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The remarkable ability of herpesviruses to escape immunity brings together the two disciplines of immunology and virology in an inextricable way. Because herpesvirus can induce, suppress, and fool the immune system, the most productive herpesvirologists are also expert immunologists, and the results of this latest interdisciplinary effort document the interactions between both disciplines.
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Fluorine-carbon and Fluoride-carbon Materials
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"This outstanding reference presents the latest scientific findings concerning the synthesis, structure, thermodynamics, and physical and chemical properties of fluorine- and fluoride-carbon compounds elucidating their practical applications in lithium batteries, superhydrophobic composites, and the electrolytic production of elemental fluorine."
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Fluorine Chemistry at the Millennium
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Hardbound. This volume brings together contributions by leading researchers covering a wide scope so characteristic of fluorine chemistry. It was in 1986 that the centennial of the isolation of fluorine by Moissan was celebrated, and much was said at the time about the impact of fluorine chemistry during its first century.
It is neither a textbook nor a structured exposition of fluorine chemistry as it stands at the beginning of the new millennium, but a monograph of historical character comprising personalized accounts of progress and events in areas of particular interest.
Fluorine continues to intrigue chemists who overcome the challenge of handling this remarkable halogen and work to develop varied methods for synthesizing fluorine compounds. The unique properties of these materials, ranging from inert perfluorocarbons and fluoropolymers to a multitude of other fascinating fluorinated compounds, firmly established their place amidst the technolo
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Fluorine and the Environment: Atmospheric Chemistry, Emissions & Lithosphere, Volume 1 (Advances in Fluorine Science) (Advances in Fluorine Science)
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Advances in Fluorine Science presents critical multidisciplinary overviews for areas in which fluorine and fluoride compounds have a decisive impact. The individual volumes of Advances in Fluorine Science are thematic, addressing comprehensively both the science and applications on topics including the Environment, Green chemistry, Medicine, Health & Life Sciences, New Technologies & Materials Science, Energy and the Earth Sciences.
For each subject the contributors will clearly inform the reader on the nature of the problem (if any) and on the solutions, combining knowledge from different scientific disciplines, that have been proposed to solve each issue.
This volume covers a wide scope of important issues about our atmospheric environment and contains contributions from both chemists and environmental scientists. Articles review the origin of fluorine-emissions either from natural or anthropogenic origin; the chemistry of fluorine- and halogen-based species in the atmosphere; the monitoring and characterization of atmospheric pollutants; new generations of halocarbons and improved destruction procedures of banned CFCs; the role of fluorides within both our geosphere: volcanic magmas and natural fluorine emissions, and effects on our biosphere: life cycle, plants and animals.
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* Discusses the efforts of scientists and industry groups towards the improvement of environmental and sustainability issues
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Chemistry of Organic Fluorine Compounds II: A Critical Review (Acs Monograph)
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Provides complete coverage of the chemistry of organic fluorine compounds. Topics include fluorinating agents, fluorination processes, reactions of fluorinated compounds, modern analytical methods, and properties and applications of fluorinated compounds. Offers a critical review of the literature and provides over 4,500 references. Updates the 1976 volume Chemistry of Organic Fluorine Compounds.
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Aromatic Fluorination (New Directions in Organic and Biological Chemistry)
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Academia and industry join forces in Aromatic Fluorination, as an expert from each domain contributes to this new text on fluorination of carbocyclic and heterocyclic rings. The book begins with a discussion of fluorine's unique combination of properties, including size, electronic effects, and hydrophobicity, as well as the historical development of its product applications. It explains methods for introducing fluorine into an aromatic ring, focusing on nucleophilic fluorine transfer reactions. The role of catalysts, solvents, and other variables are examined, and the scope and limitations of the methods are discussed. Of particular interest to those working in non-specialist laboratories, Aromatic Fluorination includes detailed descriptions of the new electrophilic routes to fluoroaromatics, in addition to traditional routes and alternative methods involving radical chemistry. Because one of the most important fluorine-containing substituent is CF3, the book explains routes to benzotrifluorides (ArCF3), including traditional industrial methods and modern alternatives employing C-1 halofluorocarbons and other fluoroaliphatics. An alternative to CF3 is CF3S, and several methods of synthesizing aromatic CF3S-containing molecules are described. Since the successful development and diverse applications of aromatic fluorine compounds have led to the search for new compounds and novel substituents, the incorporation of other substituents is also explored. Aromatic Fluorination concludes with discussion of the factors responsible for the successful development of pharmaceutical, agrochemical and liquid crystal applications and the potential for applications in high-performance polymers and other areas. This section also describes in detail important industrial aromatic fluorination processes and the relative merits of different process technologies and their costs.
