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• Cyberpatterns: Towards a Pattern Oriented Study of Cyberspace
• Towards a Conceptual Framework for Security Patterns
• Design Patterns: Applications and Open Issues
• Challenges For A Formal Framework for Patterns
• Design Space-Based Pattern Representation
• Extending AOP Principles for the Description of Network Security Patterns
• Management Patterns for Network Resilience: Design and Verification of Policy Configurations
• A Heuristic Approach for Secure Service Composition Adaptation.- A Strategy for Structuring and Formalising Attack Patterns
• Attack Pattern Recognition through Correlating Cyber Situational Awareness in Computer Networks
• Towards a Penetration Testing Framework using Attack Patterns
• On the use of Design Patterns to Capture Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
• 'Weird Machine' Patterns
• Towards a Simulation of Information Security Behaviour in Organisations
• Security Design Patterns in the MASTER Workbench
• Evaluating the Implications of Attack and Security Patterns with Premortems
• An Overview of Artificial Intelligence Based Pattern Matching in a Security and Digital Forensic Context
• Partitional Clustering of Malware using K-Means
• Dynamic Monitoring of Composed Services
• Where has this hard disk been? : Extracting geospatial intelligence from digital storage systems
• Future Directions for Research on Cyberpatterns.

This important new book provides an introduction to and coverage of the state-of-the-art of cyberpatterns, from a theoretical standpoint and via practical applications, bringing together different interdisciplinary areas to portray a holistic view of the underlying principles and mechanisms of cyberpatterns. It includes extended and updated papers from the First International Workshop on Cyberpatterns; provides a broad introduction to this novel and fast-moving field; contains both a research agenda and practical applications for cyberpatterns ; demonstrates the application of patterns to cyber security and other key cyberspace domains; supports the development of a sound scientific, engineering and mathematical foundation for cyberspace. -- Edited summary from book.

• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Unity
• Chapter 2: Game Programming 101
• Chapter 3: Making A Simple Scene
• Chapter 4: Using Scripts And The GameObject
• Chapter 5: Moving The GameObject
• Chapter 6: Starting With Coding Physics
• Chapter 7: More Physics and Animation
• Chapter 8: Particle Emitters and Special Effects
• Chapter 9: Game Design And Logic - The Blueprint
• Chapter 10: Putting The Pieces Together And Building Your Game
• Chapter 11: Enhancing The User Experience: GUI And Sound
• Chapter 12: Optimizing and Publishing Your Game
• Chapter 13: Where To Go From Here.
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Learn Unity Programming with UnityScript is your step-by-step guide to learning to make your first Unity games using UnityScript. You will move from point-and-click components to fully customized features. You need no prior programming knowledge or any experience with other design tools such as PhotoShop or Illustrator - you can start from scratch making Unity games with what you'll learn in this book.Through hands-on examples of common game patterns, you'll learn and apply the basics of game logic and design. You will gradually become comfortable with UnityScript syntax, at each point having everything explained to you clearly and concisely. Many beginner programming books refer to documentation that is too technically abstract for a beginner to use - Learn Unity Programming with UnityScript will teach you how to read and utilize those resources to hone your skills, and rapidly increase your knowledge in Unity game development. You'll learn about animation, sound, physics, how to handle user interaction and so much more. Janine Suvak has won awards for her game development and is ready to show you how to start your journey as a game developer. The Unity3D game engine is flexible, cross-platform, and a great place to start your game development adventure, and UnityScript was made for it - so get started game programming with this book today.
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• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Unity
• Chapter 2: Game Programming 101
• Chapter 3: Making A Simple Scene
• Chapter 4: Using Scripts And The GameObject
• Chapter 5: Moving The GameObject
• Chapter 6: Starting With Coding Physics
• Chapter 7: More Physics and Animation
• Chapter 8: Particle Emitters and Special Effects
• Chapter 9: Game Design And Logic - The Blueprint
• Chapter 10: Putting The Pieces Together And Building Your Game
• Chapter 11: Enhancing The User Experience: GUI And Sound
• Chapter 12: Optimizing and Publishing Your Game
• Chapter 13: Where To Go From Here.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Learn Unity Programming with UnityScript is your step-by-step guide to learning to make your first Unity games using UnityScript. You will move from point-and-click components to fully customized features. You need no prior programming knowledge or any experience with other design tools such as PhotoShop or Illustrator - you can start from scratch making Unity games with what you'll learn in this book.Through hands-on examples of common game patterns, you'll learn and apply the basics of game logic and design. You will gradually become comfortable with UnityScript syntax, at each point having everything explained to you clearly and concisely. Many beginner programming books refer to documentation that is too technically abstract for a beginner to use - Learn Unity Programming with UnityScript will teach you how to read and utilize those resources to hone your skills, and rapidly increase your knowledge in Unity game development. You'll learn about animation, sound, physics, how to handle user interaction and so much more. Janine Suvak has won awards for her game development and is ready to show you how to start your journey as a game developer. The Unity3D game engine is flexible, cross-platform, and a great place to start your game development adventure, and UnityScript was made for it - so get started game programming with this book today.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Preface
• Chapter 1. Modernizing Democracy? Associations and Associating in the 21st Century
• Chapter 2. Social Life and Politics in Voluntary Organizations :An Historical Perspective
• Chapter 3. Alexis de Tocqueville revisited: Between the Centralization of Political Power, Civil Associations and Gender Politics in the European Union
• Chapter 4. Tocqueville did not write about soccer clubs: Participation in voluntary associations and political involvement
• Chapter 5. Voluntary Associations and Social Capital: Inclusive and exclusive dimensions
• Chapter 6. Who Calls the Shots? The Real Normative Power of Civil Society
• Chapter 7. The Impact of Civil Society on Sustainable Development
• Chapter 8. Volunteering in a hybrid institutional and organizational environment: An emerging research agenda
• Chapter 9. Voluntary Involvement in German Welfare Organizations
• Chapter 10. Changes in work and human services: On the risks and chances they entail for volunteering
• Chapter 11. Residual and Emancipatory Value of Volunteering in the Czech Society
• Chapter 12. Two Decades of Participatory Democracy in Poland
• Chapter 13. The role of civil society organizations in the field of unemployment: for or by the unemployed?
• Chapter 14. Transnational mobility and associative life
• Chapter 15. Associating at the European level: Civil Society Networks in Brussels
• Chapter 16. Why Is There no Statute for a European Association?
• Chapter 17. Developments in the Third Sector
• The Last Decade and a Cautious View into the Future
• Chapter 18. 'Though we manage we are no corporation!' Patterns in volunteer management of German youth organisations
• Chapter 19. Governance logics in NGDO-Boards between political and economic challenges: Empirical results from Austria
• Chapter 20. Associating for Affordable Housing: Nonprofit Social Housing in Germany and the US
• Chapter 21. From Mainstreaming to Modernization? New Labour and the Third Sector in England
• Chapter 22. Towards a neoliberal Third sector? International lessons from recent developments in China
• Chapter 23. Social Investment: Franco-German Experiences
• Chapter 24. Opportunities and limits of cooperatives in times of socio-ecological transformation
• Chapter 25. Nonprofit Arts and Culture in the United States: Roles, Audiences and Participation
• Chapter 26. Major Giving in Germany: Facts and Opportunities
• Chapter 27. Aktive Bürgerschaft: Innovations for Civil Society in Germany.

Modernizing Democracy brings together scholars focusing the role of associations and associating in contemporary societies. Organizations and associations have been identified as the 'meso level of society' and as the 'basic elements of democracy'. They are important providers of welfare services and play an important role between the individual and political spheres. In recent years the environment of associations and associating has changed dramatically. Individualization, commercialization and globalization are challenging both democracy and the capability of associations to fulfill the functions attributed to them by social sciences. This change provides the central question of the volume: Is being part of an organization or association becoming an outdated model? And do associations still have the capacity of modernizing societies or are they just outdated remnants of post-democracy? The contributions to Modernizing Democracy are organized into Studying Associations and Associating in the 21st Century: Theoretical and methodological considerations, Associating in times of flux and Associations and the Challenge of Capitalist Development. The book will be attractive to third sector researchers as well as a broader academic community of political scientists, sociologists, economists, legal scientists and related disciplines.

