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Thin film deposition is the most ubiquitous and critical of the processes used to manufacture high tech devices. Morphology and microstructure of thin films directly controls their optical, magnetic, and electrical properties. This book focuses on modeling and simulations used in research on the morphological evolution during film growth. The authors emphasize the detailed mathematical formulation of the problem both through numerical calculations based on Langevin continuum equations, and through Monte Carlo simulations based on discrete surface growth models when an analytical formulism is not convenient. Evolution of Thin-Film Morphology will be of benefit to university researchers and industrial scientists working in the areas of semiconductor processing, optical coating, plasma etching, patterning, micro-machining, polishing, tribology, and any discipline that requires an understanding of thin film growth processes. In particular, the reader will be introduced to the mathematical tools that are available to describe such a complex problem, and appreciate the utility of the various modeling methods through numerous example discussions. For beginners in the field, the text is written assuming a minimal background in mathematics and computer programming. The book will enable readers themselves to set up a computational program to investigate specific topics of interest in thin film deposition.

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A great book
This book cuts the edge on Internet GIS. Although the IT world has changed a lot since the book was publised in 2003, the main frame of Internet GIS has not. And this book does not just introduce techniques, it is fascinating to see how Internet GIS works at background. It's a great book for a person with some GIS knowledge and wants to know more advanced GIS application in sharing data and services.

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Pueraria has been utilized by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners to treat hangovers, allergies, indigestion, diabetes, angina, thirst, and fever. A more recent study showed that both daidzin and daidzein may be useful in reducing the urge for alcohol and treating alcoholism. Pueraria contains a concise description of the age-old knowledge, as well as authoritative scientific information that parallels the rapid increase in scientific understanding. This comprehensive book has been designed with a broad and diverse readership in mind, including students, educators, and prevention and treatment practitioners as well as research scientists from a broad range of disciplines. Contributors van der Maesen, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, You-Ping Zhu, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Sangeeta Shukla, Jiwaji University, India, Denis DeKeukeleire, State University of Ghent, Belgium, John L. Ingham, University of Reading, UK, Satoshi Tahara, Hokkaido University, Japan, Yutaka Ebizuka, The University of Tokyo, Japan, Takashi Hakamatsuka, Science University of Tokyo, Japan, Xiang-Shu Chai, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, China, Scott E. Lukas, Harvard Medical School, USA, Chun-Kowk Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Junei Kinjo and Toshihiro Nohara, Kumamoto University, Japan, Keisuke Ohsawa and Takaaki Yasuda, Tohoku Pharmaceutical University, Japan, Anwar Jardine, Pharm-ECO Laboratories Inc., USA, Guang-Yao Gao, Harvard Medical School, USA, Haruki Yamada, The Kitasato Institute, Tokyo, Japan, Robert D. Tanner, Vanderbilt University, USA, Ales Prokop, Rhizoma Corporation, Alabama, USA, Kathleen S. Lowney, Valdosta State University, Georgia, USA

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The spirit of the Chinese people. With an essay on Civilization and anarchy (1922) ... Read more

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Trajectories assembles cultural critics not only from countries with a known cultural studies tradition such as America, Canada and Australia but from Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Philippines, India and Thailand. A critical confrontation between the imperial and colonial coordinates of north and south, east and west, Trajectories presents cultural studies as an international and decolonized project, linking critical energies to chart the future direction of the discipline. The contributors include: Ien Ang, Chua beng Huat, Leo Ching, Renato Constantino, Ken Dean, Stuart Hall, Yung Ho-Im, Ding-Tzann Lii, Meaghan Morris, Stephen Muecke, Ashia Nandy, Cindy Patton, Mark Reid, Naoki Sakai, Ubonrat Siriyuvasak, Law Wing-san.

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A useful approach to the maze of Asia/Pacific struggles.
Dislocates and relocates practices and discipline of cultural studies in an array of Asia/Pacific sites in the context of resurrecting decolonizing dynamics and social democratic energies from earlier projects. The endresult is a useful and multiple approach to the complex maze ofAsia/Pacific cultural and political struggles,with more to come from Taiwanand elsewhere beyond the Birmingham old model.

