Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef

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Demonstrating the relevance and need of science in planning the future of the Great Barrier Reef and coral reefs worldwide, Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef emphasizes multi-disciplinary processes - physical and biological links - that have emerged as the dominant forces shaping and controlling the ecosystem. The book draws heavily on data from coral reefs in Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef covers: o Climate and global change o Coastal oceanography o Wetlands ecology o Estuaries o Marine biology o Land use management in the tropics o Fisheries management o Coral Reef ecological modeling o Biodiversity and the human impact Explore how the ecosystem responds to both physical and biological stimuli, and how they interact Understand processes imperative to create sustainable design strategies Comprehend the connectivity of biotopes - land, mangroves, seagrass, and corals Discover the relationship between managing marine resources and managing adjoining land use Learn how fish behavior and migration patterns control fisheries

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Basically all properties of semiconductor devices are influenced by the distribution of point defects in their active areas. This book contains the first comprehensive review of the properties of intrinsic point defects, acceptor and donor impurities, isovalent atoms, chalcogens, and halogens in silicon, as well as of their complexes. Special emphasis is placed on compiling the structures, energetic properties, identified electrical levels and spectroscopic signatures, and the diffusion behavior from experimental and theoretical investigations. In addition, the book discusses the fundamental concepts of silicon and its defects, the electron system, diffusion, thermodynamics, and reaction kinetics which form the scientific basis needed for a thorough understanding of the text. Therefore, the book is able to provide an introduction to newcomers in this field up to a comprehensive reference for experts in process technology, solid-state physics, and simulation of semiconductor processes.

Optimally Scheduling EA-6B Depot Maintenance

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Optimally Scheduling EA-6B Depot Maintenance

Manufacturer: Storming Media
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Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: 1423542649

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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A185963. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Ranging from Operation Desert Storm to combat actions in the Balkans, EA-6B Prowler aircraft lie at the heart of nearly all tactical aircraft strikes. Providing a fleet capable of such combat actions in the next decade challenges the Prowler community to efficiently schedule EA-6B depot maintenance services. By 2009, EA-6B depots must conduct 80 wing center section replacements, 144 major aircraft modifications and standard depot level maintenance 154 times. There are several complex rules governing when each Prowler is eligible for each service; these rules are also flexible enough to allow more induction schedules than can be evaluated manually in a reasonable amount of time. Since each service removes aircraft from mission inventory for six to 12 months and performing multiple services together requires less time than performing services independently, services should be combined whenever possible. This thesis develops a mixed integer linear program, EA-6B Depot Maintenance Optimization Model (EDMOM), to help schedule EA-6B aircraft for depot maintenance services. EDMOM minimizes total time aircraft are removed from mission inventory; it produces an induction schedule for the EA-6B fleet through 2009 that adheres to all appropriate rules and conducts 378 services in only 216 inductions, requiring 2,446 total months. Without combining services, it would require 3,630 months, nearly a 50 percent increase.

Point Defects and Diffusion (Monographs on Physics)

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Point Defects and Diffusion (Monographs on Physics)
C.P. Flynn
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Non-equilibrium intrinsic point defects phenomena in silicon and III-V compounds

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Non-equilibrium intrinsic point defects phenomena in silicon and III-V compounds
Bernard Pierre Raymond Marioton
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Phenomenological versus point-defect-based process modeling: Where should you put your money? (Technical report)

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Phenomenological versus point-defect-based process modeling: Where should you put your money? (Technical report)
Richard B Fair
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Point defect charge-state effects on transient diffusion of dopants in Si (Technical report)

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Point defect charge-state effects on transient diffusion of dopants in Si (Technical report)
Richard B Fair
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Point defect/dopant diffusion considerations following preamorphization of silicon via SiÂº and GeÂº implantation (Technical report)

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Point defect/dopant diffusion considerations following preamorphization of silicon via SiÂº and GeÂº implantation (Technical report)
A. C Ajmera
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Point Defects in Metals II: Dynamical Properties and Diffusion Controlled Reactions

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Point Defects in Metals II: Dynamical Properties and Diffusion Controlled Reactions
P. H. Dederichs , K. Schroeder , and R. Zeller
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"Quantum Interferometry in Phase Space" is primarily concerned with quantum-mechanical distribution functions and their applications in quantum optics and neutron interferometry. In the first part of the book, the author describes the phase-space representation of quantum optical phenomena such as coherent and squeezed states. Applications to interferometry, e.g. in beam splitters and fiber networks, are also presented. In the second part of the book, the theoretical formalism is applied to neutron interferometry, including the dynamical theory of diffraction, coherence properties of superposed beams, and dephasing effects.

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Quantum Optics made easy

Quantum Optics in Phase Space
Wolfgang P. Schleich
Manufacturer: Wiley-VCH
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ASIN: 352729435X

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Quantum Optics in Phase Space provides a concise introduction to the rapidly moving field of quantum optics from the point of view of phase space. Modern in style and didactically skillful, Quantum Optics in Phase Space prepares students for their own research by presenting detailed derivations, many illustrations and a large set of workable problems at the end of each chapter. Often, the theoretical treatments are accompanied by the corresponding experiments. An exhaustive list of references provides a guide to the literature. Quantum Optics in Phase Space also serves advanced researchers as a comprehensive reference book.