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Biomedical Frontiers of Fluorine Chemistry (Acs Symposium Series)
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Reviews recent research on fluorine-containing, biologically relevant molecules in biology and medicinal chemistry. Reports applications of bioactive organofluorine compounds as enzyme inhibitors, antithrombotics, anticancer agents, antiviral agents, antibacterials, central nervous system agents, and antifungals and antimalarial agents. Discusses the use of fluorine-containing amino acids as probes for investigating biomedical problems, including applications in fluorine-19 NMR, neurotransmission investigations, and fluorine-18 labeled tracers for positron emission tomography.
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Chemistry of Tantalum and Niobium Fluoride Compounds
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Electronic, optical, mechanical and medical appliances are just a few examples of modern applications that use tantalum and niobium. In
Chemistry of Tantalum and Niobium Fluoride Compounds, the author draws on thirty years' experience to produce the first ever monograph to systemize and summarize the data available on tantalum and niobium fluoride compounds. This comprehensive reference source offers a rich variety of study methodology and is invaluable to researchers examining the chemistry of fluorides, as well as teachers and students in chemistry and metallurgy.
* Collects the latest research on the chemistry of complex fluorides and oxyfluorides of Tantalum and Niobium.
* Covers both theory and application of Tantalum and Niobium Fluoride Chemistry
* Is suitable for tantalum and niobium producers, researchers studying the chemistry of fluorides, as well as teachers and students in chemistry and metallurgy
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Experimental Methods in Organic Fluorine Chemistry
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In the fields of biologically active materials and functional materials, fluorinated organic materials are becoming a focus of significant interest. Over the past decade synthetic methodologies and reagents in fluorine chemistry have been developed, especially stereocontrolled synthetic methods, enzymatic resolution to synthesize enantiomers, fluoromethylated reagents, and fluorination reagents. These methods have contributed to the opening of new pathways for fluorinated materials. However, few fluorinated materials have been put to commercial use. Furthermore, there remain problems to be solved, such as the handling of the materials, availability of reagents and selectivity (stereo-, regio-, and/or chemoselectivity). Research chemists, technical engineers, and graduate students in all branches of chemistry, pharmaceutics, and material science interested in fluorinated materials need to know detailed experimental procedures of how to synthesize the target fluorinated materials. This volume summarizes the chemical and microbial methods for obtaining functionalized fluorinated materials for use as building blocks; detailed experimental methods (reaction conditions, solvent, temperature, handling techniques, etc.); and the stereoview (possible absolute configuration) of the structures with spectral data. Mono-, di-, tri-, and polyfluorinated materials derived from fluorinating agents, fluoromethylated reagents and building blocks are summarized. A chemical name index, molecular formula index, and reagent index are also included. The publication of this monograph will provide access to the enormous possibilities in fluorine chemistry, biological material chemistry, and functionalized material chemistry.
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Fluorine and the Environment : Agrochemicals, Archaeology, Green Chemistry & Water, Volume 2 (Advances in Fluorine Science)
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Advances in Fluorine Science is a new book series presenting critical multidisciplinary overviews on areas in which fluorine and fluoride compounds have a decisive impact. The individual volumes of
Advances in Fluorine Science are thematic, addressing comprehensively both the science and applications on topics including the Environment, Green chemistry, Medicine, Health & Life Sciences, New Technologies & Materials Science, Energy and the Earth Sciences.
In the present volume, the key-position of fluoro-products in agriculture is reviewed, since a large percentage of agro-chemicals and pesticides contain at least one fluorine atom. However, improvements in the use of fluorine-based products in agrochemicals cannot be developed without taking into consideration a safer environment, on both levels of greener synthesis routes and a reduction of the negative impact on plants and organisms. Within this scope, fluorine has a very peculiar place, since its high reactivity yields several advantages, for instance in by-passing various polluting multi-step reactions.
