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Obsidian and ancient manufactured glasses

Table of Contents: “…Stevenson -- Obsidian hydration chronometrics using SIMS and optical methods from 26-year temperature-controlled exposures / Wallace Ambrose and Steven W. …”
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Liquid crystals beyond displays chemistry, physics, and applications /

Table of Contents: “…Magnetic Liquid Crystals Rui Tamura, Yoshiaki Uchida, and Katsuaki Suzuki Chapter 4 Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals for Nonlinear Optical Applications Yongqiang Zhang and Jesús Etxebarria Chapter 5. …”
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Operations research for unmanned systems /

Table of Contents: “…Hill -- Near-optimal assignment of UAVs to targets using a market-based approach / Elad Kivelevitch, Kelly Cohen and Manish Kumar -- Considering mine countermeasures exploratory operations conducted by autonomous underwater vehicles / Bao Nguyen, David Hopkin, and Handson Yip -- Optical search by UAVs : fauna detection case study / R. …”
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Operations research for unmanned systems /

Table of Contents: “…Hill -- Near-optimal assignment of UAVs to targets using a market-based approach / Elad Kivelevitch, Kelly Cohen and Manish Kumar -- Considering mine countermeasures exploratory operations conducted by autonomous underwater vehicles / Bao Nguyen, David Hopkin, and Handson Yip -- Optical search by UAVs : fauna detection case study / R. …”
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Innovative Medicine Basic Research and Development /

Table of Contents: “…Development of a new in vivo optical probe for biological diagnosis and therapy -- 23. …”
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Innovative Medicine Basic Research and Development /

Table of Contents: “…Development of a new in vivo optical probe for biological diagnosis and therapy -- 23. …”
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A one-semester course in modeling of VLSI interconnections / by Goel, Ashok K., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Other interconnection technologies -- 6.1 Optical interconnections -- 6.2 Superconducting interconnections -- 6.3 Nanotechnology circuit interconnections --…”
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A one-semester course in modeling of VLSI interconnections / by Goel, Ashok K., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Other interconnection technologies -- 6.1 Optical interconnections -- 6.2 Superconducting interconnections -- 6.3 Nanotechnology circuit interconnections --…”
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Race and Rurality in the Global Economy /

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The physics of microdroplets by Berthier, Jean, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Digital Microfluidics 293 -- 10.1 Abstract 293 -- 10.2 Electrowetting and EWOD 293 -- 10.3 Droplet Manipulation with EWOD 304 -- 10.4 Examples of EWOD in Biotechnology - Cell Manipulation 333 -- 10.5 Examples of Electrowetting for Optics-Tunable Lenses and Electrofluidic Display 335 -- 10.6 Conclusion 336 -- 10.7 References 337 -- 11. …”
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The physics of microdroplets by Berthier, Jean, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Digital Microfluidics 293 -- 10.1 Abstract 293 -- 10.2 Electrowetting and EWOD 293 -- 10.3 Droplet Manipulation with EWOD 304 -- 10.4 Examples of EWOD in Biotechnology - Cell Manipulation 333 -- 10.5 Examples of Electrowetting for Optics-Tunable Lenses and Electrofluidic Display 335 -- 10.6 Conclusion 336 -- 10.7 References 337 -- 11. …”
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Thoracic vein arrhythmias mechanisms and treatment /

Table of Contents: “…High-density mapping of thoracic vein arrhythmias / Tsu-Juey Wu, Shengmei Zhou, Peng-Sheng Chen -- Optical mapping of thoracic vein arrhythmias / Jeffrey E. …”
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Thoracic vein arrhythmias mechanisms and treatment /

Table of Contents: “…High-density mapping of thoracic vein arrhythmias / Tsu-Juey Wu, Shengmei Zhou, Peng-Sheng Chen -- Optical mapping of thoracic vein arrhythmias / Jeffrey E. …”
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Technology evolution for silicon nano-electronics selected, peer reviewed papers from the proceedings of the International Symposium on Technology Evolution for Silicon Nano-Electr...

