"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction and overview -- 1.1. Historical background -- 1.2. Structure of the book2. Characterization of optical fields -- 2.1. Electromagnetic field modes in vacuum -- 2.2. Quantization of electromagnetic field modes -- 2.3. Quantized electromagnetic fields -- 2.4. Quantum distribution functions3. Atom-field intera…
"Version: 20210204"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Background and context to warm dense matter -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Features of warm dense matter -- 1.3. Effects of warm dense matter on electronic structure -- 1.4. Equations of state for warm dense matter -- 1.5. Creating and probing warm dense matter2. Shock and ramp compression -- 2.1. General background -- 2…
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Modeling approaches for gas discharge plasmas -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Boltzmann kinetic equation and derivation of balance equations for the density, momentum, and energy of plasma particles -- 1.3. Two-fluid equations for plasma -- 1.4. Fluid equations of plasma in drift-diffusion approximation -- 1.5. Limitation…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introductory description of processes related to the negative pressure in liquids -- 1.1. A qualitative picture of the formation of discontinuities in a liquid -- 1.2. Negative pressure -- 1.3. Rayleigh bubble -- 1.4. Viscosity accounting in Rayleigh's equation for a bubble in a liquid -- 1.5. Dynamics of a bubble in t…
"Version: 20200601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.0. Introduction -- 0.1. The goal of ecology : understanding the distribution and abundance of organisms from their interactions -- 0.2. Mathematical models -- 0.3. Community and population ecology modellingpart I. Classical population and community ecology -- 1. From growth equations for a single species to Lotka-Volterra…
"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Introduction -- part I. Hindsight -- 1. Medicine -- Case study 1. wash your hands -- Case study 2. chromosomes and cancerpart II. Foresight -- 2. Physics in cell and developmental biology -- Case study 3. Development employs forces -- Case study 4. Depolarization induces neuron division -- Case study 5. Cells t…
"Version: 20170901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Molecular communication--crackling phone lines -- 2. How dynein works and other motor proteins -- 3. How brains work--wiring and consciousness -- 4. Spike trains and the senses--the mouse's whiskers -- 5. Elastic turbulence--gloopy chaos -- 6. How mucus works--the 21 mysteries in man -- 7. Synthetic biology-…
"Version: 20171001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction to risk management -- 1.1. Risk, hazard and exposure -- 1.2. Risk management -- 1.3. Sun exposure and risk -- 1.4. A risk management approach to sun protection2. The origin and beneficial effects of solar UV radiation -- 2.1. The nature of optical radiation -- 2.2. The Sun -- 2.3. Th…
"Version: 20171101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 24-25).Biological imaging at the cellular level, particularly in vivo, is a key enabling tool for understanding biological processes, disease diagnosis and drug development. Unfortunately, specimens under observation often introduce optical aberrations that degrade the imaging resolution, particularly when imaging …
"Version: 20181001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (page 35).1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- A few definitions, the double helix, and chromatin -- The linking number -- Basics of genome organisation -- 3. Current directions -- All twisted up : supercoiling, transcription, and nucleosome assembly -- Packing it all up : the 3D spatial organisation of the nucleus -- 4. O…