Imaging in Molecular Dynamics: Technology and Applications

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Written in a tutorial style by some of the key practitioners in the field, this book provides a comprehensive account of charged particle imaging and describes many of its recent applications. The technique has revolutionized experimental studies of photodissociation and bimolecular collisions over the past couple of decades. It is of primary interest to researchers and graduate students working in chemical and molecular physics requiring an overview of the subject as well as ideas for future experiments.

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Queuing Theory and Telecommunications: Networks and Applications provides some fundamental knowledge in queuing theory, as well as essential analytical methods and approaches to be employed to evaluate and design telecommunication networks.

This work provides methods for teletraffic analysis as well as descriptions of current network technologies such as ISDN, B-ISDN, IP-based networks, MPLS, GMPLS, NGN and local access systems, including ADSL-based, Ethernet, Token Passing, and WiFi. Also, numerous solved exercises are provided in order to illustrate the applications of queuing theory in telecommunication networks. The following advanced telecommunication problems are modeled and solved by means of queuing analysis: statistics of the transmission delay for packet data traffic arriving at a transmission buffer; blocking behavior for bursty call arrival processes; characterization of Markovian traffic sources; performance of traffic regulators, analysis of access protocols and more. The author provides readers with a correct understanding of fundamental methods to be applied in the analysis of telecommunications systems.

Queuing Theory and Telecommunications: Networks and Applications is a reference text for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses in telecommunications engineering and networking. It will also serve as a useful work for system engineers involved in network dimensioning.

Poisson Processes (Oxford Studies in Probability)

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Poisson Processes (Oxford Studies in Probability)
J. F. C. Kingman
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ASIN: 0198536933

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In the theory of random processes there are two that are fundamental, and occur over and over again, often in surprising ways. There is a real sense in which the deepest results are concerned with their interplay. One, the Bachelier Wiener model of Brownian motion, has been the subject of many books. The other, the Poisson process, seems at first sight humbler and less worthy of study in its own right. Nearly every book mentions it, but most hurry past to more general point processes or Markov chains. This comparative neglect is ill judged, and stems from a lack of perception of the real importance of the Poisson process. This distortion partly comes about from a restriction to one dimension, while the theory becomes more natural in more general context. This book attempts to redress the balance. It records Kingman's fascination with the beauty and wide applicability of Poisson processes in one or more dimensions. The mathematical theory is powerful, and a few key results often produce surprising consequences.

Advanced Composites. Work Unit Directive (WUD) 45

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Advanced Composites. Work Unit Directive (WUD) 45

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Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: 1423507959

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This is a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING DIRECTORATE 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 A797604. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This final report is a bibliography of technical journal articles, presentations, patents, and reports generated by members of AFRL/MLBC and collaborators. The work was accomplished at Wright-Patterson AFB over a period of 23 years and covers such areas as high temperature organic matrix composites (HTOMC), environmental durability of HTOMCs, intelligent processing of composite materials, process modeling and sensor development for composite materials, multiscale modeling, fiber/matrix interfaces, ply-level fracture mechanics, and mechanics for emerging materials.

Extreme Values, Regular Variation, and Point Processes (Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering)

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nice theoretical treatment of extremes and regular variation
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Extreme Values, Regular Variation, and Point Processes (Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering)
Sidney I. Resnick
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Extremes Values, Regular Variation and Point Processes is a readable and efficient account of the fundamental mathematical and stochastic process techniques needed to study the behavior of extreme values of phenomena based on independent and identically distributed random variables and vectors. It presents a coherent treatment of the distributional and sample path fundamental properties of extremes and records. It emphasizes the core primacy of three topics necessary for understanding extremes: the analytical theory of regularly varying functions; the probabilistic theory of point processes and random measures; and the link to asymptotic distribution approximations provided by the theory of weak convergence of probability measures in metric spaces.

