Sampling the Green World

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Sampling the Green World
Editor-Tod Stuessy; Editor-S. H. Sohmer
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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The chemistry of metals has traditionally been more understood than that of its oxides. As catalytic applications continue to grow in a variety of disciplines, Metal Oxides: Chemistry and Applications offers a timely account of transition-metal oxides (TMO), one of the most important classes of metal oxides, in the context of catalysis. The first part of the book examines the crystal and electronic structure, stoichiometry and composition, redox properties, acid-base character, and cation valence states, as well as new approaches to the preparation of ordered TMO with extended structure of texturally defined systems. The second part compiles some practical aspects of TMO applications in materials science, chemical sensing, analytical chemistry, solid-state chemistry, microelectronics, nanotechnology, environmental decontamination, and fuel cells. The book examines many types of reactions - such as dehydration, reduction, selective oxidations, olefin metathesis, VOC removal, photo- and electrocatalysis, and water splitting - to elucidate how chemical composition and optical, magnetic, and structural properties of oxides affect their surface reactivity in catalysis. Drawing insight from leading international experts, Metal Oxides: Chemistry and Applications is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary reference for researchers that may also be used by newcomers as a guide to the field.

Localized to Itinerant Electronic Transition in Perovskite Oxides (Structure and Bonding)

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Localized to Itinerant Electronic Transition in Perovskite Oxides (Structure and Bonding)

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Transition Metal Oxides: Structure, Properties, and Synthesis of Ceramic Oxides

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Transition Metal Oxides: Structure, Properties, and Synthesis of Ceramic Oxides
C. N. R. Rao , and B. Raveau
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ASIN: 0471189715

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"Very useful for researchers in solid-state chemistry and as a textbook of advanced inorganic chemistry for PhD students." -Advanced Materials.

This book provides unified coverage of the structure, properties, and synthesis of transition metal oxides. Written by two world-class scientists, it offers both an excellent window on modern solid-state chemistry and a gateway to understanding the behavior of inorganic solids.

Scientists and advanced students in inorganic and solid-state chemistry, materials science, ceramics, and condensed matter science will welcome this updated Second Edition, which features new or expanded material on:
* Oxyanion derivatives of cuprates, mercury cuprates, ladder compounds, and new oxide systems
* Giant magnetoresistance, superconductivity, and nonlinear materials
* Recently developed synthetic strategies and examples, including soft chemistry routes

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* Hundreds of illustrations
* Helpful references.

Adsorption and Catalysis on Transition Metals and Their Oxides (Springer Series in Surface Sciences, Vol 9)

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Adsorption and Catalysis on Transition Metals and Their Oxides (Springer Series in Surface Sciences, Vol 9)
V. F. Kiselev , and O. V. Krylov
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d-d Excitations in Transition-Metal Oxides: A Spin-Polarized Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy (SPEELS) Study (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics)

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d-d Excitations in Transition-Metal Oxides: A Spin-Polarized Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy (SPEELS) Study (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics)
Bärbel Fromme
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ASIN: 3540410511

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In this monograph, investigations of the electronic structures of the transition-metal oxides MnO, CoO, and NiO with spin-polarized electron energy-loss spectroscopy are presented and compared with other experimental and theoretical results. After a review of the present knowledge of the electronic structure of the monoxides, the spectroscopic method applied and its special advantages are described. The knowledge and use of the different spin, angle, and primary-energy dependences of the various relevant inelastic electron-scattering mechanisms provide new insights into the excitation processes of the optically forbidden transitions between the crystal-field-split 3d states of the bulk and of the surface.

Disorder and Order in Strongly Nonstoichiometric Compounds: Transition Metal Carbides, Nitrides and Oxides (Springer Series in Materials Science)

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Disorder and Order in Strongly Nonstoichiometric Compounds: Transition Metal Carbides, Nitrides and Oxides (Springer Series in Materials Science)
A.I. Gusev , A.A. Rempel , and A.J. Magerl
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ASIN: 3540418172

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This book embraces the entire range of problems associated with nonstoichiometry, disorder and order in solids. Although dealing primarily with transition metal carbides, nitrides and oxides, the methods and models presented are applicable to all systems with substitutional disorder and they permit a unified approach to the structure, phase diagrams and other physical and chemical properties of these systems. This book will be useful for physicists addressing the problems of order and disorder in solids, for chemists increasingly aware that the majority of natural and synthetic materials are nonstoichiometric, and for crystallographers studying new and unusual crystal structures. Materials scientists using refractory compounds to create novel superhard and tough materials or materials for modern electronics will find essential information on the interplay between structural effects and many different properties of transition metal compounds.

