BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology: VI: Biomedical & Biological Nanotechnology. V2: Micro/Nano Technology for Genomics and Proteomics. V3: Therapeutic ... Sensing, Processing and Analysis

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The frontiers of microtechnology and nanotechnology are changing the face of medicine through the efforts of researchers to build biomedical microelectromechanical systems, or bioMEMS - tiny working machines so small, they measure only a few millionths of a meter across. BIOMEMS AND BIOMEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY, edited by Mauro Ferrari, comprises the first comprehensive reference devoted to all aspects of research in the diagnostic and therapeutic applications of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), microfabrication, and nanotechnology. Contributions report on fundamental and applied investigations of the material science, biochemistry, and physics of biomedical microdevices.

BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology is a comprehensive reference consisting of 4 volumes:

I: Prospectus, Biological and Biomedical Nanotechnology (Volume Editors, A. Lee and L. Lee)
II: Micro and Nano-Technologies for Genomics and Proteomics (Volume Editors, M. Ozkan and M. Heller)
III: Therapeutic Micro/Nanotechnology (T. Desai and S. Bhatia)
IV: Biomolecular Sensing, Processing and Analysis (Volume Editors, R. Bashid and S. Wereley)

This reference is devoted to research in the diagnostic and therapeutic applications of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, microfabrication, and nanotechnology.

Subjects include the design, characterization, testing, modeling and clinical validation of microfabricated systems and their integration on-chip and in larger functional units. There will be specific discussions on systems for neural stimulation and recording, bioseparation technologies such as nanofilters and electrophoretic equipment, miniaturized analytic and DNA identification systems, biosensors, and microtechnologies for cell and tissue research, tissue engineering, cell transplantation and the controlled release of drugs and therapeutic proteins.

Each volume contains many figures in full color.

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This up-to-the-minute edition provides the latest in Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Digital Mapping, Spatial Information Systems, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), as well as comprehensive coverage of the surveying techniques, operations, and information professionals of every stripe need on the job.

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Top of the line.......2001-12-08

By far the best surveying text available. It covers both basic concepts and more in-depth topics with equal clarity. This text is a must for surveying students, and practicing surveyors alike.

The Bible.......2000-06-13

Good book and reference.Lots of examples and exercises with lilustrations and up to date theory. A great buy for the surveying student.

Global Positioning System: Theory and Practice

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For the mathematically inclined
A resource for more than just GPS
More theory than practice!

Global Positioning System: Theory and Practice
B. Hofmann-Wellenhof , H. Lichtenegger , and J. Collins
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Review of the 4th edition "... The growing society of GPS users and designers could be very grateful for the efforts of both the authors and the publisher resulting in the fourth, revised edition of this splendid reference book within six years ... The continous updating and revising make this book an excellent standard reference on GPS for theoreticians and practicians in the future.” Acta Geodaetica, Geophysica et Montanistica Hungarica

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For the mathematically inclined.......2005-06-15

This text provides a great introduction to the *theory* of GPS. It is rigorous on the mathematics so I wouldn't recommend it for someone who just needs a general understanding of how GPS operates or an understanding of the applications of GPS (e.g. software project managers or other personnel who aren't actually implementing sat or receiver software). For those who need to dive into the theory and algorithms with of GPS, you should have a firm understanding of trigonometry, linear algebra (matrix operations) and basic calculus before reading this text. As one reviewer pointed out, it does cover the application of GPS to surveying in depth.

If you are software engineer working on an application that only needs to know what comes out of a GPS receiver's serial data port and how to make use of if, this book isn't for you. There are other texts available that cover most of the material that you need. If you need to know what comes out of a GPS receiver's data port (the interface specification), you should refer to (controlled access) the latest version of ICD-GPS-153 "GPS User Equipment Interface Control Document for the GPS Standard Serial Interface Protocol". Then refer to numerous other texts on coordinate transformations, projections, etc. However, this is not to say that this book is completely useless for such a developer as it does cover material such as coordinate transformations with respect to the GPS reference system (WGS-84) and it touches on the topic of projections that I will return to shortly.

My primary complaint with the text is the notation utilized. The text makes use of non-standard (or perhaps it would be better to say "archaic") vector and matrix notation. At least, non-standard in my experience. This could be driven by technical limitations in the publishing/printing process used by Springer or other reasons. I personally have few texts by the publisher with which to compare this text. I found myself having to make notes or constantly flipping back-and-forth just to remind myself of what a particular symbol represented. If you have a background in geodesy or Geographic Information Systems (GIS), you may find the notation alien in appearance.

