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Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 156 pages
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Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422371980
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 106 pages
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ISBN : 1422371956
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 142 pages
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ISBN : 1422371948
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 130 pages
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Category : Electronic
ISBN : 142237193X
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 136 pages
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Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422371972
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 78 pages
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Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422371964
Author : Olivier Deparis,Sébastien R. Mouchet
Publisher : Artech House
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781630817985
Photonic structures occurring in biological tissues such as butterfly wings, beetle elytra or fish scales are responsible for a broad range of optical effects including iridescence, narrow-band reflection, large solid-angle scattering, polarization effects, additive color mixing, fluid-induced color changes, controlled fluorescence. Studies have provided understanding of the underlying optical mechanisms and the biological functions as well as inspiration for the design and development of novel photonic devices, also called bioinspiration. In this forward-thinking book, the research related to photonic structures in natural organisms is reviewed with a main foPhotonic structures occurring in biological tissues such as butterfly wings, beetle elytra, or fish scales are responsible for a broad range of optical effects including iridescence, narrow band reflection, large solid-angle scattering, polarization, additive color mixing, fluid induced color changes, and controlled fluorescence. This book reviews research of biological photonic devices in accordance with the fundamental aspects of physical optics and environmental biology. It provides readers with an understanding of numerical modelling based on morphological and optical characterizations as well as the quantitative treatment of color vision. This forward-thinking book ties these concepts to the design and synthesis of bioinspired photonic devices and opens the door to the applications of nature’s lessons in the technical world. This resource introduces a methodology for working with and utilizing bioinspiration. It includes the experimental and numerical tools necessary for the characterization and simulation of photonic structures and uses original concepts as examples, with a focus on bioinspired hygrochromatic materials. Professionals are brought up to speed on a variety of fabrication techniques and methods of synthesis all following a straightforward bottom-up or top-down approach. The reader will gain an understanding of the capability of bioinspiration to meet human needs. This book’s explanation of how natural photonics structures behave as efficient solar absorbers or thermal management devices makes it a useful resource for technical professionals in the field of energy and environment, and the concepts presented in this book also have applications in the designs of optical coatings, sensors, and light sources.
Author : National Science Foundation (U.S.). Office of Scientific Information
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3909732
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Documentation
ISBN : IND:30000089085181
Author : David Cheal
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0415226902
An international collection of influential texts on the concept of 'family' and related issues, with introductory chapters for each volume.
Author : Sebastian J. Carri
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cows
ISBN : 3447042745
Gavesanam deals with the Vedic discourse on many levels. It is mostly with the Rgvedic and the Yajurvedic texts, that is, with the hymns and the ritual texts, that it does so. The work shows a search for an insight into the highly cultivated poetic mind of the Rsis, which displays mystery and myth, knowledge and secrecy in their creations. The first two chapters illustrate with some clarity the method which is adopted in order to come to grips with a few of the symbolic and metaphorical, mythic and ritualistic texts and lays the foundation for the rest of the essay. The approach is interpretive and, therefore, necessarily speculative. In the main, the procedure is neither classificatory nor descriptive of the texts, since many scholars have done excellent work in this manner. The present exercise highlights the importance of the Vedic Ida, the Vedic World, the Vedic gods and goddesses like the Mitravaruna, Agni, Vak, Visnu, Sarasvat, Soma, and so on, from an interpretive point of view. A few figures make comprehension easier and more concrete. The work as a whole may be considered to be a long essay of progressive approximations, which means that the thoughts that are presented have to be corrected and complemented by further approximations in a truly academic and scientific spirit. Such an effort opens a new way for a better understanding and appreciation of the Vedic and the post-Vedic literature and culture.
Author : Esther Meininghaus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857729774
The challenge of maintaining dictatorial regimes through control, co-option and coercion while upholding a facade of legitimacy is something that has concerned leaders throughout the Middle East and beyond. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Syria ruled by the Asads, both Hafiz and his son Bashar. Drawing on the example of the General Union of Syrian Women (founded in 1967), Esther Meininghaus offers new insights into how the Syrian Ba'thist regimes attempted to move beyond mere satisfaction with the compliance of the citizenry and to consolidate their rule amongst the local population. Meininghaus argues that this was partially achieved through providing welfare services delivered by the Union as one of the state-led mass organisations. In this way, she suggests, these regimes did not only aim to undermine opposition and to create the illusion of consent, but they factually catered to local needs and depended on consent. Based on archival material, interviews and statistics, Creating Consent in Ba'thist Syria will shed new light on mass organisations as a crucial institution of Ba'thist state building and, more broadly, the construction of the Asad regimes.
Author : Rodney W. Jones
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520319172
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
Author : Kariann Akemi Yokota
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190217877
What can homespun cloth, stuffed birds, quince jelly, and ginseng reveal about the formation of early American national identity? In this wide-ranging and bold new interpretation of American history and its Founding Fathers, Kariann Akemi Yokota shows that political independence from Britain fueled anxieties among the Americans about their cultural inferiority and continuing dependence on the mother country. Caught between their desire to emulate the mother country and an awareness that they lived an ocean away on the periphery of the known world, they went to great lengths to convince themselves and others of their refinement. Taking a transnational approach to American history, Yokota examines a wealth of evidence from geography, the decorative arts, intellectual history, science, and technology to underscore that the process of unbecoming British was not an easy one. Indeed, the new nation struggled to define itself economically, politically, and culturally in what could be called America's postcolonial period. Out of this confusion of hope and exploitation, insecurity and vision, a uniquely American identity emerged.
Author : Milka Ivic
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110890754