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Pathogenicity Islands and the Evolution of Pathogenic Microbes: Volume I (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology)
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It has been known for a number of years that not only pathogenicity islands but also plasmids and bacteriophages are able to carry genes whose products are involved in pathogenic processes. Accordingly, such elements and their products play an important role in pathogenesis due to the intestinal E. coli as well due to Shigellae. Another interesting aspect which is reflected in different articles is that genomes evolve by acquisition of new pieces of DNA following gene transfer, but also by genome reduction. Different mechanisms include the deletion of sequences or the elimination of functions by the accumulation of point mutations or rearrangements.
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The “Gale Encyclopedia of Science” is written at a level somewhere between the introductory sources and the highly technical texts currently available. This six-volume set covers all major areas of science and engineering, as well as mathematics and the medical and health sciences, while providing a comprehensive overview of current scientific knowledge and technology. Alphabetically arranged entries provide a user-friendly format that makes the broad scope of information easy to access and decipher. Entries typically describe scientific concepts, provide overviews of scientific areas and, in some cases, define terms.
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ENTEROBACTERIA
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Karst Hydrogeology & Geomorphology
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Originally published in 1989, Karst Geomorphology and Hydrology became the leading textbook on karst studies. This new textbook has been substantially revised and updated.
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Karst Geomorphology and Hydrogeology
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Cave and karst-related papers in the mainstream scientific literature: A bibliography (Cave geology)
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Geometric Optics on Phase Space (Texts and Monographs in Physics)
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Symplectic geometry, well known as the basic structure of Hamiltonian mechanics, is also the foundation of optics. In fact, optical systems (geometric or wave) have an even richer symmetry structure than mechanical ones (classical or quantum). The symmetries underlying the geometric model of light are based on the symplectic group.
Geometric Optics on Phase Space develops both geometric optics and group theory from first principles in their Hamiltonian formulation on phase space. This treatise provides the mathematical background and also collects a host of useful methods of practical importance, particularly the fractional Fourier transform currently used for image processing. The reader will appreciate the beautiful similarities between Hamilton's mechanics and this approach to optics. The appendices link the geometry thus introduced to wave optics through Lie methods. The book addresses researchers and graduate students.
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Aimed at graduate physics and chemistry students, this is the first comprehensive monograph covering the concept of the geometric phase in quantum physics from its mathematical foundations to its physical applications and experimental manifestations. It contains all the premises of the adiabatic Berry phase as well as the exact Anandan-Aharonov phase. It discusses quantum systems in a classical time-independent environment (time dependent Hamiltonians) and quantum systems in a changing environment (gauge theory of molecular physics). The mathematical methods used are a combination of differential geometry and the theory of linear operators in Hilbert Space. As a result, the monograph demonstrates how non-trivial gauge theories naturally arise and how the consequences can be experimentally observed. Readers benefit by gaining a deep understanding of the long-ignored gauge theoretic effects of quantum mechanics and how to measure them.
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This work examines the beautiful and important physical concept known as the "geometric phase," bringing together different physical phenomena under a unified mathematical and physical scheme.
Several well-established geometric and topological methods underscore the mathematical treatment of the subject, emphasizing a coherent perspective at a rather sophisticated level. What is unique in this text is that both the quantum and classical phases are studied from a geometric point of view, providing valuable insights into their relationship that have not been previously emphasized at the textbook level.
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• Background material presents basic mathematical tools on manifolds and differential forms.
• Topological invariants (Chern classes and homotopy theory) are explained in simple and concrete language, with emphasis on physical applications.
• Berry's adiabatic phase and its generalization are introduced.
• Systematic exposition treats different geometries (e.g., symplectic and metric structures) living on a quantum phase space, in connection with both abelian and nonabelian phases.
• Quantum mechanics is presented as classical Hamiltonian dynamics on a projective Hilbert space.
• Hannay’s classical adiabatic phase and angles are explained.
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• Problems at the end of each chapter.
Graduate students in mathematics with some prior knowledge of quantum mechanics will learn about a class of applications of differential geometry and geometric methods in quantum theory. Physicists and graduate students in physics will learn techniques of differential geometry in an applied context.
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Edited by Nobel Prize winner Ilya Prigogine and renowned authority Stuart A. Rice, the Advances in Chemical Physics series provides a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations in every area of the discipline. In a format that encourages the expression of individual points of view, experts in the field present comprehensive analyses of subjects of interest. Advances in Chemical Physics remains the premier venue for presentations of new findings in its field.
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The first Summer School of Analysis and Mathematical Physics of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Cuernavaca) offered graduate and advanced undergraduate students courses on modern topics in the overlap between analysis and physics. This volume contains the expanded notes from the lectures by Brian Hall, Alejandro Uribe, and David Borthwick. The articles introduce readers to mathematical methods of classical and quantum mechanics and the link between these two theories: quantization and semiclassical analysis. Hall writes about holomorphic methods in analysis and mathematical physics and includes exercises. Uribe's lectures covered trace formulae, in particular asymptotic behavior and the relationship between the asymptotics and the geometric properties of the classical system. Borthwick presents an introduction to Kähler quantization, including the moment map, the orbit method, and symmetry and reduction. The exposition in the entire volume is geared to introducing graduate students with a basic knowledge of mathematics into areas of active research.