High Tc Superconductors and Related Transition Metal Oxides: Special Contributions in Honor of K. Alex Müller on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday

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High Tc Superconductors and Related Transition Metal Oxides: Special Contributions in Honor of K. Alex Müller on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday

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The book will consist of approximately 30 to 40 separate articles where the main focus is on recent new results in high temperature superconductivity. The contributions are theoretical as well as experimental ones. All scientists who contribute are high rank experts in this field and have done major work which has enhanced the understanding of this phenomenon. a smaller part of the articles deals with ferroelectricity and their applications. Also in this field there have recently been major break throughs experimentally as well as theoretically which will be addressed by the invited authors. The book is dedicated to Prof. Dr. K. Alex Müller on the occasion of his 80th birthday. During his scientific career he made major advances in the understanding of ferroelectricity, which used to be his major research field. The discovery of superconductivity in cuprates for which he received together with Dr. J. Georg Bednorz the Nobel Prize in 1987 has not diminished his interest in this area, but has enlarged his activities considerably. In high temperature superconductivity he activated major research areas which are highlighted in this book by many contributions.

Infrared Spectroscopy of Adsorbed Species on the Surface of Transition Metal Oxides

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Infrared Spectroscopy of Adsorbed Species on the Surface of Transition Metal Oxides
A. A. Davydov
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Magnetism in transition-metal-substituted semiconducting oxides : (Dissertation)

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Magnetism in transition-metal-substituted semiconducting oxides : (Dissertation)
Aditi S. Risbud
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Multicomponent Oxide Films for Electronics: Symposium Held April 6-8, 1999, San Francisco, California, U.S.A (Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings)

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Awesome - Marilyn hawley is one heck of an editor.

Multicomponent Oxide Films for Electronics: Symposium Held April 6-8, 1999, San Francisco, California, U.S.A (Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings)

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Awesome - Marilyn hawley is one heck of an editor........2003-05-30

Wonderful - Hawley knows her stuff

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Scheduling and multicriteria optimisation theory have been subject, separately, to numerous studies. Since the last fifteen years, multicriteria scheduling problems have been subject to a growing interest. However, a gap between multicriteria scheduling approaches and multicriteria optimisation field exists. This book is a first attempt to collect the elementary of multicriteria optimisation theory and the basic models and algorithms of multicriteria scheduling. It is composed of numerous illustrations, algorithms and examples which may help the reader in understanding the presented concepts.

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Scheduling Theory made easy .......2007-08-29

Scheduling is the concept of sharing a scarce resource amongst users without starving any of the users, and at best gives the impression that every user has access to all of what that resource has to offer. This poses a challenge when the numbers of users increase dramatically or the duration of the jobs varies greatly. What makes this challenge even greater is that scheduling problems are mostly NP-Complete, with a very limited number of scenarios that are considered to fall under the P-type problem domain.

Single criterion scheduling are problems where the reader is interested in maximizing or minimizing only one thing or criteria (minimize the flow time, or minimizing the completion time). Many scenarios, machine shop or other wise, require more than criterions to be optimized. For example on a multi-processing machine, you want to minimize startup time and at the same time minimize completion time of all the tasks. There are times where these two criterions conflict - i.e. you might need to suspend a task thus delaying its completion time in order to start a newly arrived task. The point is that "sacrifices" must be made, and that is the point of heuristic-type algorithms; they aim to minimize the overall sacrifice one has to make in order to optimize everything near-perfectly. This does not always work, however, but considering the problem domain, it is a very good attempt at solving the unsolvable.

Multicriteria Scheduling: Theory, Models and Algorithms, by Vincent T'kindt and Jean-Chalres Billaut is the latest book that covers scheduling and more specifically multicriteria scheduling in research and applications thereof very well. The first edition of the text which was published in 2002, the authors mainly focused on the field of multicriteria scheduling along with all the algorithms, models, etc, that described the field. Being the first complete text dedicated to multicriteria scheduling and optimization, there were lots to talk about and even more has been developed in the past five or so years. For the second edition of the text, the authors builds and refines the first editions with new research results, new findings and many new algorithms. A number of chapters were rewritten such as Just-in-Time Scheduling problems (chapter 5), and the rest revised to include follow-up information and comments.

For those unfamiliar with the topic at hand, the authors spend the first couple of chapters talking about scheduling, its complexities and then delve into multicriteria scheduling and problems. If you have never heard or seen any scheduling problems, the first two chapters are a must; otherwise, it is still a good review as the authors use these chapters as the basis for later discussions. As you might expect, multicriteria scheduling shares a number of ideas from multicriteria optimization and theory. A chapter is dedicated to this topic as it is required notion for the rest of the text.