Fluorine-based materials are reviewed as efficient tools for protecting our cultural heritage. Also using up-to-date techniques such as ion beam analysis, this element can help relative dating applications, ranging from burial durations of archaeological bones and teeth to the determination of exposure ages of meteorites on the Antarctic ice shield.
* Providing an original approach of the complex relationships between chemistry and the environment
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Quantum theory is considered by many to be the most unfathomable of scientific models. It confronts us with bizarre paradoxes which upset the logical edifice of classical physics. Yet this widely applied theory is amazingly accurate and explains all of chemistry and most of physics.
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In my opinion, the "Introducing" series are well worth the money.......2007-06-14
This one is in my top 5 of the Introducing... series. I'm not exactly a math/physics whiz, so it was nice to read something that gave me what I believe to be a good introduction to Quantum Theory.
The contradiction of classic physics explained (the one with the cat that is half dead half alive)........2007-03-21
Quantum theory is the abstract solution to the problem of the quantities and states of energy on the quantum scale (subatomic levels) in a system. Quantum theory is proved using a form of mathematics called `quantum mechanics'. Quantum theory and mechanics verified subatomic systems for the first time at the start of the 20th century. Atomic models are brand new things!
Classical physics since Newton was preoccupied by macro forces and the theory of light. Maxwell unified the forces of electricity and magnetism into electromagnetism and so the study of waves and particles was the first clear quantum in physics that required further explanation.
During early research into quantum results with experiments in light and heat combinations, investigations produced anomalies which contradicted what was known to classical physics at this time. This eventually required the development of an almost completely independent and totally new branch of science to explain the phenomena.
If you understand the 3 big phenomena and how to solve them then you have a good grasp of Quantum Mechanics. These problems were the "blackbody radiation" problem, the "Double slit experment" and the "photoelectron effect". Learn them.
In the early years it remained completely outside of the box of modern physics but was about to become a whole new way to explain more about the world we live in.
Quantum theory is the kind of result you would expect of a young Isaac Newton who chose to explore the micro instead of the macro full time. While Newton had investigated light and lent much to the development of the procedures that discovered quantum theory it was quantum theory that was eventually going to shed light on light.
Quantum theory can be better understood as the solution to a series of problems occurring in classical physics experimentations.
The most major of these problems was the discovery of black bodies which absorb radiation without reflection. There are no perfect black bodies. To see it some light must emit back. An example would be an oven burning. Inside you can peep through a whole and see what is being reflected while the oven absorbs the radiation. Planck eventually explained why this reflected radiation doesn't burn our eyeballs out when we see it by devising and proving Planck's constant. Boer would take this constant and improve it with spectrums of chemical compounds, proving subatomic properties. Schrodinger developed the theory of the motions of subatomic particles called quantum mechanics.
Quantum mechanics is thus the mathematical description of the states of elementary particles.
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The Solvay conference (1927) Brussels
The first law of thermodynamics is the conservation of energy.
The entropy (heat transfer from one body to another) of an isolated system always increases reaching a maximum at thermal equilibrium (same temperature).
Maxwell's theory of kinetic gases.
Initial random position and velocities of molecules.
Heat is generated by motion of atoms.
Equipartition of energy theorem - energy equally shared at thermal equilibrium.
Black body radiation and the ultraviolet catastrophe
Planck's constant and quantum size
Photoelectric effect
Spectra effects
Hydrogen frequencies
The discovery of the electron
Neils Bohr
Linear momentum and Angular Momentum
Bohr's postulates
Zeeman Effect
Wolfgang Pauli, the Pauli effect and Pauli's exclusion principle
Closed shells and inert gases
Properties of waves
Diffraction and interference
Prince Louis de Broglie
Matter waves
Heisenberg's atom
Matrix Mechanics
Schrodinger's cat and atom
Probability
Dirac's transformation
Anti-matter
The uncertainty principle
EPR paradox
Bell's inequality
Imagine two great circles. One realm is quantum theory the other is relativity. Sometimes they cross over. Unification of both is still a modern scientific quest today that even baffled Einstein until his death. You will probably also want `Introducing Relativity' if you are in for this one.
