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	Introduction to Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (Microscopy Handbooks)
		Introduction to Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (Microscopy Handbooks) Review: This book gave me a quick and readable introduction to the STEM.
		It would be a good book for someone just starting out in STEM, but anyone with STEM experience might find only a few bits and pieces of the book enlightening.
		Transmission Electron Microscopy : A Textbook for Materials Science (4 volumes)
	www.textkit.com /0_0387915176.html (118 words)

	Amazon.co.jp：洋書: Seventh International Meeting on Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy, Tomography, and Microscopy
		This book contains the proceedings of the Seventh International Meeting on Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy, Tomography and Microscopy, which was held between November 30 and December 3, 1999 at the City of San Carlos de Bariloche, in the Argentine Patagonia.
		A scientific meeting which gathered professionals from all over the world whose current research interests are confocal tomography, scanning laser Doppler flowmetry, digital aniography with indocyanine green and fluoresceink, polarimetry, coherent optical tomography and many other different techniques.
		This book is thus the first publication of this newly created society, in the wish that it will pave the way for future publications becoming a useful tool, as this one, for ophthalmologists around the world.
	www.amazon.co.jp /exec/obidos/ASIN/0792371976/httpwwwgettoo-22 (118 words)

	Microwave Scanning Beam Landing System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Microwave Scanning Beam Landing System (MSBLS) is a Ku band approach and landing navigation aid used by NASA 's space shuttle.
		NSTS 07700, Volume X - Book 1, Revision M; "Flight and Ground System Specification, Book 1: Requirements".
		The shuttle landing approach starts with a glide slope of 19 degrees, which is six times steeper than the typical 3-degree slope of commercial jet airliners.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Microwave_Scanning_Beam_Landing_System (118 words)

	OUP: Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopy: Flegler
		This unique book covers the essentials of scanning and transmission electron microscopy while leaving the laboratory particulars to individual discretion.
		Ideal for use in any laboratory, this book presents the practical and theoretical fundamentals of scanning and transmission electron microscopy.
		A core textbook for courses on electron microscopy
	www.oup.co.uk /isbn/0-19-510751-9 (358 words)

	Purple Book - a Whatis.com definition
		Other Purple Book specifications include a new type of error correction (known as CIRC7), an adaptation of the ISO 9660 file format, and a scanning velocity of 0.9 meters per second.
		The Purple Book is the informal name for Philips and Sony's specification document for the double-density compact disk (DDCD) format.
		The Purple Book-defined products are expected to be released in recordable and rewritable formats, rather than read-only.
	searchstorage.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci508943,00.html (256 words)

	Porno ... at its artistically finest - Muse
		The mahogany IKEA and college student "I-found-this-at-Goodwill!" tables are captains, scanning the photography books for the strongest players.
		Strategically placed articles by famed authors and playwrights attempt to affect the degree of respect one allots the book, the stars and the industry.
		Such is the conundrum that the book presents.
	www.dailyfreepress.com /news/2005/09/29/Muse/Porno.At.Its.Artistically.Finest-1003323.shtml (336 words)

	Electronic book - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Electronic book
		The term is used generally to apply even to simple text files created by scanning printed books or manuals such as those created and archived by Project Gutenberg.
		Three main standards for electronic books have established themselves: Microsoft's Reader, Adobe's Acrobat e-Book Reader (based on work done by the US company Glassbook, which was taken over by Adobe in 2000), and a reader for the Palm computer.
		Dedicated electronic book readers have been largely replaced by reader software in Palm and PocketPC personal digital assistants, as well as in the new tablet PCs.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /electronic+book (336 words)

	Humbul full record view for -- The English emblem book project
		The English emblem book project was set up with the aim of making full text emblem books from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries available online.
		The web site also provides details of what emblem books are and general information on the project.
		Details of the optimum viewing requirements for each book is available from the technical information section of the site.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=715 (195 words)

	Mike Davidson: Blink, Lies, and Videotape
		The book mentions that almost any time we meet someone new, we are unconsciously scanning their face for clues about their feelings and motives.
		In Blink, a significant section of the book is dedicated to the study of “microexpressions”.
		A ghostwriter wrote the book (which is very likely) and that is why he couldn't keep his facts straight.
	www.mikeindustries.com /blog/archive/2005/02/blink-lies-and-videotape (9598 words)

