Plant Functional Types: Their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties and Global Change (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Book Series)
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    When predicting the effects of changing climate and carbon dioxide on plants at the global scale there is a major stumbling block--we have very little information, in many cases none, about how plants will respond in the future. In order to circumvent this problem, and until more information on species accumulates, we reduce the diversity of species to a diversity of functions and structures. The structures may be trees, shrubs, herbs and grasses. The functions may be types of photosynthetic processes, the capacity to minimize water loss and varying the timing of growth. This book describes approaches and methods for defining these functional types in ways that maximize our potential to predict accurately the responses of real vegetation with real species diversity. This book will be useful to those interested in botany, ecology, and environmental science.

    Fluorescent Energy Transfer Nucleic Acid Probes: Designs And Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology) (Methods in Molecular Biology)
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      Fluorescent Energy Transfer Nucleic Acid Probes: Designs And Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology) (Methods in Molecular Biology)

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      The first comprehensive treatment of energy transfer (ET) nucleic acid probes. Hands-on experts thoroughly describe all the major probes, both fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based and non-FRET-based, and provide a complete set of techniques to monitor DNA and RNA reactions, including hybridization, amplification, cleavage, folding, and associations with proteins, other molecules, and metal ions. Optimal design strategies for customized ET probes are presented, as well as techniques for distance determination in protein-DNA complexes and the detection of topological DNA alterations, mutations, DNA breaks and single nucleotide polymorphisms. Merging work on nanotechnology, and fluorescent probes, authors describe in detail the design and application of ET-using molecular devices, such as biosensors, molecular machines, and logic gates for molecular scale computation.
      Energy and Information Transfer in Biological Systems: How Physics Could Enrich Biological Understanding, Proceedings of the International Workshop Acireale, Catania, Italy 18 - 22 September 2002
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        This volume contains papers based on the workshop "Energy and Information Transfer in Biological Systems: How Physics Could Enrich Biological Understanding", held in Italy in 2002. The meeting was a forum aimed at evaluating the potential and outlooks of a modern physics approach to understanding and describing biological processes, especially regarding the transition from the microscopic chemical scenario to the macroscopic functional configurations of living matter. In this frame some leading researchers presented and discussed several basic topics, such as the photon interaction with biological systems also from the viewpoint of photon information processes and of possible applications; the influence of electromagnetic fields on the self-organization of biosystems including the nonlinear mechanism for energy transfer and storage; and the influence of the structure of water on the properties of biological matter.
        Adenine Nucleotides in Cellular Energy Transfer and Signal Transduction (Molecular and Cell Biology Updates)
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          Advances in Energy Transfer Processes
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            Advances in Energy Transfer Processes
            Baldassase Di Bartolo
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            Charge and Energy Transfer Dynamics in Molecular Systems
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              Volkhard May , and Oliver Kühn
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              This second edition is based on the successful concept of the first edition in presenting a unified perspective on molecular charge and energy transfer processes. The authors bridge the regimes of coherent and dissipative dynamics, thus establishing the connection between classic rate theories and modern treatments of ultrafast phenomena. The book serves as an introduction for graduate students and researchers.

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              More illustrating examples as well as an enlarged reference list are added. A new chapter gives an introduction into the theory of laser pulse control of molecular transfer processes.
              Davydov's Soliton Revisited: Self-Trapping of Vibrational Energy in Protein (NATO Science Series: B:)
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                Energy Localisation and Transfer (Advanced Series in Nonlinear Dynamics)
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                  This book provides an introduction to localised excitations in spatially discrete systems, from the experimental, numerical and mathematical points of view. Also known as discrete breathers, nonlinear lattice excitations and intrinsic localised modes, these are spatially localised time periodic motions in networks of dynamical units. Examples of such networks are molecular crystals, biomolecules, and arrays of Josephson superconducting junctions. The book also addresses the formation of discrete breathers and their potential role in energy transfer in such systems.
                  Energy Storage and Redistribution in Molecules
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                    Energy Transfer in Macromolecules (Press Monographs)
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                      N. L. Vekshin
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                      Excitation Energy Transfer Processes in Condensed Matter: Theory and Applications (Physics of Solids and Liquids)
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                        Jai Singh
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                        Applying a unified quantum approach, contributors offer fresh insights into the theoretical developments in the excitation energy transfer processes in condensed matter. This comprehensive volume examines Frenkel and Wannier excitonic processes; rates of excitonic processes; theory of laser sputter and polymer ablation; and polarons, excitonic polarons and self-trapping.