The text offers an inverse method of transforming Geocentric ECEF (X,Y,Z) coordinates into Geodetic (latitude, longitude, height). A topic that many authors shy away from. I haven't studied the approach or compared it to algorithms that I currently use. Therefore, for the software developer, you might want to compare these results with those obtained by other algorithms developed by Bowring, Nautiyal and others. There are several variations of Bowring's algorithm sprinkled around the Internet, each developed to meet specific needs (e.g. extreme accuracy or extreme speed of execution). The developer should explore all algorithmic approaches and determine the best for his/her application.

The text touches on the Transverse Mercator projection and the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid reference system. The coverage of UTM is inadequate for someone needing to implement it in software. I would refer the reader to the Defense Mapping Agency (DMA, now the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, or NGA) document 8358.2 "The Universal Grids: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) and Universal Polar Stereographic (UPS)" for a thorough treatment of the UTM grid reference system. This document is available to the public on the Internet.

For a text that covers practice/applications of GPS, I would like to see some detailed discussion of the interfaces between receivers and external equipment (i.e. computers & application software) with respect to ICD-GPS-153. I believe that some discussion of this can be made without revealing sensitive interface details.

The reference section is superb and the book sprinkles many useful online resources throughout the text.

I found the comparison of GPS to GLONASS (Russian equivalent to GPS) particularly interesting. There is only a brief mention of Galileo (the European civial "GPS" system).

A resource for more than just GPS.......2001-07-26

This is an excellent book for anyone that works with spacecraft geometry and/or timekeeping. It contains concise descriptions of coordinate systems, orbital elements and timekeeping. I've been using it as an algorithm 'cookbook'. This is not a book for a casual GPS user, or someone who is sqeamish about math. It's much easier to use than the Astronomical Almanac for basic algorithms. Like a fool, I lent it out. Now I need to buy another one.

More theory than practice!.......2000-01-21

As a commercial GPS user, I was looking for a book that would offer a fairly basic overview of GPS, but that would still go into significant detail. This book does exactly that, but it also covers a lot of the mathematical theory behind GPS. This book certainly isn't introductory and I think would be more suited to a surveyor with a good knowledge of surveying techniques who was interested in GPS. The mathematics gets a bit heavy for a non-mathematician but Chapter 7 (Surveying with GPS) is an excellent introduction/review of the practical uses of GPS in the field. A good intermediate-advanced level book, probably very suited to students.

Global Positioning System: Theory and Practice.: An article from: American Scientist

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Global Positioning System: Theory and Practice.: An article from: American Scientist
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Global Positioning System (GPS): Theory and practice : SAGEEP 98, Chicago, Il, March 26, 1998

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Global Positioning System (GPS): Theory and practice : SAGEEP 98, Chicago, Il, March 26, 1998
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Global Positioning System : Theory and Practice; 4th Revised Edition

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Global Positioning System : Theory and Practice; 4th Revised Edition
Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof
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A very detailed treatment of the physics of photosynthesis.......2005-03-23

As defined in this book, and in other works on condensed matter physics, an exciton is a superposition of localized molecular excitations. The physics of excitons must of course be described by quantum mechanics (or better yet quantum field theory), and this description is given ample detail in this book for the case of excitons in the photosynthetic system of plants and cyanobacteria. It discusses the physics of photosynthetic excitons by breaking it up into two cases. The first of these is where the broadening the absorption and flourescence bands is larger than the coupling strength between pigments, and hence perturbation theory (the Fermi Golden Rule) can be applied. The second case is where the coupling is the same order of magnitude or greater than the amount of broadening. The first case describes the incoherent energy transfer between the donor and acceptor molecules in the photosynthetic apparatus, and is described by the Forster equation, which was derived early on in the study of the physics of photosynthesis. In the second case one must study `coherent' excitons, which are those where the excitations are not localized on individual molecules.

The authors give a comprehensive overview of the dynamics of excitons in photosynthetic complexes and their steady-state spectroscopic properties in this book. Readers of the will probably have different interests when approaching the book, some may want a more theoretical emphasis, while others want to understand the experimental or spectroscopic results in photosynthesis. Both sets of readers will find what they are looking for in the book, and also much more detail if needed in the larger number of references given. All readers are expected to have a solid understanding of the photosynthetic system from a biological or descriptive perspective, and a solid background in quantum physics at the advanced graduate level. The book is fascinating reading, and considering the importance of photosynthesis, is one that certainly become a classic in the field. There is serious discussion at the present time in systems of artificial photosynthesis, and in using the photosynthetic apparatus as a method of computation. Whether this research will get off the ground and produce useful technologies remains to be seen, but certainly an understanding of the physics of photosynthesis as given in this book will play a role in attempting to bring these projects to fruition.

