Specialty optical fibers handbook

Table of Contents: “…CH 1 Introduction / CH 2 Applications and Market Opportunities / CH 3 Light-Guiding Fundamentals and Fiber Design / CH 4 Overview of Materials and Fabrication Technologies / CH 5 Optical Fiber Coatings / CH 6 Single Mode Fibers for Communications / CH 7 Specialty Single Mode Fibers / CH 8 Rare-Earth Doped Fibers / CH 9 Polarization Maintaining Fibers -- CH 10 Photosensitive Fibers / CH 11 Hollow Core Fibers / CH 12 Silica Nanowires and Subwavelength-Diameter Fibers / CH 13 Chiral Fibers / CH 14 Mid-IR and Infrared Fibers / CH 15 Hermetic Carbon-Coated Fibers -- CH 16 Metal-Coated Fibers / CH 17 Elliptical Core and D-Shape Fibers / CH 18 Multimode, Large Core and Plastic Clad Fibers / CH 19 Tapered Fibers and Specialty Fiber Micro-Components / CH 20 Liquid Core Fibers / CH 21 Polymer Optical Fibers / CH 22 Sapphire Fibers / CH 23 Optical Fibers for Industrial laser Applications / CH 24 Optical Fibers for Industrial Laser Applications / CH 25 Mechanical Strength and Reliability of Glass Fibers.…”
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Urban navigations : politics, space, and the city in South Asia

Table of Contents: “…Sri Lanka : terror, anxiety and the unstable nation : a physical biography of violence / Anoma Pieris ; City of lights : nostalgia, violence and Karachi's competing imaginaries / Huma Yusuf ; Sacrifice and dystopia : imagining Karachi through Edhi / Yasmin Jaffri and Oskar Verkaaik.…”
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Breaking bad. The complete third season by Gilligan, Vince

Table of Contents: “…. / directed by Michelle MacLaren; written by George Mastras (Uncensored). ep. 4. Green light / directed by Scott Winant; written by Sam Catlin -- disc 2. ep. 5. …”

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Reorienting Ozu : a master and his influence

Table of Contents: “…A new form of silent cinema: intertitles and interlocutions in Ozu Yasujiro's late silent films / Michael Raine -- Ozu and the aesthetics of shadow: lighting and cinematography in There was a father (Chichi ariki, 1942) / Daisuke Miyao -- Modernity, shoshimin films and the proletarian-film movement: Ozu in dialogue with Vertov / Yuki Takinami -- Laughing in the shadows of empire: humor in Ozu's Brothers and sisters of the Toda family / Junji Yoshida -- Tracing ozu. …”
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More Than Skin Deep : Skin Cancer in America

Table of Contents: “…(2:37) -- Melanoma (2:30) -- Evolution of Human Skin Color (2:07) -- Human Migration from Low UV to High UV Exposure (2:32) -- Challenge of Melanoma (1:22) -- UV Rays (1:12) -- Moles and Melanoma (2:58) -- Warning Signs of Melanoma (1:50) -- Cumulative Nature of Exposure to UV Light (2:10) -- Melanoma - Deadly Foe (2:07) -- Awareness Raising (3:45) -- Public Health and Children's Health (1:56) -- Children's Ad for Sun Awareness (1:01) -- Melanoma and Ethnic Groups (1:01) -- Melanoma: Misdiagnosis (2:45) -- White Skin: Cultural Idea. (2:16) -- Social Transformation from Pale to Tanned Skin (2:54) -- Human Immune System and Cancer (1:59) -- National Cancer Institute: Immunotherapy (2:24) -- Experimental Treatment (4:31) -- Dangers of Tanning Beds (2:41) -- Melanoma from Tanning Machines (2:47) -- Melanoma: Medical and Social Issue (2:22) -- Credits: More Than Skin Deep: Skin Cancer in America (0:42)…”
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Plant Physiology, Development and Metabolism by Bhatla, Satish C., Lal, Manju A.

Table of Contents: “…Sulfur, Phosphorus and Iron Metabolism -- UNIT III. DEVELOPMENT -- 13. Light Perception and Transduction -- 14. Plant Growth regulators – An Overview -- 15. …”
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Does regulation kill jobs?

Table of Contents: “…; 4 The Employment and Competitiveness Impacts of Power-Sector Regulations; 5 Environmental Regulatory Rigidity and Employment in the Electric Power Sector; Analytics; 6 Toward Best Practices: Assessing the Effects of Regulation on Employment; 7 Emitting More Light than Heat: Lessons from Risk Assessment Controversies for the ""Job-Killing Regulations"" Debate.…”
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Viewing African cinema in the twenty-first century : art films and the Nollywood video revolution

Table of Contents: “…audience preferences in Tanzania, 1950s-1980s / Laura Fair -- FESPACO/art film in the light of Nollywood. Art, politics, and commerce in francophone African cinema / Mahir Șaul -- Outside the machine? …”
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Finding a way home by Mwanaka, Tendai R.

