Corporate Networks: The Strategic Use of Telecommunications (The Artech House Telecommunications Library)

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Corporate Networks examines the changes in telecommunications from a wide variety of perspectives, including the technologies, the applications involved, management and organizational issues, and societal and cultural issues. It offers comprehensive coverage of information systems and telecommunications and their interrelationship in the marketplace and the workplace.

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education is critic for development.......1999-01-28

The text reviews the proposals the world bank and its experts made during the 80's to develop a new approach for the educational sector in the 90's. One of the most important features is the enphasis on the universalization of education as a tool to achieve economic growth and the alliviation of poverty. It also suggest the sharing of communities in the management, operation and financing of the educational institutions. - can I translate this book into spanish? if so, please, send me an authorization to: e.gallego@eudoramail.com

Priorities and Strategies for Education: A World Bank Review (El desarrollo en la practica)

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Priorities and Strategies for Education: A World Bank Review (El desarrollo en la practica)

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This special edition contains a commentary on the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights (ECHR) and on the International Pact on Civil and Political Rights (IPCPR) by Löwe-Rosenberg and is an in-depth commentary on the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Judiciary Constitution Law 25th Edition. The purpose of this commentary is to facilitate the initial access to the body of agreements and the decreed decisions and at the same time to provide an overview of the international protection of human rights to contribute to a better understanding of the associated problems and opinions. In addition to the commentary, the work contains the convention texts in German, French and English plus the texts of the associated follow-up agreements.

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Insect Pests of the Prairies
Hugh Philip , and Ernest Mengersen
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Insects of aspen catkins in the Canadian prairies (Northern Forest Research Centre. Report NOR-X-76)
H. R Wong
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RNA Motifs and Regulatory Elements is the new edition of the successful book, "Regulatory RNA". It alerts the reader to the importance of regulatory RNA elements for the many different areas of cellular life.
The computational and experimental methods and tools to search for new interesting regulatory RNA structures are explained and compared. The knowledge on regulatory RNA structures and elements already available is concisely summarized as well as catalogued. In addition, interesting RNA elements are analyzed in detail regarding their dynamics, regulation, and as a dominant topic of current resarch in molecular biology, including areas such as RNA mediated regulation of gene-expression, DNA/RNA chip data, and ribozymes, splicing, or telomerases in aging. Medical implications are also covered. Future progress and research are finally outlined.

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Modern look at the thermodynamics of hydrocarbon reservoirs

This brilliant, original work offers novel formulations of thermodynamic principles for hydrocarbon reservoirs. The book is packed with valuable step-by-step derivations for retrograde phenomena in capillaries, diffusion and convection, stability and criticality in mixtures, precipitation from complex mixtures, and numerous examples that show in detail how to calculate and apply concepts using the most contemporary techniques.

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This book offers a fundamental and practical introduction to the use of computational methods, particularly finite element methods, in the simulation of fluid flows in porous media. It is the first book to cover a wide variety of flows, including single-phase, two-phase, black oil, volatile, compositional, nonisothermal, and chemical compositional flows in both ordinary porous and fractured porous media. In addition, a range of computational methods are used, and benchmark problems of nine comparative solution projects organized by the Society of Petroleum Engineers are presented for the first time in book form. Computational Methods for Multiphase Flows in Porous Media reviews multiphase flow equations and computational methods to introduce basic terminologies and notation. A thorough discussion of practical aspects of the subject is presented in a consistent manner, and the level of treatment is rigorous without being unnecessarily abstract. Each chapter ends with bibliographic information and exercises. This book can be used as a textbook for graduate or advanced undergraduate students in geology, petroleum engineering, and applied mathematics, and as a reference book for professionals in these fields, as well as scientists working in the area of petroleum reservoir simulation. It can also be used as a handbook for employees in the oil industry who need a basic understanding of modeling and computational method concepts and by researchers in hydrology, environmental remediation, and some areas of biological tissue modeling. Calculus, physics, and some acquaintance with partial differential equations and simple matrix algebra are necessary prerequisites. List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Flow and Transport Equations; Chapter 3: Rock and Fluid Properties; Chapter 4: Numerical Methods; Chapter 5: Solution of Linear Systems; Chapter 6: Single Phase Flow; Chapter 7: Two-Phase Flow; Chapter 8: The Black Oil Model; Chapter 9: The Compositional Model; Chapter 10: Nonisothermal Flow; Chapter 11: Chemical Flooding; Chapter 12: Flows in Fractured Porous Media; Chapter 13: Welling Modeling; Chapter 14: Special Topics; Chapter 15: Nomenclature; Chapter 16: Units; Bibliography; Index.

