Neurovirology : Viruses and the Brain (Advances in Virus Research, Volume 56) (Advances in Virus Research)

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This volume is the first in a planned series of thematic volumes for Advances in Virus Research. It covers the etiology, pathogenetic mechanisms, and clincial consequences of human neurotropic viruses. Buchmeier is a virologist, Campbell an immunologist, and both are extremely well known in their fields.

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Knowledgeable discussion of the potential role of viral infections in teratogenic and developmental disorders.
Frank discussion of the role of stress in disease
Behavioural consequences of chronic CNS infection

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Discusses the electrical, photochemical, mechanical, and biomedical properties of these polymers, as well as their unusual behavior at both low and high temperatures. Tells how these polymers can provide solutions to a wide range of engineering problems because of their unusual properties.
Offers a better perspective of accomplishments and new efforts in this field. Serves newcomers and specialists alike in the areas of inorganic and polymer chemistry, materials science, and ceramic chemistry.

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Metal-Containing Polymeric Materials (The Language of Science)

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Metal-Containing Polymeric Materials (The Language of Science)

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''A must for anyone interested in metal-containing polymers and all its aspects.'' ---American Scientist ''Nicely organized...well-written....An excellent shapshot of the current state of this field.'' ---MRS Bulletin, July 1998

Silicon-Containing Polymers (Rsc Special Publications, 166)

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Silicon-Containing Polymers (Rsc Special Publications, 166)

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Within this text, for the first time the synthesis, structural characteristics, physical properties, applications and potential applications of polysiloxanes, polycarbosilanes, polysilazanes, polysilanes, and other silicon-containing polymers are detailed. For years to come this book will be the first point of entry for those seeking to learn about the very significant differences that exist between carbon-based polymers and those with silicon in their backbone.

Synthesis, characteristic, and application of new flame retardant containing phosphorus, nitrogen, and silicon. : An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science

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Synthesis, characteristic, and application of new flame retardant containing phosphorus, nitrogen, and silicon. : An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science
Qiang Li , Pingkai Jiang , and Ping Wei
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From the author: In this study, the novel halogen-free flame retardants (PSiN, A and B), which contain phosphorus, nitrogen, and silicon, have been synthesized. The structure of PSiN-A is characterized by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and proton nuclear magnetic resonance, and its thermal property is studied through thermo gravimetric analysis (TGA). PSiN-A and B were blended with polypropylene(PP) to obtain PP/PSiN composites. The flame-retardant properties of PP/PSiN composites are estimated by Limiting Oxygen Index (LOI) values, and their degradation behaviors are investigated through TGA, under nitrogen from room temperature to 800[degrees]C. The fire performance of PP is improved by PSiN(A or B): the LOI value of PP/PSiN-A reach 26.0 vol% and the char yield is at 27 wt% at 800[degrees]C. The phosphorus in PSiN provides possibility for the PP blends to form char, and the silicon improves the thermal stability of char. The active energies of PSiN and PP are calculated through the method of Horowitz-Metzger. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 46: 344-350, 2006. [c] 2006 Society of Plastics Engineers

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Title: Synthesis, characteristic, and application of new flame retardant containing phosphorus, nitrogen, and silicon.
Author: Qiang Li
Publication: Polymer Engineering and Science (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 46 Issue: 3 Page: 344(7)

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Silicon containing electroconductive polymers and structures made therefrom (SuDoc NAS 1.71:NPO-17826-1-CU)

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Silicon containing electroconductive polymers and structures made therefrom (SuDoc NAS 1.71:NPO-17826-1-CU)
Ganesan Nagasubramanian
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Matrix analytic methods are popular as modeling tools because they give one the ability to construct and analyze a wide class of queuing models in a unified and algorithmically tractable way. The authors present the basic mathematical ideas and algorithms of the matrix analytic theory in a readable, up-to-date, and comprehensive manner. In the current literature, a mixed bag of techniques is used-some probabilistic, some from linear algebra, and some from transform methods. Here, many new proofs that emphasize the unity of the matrix analytic approach are included.

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A Great Book.......2002-08-02

Matrix Analytic Methods (MAM) are great modeling tools that can analyze a variety of stochastic systems in a unified way and in an algorithmically tractable manner. This book is one of the greatest that have been published on queueing theory and stochastic modeling.
This book covers
1. Examples of quasi-birth-and-death (QBD) processes.
2. Phase-type distributions
3. Stationary and non-stationary QBDs
4. Algorithms (from probabilistic reasoning)
5. And many others.
I used this book as a text for my graduate students and it was a real pleasure. Throughout the books, readers will see MAM as an art of modeling and analysis of stochastic systems, not the pile of techniques.
This book is aiming at readers in queueing theory, computer science, OR/MS, statistics, mathematics, and many other related disciplines. This book also serves as the source of bibliography not otherwise easily available.

Queueing Methods: For Services and Manufacturing

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Queueing Methods: For Services and Manufacturing
Randolph W. Hall
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A MUST HAVE.......2000-08-02

If you are studying queueing methods or are an OR practitioner, then make this a mandatory text. If you are using Kleinrock or Gross & Harris, then buy this as a supplement!