                        Quantum Mechanics: A Modern Development
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                        • Look out, Sakurai
                        • Very Good book - that gives diffrent ides to Quantum Mechanics
                        • excellent QM text
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                        • wonderful treatment
                        Quantum Mechanics: A Modern Development
                        Leslie E. Ballentine
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                        ASIN: 9810227078

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                        Although there are many textbooks that deal with the formal apparatus of quantum mechanics (QM) and its application to standard problems, none take into account the developments in the foundations of the subject which have taken place in the last few decades. There are specialized treatises on various aspects of the foundations of QM, but none that integrate those topics with the standard material. This book aims to remove that unfortunate dichotomy, which has divorced the practical aspects of the subject from the interpretation and broader implications of the theory.

                        The book is intended primarily as a graduate level textbook, but it will also be of interest to physicists and philosophers who study the foundations of QM. Parts of it could be used by senior undergraduates too.

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                        5 out of 5 stars Look out, Sakurai.......2006-09-10

                        Did Griffiths leave a fog in your head? Are you tired of trying to read sections on the formalism of quantum mechanics that don't even mention Hilbert spaces or Riesz's Representation Theorem? Did the typesetting in Sakurai traumatize your children? And doesn't it just burn you when you're trying to take a class on quantum mechanics and the Dirac notation isn't even used until you're at least half-way through the book? Ballentine is here to fix all of that. This book is exactly what we've needed for years. The relevant mathematics are developed and proofs are given for important results. Modern developments in the physics make up the motivation for the text, but the notation is streamlined and the typesetting makes it readable, making this book an excellent possible replacement for Sakurai. More than that, because the book assumes an undergraduate background in quantum mechanics, the examples and topics are practical and realistic. Ballentine takes every opportunity to anticipate misunderstandings in the theory and misinterpretations of the theory. It's refreshing to find a book that treats both the mathematics and physics of quantum mechanics with equal and exacting rigor. I would emphatically recommend this book as an alternative for physics instructors who are thinking about using Sakurai for their text, and for anyone who feels that their quantum mechanical education was a little too faith-based.

                        5 out of 5 stars Very Good book - that gives diffrent ides to Quantum Mechanics.......2006-03-09

                        Very Good book - that gives diffrent Sides to Quantum Mechanics. Please advise for continue books for that book.

                        5 out of 5 stars excellent QM text.......2005-05-04

                        I'm writing to lend support to the above positive reviews. I found Ballentine's approach clear and straightforward, but I had already taken an undergraduate QM course before reading this text. Thorough attention is devoted to foundational details. The discussions of measurement and interpretation cleared up some confusing misconceptions I acquired from Griffith's text.

                        The text seems to lack in the simple, idealized examples common in introductory texts. I think this is an advantage for an advanced text but may make it more difficult as an introductory text.

