Fungi and Allied Organisms

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Historically fungi included diverse organisms. In view of the recent developments in their ultra structure, biochemistry and molecular biology, the book provides a fresh look at the status of fungi in the biological world. Unlike traditional textbooks, taxonomic groups of fungi and related organisms studied by mycologists have been reshuffled and assigned positions according to modern scheme of classification. In the light of the advent of genetic manipulation and allied technology, the role of fungi in commercial production of unusual drugs, as hormones and some proteins, is examined. Some recently developed fungal products useful in agriculture, forestry and food industry are also briefly described. Key Features: * A fresh look at status of fungi in living world in the light of recent developments in their hyphal dynamics. * Current scheme of classification and arrangement of various taxonomic groups of fungi. * Account of important taxa of different groups of fungi supported by standard, authentic illustrations. * Ecological groups of fungi inhabiting diverse habitats. * Recent developments in fungal biotechnology examining the role of fungi in industry, agriculture, forestry, medicine and environment. * Important plant diseases caused by fungi, bacteria and viruses. * General account of bacteria and viruses

Protists and disease: Vegetable protists; Algae and Fungi, including Chytridiineae; various Plassomyxinae, the causes of molluscum contagiosum, smallpox, ... with the Myćetozoa and allied groups

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Protists and disease: Vegetable protists; Algae and Fungi, including Chytridiineae; various Plassomyxinae, the causes of molluscum contagiosum, smallpox, ... with the MycÌetozoa and allied groups
James Jackson Clarke
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Presents recent research on supercritical fluids in the generation and prediction of phase behavior, thermodynamics, and transport properties needed to design processes using supercritical fluids. Examines both binary and multicomponent fluids and processes. Covers a broad range of applications in polymers, pharmaceuticals, coal and petroleum products, environmental remediation, and chromatography. Reports recent developments in molecular interactions, modeling, and computer simulations.

Supercritical Fluid Cleaning: Fundamentals, Technology, and Applications (Materials Science and Process Technology Series)

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Supercritical Fluid Cleaning: Fundamentals, Technology, and Applications (Materials Science and Process Technology Series)
John McHardy , and Samuel P. Sawan
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Although super-critial fluid (SCF) technology is now widely used in extraction and purification processes (in the petrochemical, food and pharmaceuticals industries), this book is the first to address the new application of cleaning. The objective is to provide a roadmap for readers who want to know whether SCF technology can meet their own processing and cleaning needs. It is particularly helpful to those striving to balance the requirements for a clean product and a clean environment. The interdisciplinary subject matter will appeal to scientists and engineers in all specialties ranging from materials and polymer sciences to chemistry and physics. It is also useful to those developing new processes for other applications, and references given at the end of each chapter provide links to the wider body of SCF literature.

The book is organized with topics progressing from the fundamental nature of the supercritical state, through process conditions and materials interactions, to economic considerations. Practical examples are included to show how the technology has been successfully applied. The first four chapters consider principles governing SCF processing, detailing issues such as solubility, design for cleanability, and the dynamics of particle removal. The next three chapters discuss surfactants and micro-emulsions, SCF interaction with polymers, and the use of supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) as a cleaning solvent. The closing chapters focus on more practical considerations such as scale-up, equipment costs, and financial analysis.

Many contributors to this book belong to the “Joint Association for the Advancement of SCF Technology” (JAAST). A primary motivation for the formation of JAAST was the growing worldwide need to replace ozone-depleting compounds (ODCs) and smog-forming volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in manufacturing processes. Although aqueous cleaning has been adopted successfully for many applications, water is not a panacea and SCF technology has emerged as a leading alternative.

Supercritical Fluids: Fundamentals and Applications (NATO Science Series E:)

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Supercritical Fluids: Fundamentals and Applications (NATO Science Series E:)

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Supercritical fluids are neither gas nor liquid, but can be compressed gradually from low to high density and they are therefore interesting and important as tunable solvents and reaction media in the chemical process industry. By adjusting the density the properties of these fluids can be customised and manipulated for a given process - physical or chemical transformation. Separation and processing using supercritical solvents such as CO2 are currently on-line commercially in the food, essential oils and polymer industries. Many agencies and industries are considering the use of supercritical water for waste remediation. Supercritical fluid chromatography represents another, major analytical application. Significant advances have recently been made in materials processing, ranging from particle formation to the creation of porous materials. The chapters in this book provide tutorial accounts of topical areas centred around: (1) phase equilibria, thermodynamics and equations of state; (2) critical behaviour, crossover effects; (3) transport and interfacial properties; (4) molecular modelling, computer simulation; (5) reactions, spectroscopy; (6) phase separation kinetics; (7) extractions; (8) applications to polymers, pharmaceuticals, natural materials and chromatography; (9) process scale-up.