Such a long and detailed book cannot be reviewed in the space available, but there are many places in the book that stand out in their clarity and the degree of fascination they instill in the reader and deserve mention. One of these concerns the use of the stochastic Liouville equation in describing the depolarization of a dimer in an ultrafast flourescence or transient absorption experiment. The authors use a `delocalized' representation to calculate the density matrix elements, and consequently calculate the intensity of the flourescence, for orientations of the polarizer both parallel and perpendicular to the excitation and detection branch.

Another interesting discussion in the book, because of both its clarity and its conciseness, is one that concerns a kinetic model of a light-harvesting antenna (LHA) complex consisting of several pigments with localized excitons. The LHA is modeled by a homogeneous rectangular or hexagonal lattice. The kinetics within the LHA is then determined by the hopping rate, and the charge separation in the reaction center (RC) is included as a quenching rate on one of the lattice sites. The kinetic model illustrates the role of the LHA, via the dense packing of pigments in it, in enhancing the number of photons that reach the RC. The lifetime of an exciton increases because of this, but only at the expense of the slower decay of excited states. The authors discuss how to determine the relation between the LHA and the RC experimentally by using time-resolved methods to compare the kinetics of the excited states obtained after excitation of the LHA with those obtained by direct excitation of the RC. Particularly interesting in these experiments is the use of genetic mutants lacking LH2 to study the kinetics within the RC.

The authors also spend two entire chapters on the nonlinear annihilation of excitons, both from a theoretical and an experimental point of view. The nonlinear processes which they study come primarily from molecules that are in excited singlet (S) or triplet (T) states, and are referred to as singlet-singlet (S-S) and singlet-triplet (S-T) annihilation. They arise primarily at high excitation densities, are diffusion-limited, and result in excess energy being redistributed among the vibrational modes. The authors derive the kinetic equations for a collection of pigment molecules located on the sites of a regular lattice, where each molecule is characterized by a set of singlet states. They then discuss the case where singlet excited molecules can be converted into triplet states via intersystem crossing. The kinetic equations for the density of the excited states are derived, and the authors show how `anti-Smoluchowski triplet-triplet (T-T) annihilation can arise because of the inhomogeneous distribution of triplets resulting from S-T annihilation. They also discuss in some detail the local heating that results from the excitation annihilation. This local heating has the effect of modifying the coupling of the molecule to its surroundings, resulting sometimes in the `polaron effect'. The authors use collective coordinates to study the (linear) coupling between an electron and the collective nuclear motion. The dynamics of the collective coordinates are described by a stochastic damped oscillator equation. For the case where the kinetics of the collective coordinates is fast relative to the changes in temperature and occupation number of the molecule. Thermal fluctuations are thus neglected and the equation can be readily solved. For the case where the collective coordinates change slow with respect to changes in temperature, one again gets a solution, and also a notion of `difference absorption spectrum', which the authors discuss in the context of pump-probe spectroscopy.

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This book restores Aaron Burr to his place as a central figure in the founding of the American Republic. Abolitionist, proto-feminist, friend to such Indian leaders as Joseph Brant, Burr was personally acquainted with a wider range of Americans, and of the American continent, than any other Founder except George Washington. He contested for power with Hamilton and then with Jefferson on a continental scale. The book does not sentimentalize any of its three protagonists, neither does it derogate their extraordinary qualities. They were all great men, all flawed, and all three failed to achieve their full aspirations. But their struggles make for an epic tale. Written from the perspective of a historian and administrator who, over nearly fifty years in public life, has served six presidents, this book penetrates into the personal qualities of its three central figures. In telling the tale of their shifting power relationships and their antipathies, it reassesses their policies and the consequences of their successes and failures. Fresh information about the careers of Hamilton and Burr is derived from newly-discovered sources, and a supporting cast of secondary figures emerges to give depth and irony to the principal narrative. This is a book for people who know how political life is lived, and who refuse to be confined within preconceptions and prejudices until they have weighed all the evidence, to reach their own conclusions both as to events and character. This is a controversial book, but not a confrontational one, for it is written with sympathy for men of high aspirations, who were disappointed in much, but who succeeded, in all three cases, to a degree not hitherto fully understood.