An indispensable text for doing Asia/Pacific cult studies
This is an indispensable text for doing Asia/Pacific cultural studies in the contemporary moment, exposing a range of tactics and problems under construction.The range of work and disciplinary mixtures challenge priorand stable senses of what constitutues the field of social science, orliterary studies for that matter, and "cultural studies" isitself seen to be a mongrel fate of uncertainty and exploration, tracing"trajectories" from Taipei to Birmingham and Honolulu and beyond.A work of global/local engagements, in the full sense of that dialectic.Ien Ang is NOT the co-editor at all, by the way. ... Read more

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In many industrial applications, the existing constraints mandate the use of controllers of low and fixed order while typically, modern methods of optimal control produce high-order controllers. The authors seek to start to bridge the resultant gap and present a novel methodology for the design of low-order controllers such as those of the P, PI and PID types. Written in a self-contained and tutorial fashion, this book first develops a fundamental result, generalizing a classical stability theorem – the Hermite–Biehler Theorem – and then applies it to designing controllers that are widely used in industry. It contains material on:

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This book presents decade-long advances in atmospheric research in the Mackenzie River Basin in northern Canada, which encompasses environments representative of most cold areas on Earth. Collaborative efforts by a team of about 100 scientists and engineers have yielded knowledge entirely transferable to other high latitude regions in America, Europe and Asia. Emphases are placed on the investigation of processes (including storm genesis, precipitation, moisture and energy fluxes and frost), and the improvement and application of a suite of models and remote sensing to enhance the assessment of climate variability and water resources. This book complements the first volume coming from the GEWEX project, dealing with the region's atmospheric dynamics. Together these books provide a unique synthesis of atmospheric and hydrological findings and an integrative approach across disciplines in addressing major research issues of cold regions.

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This book provides a comprehensive treatise on the historical, phytochemical, pharmacological/toxicological, clinical as well as pharmaceutical aspects of Shengmai San and its component herbs.It provides a scientific rationale for using this multi-component formulation in traditional Chinese medicine for the prevention and treatment of diseases. ... Read more

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When China and Russia established a "strategic partnership" in 1996, both nations declared that they would further develop military cooperation in various fields. Tsai examines the course of this military cooperation to reveal the nature of the military ties with the hopes of determining whether these two traditional adversaries have put aside historical legacies and mutual mistrust to create a full-fledged military partnership. After analyzing the motives and concerns of both powers, Tsai concludes that, while progress has been made in reducing military tensions in border regions, the level of trust has not increased substantially. The nature of these ties remains extremely fragile. ... Read more

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The book contributes to answering the questions raised by mayors, governors, and federal government officials in Brazil: -What can cities do to improve economic performance and create jobs?- The question is approached through a review of theories and policy options for city competitiveness, preliminary benchmarking of Brazilian cities.The book concludes that to become and stay competitive, cities need to strive to reduce the cost of doing business by improving services, infrastructure, and reducing bureaucracies. But for a middle-income country like Brazil, which needs to be economically competitive in a globalized environment, this is not sufficient. Cities also need to strive to add value to local businesses. A crucial part of the strategy should be to create and sustain an environment that stimulates local firms to innovate and learn from each other, to nurture and facilitate the creation of synergies generated by the presence of interconnected economic clusters in the city, and to provide incentives for all local players to continuously upgrade the level of competitiveness-to become better and the best.With regard to local policy actions, this book highlights the cluster approach to competitiveness, with its focus on facilitating private sector collaborations for collective efficiency-organizing and facilitating private and public institutions to arrive at a common cluster vision; identifying opportunities for growth and collaboration; promoting joint actions such as co-information, co-learning, co-marketing, and co-purchasing; and jointly building economic foundations such as R&D capacities, infrastructure, skills upgrading, and public-private sector support institutions. This book has provided many examples of actions that may be undertaken at the local level, but it also emphasizes the critical importance for cities to pursue a unique strategy based on their comparative and competitive advantages. ... Read more

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Asymmetric synthesis remains a challenge to practicing scientists as the need for enantiomerically pure or enriched compounds continues to increase. Over the last decade, a large amount of literature has been published in this field. Principles and Applications of Asymmetric Synthesis consolidates and evaluates the most useful methodologies into a one-volume resource for the convenience of practicing scientists and students.
Authored by internationally renowned scientists in the field, this reliable reference covers more than 450 reactions and includes important stoichiometric as well as catalytic asymmetric reactions. The first chapter reviews the basic principles, common nomenclature, and analytical methods, and the remainder of the book is organized according to reaction type. The text examines such topics as:

• Carbon-carbon bond formations involving carbonyls, enamines, imines, and enolates
  
• Asymmetric C-O bond formations including epoxidation, dihydroxylation, and aminohydroxylation
  
• Asymmetric synthesis using the Diels-Alder reaction and other cyclizations
  
• Applications to the total synthesis of natural products
  
• Use of enzymes in asymmetric synthesis

Practicing chemists in the pharmaceutical, fine chemical, and agricultural professions as well as graduate students will find that Principles and Applications of Asymmetric Synthesis affords comprehensive and current coverage. ... Read more