Table of Contents: “…Hell's Heaven-Sent Refugees; Part II; Chapter 8. Dreams, Paintings, Light ; Chapter 9. Mock Funeral; Chapter 10. She Is Death; Chapter 11. …”
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Real-time 3D Character Animation with Visual C++ by Lever, Nik, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Real-time 3D Character Animation with Visual C++; Copyright; Contents at a glance; Contents in summary; About the author; Introduction; Chapter 1: 3D basics; Chapter 2: Drawing points and polygons the hard way; Chapter 3: Drawing points and polygons the easy way with OpenGL; Chapter 4: OpenGL lighting and textures; Chapter 5: Creating low polygon characters; Chapter 6: Texture mapping; Chapter 7: Setting up a single mesh character; Chapter 8: Keyframe animation; Chapter 9: Inverse kinematics; Chapter 10: Importing geometry and animation from Lightwave 3D…”
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Texts in transit in the medieval Mediterranean

Table of Contents: “…Morrison -- Rabbi Yedidyah Rakh on Ezekiel's "I heard" : a case study in Byzantine Jews' reception of Spanish-Provencal Jewish philosophical-scientific culture / Ofer Elior -- Gradations of light and pairs of opposites : two theories and their role in Abraham Bar Hiyya's Scroll of the revealer / Y. …”
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Human Factors Research Needs for an Aging Population. by Staff, National Research Council

Table of Contents: “…""Human Factors Research Needs for an Aging Population""; ""Copyright""; ""Foreword""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 Introduction""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""2 Human Factors Problems Associated with Aging""; ""DEMOGRAPHICS, ECOLOGY, AND SOCIOLOGY""; ""HOME ACTIVITIES""; ""WORK ACTIVITIES""; ""TRANSPORTATION""; ""Driving""; ""Visual Abilities and Driving""; ""Acuity""; ""Contrast Sensitivity Function""; ""Dynamic Visual Acuity and Motion Detection""; ""Visual Field""; ""Distance Perception""; ""Dark Adaptation""; ""Visual Search""; ""Lighting and Driving""…”
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Measure of Multitude : Population in Medieval Thought. by Biller, Peter

Table of Contents: “…The Politics (iii): multitude""; ""PART 4. THE LIGHT OF COMMON DAY""; ""14. The bulging circuit of Florence""; ""Epigraph: The climate of thought""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index of Manuscripts""; ""B""; ""C""; ""E""; ""F""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""V""…”
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The "I" of the camera : essays in film criticism, history, and aesthetics by Rothman, William

Table of Contents: “…Griffith and the birth of the movies -- Judith of Bethulia -- True heart Griffith -- The ending of City lights -- The goddess: reflections on melodrama east and west -- Red dust: the erotic screen image -- Virtue and villainy in the face of the camera -- Pathos and transfiguration in the face of the camera: a reading of Stella Dallas -- Viewing the world in black and white: race and the melodrama of the unknown woman -- Howard Hawks and Bringing up baby -- The filmmaker in the film: octave and the rules of Renoir's game -- Stagecoach and the quest for selfhood -- To have and have not adapted a film from a novel -- Hollywood and the rise of suburbia -- Nobody's perfect: Billy Wilder and the postwar American cinema -- The river -- Vertigo: the unknown woman in Hitchcock -- North by northwest: Hitchcock's monument to the Hitchcock film -- The villain in Hitchcock: "Does he look like a 'wrong' one to you?" …”


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Seventeen years in Alaska : a depiction of life among the Indians of Yakutat by Johnson, Albin, 1865-1947

