Scent: The Mysterious and Essential Powers of Smell (Kodansha Globe)

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Intriguing, thought-provoking, and universal!.......2000-03-30

This book provides much intriguing and fascinating information on the role of scent and smell over history. It's captivating to find the emphasis past cultures and time periods had on scent and smells - and how much of that we have lost. Particularly interesting are the sections on scent as it relates to seduction and magic. A bit "scholarly" but understandable and educational!

Scent the Mysterious and Essential Powers of Smell

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Scent the Mysterious and Essential Powers of Smell
Annick Leguerer
Manufacturer: Turtle Bay Books
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ASIN: B000R37CGU

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Scent: The Mysterious and Essential Powers of Smell
Annick; Turner, Philip (editor); ; Miller, Richard (translator) Le Guerer
Manufacturer: Kodansha International
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ASIN: B000KPKIQ6

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Cost Benefit Analysis of the Department of the Navy's F-5 Tiger II contract

Manufacturer: Storming Media
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Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: 1423514335

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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A753024. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This project consists of a Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) of the costs, issues and effects associated with replacing the F-5E/F Tiger II aircraft with F/A- 18A/B. The three alternatives analyzed are (1) continued operation of the F-5E/F, (2) replacement of the F-5 with F/A-18A/B by 2008, and (3) installation of 4th generation pulse-doppler radar in the F-5E/F by 2008. The objective was to compare the three alternatives, choosing the alternative which provides the greatest net benefit and most efficient use of resources. The analysis involved data collection of operational costs per flight hour, total cost over the life of the program, and Contractor supported maintenance. Data for this research project were gathered from the actual maintenance contracts for both the F-5E/F Tiger II and F/A- 18A/B aircraft at Fallon, NV, Naval Aviation Systems Command, and OFC-20. Our results suggest that NAVAIR should continue to use the F-5E/F tiger II aircraft for the VFC- 13 adversary training mission through 2014.

Defects in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations, Theory and Experiments (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)

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Defects in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations, Theory and Experiments (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)

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ASIN: 140200169X

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Topological defects are the subject of intensive studies in many different branches of physics ranging from cosmology to liquid crystals and from elementary particles to colloids and biological systems. Liquid crystals are fascinating materials which present a great variety of these mathematical objects and can therefore be considered as an extremely useful laboratory for topological defects.
This book is the first attempt to present together complementary approaches to the investigations of topological defects in liquid crystals using theory, experiments and computer simulations.

Display Devices and Systems II (SPIE Proceedings)

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Display Devices and Systems II (SPIE Proceedings)

Manufacturer: SPIE-International Society for Optical Engine
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ASIN: 0819430218

Flat Panel Display Materials II: Symposium Held April 8-12, 1996, San Francisco, California, U.S.A (Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings)

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Flat Panel Display Materials II: Symposium Held April 8-12, 1996, San Francisco, California, U.S.A (Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings)

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Handbook of Liquid Crystals, Handbook of Liquid Crystals: Low Molecular Weight Liquid Crystals II: Discotic and Non-Conventional Liquid Crystals

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Handbook of Liquid Crystals, Handbook of Liquid Crystals: Low Molecular Weight Liquid Crystals II: Discotic and Non-Conventional Liquid Crystals

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The Handbook of Liquid Crystals is a unique compendium of knowledge on all aspects of liquid crystals. In over 2000 pages the Handbook provides detailed information on the basic principles of both low- and high-molecular weight materials, as well as the synthesis, characterization, modification, and applications (such as in computer displays or as structural materials) of all types of liquid crystals.

The five editors of the Handbook are internationally renowned experts from both industry and academia and have drawn together over 70 leading figures in the field as authors.

The four volumes of the Handbook are designed both to be used together or as stand-alone reference sources. Some users will require the whole set, others will be best served with one or two of the volumes.

Volume 1 deals with the basic physical and chemical principles of liquid crystals, including structure-property relationships, nomenclature, phase behavior, characterization methods, and general synthesis and application strategies. As such this volume provides an excellent introduction to the field and a powerful learning and teaching tool for graduate students and above.

Volumes 2A and 2B concentrate on low-molecular weight materials, for example those typically used in display technology. A high quality survey of the literature is provided along with full details of molecular design strategies, phase characterization and control, and applications development. These volumes are therefore by far the most detailed reference sources on these industrially very important materials, ideally suited for professionals in the field.

Volume 3 concentrates on high-molecular weight, or polymeric, liquid crystals, some of which are found in structural applications and others occur as natural products of living systems. A high-quality literature survey is complemented by full detail of the synthesis, processing, analysis, and applications of all important materials classes. This volume is the most comprehensive reference source on these materials, and is therefore ideally suited for professionals in the field.

