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"Silicone Surface Science" offers a survey of the major topics
concerning the properties and behavior of silicone surfaces. It
covers all main aspects of the subject, including:
polydimethylsiloxane, spread monolayers, self-assembled monolayers,
hydrophobicity and super-hydrophobicity, coupling agents,
surfactants, fluorosilicones, surface treatments and surface
analysis.
This book brings together the field's leading experts who
investigated both fundamental and applied aspects of silicone
surface science and technology, and introduces the reader to the
origins and historical development of silicone surfaces as well as
to their most significant current key features.
"Silicone Surface Science" is an invaluable guide and
indispensable reference source for all those interested in this
important area of polymer and materials science and technology,
from graduate students to experienced scientists alike."
During the last two decades silicon-containing dendritic
polymers have become one of the fastest growing areas of
development in polymer science. The eruption of interest in these
new polymers stems from their unprecedented molecular architecture,
unique resulting properties and the realization that they represent
ideal building blocks for chemical nanotechnology.
This is the first book to solely focus on silicon-containing
dendritic polymers. The contributions of those experts who
originally introduced each field or played a major role in its
progress are reported. The developments in all major areas of this
field are presented from their origins to the present. It is
anticipated that this text will become an invaluable guide and
vanguard of reference for experienced scientists interested in the
fields of polymer and material science, synthetic chemistry, and
nanotechnology. It will also serve advanced graduate students
either as a source of creative inspiration or as a textbook for
appropriate courses.
Children born during the post-WWII era of peace and prosperity
entered history at a time dominated by I-Like-Ike politics and
domestic security. As they approached adolescence, however, their
world was shaken by major cultural, economic, social, and political
upheaval. And although it was time of great innovation and
progress, a sense of chaos and bitterness began to envelop the
country. It was the a ~60s. For many Americans, a mere mention of
this decade evokes an extraordinary time and place in the countrya
(TM)s - and their own - history.
Adolescents who had been enjoying the technological and medical
advances of the era - television, drive-in movies, rock-and-roll,
vaccinations that prevented once-incurable diseases - now were also
experiencing the fallout from the Civil Rights Movement, domestic
terrorism, stagflation, and (perhaps most significant) the Vietnam
War.
From Adolescence to Adulthood in the Vietnam Era provides a
unique, detailed, long-term study of the psychological and social
worlds of male adolescents who were on the cusp of adulthood as the
1960s were ending. This longitudinal analysis follows adolescent
boys who graduated with the class of 1969 and transitioned into
adulthood either through military service, full-time employment, or
college life. The results examine the different pathways these boys
chose and the affect these choices had on their transition from
adolescents to young adult men.
The United States government, represented by the Office of the
Solicitor General, appears before the Supreme Court more than any
other litigant. The Office's link to the president, the arguments
it makes before the Court, and its ability to alter the legal and
policy landscape make it the most important Supreme Court litigant
bar none. As such, scholars must understand the Office's role in
Supreme Court decision making and, more importantly, its ability to
influence the Court. This book examines whether and how the Office
of the Solicitor General influences the United States Supreme
Court. Combining archival data with recent innovations in the areas
of matching and causal inference, the book finds that the Solicitor
General influences every aspect of the Court's decision making
process. From granting review to cases, selecting winning parties,
writing opinions, and interpreting precedent, the Solicitor
General's office influences the Court to behave in ways it
otherwise would not.
It has been predicted that nearly half of all human proteins are
glycosylated indicating the significance of glycoproteins in human
health and disease. For example, the glycans attached to proteins
have emerged as important biomarkers in the diagnosis of diseases
such as cancers and play a significant role in how pathogenic
viruses gain entry into human cells. The study of glycoproteins has
now become a truly proteomic science. In the last few years,
technology developments including in silico methods, high
throughput separation and detection techniques have accelerated the
characterization of glycoproteins in cells and tissues.
Glyco-engineering coupled to rapid recombinant protein production
has facilitated the determination of glycoprotein structures key to
exploring and exploiting their functional roles. Each chapter in
this volume is written by experts in the field and together provide
a review of the state of the art in the emerging field of
glycoproteomics.
This updated and expanded volume reflects the current state of the
structural protein field with improved and refined protocols that
have been applied to particularly challenging proteins, notably
integral membrane proteins and multi-protein complexes. Structural
Proteomics: High-Throughput Methods, Second Edition begins by
exploring the resources available for curation, annotation, and
structure prediction in silico, and continues with methods for
sample preparation of both proteins and crystals, as well as
structural characterization techniques. Written for the highly
successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, chapters include
introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary
materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible
laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding
known pitfalls. Practical and up-to-date, Structural Proteomics:
High-Throughput Methods, Second Edition will aid researchers in
expanding our knowledge of this vital and expansive area of protein
science.