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A groundbreaking book in the comparative study of Chinese and Western literatures.
Whenever I go to the library of our university, I always go to the shelfs for books that have just arrived. One day, I found standing on the shelf a book titled "Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing: A Route to hermeneutics and Open Poetics", written by Ming Dong Gu. I was immediately attracted to it. It is a unique book, thoughfully conceived and well written, coming out just in time. This book represents a breakthrough, I think, in the field of comparative study of Chinese and Western poetics, a field which is very active in the past ten years. It is of such a high level, I can only admire the author's accomplishment. Certainly, this book represents the highest level reached in the study of Chinese and Western comparative poetics in the last ten years. In many aspects, I have to describe what the book has accomplished as a breakthrough in the dialogues between Chinese and Western poetics. The topics this book writes about are obviously difficult: hermeneutics, semiotics, Chinese language, philosophy, poetry, Saussure, Lacan, Derrida, Eco, and so on. The author handles these difficult topics brilliantly, in his unique way, and in an easy-to-understand language. He not only delves into some important areas such as the Book of Changes, Buddhism and traditional Chinese literary theory, but also explores the philosophical basis of Chinese reading and writing clearly and artfully. Among scholars of comparative poetics, he is the first one to be able to relate the Dao with cross-cultural theory of reading and writing. Nowdays, many scholars in the field of sinology and comparative literature of Chinese and Western literatures have doubts about the compatibility for comparative studies of Chinese and Western literatures. This book gives us an optimist view. It convincingly demonstrates that Chinese and Western literatures have a common ground in hermeneutics and literary openness. There are many points I very much like in the book. For example, he made a fascinating distinction between Yi "meaning" and Yi "significance". It seems that a distinction between Yi and Yi makes no sense for people speaking in English. Even for scholars speaking in native Chinese, they are not always sensitive enough to consider their differences. Yet this author explains the two concepts in terms of You "being" and Wu "nonbeing" in a clear and brilliant way and makes sense of some fundamentals in Chinese theories of reading, writing and philosophy: The book is written with highest scholarship and deep insight. I would recommend it to anyone interested in Chinese literature, comparative literature, and comparative thought.
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Crystallographers have an elegant system using definitive notation for describing crystal structures, but it does not serve as well the needs of many others working with crystalline solids. Most chemists, metallurgists, mineralogists, geologists and workers in material sciences need a simple system and notation for describing crystal structures. Structure and Chemistry of Crystalline Solids presents a widely applicable system with simple notation giving important information about the structure and the chemical environment of ions or molecules. It is easily understood and used by those concerned with applications dependent on structure-properties relationships. This book addresses the needs of people working with crystal structures in several fields, while most other books on crystal structures are more than two decades old. Early chapters provide an introduction to crystal structures and symmetry for readers with a variety of backgrounds.

Insight into crystal structures, including some complex silicates, is aided by the use of the CrystalMaker computer program. The bundled CD-ROM, which uses CrystalMaker for instruction and demos on both Windows and Macintosh platforms, allows the user to manipulate the structures.

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• Understandable by anyone concerned with crystals or solid state properties dependent on structure
• Presents a general system using simple notation to reveal similarities and differences among crystal structures
• Depicts more than 300 selected and prepared figures illustrating structures found in thousands of compounds
• Includes a CD-ROM with CrystalMaker^TM data files to allow the reader to view and manipulate the structures on both Windows and Macintosh platforms

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* Promotes better ways to diagnose, maintain, and improve existing systems.
* Existing reliability evaluation models are examined with respect to today's complicated engineering systems that have hundreds of thousands of integrated component designs. ... Read more

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Director Zhang Yimou-s film Hero, released in 2002, is widely regarded as the first globally successful indigenous Chinese blockbuster, touching on key questions of Chinese culture, nation and politics. This book explores the reasons for the film-s popularity with its audiences, and provides fascinating insights into recent developments in Chinese society, popular culture and cultural production. ... Read more

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Basic and clinical investigators systematically compile a comprehensive but concise summary of essential, up-to-date information about apoptosis. The authors present the concepts, the molecular architecture, the biochemical pathways, and the pathophysiological significance of apoptosis. In addition, standard biochemical and cell biologic approaches to apoptosis research are described as a guideline for bench work, with clinical applications detailed for immune disorders, cancer, ischemia/reperfusion injury, and neuronal degeneration. ... Read more

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A good review of the subject of cell death
It is useful for students, fellows and senior investigators interested in programmed cell death.Excellent book... ... Read more