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Geometric Methods in the Elastic Theory of Membranes in Liquid Crystal Phases (Advanced Series on Theoretical Physical Science , Vol 2)
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Process Physics: From Information Theory To Quantum Space And Matter (Contemporary Fundamental Physics)
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Making Light Matter of Dark Matter.......2007-01-30
As we proceeded with our investigation into the arcane science
of microwave laser particle beam physics, we discovered several barriers.
One of these was the apparent effects of Dark Matter on the
path of MASER beams.
We could never explain why our system behaved in such a way
that contravened the principles of so-called "Dark Matter".
One of our crew was an avid reader of leading-edge physics
and science books and came across a possible explanation in
Process Physics:
Dark Matter could be a figment of human imagination
or a deliberate false hypothesis that misleads the "educated"
away from certain crucial flaws in accepted scientific theory.
This easily provided an explanation for why we observed results
almost opposite those forecast by several of Einstein's theories.
In the 19th century, the Theory of Darwin was all the rage
in England and throughout the Commonwealth, even as the various
Einstein theories are rigidly specified in "accepted"
scientific thought and investigation in this age.
It becomes more evident to some of us that "modern science"
is probably a religion based around dogmatic beliefs of
a very materialistic physical value system.
PP helped some of us break through some of the barriers
laid down by the Thought Police of modern "science".
Cahill's book is best read and used by scientific investigators
with adequate collegiate backgrounds in mathematics
related to physics and quantum mechanics.
PP is probably a book Galileo would have been proud of,
and perhaps, would have possibly faced another death threat,
or termination of salary support, from the ruling Roman
religious elite of that day or the ruling Czars
of today's "space age" physical materialist physicians.
I conclude that PP yields some very interesting,
and mathematically challenging exposures, a
revealing paradigm, that can be used to advantage
when examining the enigmatic Laws of Nature
and inconsistencies of "popular" science.
A new paradigm for physics?.......2006-10-10
Reginald Cahill is attempting nothing less than a revolutionary paradigm shift in physics. It is to be accomplished by modeling time as a process instead of as a geometric line. The old geometric model captures some aspects of time, such as the notion of events in an order and the quantitative "length of time" between events, but it is unable to capture the fundamental distinction between the past and the future. "The past is fixed and at best partially recorded, while the future is undecided and certainly not recorded" (p. 12). The failure of physics to model time as a process led eventually to Einstein's conception of time as the fourth dimension of spacetime, the block universe whose future popped into existence as soon as the universe was formed, and gravity as a curvature of spacetime. Perhaps Cahill's most startling claim is that "the Einstein curved spacetime construct is without experimental support, that it actually never was confirmed by the key and celebrated experiments...," but it persists in the face of contradictory evidence because "the non-process paradigm has acquired the status of a belief system, as distinct from a science..." (10-11). Process physics does support the relativistic effects of special relativity (time-dilation and length contraction), but places them within a different theory of time, space and gravity. Cahill says that quantum effects also emerge naturally from process physics.
Process physics models reality as a "self-organizing semantic information system," whereas non-process models are merely syntactical. For example, a Turing computing machine is a syntactical system in the sense that the information held by the machine is meaningless to the machine itself. My word processor doesn't understand what I write, although hopefully I do! A syntactical system is just a set of objects acted upon by other objects, and such a system can be modeled with a set of symbols to represent the objects and a set of rules describing their interactions. As biologist Robert Rosen has written, "the formalist position, that the universe of discourse needs to consist of nothing more than meaningless symbols pushed around by definite rules of manipulation, is exactly parallel to the mechanical picture of the phenomenal world as consisting of nothing more than configurations of structureless particles, pushed around by impressed forces" (Life Itself, p. 7). Rosen has argued that this framework is inadequate for understanding living systems, let alone human minds. Now Cahill is arguing that it is inadequate for understanding reality in general.
If one takes seriously the notion that the future is less defined than the past, then one may regard reality as a process of ongoing self-definition, with each "now" an occasion of self-definition. We need a model of an information system that can actively use the information within itself to further define itself, continually constructing its future out of its past. Thinkers in the humanities and social sciences have described human minds and cultures this way. Cahill is trying to model all of physical reality as such a semantic system. He models it mathematically as a stochastic neural network whose nodes are sub-networks of the same kind, ad infinitum (no "bottom" or beginning of reality being supposed), and whose iterations within a nonlinear dynamic process capture the notion of process time. The fundamental equation describing the matrix iterations includes a noise factor that "limits the self-referential relational information but, significantly, also acts in such a way that the network is innovative in the sense of generating semantic information...." (p. 24). So the system never stops defining itself. From this mathematical foundation, he proceeds to reformulate and extend fundamental physics, including a new theory of quantum gravity.
I am not a physicist, so I can't evaluate Cahill's physics as such. I am a sociologist interested in paradigm shifts, and I give Cahill high marks for addressing the problems with the prevailing scientific paradigm. How well his work will stand up to scientific scrutiny remains to be seen. Time (what else?) will tell.
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An insightful, often humorous, sometimes scary adventure. A group of ordinary people travel from temples of Japan to the heights of the Himalayas to experience a sacred initiation given by the 14th Dalai Lama.
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