Table of Contents: “…High Mobility Ge-Based CMOS Device Technologies -- SiGe-Mixing-Triggered Rapid-Melting-Growth of High-Mobility Ge-On-Insulator -- Impact of Self-Heating Effect on the Electrical Characteristics of Nanoscale Devices -- Functional Device Applications of Nanosilicon -- Tunable Single-Electron Turnstile Using Discrete Dopants in Nanoscale SOI-FETs -- KFM Observation of Electron Charging and Discharging in Phosphorus-Doped SOI Channel -- Photoluminescence Characteristics of Ultra-Thin Silicon-on-Insulator at Low Temperatures -- Investigation about I-V Characteristics in a New Electronic Structure Model of the Ohmic Contact for Future Nano-Scale Ohmic Contact -- Collective Electron Tunneling Model in Si-Nano Dot Floating Gate MOS Structure -- Electronic Structure and Spin-Injection of Co-Based Heusler Alloy/ Semiconductor Junctions -- First-Principles Calculations of the Dielectric Constant for the GeO2 Films -- Nanosize Electronics Material Analysis by Local Quantities Based on the Rigged QED Theory -- Novel Source Heterojunction Structures with Relaxed-/Strained-Layers for Quasi-Ballistic CMOS Transistors -- Effect of Al2O3 Deposition and Subsequent Annealing on Passivation of Defects in Ge-Rich SiGe-on-Insulator -- Controlled Synthesis of Carbon Nanowalls for Carbon Channel Engineering -- Resistive Memory Utilizing Ferritin Protein with Nano Particle -- Atomically Controlled Plasma Processing for Group IV Quantum Heterostructure Formation -- Nanometer-Scale Characterization Technique for Si Nanoelectric Materials Using Synchrotron Radiation Microdiffraction -- Generation and Growth of Atomic-Scale Roughness at Surface and Interface of Silicon Dioxide Thermally Grown on Atomically Flat Si Surface -- Nano-Surface Modification of Silicon with Ultra-Short Pulse Laser Process -- Evaluation of Strained Silicon by Electron Back Scattering Pattern Compared with Raman Measurement and Edge Force Model Calculation -- Development of New Methods for Fine-Wiring in Si Using a Wet Catalytic Reaction -- Optical Response of Si-Quantum-Dots/NiSi-Nanodots Stack Hybrid Floating Gate in MOS Structures -- Energy Band Engineering of Metal Nanodots for High Performance Nonvolatile Memory Application -- Strained Ge and Ge1-xSnx Technology for Future CMOS Devices -- Improved Electrical Properties and Thermal Stability of GeON Gate Dielectrics Formed by Plasma Nitridation of Ultrathin Oxides on Ge(100) -- Structural Change during the Formation of Directly Bonded Silicon Substrates -- Microscopic Structure of Directly Bonded Silicon Substrates -- Formation of Nanotubes of Carbon by Joule Heating of Carbon-Contaminated Si Nanochains -- Si Nanodot Device Fabricated by Thermal Oxidation and their Applications -- Influences of Carrier Transport on Drain-Current Variability of MOSFETs -- Resistive Switching in NiO Bilayer Films with Different Crystallinity Layers -- Analysis of Threshold Voltage Variations in Fin Field Effect Transistors -- Capture/Emission Processes of Carriers in Heterointerface Traps Observed in the Transient Charge-Pumping Characteristics of SiGe/Si-Hetero-Channel pMOSFETs -- Quasi-Ballistic Transport in Nano-Scale Devices: Boundary Layer, Potential Fluctuation, and Coulomb Interaction -- Effect of Back Bias on Variability in Intrinsic Channel SOI MOSFETs -- Discrete Dopant Effects on Threshold Voltage Variation in Double-Gate and Gate-All-Around Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect-Transistors -- Interconnect Design Challenges in Nano CMOS Circuit.…”
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Technology evolution for silicon nano-electronics selected, peer reviewed papers from the proceedings of the International Symposium on Technology Evolution for Silicon Nano-Electr...