Liquid Crystal Materials, Devices, and Applications II: 2-4 February 1993 San Jose, California (Proceedings of S P I E)

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Liquid Crystal Materials, Devices, and Applications II: 2-4 February 1993 San Jose, California (Proceedings of S P I E)
Uzi Efron
Manufacturer: Society of Photo Optical
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Liquid Crystal Polymers II III (Advances in Polymer Science 60/61

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Liquid Crystal Polymers II III (Advances in Polymer Science 60/61
M. Gordon
Manufacturer: Springer Verlag
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Liquid Crystals II (Spie Proceedings Series)

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Liquid Crystals II (Spie Proceedings Series)

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Liquid Crystals II (Structure and Bonding)

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Liquid Crystals II (Structure and Bonding)

Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag Telos
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ASIN: 3540649379

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The rapid and continuing growth on liquid crystal research is not only the result of the high success of liquid crystal display technology, but also because of the great potential for new and improved applications. This is a unique area of scientific research in which the joint research efforts of chemists, physicists and material scientists have led to spectacular practical developments which are been exploited commercially. This two-volume set of the series Structure and Bonding focuses on the structural properties of liquid crystals. The balanced, in-depth coverage of both theoretical and experimental aspects by leading experts serves as a basis for further innovations in this dynamic field and makes these volumes an essential resource for both academic and industrial researchers.

$Nonlinear Optics of Liquid and Photorefractive Crystals II: 5-10 October 1997 Partenit, Crimea, Ukraine (Spie Proceedings, Volume 3488)$
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Nonlinear Optics of Liquid and Photorefractive Crystals II: 5-10 October 1997 Partenit, Crimea, Ukraine (Spie Proceedings, Volume 3488)

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Physical, safety or technological constraints induce that the control actuators can neither provide unlimited amplitude signals nor unlimited speed of reaction. The control problems of combat aircraft prototypes and satellite launchers offer interesting examples of the difficulties due to these major constraints.

Neglecting actuator saturations on both amplitude and dynamics can be source of undesirable or even catastrophic behavior for the closed-loop system (such as loosing closed-loop stability).

Such actuator saturations have also been blamed as one of several unfortunate mishaps leading to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. For these reasons, the study of the control problem (its structure, performance and stability analysis) for systems subject to both amplitude and rate actuator or sensor saturations as typical constraints has received the attention of many researchers in the last years.

The different techniques described throughout the book are particularly attractive for industrial applications not only in aeronautical or space domains but also in the context of biological systems domain. Such methods are well suited for the development of tools that help engineers to solve analysis and synthesis problems in the context of control systems with input and output constraints

Control Systems with Input and Output Constraints (Advanced Textbooks in Control and Signal Processing)

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Control Systems with Input and Output Constraints (Advanced Textbooks in Control and Signal Processing)
A.H. Glattfelder , and W. Schaufelberger
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ASIN: 1852333871

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In current industrial control, PID technology is firmly established as the standard. Often, however, high control loop performance can only be obtained within narrow limits around a given steady-state operating point. If perturbations introduced by any reference or load change are outside these limitations then the actuators will constrain the system inputs. Other operational limits may also be imposed by additional variables within the plant producing output constraints. A typical method of dealing with input and output constraints, especially for PID control, has been the empirical design and implementation of an intuitive solution to an individual plant and its constraints. Such ad hoc solutions perform surprisingly well but often remain in the form of isolated practical know-how without a more general scientific basis. Control Systems with Input and Output Constraints develops this empirical approach by demonstrating how particular answers to particular industrial design problems can be systematized to cope with a wide variety of simple and more complex situations. Each class of design problems is presented in five parts: industrial situation; problem statement; currently available control structures; benchmark simulation to obtain typical transient response and nonlinear stability analysis to relate structure to response. Links to optimal control and model predictive control are also explored. These steps help the reader to learn how to choose or adapt a control architecture and design or analyse it on a systematic basis. Features: associated website contains many ready-made examples and case studies using MATLAB®/Simulink® to which extensive reference is made throughout the text facilitating understanding and saving time; exercises interspersed throughout each chapter that allow the student to confirm progress as he/she proceeds; logical five-step design procedure for each problem class moving from a particular industrial example to the informed choice of generic controller and the preparation of closed loop analysis. Control Systems with Input and Output Constraints will be of great benefit to advanced students of control looking to pursue a career in process and/or plant control or in applications-oriented research. The practical basis of the presentation, the systematic design procedure, the restraint on mathematical formalism and emphasis on implementability will also appeal to industrial control engineers.