• Introduction to Telecommunication Networks
• Legacy Digital Networks
• IP-based Networks and Future Trends
• Survey on Probability Theory
• Markov Chains and Queuing Theory
• M/G/1 Queuing Theory and Applications
• Local Area Networks and Analysisis
• Networks of Queues.

Giovanni Giambene provides fundamental knowledge in queuing theory, as well as essential analyticial methods & approaches to be employed to evaluate & design telecommunication networks.

• Selective lignin oxidation
• Selective hydrogenolysis of biomass deoxydehydration of polyols
• Carbohydrate conversion to lactic acid and isosorbide
• Catalytic Approaches to the Production of Levulinates and Substituted Furfurals from Biomass
• Polymerization of biomass-derived monomers.

The series Topics in Current Chemistry presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in modern chemical research. The scope of coverage is all areas of chemical science including the interfaces with related disciplines such as biology, medicine and materials science. The goal of each thematic volume is to give the non-specialist reader, whether in academia or industry, a comprehensive insight into an area where new research is emerging which is of interest to a larger scientific audience. Each review within the volume critically surveys one aspect of that topic and places it within the context of the volume as a whole. The most significant developments of the last 5 to 10 years are presented using selected examples to illustrate the principles discussed. The coverage is not intended to be an exhaustive summary of the field or include large quantities of data, but should rather be conceptual, concentrating on the methodological thinking that will allow the non-specialist reader to understand the information presented. Contributions also offer an outlook on potential future developments in the field.

• Preface
• Broadband analysis of bioagents by mass spectrometry
• Hollow-fiber flow field-flow fractionation for mass spectrometry: from proteins to whole bacteria
• Mass spectrometry and tandem mass spectrometry for protein biomarker discovery and bacterial speciation
• Intact cell/spore mass spectrometry of fusarium macro conidia for fast isolate and species differentiation
• Bacteriophage amplification-coupled detection and identification of bacterial pathogens
• Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometric analysis of bacillus anthracis: from fingerprint analysis of the bacterium to quantification of its toxins in clinical samples
• Microorganism identification based on MALDI-TOF MS fingerprints
• Mass spectrometric detection of botulinum neurotoxin by measuring its activity in serum and milk
• Functional assays for ricin detection
• Challenges of detecting bioterrorism agents in complex matrices
• DESI-MS/MS of chemical warfare agents and related compounds
• Mass spectrometry applications for the identification and quantitation of biomarkers resulting from human exposure to chemical warfare agents
• Applications of mass spectrometry in investigations of alleged use of chemical warfare agents
• Mass spectrometry for the analysis of low explosives
• Identification of the bacterial cellular lipid fraction by using fast GC x GC-MS and innovative MS libraries
• Endotoxins in environmental and clinical samples assessed by GC-tandem MS
• Imaging mass spectrometry
• 2 and 3d TOF-SIMS imaging for biological analysis
• Application of mass spectrometry for the analysis of vitellogenin, a unique biomarker for xenobiotic compounds
• Mass spectrometry as a powerful analytical technique for the structural characterization of synthesized and natural products.

The threat of biological and chemical terrorism has driven the demand for timely techniques that can quickly detect the agent or agents used in an attack. The detection and/or prevention of these potential security threats provide significant scientific and technical challenges due to the combination of possible agents and modes of delivery available. This book will present a thorough look at the importance and technological challenges of mass spectrometry (MS) for the detection & identification of biological and chemical threats. This new contribution's general aims are to draw the attention of recognized practitioners, experts and graduate students trying to grasp the latest MS developments in the cutting-edge fields of MS-biodefense technologies for the rapid/early/specific sensitive threat detection of pathogens, viruses, explosives, mycotoxins, chemical agents, and biological markers of xenobiotic chemicals.

