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Formation of Ox-bow Lakes (UEB uncontracted)

This page shows four plan images of a river flowing from left to right. There are two images at the top of the page and two images at the bottom of the page. Each image is surrounded by an image border. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. The first image in the top left of the page shows a mature river meandering. Erosion on the outside of the bends increases the meandering. The second image in the top right shows the land has grown in the central loop and the bends at the top are eroding towards each other. The third image in the bottom left shows the river has broken through in the top centre of the image and has formed an island. The river will flow straight across from left to right. There will now be little flow around the new island. The last image in the bottom right shows the river has straightened up and deposition has cut the loop off to form a curved lake in the bottom of the image.

Formation of Rapids (large print)

This page shows a cross section image of water flowing from left to right. The image is surrounded by an image border. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. The land is higher on the left than the right. There are three bands of soft rock and two bands of hard rock. The soft rock is eroded so that it is relatively flat. The hard rock is resistant to erosion and has a steeper, jagged profile, forming two sets of rapids.

Formation of Rapids (UEB contracted)

This page shows a cross section image of water flowing from left to right. The image is surrounded by an image border. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. The land is higher on the left than the right. There are three bands of soft rock and two bands of hard rock. The soft rock is eroded so that it is relatively flat. The hard rock is resistant to erosion and has a steeper, jagged profile, forming two sets of rapids.

Formation of Rapids (UEB uncontracted)

This page shows a cross section image of water flowing from left to right. The image is surrounded by an image border. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. The land is higher on the left than the right. There are three bands of soft rock and two bands of hard rock. The soft rock is eroded so that it is relatively flat. The hard rock is resistant to erosion and has a steeper, jagged profile, forming two sets of rapids.

The Formation of Regional Religious Systems in Greater China (Routledge Spatial Humanities Series)

The rise of Spatial Humanities has spurred a digital revolution in the field of Chinese studies, especially in the study of religion. Based on years of data compilation and analysis of religious sites, this book explores the formation of Regional Religious Systems (RRS) in Greater China in unprecedented scope and depth. It addresses quantitatively the enduring historical and contemporary issues of China’s deep-rooted regionalism and spatially variegated cultural and religious landscape. A range of topics are explored: theoretical discussions of the concept of RRS; case studies of regional and local religious institutions; the formation of local cults and pilgrimage network; and the spread of religious networks to overseas Chinese communities and the Bon religion in Tibet. The book also considers long-standing challenges of researching with spatial data for humanities and social science research, such as data collection, integration, spatial analysis, and map creation. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, Chinese Studies, Digital Humanities, Human Geography and Sociology.

The Formation of Regional Religious Systems in Greater China (Routledge Spatial Humanities Series)

The rise of Spatial Humanities has spurred a digital revolution in the field of Chinese studies, especially in the study of religion. Based on years of data compilation and analysis of religious sites, this book explores the formation of Regional Religious Systems (RRS) in Greater China in unprecedented scope and depth. It addresses quantitatively the enduring historical and contemporary issues of China’s deep-rooted regionalism and spatially variegated cultural and religious landscape. A range of topics are explored: theoretical discussions of the concept of RRS; case studies of regional and local religious institutions; the formation of local cults and pilgrimage network; and the spread of religious networks to overseas Chinese communities and the Bon religion in Tibet. The book also considers long-standing challenges of researching with spatial data for humanities and social science research, such as data collection, integration, spatial analysis, and map creation. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, Chinese Studies, Digital Humanities, Human Geography and Sociology.

Formation of Spits by Longshore Drift (large print)

There are three plan images of an area of coastline on this page, one at the top, one in the middle and one at the bottom of the page. An image border surrounds each image. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. In all images the land is in the bottom left and the sea to the top and right. A beach of sand and shingle runs from left to right along the edge of the land. The coast abruptly changes direction and goes down the page in the middle of the image. In the top image the longshore drift going from left to right has started the formation of a small spit of land where the coastline changes direction. In the middle image the spit has become quite long and in the bottom image it is stable enough for a salt marsh to form behind it.

Formation of Spits by Longshore Drift (UEB contracted)

There are three plan images of an area of coastline on this page, one at the top, one in the middle and one at the bottom of the page. An image border surrounds each image. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. In all images the land is in the bottom left and the sea to the top and right. A beach of sand and shingle runs from left to right along the edge of the land. The coast abruptly changes direction and goes down the page in the middle of the image. In the top image the longshore drift going from left to right has started the formation of a small spit of land where the coastline changes direction. In the middle image the spit has become quite long and in the bottom image it is stable enough for a salt marsh to form behind it.

Formation of Spits by Longshore Drift (UEB uncontracted)

There are three plan images of an area of coastline on this page, one at the top, one in the middle and one at the bottom of the page. An image border surrounds each image. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. In all images the land is in the bottom left and the sea to the top and right. A beach of sand and shingle runs from left to right along the edge of the land. The coast abruptly changes direction and goes down the page in the middle of the image. In the top image the longshore drift going from left to right has started the formation of a small spit of land where the coastline changes direction. In the middle image the spit has become quite long and in the bottom image it is stable enough for a salt marsh to form behind it.

