Fungal Biology: Understanding the Fungal Lifestyle

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Revised and updated in accordance with changing undergraduate course requirements, this new edition continues to provide a concise introduction to the fundamental properties and activities of fungi in their natural environment. This approach avoids the repetition of taxonomy and life cycle studies found in similar texts. The environmental perspective used to illustrate the book helps readers develop their understanding of basic principles.

This is the ideal book for students taking introductory mycology courses and for graduates starting to use fungi in their research.

"...deserves a prominent place on the student reading lists, and can be recommended to mycologists and non-mycologists alike as a stimulating insight into the fungal lifestyle". Plant Growth Regulation

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This book is a dense review and overview of various aspects of fungal biology. In the foreword, the authors note that the book is intended for first and second year (university) students in biology (in Europe). The book is divided into three sections: the fungal lifestyle, including hyphae, mycelium, and substrate; the environment, including water, oxygen, light, temperature, and competition; and reproduction, including trophophase to idiophase, nuclear relationships, spores, germination, and interactions with man (sic). Some of the chapters, like the one on hyphae, are relatively extensive, and others, like the chapters in the environment section are only a few pages long and give just the briefest overview. As might be expected, the text is amply illustrated with photographs, drawings, diagrams, and charts. There is a 4-page glossary at the beginning of the book, a classification scheme at the end of the book, a 4-page list of references for further readings, and an index. There are no study questions or suggested projects.

I approached this book after taking an introductory course in biology and an introductory course in botany. If I had not taken the botany course, I think this book would have been very difficult slogging indeed, since readers are assumed from the start to have a firm grasp of the life cycles of organisms that use spores for reproduction. I found the section on hyphae particularly illuminating compared to other material that I have read about mycology- -before reading this book, I thought the hyphae were simply mysterious tubes or filaments that fungi used for some unknown purpose. On the other hand, the section in this book on the mycelium left me scratching my head. Many other sections weren't exactly beginner friendly; for example, there is very little in-text explanation of terminology. If a term is unfamiliar, students are presumably expected to look it up in the glossary or use some other resource- -or else they should approach the text with a few more botany or mycology courses under their belts than I had. Overall, I think the book might be a good choice for a concise review of the mycology field; it might also be a good source for dipping in to for readings on specific topics like hyphae. But there are a number of alternative textbooks that might be better choices for a general introduction to mycology.

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This digital document is an article from Polymer Engineering and Science, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on January 1, 2000. The length of the article is 3213 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Conductive Composites of UHMWPE and Ceramics Based on the Segregated Network Concept.(ultra high molecular weight polyethylene)
Author: J. Bouchet
Publication: Polymer Engineering and Science (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: 40 Issue: 1 Page: 36

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Critical assessment of methods for evaluating J-integral for a medical grade ultra high molecular weight polyethylene.: An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science

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Critical assessment of methods for evaluating J-integral for a medical grade ultra high molecular weight polyethylene.: An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science
R.S. Pascaud , W.T. Evans , P.J.J. McCullagh , and D. Fitzpatrick
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This digital document is an article from Polymer Engineering and Science, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 5462 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Various methods for the evaluation of the critical J-integral [J.sub.Ic] based on the standard ASTM E813-89 are analyzed by conducting investigations on a ductile medical grade ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMW-PE) at room temperature. Differences in [J.sub.Ic] reaching almost 50% were recorded between the methods investigated. The controversy surrounding the construction of the crack blunting line is discussed in terms of the stretch zone width together with the size requirements of ASTM E813-89. The findings of this investigation suggest that an R-curve construction based on mid-thickness crack growth and ultimate tensile strength (UTS) combined with a blunting line of slope m = 2 and modified exclusion lines provides consistent and conservative [J.sub.Ic] values. Using this technique, a near plane strain value, smaller than previously published data, of 66.5 kJ/[m.sup.2] was obtained at 23 [degrees] C.

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Title: Critical assessment of methods for evaluating J-integral for a medical grade ultra high molecular weight polyethylene.
Author: R.S. Pascaud
Publication: Polymer Engineering and Science (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1997
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Numerical Inversion Techniques in the Recovery of Molecular Weight Distribution Expressed in Different Transformed Domains. Experimental Validation.(Statistical ... from: Polymer Engineering and Science

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A. Brandolin , M. Asteasuain , C. Sarmoria , A. Lopez-rodriguez , K.s. Whiteley , and B. Del Amo Fernandez
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This digital document is an article from Polymer Engineering and Science, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on July 1, 2001. The length of the article is 6821 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Numerical Inversion Techniques in the Recovery of Molecular Weight Distribution Expressed in Different Transformed Domains. Experimental Validation.(Statistical Data Included)
Author: A. Brandolin
Publication: Polymer Engineering and Science (Refereed)
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Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Stochastic Mechanics, Corfu, Greece, 17-19 September 1991.