Introducing Quantum Theory.......2007-01-15
This is an excellent book for introducing quantum theory. It is presented in a very interesting way through the personalities of the people who created quantum theory. The physics includes enough of the mathematics and equations to be useful as a supplement for a quantum physic text for anyone who desires
a "biographical" approach to quantum physics. The conceptual prersentation of quantum theory in this book ranks with the best I have seen in my 40 year history of teaching quantum physics.
Brilliant!.......2005-10-08
This book is in the 'Introducing ...' series of 'comic books'. It's excellent. Perhaps the best thing about it is the structured way in which it describes the development of quantum theory. After being introduced to the key scientists, the reader is told about the nineteenth century developments from which quantum theory arose. It emerges that there were three problems facing classical physics around the year 1900. These were solved by Max Planck, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr respectively and, in the process, quantum theory was born. The author deals with these problems and their solutions in detail. I found this to be a very clear approach, which seemed to lay things out in chronological order with everything fitting in to place.
After this the author goes on to describe the further work of Niels Bohr as well as that of Wolfgang Pauli, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger and Paul Dirac. Schrodinger's cat and wave-particle duality are described along the way, the theory of QED gets mentioned but is not described, and the book culminates in an account of the EPR paradox, Bell's inequality theorem and the work of Alain Aspect.
Having said all that, this is not an easy book. I don't think it would be possible to write an easy introduction to quantum theory. I had to read it a few times to understand it (and there are still quite a few pages I don't understand), but I learned a lot in the process. There is an amazing amount of information packed into this book and even someone who is scientifically knowledgable would benefit from it. If you know nothing or little about quantum theory, you're not going to find an easier introduction or one so well organised, and even if you only understand half of the book, you'll learn a great deal.
Quantum theory in a nutshell - more than meets the eye.......2005-09-10
I own and studied quite some books on this topic. Among them the real works with math and all. This one little Introducing book sums it all up. It's fun, it's understandable, and a very good introduction. The concepts are so deep, that the book explains more than you initially assume. It is a good overview to read once again after a deep study in some specialized topic. Even interesting and necessary to have for a physicist therefore, as well as for any interested newcomer. This is definitely a musth-have!
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If a butterfly stirs its wings in Brazil, does it cause a tornado in Texas? Chaos is the most important advance in science since the advent of Quantum Theory. The discovery of randomness in apparently predictable physical systems, has evolved into a new science that declares the universe to be far more unpredictable than we could have imagined. Continuing the now familiar format of the "Introducing..." series, this book documents how chaos is present in most events, from the fluctuation in small animal populations to the rise and fall of financial markets.
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Great book.......2007-06-15
This was the book that got me hooked on the Introducing... series. I wanted to get a nice overview of Chaos Theory, and this book provided it.
Introducing Chaos Adequate.......2006-05-02
I've read a number of books on Chaos/Complexity, and found this one to be fine. I think my favorite was the one by Mitchell M. Waldrop "Complexity: the Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos."
At any rate, for the audience for which the book is intended, which is someone who wants an easy-to-read introduction on chaos, I think the book is perfectly adequate.
"Chaos" (not Chaos theory) is all this book introduces you........2002-05-14
I was looking for an easy-to-understand book on Chaos Theory for some non-English speakers (say, some Japanese students) to read, and I personally like "Introducing Fractal Geometry", so I got my hand on this book...
It was a mistake.
I would not say much about this. The author did introduce Chaos, not really Chaos theory, to the readers. He tried his best, I believe, to make things easy to understand by simplifying things... However, in doing so, he had just created Chaos.
Hence, this book is probably one of the best examples of "How Simplicity creates Complexity and Chaos"... a simple scheme found in Complex systems (like complex Cellular Automata which emerged from a simple set of rules).
One thing, while a lot of names (technical terms) were introduced, almost all of them are left unexplained. And I think only "introducing" is never enough. (Well, it was the name of the book afterall... this book wasn't named "Explaing Chaos" :)
There are other good books on Chaos for layperson. And, in fact, "Introducing Fractal Geometry" did a far better job than this one.