Two thousand years ago the Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
wrote the ten books on architecture establishing the concept of the
pattern book offering design principles and solutions that is still
referred to in every architect's education. A Green Vitruvius is
intended as a green pattern book for today. Now fully updated, this
well established textbook provides advice suitable for
undergraduate and post graduate students on the integration of
sustainable practice into the design and construction process, the
issues to be considered, the strategies to be adopted, the elements
of green design and design evaluation within the process. Classic
design elegance is found in the holistic clear solution.
In The New Superconductors, Frank J. Owens and Charles P. Poole,
Jr., offer a descriptive, non-mathematical presentation of the
latest superconductors and their properties for the non-specialist.
Highlights of this up-to-date text include chapters on
superfluidity, the latest copper oxide types, fullerenes, and
prospects for future research. The book also features many examples
of commercial applications; an extensive glossary that defines
superconductivity terms in clear language; and a supplementary list
of readings for the interested lay reader.
In 1987 a major breakthrough occurred in materials science. A new
family of materials was discovered that became superconducting
above the temperature at which nitrogen gas liquifies, namely, 77 K
or -196 DegreesC. Within months of the discovery, a wide variety of
experimental techniques were brought to bear in order to measure
the properties of these materials and to gain an understanding of
why they superconduct at such high temperatures. Among the
techniques used were electromagnetic absorption in both the normal
and the superconducting states. The measurements enabled the
determination of a wide variety of properties, and in some
instances led to the observation of new effects not seen by other
measu- ments, such as the existence of weak-link microwave
absorption at low dc magnetic fields. The number of different
properties and the degree of detail that can be obtained from
magnetic field- and temperature-dependent studies of
electromagnetic abso- tion are not widely appreciated. For example,
these measurements can provide information on the band gap,
critical fields, the H-T irreversibility line, the amount of
trapped flux, and even information about the symmetry of the wave
function of the Cooper pairs. It is possible to use low dc magnetic
field-induced absorption of microwaves with derivative detection to
verify the presence of superconductivity in a matter of minutes,
and the measurements are often more straightforward than others.
For example, they do not require the physical contact with the
sample that is necessary when using four-probe resistivity to
detect superconductivity.
This volume is presented in four sections based on recent
research in the field: the sources of identity, the tie between
identity and the social structure, the non-cognitive outcomes -
such as emotional - of identity processes, and the idea that
individuals have multiple identities. This timely work will be of
interest to social psychologists in sociology and psychology,
behavioral scientists, and political scientists.
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This book says you're a leader even if you don't know it. A
"leader" is anyone who influences others. So if you're a teacher,
friend, coworker, manager, parent, or any one else who influences
others, you're a leader. The question is, what kind of leader are
you? Do you have a positive impact on others? Do you influence
people without conflict? This easy-to-read guidebook tells exactly
what to do (and what not to do) to be a result-oriented,
conflict-free leader. It reveals two basic kinds of leadership:
Preactive leaders who act before trouble starts, and Reactive
leaders who act after trouble starts. Good leaders are more
Preactive than they are Reactive. They do that by finding and
acting on the three "Effective-Efficient" situations in their lives
and jobs. The techniques in this book came from the author's
consulting career with clients such as General Electric, General
Motors, Hilton Hotels, John Deere, Kraft Foods/Sealtest, and
Westinghouse Electric. This book is a must-read for anyone who
wants to be a successful leader.
The purpose of this book is two fold. First to explain the
properties of low dimensional solids such as electronic,
vibrational and magnetic structure in terms of simple models. These
are used to account for the properties of three dimensional
materials providing an elementary introduction to the physics of
low dimensional materials. The second objective is to discuss the
properties of newer low dimensional materials not made of carbon.
These are now the subject of research and describe various
phenomena in them such magnetism and superconductivity.
This book is an in-depth examination of self-esteem--people's positive and negative evaluation of themselves as a person. Beginning with self-esteem's conceptualization and measurement, the book carefully examines the role of self-esteem in society and within and across various domains and contexts of the human experience. Inspired by the seminal work on self-esteem carried out by American social psychologist Morris Rosenberg, the book serves as a comprehensive statement on self-esteem theory and research in the late 20th century, with an eye toward the direction it will take in the 21st century.
Produced under the auspices of the "Section on the Sociology of
Children and Youth of the American Sociological Association", this
volume provides a cohesive, wide-ranging source of information on
the life courses of children and youths. Contributions reflect:
demographic analyses and projections; dualitative aspects of
children's lives; children and youth in historical and
cross-cultural perspective; issues of development in social
context; children and public policy; and social and psychological
dynamics of childhood and adolescence.
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