The book is self-contained and requires an introductory measure-theoretic course in probability as a prerequisite. Almost all sections have an extensive list of exercises which extend developments in the text, offer alternate approaches, test mastery and provide for enjoyable muscle flexing by a reader. The material is aimed at students and researchers in probability, statistics, financial engineering, mathematics, operations research, civil engineering and economics who need to know about: asymptotic methods for extremes; models for records and record frequencies; stochastic process and point process methods and their applications to obtaining distributional approximations; pervasive applications of the theory of regular variation in probability theory, statistics and financial engineering.

“This book is written in a very lucid way. The style is sober, the mathematics tone is pleasantly conversational, convincing and enthusiastic. A beautiful book!”

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“This monograph is written in a very attractive style. It contains a lot of complementary exercises and practically all important bibliographical reference.”

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nice theoretical treatment of extremes and regular variation.......2002-01-30

When I was a graduate student at Stanford in the late 1970s Sid Resnick was an assistant professor there. I took a course in stochastic processes from him. His presentation was engaging and humorous as is his writing style. This is more readily appreciated in one of his other books "A Probability Path".

This is one of several good texts on the theory of extremes that came out in the 1980s. The book is rigorous and formal and deals primarily with the iid case (the exception is extremes of moving averages). It differs from the others in that it treats the relationship between extremes and record values.

Resnick also deals with a characterization of tail behavior called regular variation that is a very useful tool in developing some of the theory. Like Leadbetter et al. he uses the point process approach but he does not exploit its application to stationary processes the way they do.

In the 1980s Resnick went on to Colorado State University where he had a very fruitful collaboration with Richard Davis. That is where he was at teh time of this text and the results of their joint research is reflected in the text. It also includes material on multivariate extremes and extremal processes.

Currently Resnick is a professor at Cornell University.

extreme values at their extremities.......1998-07-16

superbly written, lucid , clear text communicating fundamental concepts of basic stochastic processes, probability theory in a fashion, books designed for those subjects fall woefully short relative to resnick's exposition. extreme value theory is clearly presented in a fashion which makes it look easy!

Generalizations of Palm's theorem and Dyna-METRIC's demand and pipeline variability

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Generalizations of Palm's theorem and Dyna-METRIC's demand and pipeline variability
M. J Carrillo
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Generalized Poisson Models and Their Applications in Insurance and Finance (Modern Probability & Statistics)

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Generalized Poisson Models and Their Applications in Insurance and Finance (Modern Probability & Statistics)
Vladimir E. Bening , and Victor Yu Korolev
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Mixed Poisson Processes (Monographs on Statistics & Applied Probability Vol. 77)

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Mixed Poisson Processes (Monographs on Statistics & Applied Probability Vol. 77)
J Grandell
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ASIN: 0412787008

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To date, Mixed Poisson processes have been studied by scientists primarily interested in either insurance mathematics or point processes. Work in one area has often been carried out without knowledge of the other area. Mixed Poisson Processes is the first book to combine and concentrate on these two themes, and to distinguish between the notions of distributions and processes. The first part of the text gives special emphasis to the estimation of the underlying intensity, thinning, infinite divisibility, and reliability properties. The second part is, to a greater extent, based on Lundberg's thesis.

Palm's theorem for nonstationary processes

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Palm's theorem for nonstationary processes
Gordon Crawford
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Statistical Inference for Spatial Poisson Processes (Lecture Notes in Statistics)