This is a "quick and dirty handbook" for queueing! Mr. Hall not only provides you with the basics for understanding waiting line methods, but he also discusses how to design queues that minimize the waiting (time & psychology). I have numerous books on queueing methods (Kleinrock, Gross & Harris, Tanner, etc.); this one is the one to have on your desk!

Superb!!!.......1998-11-13

The title is off-puting to many mathematicians and engineers because it seems narrow. Nonetheless, many have caught on that this is a superb book by a real world practitioner in modeling who has great knowledge of the theory. The eminent queueing expert Ralph Disney gave this book a rave review in The UMAP Journal (of which I am reviews editor) and I myself have used this as a textbook in graduate courses on modeling and simulation. Highly recommended!

Iterative Methods for Queuing and Manufacturing Systems (Springer Monographs in Mathematics)

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Iterative Methods for Queuing and Manufacturing Systems (Springer Monographs in Mathematics)
Wai K. Ching
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Iterative Methods for Queuing and Manufacturing Systems introduces the recent advances and developments in iterative methods for solving Markovian queuing and manufacturing problems.
Key highlights include:
- an introduction to simulation and simulation software packages;
- Markovian models with applications in inventory control and supply chains; future research directions.
With numerous exercises and fully-worked examples, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the formulation and computation of queuing and manufacturing systems but it will be of particular interest to students, practitioners and researchers in Applied Mathematics, Scientific Computing and Operational Research.

Mathematical Methods for Construction of Queueing Models (Wadsworth and Brooks Cole Operations Research Series)

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Mathematical Methods for Construction of Queueing Models (Wadsworth and Brooks Cole Operations Research Series)
Vladimir Kalashnikov
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Mathematical methods in queueing theory: Proceedings of a conference at Western Michigan University, May 10-12, 1973 (Lecture notes in economics and mathematical systems)

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Mathematical methods in queueing theory: Proceedings of a conference at Western Michigan University, May 10-12, 1973 (Lecture notes in economics and mathematical systems)

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Mathematical Methods in Queuing Theory (Mathematics and Its Applications)

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Mathematical Methods in Queuing Theory (Mathematics and Its Applications)
Vladimir V. Kalashnikov
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ASIN: 0792325680

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This volume presents an overview of mathematical methods used in queuing theory, and various examples of solutions of problems using these methods are given. Many of the topics considered are not traditional, and include general Markov processes, test functions, coupling methods, probability metrics, continuity of queues, quantitative estimates in continuity, convergence rate to the stationary state and limit theorems for the first occurrence times. Much attention is also devoted to the modern theory of regenerative processes. Each chapter concludes with problems and comments on the literature cited. For researchers and graduate students in applied probability, operations research and computer science.

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Matrix-Analytic Methods
International Conference on Matrix-Analytic Methods in Stochastic mode , and Guy Latouche
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Monte Carlo Optimization, Simulation and Sensitivity of Queuing Networks

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Monte Carlo Optimization, Simulation and Sensitivity of Queuing Networks
Reuven Y. Rubinstein
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Approximation methods for queues with application to the fixed-cycle traffic light

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Approximation methods for queues with application to the fixed-cycle traffic light
G. F Newell
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A categorized and annotated bibliography to the performance analysis of port operations

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A categorized and annotated bibliography to the performance analysis of port operations
Jose Holguin-Veras
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Acclaimed novelist, Beat godfather, prolific screenwriter, and one of the founders of New Journalism, as well as the only guy to wear shades on the Sgt. Pepper's album cover, Terry Southern was an audacious, outrageous American original. Now Dig This is a wild, uncensored, and hugely entertaining collection that spans the gamut of his stellar career. From an interview with Henry Green during the salad days of The Paris Review, to his account of life neck-high in girls and cocaine aboard the Rolling Stones' tour jet, Now Dig This is a journey through Terry Southern's America, spanning the buttoned-down 1950s through the sexual revolution, and continuing on to his death in 1995. It places Southern's more formal, early short stories alongside the uproarious "Wormball Man" skit he wrote for Saturday Night Live, based on items in the Weekly World News. It collects his Esquire piece covering the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention with Jean Genet and William S. Burroughs and his remembrances of twentieth-century legends like Abbie Hoffman, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and director Stanley Kubrick, with whom he wrote Dr. Strangelove. Now Dig This is a vivid testament from an American literary lion, and a hilarious, engrossing, and enlightening statement on the changing America in which he lived and worked.

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Vile.......2007-07-09

A grave disappointment. I cast myself into the Great Pit of Squaredom, surely, by this judgement, but aside from some isolated good bits, including Southern's notes on working with Kubrick on Strangelove and his interview with Henry Green, this is a poor (unspeakable, indeed!) excuse for a collection--repetitive, full of tiresome hipster tics, willfully and wearyingly perverse, seeking shock for shock's sake, like a child misbehaving to get attention. Do not waste your time or your money on this unfortunate production. Buy a copy of The Magic Christian instead.

Great Fun.......2005-10-11

Terry's son, Nile, has honored his father (and done the rest of us a huge favor) by publishing this collection of the best of Terry's shorter works.