Gas Extraction: An Introduction to Fundamentals of Supercritical Fluids and the Application to Separation Processes (Topics in Physical Chemistry)

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Gas Extraction: An Introduction to Fundamentals of Supercritical Fluids and the Application to Separation Processes (Topics in Physical Chemistry)
Gerd Brunner , and G. Brunner
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Application of compressed gases as solvents has found widespread interest within the scientific community. Its processes have industrial applications. Gas Extraction deals with the possibilities of supercritical gases as solvents for separation processes. The volume combines physico-chemical aspects with chemical engineering methods. The text generalizes as far as possible, and treats examples in detail. Gas Extraction covers, for the first time, the subject in textbook form. Most of the examples provide new results that will be helpful for practicing scientists, engineers, and students who want to make use of the techniques.

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Shape interrogation is the process of extraction of information from a geometric model. It is a fundamental component of Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) systems. The authors focus on shape interrogation of geometric models bounded by free-form surfaces. Free-form surfaces, also called sculptured surfaces, are widely used in the bodies of ships, automobiles and aircraft, which have both functionality and attractive shape requirements. Many electronic devices as well as consumer products are designed with aesthetic shapes, which involve free-form surfaces. This book provides the mathematical fundamentals as well as algorithms for various shape interrogation methods including nonlinear polynomial solvers, intersection problems, differential geometry of intersection curves, distance functions, curve and surface interrogation, umbilics and lines of curvature, geodesics, and offset curves and surfaces. This book will be of interest both to graduate students and professionals.

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A powerful tool for CAD/CAM research & development.......2002-10-15

Many excellent books analyze models/methods to represent curves and surfaces in Computer-Aided Design &
Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) systems, but this is the first one focusing on solving some very complex geometric
modeling problems underlying many engineering applications. The authors identify these bottleneck problems,
analyze them in detail, and present state-of-the-art solution algorithms. These important problems are:

"Intersection problems" (Chapters 5 and 6), "Distance calculations" (Chapter 7),
"Curve/Surface Interrogation" (Chapters 8 and 9), "Computation of Shortest Paths" (Chapter 10), and
"Offset Curves and Surfaces" (Chapter 11).

In each one of the above chapters, the corresponding problem is fully analyzed using tools from advanced
Geometric Modeling, Numerical Methods and Differential Geometry, some of which are new results previously
available only in research journals. The authors have done an excellent job in collecting all these results in
a single volume, offering an invaluable tool to CAD/CAM professionals who do not have the time to study
and analyze themselves all this literature.

The solutions proposed go beyond standard tricks and heuristics: the problems are formulated as systems
of nonlinear equations and reliable solution-algorithms are offered based either on standard methods or
on fresh research. Robustness issues (accuracy, treatment of special cases, singularities, etc) are at the center
of discussion guiding the reader on dealing with the most difficult aspects of geometric-software development.

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This book aims to provide a valuable source, which focuses on interdisciplinary methods and affiliate research in the area of Geometric Modeling and Graphics. It aims to provide the user community with a variety of Geometric Modeling techniques, applications, systems and tools necessary for various real life problems in areas such as Designing objects, Medical Visualization, Scientific Data Visualization, Archaeology, Toon Rendering, Virtual Reality, Body Simulation, etc. It also aims to collect and disseminate information from various disciplines including Curve and Surface Fitting, Geometric Algorithms, Scientific Visualization, Shape Abstraction and Modeling, Intelligent CAD Systems, Computational Geometry, Solid Modeling, Shape Analysis and Description, Medical and Industrial Applications. The major goal of this book is to stimulate views and provide a source where researchers and practitioners can find the latest developments in the field of Geometric Modeling and related practical issues. The book is useful for researchers, practicing engineers, computer scientists, and many others who seek state of the art techniques, applications, systems and tools for Geometric Modeling and Graphics. The book will be a useful source of ideas and techniques for those who seek further research and practice in the development and applications of Computer Aided Geometric Modeling. The introduction to various techniques and applications, together with the developed systems and tools, may serve to stimulate the interest of undergraduate senior students as well as graduate students in the areas of Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics. The book consists of twenty-two well documented chapters distributed in three sections of Geometric Modeling Techniques, Applications, Systems and Tools.

Applied Computational Geometry. Towards Geometric Engineering: FCRC '96 Workshop, WACG '96, Philadelphia, PA, May 27 - 28, 1996, Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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Applied Computational Geometry. Towards Geometric Engineering: FCRC '96 Workshop, WACG '96, Philadelphia, PA, May 27 - 28, 1996, Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 354061785X

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This anthology is based on the First ACM Workshop on Applied Computational Geometry, WACG '96, held in Philadelphia, PA, USA, in May 1996, as part of the FCRC Conference.Today, CG is in transition and applied computational geometry has established itself as a fertile meeting ground for theorists from core computational geometry and practitioners from the potential application areas to exchange their ideas and identify issues of common interest. The book presents 11 invited contributions and state-of-the-art reports by leading experts together with 12 refereed full papers selected from 32 submissions. It points the way towards geometrical engineering and addresses researchers and professionals sharing an interest in geometric algorithms and techniques and their use in computational sciences and engineering.

