Liquid Crystalline Polymers (Cambridge Solid State Science)

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The new edition of this authoritative guide on liquid crystalline polymer (LCP) science has been produced in response to the wealth of new material recently generated in the field. It takes the reader through the theoretical underpinnings to real-world applications of LCP technology in a logical, well-integrated manner. A chapter on liquid biopolymers has been introduced, whilst the in-depth discussion on applications describes not only maturing fields of high strength structural LCPs, but also a detailed analysis of the developing area of functional materials. The in-depth coverage and detailed glossary establishes this as an indispensable text for graduate students and researchers in the polymer field, as well as being of interest to those working in chemistry, physics and materials science.

Basic Features of the Glassy State: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Non-Crystalline Solids, San Sebastian, Spain, 11-14 July 198

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Basic Features of the Glassy State: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Non-Crystalline Solids, San Sebastian, Spain, 11-14 July 198
International Workshop on Non-Crystalline Solids 1989 San Sebastian , and J. Colmenero
Manufacturer: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
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Cross-Linked Liquid Crystalline Systems: From Rigid Polymer Networks to Elastomers (Liquid Crystals Book Series)

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Cross-Linked Liquid Crystalline Systems: From Rigid Polymer Networks to Elastomers (Liquid Crystals Book Series)
Gregory P Crawford , Dirk Broer , and Slobodan Zumer
Manufacturer: CRC
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With rapidly expanding interest in liquid crystalline polymers and elastomers among the liquid crystal community, researchers are currently exploring the wide range of possible application areas for these unique materials, including optical elements on displays, tunable lasers, strain gauges, micro-structures, and artificial muscles. Written by respected scientists from academia and industry around the world, who are not only active in the field but also well-known in more traditional areas of research, Cross-Linked Liquid Crystalline Systems: From Rigid Polymer Networks to Elastomers presents important aspects of this field, covering carefully selected topics in an accessible way.

Crystalline Semiconducting Materials and Devices (Physics of Solids and Liquids)

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Crystalline Semiconducting Materials and Devices (Physics of Solids and Liquids)

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ASIN: 0306421542

Defects and Disorder in Crystalline and Amorphous Solids (NATO Science Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Volume 418)

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Defects and Disorder in Crystalline and Amorphous Solids (NATO Science Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Volume 418)

Manufacturer: Kluwer Academic
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ASIN: 0792326105

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The study of disorder in solids is one of the key areas in contemporary solid state science. In crystalline solids there are well-developed models for describing the way in which defects control the atomic transport, thermodynamic and spectroscopic properties. In contrast, the conceptual and theoretical framework for describing these properties in amorphous solids is less well developed, partly due to the uncertainties in the structural models used to represent the disordered systems. Moreover, disordered solids include materials of great contemporary technological importance, for example, ceramic superconductors and amorphous semiconductors. The field has developed rapidly in the last few years, driven both by technological needs for improved materials and by the fundamental scientific problems posed by disorder in solids. Progress has been especially rapid in structural studies, using diffraction, EXAFS, NMR and microscopy techniques, in investigation of atomic and charge transport and in the application of theoretical and computational methods. The book provides a unified approach to disorder in solids. The earlier chapters present a survey of the theoretical and structural concepts used in describing defective and amorphous solids and the basic properties of these materials. The next chapters are devoted to a thorough survey of techniques and properties, including structural studies, transport, thermodynamic and spectroscopic properties and theoretical and computational techniques. The final chapters review materials and applications, including fast-ion conductors, sensors, amorphous semiconductors and novel glasses. It therefore presents a unique survey of an important field in contemporary solid state science.