Fluid Mechanics for Petroleum Engineers (Developments in Petroleum Science)

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Fluid Mechanics for Petroleum Engineers (Developments in Petroleum Science)
E. Bobok
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Written primarily to provide petroleum engineers with a systematic analytical approach to the solution of fluid flow problems, this book will nevertheless be of interest to geologists, hydrologists, mining-, mechanical-, or civil engineers. It provides the knowledge necessary for petroleum engineers to develop design methods for drilling, production, transport of oil and gas. Basic mechanical laws are applied for perfect fluid flow, Newtonian fluid, non-Newtonian fluid, and multiple phase flows. Elements of gas dynamics, a non-familiar treatment of shock waves, boundary layer theory, and two-phase flow are also included.

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The book is an introductory text to the physics of Bose-Einstein condensation. This phenomenon, first predicted by Einstein in 1925, has been realized experimentally in 1995 in a remarkable series of experiments whose importance has been recognized by the award of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics. The condensate is actually a new state of matter, where quantum-mechanical wave functions of atoms behave as coherent matter waves in the same way as coherent light waves in the case of a laser. The authors provide a theoretical presentation of the main concepts underlying the physics of dilute atomic gases in conditions of extremely low temperatures where quantum effects play a crucial role. The main effort is devoted to discussion of the relevant theoretical aspects exhibited by these systems, such as the concept of order parameter, long range order, superfluidity and coherence. The mathematical formalism is presented in a form convenient for practical use. The book develops the theory of Bose gases starting from the pioneering Bogoliubov approach and gives special emphasis to the new physical features exhibited by non-uniform gases which are produced in the recent experiments with magnetic and optical traps. These features include the determination of the equilibrium profiles, the collective oscillations, the mechanism of the expansion of the gas after releasing the trap, the interference patterns obtained by overlapping two condensates, the rotational properties revealing the effects of superfluidity (quantized vortices, behaviour of the moment of inertia), the Josephson-like phenomena associated with the coherence of the phase, the beyond mean field phenomena exhibited by quantum gases in conditions of reduced dimensionality (1D and 2D) etc. The book also discusses the analogies and differences with the physics of "classical" superfluids like liquid helium and introduces some of the major features of trapped Fermi gases at low temperature, pointing out the consequences of superfluidity.

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Concise slick book. Good but not great. .......2005-03-07

This is not an easy book to read. It starts off with field theory and assumes a lot of knowledge, especially from Landau's books on fluid mechanics and statitstical physics. The format of the writing is concise, almost journal publication style. Chapter 14 on angular momentum and vortices is very slick and hard to follow. Chapter's 7 and 8 on response theory and 4He introduce a lot of notation and constructs without definition or motivation. Their discussion of mean field theory in BEC, derivation of the Gross-Pitaevskii from the operator formalism, and discussion of Fermi gases is clearer than in the BEC book by Pethick and Smith. There is also a discussion of optical lattices and low dimensions that is not discussed in Pethick and Smith. The other standard topics such as dynamics of a BEC in a harmonic trap are covered better in Pethick and Smith. Cooling is not discussed in this book.

Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Gases (Proceedings of the International School of Physics)

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Absolute must for atom coolers and trappers

Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Gases (Proceedings of the International School of Physics)
S. Stringari , C. E. Wieman , and Italy) International School of Physics Enrico Fermi (1998 Varenna
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Altough first proposed by Einstein in 1924, Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in a gas was not achieved until 1995 when, using a combination of laser cooling and trapping, and magnetic trapping and evaporation, it was first observed in rubidium and then in lithium and sodium, cooled down to extremely low temperatures. This book brought together many leaders in both theory and experiments on Bose-Einstein condensation in gases. Their lectures provided a detailed coverage of the experimental techniques for the creation and study of BEC, as well as the theoretical foundation for understanding the properties of this novel system. Many exciting aspects coming out of research on condensates were presented. The timing for this book was excellent since the field is still small enough to cover fully, but is also clearly about to undergo a major expansion. This volume provides the first systematic review of the field and the many developments that have taken place in the past three years. Silicon-based Microphotonics

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Absolute must for atom coolers and trappers.......2000-06-23

Preceedings of the Italian summer school on BEC in 1998. Great coverage from basics to complex phase contrast imaging techniques. Articles from the greatest in the field, including Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl Weiman, Eric Cornell, and Dan Heinzen.

BoseEinstein Condensation in Dilute Gases

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Best so far in the subject, good but not great.
Nicely balanced

BoseEinstein Condensation in Dilute Gases
C. J. Pethick , and H. Smith
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ASIN: 0521661943

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In 1925 Einstein predicted that at low temperatures particles in a gas could all reside in the same quantum state. This gaseous state, a Bose-Einstein condensate, was produced in the laboratory for the first time in 1995 and investigating such condensates is one of the most active areas in contemporary physics. The authors of this graduate-level textbook explain this exciting new subject in terms of basic physical principles, without assuming detailed prior knowledge. Chapters cover the statistical physics of trapped gases, atomic properties, cooling and trapping atoms, interatomic interactions, structure of trapped condensates, collective modes, rotating condensates, superfluidity, interference phenomena, and trapped Fermi gases. Problem sets are also included.

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In 1925 Einstein predicted that at low temperatures particles in a gas could all reside in the same quantum state. This gaseous state, a Bose-Einstein condensate, was produced in the laboratory for the first time in 1995 and investigating such condensates has become one of the most active areas in contemporary physics. The study of Bose-Einstein condensates in dilute gases encompasses a number of different subfields of physics, including atomic, condensed matter, and nuclear physics. The authors of this graduate-level textbook explain this exciting new subject in terms of basic physical principles, without assuming detailed knowledge of any of these subfields. Chapters cover the statistical physics of trapped gases, atomic properties, cooling and trapping atoms, interatomic interactions, structure of trapped condensates, collective modes, rotating condensates, superfluidity, interference phenomena, and trapped Fermi gases. Problem sets are also included in each chapter.

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Best so far in the subject, good but not great........2003-10-30

Of the three main books on laser cooling and BEC that are on the market right now (Laser Cooling by Metcalf and Atom Optics by Meystre) this one is by far the best. There are a lot of details here, but unfortunately a lot more are still left out. Chapter 8, and sections 11.3, and 14.3 in particular should be rewritten. Too many equations are written down from nowhere without any derivation. Some sections, like 13.2, are clearer in the original papers. So while this book is a vast improvement over the current state of affairs, there is quite a ways to go for a truly good textbook in this subject. Still, while the quality of the exposition varies wildly from chapter to chapter, many of the chapters ARE well written, and so you can still learn a great deal from this book. Until a better book comes along, this is the book to buy in this subject.

Nicely balanced.......2002-07-12

I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to get into the field of Bose-Einstein condensation. Myself being a novice to the subject, I found a very well structured text with an exceptional balance between experiment and theory. All dicussions are well supported with examples. The theory parts are very detailed so that even the unexperienced reader can easily follow.

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LIFE WITH JEEVES : THE INIMITABLE JEEVES, VERY GOOD, JEEVES!, AND RIGHT HO, JEEVES
P. G. WODEHOUSE
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