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The Taxonomy and Identification of Thermus; R.A.D. Williams, R.J.
Sharp. Ecology, Distribution, and Isolation of Thermus; G.A.
Alfredsson, J.K. Kristjansson. The Physiology and Metabolism of
Thermus; R.J. Sharp, et al. Enzymes of Thermus and Their
Properties; M.L. Duffield, D. Cossar. The Cell Walls and Lipids of
Thermus; M.S. da Costa. Genetics of Thermus (Plasmids,
Bacteriophage, Potential Vectors, Gene Transfer Systems); N.D.H.
Raven. Genes and Genetic Manipulation in Thermus thermophilus; T.
Oshima. Biotechnological Applications of Thermus; P.L. Bergquist,
H.W. Morgan. Index.
The seminal 1970 Moscow thesis of Grigoriy A. Margulis, published for the first time. Entitled "On Some Aspects of the Theory of Anosov Systems", it uses ergodic theoretic techniques to study the distribution of periodic orbits of Anosov flows. The thesis introduces the "Margulis measure" and uses it to obtain a precise asymptotic formula for counting periodic orbits. This has an immediate application to counting closed geodesics on negatively curved manifolds. The thesis also contains asymptotic formulas for the number of lattice points on universal coverings of compact manifolds of negative curvature. The thesis is complemented by a survey by Richard Sharp, discussing more recent developments in the theory of periodic orbits for hyperbolic flows, including the results obtained in the light of Dolgopyat's breakthroughs on bounding transfer operators and rates of mixing.
Veneration of the saints is one of the defining characteristics of early medieval society and culture. This important book by a group of distinguished experts adopts for the first time an interdisciplinary approach to examine the innumerable local cults which developed in western Europe between about 400 and 1000, concentrating especially on Celtic and Anglo-Saxon saints. The volume combines wide-ranging surveys with crucial reference material, including a handlist of all known Anglo-Saxon saints.
Medieval England was full of books, many times the number that have
survived. The great moment of loss was when the country’s
religious houses were suppressed by King Henry VIII and their
libraries scattered and destroyed. Twentieth-century scholarship
has been enterprising in establishing what survives and in
discovering what libraries once held. To understand that evidence,
and to be able to reconstruct the transmission of culture in the
Middle Ages, we need to employ with care the evidence of the
surviving books and what medieval library catalogues can tell us
about these lost collections. Libraries and Books in Medieval
England paints a new picture of the circulation of books, from the
totality of the available evidence. It seeks to move away from the
modern conceptualization of the monastic library as the only venue
for medieval book provision, and to broaden awareness of the wider
book economy, including private ownership and the birth of the book
trade. The result, by one of the country’s leading experts and
based on his Lyell Lectures in the University of Oxford, is an
unparalleled work offering a new view of the field.
This is the first book-length study of Peter of Cornwall, prior of
Holy Trinity, Aldgate, London. His Liber Reuelationum (Lambeth
Palace Library, MS 51), dated to the year 1200, is a compilation of
over 1,100 chapters, excerpted from some 275 Latin texts, dealing
with visions of the otherworld and revelatory appearances of God,
Christ, Mary, angels, saints, devils, and revenants. Peter
collected the material from saints' lives, chronicles, and
free-standing vision texts from the first century AD through to his
own day - for the purpose of providing evidence of the existence of
God, the soul, and life after death to unbelievers. Accounts of new
visionary experiences circulating in England in the 1190s
doubtlessly prompted his collection. Like his other large-scale
work, Pantheologus, Peter of Cornwall's Book of Revelations was
intended to assist preachers with propagating the fundamentals of
the faith. This volume introduces Peter's life and writings and
presents editions with parallel English translations of those parts
of the Lambeth manuscript that Peter composed himself. A detailed
description of the manuscript is included, and a Calendar
identifies the source for each of Peter's chapters. A bibliography
and indices complete this volume, which provides a marvellous
resource for scholars interested in the Latin literature of
medieval dreams, visionary experience, and the eschatological
concerns of sin, penance, death, the afterlife, and the judgement
of the soul.
