Download or read book Brilliant Light in Life and Material Sciences written by Vasili Tsakanov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains an excellent overview of the status and highlights of brilliant light facilities and their applications in biology, chemistry, medicine, materials and environmental sciences. Overview papers on diverse fields of research by leading experts are accompanied by the highlights in the near and long-term perspectives of brilliant X-Ray photon beam usage for fundamental and applied research.
Download or read book Infrared Spectroscopy written by Theophanides Theophile and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative and state-of-the art book on Infrared Spectroscopy in Life sciences designed for researchers, academics as well as for those working in industry, agriculture and in pharmaceutical companies features 20 chapters of applications of MIRS and NIRS in brain activity and clinical research. It shows excellent FT-IR spectra of breast tissues, atheromatic plaques, human bones and projects assessment of haemodynamic activation in the cerebral cortex, brain oxygenation studies and many interesting insights from a medical perspective.
Download or read book Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology Volume 3 written by Alex Chao and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each generation yielded growths in brightness and time resolution that were unimaginable just a few years earlier. In particular, the progression from the 3rd to 4th generation is a true revolution; the peak brilliance of coherent soft and hard x-rays has increased by 7-10 orders of magnitude, and the image resolution has reached the angstrom (1 [symbol] = 10-10 meters) and femto-second (1 fs = 10-15 second) scales. These impressive capabilities have fostered fundamental scientific advances and led to an explosion of numerous possibilities in many important research areas including material science, chemistry, molecular biology and the life sciences. Even more remarkably, this field of photon source invention and development shows no signs of slowing down. Studies have already been started on the next generation of x-ray sources, which would have a time resolution in the atto-second (1 as = 10-18 second) regime, comparable to the time of electron motion inside atoms.
Download or read book Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology written by Alexander W Chao and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last half century we have witnessed tremendous progress in the production of high-quality photons by electrons in accelerators. This dramatic evolution has seen four generations of accelerators as photon sources. The 1st generation used the electron storage rings built primarily for high-energy physics experiments, and the synchrotron radiation from the bending magnets was used parasitically. The 2nd generation involved rings dedicated to synchrotron radiation applications, with the radiation again from the bending magnets. The 3rd generation, currently the workhorse of these photon sources, is dedicated advanced storage rings that employ not only bending magnets but also insertion devices (wigglers and undulators) as the source of the radiation. The 4th generation, which is now entering operation, is photon sources based on the free electron laser (FEL), an invention made in the early 1970s. Each generation yielded growths in brightness and time resolution that were unimaginable just a few years earlier. In particular, the progression from the 3rd to 4th generation is a true revolution; the peak brilliance of coherent soft and hard x-rays has increased by 7-10 orders of magnitude, and the image resolution has reached the angstrom (1 Å = 10-10 meters) and femto-second (1 fs = 10-15 second) scales. These impressive capabilities have fostered fundamental scientific advances and led to an explosion of numerous possibilities in many important research areas including material science, chemistry, molecular biology and the life sciences. Even more remarkably, this field of photon source invention and development shows no signs of slowing down. Studies have already been started on the next generation of x-ray sources, which would have a time resolution in the atto-second (1 as = 10-18 second) regime, comparable to the time of electron motion inside atoms. It can be fully expected that these photon sources will stand out among the most powerful future science research tools. The physics community as well as the entire scientific community will hear of many pioneering and groundbreaking research results using these sources in the coming years. This volume contains fifteen articles, all written by leading scientists in their respective fields. It is aimed at the designers, builders and users of accelerator-based photon sources as well as general audience who are interested in this topic. Contents:Invention of the Free Electron Laser (J M J Madey)Photon Science at Accelerator-Based Light Sources (J R Schneider)Electromagnetic Radiation in Accelerator Physics (G Stupakov)Storage Ring Light Sources (Z T Zhao)Low-Gain Free Electron Lasers (N Vinokurov)Soft and Hard X-Ray SASE Free Electron Lasers (S Schreiber)Energy Recovery Linacs for Light Sources (R Hajima)Compton Sources of Electromagnetic Radiation (G A Krafft & G Priebe)Accelerator-Based Sources of Infrared and Terahertz Radiation (A-S Müller)The Next Generation of X-Ray Sources (C Pellegrini)Undulators and Other Insertion Devices (E Levichev & N Vinokurov)High Performance Electron Injectors (M Ferrario & T Shintake)Electron-Beam-Based Sources of Ultra-Short X-Ray Pulses (A Zholents)The Large Hadron Collider from Conception to Commissioning: A Personal Recollection (L Evans)G I Budker: Brilliant Physicist, Great Scientific Leader (A N Skrinsky) Readership: Physicists and engineers in accelerator science. Keywords:Free Electron Laser;Photon Sources;Hadron Colliders;Light Sources;Electromagnetic Radiation
Download or read book Biomarkers of Radiation in the Environment written by Michael D. Wood and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings volume results from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on 'Biomarkers of Radiation in the Environment: Robust Tools for Risk Assessment (BRITE)’. The BRITE workshop discussed insights from cancer research, epigenetics, non-human and human risk assessment, since many of the state-of-the-art biomarkers being developed for humans deserve consideration for environmental applications and vice versa. Sessions were very wide-ranging covering methods, mechanisms, cross disciplinary application and regulation. The chapters in this book have been grouped into five major themes that were covered by the BRITE workshop: · Techniques for biomarker development · Low-dose effect mechanisms · Biomarkers for risk evaluation · Biomarkers in wildlife · Biomarker use and responses Each chapter has been written independently and reflects the views of the chapter author(s). Therefore, the readers can form their own balanced view of the different perspectives on biomarkers of radiation in the environment. Given the breadth of topics covered and the state-of-the-art perspectives shared by leading experts in their respective fields, this book should form a valuable resource for anyone with an interest in how biomarkers can be used to improve our understanding of radiation in the environment and its potential impacts.