Table of Contents: “…High Mobility Ge-Based CMOS Device Technologies -- SiGe-Mixing-Triggered Rapid-Melting-Growth of High-Mobility Ge-On-Insulator -- Impact of Self-Heating Effect on the Electrical Characteristics of Nanoscale Devices -- Functional Device Applications of Nanosilicon -- Tunable Single-Electron Turnstile Using Discrete Dopants in Nanoscale SOI-FETs -- KFM Observation of Electron Charging and Discharging in Phosphorus-Doped SOI Channel -- Photoluminescence Characteristics of Ultra-Thin Silicon-on-Insulator at Low Temperatures -- Investigation about I-V Characteristics in a New Electronic Structure Model of the Ohmic Contact for Future Nano-Scale Ohmic Contact -- Collective Electron Tunneling Model in Si-Nano Dot Floating Gate MOS Structure -- Electronic Structure and Spin-Injection of Co-Based Heusler Alloy/ Semiconductor Junctions -- First-Principles Calculations of the Dielectric Constant for the GeO2 Films -- Nanosize Electronics Material Analysis by Local Quantities Based on the Rigged QED Theory -- Novel Source Heterojunction Structures with Relaxed-/Strained-Layers for Quasi-Ballistic CMOS Transistors -- Effect of Al2O3 Deposition and Subsequent Annealing on Passivation of Defects in Ge-Rich SiGe-on-Insulator -- Controlled Synthesis of Carbon Nanowalls for Carbon Channel Engineering -- Resistive Memory Utilizing Ferritin Protein with Nano Particle -- Atomically Controlled Plasma Processing for Group IV Quantum Heterostructure Formation -- Nanometer-Scale Characterization Technique for Si Nanoelectric Materials Using Synchrotron Radiation Microdiffraction -- Generation and Growth of Atomic-Scale Roughness at Surface and Interface of Silicon Dioxide Thermally Grown on Atomically Flat Si Surface -- Nano-Surface Modification of Silicon with Ultra-Short Pulse Laser Process -- Evaluation of Strained Silicon by Electron Back Scattering Pattern Compared with Raman Measurement and Edge Force Model Calculation -- Development of New Methods for Fine-Wiring in Si Using a Wet Catalytic Reaction -- Optical Response of Si-Quantum-Dots/NiSi-Nanodots Stack Hybrid Floating Gate in MOS Structures -- Energy Band Engineering of Metal Nanodots for High Performance Nonvolatile Memory Application -- Strained Ge and Ge1-xSnx Technology for Future CMOS Devices -- Improved Electrical Properties and Thermal Stability of GeON Gate Dielectrics Formed by Plasma Nitridation of Ultrathin Oxides on Ge(100) -- Structural Change during the Formation of Directly Bonded Silicon Substrates -- Microscopic Structure of Directly Bonded Silicon Substrates -- Formation of Nanotubes of Carbon by Joule Heating of Carbon-Contaminated Si Nanochains -- Si Nanodot Device Fabricated by Thermal Oxidation and their Applications -- Influences of Carrier Transport on Drain-Current Variability of MOSFETs -- Resistive Switching in NiO Bilayer Films with Different Crystallinity Layers -- Analysis of Threshold Voltage Variations in Fin Field Effect Transistors -- Capture/Emission Processes of Carriers in Heterointerface Traps Observed in the Transient Charge-Pumping Characteristics of SiGe/Si-Hetero-Channel pMOSFETs -- Quasi-Ballistic Transport in Nano-Scale Devices: Boundary Layer, Potential Fluctuation, and Coulomb Interaction -- Effect of Back Bias on Variability in Intrinsic Channel SOI MOSFETs -- Discrete Dopant Effects on Threshold Voltage Variation in Double-Gate and Gate-All-Around Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect-Transistors -- Interconnect Design Challenges in Nano CMOS Circuit.…”
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X-ray fluorescence spectrometry and related techniques an introduction / by Margu�i, Eva