• R. Baer: Complementation in finite gropus
• M. Lazard: Groupes, anneaux de Lie et problème de Burnside
• J. Tits: Sur les groupes algébriques afffines. Théorèmes fondamentaux de structure. Classification des groupes semisimples et géométries associées.

This book includes: R. Baer: Complementation in finite gropus; M. Lazard: Groupes, anneaux de Lie et probleme de Burnside; J. Tits: Sur les groupes algebriques afffines; Theoremes fondamentaux de structure; and, Classification des groupes semisimples et geometries associees.

• From the content: Determining an Efficient Parts Layout for Assembly Cell Production by using GA and Virtual Factory System
• Virtual University
• A New Perspective
• Fuzzy preference based organizational performance measurement
• Software Testing
• Factor Contribution Analysis in a Decision Support Framework.

Intelligent Decision Technologies (IDT) seeks an interchange of research on intelligent systems and intelligent technologies which enhance or improve decision making in industry, government and academia. The focus is interdisciplinary in nature, and includes research on all aspects of intelligent decision technologies, from fundamental development to the applied system. This volume represents leading research from the Third KES International Symposium on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES IDT'11), hosted and organized by the University of Piraeus, Greece, in conjunction with KES International. The symposium was concerned with theory, design, development, implementation, testing and evaluation of intelligent decision systems. Topics include decision making theory, intelligent agents, fuzzy logic, multi-agent systems, Bayesian networks, optimization, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, expert systems, decision support systems, geographic information systems, case-based reasoning, time series, knowledge management systems, rough sets, spatial decision analysis, and multi-criteria decision analysis. These technologies have the potential to revolutionize decision making in many areas of management, healthcare, international business, finance, accounting, marketing, military applications, ecommerce, network management, crisis response, building design, information retrieval, and disaster recovery for a better future.

• The Higgs mechanism and the origin of mass / Abdelhak Djouadi
• Testing basic laws of gravitation : are our postulates on dynamics and gravitation supported by experimental evidence? / Claus Lämmerzahl
• Mass metrology and the international system of units (SI) / Richard S. Davis
• Mass and angular momentum in general relativity / José Luis Jaramillo and Eric Gourgoulhon
• Post-Newtonian theory and the two-body problem / Luc Blanchet
• Post-Newtonian methods : analytic results on the binary problem / Gerhard Schäfer
• The effective one-body description of the two-body problem / Thibault Damour and Alessandro Nagar
• Introduction to gravitational self-force / Robert M. Wald
• Derivation of gravitational self-force / Samuel E. Gralla and Robert M. Wald
• Elementary development of the gravitational self-force / Steven Detweiler
• Constructing the self-force / Eric Poisson
• Computational methods for the self-force in black hole spacetimes / Leor Barack
• Radiation reaction and energy-momentum conservation / Dmitri Gal'tsov
• The state of current self-force research / Lior M. Burko
• High-accuracy comparison between the post-Newtonian and self-force dynamics of black-hole binaries / Luc Blanchet [and others]
• LISA and capture sources / Oliver Jennrich
• Motion in alternative theories of gravity / Gilles Esposito-Farèse
• Mass, Inertia, and gravitation / Marc-Thierry Jaekel and Serge Reynaud
• Motion in quantum gravity/ Karim Noui
• Free fall and self-force : an historical perspective / Alessandro Spallicci.

From the infinitesimal scale of particle physics to the cosmic scale of the universe, research is concerned with the nature of mass. While there have been spectacular advances in physics during the past century, mass still remains a mysterious entity at the forefront of current research. Our current perspective on gravitation has arisen over millennia, through the contemplation of falling apples, lift thought experiments and notions of stars spiraling into black holes. In this volume, the world's leading scientists offer a multifaceted approach to mass by giving a concise and introductory pres.

• Keynote talks
• Regular papers
• Short papers
• Tool papers
• Special track: "Modelling for sustainable development."

