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Tracing the historical development of quantum physics, the author describes the baffling and seemingly lawless world of leptons, hadrons, gluons and quarks and provides a lucid and exciting guide for the layman to the world of infinitesimal particles. 

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The coefficients b have been given by the author for a number of components. 

The authors contributing to this volume, which was edited and coordinated by J.-P. Wauquier, Institut Frangais du Petrole, are the following persons ... 

The authors thank the german research community (DFG) for the support of the presented investigations whieh were realized inside the Special Research Area 326, named, J rocess Integrated Quality Control with Quality Information System for Metallic Parts in Mechanical Engineering, and special thanks to the scientific bilateral project between Brazil and Germany supported by the CNPq, KFA and DLR to realize the presented investigations in advanced radioscopy and tomography. 

Some partners of the programme have already obtained the authorization to make in-service pneumatic test monitored by acoustic emission instead of hydraulic tests. 

The AET was used at standard tests of numerous structural materials, above all steels and cast iron, prepared are ceramic samples. Part of tested samples had qjecial sur ce layer treatments by laser, plasma nitridation and similar. Effect of special surface treatment the authors published already earlier [5,6]. In this contribution are summed up typical courses of basic dependencies, measured by the AET at contact loading. 

Acknowledgments. This study was funded by the Swedish National Flight Research Programme (NFFP) in project NFFP-274. The author would acknowledge the assistance of Bertil Grelsson from CSM Materialteknik AB for performing the ultrasonic measurements. 

Academy of Sciences of Belarus. The authors are kindly grateful to U. Ewert, B. Redmer,... 

This work was supported by the Ministry of Economics of Germany. The authors are grateful to J. Goebbels (BAM, Germany) for fruitful discussions. 

The authors are grateful to F.Schur, W.B.Klemmt, Alexei Kuntewich and V.Vengrinowich for helpful discussions. 

Such design has allowed the authors to create the X-ray apparatus on a higher technological level in comparison with the previous analogous devices [1-4]. 

The authors are grateful to Dr. Placid Rodriguez, Director IGCAR for his keen encouragement and support. Authors are also thankful to S/Shri S.Saravanan, V.Manoharan, P.Balaraman and Shri P.Sukumar for all their help in experimental work. 

The authors thank the German Research Community (DFG) for their assistance within their investigation project Beam-Material-Interaction During Laser Beam Machining". 

Because these pipes are key components used for airplanes, their ultrasonic testing quality must be guranteed. Therefore, the author has conducted studies about the flaw detection methods for coarse-grained TC4P extrusion pipes. 

The authors are grateful to Dr J M Farley of Mitsui Babcock Energy Limited for useful comments. 

The type of behavior shown by the ethanol-water system reaches an extreme in the case of higher-molecular-weight solutes of the polar-nonpolar type, such as, soaps and detergents [91]. As illustrated in Fig. Ul-9e, the decrease in surface tension now takes place at very low concentrations sometimes showing a point of abrupt change in slope in a y/C plot [92]. The surface tension becomes essentially constant beyond a certain concentration identified with micelle formation (see Section XIII-5). The lines in Fig. III-9e are fits to Eq. III-57. The authors combined this analysis with the Gibbs equation (Section III-SB) to obtain the surface excess of surfactant and an alcohol cosurfactant. 

As usual, things become more complicated when studied in detail. Note that for 0/W(l 10) 0 varies with 6 the situation is shown more fully in Fig. XVIII-15. The authors speculate that variations in Dq and E have to do with a p(2 x 1) structure at low oxygen coverage, with O atoms occupying alternate rows of W atoms, the empty rows becoming occupied above 0 = 0.5. The consequence is that O—O interactions shift from being mostly attractive to being in part repulsive. 

This brief essay couid neither deai with aii fieids of high-pressure science nor any one fieid in depth. The iiterature of articies, reviews, books, and conference proceedings for this fieid is extensive and oniy a few are cited in the references. Here, we suggest a few books and conference proceedings for the reader interested in expioring the fieid further. This somewhat arbitrary seiection is the author s it emphasizes recent books and a few ciassic works. 

The pseudopotential is derived from an all-electron SIC-LDA atomic potential. The relaxation correction takes into account the relaxation of the electronic system upon the excitation of an electron [44]- The authors speculate that ... the ability of the SIRC potential to produce considerably better band structures than DFT-LDA may reflect an extra nonlocality in the SIRC pseudopotential, related to the nonlocality or orbital dependence in the SIC all-electron potential. In addition, it may mimic some of the energy and the non-local space dependence of the self-energy operator occurring in the GW approximation of the electronic many body problem [45]. 

The authors would like to thank Professor P E Blochl, Dr H Eckstein, Professor W Schattke, Professor K E Smith and T Strasser for making figures available for this publication. FS thanks Dr E E Krasovskii for introducing him to the LAPW method. 

A lucid and carefiilly written exposition of this difficult subject from one of the authors of the highly acclaimed MOLPRO suite of programs. It contains examples and plenty of physical insight. 

In addition to their practical importance, colloidal suspensions have received much attention from chemists and physicists alike. This is an interesting research area in its own right, and it is an important aspect of what is referred to as soft condensed matter physics. This contribution is written from such a perspective, and although a balanced account is aimed for, it is inevitably biased by the author s research interests. References to the original literature are included, but within the scope of this contribution only a fraction of the vast amount of literature on colloidal suspensions can be mentioned. 

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