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The Early American Women Writers series offers rare works of fiction by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women, each reprinted in its entirety, each introduced by Cathy N. Davidson, who places the novel in an historical and literary perspective. Ranging from serious cautionary tales about moral corruption to amusing and trenchant social satire, these books provide today's reader with a unique window into the earliest American popular fiction and way of life. First published in 1801, Female Quixotism is a boisterous, rollicking anti-romance and literary satire. It takes place in the fictional village of L---, Pennsylvania, where its central character Dorcas Sheldon--who styles herself the romantic "Dorcasina"--sets out on a quixotic quest for the kind of romantic love portrayed in her favorite English novels. Having rejected the prosaic yet honorable advances of her first suitor, "Lysander," Dorcasina narrowly escapes marriage to a series of unscrupulous rogues interested mostly in her considerable fortune. Moving from one misadventure to another, the heroine's journey ends in a lonely old age bereft of romantic illusion. Female Quixotism was written during a period of self-definition for the fledgling American republic, and offers a telling glimpse of gender, race, and class issues--as volatile then as they are today. Its woman's-eye view of the life and literature of the age provides a tragicomic parody of the limited choices available to women in a society dedicated to the principle that all men are created equal.

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Early American Anti-Romance.......2002-03-03

Published in 1801, Tabitha Tenney's novel, "Female Quixotism" is at times an amusing, satiric, and profoundly melancholic work. Written in the popular 18th century strain of novels with a moral aesthetic, whose purpose is social and moral corrective, "Female Quixotism" positions itself in the discourse of the dangers of novel reading, especially for young women. While this is its primary function, the narrative also engages with its historical moment, just a few years after the birth of the American nation, "Female Quixotism" addresses America's relationship to increasing numbers of 'foreign' immigrants, the 'problem' of the Native American, and strikingly, the issue of abolishing slavery.

"Female Quixotism" takes place over fifty years, from about 1750 to 1800. Dorcas Sheldon is an only child, who early on loses her mother. Raised and educated by her father, she is entranced throughout her life by British novels, particularly those of Samuel Richardson and Tobias Smollett. This 'turns her head,' if you will, making her believe that the passionate, spontaneous expressions of love and desire found in these novels are the only legitimate basis of love and marriage. She even goes so far as to change her name on her 18th birthday to Dorcasina, thinking it far more romantic. Her father and her neighbours, the Stanlys, along with her waiting maid Betty all try to argue Dorcasina to a more rational kind of love, but are forced to watch her repeatedly make a fool out of herself while men who are either interested in sport or money take advantage of her delusions.

Dorcasina's 'lovers,' particularly O'Connor, James, Philander, 'Montague' and Seymour all use Dorcasina's predilection for high-flown courting language and ridiculous sentimentality against her to achieve their own purposes. As Dorcasina gets progressively older, she begins to appear more and more ludicrous and shameless, a sore trial for her father, one of L____, Pennsylvania's most wealthy and respected inhabitants. Contrasted throughout the novel is one of Dorcasina's neighbours, Harriot Stanly, a bright young woman, who is sent away to study in a private school, with an injunction from her mother never to read a novel, citing Dorcasina as a prime negative example. In the fine picaresque style, following such romps as the immortal "Don Quixote," or Goldsmith's "The Vicar of Wakefield" and so on, "Female Quixotism" lampoons the heroine's wild notions of novels as patterns for life.

Ironically, unlike her male predecessors, Dorcasina and her sidekick, Betty do very little traveling, moving primarily in the novel between their house and a wooded grove in which many of her amorous misadventures begin. The novel's isolationism follows from it's uniquely early-American context. One of the more important issues that "Female Quixotism" handles is the question of marginal people in the new United States, and as in Charles Brockden Brown, one of Tenney's contemporaries, particularly Irish immigrants, while also tackling the Constitution's fictional notion of equality in terms of African-American slavery. Also as in Brown's novels, "Female Quixotism" takes place in an agricultural area outside of Philadelphia, the hub of national activity in the late 18th century. In many ways, "Female Quixotism" can be read as a commentary on the socio-political options and choices facing the new republic - in imagining a household without a male authority figure, "Female Quixotism" tests the viability and vulnerability of a Lockean government though a wholly domestic arena.

A fascinating, entertaning, and often pitiful heroine, cleverly managed anti-romantic storylines, and urgent historical questions make "Female Quixotism" a pivotal early American work of fiction. Tenney's novel is delightful and seriously engaging and should be read by anyone interested in the development of the 18th century novel in general, American fiction in particular, as well as the history of women's education.

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