Annotation This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2011, held in Montevideo, Uruguay, in November 2011. The 22 revised regular papers presented together with 1 short paper, 2 tool papers, and 4 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 initial abstracts and 85 full submissions. Besides the regular session the conference held a special track devoted to "Modeling for Sustainable Development" with 5 accepted papers - selected from 7 submissions - that are also part of this volume. The aim of SEFM is to advance the state of the art in formal methods, to scale up their application in software industry and to encourage their integration with practical engineering methods

• What Makes E-Services Different?
• Open Innovation in Service Ecosystems
• Idea Ontology
• Prototype Development
• Idea Rating Mechanisms.
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Christoph Riedl elaborates conceptual solutions and tool support for networked environments. The author draws on the fields of new service development and open innovation, in particular building on online communities. Based on the design science paradigm, the author offers guidelines how tool support for online innovation communities can be developed.
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• With contributions by Wolfgang Berg, Aoileann Ni Eigeartaigh, Anatoliy Kruglashov, Dorota Misiejuk, Claudia Messina, Ulla-Maija Koivula, Miroslaw Sobecki.
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Annotation Based on culture as a complex system of rules it is too obvious that each rule has a particular range which is only exceptionally congruent with national or natural borders. In general, cultural exchange is not limited by political borders or rivers, forests, seas, or mountains. Those areas are rather transcultural, which is especially true for markets and towns. Dealing with cities like Buenos Aires or Riga, regions like Podlachia (Poland), Northern Ireland, or Bukovina, and the area of the Danube river the case studies give evidence for this thesis. The book will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of cultural and intercultural studies.

• Introduction
• Review of Damage Mechanics
• Basis of Isotropic Damage Mechanics
• Isotropic Elasto-Plastic Damage Mechanics
• Basis of Anisotropic Damage Mechanics
• Brittle Damage Mechanics of Rock Mass
• Anisotropic Elasto-Plastic Damage Mechanics
• Theory of Visco-Elasto-Plastic Damage Mechanics
• Dynamic Damage Problems of Damaged Materials
• Erratum to: Basis of Anisotropic Damage Mechanics
• Erratum to: Anisotropic Elasto-plastic Damage Mechanics.

"Continuum Damage Mechanics and Numerical Applications" presents a systematic development of the theory of Continuum Damage Mechanics and its numerical engineering applications using a unified form of the mathematical formulations in anisotropic and isotropic damage models. The theoretical framework is based on the thermodynamic theory of energy and material dissipation and is described by a set of fundamental formulations of constitutive equations of damaged materials, development equations of the damaged state, and evolution equations of micro-structures. According to concepts of damage-dissipation of the material state and effective evolution of material properties, all these advanced equations, which take nonsymmetrized effects of damage aspects into account, are developed and modified from the traditional general failure models so they are more easily applied and verified in a wide range of engineering practices by experimental testing. Dr. Wohua Zhang is a Professor at Engineering Mechanics Research Center in Zhejiang University of China. Dr. Yuanqiang Cai is a Professor at Department of Civil Engineering in Zhejiang University of China

• Testing of Software
• Use of Models in Software Engineering
• System Families and Variability
• Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries
• The MTCC Approach
• Models for System and Test Representation
• Application of MTCC Models
• Application of MTCC to the Digital Library Domain
• Validation Goals and Design
• Results of the Validation
• Related Work
• Summary and Contributions
• Outlook and Conclusion.

Software reuse and software quality are increasingly important topics in today's software engineering both for researchers and for practitioners. The design and implementation of tests is especially challenging when tests are conceptualized for different variants and versions of an application. Stefan Baerisch applies a combination of feature modelling and code generation, for which he uses a model-driven approach, in order to facilitate the design of tests by non-programmers. Thus, the reuse of tests, represented by abstract test models, for different systems under tests is made possible. The approach uses code generation to allow test execution on heterogeneous and changing implementations. This combination of modelling and code generation allows for a more integrated and more efficient testing process.

