Spatiotemporal Models of Population and Community Dynamics

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This book presents a comprehensive typology and a comprehensible description of spatiotemporal models used in population dynamics. The main types included are: reaction-diffusion systems, patch models, matapopulation approaches, host parasitoid models, cellular automata (interacting particle systems), tessellations and distance models. The models are introduced through examples and with informative verbal explanations to help understanding. Some of the cellular automation examples are models not yet published elsewhere. Possible extensions of certain model types are suggested.

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Aqueous polymer dispersions are environmentally friendly and therefore they have replaced in many applications polymers dissolved in organic solvents. This substitution process is still ongoing.

This book discusses the world of aqueous polymer dispersions from the viewpoint of how they are applied. For a better understanding it starts with a general description of the synthesis of polymer dispersions and their characterization. The following chapters are dedicated to a wide variety of applications, including history, modern processes, and typical formulations and performance.

The selection and the usage of a polymer dispersion are not uniform around the world because of historical and regional differences of the technical developments and marketing demands. Leading scientists from industry contributed to this book ensuring that practical issues are emphasized.

Water-Soluble Synthetic Polymers: Properties and Behavior, Volume II

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Water-Soluble Synthetic Polymers: Properties and Behavior, Volume II
Philip Molyneux
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Water-Soluble Resins, Second Edition: An Industrial Guide

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Water-Soluble Resins, Second Edition: An Industrial Guide
Ernest W. Flick
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ASIN: 0815512740

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The second edition of this popular industrial guide contains descriptions of more than 1100 currently available water-soluble resins, supplied by 47 manufacturers or distributors of these products. Both natural and synthetic resins are described, including cellulose ethers; collagens, gelatins; natural gums; and synthetic resins, their dispersions, emulsions, and solutions. Only the most recent information has been included. The book lists the following Product Information, as available, in the manufacture's own words: Company Name, Product Category, Trade Name and Product Number, Product Description. The book also contains a Trade Name Index, a Resin Index, and a list of Suppliers' Addresses.

Water-Soluble Polymers: Beauty with Performance (Advances in Chemistry Series)

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Water-Soluble Polymers: Beauty with Performance (Advances in Chemistry Series)

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Brings together the diverse experience of those working with and using water-soluble polymers. Gives a detailed description of important advances in inversion emulsion polymerization of synthetic water-soluble monomers. Reports on the tremendous increase in research and the state-of-the-art in fundamental concepts and application performance of water-soluble polymers. Looks at the solution properties of some important carbohydrate polymers, and examines recent developments in the characterization of water-soluble polymers by chromatographic and NMR techniques.

Water-Soluble Polymers: Solution Properties and Applications

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Water-Soluble Polymers: Solution Properties and Applications

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ASIN: 0306459310

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Proceedings of a Symposium Sponsored by the Colloid and Surface Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society held in Las Vegas, Nevada, September 7-11, 1997

Associative Polymers in Aqueous Media (Acs Symposium Series)

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Associative Polymers in Aqueous Media (Acs Symposium Series)

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The focus of this volume is on surface active agents and their applications, including: coatings, detergents, water treatment, and petroleum recovery. It is an update on this area of significant industrial importance and includes reviews of work done in areas such as ethelyene oxide block copolymers, acrylic acid block copolymers, living free radical polymerizations, HMPAM and HEURs in flow, and fluorescence studies of associative thickeners, among others.

Chemistry and Technology of Water-Soluble Polymers

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Chemistry and Technology of Water-Soluble Polymers

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Handbook of Industrial Water Soluble Polymers

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Handbook of Industrial Water Soluble Polymers

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Natural and synthetic water soluble polymers are used in a wide range of familiar industrial and consumer products, including coatings and inks, papers, adhesives, cosmetics and personal care products. They perform a variety of functions without which these products would be significantly more expensive, less effective or both.Written for research, development and formulation chemists, technologists and engineers at graduate level and beyond in the fine and specialty chemicals, polymers, food and pharmaceutical industries, the Handbook of Industrial Water Soluble Polymers deals specifically with the functional properties of both natural and synthetic water soluble polymers. By taking a function based approach, rather than a "polymer specific " approach the book illustrates how polymer structure leads to effect, and shows how different polymer types can be employed to achieve appropriate product properties.

