Note: Front cover -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Political linkages and support -- Chapter 3. Scientific assessments -- Chapter 4. Community education and awareness -- Chapter 5. Cost recovery through partnership -- Case Study 1: The Laurel Creek Watershed Monitoring Program -- Case Study 2: Developing an environmental monitoring program for the Uxbridge Brook Watershed -- Case Study 3: Integrated Stormwater and Watershed Management System - An emerging tool for watershed health planning and monitoring -- Case Study 4: Advanced remote sensing technologies for watershed health monitoring -- Case Study 5: The Lake Simcoe environmental management strategy -- Case Study 6: Applying the Closed-Loop Model to improve water quality in the Yuqiao Reservoir, Tianjin, China -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- Back cover.

Note: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Participants -- Coding Theory -- Gröbner bases, Padé approximation, and decoding of linear codes -- Some computational tools for estimating the parameters of algebraic geometry codes -- An introduction to algebraic coding theory -- Recent results on p-ranks and Smith normal forms of some 2 - (v, k, λ) designs -- Quantum Computing -- Quantum walks on graphs and quantum scattering theory -- A continuous variable Shor algorithm -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mathematical Machinery -- 3. Fourier Analysis on the Real Line R -- 4. The Algorithm for Finding Integer Periods -- 5. The Observable O -- 6. The Algorithm for Finding Rational Periods -- 7. Finding Irrational Periods -- 8. Conclusion -- 9. Appendix: Number-Theoretic Probabilities -- References -- Entangled states of light -- Entanglement beyond subsystems -- Generalized GHZ states and distributed quantum computing.

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Note: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1 - Simple Machines -- 2 - The Other Side of the Envelope -- 3 - The Geography of Isolation -- 4 - Time and Distance -- 5 - Gone -- 6 - The Best Parts of Lonely -- 7 - Earthshine -- 8 - A Thin Thread -- 9 - Mission Control -- 10 - "I Think We're in Trouble" -- 11 - The Weight of the World -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Photo Insert.

Note: Medicinal Applications of Coordination Chemistry -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Metals in Medicine - A Historical Perspective -- 1.2 Metals and Human Biochemistry -- 1.3 Metallopharmaceuticals -- 1.3.1 General Requirements -- 1.3.2 Structure-Activity Relationships -- 1.3.3 Clinical Trials -- 1.4 The Special Properties of Metals -- 1.4.1 Comparison with Organic and Biological Compounds -- 1.4.2 Coordination Chemistry -- CHAPTER 2 The Chemistry of Metals in a Nutshell -- 2.1 The Structure of Materials -- 2.1.1 States of Matter -- 2.1.2 Chemical Elements -- 2.1.3 Chemical Compounds -- 2.2 The Structures and Properties of Atoms -- 2.2.1 Electron Configurations -- 2.2.2 The Spacial Distribution of Electrons in Atoms -- 2.2.3 The Electronic Properties of Atoms and Ions -- 2.2.4 The Radii of Atoms and Ions -- 2.3 The Formation of Compounds -- 2.3.1 Chemical Bonds -- 2.3.2 The Ionic Bond -- 2.3.3 The Covalent Bond -- 2.3.4 The Coordinate Bond -- 2.3.5 Polarity in Bonding -- 2.4 The Chemistry of Metals - An Overview -- 2.4.1 The Oxidation Numbers and Electron Configurations of Metal Ions -- 2.4.2 The Structures of Metal Compounds -- 2.5 Bonding in Metal Complexes -- 2.5.1 The Crystal Field Theory and Octahedral Complexes -- 2.5.2 The MO Theory and Octahedral Complexes -- 2.5.3 The Eighteen-Electron Rule -- 2.5.4 The Crystal Field Theory and Complexes of CN 4 -- 2.6 The Magnetism and Spectroscopy of Metal Complexes -- 2.6.1 The Electronic Spectra of Metal Complexes -- 2.6.2 Lanthanide Luminescence -- 2.6.3 The Magnetic Properties of Transitional Element Complexes -- 2.7 The Energetics of Metal Complex Formation -- 2.7.1 Equilibrium or Stability Constants -- 2.7.2 Hard and Soft Donors or Acceptors -- 2.7.3 The Chelate and Macrocyclic Effects -- 2.8 Reactions at Metal Centres -- 2.8.1 Thermodynamic and Kinetic Stability. , 2.8.2 Substitution Reactions at Metal Centres -- 2.8.3 Mechanisms of Substitution at Metal Centres -- 2.9 Redox Potentials -- 2.10 Conclusions -- CHAPTER 3 Diagnostic Medicine -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Anatomical Imaging -- 3.2.1 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents -- 3.2.2 X-ray Contrast Agents -- 3.3 Functional Imaging -- 3.3.1 Radiopharmaceuticals for Functional Imaging -- 3.3.2 Nuclear Medicine -- 3.3.3 Radiopharmaceuticals -- 3.3.4 Aspects of Technetium Chemistry -- 3.3.5 Blood-pool Imaging and Labelled Blood Cells -- 3.3.6 99mTc SPECT Imaging Agents for Bone -- 3.3.7 Kidney Imaging -- 3.3.8 Liver and Hepatobiliary System -- 3.3.9 Heart SPECT and PET Imaging -- 3.3.10 Brain Imaging -- 3.3.11 Tumors Abscesses and Hypoxia -- 3.3.12 Synthetic Approaches to Bifunctional 99mTc Radiopharmaceuticals -- 3.4 In vitro Applications -- CHAPTER 4 Therapeutic Medicine -- 4.1 The Use of Metal Compounds in Therapy -- 4.2 Chelation Therapy -- 4.2.1 Metal Sequestration -- 4.2.2 Macrocyclic Antibiotics -- 4.2.3 Metal Intoxication -- 4.2.4 Thalassaemia-Iron -- 4.2.5 Wilson Disease-Copper -- 4.3 Cancer Therapy -- 4.3.1 Metal Complexes in Cancer Therapy -- 4.3.2 Platinum and Palladium Anticancer Agents -- 4.3.3 Non-Platinum Anticancer Agents -- 4.4 Rheumatoid Arthritis -- 4.4.1 Introduction -- 4.4.2 Gold Chemistry -- 4.4.3 Gold Compounds for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis -- 4.5 Diabetes -- 4.5.1 Vanadium and Diabetes -- 4.5.2 Vanadium Chemistry -- 4.5.3 Vanadium Salts as Insulin Mimics -- 4.5.4 Vanadium Coordination Compounds as Insulin Mimics -- 4.5.5 Mechanism of Action of Vanadium Compounds -- 4.6 Cardiovascular System -- 4.6.1 In vivo Management of Gaseous Compounds -- 4.6.2 Superoxide Dismutase Mimics -- 4.6.3 Nitric Oxide Management -- 4.7 Therapeutic Radiopharmaceuticals -- 4.7.1 Radiation Therapy -- 4.7.2 α-Emitters -- 4.7.3 β-Emitters. , 4.7.4 Radiosensitisers -- CHAPTER 5 Metallopharmaceuticals Design -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Structure Activity Relationships -- 5.2.1 Organic Molecules -- 5.2.2 Metallopharmaceuticals -- 5.3 Future Directions -- Further Reading -- Subject Index.