• The Wonder Just Goes On and On
• Within Ourselves
• That's You, Right in the Middle
• Not Quite a Bee's Eye View
• The Namer and the Named
• The Truth but not the Whole Truth
• What Happened Next
• Up and Down
• What It's Good At
• Third Rock and a Bit
• A Fabulous Night
• Aorounga to Zapadnaya (by Way of Manicouagan)
• Known and Unknown
• Works of Nature ...
• ... And Cold Indifference
• Enough Way Beyonds
• A Pretty Face but a Cold One
• A Journey of a Thousand Lifetimes
• A Moon of One's Own
• No Substitute for Going There
• Ringshine
• Beneath the Blowing Sands
• Designed by Committee
• No Ordinary String
• An Innocent Passer-by?
• Once Upon a Time, Long Ago
• Bigger Than We Are
• Unpossessed
• So Similar, So Different
• As an Angel
• Tricks of the Light
• More Than a Match
• Curiously Normal
• Looking Again
• Realities Like This
• Above a Turbulent Sky
• They All Turn out Differently
• Warhol's Worlds
• An Edge of Darkness
• No Moon Is an Island
• What Shall We Call Her?
• The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
• Heaven's Harpstrings
• ... And the Gates of Hell
• Simple Rings
• Crime Scene Investigation
• The Dust Left Behind
• Skies on Fire
• Looking on the Bright Side
• Fragments of Truth
• All Her Thoughts
• Leaving Just the Oddballs
• Epic Stories
• Mimas in Blue
• Taking What You Can Get
• Time in the Sun
• Something out there Moving
• This Side of Xanadu
• Simplicity Too
• The Journey of a Hero
• Whatever Seasons
• Forever Entangled.

Ice, Rock, and Beauty is a book for anybody who lives in the solar neighborhood, and takes an interest in its significance to us as residents. Human experience of the Solar System is changing rapidly. Techniques of observation from Earth-based telescopes continue to develop, while missions such as Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, and the Hubble Space Telescope have yielded many stunning images. So although most people have some knowledge of the essential structure of the Solar System, relatively few are familiar with the amazing diversity of objects that travel with and amongst the planets in their journeys around the Sun. The book gathers images from a rich pool, many from national and international organizations such as NASA and ESA, some directly from academic astronomers, and a few from private individuals. Together they tell a story of the Solar System, and of its beauty, that has not been told before.

