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Author : Christiane Rousseau
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2008-10-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0387692169

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This book introduces the student to numerous modern applications of mathematics in technology. The authors write with clarity and present the mathematics in a clear and straightforward way making it an interesting and easy book to read. Numerous exercises at the end of every section provide practice and reinforce the material in the chapter. An engaging quality of this book is that the authors also present the mathematical material in a historical context and not just the practical one. Mathematics and Technology is intended for undergraduate students in mathematics, instructors and high school teachers. Additionally, its lack of calculus centricity as well as a clear indication of the more difficult topics and relatively advanced references make it suitable for any curious individual with a decent command of high school math.

Author : Zhizheng Wu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3642322298

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Modeling and Control of Magnetic Fluid Deformable Mirrors for Adaptive Optics Systems presents a novel design of wavefront correctors based on magnetic fluid deformable mirrors (MFDM) as well as corresponding control algorithms. The presented wavefront correctors are characterized by their linear, dynamic response. Various mirror surface shape control algorithms are presented along with experimental evaluations of the performance of the resulting adaptive optics systems. Adaptive optics (AO) systems are used in various fields of application to enhance the performance of optical systems, such as imaging, laser, free space optical communication systems, etc. This book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students, professors, engineers, scientists and researchers working on the design of adaptive optics systems and their various emerging fields of application. Zhizheng Wu is an associate professor at Shanghai University, China. Azhar Iqbal is a research associate at the University of Toronto, Canada. Foued Ben Amara is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Author : Mark B. N. Hansen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 36,37 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135878862

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Bodies in Code explores how our bodies experience and adapt to digital environments. Cyberculture theorists have tended to overlook biological reality when talking about virtual reality, and Mark B. N. Hansen's book shows what they've been missing. Cyberspace is anchored in the body, he argues, and it's the body--not high-tech computer graphics--that allows a person to feel like they are really "moving" through virtual reality. Of course these virtual experiences are also profoundly affecting our very understanding of what it means to live as embodied beings. Hansen draws upon recent work in visual culture, cognitive science, and new media studies, as well as examples of computer graphics, websites, and new media art, to show how our bodies are in some ways already becoming virtual.

Author : Vlane Carter
Publisher : Vlane Carter
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,79 MB
Release : 2010-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0578044544