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Statistical Inference for Spatial Poisson Processes (Lecture Notes in Statistics)
Yu A. Kutoyants
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The book discusses the estimation theory for the wide class of inhomogeneous Poisson processes. The consistency, limit distributions and the convergence of moments of parameter estimators are established in regular and non-regular (change-point type) problems. The maximum likelihood, Bayesian, and the minimum distance estimators are investigated in parametric problems and the empiric intensity measure and the kernel-type estimators are studied in nonparametric estimation problems. The properties of the estimators are also described in the situations when the observed Poisson process does not belong to the parametric family (no true model), when there are many true models (nonidentifiable family), when the observation window can be chosen by an optimal way, and others. The question of asymptotic efficiency of estimators is discussed in all of these problems. The book will be useful for those who use models of Poisson processes in their research. The large number of examples of inhomogeneous Poisson processes discussed in the book are taken from the fields of optical communications, reliability, image processing, and nuclear medicine. The material is suitable for graduate courses on stochastic processes. The book assumes familiarity with probability theory and mathematical statistics. Yury A. Kutoyants, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Main, Le Mans, France, is a member of the Bernoulli Society, the Mathematical Society of France, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He is associate editor of "Finance and Stochastics" and "Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes." He is author of "Parameter Estimation for Stochastic Processes" (Heldermann Verlag, Berlin, 1984) and "Identification of Dynamical Systems with Small Noise" (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1994), and the of about 70 articles on the

Statistics of the Boolean Model for Practitioners and Mathematicians (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

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Statistics of the Boolean Model for Practitioners and Mathematicians (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)
Ilya Molchanov
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Even as a boy growing up amid the green hills of rural Pennsylvania, Robert W. Black knew he was destined to become a Ranger. With their three-hundred-year history of peerless courage and independence of spirit, Rangers are a uniquely American brand of soldier, one foot in the military, one in the wilderness—and that is what fired Black’s imagination. In this searing, inspiring memoir, Black recounts how he devoted himself, body and soul, to his proud service as an elite U. S. Army Ranger in Korea and Vietnam—and what those years have taught him about himself, his country, and our future.

Born at the start of the Great Depression, Black grew up on a farm at a time of great hardship but also tremendous national determination. He was a kid who toughened up fast, who learned the hard way to rely on his strength and his wits, who saw the country go to war with Germany and Japan and wept because he was too young to serve. As soon as the army would take him, Black enlisted. And as soon as he could muscle his way in, he became a Ranger.

As a private first class in the 82d Airborne Division headquarters, Black withstood the humiliations of enlisted service in the peacetime brown-shoe army. When the Korean War began, he volunteered and trained to be an Airborne Ranger. In Korea, this young warrior, his mind and body bursting with the lusts of adolescence, grew up fast, literally in the line of fire. In clean, vivid prose, Black describes the hell of giving his all for a country that lacked the political resolve to give its all to a war against the North Koreans and the Chinese.

If Korea was frustrating, Vietnam was maddening. The heart of this book is devoted to the years of action that Black saw in Long An Province starting in 1967. Black writes of the perplexity of collaborating with South Vietnamese officers whose culture and motives he never fully understood; he conjures up the sudden shock of the Tet Offensive and the daily horror of seeing fellow soldiers and innocent civilians slaughtered—sometimes by stray bullets, often by carelessness or treachery. Vietnam challenged everything Black had come to believe in and left him totally unprepared for the hostility he would face when he returned to a war-weary America.

Written with extraordinary candor and passion, A Ranger Born is the memoir of a man who dedicated the best of his life to everything that is great and enduring about America. At once intimate in its revelations and universal in its themes, it is a book with profound relevance to our own troubled time in history.

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North Vietnamese Parachute Regiment ?.......2004-06-02

On page 207 of the paperback edition, Black writes about "sappers believed to have been drawn from a North Vietnamese parachute regiment." After I inquired to well over 100 Vietnam (in-country) veterans about a North Vietnamese parachute regiment, I was met with blank stares. A high percentage of these individuals served in combat units (i.e. Special Forces, 173rd, 101st, 1st Aviation Brigade). NO ONE EVER HEARD of a North Vietnamese parachute regiment. I was curious, so I contacted the author (Black) via telephone on Saturday (30 May, 2004). Black stated that he obtained the information from the military archives at Carlisle Barracks. When I checked the archives, no hits were obtained on this subject from their site, however they are now closed for the summer due to an ongoing physical location move. As a former combat Special Forces soldier and a retired homicide detective, I smell embellishment on this subject!

