by E.R. Pike, J.B. Abbiss (1997)
The miniaturisation and performance improvements provided by solid state lasers, fibre optics and avalanche photodiode detectors have given a significant impulse to the use of photon correlation techniques in the study of laser scattering by macromolecular suspensions, liquid surfaces, critical fluids and turbulent liquids. The improvements can be found in experimental technique, colloids and aggregation, polymers, gels, liquid crystals and mixtures, protein solutions and dense media. Powerful new methods of inverse problems are being applied to data analysis. Much progress is being made in the study of dense media using index matching techniques. two colour systems and the theory of photon diffusion. Other notable recent developments are phase transitions in the space shuttle microgravity environment, quantum cryptography and the application of photon correlation at X-ray wavelengths using synchrotron sources. <br/> <em>Audience:</em> Postgraduate and industrial researchers interested in particle sizing and particle interactions, the physical chemistry of polymers, proteins, enzymes, viruses and other macromolecules, optical instrumentation, and experiments in space.
C.J. Cherryh
The plight of a man who can see both sides of a problem. He is Ben Cameron of Mospheira, a planet shared by humans and aliens, and he is the only one who speaks both languages. War threatens and as the official go-between Cameron's job is to find a compromise, but how to reconcile people who only talk one language? By the author of Invader.
[by] Jacqueline Jackson and William Perlmutter
Living in a time when people are the servants of automobiles and ruled by the master auto of the planet, Josette longs to leave her rollabout and try her legs.
Weixiong Zhang
"This book examines state-space search, for combinatorial optimization, one of the fundamental problems of computer science and operations research. In particular, it focuses on heuristic state-space search algorithms, including best-first search, depth-first branch-and-bound, iterative deepening, recursive best-first search, and space-bounded best-first search."--BOOK JACKET.
Guy Haley
"The 0.01% have decided Earth is history. Dariusz is an engineer whose career ended years ago: now, a man he's never met sits in a bar that doesn't exist and offers him a fresh start-- at a price. Cassandra-- 'Sand, ' to her friends-- is a space pilot, who itches to get her hands on the controls and actually fly a ship rather than watch computers do it for her. The 'Pointers'-- the elite 0.01% who control virtually all wealth-- have seen the limitations of a plundered Earth and set their eyes on the stars. And now Dariusz and Sand, and a half-million ambitious men and women just like them, are sent out to extend the Pointers' and the Market's influence across the galaxy. But the colony fleet is sabotaged and the ESS Adam Mickiewicz crashes, on an alien planet where one hemisphere is seared by perpetual daylight and the other shrouded in eternal night. The castaways have the chance to create society from scratch-- but the hostile planet-- or their own leaders-- may destroy them before they can even begin"--Page 4 of cover.