• -Science and Technology of Nanocarbon. -Catalytically Grown Carbon Nanotubes and Their Applications. -An Alternative for Existing Indium-Tin-Oxide Transparent Conducting Film: Carbon Nanotube Film. -Carbon Nanotube Based Nanoelectromechanical Systems. -Raman Spectroscopy on Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. -Interface Design of Carbon Nano-Materials for Energy Storage. -Controlling Spin Coherence with Semiconductor Nanostructures. -Generating and Manipulating Spins in Semiconductors. -Nanodevices and Maxwell's Demon. -Spintronics and Nanomagnetics. -Manipulation of Electron Spins in a Semiconductor Rashba System. -Quantum Size Effects Induced Novel Properties in Quasi-2D Electronic System. -Continuum Modelling of Nanoscale Hydrodynamics. -Tuning The Kondo Effect of a Single Magnetic Ion Adsorbed on Au(111) Surfaces by Changing its Chemical Environments. -Nanocrystal Molecules. -Chemical Transformations in Nanocrystals. -Designing Nanocrystal Quantum Dots for Biomedical Imaging. -Designing Nanocrystal Quantum Dots for Device Applications. -Studies on Molecular Interfaces Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. -Synthesis and Biomedical Applications of Uniform-Sized Nanoparticle. -Electrical-Transport Measurements on Individual Metal and Semiconductor Nanowires. -Controlled Synthesis And Properties of Quasi-One-Dimensional Nitride Nanostructures. -Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy for Nanomaterials. -Defects in ZnO Nanostructures Synthesized by a Hydrothermal Method. -Electrical Transport in Circular and Hexagonal ZnO Nanowires. -A New Class Of Luminescent Alkynyl Gold(III) Cyclometalated Complexes - Synthesis, Characterization, Electrochemical, Photophysical, Theoretical and Electroluminescence Studies. -Fabrication Of Photovoltaic Devices By Layer-By-Layer Polyelectrolyte Deposition Method. -Mechanical Properties and Thermal Expansion of a Composite of AlN Nanowires and Nanocrystalline Al. -Chemical Synthesis of Colloidal Metal Chalcogenide Nanocrystals. -Nanoscience from Carbon Nanotubes to Single-Molecule Biophysics. -DNA Translocation Through Solid State Nanopores. -Quantum Manipulation at the Molecular Scale. -Silicon-Based Nano Devices For Detection Of DNA Molecules. -From Simple Molecules to Molecular Functional Materials and Nanoscience. -Time Dependent Quantum Transport Through Nano-Devices. -Detecting Double-Stranded DNA with Full Solid-State Nanopore Devices. -Detection of Molecular Charges Using Silicon-on-Insulator Based Nanowire Field-Effect-Transistors. -First-Principles Method For Open Electronic Systems.
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This book collects selected lectures from the Third Workshop of the Croucher Advanced Study Institute on Nano Science and Technology, and showcases contributions from world-renowned researchers. The book presents in-depth articles on the latest developments in nanomaterials and nanotechnology, and provides a cross-disciplinary perspective covering physics and biophysics, chemistry, materials science, and engineering.
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• Tetrahedral Meshing 1.- Aggressive Tetrahedral Mesh Improvement.- Three-dimensional Semi-generalized Point Placement Method for Delaunay Mesh Refinement.- SVR: Practical Engineering of a Fast 3D Meshing Algorithm*.- Construction of Sparse Well-spaced Point Sets for Quality Tetrahedralizations.- Optimization and Adaptivity.- Interleaving Delaunay Refinement and Optimization for 2D Triangle Mesh Generation.- A New Meccano Technique for Adaptive 3-D Triangulations.- Well-centered Planar Triangulation - An Iterative Approach.- Generation of Quasi-Optimal Meshes Based on a Posteriori Error Estimates.- Geometry.- An Efficient Geometrical Model for Meshing Applications in Heterogeneous Environments.- A Hole-filling Algorithm Using Non-uniform Rational B-splines.- Removing Small Features with Real CAD Operations.- Automatic Extraction of Quadrilateral Patches from Triangulated Surfaces Using Morse Theory.- Hexahedral Meshing.- An Extension of the Reliable Whisker Weaving Algorithm.- Methods and Applications of Generalized Sheet Insertion for Hexahedral Meshing.- A Selective Approach to Conformal Refinement of Unstructured Hexahedral Finite Element Meshes.- pCAMAL: An Embarrassingly Parallel Hexahedral Mesh Generator*.- Surface Meshing.- An Extension of the Advancing Front Method to Composite Geometry.- A Mesh Morphing Technique For Geometrically Dissimilar Tessellated Surfaces.- Mesh Sizing with Additively Weighted Voronoi Diagrams.- Overlaying Surface Meshes: Extension and Parallelization.- Applications and Three-dimensional Techniques.- Automatic 3D Mesh Generation for a Domain with Multiple Materials.- Mixed-Element Mesh for an Intra-Operative Modeling of the Brain Tumor Extraction.- Geometric Algorithms for 3D Interface Reconstruction.- k-Compatible Tessellations*.- Tetrahedral Meshing 2.- Meshing 3D Domains Bounded by Piecewise Smooth Surfaces*.- Automatic tetrahedral out-of-core meshing.- A Practical Delaunay Meshing Algorithm for a Large Class of Domains*.- Efficient Delaunay Mesh Generation from Sampled Scalar Functions.- Applications and Software.- Parallel Mesh Adaptation for Highly Evolving Geometries with Application to Solid Propellant Rockets.- New Applications of the Verdict Library for Standardized Mesh Verification Pre, Post, and End-to-End Processing.- An Immersive Topology Environment for Meshing.- CUBIT and Seismic Wave Propagation Based Upon the Spectral-Element Method: An Advanced Unstructured Mesher for Complex 3D Geological Media.
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This volume contains the articles presented at the 16th International Meshing Roundtable (IMR) organized, in part, by Sandia National Laboratories and held in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. in October, 2007. The volume presents recent results of mesh generation and adaptation which has applications to finite element simulation. It introduces theoretical and novel ideas with practical potential.
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