Applied Geometry for Computer Graphics and CAD (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series)

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Good computer graphics text

Applied Geometry for Computer Graphics and CAD (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series)
Duncan Marsh
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Mathematics for Computer Graphics Applications

ASIN: 1852330805

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Focussing on the manipulation and representation of geometrical objects, this book explores the application of geometry to computer graphics and computer-aided design (CAD). New features in this revised and updated edition include: the application of quaternions to computer graphics animation and orientation; discussions of the main geometric CAD surface operations and constructions: extruded, rotated and swept surfaces; offset surfaces; thickening and shelling; and skin and loft surfaces; an introduction to rendering methods in computer graphics and CAD: colour, illumination models, shading algorithms, silhouettes and shadows. Over 300 exercises are included, many of which encourage the reader to implement the techniques and algorithms discussed through the use of a computer package with graphing and computer algebra capabilities. A dedicated website also offers further resources and links to other useful websites.

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Good computer graphics text.......2006-11-04

This text has a novel approach to entry level computer graphics using homogeneous coordinates entirely. I struggled a bit with the use of these representations in perspective transformations. However once I got it I found the derivations and formulas to be easy to get and easy to use. The book has an extensive set of exercises with complete answers. I deducted one star because the theoretical aspects of homogeneous transformations could use expansion and simplification.

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Geometric Modelling: Dagstuhl 2002

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ASIN: 3211208186

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In 19 articles presented by leading experts in the field of geometric modelling the state-of-the-art on representing, modeling, and analyzing curves, surfaces as well as other 3-dimensional geometry is given. The range of applications include CAD/CAM-systems, computer graphics, scientific visualization, virtual reality, simulation and medical imaging. The content of this book is based on selected lectures given at a workshop held at IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. Topics treated are: – curve and surface modelling – non-manifold modelling in CAD – multiresolution analysis of complex geometric models – surface reconstruction – variational design – computational geometry of curves and surfaces – 3D meshing – geometric modelling for scientific visualization – geometric models for biomedical applications

Nurb Curves and Surfaces: From Projective Geometry to Practical Use

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Nurb Curves and Surfaces: From Projective Geometry to Practical Use
Gerald E. Farin
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Geometric Modeling and Processing 2000: Theory and Applications : Proceedings

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Geometric Modeling and Processing 2000: Theory and Applications : Proceedings

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Selma, Martin Luther King, the pitiful biography of Lee Harvey Oswald open this collection of thoughtful and timeless essays. In "Domestic Manners" Hardwick notes that in the 60's the temptations of self-destruction were everywhere.

John Reed, she reports, was a charming American enthusiast of revolution. As a journalist he was able to seize upon the revolutionary moment. (This observation, it strikes me, is ironic.) He was a radical idealist, in short, having been a treasured child of the bourgeoisie. Reed met Bill Haywood in 1913. Haywood had outstanding courage and revolutionary politics.

Reed was noticeable and he was vivid. His uniqueness was precisely fulfilled in his prose. For Reed the October Revolution was pageantry. Louise Bryant met Reed when he was visiting his family in Portland. Reed was a morally attractive man. He was not deep and reflective.

The power of terror speaks most clearly to those who have used it Hardwick states in considering a Lincoln Center production of the play DANTON'S DEATH. The playwright is notable for his existentialism and his alienation.

THE INVESTIGATION is taken from the 1946 testimony of SS men attached to the concentration camp at Auschwitz. The stage is a bare courtroom. A trial is inevitably a case history. Peter Weiss's play is a dream, a sublimation. Hardwick states the New York production of it was not good. Self-loving earnestness is an American curse in her estimation. Shakespeare's TIMON OF ATHENS is about the philanthropy the rich confer upon each other. In distress Timon's servants are loyal but his friends are not.

Simone Weil died of voluntary starvation according to the coroner. For her, willed deprivation was not new. She did not undergo deprivation for a pay-off. She sought to share in the misery of mankind. Her reading of history and culture was enormous. She was inclined to look upon history as alive. She wrote a moving literary essay on the ILLIAD.

In the piece on Thomas Mann Hardwick says that he was never young. The achievement of his youth was BUDDENBROOKS. As an artist Mann was steady. All his life Mann studied to understand the great artist. Mann had the rare gift of creating characters out of ideas. Homoerotic currents are strong in his writing.

In the title essay Hardwick points to Bartleby's reduction of language to essence. Melville's brothers were lawyers in the vicinity of Wall Street. Bartleby is found to be living in the office day and night. Hardwick's writing is so clear and so forceful she makes ideas previously considered exciting once again. I cannot think of a better essayist.

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Bartleby in Manhattan & Other Ess Signed
Elizabeth Hardwick
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Bartleby in Manhattan and Other Essays
Elizabeth Hardwick
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Bartleby in Manhattan
Elizabeth Hardwick
Manufacturer: Random House, 1983
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Bartleby in Manhattan and Other Essays.

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Bartleby in Manhattan and Other Essays.
Elizabeth Hardwick
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