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Computational Stochastic Mechanics in a Meta-Computing Perspective

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Computational Stochastic Mechanics (CSM) may be clearly identified as a new and strong trend in modern Structural Analysis. Due to the advent of accessible High Performance Computing technology, CSM is migrating from the academic community to the industry. Monte Carlo methods in particular, due to their generality and intrinsic parallelism, are establishing new standards and breaking new grounds in modern engineering practice. Although the Monte Carlo methods date back to the forties, their industrial applicability is becoming viable nearly half a century later thanks to supercomputing technology. Meta-Computing constitutes the ideal and natural platform for Monte Carlo-based CSM. Meta-Computers, i.e. agglomerates of networked computers, provide formidable computing power that may be easily harnessed by Monte Carlo-type applications. The PROMENVIR system, developed by an international R&D Consortium with financial support of the European Commission, offers a unique industrial platform for CSM applications of high industrial relevance. This book gathers extended versions of selected papers presented at the First International Workshop on Stochastic Mechanics in the industry celebrated on the 5-6th March, 1997 in Turin, Italy. The selected papers provide a general overview of the main industrial applications that Monte Carlo techniques enable to attack with considerable success. These range from automative crash to satellite dynamics, from stochastic multi-physics to multi-scale problems. A chapter on the basic theoretical aspects of Monte Carlo Methods closes the book and turns it into a self-contained text on the industrial applicability of computational stochastic mechanics.

Error Estimation and Adaptive Discretization Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics

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This book considers recent developments in numerical error estimation and adaptive discretization for finite element and finite volume methods with particular attention given to discretization methods used frequently in computational fluid dynamics. The volume consists of six detailed articles by leading specialists covering a range of topics including a posteriori error estimation of functionals, one- and two-sided error bounds, error indicators for ad aptivity, and nd geometrical aspects of adaptive mesh refinement. This book should be of interest to readers actively working in the field as well as readers seeking a comprehensive introduction to the topic.

Fuzzy Randomness: Uncertainty in Civil Engineering and Computational Mechanics (Engineering Online Library)

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The subject of the book is the comprehensive consideration of uncertainty in the numerical analysis, the safety assessment, and the design of structures. Stochastic as well as non-stochastic uncertainty is treated on the basis of the superordinated uncertainty model fuzzy randomness. This new uncertainty model contains the special cases of real valued random variables and fuzzy variables and permits to take account of both uncertainty characteristics simultaneously. The book introduces to the problem of uncertainty and provides a current survey of relevant uncertainty models and their application in civil engineering. The necessary, special mathematical basics of the fuzzy set theory and the theory of fuzzy random variables are explained in an engineering manner and illustrated by way of examples. Basic ideas and methods for appropriately quantifying uncertain structural parameters are presented and demonstrated by means of characteristic examples. For processing uncertainty in structural analysis, safety assessment, and structural design completely new algorithms are introduced and described in detail as fuzzy structural analysis, fuzzy probabilistic safety assessment, and fuzzy cluster design. The application of the new methods is demonstrated for selected examples from civil engineering, their essential advantages are emphasized. For the first time this represents a coherent, overall concept for considering uncertainty in civil engineering.

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The treatment of uncertainties in the analysis of engineering structures remains one of the premium challenges in modern structural mechanics. It is only in recent years that the developments in stochastic and deterministic computational mechanics began to be synchronized. To foster these developments, novel computational procedures for the uncertainty assessment of large finite element systems are presented in this monograph. The stochastic input is modeled by the so-called Karhunen-Loève expansion, which is formulated in this context both for scalar and vector stochastic processes as well as for random fields. Particularly for strongly non-linear structures and systems the direct Monte Carlo simulation technique has proven to be most advantageous as method of solution. The capabilities of the developed procedures are demonstrated by showing some practical applications.

Computational Stochastic Mechanics: First International Conference on Computational Stochastic Methods

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A method for analysis of non-linear vibrations caused by modulated random excitation (Texas Institute for Computational Mechanics. TICOM report)

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On the statistics of the amplitude of oscillator response to random excitation with evolutionary power spectrum, (Texas Institute for Computational Mechanics. TICOM report)

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