Author : Eugene D. Shchukin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 2015-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 1466567104
Physical-Chemical Mechanics of Disperse Systems and Materials is a novel interdisciplinary area in the science of the disperse state of matter. It covers the broad spectrum of objects and systems with dimensions ranging from nanometers to millimeters and establishes a fundamental basis for controlling and tuning the properties of these systems as w
Author : Donald O. Thompson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 2393 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1461528488
These Proceedings, consisting of Parts A and B, contain the edited versions of most of the papers presented at the annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation held at the University of California San Diego, in La Jolla, California on July 19- July 24, 1992. The Review was organized by the Center for NDE at Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory of the USDOE in cooperation with a number of organizations including the Air Force Wright Laboratory Materials Directorate, the American Society for Nondestructive Testing, the Center for NDE at Johns Hopkins University, the Department of Energy, the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Science Foundation IndustrylUniversity Cooperative Research Centers, and the Working Group in Quantitative NDE. This year's Review of Progress in QNDE was attended by approximately 475 participants from the U. S. and many foreign countries who presented over 380 papers. With such a large volume of work to review, the meeting was divided into 36 sessions with as many as four sessions running concurrently. The Review covered all phases of NDE research and development from fundamental investigations to engineering applications or inspection systems, and it included all methods of inspection science from acoustics to x-rays. During the last twenty years, the participants of the Review have contributed to its steady growth. Thanks to their efforts, the Review is today one of the largest and most significant gatherings of NDE researchers and engineers anywhere in the world.
Author : Simone White
Publisher : Futurepoem
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,81 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780996002547
Poetry. African & African American Studies. 2017 Whiting Award Winner for Poetry. "I get this pinwheel relationship to wisdom & history when I read Simone White. I'm in her dream, but it's a remarkable solidly packed one informed by the quotidian rarity of for instance a prose disquisition on lotion and skin and haircare especially in winter. Like Dana Ward's, her work sends me searching. Like what part of speech is here. As I'm wondering Simone sometimes exits first, and I even feel that a real piece of her poem is adamantly not here and that is her privacy, her power & her skill so what kind of quest is it, this beautiful complex & alive work. Here's my best guess. OF BEING DISPERSED is an ur text of the fourth wave of feminism which we come to realize is ocean and women are now standing on it and amidst this clatter of voices Simone White walks."--Eileen Myles "In Simone White's poetry the action is always multiple, palpable, sounding as thought, coming forward through this highly sensitized plane, sudden and hovering, exchanging centers, afflicted and added to by company. The continuous listening company demands--company including imaginary self, receding boundaries, the horseman on the night's street, the live, the loved, the drunk, the words, the turnstile, the endless destructive projections people force--and the rendering of that listening into irreducible depths of tone, wit, and perception constitute much of what makes OF BEING DISPERSED a masterful book. Buzzing word-love marking time beat by beat, being the ground inside and out, makes up the rest."--Anselm Berrigan "Macaronic plenitude of language instantiates places and states of mind. If Edouard Glissant says that we write in the presence of all the world's languages, then we have in Simone White's OF BEING DISPERSED, an underground stream reaching the surface of the page--in lines acrobatic and limber, fluent in code switch, mood shift and modes of inquiry. I read White's volume as a poetic lens on the specificities of the diaspora and the 'dispersed,' written with baroque skepticism, feminist vision and attention to the complications of a Black yet to be storyed any/where."--Erica Hunt
Author : Jean Clobert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0199608903
Provides an overview of the fast expanding field of dispersal ecology. The causes, mechanisms, and consequences of dispersal at the individual, population, species, and community levels are all considered.
Author : Tharwat F. Tadros
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 3527336826
This book presents comprehensively the science and technology behind the formulation of disperse systems like emulsions, suspensions, foams and others. Starting with a general introduction, the book covers a broad range of topics like the role of different classes of surfactants, stability of disperse systems, formulation of different dispersions, evaluation of formulations and many more. Many examples are included, too. Written by the experienced author and editor Tharwart Tadros, this book is indispensable for every scientist working in the field.
Author : Kevin Sinclair
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 2020-09-26
Category :
ISBN :
Does life suck? Need a helping hand?Shaun, a down on his luck couch-potato, sure does.Early research has shown that being thrown into a fantasy world full of mythical creatures, where survival is a struggle, will give you a fresh perspective on life. Just what Shaun needs right now.Though fighting trolls and obesity, while unrequited loves burns deep, is a lot harder than it looks! Not to mention a side order of apocalypse.If Shaun can survive long enough, he'll not only turn his life around, he just might become a real world legend!Can he really afford not to go all-in?
Author : Herbert Lieberman
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 42,8 MB
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1000148416
Stressing the theory involved in formulating suspensions, emulsions, and colloidal drug products, this Second Edition of a well-received reference test highlights typical formulations, the avoidance of formulation pitfalls, and compliance with established regulatory principles.
Author : British Ecological Society. Symposium
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 12,82 MB
Release : 2002-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521549318
Dispersal has become central to many questions in theoretical and applied ecology in recent years. In this volume a team of leading ecologists aim to provide the advanced student and researcher with a comprehensive review of dispersal and its implications for modern ecology.
Author : L. A. Dombrovsky
Publisher : Begell House Publishers
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 17,12 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781567002683
Author : N.C. Stenseth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401123381
4.1.1 Demographic significance Confined populations grow more rapidly than populations from which dispersal is permitted (Lidicker, 1975; Krebs, 1979; Tamarin et at., 1984), and demography in island populations where dispersal is restricted differs greatly from nearby mainland populations (Lidicker, 1973; Tamarin, 1977, 1978; Gliwicz, 1980), clearly demonstrating the demographic signi ficance of dispersal. The prevalence of dispersal in rapidly expanding populations is held to be the best evidence for presaturation dispersal. Because dispersal reduces the growth rate of source populations, it is generally believed that emigration is not balanced by immigration, and that mortality of emigrants occurs as a result of movement into a 'sink' of unfavourable habitat. If such dispersal is age- or sex-biased, the demo graphy of the population is markedly affected, as a consequence of differ ences in mortality in the dispersive sex or age class. Habitat heterogeneity consequently underlies this interpretation of dispersal and its demographic consequences, although the spatial variability of environments is rarely assessed in dispersal studies.