                        5 out of 5 stars This book will be a classic.......2003-11-06

                        This it's the best book on QM Who I read ever, I'm A Bch student of physics, and I readed many book on this subject, but always the authors just put some results from some stupid arguments like "It's Natural". In this case the author just give mathematical and very deep physical arguments in every step of the development of the QM theory.
                        It's the Clearest book on the subject and it's not hard to read, I strongly recomend read the hole book, after this you adquire a very deep knowlowedge of the theory, of the nature, and lot of tools to solve any QM problem. Congratulations Dr Ballentine you really do an excelent Job

                        5 out of 5 stars wonderful treatment.......2003-04-13

                        This is a great book. Mathematically accurate and very precise. No bologne. I loved it. The only bummer is that it doesn't treat some experimentally useful topics (decay of states, e.g.) but it's a great book to learn from.
                        The Conceptual Development of Quantum Mechanics (The History of Modern Physics 1880-1950, Vol 12)
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                          Ann Vickers (Collier reprint)
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                            Volume from set of Sinclair Lewis' works published by Collier in matched bindings.
                            Ann Vickers (Bison Book)
                            Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
                            • "I am mine own woman, well at ease."
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                            Ann Vickers (Bison Book)
                            Sinclair Lewis
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                            Some reviewers were outraged by Ann Vickers when it first appeared in 1933. "Persons unused to horrid and filthy things had better stay at a safe distance from this book," wrote one. Lewis's Ann Vickers is a complex character: a strong-minded prison superintendent dedicated to enlightened social reform, she also seeks to fulfill herself as a sexual being. Ann Vickers is in all respects her own person, standing up to the confining rules of her society.

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                            3 out of 5 stars "I am mine own woman, well at ease.".......2006-06-20

                            This spicy novel (some called it sordid) is about an independent-minded woman from the rural Midwest who goes east to college, fights for woman's suffrage, and then becomes the head of an "industrial home" (prison), while at the same time falling in love with the wrong men, marrying and divorcing, having an abortion and then a child by another man out of wedlock, feeling lonely and inadequate, and suffering all the difficulties a modern (early twentieth century) woman in a whirlwind position might face. His views of Ann's sexual behavior - that sex is a positive force even outside of marriage and woman need and enjoy it as much as men - were considered quite forward at the time (some said scandalous). Indeed, the novel ends with Ann living openly with a man while both are still married to others awaiting their divorces, and Lewis depicts her as a fulfilled woman ("This is a new age," she declares). Disappointing is Lewis's refusal to take a position or monitor any of this so that we get the feeling by the end he believes anything goes, that all behavior is justified simply by doing it - which is interesting seeing that much of the novel involves prison reform as well. Yet despite all this "advancement" in sexual mores, it's in this novel that Lewis expresses a conservative bent for the first time (to be magnified greatly in the years to come): he satirizes the radical movement and even thinks the Depression a good thing because it reminds people how "noble" poverty is. So the messages become confusing and confused: unrestricted sex is good, but so are far more constraining elements in society. Coming right after DODSWORTH, this book marks a decided step downward in quality for Lewis, a downhill trend that would continue with each succeeding novel.

                            5 out of 5 stars When America writes books, she sounds like Sinclair Lewis.......2005-06-11

                            You are Ann Vickers "of Waubanakee, Illinois, a little south of the center of the state" ( Ch 1, p. 7). You are 17 years old. Your mother died when you were ten. You are an only child. Your father was local school superintendent. But he died a year ago leaving you a legacy of $1,000. What do you do next?

                            You draw on your father's and Waubanakee's values and walk with open eyes into the ripening American world ahead from 1907 to 1933. You wait tables to put yourself through Point Royal College for Women in Connecticut. You grow through the amorous advances of a lesbian roommate and a playboy male professor. You study nursing. You stuff envelopes for years so that American women can vote. You go to jail for the cause and later become an expert on women's prisons. You write a learned book and are a popular national columnist. You have made love to three men over the decades, had one abortion greatly regretted, and after age 40 joyfully birthed a son whose father may either be your cloying husband or a charming rogue who sits on the New York State supreme court until he is convicted of being on the take and sentenced to six years in jail. When the judge is pardoned by the Governor (FDR?) after only a year behind bars, you, he and your son plan to defy convention and make a life together.

