"Version: 20210201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Goals of the lecture notes -- 1.2. Classical electrodynamics and its symmetries -- 1.3. Field quantization -- 1.4. The need for discreteness in quantum computing -- 1.5. Symmetries and predictive models2. Classical field theory -- 2.1. Classical action, equations of motion and symmetries -- 2.2. Tr…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Brief history -- 1.2. Organization of the book2. Principles of mechanochemical activation -- 2.1. High-energy mechanochemical activation -- 2.2. Modeling and simulations -- 2.3. Concluding remarks3. Ferroelectric ceramics (I) -- 3.1. Background -- 3.2. Lead-containing unary ferroelectric ceramics -…
"Version: 20190701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.9. Pharmacological modulations -- 9.1. Biological preliminaries -- 9.2. Modeling of competitive antagonist action -- 9.3. Modeling of allosteric interaction -- 9.4. Allosteric modulation of competitive agonist/antagonist action -- 9.5. Modeling of a PDE-5 inhibitorpart II. Applications. 10. The stomach -- 10.1. Anatomical…
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Requirements for monitoring radiation dose -- 1.1. Introduction--historical perspective -- 1.2. Requirements for monitoring radiation in the workplace (1999-2018) -- 1.3. What dose quantity is measured? -- 1.4. Approval criteria for dosimetry services -- 1.5. Other standards applicable to dosimetry services -- 1.6. Stu…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental set-up -- 2.1. Tracer particles -- 2.2. Illumination -- 2.3. Area/volume illumination optics -- 2.4. Camera3. Particle image identification -- 3.1. Non-overlapped particles -- 3.2. Overlapped particles -- 3.3. Particle identification comparison4. Identification of particles' spatial loca…
"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…
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. What is a planet? -- 1.2. Solar system overview -- 1.3. Brief remarks on this text -- 1.4. Important terms -- 1.5. Chapter 1 homework questions2. Energy from the sun -- 2.1. Energy generation in the sun -- 2.2. Blackbody curves and luminosity -- 2.3. The inverse square law -- 2.4. The equilibrium t…
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Background. 1. Background knowledge -- 1.1. Imaging principles and a priori information2. Tomographic reconstruction based on a learned dictionary -- 2.1. Prior information guided reconstruction -- 2.2. Single-layer neural network -- 2.3. CT reconstruction via dictionary learning -- 2.4. Final remarks3. Artificial…
"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…
"Version: 20191001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Teaching and learning in higher education -- 1.1. The changing environment -- 1.2. Developments and drivers -- 1.3. Strategically important subjects -- 1.4. Supply side -- 1.5. Innovations in pedagogy -- 1.6. Excellence and curriculum design -- 1.7. Problem-based approaches2. The curriculum and design science -- 2.1. H…