There is considerable interest in thermophile microorganisms, in
their environments, their ability to survive at temperatures which
normally denature proteins, but more importantly, as a valuable
resource for bio technology. The first reported isolation of
Thermus by Tom Brock was in 1969. This initiated the present era of
thermophilic research with the realization that where liquid water
is available, there may be no limits to the temper ature at which
microorganisms can grow. Considerable research into the ecology,
physiology, metabolism, and thermostable enzymes of thermo philes
has led to their evaluation for a range of industrial and
commercial processes. The past fifteen years have been an explosive
period of dis covery of many new genera and species, including the
descriptions of a new fundamental kingdom-the Archaea. Much of the
current research has been focused on the Archaea; but it is
significant that during this period, the original type strain YT-l
of Thermus aquaticus described by Brock has provided a major step
forward in molecular biology. DNA polymerase from strain YT-I has
proved to be the major success in the commercialization of enzymes
from thermophilic microorganisms to date. The ease with which
Thermus strains can be handled in laboratories without specialized
equipment, together with the large investment in de scribing their
structure, metabolism, and genetics, should ensure a con tinuing
effort in Thermus research.
The seminal 1970 Moscow thesis of Grigoriy A. Margulis,
published for the first time. Entitled "On Some Aspects of the
Theory of Anosov Systems," it uses ergodic theoretic techniques to
study the distribution of periodic orbits of Anosov flows. The
thesis introduces the "Margulis measure" and uses it to obtain a
precise asymptotic formula for counting periodic orbits. This has
an immediate application to counting closed geodesics on negatively
curved manifolds. The thesis also contains asymptotic formulas for
the number of lattice points on universal coverings of compact
manifolds of negative curvature.
The thesis is complemented by a survey by Richard Sharp,
discussing more recent developments in the theory of periodic
orbits for hyperbolic flows, including the results obtained in the
light of Dolgopyat's breakthroughs on bounding transfer operators
and rates of mixing.
Edition of important documents from one of the major monastic
centres of medieval England. In the wake of the Conqueror's
ravaging of the North in the course of the rebellion and Danish
invasion of 1069-70 the devastated city of York had to be largely
rebuilt. The Conqueror himself contributed a major new abbey built
in the west of the city, no doubt in a spirit of penitence for the
wasting of the city and county carried out by his troops. The
community's origins were not straightforward. It had begun in the
early 1080s as a struggling monastic settlement on the ancient site
of Lastingham on the North York Moors under its charismatic leader,
Stephen. Around 1085 the community was adopted by the king and
translated to the western quarter of York, to a site which had
previously been the "burh" of the earl of Northumbria. The
Conqueror made a creative use of the new Norman elite of Yorkshire
to endow and secure the new abbey, an enterprise adopted and
extended by his son William II Rufus in 1088. By the end of Abbot
Stephen's term of office his abbey had absorbed a remarkable number
of land grants from a variety of greater and lesser aristocrats
across the North and East Ridings, as well as spawned two daughter
houses in Cumbria. This new study uncovers in meticulous detail the
manoeuvres of the king, the abbot and the aristocracy of Yorkshire
as each looked to make spiritual and political capital out of the
grand new royal foundation.
In the mid 1960s, when a single chip contained an average of 50
transistors, Gordon Moore observed that integrated circuits were
doubling in complexity every year. In an in?uential article
published by Electronics Magazine in 1965, Moore predicted that
this trend would continue for the next 10 years. Despite being
criticized for its unrealistic optimism, Moore s prediction has
remained valid for far longer than even he imagined: today, chips
built using state-- the-art techniques typically contain several
million transistors. The advances in fabrication technology that
have supported Moore s law for four decades have fuelled the
computer revolution. However, this exponential increase in
transistor density poses new design challenges to engineers and
computer scientists alike. New techniques for managing complexity
must be developed if circuits are to take full advantage of the
vast numbers of transistors available. In this monograph we
investigate both (i) the design of high-level languages for
hardware description, and (ii) techniques involved in translating
these hi- level languages to silicon. We propose SAFL, a ?rst-order
functional language
designedspeci?callyforbehavioralhardwaredescription,
anddescribetheimp- mentation of its associated silicon compiler. We
show that the high-level pr- erties of SAFL allow one to exploit
program analyses and optimizations that are not employed in
existing synthesis systems. Furthermore, since SAFL fully abstracts
the low-leveldetails of the implementation technology, we show how
it can be compiled to a range of di?erent design styles including
fully synchronous design and globally asynchronous locally
synchronous (GALS) circuits."
This is a study of three important late medieval collections of
saints' Lives. The manuscripts, written in Latin and, for the most
part, relating to the lives of Irish saints, have never before been
subject to critical examination. Richard Sharpe's pioneering
analysis addresses such questions as when and where the Lives were
compiled, and from what sources they derive. Dr Sharpe sets his own
treatment of the collections within the wider context of Irish
hagiographical studies. Formidable research underpins his lucid
exposition and resolution of complex problems of historical and
linguistic evidence.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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