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Carbon filament, vapor grown carbon fibers and carbon nanotubes have been discovered to have remarkable properties, opening they way for their use in intriguing and novel applications in electronics, chemistry and materials science. There are many similarities between nanotubes and filaments, leading many researchers to critically compare the two materials, their production, and potential applications. The two materials are compared and contrasted in depth in the present book, which is a comprehensive review of current research activity, growth mechanisms, physical properties, industrial production, and applications. The structures are discussed using a unified approach, which helps to compare growth mechanisms, contrasting morphological differences, and detailing how novel properties depend on such differences..
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Intermediate Filaments focuses on desmin and other intermediate filaments in disease and health. This new volume will serve as a resource for graduate students and researchers in the field..
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Self-focusing has been an area of active scientific investigation for nearly 50 years. This book presents a comprehensive treatment of this topic and reviews both theoretical and experimental investigations of self-focusing. This book should be of interest to scientists and engineers working with lasers and their applications.

From a practical point of view, self-focusing effects impose a limit on the power that can be transmitted through a material medium. Self-focusing also can reduce the threshold for the occurrence of other nonlinear optical processes. Self-focusing often leads to damage in optical materials and is a limiting factor in the design of high-power laser systems. But it can be harnessed for the design of useful devices such as optical power limiters and switches. At a formal level, the equations for self-focusing are equivalent to those describing Bose-Einstein condensates and certain aspects of plasma physics and hydrodynamics. There is thus a unifying theme between nonlinear optics and these other disciplines.

One of the goals of this book is to connect the extensive early literature on self-focusing, filament-ation, self-trapping, and collapse with more recent studies aimed at issues such as self-focusing of fs pulses, white light generation, and the generation of filaments in air with lengths of more than 10 km. It also describes some modern advances in self-focusing theory including the influence of beam nonparaxiality on self-focusing collapse. This book consists of 24 chapters. Among them are three reprinted key landmark articles published earlier. It also contains the first publication of the 1964 paper that describes the first laboratory observation of self-focusing phenomena with photographic evidence.

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He watched, helplessly, as the receding tail lights of his Corolla sped north, away from the freeway, away from the burning gas station and, most importantly, away from him. They grew steadily fainter and then he blinked and they were gone ... his car, his daughters ... and the killer of children ... Mike Hasker is a man with problems. A gambling addiction has led to the loss of his job, his home, and his wife. The only joy he has left in the world are his two young daughters, and he will do anything to protect them. But now, on a deserted back road far from civilization, he will come face-to-face with ultimate evil, a hunted serial killer that may be more¿or less¿than human. This man wants only one thing, Mike¿s children, and he will kill anyone who gets in his way. As the police close in on the wrong man and a blizzard descends upon him, Mike will be faced with the most important decision of his life: recover his children before nightfall ¿ or lose them forever. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Russell C. Connor was the victim of a thwarted kidnapping attempt when he was eight-yea rs-old, but he is almost positive the Dark Filament had no hand in it. He has since become a devotee of all things horror. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas with his wife and evil cat and is hard at work on his next novel..
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Davis Lowe is looking for that fabled BIG BREAK in Hollywood, but keeps finding only second unit work, taking the jobs the real directors can't-or won't-do. Together with his cameraman Jared Mane and film editor Terrence "Otter" Ottman, he runs a tiny, independent production studio off (far off) the Sunset Strip, where the trio scrounges for crumbs and Davis puts off marrying the lovely struggling actress Susan Campbell. Enter Torsten Gross: enigmatic German director whose violent movies seem a little too real for Davis and his crew. After signing on to work for the filmmaker and his brutal leading man Lars Krieg on a horror flick, the boys are faced with a rash of actress suicides and a police investigation in the midst of a movie shoot unlike anything Hollywood could dream up. Now Davis must race to save those he cares about from the clutches of a man who will stop at nothing to finish production, as he unravels a mystery that will have him doubting the art of filmmaking...and reality itself..
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Sliding Filament Mechanism in Muscle Contraction: Fifty Years of Research covers the history of the sliding filament mechanism in muscle contraction from its discovery in 1954 by H.E. Huxley through and including modern day research. Chapters include topics in dynamic X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, muscle mechanisms, in-vitro motility assay, cardiac versus smooth muscle, motile systems, and much more.

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