	Million Book Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Working with government and research partners in India and China, the project is scanning the books, using OCR to enable full text searching, and providing free-to-read access to the books on the web.
		The Million Book Project, led by Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and University Libraries, aims to digitize a million books by 2007.
		The books that have been scanned to date are not yet all available online, and no single site has copies of all the books that are available online.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Million_Book_Project (9598 words)

	How to Choose a Good Book
		To avoid choosing a book that is too difficult for you, try opening the book somewhere near the middle and scanning two of the pages.
		Remember, books in the fiction section are arranged alphabetically by the author's last name and books in the main collection are arranged by Dewey decimal numbers according to their subjects.
		Choosing one of these books guarantees that you have chosen a book that knowledgeable people have found to be excellent.
	clc.hcpss.org /~spolise/chooseagoodbook.html (382 words)

	Amazon.com: Introduction to Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (Oxford Series in Optical and Imaging Sciences): Books
		This book provides a comprehensive treatment of scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopy, with full coverage of the imaging mechanism, instrumentation, and sample applications.
		It may also be used as a textbook in senior-year and graduate level STM courses, and as a supplementary text in surface science, solid-state physics, materials science, microscopy, and quantum mechanics.
		Due to its nondestructive imaging power, scanning tunneling microscopy has found major applications in the fields of physics, chemistry, engineering, and materials science.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195071506?v=glance (623 words)

	CMU's 'Million Books' on the Web project makes slow, steady progress
		After a year and a half of scanning, the project still seems to be far from its goal of a million books, Reddy acknowledged, but the pace is picking up.
		Reddy said he hopes that one million books will just be the beginning of the digitization effort.
		By the end of this year, 100,000 books will be digitized and the one-millionth book could be added within two years, he added.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04142/319726.stm (623 words)

	Society of Biblical Literature
		On December 14, 2004, Google announced its project to "borrow" 15 million books from libraries at Harvard, Stanford, University of Michigan, Oxford and the New York Public Library for scanning and eventual access on the Web (http://print.google.com/googleprint/library.html).
		The project is reported to have some 10,611 books online now and expects to have another 50,000 in the first quarter of 2005.
		Even at 15 million volumes, the Google project won't be able to substantially alter the ratio of good material to bad on the Web.
	www.sbl-site.org /Article.aspx?ArticleId=359 (623 words)

	Internet Archive: Text Archive
		The task will be accomplished by scanning the books and indexing their full text with OCR...
		Pioneered by Jaime Carbonell, Raj Reddy, Michael Shamos, Gloriana St Clair, and Robert Thibadeau of Carnegie Mellon University, the goal of The Million Book Project is to digitize a million books by 2005.
		Open source books are books contributed by the community.
	www.archive.org /texts/texts.php (623 words)

	PCD 10/10/03 Reddy
		Capturing born-digital publications at the time of creation (by requiring publishers to submit a digital copy as well the currently mandated physical copy) and scanning all the older publications at a rate of million books per year is one of the solutions being explored at this time to resolve this conundrum.
		The million book project is an attempt to understand and solve the technical, economic and social policy issues of providing online access to all creative works of the human race.
		His current research projects include spoken language systems; gigabit networks; universal digital libraries; and distance learning on demand.He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
	hci.stanford.edu /cs547/abstracts/03-04/031010-reddy.html (623 words)

	Gloriana St. Clair DSS media files available [OCLC]
		The Million Book Project has received funding from the National Science Foundation to support scanning and indexing.
		This is an international library project that strives to create a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, available to everyone over the Internet.
		Project partners include government and academic institutions in India and China, academic libraries in the United States, and OCLC.
	www.oclc.org /research/announcements/2003-10-24.htm (623 words)

	PROJECT GUTENBERG OFFICIAL HOME SITE - INDEX -- Free Books On-Line -
		Visit Distributed Proofreading to compare scanning output to text, and help Project Gutenberg to put more free books online!
		Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts).
		Help Proofread online, so that Project Gutenberg can put even more free books online!
	www.promo.net /pg (623 words)

	Scanning Tunneling Microscopy; Hardback; Book
		Devoted to the growing field of scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy, the papers collected in this volume cover the theory of STM, instrumental problems and important applications in the physics of clean and metal-covered semiconductors, clean metal, alloy and other compound surfaces.
		Prices subject to change to be advised on confirmation of order.
	www.netstoreusa.com /sabooks/079/0792320654.shtml (161 words)

