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Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Scientific equipment & techniques, laboratory equipment > Microscopy
"When you first view Rose-Lynn Fisher's photographs, you might
think you're looking down at the world from an airplane, at dunes,
skyscrapers or shorelines. In fact, you're looking at her tears. .
. . [There's] poetry in the idea that our emotional terrain bears
visual resemblance to the physical world; that our tears can look
like the vistas we see out an airplane window. Fisher's images are
the only remaining trace of these places, which exist during a
moment of intense feeling-and then vanish." -NPR "[A] delicate,
intimate book. . . . In The Topography of Tears photographer
Rose-Lynn Fisher shows us a place where language strains to express
grief, longing, pride, frustration, joy, the confrontation with
something beautiful, the confrontation with an onion." -Boston
Globe Does a tear shed while chopping onions look different from a
tear of happiness? In this powerful collection of images, an
award-winning photographer trains her optical microscope and camera
on her own tears and those of men, women, and children, released in
moments of grief, pain, gratitude, and joy, and captured upon glass
slides. These duotone photographs reveal the beauty of recurring
patterns in nature and present evocative, crystalline imagery for
contemplation. Underscored by poetic captions, they translate the
mysterious act of crying into an atlas mapping the structure and
magnificence of our interior lives. Rose-Lynn Fisher is an artist
and author of the International Photography Award-winning studies
Bee and The Topography of Tears. Her photographs are exhibited in
galleries, festivals, and museums across the world and have been
featured by the Dr. Oz Show, NPR, Smithsonian, Harper's, New
Yorker, Time, Wired, Reader's Digest, Discover, Brain Pickings, and
elsewhere. She received her BFA from Otis Art Institute and lives
in Los Angeles.
This book presents comprehensive studies of charge density waves
(CDW) in a high-Tc cuprate superconductor using x-ray scattering
techniques under uniaxial pressure. Specifically, the work
addresses inelastic x-ray scattering studies under uniaxial
pressure performed on the underdoped cuprate YBa2Cu3O6.67(p=0.12,
Tc=65K) with incoming photon energy in the resonant (E=931.3 eV,
Cu-L3 edge) and non-resonant conditions (E=17.794 keV). This is a
completely new approach to the investigation of charge density
waves. It revealed new features of charge density waves in
cuprates, whose properties had previously been inaccessible..
This book illustrates the significance of various optical
spectroscopy and microscopy techniques, including absorption
spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, and
Raman spectroscopy for deciphering the nature of biological
molecules. The content of this book chiefly focuses on (1) the
principle, theory, and instrumentation used in different optical
spectroscopy techniques, and (2) the application of these
techniques in exploring the nature of different biomolecules (e.g.,
proteins, nucleic acids, enzymes, and carbohydrates). It emphasizes
the structural, conformational and dynamic, and kinetic including
the changes in biomolecules under a range of conditions. In
closing, the book summarizes recent advances in the field of
optical spectroscopic and microscopic techniques.
A comprehensive guide to the art and science of bioimaging data
acquisition, processing and analysis Standard and Super-Resolution
Bioimaging Data Analysis gets newcomers to bioimage data analysis
quickly up to speed on the mathematics, statistics, computing
hardware and acquisition technologies required to correctly process
and document data. The past quarter century has seen remarkable
progress in the field of light microscopy for biomedical science,
with new imaging technologies coming on the market at an almost
annual basis. Most of the data generated by these systems is
image-based, and there is a significant increase in the content and
throughput of these imaging systems. This, in turn, has resulted in
a shift in the literature on biomedical research from descriptive
to highly-quantitative. Standard and Super-Resolution Bioimaging
Data Analysis satisfies the demand among students and research
scientists for introductory guides to the tools for parsing and
processing image data. Extremely well illustrated and including
numerous examples, it clearly and accessibly explains what image
data is and how to process and document it, as well as the current
resources and standards in the field. * A comprehensive guide to
the tools for parsing and processing image data and the resources
and industry standards for the biological and biomedical sciences *
Takes a practical approach to image analysis to assist scientists
in ensuring scientific data are robust and reliable * Covers
fundamental principles in such a way as to give beginners a sound
scientific base upon which to build * Ideally suited for advanced
students having only limited knowledge of the mathematics,
statistics and computing required for image data analysis An
entry-level text written for students and practitioners in the
bioscience community, Standard and Super-Resolution Bioimaging Data
Analysis de-mythologises the vast array of image analysis
modalities which have come online over the past decade while
schooling beginners in bioimaging principles, mathematics,
technologies and standards.
Provides extensive and thoroughly exhaustive coverage of precision
laser spectroscopy Presents chapters written by recognized experts
in their individual fields Topics covered include cold atoms, cold
molecules, methods and techniques for production of cold molecules,
optical frequency standards based on trapped single ions, etc
Applicable for researchers and graduate students of optical physics
and precision laser spectroscopy
This first book on high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) is
intended for students and biologists who want to use HS-AFM in
their research. It provides straightforward explanations of the
principle and techniques of AFM and HS-AFM. Numerous examples of
HS-AFM studies on proteins demonstrate how to apply this new form
of microscopy to specific biological problems. Several precautions
for successful imaging and the preparation of cantilever tips and
substrate surfaces will greatly benefit first-time users of HS-AFM.
In turn, the instrumentation techniques detailed in Chapter 4 can
be skipped, but will be useful for engineers and scientists who
want to develop the next generation of high-speed scanning probe
microscopes for biology. The book is intended to facilitate the
first-time use of this new technique, and to inspire students and
researchers to tackle their own specific biological problems by
directly observing dynamic events occurring in the nanoscopic
world. Microscopy in biology has recently entered a new era with
the advent of high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM). Unlike
optical microscopy, electron microscopy, and conventional slow AFM,
it allows us to directly observe biological molecules in
physiological environments. Molecular "movies" created using HS-AFM
can directly reveal how molecules behave and operate, without the
need for subsequent complex analyses and roundabout
interpretations. It also allows us to directly monitor
morphological change in live cells, and dynamic molecular events
occurring on the surfaces of living bacteria and intracellular
organelles. As HS-AFM instruments were recently commercialized, in
the near future HS-AFM is expected to become a common tool in
biology, and will enhance and accelerate our understanding of
biological phenomena.
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