Starting with an extensive review of the experiments that define quantum optics and a brief summary of the foundations of quantum mechanics the author Wolfgang P. Schleich illustrates the properties of quantum states with the help of the Wigner phase space distribution function. His description of waves ala WKB connects semi-classical phase space with the Berry phase. These semi-classical techniques provide deeper insight into the timely topics of wave packet dynamics, fractional revivals and the Talbot effect.

Whereas the first half of the book deals with mechanical oscillators such as ions in a trap or atoms in a standing wave the second half addresses problems where the quantization of the radiation field is of importance. Such topics extensively discussed include optical interferometry, the atom-field interaction, quantum state preparation and measurement, entanglement, decoherence, the one-atom maser and atom optics in quantized light fields.

Quantum Optics in Phase Space presents the subject of quantum optics as transparently as possible. Giving wide-ranging references, it enables students to study and solve problems with modern scientific literature. The result is a remarkably concise yet comprehensive and accessible text- and reference book - an inspiring source of information and insight for students, teachers and researchers alike.

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Quantum Optics made easy.......2001-07-12

"Quantum Optics in Phase Space" has been successful in preparing students and researchers for their quest of unravelling the myteries of nature. Niels Bohr used to say that if you are not confused by quantum mechanics, then you really do not understand it. I guess same applies for quantum optics. This book first introduces you to the stunning resullts and then explains them in a crystal clear way. All encompassing derivations with the challenging set of problems brings out the best from within the reader. Each chapter and element has been scrutinized ensuring clarity and accuracy.

The first experiments that led to the development of quantum optics as a subject have been described in fullest detail. The book tries to expalin the entanglement of matter and waves by likening mechanical oscillators to standing waves. Classical experiments in optics have been re-explained with the help of quantum optics. Atom-field interaction has also been discussed in detail.

The explaination is based om semi-classical ideas which I believe is the best way because ultra-modern explanation can become very difficult to understand for those who are reading the subject for the first time.

I believe that "Quantum Optics in Phase Space" will prepare students for future endeavors by contributing to the enhancement of quantum optics.

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The story of a French military hero of the Napoleonic Wars, long assumed to be dead, tries to recover his fortune and former wife through the help of a famous Parisian lawyer. Colonel Chabert, a Napoleonic War hero supposedly killed in the Battle of Eylau, returns to Paris after a long convalescence to find his wife remarried, and his pension gone. He employs a young, well-known lawyer to at least reclaim his pension. It is a game of wits: first to convince the lawyer that he is who he says he is; secondly to get his wife to admit to his identity and thereby give up some of her wealth. Once the lawyer believes Chabert's story, the wife must be made to part with his pension...

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The best translation..........2004-05-10

...of a great Balzac novella. Ms. Cosman captures the rigorous, logical quality of Balzac's prose - most translators get lost in unidiomatic wordiness. This 100 page novella showcases the Master's comfort with legal matters, his profound understanding of "the fang and the claw" and features at its center the incomparable Derville, Balzac's great, recurring lawyer character. I usually recommend Pere Goriot for first-time Balzac readers because of the rich connections between that novel and many other Balzac works - but I am hard pressed to imagine a better one-course meal than this rendering of Colonel Chabert by Ms. Cosman. I certainly plan to read her version of The Girl with the Golden Eyes.

TRAGEDY DISTILLED.......2003-10-08

One of the greatest novelists of all time, Balzac was most at home in the Paris of Post-Napoleonic Paris. In a time when the middle class was showing its strength and starting to reach towards the aristocracy, Balzac shows just how selfish and grubby and greedy humans can be in attaining and how treacherous they can be in keeping their all important upward mobility.

Colonel Chabert is a man disfigured in the Napoleonic Wars who was left for dead on a battlefield. After digging his way out of a mass grave, he finds that he has no legal right to his title or his massive estate. Nobody will believe his true identity. For ten longe years he goes about trying to communicate his plight to anyone who will listen. They only see a crazy bum, and his wife rebuffs his letters. She already has a new husband and kids. Finally Chabert is able to convince a lawyer named Dervilles to accept his case, namely that of reclaiming his title, lands, and wife. The problem is that noone is really interested in his life being resurrected. Most people would rather that he remained dead. So begins the ludicrous battle of a man against the law to prove his own existence.

This short but great novel, or novella, is a tragic take on the world's thirst for social status and the judgement by visuals that our society is only too guilty of to this day. If it walks like a bum, talks like a bum, it must be a bum. Colonel Chabert has such a hard time convincing people of his identity because of how they perceive him. It sounds echoes of Frankenstein in that a good man is reduced to a monster when all he really needs is love. The fact that even his wife wishes he were dead just drives home the isolated suffering of the book. As in all Balzac novels, you feel a world moving under the mantle of the book. The Human Comedy of Balzac is one of the crowning achievements of literature and ranks right up there with Shakespeare and Thomas Hardy.