Table of Contents: “…Basic components of x-ray fluorescence spectrometers -- 2.1 General introduction -- 2.2 Excitation sources -- 2.2.1 X-ray tubes -- 2.2.2 Radioisotopes -- 2.2.3 Other sources -- 2.3 Sample chamber -- 2.4 Detection system -- 2.4.1 Types of detectors -- 2.4.1.1 Gas-filled detectors -- 2.4.1.2 Scintillation detectors -- 2.4.1.3 Solid-state detectors -- 2.4.2 Resolution and efficiency -- 2.4.2.1 Resolution -- 2.4.2.2 Efficiency -- 2.4.3 Comparison of detection systems -- 2.4.4 Detector artifacts -- 2.4.4.1 Escape peaks -- 2.4.4.2 Sum peaks (pile-up effect) -- 2.4.5 Signal processing system -- 2.5 Source and detector modifiers -- 2.5.1 Filters -- 2.5.1.1 Primary filters -- 2.5.1.2 Detector filters -- 2.5.2 Secondary targets -- 2.5.3 Focusing optics -- 2.5.4 Dispersing systems -- 2.5.5 Collimators -- 2.5.6 Masks -- 2.6 Instrument configurations --…”
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X-ray fluorescence spectrometry and related techniques an introduction / by Margu�i, Eva

Table of Contents: “…Basic components of x-ray fluorescence spectrometers -- 2.1 General introduction -- 2.2 Excitation sources -- 2.2.1 X-ray tubes -- 2.2.2 Radioisotopes -- 2.2.3 Other sources -- 2.3 Sample chamber -- 2.4 Detection system -- 2.4.1 Types of detectors -- 2.4.1.1 Gas-filled detectors -- 2.4.1.2 Scintillation detectors -- 2.4.1.3 Solid-state detectors -- 2.4.2 Resolution and efficiency -- 2.4.2.1 Resolution -- 2.4.2.2 Efficiency -- 2.4.3 Comparison of detection systems -- 2.4.4 Detector artifacts -- 2.4.4.1 Escape peaks -- 2.4.4.2 Sum peaks (pile-up effect) -- 2.4.5 Signal processing system -- 2.5 Source and detector modifiers -- 2.5.1 Filters -- 2.5.1.1 Primary filters -- 2.5.1.2 Detector filters -- 2.5.2 Secondary targets -- 2.5.3 Focusing optics -- 2.5.4 Dispersing systems -- 2.5.5 Collimators -- 2.5.6 Masks -- 2.6 Instrument configurations --…”
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Gravitational lensing and microlensing by Mollerach, Silvia

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Preface vii -- Chapter 1 Historical introduction 1 -- Chapter 2 The deflection of light 7 -- 2.1 Basics of General Relativity7 -- 2.1.1 Introduction7 -- 2.1.2 Tensors in curved spacetimes 9 -- 2.1.3 Motion of particles 13 -- 2.1.4 The spacetime curvature15 -- 2.1.5 The Einstein equation17 -- 2.1.6 The Schwarzschild metric 18 -- 2.2 The bending of light21 -- 2.2.1 Point-like deflector21 -- 2.2.2 Time delay24 -- 2.2.3 Extended mass distribution25 -- Chapter 3 Gravitational lensing theory 29 -- 3.1 The lens equation29 -- 3.1.1 Point-like lenses 29 -- 3.1.2 Extended lenses33 -- 3.2 The surface brightness conservation 34 -- 3.3 Amplification35 -- 3.4 Caustics and critical lines41 -- 3.5 Fermat's principle42 -- 3.6 Galaxy lens models45 -- 3.6.1 Circularly symmetric lenses45 -- 3.6.2 Non-circularly symmetric lenses50 -- 3.7 The folded sky51 -- 3.8 Folds and cusps58 -- 3.8.1 Magnification near a fold60 -- 3.8.2 Magnification near a cusp62 -- 3.8.3 The binary lens65 -- Chapter 4 Macrolensing results 69 -- 4.1 Lensing of quasars70 -- 4.2 Time delays and Ho74 -- 4.3 Statistical lensing and cosmological parameters78 -- 4.4 Strong lensing by clusters81 -- 4.5 Weak lensing in clusters84 -- 4.6 Cosmic shear87 -- 4.7 Quasar-galaxy correlations94 -- 4.8 Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background94 -- Chapter 5 Microlensing I: Basics 99 -- 5.1 The Galaxy in brief100 -- 5.1.1 The thin and thick disks100 -- 5.1.2 Galactic spheroid and bulge101 -- 5.1.3 The dark halo103 -- 5.2 Basic microlensing theoretical tools105 -- 5.2.1 The light curve105 -- 5.2.2 Optical depth107 -- 5.2.3 Event duration distribution108 -- 5.3 Microlensing of unresolved sources114 -- 5.4 Observational searches of microlensing117 -- 5.4.1 Searches towards the Magellanic Clouds118 -- 5.4.2 Searches towards the bulge122 -- Chapter 6 Microlensing II: Beyond the simplest light curve 125 -- 6.1 Binary lenses126 -- 6.1.1 The complex lens equation126 -- 6.1.2 Microlensing by binaries131 -- 6.1.3 Planetary searches136 -- 6.2 Further determinations of the lensing parameters139 -- 6.2.1 Proper motion141 -- 6.2.2 Limb darkening147 -- 6.2.3 Parallax measurements148 -- 6.3 Astrometric microlensing152 -- 6.4 Quasar microlensing156 -- Appendix A Cosmology tools 161 -- A.1 The Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Universe161 -- A.2 The distance scales163 -- A.3 Large scale structures166 -- A.4 Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies170 -- Bibliography 175 -- Index 189.…”
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Crystals and crystallinity in polymers : diffraction analysis of ordered and disordered crystals / by De Rosa, Claudio