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Rambling, badly written --only for readers who crave detail .......2006-11-19

This book has a beginning but not a middle or an ending. He skips, for example, Burr's final trial in front of Marshall that was the cornerstone of the Jefferson/Marshall antipathy. (There is discussion of the surrounds political background and a touch of the law involved, but no more.) I was, and still am, very interested in the character of our founding fathers, and this is what is promised. Other than Hamilton was a good guy (you won't find out why) and Jefferson was a scheming politician with an uncertain grip on ethical behavior (Kennedy is certainly not the first historian to think so), I don't know much more than when I started the book other than to follow Burr's ramblings around the country while he was searching for either treason or a life purpose. I certainly know nothing more about Burr. He is defended generally, but there is no factual skeleton to which these conclusions can be attached. Why did Jefferson so hate and distrust Burr? No clue. Did Burr have treasonous plans? Kennedy thinks not, but never proves it. We learn that Burr is educated, amiable and good company but always from indirect testimony of side characters whose lives are pursued in painful and unecessary detail. This book is for historians already familiar with the duel, Jeffersonian politics and with overview of the times, and already knows whether Burr was looking for land or adventure. Burr's motivations? Unknown. There is a list at the end of possible motives but they are not compelling argued--and nearly not argued at all. The detail is excruciating without being informative. Sometimes I felt as though I was reading another book altogether: lush descriptions of architecture or the landscape or side trips into historical detail that doesn't have any bearing on the character of anyone. Kennedy's word choices are certainly academic but often unecessary flourishes that detract from the flow of his text. The time line tangles. I had the sense he wanted to impress me with his erudition and slap around unamed but apparently competitive scholars--neither of which are reasons for reading the book. I still would like to read the book the title promises. This is just not it.

Misleading Title/Disappointing Content.......2005-10-20

If you are expecting to read about the influence these three founding fathers had on the development of early America, you will be disappointed. If you would like to learn about the backgrounds and development of character of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, again, you will not find that information in this book. However, if you intend to expand your knowledge of Aaron Burr and to reinforce any support you might have of the man and his politics, then this is the book to read.

The style of writing Mr. Kennedy presents as he attempts to study the "character" of these three founders is disjointed and difficult to follow. He initially writes about one of them and then continues on to the other two without any recognizable continuity of the point he is attempting to make.

Eventually, the book focuses exclusively on Mr. Burr and turns into nothing short of a complete endorsement of him, his personality, and his politics. Burr was definitely an intelligent and capable man, and he did not shy away from difficult assignments in the Revolutionary War. However, his personality defects, as well as his pursuit of power at all costs, have deprived him of an elevated status when compared to other founding fathers, particularly Hamilton and Jefferson.

To obtain clearer portraits on the character of Hamilton and Jefferson, I would recommend the books by Ron Chernow and Joseph Ellis. If you are interested in the life of Burr and support his politics, this is the book to read.

Complete Rambling.......2001-07-19

One of the worst books I've ever attempted to read. The author rambles from Burr to Hamilton to Jefferson with no thread between the characters or background. The author assumes you know all the background and gives you his opinions on it. Don't waste you time on this as I did!

Excellent.......2001-01-25

This book has been given quite a good number of reviews on this site, so I would like to merely add some pertinent points. In my opinion, the format that Kennedy used in this book, zooming backward and forward in time, and in and out from one scenario or character to the next, was wholly appropriate given the task he set for himself. Kennedy did not intend, nor claim to intend, to review the full chronological history here. His intention was to zoom in on what he saw as the salient elements of the characters of these men. This style should not be confusing to one who has read previous biographies and histories of these men. I found the book immensely gratifying. I have been a "student" of Burr history for over twenty years. The truth is, there are a tremendous number of discrepancies in prior accounts of Burr, which no previous scholar has resolved. Kennedy has pulled together a massive amount of material to bring together the facts which lead to his insights, and I believe that those insights are dead-on right.

Burr beats Hamilton again, and Jefferson for the first time.......2001-01-03

Roger Kennedy freely acknowledges at the beginning of this study that he has a point of view: Aaron Burr had a greater character and value to our nation than his reputation provides, while Hamilton and Jefferson had lesser character and value to our nation than their reputations. This book is a clear and concise defense of Aaron Burr, amply annotated, easily read, and quite entertaining. On a larger scale, the study gives reason to contemplate the formulation of reputation, especially historically. Had not Burr's daughter perished at sea with all his notes and letters, we might have a much greater opinion of Burr. Any fair reader of this book will come to a much deeper appreciation for Burr, the man, and the failures and shortcomings of Hamilton and Jefferson. I highly commend this book to your attention.

Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character.

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Roger G. KENNEDY
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Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character.(Review) (book review): An article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly

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Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character.(Review) (book review): An article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly
Robert P. Watson
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Title: Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character.(Review) (book review)
Author: Robert P. Watson
Publication: Presidential Studies Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2000
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Burr, Jefferson, and Hamilton: a Study in Character

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Burr, Jefferson, and Hamilton: a Study in Character
Roger G. Kennedy
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