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New Science fiction, Space, Action, Adventure and Romance novel/comic book/video game series. ..".The first volume in a science-fiction series about a young man who's abducted by benevolent aliens, bio-engineered to superhuman levels and sent back to Earth years later to stop an alien invasion..." -KIRKUS DISCOVERIES. IMAGINE discovering a UFO and then having to hide inside of it after the elite unit of the army chases you to it in an attempt to kill you. Imagine having an out of body experience and flying a very advanced spaceship by pure thought. Going against jetfighters and making a mockery of the United States Air force. Imagine having your nerves and senses connected with the ship and feeling what the ship does. Imagine traveling from Earth to Jupiter in 30 minutes and then exploring Jupiter's ice ocean moon Europa, what ocean aliens will you encounter? Imagine traveling towards our Sun at the speed of light and thinking you are going to die, only to have your molecules vaporized with the spaceship and transported in subspace through a system called Optic-warp. Imagine waking up on an alien planet in the Andromeda Galaxy that uses virtual worlds as a home city. Imagine meeting an Alien species 70,000 years ahead of humans, what will they tell you? What will you ask them? What is their species history? How can humans learn from the alien's past mistakes? Imagine learning Earth is about to be silently attacked by a rival species who want to use our bodies as part of a top secret experimental weapon that can destroy all alien species in the universe; and you are the only one who can help stop this attack. Would you allow alien Nanotechnology to evolve your body to super human levels where you'll be able to: Run and jump like the Hulk, defy and control gravity, create gravity shockwaves, create advanced energy shields, evolve your brain to think and move in Nanoseconds, and create atom ripper projectiles. Would you be up for an adventure of a life time? BIAlien volume I (3 books) takes your imagination on a visionary roller coaster ride and keeps you entertained with well thought out characters, plot and detailed action scenes. Read more including the 9 professional book reviews, BIAlien Wikipedia and science behind the BIAlien series at the main www BIAlien com website. The next generation of Science Fiction has just begun. *PLEASE NOTE* "The BIAlien Trilogy" is now called "BIAlien Series" and is a total of 12 books. This novel is: BOOK 1 RISE OF THE BIALIENSAPIEN: HUMAN EVOLVED PART 1" There are three parts/books to volume I. 1/3. ---------------------------------------------- There are over 45 illustrations and two animation videos for this Volume I series. BIAlien - (An alien of two worlds) Where fiction, science, religion and technology collide. Some of the topics BIAlien covers are: Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Exotic Matter, Nanotechnology, future green energy saving technologies, plasma fusion, string theory, quantum mechanics, future relationships, space exploring, new ways of traveling through space (optic-warp), UFO theories, government conspiracies, future government weapons, gravity manipulating and human body evolving. The series is broken down as follows: VOLUME I "Rise of the BIAliensapien: Human Evolved" book 1 VOLUME I "Rise of the BIAliensapien: Human Evolved" book 2 VOLUME I "Rise of the BIAliensapien: Human Evolved" book 3 VOLUME II "Revenge of the Darclonians" book 4 VOLUME II "Bellona's Rebellion" book 5 VOLUME II "Galactic wars " book 6 VOL III book 7, VOL III book 8, VOL III book 9 Spin offs: "Andromedian Chronicles" mini-series. "The original BIAlien," "Bellona's wars" ---------------------------------------------- Read synopsis, characters and more info about this exciting new novel series at the www . BIAlien . com we

Author : Astronomisches Rechen-Institut
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1433 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 3662123703

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From the reviews: "Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts has appeared in semi-annual volumes since 1969 and it has already become one of the fundemental publications in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics and neighbouring sciences. It is the most important English-language abstracting journal in the mentioned branches. ...The abstracts are classified under more than a hundred subject categories, thus permitting a quick survey of the whole extended material. The AAA is a valuable and important publication for all students and scientists working in the fields of astronomy and related sciences. As such it represents a necessary ingredient of any astronomical library all over the world." Space Science Review# "Dividing the whole field plus related subjects into 108 categories, each work is numbered and most are accompanied by brief abstracts. Fairly comprehensive cross-referencing links relevant papers to more than one category, and exhaustive author and subject indices are to be found at the back, making the catalogues easy to use. The series appears to be so complete in its coverage and always less than a year out of date that I shall certainly have to make a little more space on those shelves for future volumes." The Observatory Magazine#

Author : P. Droege
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 1997-03-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0080534848

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The environment, as modified and created by people, is largely about the use of information, its generation and exchange. How do recent innovations in the technologies of information management and communication affect our use of space and place, and the way we perceive and think about our surroundings? This volume provides an international, exploratory forum for the complex phenomenon of new information and communication technology as it permeates and transforms our physical world, and our relation to it: the architectural definition of our surrounding, geographical space, urban form and immediate habitats. This book is a reader, an attempt at registering disciplinary changes in context, at tracing subtexts for which most mainstream disciplines have no established language. The project is to give voice to an emerging meta-discipline that has its logic across the specializations. A wide range of professionals and academics report findings, views and ideas. Together, they describe the architecture of a postmodern paradigm: how swiftly mutating the proliferating technology applications have begun to interact with the construction and reading of physical space in architecture, economics, geography, history, planning, social sciences, transport, visual art - but also in the newer domains that have joined this spectrum through the very nature of their impacts: information technology and telecommunications. The space navigated in this volume is vast, both in physical terms and in its virtual and analogous form. It ranges from the space that immediately encompasses, or is simulated to encompass, the human body - as in buildings and virtual tectonics - to that of towns and regions. We stay clear of molecular-scale space, and of dimensions that are larger than earth.