Introduction is what it is!.......2001-12-15
This is an excellent introduction to Chaos. It is aimed at the general non academic reader who may have heard about this buzzword called "Chaos" and wondered what's it all about. It is not for the academic, informed reader but a quick introduction for the intelligent layman or someone who last formally studied science many years ago. It draws heavily on James Gleick's book "Chaos" which was the first book to popularise the subject. If you are busy and want to know something about chaos to see if you then want to find out more, this book is perfect.
Confused and Mistaken.......2001-08-10
The main problem with the book is its emphasis on multiculterism, not to mention that the author simply does not know his stuff. We are told that Galileo ignored friction in order to get "neat results" and somehow caused Western science to only study linear systems. He seems to think that nonlinearity and chaos are the same thing. He tells us that nonlinear problems are not solvable. He actually suggests that we have only recently seen that the three-body problem is chaotic. (Instead Poincare proved the chaotic nature of the problem around 1890.) He seems to think that Asian philosophies actually capture the mathematical substance of chaos theory. I could go on. If you want to study chaos get the volume "Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science" by Peitgen, Jurgens, and Saupe.
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Writing about the theater, the cabaret, fellow artists and feuds, politics and war, the eight artists assembled here represent the finest of the "small form," the sketches and essays fostered in the atmosphere of the Vienna coffeehouse to capture the fleeting impressions of a rapidly changing world. Above all, they are concerned with their world, Austria and particularly Vienna.
Customer Reviews:
The art of small forms.......2003-10-03
Harold Segel begins his introduction to this volume by saying, "The mystique of the Vienna coffeehouse is extraordinary." This is true, and is precisely the reason I picked up this book. Unfortunately (for me), he then adds, "The literature on it is formidable," and immediately qualifies this in a footnote by adding that nearly all of that formidable literature is, not surprisingly, in German. As a result, this book is both rewarding and somewhat unsatisfying: rewarding because it is a revealing look inside the coffeehouse mystique; unsatisfying to me as a historian because its focus ultimately is on the literary work these "coffeehouse wits" produced, and not so much on the coffeehouse culture as such.
At the same time, though, much of the nature of that culture comes through in the excellent selections Segel has assembled here. These writers' focus is often parochial ... even inbred ... revolving around the milieu itself and looking inward at the personalities, concerns, cliques, and spats of the Viennese literary circle. But at the same time, the wider world frequently peeks its head inside this circle, often in the form of allegory or subtle shading.
While some of the "Vienna coffeehouse wits" are enjoying a resurgence in popular recognition, nearly all are -- I would imagine -- unknown to the general American reader (even the fact that "Bambi" existed as a novel -- and a novel by an Austrian -- before it became a Disney movie comes a surprise to many, though as this book notes, Felix Salten was a quite well known writer in his day). I don't think that casual reader would necessarily get a lot out of this book. The personalities and catty observations are just too obscure now. But for the specialist, the student of German-language literature, or even someone like me with an interest in Habsburg Austria, this title could potentially be very rewarding. That's why I've given it the four stars I have.
Given my original interest, Segel's introduction, "The Vienna Coffeehouse in Society and Culture," came closest to being the sort of historical résumé I was looking for. But the rest of the book had its entertaining and educational moments as well. It may not be for everyone, but if you have an interest in the place, the era, or its personalities, this book may well repay your interest.
Good book..........2003-08-19
Get it used, know that you will find yourself skimming over some ramblings, and that some parts will absolutely captivate you! The price of this book is more than it's worth. This book can be fascinating and numbing from one chapter to another. I did not enjoy when one writer attacked another and did so for page upon page. It loses a star for this - and the price; however, the interesting stories of people who weren't attacking each other get four! If you are a writer and have no qualms, this could easily be five. You buy it and rate it for yourself. I was interested in Vienna and coffeehouses. The writers were all new to me and I learned a lot. I came away with four stars.
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Title: The Vienna Coffeehouse Wits: 1890-1938.
Author: Thomas H. Falk
Publication:
World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1994
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: v68
Issue: n3
Page: p565(2)
Article Type: Book Review
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