"the depths of the human heart.".......2003-03-09

"Colonel Chabert" is the story of a soldier--a great favourite of Napoleon's who is left for dead following the battle of Eylau. Chabert literally digs himself out of a mass grave and is nursed slowly back to health. Unfortunately, Chabert's severe head wound caused permanent memory loss, and it is years before Chabert clearly remembers who he is.

After fragments of his memory return, Chabert contacts his wife--unfortunately, she has remarried and is now the Countess Ferraud, and it is in her best interests that Chabert remain dead and forgotten and that she remain the sole wealthy recipient of the Chabert fortune. So she ignores the letters Chabert sends.

Desperately poor, in bad health, and nursing a growing sense of injustice, Chabert seeks out the services of an ambitious and fascinating young lawyer named Derville. Derville is intrigued with Chabert's story and decides that Chabert is either the victim of a terrible injustice or "the most accomplished actor" he has ever seen. And so Derville sets out to regain at least a portion of Chabert's fortune...

Balzac is one of my favourite authors, and I've read many of his works. "Colonel Chabert" is novella length, but it is better described as a sketch of a novel. For anyone trying Balzac for the first time, I recommend starting with either "Cousin Bette" or "The Black Sheep." "Colonel Chabert" is perhaps not the best Balzac novel to start with as it is certainly not a good example of Balzac's extraordinary talent, but the novella certainly serves nicely as a later supplement to Balzac's better novels. I have to say that the film version is actually even better than the novel--and it's usually the other way around. In the novel, Countess Ferraud is a grasping, selfish, pitiless ambitious woman--in the film, she is portrayed much more sympathetically. Also, the visual media of film allowed much greater scope for such scenes as the dead on the frozen battlefield--this was not conveyed with such power in the novel. Nonetheless, "Colonel Chabert" follows Balzac's favourite themes--greed and human motivation---displacedhuman

Dead Men Do Tell Tales.......2002-05-27

Balzac, one of the greatest writers who ever lived, did not trip up with this one. I read it with great pleasure and conclude, as people so often say, that the movie based on the story did not equal the original. Ever the cynic (some might say 'the realist') Balzac portrays here the efforts of a noble-minded soldier, who rose from an orphanage to serve his country under Napoleon in Egypt and eastern Europe, only to reap the all-too-common fate of dedicated and true warriors---to be forgotten and ignored. Death (which he accepted) might have seized him, but he found a living death, a denial of his sanity and identity, as the reward of his service. Reported killed at the battle of Eylau, against the Russians, after a heroic action, the soldier literally crawls from his grave to a kind of shadowy survival. In his earlier life, Colonel Chabert had raised a woman to his own status, but now finds that she is unwilling to let others learn of her origins and does not want to recognize that he is, in fact, her long lost husband. Honestly thinking she was widowed, she married a highborn aristocrat who knew nothing of her humble beginnings.

The tale is one of greed, intrigue, loyalty and disloyalty. As usual, Balzac manages to cast a light, pitiless and bright, on every rotten corner of the human condition, while offering a few inspiring examples in contrast. Every detail of a lawyer's life in 19th century Paris is scrutinized, every glimpse of urban dairyman or elite country squirehood rings true. No wonder I admire him so much, no wonder I have no hesitation in urging you to read COLONEL CHABERT and any other volume of Balzac you can lay your hands on.

An Excellent Translation of a Masterful Story!.......2001-11-29

Carol Cosman's translation of Balzac's French 'Colonel Chabert' into the English has been very effective here- she does not input her own interpretations and seems to have a good handle on Balzac's natural, concise wording style.

The story itself is fascinating. In a nutshell, it focuses on a military man who is essentially erased from society, and the tribulations and insights he has from this 'non-existant' state as he tries to re-establish himself. Not only is this a witty and profound social commentary, but an entertaining twist which just keeps twisting.

In reading other's reviews of this short masterpiece, it seems as if many people have missed the meaning of the finale. While it is indeed a very enigmatic ending, it is not as lugubrious or fatalistic as most believe. What happens is that Colonel Chabert, in essentially having his old identity annihilated, becomes enlighted. In the ultimate destruction of his ego he becomes free. This is the magic finale which Balzac labors so hard, and so majestically, to set up in the plot.

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French language edition of two classic Balzac texts.

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Le Colonel Chabert Suivi De Ferragus
Honore Balzac
Manufacturer: LE LIVRE DE POCHE
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VBA7TC

Le Colonel Chabert Suivi De Ferragus, Chef Des Devorants

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Le Colonel Chabert Suivi De Ferragus, Chef Des Devorants
Honore De Balzac
Manufacturer: Le Livre De Poche
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ASIN: B000WQ78XY

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Le Colonel Chabert Suivi De Honorine Et
Honore de Balzac
Manufacturer: Editions Garnier Freres
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Le Colonel Chabert Suivi De Le Contrat De Mariage

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Le Colonel Chabert Suivi De Le Contrat De Mariage
Honore De Balzac
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