Terry concluded at one point that film had surpassed literature as the communication medium of choice, and devoted most of the rest of his life to that arena. His interview "On Screenwriting" describes both the benefits and the frustrations associated with that choice. His advice is just as relevant to the would-be screenwriter today as it was when he wrote it.

His "Proposed Scene for Kubrick's Rhapsody," and "Plums and Prunes," provide interesting examples of proposed movie scenes that will prove interesting to readers unfamiliar with that arcane art.

As other reviewers have noted, "Grooving in Chi" is an excellent description of the Chicago riots during the Democratic National Convention in 1968.

Finally, pieces like "The Beautiful-Ugly Art of Lotte Lenya," "When Film Gets Good," "Rolling Over Our Nerve-Endings [William Burroughs]," and "Writers at Work [Henry Green]" prove that he could write serious criticism.

Through it all flows that wonderful, irreverent, sense of humor.

Good stuff.

Sex, drugs, rock'n'roll...and the "quality lit game".......2005-03-10

Wow -- here's two hundred fifty pages of wildly unclassifiable, wholly entertaining (and, yes indeed, unspeakable) bits and pieces of Southern's magazine writings, interviews, stories, and routines. A genuine literary anarchist with a wicked wit and an incredible eye for detail -- his Esquire piece on the Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968 is classic eyewitness journalism -- Southern was also a screenwriter (Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove"), a satirist, and an agent provocateur who relished goading people into revealing their true personalities. Along the way, poor E.B. White of The New Yorker comes out the worse for Terry's over-the-top interogration techniques, I'm afraid.

Fueled by booze, pills and powders, Southern swings through the decades not just as an observer but a participant at the center of it all (writer for National Lampoon and SNL, pals with Lennon, the Stones and Burroughs, as well as Kubrick and George Plimpton). It seems there's hardly a scene he doesn't make, including an appearance on the cover of "Sgt. Pepper." The book is filled with newly discovered bits of weirdness -- a lost scene for Kubrick's 1980 draft of "Eyes Wide Shut" then called "Rhapsody," an outrageous SNL sketch idea taken from National Enquirer called "Worm Ball Man," incendiary letters sent to the editors of Ms. Magazine, and a pitch to Lenny Bruce for a part in Southern's adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's "The Loved One" in 1964.

It's easy to romanticize (and criticize) the alcohol and drug-taking frenzy of so much of Southern's work, yet the sheer variety of it all (of which this book is just a part) is amazing, not to mention the amount of "quality lit" he produced. Thanks to Nile Southern and everyone involved in bringing this compilation to print.

He's Too Hip, Baby!.......2001-06-01

It's hard to imagine today, but there once was a time when the simple written word could send shudders of fear and loathing down the spines of mainstream America. And no one gave Mr and Mrs Front Porch USA the shakes more than Terry Southern. His novel "Candy" was banned and branded as pornography before it even reached our shores; his take on the military in "Doc Strangelove" earned him the label "pinko." But, like all great satirists (which he certainly was) know, "telling it like it is" often times means "taking your lumps like a man." And Terry took plenty of lumps, and humps, but never let his trials and tribs get in the way of "making it hot" for people. Although the mighty lions of 60's pop culture are now - alas! - all nearly gone, this volume of previously unseen TS works serves as an excellent reminder of a time when humor meant more than just being funny, and words alone had the power to give people the coniptions. And as "Now Dig This!" reminds us, while Southern took on all comers and suffered no fool gladly, he was a gentle giant who did so whilst nudging us playfully in the ribs - not poking us in the eye. "Now Dig This!" is a great addition to any modern humor library, and a worthy addition to the Southern canon. Bravo.

the long awaited sequel to Red Dirt Marijuana.......2001-06-01

In these heartless consumerist times, irony has become debased. Thus the arrival of this anthology of previously uncollected and unpublished work by Terry Southern is not only a delightful surprise, but profoundly neccesary. Just as his 1967 anthology, Red Dirt Marijuana, proved that Southern was not just the great black humorist of the post-WWII era, but a great short story writer and essayist, so does Now Dig This affirm that status. No one has ever managed to quite duplicate Southern's mastery of so many forms: the letter as put-on, gonzo journalism, literary criticism, screenwriting and short fiction. Southern fans will be delighted at the inclusion of "Heavy Put-Away", a superb essay on Kurt Weill, and reminscences of Stanley Kubrick and Frank O'Hara. For first time readers, I have only envy. Now Dig This will be your all expenses paid ticket to a world of darkness and laughter. To paraphrase Ringo Starr, who acted in adaptations of two Southern novels, Candy and The Magic Christian, Buy a Terry Southern book today. Now Dig This is a very, very good place to start your spending spree.

Terry Southern. Now Dig This: the Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern 1950-1995.(Brief Article): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction

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Terry Southern. Now Dig This: the Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern 1950-1995.(Brief Article): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Brooke Horvath
Manufacturer: Review of Contemporary Fiction
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Title: Terry Southern. Now Dig This: the Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern 1950-1995.(Brief Article)
Author: Brooke Horvath
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2002
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: 22 Issue: 2 Page: 247(1)

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