This vintage book contains a detailed guide to collecting, preserving, packing, and keeping specimens of birds, eggs, nests, feathers, and skeletons. "The Indian Ornithological Collector's Vade Mecum" constitutes a complete handbook on the subject, and will be of considerable utility to bird watchers, ornithologists, and taxidermists. Contents include: "Material and Instruments Necessary or Use…
"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Mathematics and measurement of sound-power flow in fluids -- 2. Calibration and normalization of probes in air -- 3. Mathematics of sound-power flow in solids -- 4. Sound sources and methods of exciting sound -- 5. Sound-power…
"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 14-1-14-2).Preface -- 1. Nanomanipulation : why optical methods are best -- 2. Key properties of the radiation -- 3. Optically induced mechanical forces -- 4. Laser cooling and trapping of atoms -- 5. Dielectric and metal nanoparticl…
"Version: 20161101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction : from death rays to smartphones2. Optical propagation -- 2.1. Electromagnetic fields -- 2.2. Helmholtz equation and wave optics3. Gaussian beams and lasers -- 3.1. Lasers -- 3.2. Gaussian beams -- 3.3. Coherent a…
"Version: 20180901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Overview -- 1.2. Optical communication system structure -- 1.3. Transmitter -- 1.4. Communication channel -- 1.5. Law of refraction -- 1.6. Types of optical fiber and their geometry -- 1.7. Modes in fiber -- 1.8. Adv…
"Version: 20170401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The impact of materials on progress -- 1.2. A possible classification of physical metallurgy -- 1.3. Electrons to components2. Crystal structures -- 2.1. Platonic solids -- 2.2. The crystal, lattice and mo…
"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Electromagnetics of graphene -- 1.1. Macroscopic electrodynamics -- 1.2. Constitutive relations -- 1.3. From the time domain to the frequency domain -- 1.4. Isotropic media -- 1.5. Conductivity and permittivity formulations --…
"Version: 20160601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The birth of SEPHODIS -- 1.2. Viruses and antiviral approaches -- 1.3. Infection prevention : a strategy for victory -- 1.4. The promise and potential of SEPHODIS2. Mechanism of SEPHODIS -- 2.1. The impuls…
"Version: 20250601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The arms race of plants and pathogens : an introduction / Kriti Tyagi and Ashish Ranjan -- 2. Surveillance at the surface : pattern- and damage-triggered immunity in plants / Anjan Barman -- 3. Fine-tuning the responses : role of phytohormones and their crosstalk in plant defence / Shakuntala E. Pillai and Ravinayak Pa…
"Version: 20161001"--Title page version."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The basics -- 1.1. A brief history of MRI -- 1.2. Proton spin -- 1.3. The Bloch equations -- 1.4. Signal generation -- 1.5. Spatial encoding using magnetic field gradients -- 1.6. Spatial image formation2. Ma…