Hydrophilic Polymers: Performance with Environmental Acceptance (Advances in Chemistry Series)

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Hydrophilic Polymers: Performance with Environmental Acceptance (Advances in Chemistry Series)

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ASIN: 0841231338

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Reviews the recent developments in the behavior of surfactant modified, water-soluble polymers in aqueous solutions. Discusses the use of water-soluble polymers in biodegradable and biological systems and the development of unique hydrogels and new nonassociative water-soluble polymers. Valuable reading for polymer chemists and engineers interested in personal care products, coatings, and detergents, as well as scientists interested in petroleum recovery and water treatment.

Polymers in Aqueous Media: Performance Through Association (Advances in Chemistry Series)

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Polymers in Aqueous Media: Performance Through Association (Advances in Chemistry Series)

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This new volume is the first systematic review of surfactant-modified, water-soluble polymers. The authors, representing leaders in their fields, offer practical information about associative thickeners and polymer surfactants, including spectroscopic and rheological analysis of these water-soluble polymers in aqueous solutions. In addition, aqueous gels of varying chemical types are studied with respect to their properties in numerous applications. Among the topics covered are: aqueous gels; surfactant-modified, water-soluble polymers; polyelectrolyte synthesis; elongational viscosity; and fluorescence phenomena of water-soluble polymers.

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Excellent Leftovers

rummaging to put together one last [?] book by Feynman

Feynmann on Physics

Most useful book

Tips, and much more

Feynman's Tips on Physics: A Problem-Solving Supplement to the Feynman Lectures on Physics
Richard P. Feynman , Michael A. Gottlieb , and Ralph Leighton
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics including Feynman's Tips on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition

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Feynman's Thesis: A New Approach to Quantum Theory

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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

ASIN: 0805390634

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This new volume contains four previously unpublished lectures that Feynman gave to students preparing for exams. With characteristic insight and humor, Feynman discusses topics readers struggle with and offers valuable tips on solving physics problems. Exercises and answers by R. B. Leighton and R. E. Vogt are also included, along with an illuminating memoir by Matthew Sands. For all readers interested in physics.

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Excellent Leftovers.......2007-09-15

Different parts of this book will appeal to different readers.
There is a lot of information about how the book came to be published, providing insight into Feynman's style.
There are the actual lectures, delivered mostly to students that were having trouble in the physics class, including the observation, mentioned in another review, that half the students have to be below average, even at Cal Tech.
These can help you improve your physical intuition.
There is a lecture on applied physics, covering gyroscopes and accelerometers
in navigation systems.
The numerical coefficients have probably been improved since then,
but the presentation is excellent.
There is also a collection of problems to practice on.
These seemed much better, much more realistic, much more interesting, than those I solved as a physics minor decades ago.

I hope a culinary analogy will help potential readers understand this book.
Yes this book is a bunch of leftovers.
Some chef's leftovers are better than most cooks' best efforts.
Feynman was a master chef in physics.

rummaging to put together one last [?] book by Feynman.......2007-06-04

Sometimes when a prominent author dies, his estate might authorise someone to go through his notes. In the hope of finding unpublished material that is of enough quality to be published. This could necessitate some editorial or extra authorial assistance. Think perhaps of fiction authors. Where final stories trickle out in the years after their deaths.

Precisely the case here. The 2 other authors of this book, Gottlieb and Leighton, have rummaged through Feynman's records, and found these 4 "lost" lectures. In case you're wondering, his 2 children have approved this venture. As perhaps the last new book you are likely to see with Richard Feynman's name on it.

Of the chapters, the most interesting is really the introduction, that describes the circumstances by which the book came about. The actual physics is well done, of course. But this is not one of Feynman's major works. Let's be clear about it. Think of it as marginalia. An addendum to his Lectures on Physics.

The cover's photo shows him as young and in good health. Unlike when I saw him in his last years, ravaged by cancer.

Feynmann on Physics.......2007-05-14

Firstly, ANYTHING by Richard Feynman is compulsive reading. Having said that I was a little bit disappointed because I was expecting some personal tips on his math techniqes. There is an interesting approach to differentiation and some stuff on numerical integration. There is a great deal on gyroscopes. There is a common sense homily to those who have to face the fact that SOMEONE has to be in the lower quartile of a class, and not to get disturbed by this statistical fact. For the few dollars it costs it is well worth it !

Most useful book.......2007-01-11

I found this book extremely useful and enjoyable to read. I suggest reading this book before starting to read Feynman Lectures.