Diffuse Neutron Scattering from Crystalline Materials (Oxford Series on Neutron Scattering in Condensed Matter, 14)

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Diffuse Neutron Scattering from Crystalline Materials (Oxford Series on Neutron Scattering in Condensed Matter, 14)
Victoria M. Nield , and David A. Keen
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0198517904

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The present book is an accessible, comprehensive guide to diffuse neutron scattering, an important technique for studying structural disorder in materials. The text takes the reader through theoretical, computational and experimental developments in the subject and describes in detail its application to a number of structural disorder problems. These include the more traditional subjects of substitutional disorder in alloys and orientational disorder in molecular systems as well as the more recent studies of superionic and framework materials. Particular emphasis is placed on recent refinement methods for data interpretation which are compared with established computer simulation techniques and analytical approaches. The book collects disparate themes into one unique volume, written as an introduction to the method for graduate scientists. It will be a valuable reference text for any crystallographer keen to understand and apply modern interpretative techniques to diffuse scattering data.

Diffusion in Crystalline Solids (Materials Science and Technology Series)

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Diffusion in Crystalline Solids (Materials Science and Technology Series)
G. E. Murch
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Dynamics of Crystal Surfaces and Interfaces (Fundamental Materials Research)

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Dynamics of Crystal Surfaces and Interfaces (Fundamental Materials Research)

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ASIN: 0306456192

Freely Suspended Liquid Crystalline Films

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Freely Suspended Liquid Crystalline Films
A. A. Sonin
Manufacturer: Wiley
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ASIN: 0471971553

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Freely Suspended Liquid Crystalline Films Andrei A. Sonin Centre d'Etudes Atomiques de Saclay, France and Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Sciences with a Foreword by Professor Noel Clark University of Colorado, USA This book provides a brief introduction to the physics of liquid crystals and to macroscopic physical parameters characterising freely suspended liquid crystalline (FSLC) films, and then reviews the experimental techniques for preparing these films, measuring their thicknesses, and investigating their physical properties and structural aspects. Molecular structures and defects of FSLC films and the problems of film stability, thinning and rupture are discussed in later chapters. Physical phenomena, such as orientational and phase transitions, Frederick's and flexoelectric effects, hydroelectrodynamics, etc., are also analysed. Finally, some applications of FSLC films in industry and in various branches of science are discussed. Specialists working in the physics of liquid crystals and in surface physics will find this book of interest. Industrial firms and their research centres investigating liquid crystals, biological membranes, detergent/surfactant/biomedical areas; and graduates and postgraduates in solid state physics and crystallography will also benefit from this book. The book has an easy-to-read style with just the minimum amount of mathematics necessary to explain important concepts. This is the first book dedicated exclusively to the physics of FSLC in almost a century since their discovery and last twenty years of their active studies. Andrei Sonin, a scientist in the area of FSLC and author of many articles on surface phenomena in liquid crystals, the properties and behaviour of thin liquid crystalline and surfactant films, has a long standing reputation in liquid crystals and surfactant systems and has been particularly active in issues involving surface interactions.

Growth of Crystalline Semiconductor Materials on Crystal Surfaces (Thin Films Science and Technology, No. 5)

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Growth of Crystalline Semiconductor Materials on Crystal Surfaces (Thin Films Science and Technology, No. 5)
Leonid Naumovich Aleksandrov
Manufacturer: Elsevier Science Ltd
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ASIN: 0444423079

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Graphical models, a marriage between probability theory and graph theory, provide a natural tool for dealing with two problems that occur throughout applied mathematics and engineering--uncertainty and complexity. In particular, they play an increasingly important role in the design and analysis of machine learning algorithms. Fundamental to the idea of a graphical model is the notion of modularity: a complex system is built by combining simpler parts. Probability theory serves as the glue whereby the parts are combined, ensuring that the system as a whole is consistent and providing ways to interface models to data. Graph theory provides both an intuitively appealing interface by which humans can model highly interacting sets of variables and a data structure that lends itself naturally to the design of efficient general-purpose algorithms.

This book presents an in-depth exploration of issues related to learning within the graphical model formalism. Four chapters are tutorial chapters--Robert Cowell on Inference for Bayesian Networks, David MacKay on Monte Carlo Methods, Michael I. Jordan et al. on Variational Methods, and David Heckerman on Learning with Bayesian Networks. The remaining chapters cover a wide range of topics of current research interest.