One addition to the this edition of the text which clearly demonstrates the authors' deep understanding of the topic both in research and commercial arena is chapter 6: Robustness consideration! Being in the field of Grid and HPC, I come across a number of texts that cover the area, but none have ever even attempted to cover robustness of an algorithm. In this chapter, the authors depict a number of algorithms discussed and discuss variation of that algorithm and it would hold up under different scenarios which directly reflect what one would see a real-application.

The area of Scheduling is an exciting area of research which has direct application in many aspects of Computer Science. Multicriteria Scheduling: Theory, Models and Algorithms covers the topic of scheduling and more specifically the applications of optimization problems in scheduling very well. The authors guide the reader thru numerous algorithms much of which is used everyday is various applications.

Book review: "Multicriteria Scheduling. Theory, Models and Algorithms" [A book review from: European Journal of Operational Research]

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Book review: "Multicriteria Scheduling. Theory, Models and Algorithms" [A book review from: European Journal of Operational Research]
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This digital document is a journal article from European Journal of Operational Research, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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[A] quirky memoir, without the sentimentality and insistence that drives so many personal accounts. Holt Watson has a deeply moving story to tell, with fully realized characters set loose in a specific world and time. And she has a distinctly humorous voice. I'm partial to any writer who can come up with a walleyed laundress and a prize bull named Big Business, in a place called Heaven's Little Footstool. This is a wonderful book.-Bobbie Ann Mason

Jo Anna "Pee-Wee" Holt Watson's voice is so vivid that the reader is transported to a vanished rural culture: mid-20th century Kentucky. This memoir documents one summer, her seventh, at Grassy Springs Farm in the Bluegrass region of Woodford County. At the center of the book is a poetic and telling bond, an adoring friendship between this small white girl and a black foreman, Joe Collins. There's a tempestuous country-physician father, a beautiful, powerful mother in powerless times and the "wonderfully long-winded" Aunt Sudie Louisa. We witness the travail of hired laborers as well as the beauties of craft and devotion in Holt Watson's sharp rendering of traditional tobacco culture.

Here is a world of shadowy lanes, granddaddy's ice-cold artesian well, tobacco stripping rooms, a girl's pony barn, Ginnie Rae's Beauty Shoppe on Main Street and Ocean Frog's Grocery. Brimming with unsentimental innocence, she draws a tough-minded, tomboy--accomplished portrait of girlhood. In the rural tradition, Holt Watson is a conjuror of tales both hilarious and moving, mixed with temper and spirit.

Jo Anna "Pee-Wee" Holt-Watson is a fourth-generation Kentuckian and self-proclaimed Yellow Dog Democrat. She is an amateur photographer, gardener, avid sports-person, former horse trials judge, and creator of Plumbline, a series of televised panel discussions regarding critical political and social issues. She currently lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

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A superb storyteller!.......2004-12-07

I have not read such a beautiful book since To Kill A Mockingbird and have not read descriptions of a southern family written as well, or better, since The Ponder Heart. Superb writing.

Rural Kentucky Native spins a story of her childhood.......2004-11-18

Jo Anna Holt-Watson is a truly wonderful "story teller." Seldom are readers treated to such captivating tales of childhood imagination, without a hint of false pride. In "A Taste of the Sweet Apple: Memoirs," the author is able to hold our attention by graphically producing a setting in rural central Kentucky, Woodford County, that calls on figments of all of the reader's senses: the farm sounds of the "skid" being pulled by the mule, the vision of the heavy mist over the Bluegrass at dawn, the smell of stables laden with manure, and, of course, the almost indescribable taste of chewing tobacco, when it is first surreptitiously wedged between cheek and gum by a seven year old girl.
Ultimately, this is a heart warming story of a child's love. Almost too innocently written, Pee Wee Watson has a brilliant flair with words that will actually make you laugh out loud in one instant and become 'teary-eyed' in the next. Her 'Memoirs' of her life on the farm in the '40s recalls a tender relationship with 'the hired help,' whom she brazenly persuades the reader into loving as much as she assures that she probably really did. Her tender feelings toward these simplistic, but ardently faithful 'keepers,' is not wasted on wishy-washy endearments, but rather is skillfully woven into her story, as told in the first person by a genuine tom-boy and sometimes romantic, but always head-strong girl. This is a 'must read' for all who crave a clever yarn by an excellent spinner, ... from whom I predict, ... we will hear again.

-- Thomas S. Markham, Lookout Mountain, GA -- A devotee of Southern literature

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