Great Reading.......2002-10-08

Unlike the technical, detailed Ranger books written by Col. Black, this one is from a personal standpoint and draws you into the story from page one until the last word is read. The book starts with Col. Black as a child and the desire to be a Ranger is obvious; to what it takes to qualify for Ranger training; what it takes to endure the training and what drives a Ranger to stay a Ranger. A story about being an American in the war ravaged country of Korea and Viet Nam. You read about betrayal, unrequited love, the guts and glory of war; the survival of war, and at times with a sense of humor. You laugh, you cry. It grips your heart; it grips your soul, but most of all it makes you proud to be an American; proud to have men of his calibar fighting for your freedom and that of our Country.

What movies are made of....Not your run of the mill soldier!.......2002-09-29

As a child born during the Vietnam war, I was embarrassed that I knew little about it. I could not have picked a better teacher. Learning about this time in history was decorated with the amazing story of one extraordinary man. I could not have picked a better character to guide me through the US military and Asian conflicts of my childhood. As the words of Robert Black carried me into worlds of the misunderstood, I came out of the the autobiography with an educated understanding of a troubled time in our history. Robert Black is the "Dr Phil" or our US Armed Forces. He tells it like it is, whether you are ready or not. In A Ranger Born, he writes for all those who care to learn and laugh on a journey that explores an unsafe time in history escorted by a Ranger that will protect and entertain you through the entire tour.
I hope Col. Black is deciding who will play him in the movie. I have a few suggestions...does anyone else? Read the book and you will see unforgetable characters come to life. Col. Black is the man everyone wants in their foxhole!!! Reading his book is as close as you will get!

A Ranger Born.......2002-08-17

This is the best book yet in Robert Black's series about the U. S. Rangers. It is the remarkable story of a young boy who knew exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up and who worked toward that goal from then on. Black has revealed in his series that he is a true soldier/scholar. This book traces his story through triumph and sadness. His love for his fellow Rangers shines from the story as does his love for his country. He writes with compassion and wit. The man who is the soldier and the soldier who is the man will live with you for a long time.

Better than 'Band of Brothers'; a good read for anyone.......2002-08-09

With all the `Band of Brothers' hoopla last year, this is a better book.

It's a simple story of a man trying to be the best there is -in this case an Army Ranger during two wars (Korea & Vietnam) - but he tells it in a way anyone can understand. No military credentials are needed. The sign of a good storyteller is getting the reader to have the same feelings the author does...I found myself full of pride, anger, frustration alongside Black; sometimes I wanted to cry and sometimes I wanted to pat this guy on the back. Sometimes I just went "Phew!"

This isn't a gung-ho book on "How I won the war". Its full of frailties, shortcomings, and reality. If you are looking for Gen. Patton's story, its not here. If you are looking for a coming of age story that includes finding identity, a successful path in life, and learning of the larger world around us, that is here. Black simply has the "good" misfortune of growing up in time that led him down a path to two wars, and his base of battle knowledge -- thick as a rocket launch pad - is the heart of the book.

The book includes also includes a fair amount of background of his early years as a farm kid, which is a good laugh. It's when the book takes off into his early training in Army is when this book really runs.

Anyone who ever protested the Vietnam War should read this - not to attack an agenda but to understand more about how the war affected us all. (This is coming from someone who remembers Walter Kronkite's reports from Saigon and whose Mom would have taken me to Canada had I been of draft age).

I usually don't read these types of military genre books, but I really loved it. This would be a great read on vacation, for anyone of any age. With all the stuff happening in world right now, we need more Blacks in this world to remind us what living is like when someone always wants you gone. Makes me appreciate the simple things in life. Makes me realize that we have heroes amongst us. But like Black, they don't think of themselves as one. It was a simple matter of just trying to be the best, and to come home.