                            You are the same Ann Vickers, onetime tomboy of Waubanakee, onetime devotee of the YWCA and Presbyterian Sunday School. You have taken things as they came your way, made your choices and lived with them. And you were written up in a novel by Sinclair Lewis which I defy a reader in 2005 to put down prematurely.

                            Themes in the novel to be pondered:

                            --A mother is persuaded by a professor of obstetrics to have an abortion she does not want and who dreams ever after of her "murdered" girl "Pride." A mother who will never murder Pride again and who knows that "coming children" have rights.

                            --A feminist who never despises men utterly. Most males are taken to be "solid, stolid, unpicturesque citizens who liked breakfast, went to their offices or shops or factories at seven or eight or nine, admired sports connected with the rapid propulsion of small balls ... quarreled with their wives and nagged their children yet were fond of them and for them chased prosperity..." ( Ch. 21, p. 256)

                            --A married liberal woman goes to parties and hears so much TALK in which people per Roget's Thesaurus "cry, roar, shout, bawl, halloo, whoop, yell, bellow, howl, scream, screech, screak, shriek, shrill, squeak ... yawp, vociferate ... rend the air..." (Ch. 35, p. 421f)

                            --Ann Vickers squeezes her lover's wife's hand when the judge is sentenced to jail. This is not the first novel in which Sinclair Lewis puts two women with claims on the same man face to face.

                            --America came of age in the early and middle lifetime of Ann Vickers. What a time! "Hijackers murdering bootleggers. ... Aviators crashing on cottages and burning up old ladies in them. Babies kidnaped and murdered. ... Methodist bishops accused of stock-gambling and rigging elections. ... Five-year-old boys in nice suburbs playing gangster and killing three-year-old boys. ... A skinny little Hindu that drinks only goat's milk baffling the whole British Empire. ... A nation of one hundred and twenty million people letting a few fanatics turn it from beer to poison gin." (Ch. 46, p. 541f)

                            See if you can resist temptation to read and love ANN VICKERS.

                            -OOO-

                            3 out of 5 stars Missing pages, uneven story=lesser Lewis novel.......2004-07-14

                            It's sort of amusing that I decided to read Sinclair Lewis's "Ann Vickers" considering the only other novel I have read from America's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature was "Babbitt," and that one a few years ago. I couldn't tell you why I chose to read this 1933 novel rather than "Main Street," "Arrowsmith," "Elmer Gantry," or even "Kingsblood Royal." Any one of these four books would be the logical choice after reading "Babbitt." I'm nothing if I'm not contrary to people's expectations, so when I saw this book on the shelf at the library I snatched it up without a second thought and headed home to read it. The book, even at 560 pages, doesn't take that long to read as the font is large and the pages small. Nonetheless, it took me four days to get through the novel largely due to the outdated lingo and the uneven quality of the book. There are several reasons why you haven't heard of "Ann Vickers" before now, one of them being that moving through certain sections of the book feels like serving a ten-year sentence of hard labor at the local penitentiary. Overall, though, Lewis's scathing treatise on radical politics and feminism in the first third of the twentieth century is worth the effort.

                            Lewis follows the titular character from her earliest years as a resident of Waubanakee, Illinois to her emergence as a major reformer on the East Coast. Right from the start, we get the idea that Ann is different from the other little boys and girls. The only child of a college professor, Ann's social position is one of high standing and moderate wealth. Nonetheless, she soon falls under the spell of a fiery socialist German immigrant named Klebs. By the time Ann goes to college, she's well on the way to becoming a true extremist. She drops out of the Y.W.C.A. after learning to reject Christianity with the help of a radical professor. Vickers forms a socialist organization on campus, embarks on a forbidden relationship with a faculty member, and earns a decidedly unsavory reputation amongst her fellow students. After graduating, she joins the suffrage movement, an activity that requires her to deliver oratories on street corners, go to jail for organizing protests, and hobnob with prominent personalities. Vickers, like most leftist radicals, never stays with a single cause for long. After several stints as assistant superintendents at homes that teach the urban poor and new immigrants life skills, she sets out to work as a prison reformer. The best part of the book details Ann's struggles in a southern prison, where she battles unsanitary conditions, lackadaisical treatment of prisoners, capital punishment, and corruption.