Table of Contents: “…Earthquake and Fire-Spewing MountainsA Mountain Climb; Professor David Nyvall's Visit to the Mission Station, Summer 1903; Alaska, a Land of Gold; Alaska's Climate; Wild Berries; VII; Hunting and Fishing in Alaska; A Bear Story; The Man Who Shot Many Bears; An Adventuresome Seal Hunt; The Tlingit's Yearly Potlatch (Annual Feast); VIII; Sunset in Alaska; The Northern Lights; Chief George Naa-kaa-nee; The Thousand-Year-Old Woman; Stranded on an Island; An Adventure at the Hot Springs; IX; The Census in Alaska, Year 1900; Implementation of the Law in Alaska; X; The Fruits of the Mission Work.…”
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Peter Zumthor, works : buildings and projects, 1979-1997 by Zumthor, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Lightness and pain -- Buildings: -- Protective Housing for Roman Archaeological Excavations, Chur, Graubünden 1985-86 -- Zumthor Studio, Haldenstein, Graubünden 1985-86 -- Caplutta Sogn Benedetg, Sumvitg, Graubünden, 1985-1988 -- Homes for Senior Citizens, Chur, Masans, Graubünden, 1989-1993 -- Gugalun House, Versam, Graubünden, 1990-1994 -- Spittelhof Estate, Biel-Benken, Baselland, 1989-1996 -- Thermal Bath Vals, Vals, Graubünden, 1990-1996 -- Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, 1990-1997 -- Traces / Helene Binet -- Projects: -- Community Center, Landquart, Graubünden, 1987 -- Apartment Building with Stores in Zurich's Old Town, 1988 -- Holiday Hotel, Swiss Association of the Blind, Willerzell, Schwyz, 1989 -- Burghalde Apartment Building, Baden, Aargau, 1989 -- Mountain Resaurant and Cable Car Station, Rothorn, Valbella, Graubünden, 1990 -- "Topography of Terror," International Exhibition and Documentation Center, Berlin, 1993- -- Lindau Casino, Lake Constance, Germany, 1995 -- Herz Jesu Church, Munich, 1996 -- Kolumba, Diocesan Museum, Cologne, 1997- Villa in Küsnacht on Lake Zurich, 1997 -- Swiss Pavilion Expo 2000, Hanover, 1997- -- Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, London, 1997 -- List of Works -- Biography -- Awards, Exhibitions -- Bibliography -- Collaborators.…”


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Volcanic Unrest From Science to Society

Table of Contents: “…Part 1 – Overview on volcanic unrest -- Significance of unrest -- Past experiences -- Part 2 - Geophysical and geochemical insights on unrest and precursory activity -- Volcano Seismology: detecting unrest in wiggly lines -- Volcano geodesy and multiparameter investigations -- Volcanic gases and low temperature volcanic fluids -- MONITORING CAPACITY: obvious and hidden problems -- Part 3 – Magma dynamics: Lessons from experiments and models -- Storage and ascent of magma -- Magma rejuvenation: Insights from numerical models -- Crystals, bubbles and melt: critical conduit processes revealed by numerical models -- Interaction between magma and hydrothermal system -- The magma laboratory: Constraining unrest mechanisms -- From unrest to eruption: Conditions for phreatic vs. magmatic activity -- Geochemical and isotopic investigations in the light of unrest -- Magma mixing as a prelude to unrest -- Part 4 – Bridging the gap between science and decision-making -- Legal governance -- A Warner paper incl Cost benefit -- Recognizing and tracking volcanic unrest: a probabilistic approach -- Probabilistic tools for hazard assessment and risk management -- Deterministic vs. probabilistic forecasts -- Perspective on global practices of communication and decision-makers’ needs -- Social resilience and compliance during unrest crises -- Outreach and education -- Volcanic Unrest Simulation Exercises – guidance for future exercises -- Glossary -- INDEX.…”
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Arabic dialectology : in honour of Clive Holes on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday

Table of Contents: “…When Najd meets Hijaz : dialect contact in Jeddah / Aziza Al-Essa -- "Big bright lights" versus "green and pleasant land"? : the unhelpful dichotomy of 'urban' versus 'rural' in dialectology / David Britain -- The variable (h) in Damascus : analysis of a stable variable / Hanadi Ismail -- Code mixing. …”
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The Environmental Toolkit for Teachers : First Steps to Sustainability. by Fraser, Neil

Table of Contents: “…-- Setting the context -- Contextual facts -- The tools -- Environmental management basics -- Environmental management and schools -- How to implement environmental management -- Key tasks of an Eco-Teacher -- Routes to sustainability -- Encouraging sustainable behaviour change -- The 4 Es: enable, engage, exemplify, encourage -- Questions and answers regarding the 4 Es -- 2 Taking action on litter -- Introduction to litter management -- Eco-Schools and litter -- Know your litter -- Resources for litter management -- Understanding school litter management -- Getting started with litter management -- Litter clearing -- Reducing litter -- 3 Taking action on waste -- Introduction to waste management -- Eco-Schools and waste minimisation -- Know your waste -- Resources for waste management -- Understanding the school waste management -- Getting started with waste management -- Paper -- Food -- Packaging -- Resource efficiency and recycled procurement -- 4 Taking action on energy -- Introduction to energy management -- Eco-Schools and energy -- Know your energy -- Resources for energy management -- Understanding school energy management -- Getting started with energy management -- Heating -- Lighting -- Small power machines -- Alternative and renewable energy -- Resources -- Case studies -- List of useful resources -- Appendices -- Index.…”
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Gurren lagann TV series. Complete collection

Table of Contents: “…Let's go buddy -- 27. The lights in the sky are stars.…”

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