New Releases by Jonathan Rosenberg

Studies of ion kinetic effects during the shock-convergence phase of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) implosions and magnetic reconnection in strongly-driven, laser-produced plasmas have been facilitated by the use of shock-driven ICF implosions and diagnosed using both mature and newly-developed nuclear diagnostics. Ion kinetic effects that are likely to be significant early in ICF implosions, as strong shocks create a high-temperature, moderate-density plasma with an ion mean free path approximately the size of the fuel region, have, for the first time, been explored in a comprehensive experimental campaign. These experiments at the OMEGA laser facility, in which the ion mean free path was systematically varied in a series of shock-driven implosions, have demonstrated that measured fusion yields are increasingly discrepant relative to the predictions of hydrodynamic codes with increasing ion mean free path. The enhanced transport of fuel ions out of the hot plasma region and the reduction in fusion reactivity due to the depletion of high-energy tail ions are responsible. These effects have also been inferred in shock-driven implosions at the National Ignition Facility. The universal plasma phenomenon of magnetic reconnection has been explored in strongly-driven, high-[beta] laser-produced plasmas, driving reconnection in a regime relevant to astrophysical environments, such as the Earth''s magneto-pause. Using shock-driven ICF implosions as a proton source to probe magnetic fields, the first systematic laboratory experiments to study asymmetric magnetic reconnection have been conducted. These experiments have shown that the rate of reconnection in this strongly flow-driven system is dictated by the flow velocity and is largely insensitive to initial asymmetries in density, ram pressure, and geometry. Related experiments have probed the collision of parallel magnetic fields to assess the effect of strong flows on magnetic fields in the absence of reconnection. Experiments using high-resolution proton radiography have revealed small-scale electron jets that demonstrate the importance of two-fluid effects in permitting a fast reconnection even when reconnection is driven by strong plasma flows. This work has improved understanding and spurred further experimental and theoretical inquiry into kinetic ion behavior in ICF implosions and magnetic reconnection in regimes rarely accessed in the laboratory.

Cloud Computing is here to stay. As an economically viable way for businesses of all sizes to distribute computing, this technology shows tremendous promise. But the intense hype surrounding the Cloud is making it next to impossible for responsible IT managers and businessdecision-makers to get a clear understanding of what the Cloud really means, what it might do for them, when it is practical, and what their future with the Cloud looks like. The Cloud at Your Service helps cut through all this fog to help enterprises make these critical decisions based on facts and the authors'' informed unbiased recommendations and predictions. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

Book Three of The Infinite Pendergast Cycle God is dead, reality isn''t real, and the end of the multiverse is coming just a few short years from now. Most everyone is in agreement that this is problematic. Tech-geek barflies Jon and Phillip and their menagerie of mutant sidekicks are the only ones who can challenge the likes of goat demon Toothgnip, corporate demon One Death, and psycho chicken Oliver in order to stop the apocalypse. Which means everyone everywhere is almost certainly screwed. Goats: Showcase Showdown--the third collection of strips from the hit webcomic--continues the pandimensional party.

It’s not as if one decides to wake up one day, argue existentialism with livestock, and fly a spaceship to the center of the galaxy to meet, greet–and eat–God. It just sort of happens. At least it does in the world of Goats, the cult-hit webcomic wherein a clutch of brave if baffled barflies (including humans, chickens, and a cyborg goldfish) hit the interdimensional bricks to save the multiverse from certain doom kicked off by a cosmic computer glitch. You can’t make this stuff up–unless you’re one of the monkeys tapping on infinite typewriters who controls all reality. You’ll see. . . .

Book Two of The Infinite Pendergast Cycle God is dead. Reality isn’t real. And the end of the multiverse is coming! Nobody knew any of this stuff at the beginning–least of all Jon and Phillip, two of the drunker inhabitants of our own particularly ignorant level of existence. Then again, it was these bickering cyber-geeks who flew to the center of the galaxy where they met–and ate–God Himself . . . which may just have kick-started the apocalypse. A new collection of strips from the acclaimed webcomic, Goats: The Corndog Imperative is a unique cosmic comedy of errors, pocket universes, and monkeys with typewriters.

Topological K-theory is one of the most important invariants for noncommutative algebras. Bott periodicity, homotopy invariance, and various long exact sequences distinguish it from algebraic K-theory. This book describes a bivariant K-theory for bornological algebras, which provides a vast generalization of topological K-theory. In addition, it details other approaches to bivariant K-theories for operator algebras. The book studies a number of applications, including K-theory of crossed products, the Baum-Connes assembly map, twisted K-theory with some of its applications, and some variants of the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem.

While we cannot hope to provide definitive answers to these questions, as political scientists we proceed from the assumption that much can be learned through the application of the existing tools of comparative political analysis. Two of the incidents occurred in developing countries (one a parliamentary democracy, the other a democratizing presidential system), and one occurred in a highly developed presidential democracy. All three countries are federal systems, with multiple layers of environmental regulation, although sub-national government seems to be better institutionalized and more effective in the United States. Only one of the incidents occurred within the sovereign territory of a country with an effective federal environmental protection agency and highly transparent policy and judicial processes. None of the three nation-states involved has a strong “green” political party. And the affected communities in all three cases remain dissatisfied with the outcomes to varying degrees. What can we make of these observations? Is there a systematic relationship between them (or any other political, social, cultural or economic factors) and the responses to environmental crises by nation-states? To answer these questions a more systematic analysis of the attendant political processes is needed. Only then can we suggest whether hope or despair is a more appropriate reaction. 1. 2 Global Environmental Issues Since the 1960s, environmental issues have entered the agendas of most nation-states. Pollution of land, air, and water have endangered ecosystems and public health, and called for a governmental response.

World War I and the peace settlement -- Between the wars -- From World War II to Vietnam.

This book is a short, focused introduction to MATLAB and should be useful to both beginning and experienced users. It contains concise explanations of essential MATLAB commands, as well as easily understood instructions for using MATLAB''s programming features, graphical capabilities, and desktop interface. An especially attractive feature are the many-worked our applications to mathematics, economics, science and engineering.

This volume is composed of transcripts from the secret recordings that Presidents Kennedy and Johnson made of White House meetings and phone conversations about the violent Civil Rights crisis. As fly-on-the-wall history, this book gives an unprecedented grasp of the way the White House affected civil rights history and consequently transformed America.

Aiming to "modernise" the course through the integration of Mathematica, this publication introduces students to its multivariable uses, instructs them on its use as a tool in simplifying calculations, and presents introductions to geometry, mathematical physics, and kinematics. The authors make it clear that Mathematica is not algorithms, but at the same time, they clearly see the ways in which Mathematica can make things cleaner, clearer and simpler. The sets of problems give students an opportunity to practice their newly learned skills, covering simple calculations, simple plots, a review of one-variable calculus using Mathematica for symbolic differentiation, integration and numerical integration, and also cover the practice of incorporating text and headings into a Mathematica notebook. The accompanying diskette contains both Mathematica 2.2 and 3.0 version notebooks, as well as sample examination problems for students, which can be used with any standard multivariable calculus textbook. It is assumed that students will also have access to an introductory primer for Mathematica.

"July 1986, volume 62, number 348 (second of 6 numbers)."