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A Ranger Born : A Memoir of Combat and Valor from Korea to Vietnam
Robert W. Black
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Ranger Born: a Memoir of Combat and Valor from Korea to Vietnam (ISBN: 0345452410)

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They fought for their profession!

Karon and Joy were young, idealistic nurses—on their own. Through the perilous adventures of establishing a private nursing practice and dramatic court battle to regain their professional reputations after being fired by a powerful hospital, here is the astonishing, updated story of two women who defied the entire medical establishment.

“An inspiring story of women willing to fight for their ideals.”

—Chattanooga Times

“Encourages other women--nurses or not--to consider their options.”

—Milwaukee Journal

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Police Wives story of success as Nurses.......2002-08-02

Police Wives strike out on an adventure in business as nurses and meet all kinds of people and solve all kinds of problems

a nonfiction novel of nursing adventures.......2001-05-08

These two nurses and friends were conserative educated nurses who were forced to fight the hospital establishment in order to be patient advocates. They created the first independent nursing practice in the US and became the first nurses ever called Nurse Practicioners. Their husbands played a large part -both were Chicago police officers. One owned a detective agency and the nurses also became investigators. This is a story of transformation of women, jobs, friendships etc. It gives all women a glimpse into the mystique of medicine, hospitals, psychiatric units, movie sets, nursing in an amusement park . These two women started with very different lives-one the mother of four-the other a determined career woman. An accident to one the pregnant one creates opportunities for them in their lives that they never expected and lead them to becoming entrepeneurs, speakers, businesswomen, leaders in nursing, nurses on movie sets and in amusement parks. They treat everyone from the penniless to the multimillionaires from the gold coast to the ghetto in their journey to advance their careers and themselves. One battles with her husband's alcoholism until he becomes a runner. This is a story of success, dreams and relationships. This is a non fiction novel if their were such a thing. It leads you into the homes of patients, doctor's offices,insurance companies, hospitals, occupational and corporate health and various other settings.They meet and treat movie stars, politicians and famous clergy. Their consultant doctor is a replica of "Dr Welby' with a playboy image. They are called modern day Joan of arcs and succeed in their case against a large metropolitan hospital and go on to write this book which was optioned for a tv movie of their characters. You can reach them as I did at 8l5-773-4497.

Nurses Story Makes Great Reading.......2001-03-18

I thought this book was outstanding. It really showed that anyone can make it. These women had to struggle against a powerful hospital and society's misconceptions about the role of nurses in health care. I was especially intrigued by the adventures Karon and Joy had as independent nurse practicioners. The book gave me a new respect for the nursing profession.

Growing our own: securing the future of perioperative nursing.(focus: Perioperative nursing/education): An article from: Australian Nursing Journal

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Growing our own: securing the future of perioperative nursing.(focus: Perioperative nursing/education): An article from: Australian Nursing Journal
Menna Davies
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This digital document is an article from Australian Nursing Journal, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2005. The length of the article is 438 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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In our own right: despite the early barrier of having little formal education, Indigenous nurse Barbara Browne has pursued a life of studying and nursing.(working ... An article from: Australian Nursing Journal

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In our own right: despite the early barrier of having little formal education, Indigenous nurse Barbara Browne has pursued a life of studying and nursing.(working ... An article from: Australian Nursing Journal
Barbara Browne
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Release Date: 2005-12-14

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This digital document is an article from Australian Nursing Journal, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2005. The length of the article is 814 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: In our own right: despite the early barrier of having little formal education, Indigenous nurse Barbara Browne has pursued a life of studying and nursing.(working life)
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Volume: 13 Issue: 6 Page: 21(1)

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Little world of our own, the Pennsylvania Hospital Training School for Nurses, 1895-1907

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Little world of our own, the Pennsylvania Hospital Training School for Nurses, 1895-1907
Nancy Tomes
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