Tips, and much more.......2007-01-03

Feynman is one of my favorite authors, along with scientists like Gould and Dawkins. I own and have read most of his books, including his lectures on physics. I particularly like his way of teaching, and the way he puts explanations at the student's level. I've spent too much time around bellicose instructors who mistook for knowledge a vocabulary full of multi-syllable words and long tortured sentences; Feynman is their antithesis.

Ralph Leighton and Michael A. Gottlieb are co-authors of "Feynman's Tips on Physics." In addition to editorial work associated with assembling Feynman's lectures, Leighton wrote the Forward, and Gottlieb the Introduction. There's also a Memoir by Matthew Sands describing the origins of the Feynman Lectures on Physics. Leighton and Gottlieb hunted for and found the (nearly lost) tapes and photographs and were the ones who negotiated (for about 5 years) with Caltech, the Feynman heirs and Addison-Wesley to arrange the book's execution. They also edited and illustrated the book.

Feynman's lectures in this book had their genesis in his concern, and among scientists and educators at Caltech, regarding the way they were teaching physics. Feynman's lectures in "Tips on Physics" came about as a consequence of Feynman giving additional help to students, particularly those who were having trouble keeping up. There's more to the book than Feynman's lectures, however, including Matt Sands memoir, and exercises in chapter 5.

While Gottlieb and Leighton are co-authors of "Tips," the part I liked best was purely Feynman. My thanks go to them primarily for making Feynman's teachings more accessible through their historical research into archived material. One of the things I like best about Feynman is his sense of humor. Take, for example, this snippet from page 17:

"...we've found a very serious problem [with grading]: no matter how carefully we select the mean, no matter how patiently we make the analysis, when they [the incoming students at Caltech] get here something happens: it always turns out that approximately half of them are below average!"

This was part of Feynman's explanation to the struggling students, explaining that even though they had been the best and brightest in their high schools, when they all came together half of them were going to be below average for the first time in their lives.

I consider "Tips on Physics" to be a good book, but it's probably the book I like least of all those devoted to Feynman's work. I suppose part of the reason is that the book isn't composed in a particularly logical way, and doesn't flow naturally from foundational concepts to derived topics. That's probably due to the circumstances in which the book was written; it's something of a hodgepodge of lectures given to struggling students, combined with material from the other authors in a form that doesn't flow as well as I'd like, with topics bounce around a bit.

Subjects include vectors (adding, subtracting, line, etc.) and the laws of gravity and motion. There are also solved problems that show how to use these various concepts. The end of the book consists of somewhat lengthy and quite interesting discussions about dynamics, including practical uses of gyroscopes and accelerometers. There's interesting practical material here, including the use of gyroscopes in stabilizing various platforms, and navigational systems using gyroscopes and accelerometers (see figure 4-21 on page 116).

The discussions about gyroscopes were the most interesting to me. These devices represent some of the most amazing mechanical inventions/designs of all time. Combined with accelerometers they form a complete navigational system. Such systems were critically important during the cold war, and were closely guarded secrets, since they were essential for targeting and delivery of nuclear weapons - both by intercontinental ballistic missiles as well as bombers. For example, on page 117 the book explains that an error of just 10^-5 g results, after integrating twice over an hour, in a positional error of over half a kilometer. Integrating twice for 10 hours increases the error to 50 kilometers.

Even though this isn't Feynman's best work I enjoyed it very much and consider it well worth reading.

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Once Emily Miller thought that losing her boyfriend Declan would be the worst thing that could happen. Of course, that was before she learned that the lowlife cad had secretly mortgaged their dream house, run up their shared debts . . . and posted a picture of her on the internet that would make a rugby team blush. Still, she is coping masterfully, despite losing her home and her dignity -- until the local newspapers get wind of the story . . .

So here she is -- homeless, jobless, loverless . . . and scandalous at thirty-two. Her best friend Cara thinks yoga, aromatherapy, and the perfect potion will turn Emily's karma around. Why not, Emily figures. It might help to attract that handsome stranger she's just barely met. Either that, or she'll hunt down the elusive Mr. Right herself. After all, there isn't much else that could possibly go wrong . . .

And sometimes, when you've got absolutely nothing left to lose . . . that's when you get everything you ever wanted!

