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Remote Sensing of Sea Ice in the Northern Sea Route: Studies and Applications initially provides a history of the Northern Sea Route as an important strategic transport route for supporting the northern regions of Russia and cargo transportation between Europe and the Northern Pacific Basin. The authors then describe sea ice conditions in the Eurasian Arctic Seas and, using microwave satellite data, provide a detailed analysis of difficult sea ice conditions. Remote sensing techniques and the basic principles of SAR image formation are described, as well as the major satellite radar systems used for ice studies in the Arctic. The authors take a good look at the use of sensing equipment in experiments, including the ICE WATCH project used for monitoring the Northern Sea Route. The possibilities of using SAR remote sensing for ice navigation in the Northern Sea Route is also detailed, analysing techniques of automatic image processing and interpretation. A study is provided of regional drifting ice, fast ice and river ice in the coastal areas of the Arctic Seas. The book concludes with a review of the practical experience using SAR images for supporting navigation and offshore industrial activity, based on a series of experiments conducted with the Murmansk Shipping Company on board nuclear icebreakers.

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Presents and demonstrates stabilizer design techniques that can be used to solve stabilization problems with constraints. These methods have their origins in convex programming and stability theory. However, to provide a practical capability in stabilizer design, the methods are tailored to the special features and needs of this field. Hence, the main emphasis of this book is on the methods of stabilization, rather than optimization and stability theory.
The text is divided into three parts. Part I contains some background material. Part II is devoted to behavior of control systems, taking examples from mechanics to illustrate the theory. Finally, Part III deals with nonlocal stabilization problems, including a study of the global stabilization problem. ... Read more

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Much of the material that is essential to the development of a complete understanding of radiative processes in atomic physics is not to be found in the standard atomic physics textbooks. This remarkable volume breaks new ground on two fronts: It provides a comprehensive description of the contemporary treatment of radiative processes in atoms; and it presents this material in a useful and engaging format—a succession of problems.

The problem-and-solution method has the advantage of making particularly clear precisely the topic being developed, as well as providing a strong focus on the basic principles and tools available for the solution of the problems. In the process of presenting a logically evolving series of problems, it is possible to provide an understanding of the subject matter at the level of current research.

Although it is assumed that the reader is familiar with quantum mechanics, a set of appendices provides an overview of the principles used most often in the treatment of radiative problems in atomic and molecular physics. Basic tools of the quantum treatment of angular momentum, including rotation functions, Clebsch-Gordan coefficients, and the Wigner 3j and 6j symbols are reviewed. There are summaries of aids to calculation in atomic physics, such as the density matrix method and fractional parentage coefficients. Two sections are devoted to quantities that arise in strong-field, nonperturbative problems.

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Radiative Processes in Atomic Physics offers advanced students and researchers an up-to-date quantum treatment of the interaction of atoms with electromagnetic radiation. Problems and solutions are used to develop concepts, terminology, and the principal results of the quantum theory of radiative processes in atoms.

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Aether, Second Kind of Light
This book is one of the best I have ever seen. More than 40 physicists, among them one Nobel laureate, presented their new theories and new experimental evidence.

Kotelnikov suggested an electrodynamics which can describe also particles which are faster than light. This suggestion is in agreement with special relativity.

We know Hector Munera from his interpretation of the Michelson-Morley experiment which, according to Munera, did show an aether drift. In this book, he presented a new approach to the electromagnetic force.

Caroline Thompson presented, for the first time, her phi-wave aether model.

Most revolutionary and far-reaching is Kühne's quantum electromagnetodynamics. His theory is a generalization of quantum electrodynamics. It includes Dirac magnetic monopoles and two kinds of photon, the conventional one which he named "electric photon" and a new one which he named "magnetic photon". His theory is the only quantum field theory of the electromagnetic interaction which can explain the quantization of electric charge, which is local, which is manifestly Lorentz invariant, which describes electrism and magnetism symmetrically, which does not require the Dirac string, and which makes testable predictions.

Kühne's theory predicts that the magnetic photon couples with electric charges, where the coupling strength depends on the absolute motion of the electric charge. As a consequence, the creation, shielding and absorption of magnetic photons is suppressed by a factor of 700 000 with respect to electric photons of the same energy.

As Kühne pointed out, his theory violates the relativity principle.

But what is more: Kühne had presented his theory and suggested an experiment to test his theory already in 1997 ( http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9708394 ). Now, in his contribution to this book he discussed three independent experiments which confirm his magnetic photon rays.

The far-reaching consequences of this probable discovery include:
1. the discovery of a new elementary particle (magnetic photon)
2. the discovery of a new radiation (magnetic photon rays)
3. possible applications in medicine (examinations via magnetic photon rays instead of X rays)
4. the first proof for the violation of the relativity principle of special relativity
5. indirect evidence for magnetic monopoles
6. indirect evidence for an aether

Wow, could this mean a Nobel prize within the near future?

Anyway, this book is very good. I recommend this book to everyone who is interested in physics and/or the philosophy of science. ... Read more

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Chapters: Igor Smirnov, Yevgeny Shevchuk, Valeriy Litskai, Valeriu Miţul, Vladimir Antyufeyev, Anatoliy Kaminski, Grigore Mărăcuţă, Alexander Radchenko, Stanislav Hazheev, Nadezhda Bondarenko, Sergei Mikhailovich Stepanov, Anatoliy Guretskiy, Aleksandr Ivanovich Korolyov, Mikhail Burla, Galina Antyufeyeva, Vladimir Yastrebchak, Elena Bomeshko, Tom Zenovich, Andrey Safonov, Alexandru Caraman, Sergey Leontiev, Vladimir Mikhailovich Belyaev, Viktor Kostyrko, Peter Tomaily, Viktor Balala, Ivan Tkachenko, Valerian Tulgara, Anatoliy Blashku, Yury Cheban, Roman Khudyakov, Valeriy Panasenko. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 75. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Igor Nikolaevich Smirnov (Russian: ), (born October 23, 1941) is the President of the internationally unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic, also known as Transnistria. He has held this post since 1990. Igor Smirnov was born in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Soviet Union (now in the Russian Federation) during World War II. He was the son of Nikolai Stepanovich Smirnov, a worker within the Soviet Communist Party apparatus and Zinaida Grigorevna Smirnova, a journalist and newspaper editor. As the Party promoted Nikolai Stepanovich to ever more important positions, the family moved from Petropavlosk to the Ukrainian SSR, where the Red Army had recently expelled the Nazi German military. The Smirnovs initially benefited from Nikolai Stepanovichs successeshe reached the position of First Secretary of the Golopristanskiy Raion (district) committee in Soviet Ukraine. However, in the summer of 1952 Nikolai Stepanovich was arrested for irregularities in supply distribution among the Raions collective farms. He was sentenced to fifteen years in the Soviet forced labor camps with a following period of five years internal exile. As the family...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=843999 ... Read more