challenging assumptions that have underpinned critiques of globalisation and combining cultural theory with media industry analysis, Keane, Fung and Moran give a groundbreaking account of the evolution of television in the post-broadcasting era, and how programming ideas are creatively redeveloped and franchised in East Asia. In this first comprehensive study of television program adaptation across cultures, the authors argue that adaptation, transfer, and recycling of content are multiplying to the point of marginalising other economic and cultural practices. They also show that significant re-modelling of local TV production practices occur when adaptation is genuinely responsive to local values. Examples of East Asian format adaptations include Survivor, Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, The Weakest Link, Coronation Street, and Idol.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622098207

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9789622098206

Bloodalcohol

By: Michael Botur

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Bloodalcohol

By: Michael Botur

From the author of The Devil Took Her comes a collection of ten fresh tales of horror. A South Island road trip turns murderous as a dangerous drifter smells a secret in her co-dependent pal. Millionaire Kiwi conservationists learn too late how little Mother Nature cares for mankind. A Far North teen confronts the terrifying truth about why Mum separated from Dad years ago. In his most powerful collection yet, Botur challenges you to look at life through the lens of horror. Struggling to bond with a savage stepchild, losing your son to a gang of ghostly boys, doing desperate things to get famous, battling bullies, surviving school, chasing elite status in the medical world, and getting good with God. With a unique flavour of New Zealand, the stories in BLOODALCOHOL are bittersweet, horrifying, tender – and astonishingly original.

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Votaries of Apollo

The St. Cecilia Society and the Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, South Carolina, 1766-1820

By: Nicholas Michael Butler

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Votaries of Apollo

The St. Cecilia Society and the Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, South Carolina, 1766-1820

By: Nicholas Michael Butler

A comprehensive account of the musical culture of Charlestons golden age

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570037051

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9781570037054

Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part II

Daniel O'Connell, James Bronterre O'Brien, Charles Stewart Parnell and Michael Davitt by their Contemporaries

By: Michael Partridge

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Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part II

Daniel O'Connell, James Bronterre O'Brien, Charles Stewart Parnell and Michael Davitt by their Contemporaries

By: Michael Partridge

Looks at the lives and politics of four of the key players in the independence and labour movements of the 19th century: Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847); Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-91); Michael Davitt (1846-1906); and James Bronterre O'Brien (1805-64).

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Routledge

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1000420140

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9781000420142

How Nashville Became Music City, U.S.A.

50 Years of Music Row

By: Michael Kosser

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How Nashville Became Music City, U.S.A.

50 Years of Music Row

By: Michael Kosser

How did a Southern town become one of the most important music centers in America? This fascinating book explains it all and includes a full-length CD with 12 recordings of some of Nashville's most famous artists from the early days of Music City.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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0634098063

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9780634098062

Ghostfield

By: Michael Yowell

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Ghostfield

By: Michael Yowell

A group of college students visit an old mining town in Colorado to witness the phenomenon of ghost lights floating in the field. After seeing the spectral orbs dance at night, the group stumbles upon an unmarked grave and accidentally unearths a mysterious chest. When they manage to get the chest open, they release something more terrifying than any ghost lights. Something that hungers for life. Something that needs a human vessel so it can kill again.

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