Self-Organized Biological Dynamics and Nonlinear Control: Toward Understanding Complexity, Chaos and Emergent Function in Living Systems

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The growing impact of nonlinear science on biology and medicine is fundamentally changing our view of living organisms and disease processes. This book introduces the application to biomedicine of a broad range of concepts from nonlinear dynamics, such as self-organization, complexity, coherence, stochastic resonance, fractals, and chaos. Written by leading figures in the field, coverage details experimental and theoretical research, as well as the emerging technological possibilities such as nonlinear control techniques for treating pathological biodynamics, including heart arrhythmias and epilepsy. Self-Organized Biological Dynamics and Nonlinear Control will attract the interest of professionals and students from a wide range of disciplines, including physicists, chemists, biologists, sensory physiologists and medical researchers such as cardiologists, neurologists and biomedical engineers.

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The growing impact of nonlinear science on biology and medicine is fundamentally changing our view of living organisms and disease processes. This book introduces the application to biomedicine of a broad range of interdisciplinary concepts from nonlinear dynamics, such as self-organization, complexity, coherence, stochastic resonance, fractals, and chaos. It comprises 18 chapters written by leading figures in the field and covers experimental and theoretical research, as well as the emerging technological possibilities such as nonlinear control techniques for treating pathological biodynamics, including heart arrhythmias and epilepsy. This book will attract the interest of professionals and students from a wide range of disciplines, including physicists, chemists, biologists, sensory physiologists and medical researchers such as cardiologists, neurologists and biomedical engineers.

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More than 10,000 entries with expanded encyclopaedic-style definitions make this major reference work invaluable to practitioners, researchers and students working in the area of polymer science and technology. This new edition now includes liquid crystal polymers, new characterisation methods and polymers with special electrical properties

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This unique reference is the first book of its kind. It offers a comprehensive guide to the terminology and language used in the worldwide plastics industry, covering thousands of words and concepts in engineering, chemistry, thermodynamics, design, quality control, research activity, product
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Anionic Polymerization to Cationic Polymerization, Volume 2, Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering, 2nd Edition

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This compact desk reference includes all of the subjects contained in the 17 alphabetical volumes and the Supplement and Index volumes of the Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering. The articles have been condensed by professional science writers, reviewed for accuracy by the original authors or their colleagues, and updated where necessary. Like the ten-million word edition, this one-million word edition provides both SI and common units, carefully selected key references for each article, and hundreds of tables, charts, figures, and graphs. This distillation, skillfully prepared to retain the factual material of the original, is a complete and self-contained encyclopedia. It is designed to serve as a ready-reference guide for anyone seeking answers to questions on any aspect of polymer science and engineering.

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Computational Ocean Acoustics (Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing)

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Computational Ocean Acoustics (Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing)
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"Many practical suggestions and tips; the examples are meaningful and the illustrations are effective....Destined to become a classic reference that any serious practitioner of ocean acoustics cannot afford to ignore."
Revue de livre Authored by four internationally renowned scientists, this volume covers 20 years of progress in computational ocean acoustics and presents the latest numerical techniques used in solving the wave equation in heterogeneous fluid-solid media. The authors detail various computational schemes and illustrate many of the fundamental propagation features via 2-D color displays.

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Over-ambitious but useful reference work.......2003-03-04

During the last decade, this book has established itself as the definitive reference on Computational Ocean Acoustics. The book reviews most computational techniques very clearly and with proper attention to mathemathical detail. The book is organized systematically with a short introduction on applications and oceanography, a second chapter on the basic physics of wave propagation with emphasis on the ocean environment, before the most important computational techniques (ray tracing, wavenumber integration, normal modes, parabolic equations) are treated in separate chapters. The finite difference and finite elements methods are breafly reviewed in one chapter, as these methods are not very applicable in the problems typical for underwater acoustics.

Based on the first seven chapters alone, this reference work deserves five stars. The one tiny detail I find troublesome here, is the introduction to chapter 2 where the linear wave equation is derived. As I have not read a lot of nonlinear fluid mechanics, I find these two or three pages very confusing. Perhaps this derivation should have been expanded a bit in an appendix. However, this is not a major problem, except for it being an unnecessarily high hurdle to get by when starting reading chapter 2.

The problem with this book becomes obvious when one reads the later chapters, particularly on Matched Field Processing for Source Localization (MFP/SL). The approach is to use the various computational techniques reviewed in the book to find the unknown location of an acoustic source. The solution of this problem is shown to be very sensitive to medium parameters. However, these parameters are not available, so a method termed 'focalization' is used to tune in both the medium parameters and the source position simultaneously. However, in the next instance, the authors claim that precise knowledge the medium parameters, previously accepted to be either unknown or known only with limited presicion, can be used for resolving the azimuth bearing to the source. This makes no sense to me.

As the authors have obviously not contemplated the applications of the reviewed techniques in sufficient detail for them to stand for closer scrutiny, this book only gets two stars from me.