Download or read book Imaging Life written by Gary C. Howard and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imaging Life is a current and timely account of how scientists look at the structures that make up the complexity and organization of living organisms. These structures range from individual atoms, molecules and macromolecules to subcellular and cellular volumes, tissues and microbial communities. This "systems biology" understanding of life requires a combination of imaging techniques and, with it, an in-depth understanding of their respective strengths and limitations, as well as how they complement other techniques. Howard, Brown, and Auer show us that the integration of these imaging techniques will allow us to overcome the reductionist approach to biology that dominated the twentieth century, which was aimed at examining the physical and chemical properties of life's constituents, one macromolecule at a time. -- from back cover.
Download or read book Microscopy Applied to Materials Sciences and Life Sciences written by Ajay Vasudeo Rane and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume, Microscopy Applied to Materials Sciences and Life Sciences. focuses on recent theoretical and practical advances in polymers and their blends, composites, and nanocompos¬ites related to their microscopic characterization. It highlights recent accomplishments and trends in the field of polymer nanocomposites and filled polymers related to microstructural characterization. This book gives an insight and better understanding into the development in microscopy as a tool for characterization. The book emphasizes recent research work in the field of microscopy in life sciences and materials sciences mainly related to its synthesis, characterizations, and applications. The book explains the application of microscopic techniques in life sciences and materials sciences, and their applications and state of current research carried out. The book aims to foster a better understanding of the properties of polymer composites by describing new techniques to measure microstructure property relationships and by utilizing techniques and expertise developed in the conventional filled polymer composites. Characterization techniques, particularly microstructural characterization, have proven to be extremely difficult because of the range of length-scales associated with these materials. Topics include: •Instrumentation and Techniques: advances in scanning probe microscopy, SEM, TEM, OM. 3D imaging and tomography, electron diffraction techniques and analytical microscopy, advances in sample preparation techniques in-situ microscopy, correlative microscopy in life and material sciences, low voltage electron microscopy. •Life Sciences: Structure and imaging of biomolecules, live cell imaging, neurobiology, organelles and cellular dynamics, multi-disciplinary approaches for medical and biological sciences, microscopic application in plants, microorganism and environmental science, super resolution microscopy in biological sciences. •Materials Sciences: materials for nanotechnology, metals alloys and inter-metallic, ceramics, composites, minerals and microscopy in cultural heritage, thin films, coatings, surfaces and interfaces, carbon based materials, polymers and soft materials and self-assembled materials, semiconductors and magnetic materials. Polymers and inorganic nanoparticles. The volume will be of significant interest to scientists working on the basic issues surrounding polymers, nanocomposites, and nanoparticulate-filled polymers, as well as those working in industry on applied problems, such as processing. Because of the multidisciplinary nature of this research, the book will be valuable to chemists, materials scientists, physicists, chemical engineers, and processing specialists who are involved and interested in the future frontiers of blends.
Download or read book Brilliant Blunders written by Mario Livio and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"--
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Download or read book Coherence written by Alan Watkins and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2013-11-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every business leader faces innumerable challenges every working day, each one taking their toll on precious energy levels and the ability to respond and react positively in a commercial environment. Coherence recognizes the key factors that take their toll on a leader's effectiveness and ability to lead, and provides the reader with unique solutions designed to improve physiological factors that impact on core competencies. Problems today cannot be solved with yesterday's level of thinking. CEOs fail and leaders burn out because our thinking has not sped up or powered up. The author not only recognizes that leaders have the potential for limitless processing power, but shows them how to access it, taking them back to fundamentals and, quite literally, to the heart of who we are and how we function successfully. By showing leaders how to be 'younger, smarter, healthier and happier' Coherence gives every decision maker the power to make influential decisions under pressure and achieve sustainable success at every level.
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Download or read book Portable Synchrotron Light Sources and Advanced Applications written by Hironari Yamada and published by American Inst. of Physics. This book was released on 2007-04-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings volume reports the worldwide small light source instrumentation and applications to material and bio-medical sciences. The unique and very sharp x-ray image obtained by MIRRORCLE is demonstrated, and IR synchrotron lights from 10 MeV version makes it possible to study dynamics and behavior of the living specimens in each level such as protein, cell, organ, and whole body.