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1 Configuration and Conformation of Macromolecules in Polymer Crystals 1.1 Crystals of polymers 1.2 Constitution and configuration of crystalline polymers 1.3 Conformation 1.4 Relationships among internal parameters of macromolecules 1.5 Conformation of polymer chains in the crystalline state 1.6 Helical conformations in isotactic and syndiotactic polymers 1.7 Conformational energy calculations 1.8 Helical conformation and optical activity 1.9 Alternating copolymers 1.10 Polydienes 1.11 Non helical chain conformations of isotactic polymers References Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Packing of macromolecules in polymer crystals 2.1 General principles 2.2 The principle of density (entropy)-driven phase formation in polymers 2.3 Symmetry breaking 2.4 Impact of chain folding on crystal structure symmetry 2.5 Frustrated Polymer Crystal Structures 2.6 Chiral crystallization of polymers with helical chain conformations 2.7 Packing effects on the conformation of polymer chains in the crystals: the case of aliphatic polyamides References Chapter 2 Chapter 3 3.1 X-ray diffraction of semicrystalline polymers 3.2 Fourier synthesis and the phase problem in crystallography 3.3 X-ray fiber diffraction analysis 3.4 Determination of parameters of the unit cell and indexing of the diffraction pattern 3.5 Measure of the integrated intensities of the reflections and corrections for geometrical (Lorentz), polarization and absorption factors 3.6 Calculation of Structure Factors 3.7 Structural refinement 3.8 Form of diffraction pattern and broadening due to the Laue function References Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Defects and Disorder in Polymer Crystals 4.1 Classification of different types of structural disorder 4.2 Crystals with partial three-dimensional order (Class A)Disorder with three-dimensional periodicity maintained only for some characterizing points of the structure 4.3 Solid mesophases References Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Methods of Analysis of Diffuse Scattering from Disordered Structures of Polymers 5.1 Structural disorder and diffuse scattering 5.2 Methods of diffraction analysis from disordered crystals 5.3 Long Range Order in Disordered Lattices of Class A 5.4 Short Range Order in Disordered Crystals of Class A 5.5 Short Range Order in Disordered Crystals with Substitution type Disorder 5.6 Short Range vs Long Range Order in Disordered Crystals of Class B and C (Solid Mesophases) 5.7 Disordered Models with Perturbations Occurring over Continuous Ranges 5.8 Basic formulas for the calculation of X-ray Diffraction Intensity from Disordered Model Structures of Polymers 5.9 Examples of calculation of average diffracted intensity of structures disordered in one dimension 5.10 Integration method of diffraction intensity for cylindrically and spherical surfaces in the reciprocal space References Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Crystal habit 6.1 Basic remark 6.2 Rounded lateral habits 6.3 Chain folding, molecular orientation and sectorization 6.4 Twinning and secondary nucleation theory 6.5 Homoepitaxy, morphology, stem orientation and polymorphism References Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Influence of Crystal Defects and Structural Disorder on the Physical and Mechanical Properties of Polymeric Materials 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Stress induced phase transformations during deformation 7.3 Isotactic polypropylene 7.4 Syndiotactic Polypropylene References Chapter 7.…”
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