	Untitled Document
		This manual detail scanning procedures developed at Carnegie Mellon that will be used for the Million Book Project.
		Reddy, Raj and Gloriana St. Clair, The Million Book Project (project proposal)
		Michalek, Gabrielle V., Million Book Universal Library Project :Manual for Metadata Capture, Digitization, Post Processing, and OCR.
	www.library.cmu.edu /Libraries/LIT/Projects/1MBooks.html (161 words)

	Jokes
		Excerpts from Stephen Pile's "The Book of Heroic Failures": The Greatest Mathematical Error ------------------------------- The Mariner 1 space probe was launched from Cape Canaveral on 28 July 1962 towards Venus.
		After 13 minutes' flight a booster engine would give acceleration up to 41 544 kmh; after 44 minutes 9 800 solar cells would unfold; after 80 days a computer would calculate the final course corrections and after 100 days the craft would circle the unknown planet, scanning the mysterious cloud in which it is bathed.
		In February 1975 two hundred and eighty employees on the Council payroll attended a protest meeting.
	www.sweenytod.com /funny/joke21.html (161 words)

	Sorcerer's Place - David Gemmell Book Excerpts
		There were ancient books, paintings, porcelain, even weapons.
		Screened by the undergrowth, he knelt by the trail, dark eyes scanning the boulders ahead of him and the trees beyond.
		Waylander was a legend in the Guild, a capable swordsman but a brilliant knife fighter and a crossbowman without peer.
	www.sorcerers.net /Books/excerpts_drenai.php (10910 words)

	An Introduction to Compact Discs
		Orange Book - Recordable Compact Disc Standard for both M-O and W-O. Includes Multisession Discs e.g.
		The above image is a scanning electron micrograph of a single pit of an audio CD.
		Standard needed so a CD made by any manufacturer can be read by any CD player.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /crc/cdrom/cdrom.html (10910 words)

	theBookseller.com - bookblog
		The Book Standard reports that "in a move seemingly designed to assuage publisher's fears, as it faces continued criticism and two potential lawsuits", Google said on its corporate blog that it will recommence its Library scanning initiative with "older" books.
		Non-fiction reigns on Guardian First Book Award shortlist
		John Naughton, writing in the Times, says that book publishers are beginning to accept that they may have to engage with the internet after all.
	www.thebookseller.com /index.cfm?pid=196&did=2238&bkblog_Id=28084 (883 words)

	ICG book review
		These well-illustrated chapters include sections on the use of conventional fundus cameras, scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, and special photographic techniques.
		Following a brief chapter regarding the properties of ICG dye is a series of five chapters describing current methods of producing and interpreting ICG angiograms.
		Generalized descriptions regarding the interpretation and manipulation of images are provided, and common angiographic artifacts are discussed.
	www.vrmny.com /icgbookr.htm (883 words)

	Gallileus - Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopy
		The book presents the practical and theoretical fundamentals of scanning and transmission electron microscopy.
		Covering the essentials of scanning and transmission electron microscopy the text leaves laboratory particulars to individual discretion.
		This textbook for courses on electron microscopy is intended for use in any laboratory.
	www.gallileus.info /search/lob_detail?isbn=0195107519 (206 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry
		Amazon.co.uk: Books: Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry
		This book cuts through the bullshit and hails the poetry with a positive charge, and as the reader of such a book we are charged with the technology of the twentieth century itself buzzing through the thirty-nine sections of the book.
		The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/014058899X (206 words)

	Yellow - Philips Intellectual Property & Standards
		The White Book or Video CD Specification (White Book) specifies the Video CD disc format enabling a playing time of max 74 minutes of full motion video accompanied by a CD quality sound track.
		The system provides for the means of scanning photographic film, processing the resulting images, and recording them as a series of digitally coded images on a Photo CD disc.
		CD-i is a real interactive system delivering various qualities of video, various qualities of audio together with full user interactivity in real time.
	www.licensing.philips.com /information/cd/video (206 words)

	Yellow - Philips Intellectual Property & Standards
		The White Book or Video CD Specification (White Book) specifies the Video CD disc format enabling a playing time of max 74 minutes of full motion video accompanied by a CD quality sound track.
		The system provides for the means of scanning photographic film, processing the resulting images, and recording them as a series of digitally coded images on a Photo CD disc.
		The Green Book or CD-i Full Functional Specification defines the CD-i disc format.
	www.licensing.philips.com /information/cd/video (438 words)

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	www.dealerclick.com (335 words)

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