                            Lewis is very careful to examine all aspects of his character's life. "Ann Vickers" constantly looks behind the rhetoric and politics in an effort to capture the emotional aspects of womanhood. Just because Ann is a radical doesn't mean she's cold to the idea of men. In fact, she has several relationships throughout her life, from a soldier during the First World War named Lafe Resnick to fellow radical Russell Spaulding to a corrupt New York judge named Barney Dolphin. Vickers's experiences with abortion, infidelity, and promiscuity fuel much of the narrative drive of the novel. Her experiences also cool her radical fire so that by the end of the book she's a determined liberal living out of wedlock with a disgraced member of the system. There's a great line at the end of the book where Lewis describes Ann as the "Captive Woman, the Free Woman, the Great Woman, the Feminist Woman, the Domestic Woman, the Passionate Woman, the Cosmopolitan Woman, the Village Woman-the Woman." In short, although he often disagrees with the hypocrisy of Ann and her methods, he does believe that conditions in America were changing enough that a female could now realize all aspects of her personality in both the private and public spheres.

                            The problems of the book are many. First, I've always believed I should support my state university's publishing house, but this University of Nebraska Press edition is an embarrassment. From pages 371 to 394, half of the pages are blank. Yep, someone let a Sinclair Lewis novel go to bookstore shelves without correcting this completely unacceptable blunder. Even worse, the missing pages start up during the best part of the story, when Ann Vickers works in the southern prison. A primal scream is in order here, but I'm hoping this mistake is specific to one copy and not to the entire run. Second, and more in tune to the actual novel, the first 100 pages of the story aren't very interesting. Vickers's childhood and college days reek of boredom. Only when the character heads out into the larger world and starts mixing it up does the book start to soar. Third, I often thought Ann an unpleasant character, especially when her marital machinations emerge towards the end of the story.

                            I think this last point, Ann's adultery, upsets me because I'm male. It's an unfair accusation for me to make, though, because men routinely leave their girlfriends and wives for other women in exactly the same way Vickers does. In any event, it's another example of what Lewis tries to say with the novel, that women now have the freedom to live their lives as they see fit. Ultimately, would I recommend "Ann Vickers"? I don't know. I think "Babbitt" light years ahead of this effort. I do believe "Ann Vickers" doesn't receive attention from today's leftist literati because Lewis viciously skewers the far left on nearly every page. Give it a shot if you're a Lewis fan or a moderate conservative who likes to see the leftist fringe occasionally take it on the chin.

                            4 out of 5 stars Interesting and instantly absorbing book.......1998-09-17

                            Sinclair Lewis takes a distasteful and controversial subject and spins one of his best books that I've read. The book examines the feminist / women's suffrage during the early 1900's through the 1930's by following Ann Vicker's life. He covers her experiences with: abortion, voting rights, marriage, sex rights, and divorce.

                            However, the primary focus of the book is on the cruel and primitive jail conditions at the time. Ann's call in life is to run a prison. Lewis unabashedly describes the gory details of the torture and living conditions that Ann finds through her first experiences.

                            The characters in the story, especially that of Ann Vickers, are clearly drawn out. However, I found some of the "innocent" criminals to be a little too fake. At times I felt like Lewis was trying to tell me that all people in jail didn't deserve to be there. However, Lewis does make some poignant observations about punishment and the politics involved with it.

                            Overall, a great book and I would recommend that all Lewis fans or those with a passing interest in feminism / women's suffrage or jail conditions in the early 1900's to read this book.
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                                  Lewis's novel of a strong-minded prison superintendent dedicated to enlightened social reform who also seeks to fulfill herself as a sexual being.
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