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Common envelope evolution /
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Why do we think common-envelope evolution happens? -- 1.2. Why is common-envelope evolution broadly important? -- 1.3. Why is modeling common-envelope evolution difficult?2. Main phases -- 2.1. Characteristic timescales -- 2.2. Phase I : the loss of orbital stability and the onset of the common env…
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Multimessenger astronomy /
"Version: 20170401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (page 18).1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1. What powers cosmic emission? -- 2.2. Cosmic messengers -- 3. Current directions -- 3.1. Gravitational wave observations--LIGO -- 3.2. High-energy neutrino observations--IceCube -- 3.3. Connecting the messengers : combined observations and interpretation -- 4. Outlook -- 5…
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Seeing the unseen :Mount Wilson's role in high angular resolution astronomy /
"Version: 20201101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The birth of stellar interferometry -- 1.1. It all started with the last man who knew everything -- 1.2. The master of light -- 1.3. Along the way to the event horizon2. The Mount Wilson opportunity -- 2.1. Go west, young man -- 2.2. Michelson and Hale -- 2.3. Anderson and Merrill3. The pi?ece de r?esistance -- 3.1. Th…
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Medical and dental guidance notes :a good practice guide on all aspects of io…
"Version: 20240601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. General measures for radiation protection -- 2. Radiation protection of persons undergoing exposures -- 3. Diagnostic radiology (excluding dental) and fluoroscopically guided interventions -- 4. Diagnostic radiology (excluding dental) and fluoroscopically-guided interventions x-ray equipment management -- 5. Dental ra…
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The Wigner function in science and technology /
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Classical mechanics -- 1.2. Rise of quantum mechanics -- 1.3. Eugene Wigner -- 1.4. Modern devices and simulation -- 1.5. Our approach2. Approaches to quantum transport -- 2.1. Modes and the Landauer formula -- 2.2. The scattering matrix approach -- 2.3. The density matrix -- 2.4. Green's functions…
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Optical cryptosystems /
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Digital techniques of data and image encryption -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Types of cryptography2. Optical techniques of image encryption : symmetric cryptosystems -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Encryption using linear canonical transforms3. Fully-phase image encryption -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Phase imaging -- 3.3…
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Single-particle cryo-EM of biological macromolecules /
"Version: 20210205"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction and overview -- 1.1. Visualizing biological molecules to understand life's principles -- 1.2. Recovery of 3D structures from images of weak-phase objects2. Sample preparation -- 2.1. Overview -- 2.2. Initial screening of samples in negative stain -- 2.3. Standard method of making grids for cryo-EM -- 2.4. …
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Commercialising fusion energy :how small businesses are transforming big scie…
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction / William J Nuttall, Satoshi Konishi, Shutaro Takeda and David Webbe-Wood -- section I. Private fusion primer. 2. Review of approaches to fusion energy / Richard J. Pearson and Shutaro Takeda -- 3. Considerations for commercialization strategies for fusion energy / Shutaro Takeda and Sehila M Gonzalez de V…
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Proton beam therapy /
"Version: 20170101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (page 23).Introduction -- Why proton beams? -- Technical challenges -- Physics challenges -- Biological challenges -- Clinical challenges -- Outlook.Cancer therapy is a multi-modality approach including surgery, systemic or targeted chemotherapy, radiation (external beam or radionuclide), and immunotherapy. Radiation is t…
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Gas sensor technologies for environmental sensing /
"Version: 20250701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Definition -- 1.2. Sensitivity -- 1.3. Selectivity -- 1.4. Stability2. Properties of gases -- 2.1. Microscopic properties -- 2.2. Macroscopic properties -- 2.3. Transport properties3. Direct transducers for gas sensing -- 3.1. Thermal conductivity detectors -- 3.2. Paramagnetic sensors -- 3.3. Pell…
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