Note: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1 Introduction -- Chapter 1 Origins and applications -- Introduction -- Cartography and GIS -- The relationship of GIS to other fields -- Uses of geographical information systems -- Surveying and monitoring -- Utilities maintenance -- Navigation -- Public administration -- Marketing and retailing -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 2 Geographical information concepts and spatial models -- Introduction -- Semantics -- Statistics -- Spatial information -- Temporal information -- Conceptual models of spatial information -- Representations of geographic information -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 3 GIS functionality: an overview -- Introduction -- Data acquisition -- Preliminary data processing -- Data storage and retrieval -- Spatial search and analysis -- Graphics and interaction -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 2 Acquisition and Preprocessing of Geo-referenced Data -- Chapter 4 Coordinate systems, transformations and map projections -- Introduction -- The shape of the earth -- Planar rectangular coordinates -- Measurements with rectangular coordinate systems -- Polar coordinates on the plane -- Spherical coordinates -- Geometry of the spheroid -- Geometric transformations in rectangular coordinate systems -- Changing between rectangular coordinate systems -- Map projections -- Choosing a map projection -- Analytical transformations -- Rubber sheet transformations -- Global hierarchical tessellations -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 5 Digitising, editing and structuring map data -- Introduction -- Manual digitising -- Error detection and correction -- Integration of digital map data from multiple maps and sources -- Semi-automatic line-following digitisers -- Full-document scanners -- Summary -- Further reading. , Chapter 6 Primary data acquisition from ground and remote surveys -- Introduction -- Ground-based surveys -- Remote sensing -- Image processing of remotely sensed data -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 7 Data quality and data exchange standards -- Introduction -- Accuracy -- Precision -- Spatial resolution -- Scale -- Error -- Sources of inaccuracy -- Data transfer standards -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 8 Vector to raster and raster to vector conversions -- Introduction -- Vector to raster conversion -- Raster to vector conversion -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 3 Data Storage and Retrieval -- Chapter 9 Computer data storage -- Introduction -- Units of stored information -- Two simple file structures for storing vector data -- Raster data storage -- Character files and binary files -- File organisations -- Linked lists and chains -- Trees -- B-trees -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 10 Database management systems -- Introduction -- Desirable characteristics of database management systems -- Components of a database management system -- Understanding the data: conceptual modelling -- Semantic modelling -- Logical models for database implementation -- The relational model -- Object-oriented databases -- Deductive databases -- Spatial query languages -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 11 Spatial data access methods for points, lines and polygons -- Introduction -- General principles of spatial data access and search -- Regular decomposition -- Object-directed decomposition -- Multi-resolution spatial data access methods -- Geometric intersection and determination of topological relationships -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 4 Spatial Data Modelling and Analysis -- Chapter 12 Surface modelling and spatial interpolation -- Introduction -- Surface representation methods. , Simple weighted interpolation from point samples -- Spatial autocorrelation -- Kriging -- Areal interpolation -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 13 Techniques in spatial decision support -- Introduction -- Land suitability and multi-criteria evaluation -- Linear programming -- Rule-based systems -- Network analyses -- Spatial interaction modelling -- Genetic algorithms -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 5 Graphics and Cartography -- Chapter 14 Computer graphics technology for display and interaction -- Introduction -- Screen display technologies -- Hard copy devices -- Colour specification and transformation -- Interactive input devices -- Graphics programming software systems -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 15 Cartographic communication and visualisation -- Introduction -- Graphic symbology -- Graphic variables -- Issues in map design -- Text placement -- Visualisation of 3D data -- Interactive cartography -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 16 Map generalisation -- Introduction -- Semantic generalisation -- Geometric generalisation -- Process control -- Summary -- Further reading -- References -- Index.