Comprehensive Review.......2001-04-19

This book is an excellent comprehensive review of the topics necessary to study ocean acoustics. It moves through the physics of wave propagation, carefully explaining the methods and the use of logarithmic measures. The numerical approaches are well organized and theoretically explained before demonstrating examples and giving "recipes" for simple codes. Everything you need is in this book, including some basic signal processing techniques.

Some of the chapters are written better than others, but to get a look at the whole subject, you can't beat it.

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In this remarkable book, the author of Shiloh and Other Stories, In Country, and other award-winning books gives us powerful new stories that capture the restless energy of life in contemporary America. The characters here are travelers and seekers, feeling their way toward, or away from the defining moments of their lives. They roam out into the world to England, Alaska, Texas, Saudi Arabia, or ricochet back home to Kentucky, ceaselessly searching, exploring, testing for limits.

I felt strange, says Chrissy in With Jazz, as though all my life I had been zigzagging down a wild trail to this particular place. In Charger, a teenage boy races along the interstate, seeking the father who abandoned him years before. In Rolling into Atlanta, a young woman searches for the kind of authenticity she remembers from her rural childhood. In Proper Gypsies, Nancy deals with the shock of being robbed in London. In The Funeral Side, Sandra comes home to try to fulfill her responsibilities to her family, but yearns to escape again to Alaska and the northern lights that haunt her. Writing in the spare, precise, beautifully nuanced language for which she is famous, Bobbie Ann Mason expands her art here in dramatic and illuminating fashion.

These fascinating stories bring to life surprising individuals whose journeys shine a bright light on life as it is lived by many Americans today. Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is a beautiful book by one of America's finest writers, a book full of drama, humor, and startling insights into the timeless longings of the human heart.

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Zigzagging down a wild trail.......2007-07-09

Mason's book went nowhere. Her characters were all losers, misfits, chaos-junkies. How anyone in their right mind could champion this book is beyond me. Our book club thought it was the worst we've read in a long time. My only advice to anyone considering "Zigzagging" is to slither along to another title. Anything else is preferable.
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Bobbie's been better.......2006-04-25

Shiloh and Other Stories, Mason's early 1980's collection---the one that really put her on the map---is what all her other work is judged against. I've read it three times and it always feels fresh. Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail, by sad contrast, feels phoned in. Mason visits a lot of familiar territory and characters, but she has mostly failed to give these places and people heart in this go around. With a few fine exceptions---among them Tobrah, Three Wheeler, The Funeral Side, and Rolling Into Atlanta--at least half of the book feels like what a good Mason imitator might turn in. This isn't to say that they're not enjoyable to read. However, I only took a few days to read the collection and by the end, I could hardly remember what the first story was about. Some other stories start well but never find the cohesion or impact of Mason's best work. I can't help but think that she must have had some contractual obligation to whip out something really fast. If you've never read her before, my recommendation would be to start with Shiloh and Other Stories and then go from there.

a story about folks in western kentucky.......2003-07-26

i enjoyed these stories as they were based in an area not too far from where i grew up in Southeast Missouri. i could recognize the type of characters and it made for great, light reading. It made me want to read more work by the author.

Not Mason's Best.......2002-12-05

I had the overwhelming sense that I had read these stories before, and that they were better the first time. Mason covers a lot of old ground here, and while a few of the stories offer new perspectives, many of them feel like retreads.

The best thing about Zigzagging over her other short story collections is it's more recent: Mason's reliance on up-to-the-minute references make her stories dated (though still excellent).

If you've never read Mason's other collections, give them a look first.

A New Perspective.......2002-02-14

"Zigzagging Down A Wild Trail", by Bobbie Ann Mason is a great collection of short stories. She has a very unique and clever way of seeing what is presented to all of us, but is only viewed by some, and recorded by even fewer. Her stories are not about fantastically unusual events. Her characters are generally people that many will know some version of, and yet when she finishes rendering their personalities they feel as though they are new.

There are 11 stories in the collection, and the titles range from, "Tobrah, Thunder Snow, and Charger". "Tobrah", resides at one end of this range of tales, with a daughter traveling to make arrangements for her father who deserted her, only to find that with his final leaving in death he has also left her a half-sister that is younger by decades. Other than her name the child is largely a mystery, and some clues that develop are less than comforting. This story like many that are in the book are left with unfinished issues, the outcome is for the reader to decide. Many of these tales are brought to a conclusion very abruptly, a style that I usually finally annoying. This was not the case with this writer's work, and it may be because the stories themselves are so rich that even left incomplete, the writer has given her audience all they need.

Well-known events like The Gulf War are also modified so that it is the husband who has stayed behind while his wife has gone off to war. Superficially the story appears to contain much of the cliché male thinking one would expect, but pay attention to the detail, and the story is unique and very well done. The character and title of one story, "Charger", is at times humorous, and at others sad as his and his girlfriend's future are all too predictable. The characters of Charger, who is desirous of readjusting his brain via the use of his girlfriend's aunt's Prozac, is someone you will not forget easily. And his girlfriend who wears skintight snakeskin pants, "Like a pair of Boa Constrictors", and defines happiness as having lipstick on, may be the most interesting characters in the book.

Whatever your interests there is a high probability that Bobbie Ann Mason will provide several stories for you to enjoy.

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