Dielectric Properties of Water and Moist Substances -- Electromagnetic Wave Interactions with Water and Aqueous Solutions -- Water in Polymers and Biopolymers Studied by Dielectric Techniques -- Thermal and Geometrical Effects on Bulk Permittivity of Porous Mixtures Containing Bound Water -- Model Systems for Materials with High Dielectric Losses in Aquametry -- Moisture Measurement in Multi-La…
ADC Characterisation Based on Sinewave Analysis -- ADC Applications, Architectures and Terminology -- Sinewave Test Setup -- Time-Domain Data Analysis -- Frequency-Domain Data Analysis -- Code Histogram Test -- Comparative Study of ADC Sinewave Test Methods -- Measurement of Additional Parameters -- Jitter Measurement -- Differential Gain and Phase Testing -- Step and Transient Response Measure…
Foundation -- Applications and Tools -- Image Representation -- Random Variables and Fields -- Neighborhood Operations -- Multiscale Representation -- Image Formation and Preprocessing -- Quantitative Visualization -- Image Formation -- 3-D Imaging -- Digitization, Sampling, Quantization -- Pixel Processing -- Feature Extraction -- Averaging -- Edges -- Simple Neighborhoods -- Motion -- Texture…
Fundamental Principles of Holography -- Digital Holography -- Digital Holographic Interferometry (DHI) -- Digital Holographic Microscopy -- Special Techniques and Applications -- Speckle Metrology.This book presents a self-contained treatment of the principles and major applications of digital hologram recording and numerical reconstruction (Digital Holography). The first part deals with optica…
Outstanding Problems in Particle Astrophysics -- Constructing the Cosmos, from Sunboats to Superclusters -- Recent Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope: A New View of the Infrared Universe -- Beyond the Standard Model in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Convergence or Divergence? -- B-L Genesis: Generalities and Impact on Neutrino Physics -- Stellar Explosion: From Supernovae to Gamma-Ray Bu…
The Multiwavelength Approach to Unidentified Gamma-Ray Sources -- Regular Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Jets -- The Converter Mechanism of Particle Acceleration and its Applications to the Unidentified EGRET Sources -- An Examination of Candidate AGN Counterparts to Unidentified EGRET Sources -- A Search for TeV Emission from X-Ray Selected AGN with Milagro -- Beaming Effects in GRBs an…
Characterization, Combination and Propagation of Errors -- Basic Ideas of Measurement -- Formalization of Measuring Processes -- Densities of Normal Parent Distributions -- Estimators and Their Expectations -- Combination of Measurement Errors -- Propagation of Measurement Errors -- Least Squares Adjustment -- Least Squares Formalism -- Consequences of Systematic Errors -- Uncertainties of Leas…
General Information About Measurements -- Measuring Instruments and Their Properties -- Prerequisites for the Analysis of the Inaccuracy of Measurements and for Synthesis of Their Components -- Statistical Methods for Experimental Data Processing -- Direct Measurements -- Indirect Measurements -- Examples of Measurements and Measurement Data Processing -- Combined Measurements -- Combining the …
Origins and Education -- Institute for Advanced Study, 1948–1949, Theory -- Berkeley, 1949–1950, Accelerators -- Properties of Pi Mesons -- Strange Particles and Bubble Chambers -- Neutrinos I -- CP Violation -- Neutrinos, II -- Experiments with the LEP e+e? Collider.Embedded in an autobiographic framework, this book retraces vividly and in some depth the golden years of particle physics as…
General -- Crystalline Silicates -- Water in Space: The Water World of ISO -- Molecular Hydrogen -- Understanding Galaxy Formation with ISO Deep Surveys -- Solar System -- The Planets and Titan Observed by ISO -- Comets, Asteroids and Zodiacal Light as Seen by Iso -- Stars and Circumstellar Matter -- ISO Observations of Pre-Stellar Cores and Young Stellar Objects -- Pre-Main Sequence Stars Seen…