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Near-field optics studies the behaviour of light fields in the vicinity of matter, where light is structured in propagating and evanescent fields. Near-field optical microscopy is the straightforward application of near-field optics.

This textbook provides an overview for undergraduates and anyone who has an interest in peculiar optical phenomena, and serves as a technical manual for engineers and researchers. It consists of 12 chapters dealing with the history of near-field optics, non-radiating optics, optical noise, inverse problems, theory, instrumentation and applications; there is an appendix including the basic elements of Fourier optics and Maxwell equations. ... Read more

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The LaboratoryHamster and Gerbil details basic information and common procedures for individuals performing research with hamsters and gerbils.Detailsinclude duties of animal facility management, animal husbandry, regulatory compliance, and technical procedures.Researchers, investigators, lab technicians and animal caretakers alike will benefit from this resource. ... Read more

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This important book presents the proceedings of the conference "Neutrinos and Implications for Physics Beyond the Standard Model", put on by the Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook.

The observation of neutrino masses and lepton mixing constitutes the first confirmed evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model. This evidence includes the measured deficiency of charged current reactions induced by solar neutrinos and the anomalous zenith angle distribution of atmospheric neutrinos. A profound question now facing theorists is: What do these observations imply for new physics? At the conference, members of the major experiments gave an update on current experimental evidence from solar and atmospheric neutrino data for neutrino oscillations, and status reports from KamLAND and MiniBooNE. Leading theorists also reported on neutrinoless double beta decay, high energy neutrino scattering and precision electroweak data, theoretical models for neutrino masses and lepton mixing, and constraints from neutrino data, etc. Since neutrino physics is at present one of the most exciting areas of particle physics, this volume should be of interest to a wide variety of!students and researchers in physics. ... Read more

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Now available in paperback!

Renew your inorganic chemistry lab course! This book offers detailed descriptions of more than 60 experiments ranging from undergraduate to graduate level, covering organometallic, main group, solid state and coordination chemistry. Almost all reaction types, laboratory techniques and classes of compounds which constitute current curricula are exemplarily represented.

Experiments have been contributed from university teachers all over Europe. Each experiment has been thoroughly tested. Special safety instructions are always provided, highly hazardous substances have been substituted by less harmful ones wherever possible. Products are characterized by modern spectroscopic techniques. Also included are excercises, questions and hints to further reading. The experiments illustrate modern research directions: many compounds have only very recently been described. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the proceedings of a workshop which originated from a discussion with Professor A Zichichi in March 2001. The purpose of the meeting was to celebrate two developments at Brookhaven that, in both cases, are the outcome of more than a decade of preparation: the new muon g-2 measurement and the flood of data that started pouring out of RHIC. Bringing together people from these very different fields was an interesting challenge. But, at the time, when a small community of heavy ion physicists was beginning to define a program of electromagnetic interactions at RHIC and LHC, it seemed logical. The result is the white paper "Hot Topics in Ultra-peripheral Collisions".

On Fermi’s centennial, his original paper, developing for the first time the equivalent photon approximation, seemed to merit renewed attention. The paper has been translated into English from the Italian and included in the proceedings. ... Read more

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This book provides background information and the actual status of currently developed and applied alternative methods to animal experiments in different fields ranging from safety testing of new chemical entities over research studies to education. ... Read more