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Not worth it!.......2007-05-21

The plot was cheesy and unsophisticated. I could barely finish the book, whereas that was also the most disappointing of all.

This only works in fairy tales and Meg Ryan movies........2005-11-11

I liked this book a lot until the last page. It's hilarious and occasionally poignant and a fun, light read.

But it was the last page that killed it for me. I was disappointed, reading it and realizing it *was* the last page, and that the closest I was going to get to a happy ending was that the female lead and the male lead exchanged a few words. Their eventual romance was built up throughout the entire book, only to come to a screeching halt just when it might have been going somewhere. Meeting twice and saying two words to each other does not a love story make, no matter how much I like the characters. I would have liked to see them interact more with one another. When I go looking for a love story, I want to see the characters actually fall in love.

Coupling.......2005-09-28

This reminded me of the TV series Coupling. Not the tepid American remake, but the original British series with its slapstick situations and witty dialogue. The plot is a comedy of errors, with the reader aware of all the entanglements, while the main character continues to have obstacles put in the way of her happiness. There are lots of humorous situations and the read is made more enjoyable with the wonderful anticipation of what's going to happen next and who will she end up with?.

Over the top humor.......2005-09-16

I read "For Better, For Worse," first and didn't really like it. The ending was cheesy, Matt did not deserve Josie, and just missing each other in every scene by seconds got annoying. Although, there are a lot of similarities between "Bare Necessity" and "For Better, For Worse," (missing each other, the author's need to be "humorous" in every other sentence) I enjoyed this novel a lot more.

WHY you ask? The plot was crazier, more over-the-top, and the characters were more likable. Adam could be a little daft when it comes to romantic situations but he's sweet and the scenes with his son are cute. Emily IS daft and should have immediately hired a lawyer to sue Declan and called the bank to get her money back (hasn't she ever heard that signing a document because of fraud, false pretenses, or by force, can mean the document is void) but she is likeable and funny in a bumbly way. Cara is strange but a good friend to Emily and is a unique character.

Another thing I liked about the novel is when I started it, I expected certain characters to end up with each other but they didn't. While the author had several scenes that involved just missing each other it was not used excessively as in "For Better, for Worse." And I enjoyed the end, when the son realized who Emily was. I thought that was the most comical part of the novel.

Could things get any worse for the protaganist?.......2005-05-24

Emily is distraught when she finds out that her boyfriend Declan, head of several dot.com companies has just started a porn site, and has posted suggested holiday photos of her dubbing her "Saucy Santa." She is mortified, as the photos were meant for his eyes only.

Soon she discovers that this is not his only betrayal. He has also mortgaged their home, depleted her savings accounts, and as a result of his internet doings, has managed to get her fired from her job as a teacher.

With no home, no job, no money, and no man, she turns to best pal Cara, a reporter. Cara's co-workers have all seen the photos and soon her paper creates media buzz by identifying Emily (which results in her inability to get another teaching position) in an article. Cara has her own problems - she is nursing a crush for her co-worker, photographer Alex, a single father contemplating custody of his pre-teen son.

While trying to turn her life around, she is soon signed with a publicist who arranges for her to attend several local events. She spots a man there that takes her breath away, but unfortunately, they never have the chance to actually meet. Unbeknownst to Emily, the man in question is Alex.

It is through a series of miscommunication and misunderstandings that events unfold, as Emily struggles with the newfound fame that has been thrust upon her, and her desire for her anonymity restored. I loved the characters, except for Declan - would have loved to see him hung out to dry. It is an engaging story, and I was rooting for Emily to find Mr. Right all along.

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Bare Necessities
Jemma Wayne
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Bare Necessities (Harlequin Blaze)
Marie Donovan
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The Bare Necessities of Faith
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Bare Necessities of Life
Christian Aid
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The Bare Necessities of Spiritual Authority

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David Adams
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Bare Necessities: Healthy, Beautiful Skin from Head to Toe

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Bare Necessities: Healthy, Beautiful Skin from Head to Toe

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Bare Necessity
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Bare Necessity
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Au naturale: the bare necessities for breaking into pure, pesticide-free world of backyard organic gardening.(GARDENING): An article from: Mississippi Magazine

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Au naturale: the bare necessities for breaking into pure, pesticide-free world of backyard organic gardening.(GARDENING): An article from: Mississippi Magazine
Nancy Elizabeth Goodman
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Author: Nancy Elizabeth Goodman
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