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Recommended, but not the place to begin.......2003-06-19

The title of the book is somewhat misleading, in that most of the research papers involve advanced issues concerning one particular graphical model, namely the Bayesian network. For this reason I highly recommend, as a prerequisite to this book, Finn Jensen's "Bayesian Networks and Decision Graphs". Jensen's book is adequate in giving a good introduction and overview of the subject, but not sufficient for calling oneself an "expert" upon successfully digesting it.

To its credit, "Learning in Graphical Models" has several well-written and interesting papers, but the tutorial papers just did not seem enough of an introduction for me to feel comfortable using it as a first source of introduction.

What I find most compelling about Bayesian networks is the fact that they seem both highly modular (which facilitates reusability and network interconnectivity) and can be designed in a semi-rational manner (contrast this with neural-network architectures for which few good algorithms exist for determining size and number of layers). For this reason I imagine they will be important players in future engineering projects that require learning and adaptation.

Simply Superb..........2000-03-31

My area of research revolves around graphical models... Best Book... The book that introduced me as to how effective graphical models are... As stated in the editorial review, graphical model is the marriage between graph theory and probability and this book justifies the sacredness of this marriage!

Graphical Models for Machine Learning and Digital Communication (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)

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Graphical Models for Machine Learning and Digital Communication (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)
Brendan J. Frey
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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ASIN: 026206202X

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A variety of problems in machine learning and digital communication deal with complex but structured natural or artificial systems. In this book, Brendan Frey uses graphical models as an overarching framework to describe and solve problems of pattern classification, unsupervised learning, data compression, and channel coding. Using probabilistic structures such as Bayesian belief networks and Markov random fields, he is able to describe the relationships between random variables in these systems and to apply graph-based inference techniques to develop new algorithms. Among the algorithms described are the wake-sleep algorithm for unsupervised learning, the iterative turbodecoding algorithm (currently the best error-correcting decoding algorithm), the bits-back coding method, the Markov chain Monte Carlo technique, and variational inference.

Advances in Probabilistic Graphical Models (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing)

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Advances in Probabilistic Graphical Models (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing)

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ASIN: 354068994X

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In recent years considerable progress has been made in the area of probabilistic graphical models, in particular Bayesian networks and influence diagrams. Probabilistic graphical models have become mainstream in the area of uncertainty in artificial intelligence;
contributions to the area are coming from computer science, mathematics, statistics and engineering.

This carefully edited book brings together in one volume some of the most important topics of current research in probabilistic graphical modelling, learning from data and probabilistic inference. This includes topics such as the characterisation of conditional
independence, the sensitivity of the underlying probability distribution of a Bayesian network to variation in its parameters, the learning of graphical models with latent variables and extensions to the influence diagram formalism. In addition, attention is given to important application fields of probabilistic graphical models, such as the control of vehicles, bioinformatics and medicine.

Probabilistic Networks and Expert Systems: Exact Computational Methods for Bayesian Networks (Information Science and Statistics)

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Probabilistic Networks and Expert Systems: Exact Computational Methods for Bayesian Networks (Information Science and Statistics)
Robert G. Cowell , A. Philip Dawid , Steffen L. Lauritzen , and David J. Spiegelhalter
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ASIN: 0387718230

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Winner of the 2002 DeGroot Prize.

Probabilistic expert systems are graphical networks that support the modelling of uncertainty and decisions in large complex domains, while retaining ease of calculation. Building on original research by the authors over a number of years, this book gives a thorough and rigorous mathematical treatment of the underlying ideas, structures, and algorithms, emphasizing those cases in which exact answers are obtainable. It covers both the updating of probabilistic uncertainty in the light of new evidence, and statistical inference, about unknown probabilities or unknown model structure, in the light of new data. The careful attention to detail will make this work an important reference source for all those involved in the theory and applications of probabilistic expert systems.

This book was awarded the first DeGroot Prize by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis for a book making an important, timely, thorough, and notably original contribution to the statistics literature.

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Learning in Graphical Models
Michael Irwin Jordan
Manufacturer: Kluwer-Nijhoff
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LZL936

Learning in Graphical Models (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)

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Learning in Graphical Models (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)
Michael I. Jordan
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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