Formation of the Solar System: A New Theory of the Creation and Decay of the Celestial Bodies

Analysis of the orbital motion of the Earth, the Moon and other planets and their satellites led to the discovery that all bodies in the Solar System are moving with the first cosmic velocity of their proto parents. The mean orbital velocity of each planet is equal to the first cosmic velocity of the Protosun, the radius of which is equal to the semi-major axis of the planet’s orbit. The same applies for the planets’ satellites. All the small planets, comets, other bodies and the Sun itself follow this law, a finding that has also been proven by astronomical observations. The theoretical solutions based on the Jacobi dynamics explain the process of the system creation and decay, as well as the nature of Kepler’s laws.

The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through The Action of Worms - With Observations on Their Habits

Formation Processes of Maritime Archaeological Landscapes (When the Land Meets the Sea)

Research into the anthropogenic and taphonomic processes that affect the formation of maritime archaeological resources has grown significantly over the last decade in both theory and the analysis of specific sites and associated material culture. The addition of interdisciplinary inquiry, investigative techniques, and analytical modeling, from fields such as engineering, oceanography, and marine biology have increased our ability to trace the unique pathways through which archaeological sites progress from initial deposition to the present, yet can also link individual sites into an integrated socio-environmental maritime landscape.This edited volume presents a global perspective of current research in maritime archaeological landscape formation processes. In addition to “classically” considered submerged material culture and geography, or those that can be accessed by traditional underwater methodology, case studies include less-often considered sites and landscapes. These landscapes, for example, require archaeologists to use geophysical marine survey equipment to characterize extensive areas of the seafloor or go above the surface to access maritime archaeological resources that have received less scholarly attention.

Formeln und Sätze für die Speziellen Funktionen der Mathematischen Physik (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften #52 )

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.

Formeln und Tabellen der zugeordneten Kugelfunktionen 1. Art von n = 1 bis n = 20: I. Teil: Formeln (Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen)

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.

Forming National Identity in Iran: The Idea of Homeland Derived from Ancient Persian and Islamic Imaginations of Place

Modern Iran is a country with two significant but competing discourses of national identity, one stemming from ancient pre-Islamic customs and mythology, the other from Islamic Shiite practices and beliefs. This has left an often confused notion of identity in Iran. Ali Mozaffari explores the complex processes involved in the formation of Iranian national identity, laying particular stress upon the importance of place to ideas of homeland and the creation of a collective national identity. He illustrates his arguments through an analysis of the ancient Achaemenid capital of Persepolis and the Shiite rituals of Moharram. In a concluding part, he extends his analysis to the Ancient Iran Museum and the Islamic Period Museum, housed in the National Museum of Iran. An important work that offers powerful insights into the forces shaping national identity in Iran.

Formulae, Charts and Tables in the Area of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering

A gathering of useful data in tabular/chart form with examples to demonstrate the use of the information. No indices. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Formulae, Charts and Tables in the Area of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering

A gathering of useful data in tabular/chart form with examples to demonstrate the use of the information. No indices. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Formulas and Theorems for the Special Functions of Mathematical Physics (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften #52)

This is a new and enlarged English edition of the book which, under the title "Formeln und Satze fur die Speziellen Funktionen der mathe­ matischen Physik" appeared in German in 1946. Much of the material (part of it unpublished) did not appear in the earlier editions. We hope that these additions will be useful and yet not too numerous for the purpose of locating .with ease any particular result. Compared to the first two (German) editions a change has taken place as far as the list of references is concerned. They are generally restricted to books and monographs and accomodated at the end of each individual chapter. Occasional references to papers follow those results to which they apply. The authors felt a certain justification for this change. At the time of the appearance of the previous edition nearly twenty years ago much of the material was scattered over a number of single contributions. Since then most of it has been included in books and monographs with quite exhaustive bibliographies. For information about numerical tables the reader is referred to "Mathematics of Computation", a periodical publis­ hed by the American Mathematical Society; "Handbook of Mathe­ matical Functions" with formulas, graphs and mathematical tables National Bureau of Standards Applied Mathematics Series, 55, 1964, 1046 pp., Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., and FLETCHER, MILLER, ROSENHEAD, Index of Mathematical Tables, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass.) .. There is a list of symbols and abbreviations at the end of the book.

Formulation of Statistical Mechanics Based on Thermal Pure Quantum States (Springer Theses)

This thesis introduces the concept of "thermal pure quantum (TPQ) states", which are pure quantum states in equilibrium. The author establishes a new formulation of statistical mechanics based on the TPQ states. This formulation allows us to obtain not only mechanical variables but also thermodynamic variables such as entropy and free energy from a single TPQ state. Furthermore, the formulation provides a new physical description in which all fluctuations including thermally driven ones are uniquely identified to be quantum fluctuations.The use of TPQ formulation has practical advantages in its application to numerical computations and allows for significant reduction in computation cost in numerics. For demonstration purposes, a numerical computation based on TPQ formulation is applied to a frustrated two-dimensional quantum spin model, and the result is also included in this book.

Formulation of Uncertainty Relation Between Error and Disturbance in Quantum Measurement by Using Quantum Estimation Theory (Springer Theses)

In this thesis, quantum estimation theory is applied to investigate uncertainty relations between error and disturbance in quantum measurement. The author argues that the best solution for clarifying the attainable bound of the error and disturbance is to invoke the estimation process from the measurement outcomes such as signals from a photodetector in a quantum optical system. The error and disturbance in terms of the Fisher information content have been successfully formulated and provide the upper bound of the accuracy of the estimation. Moreover, the attainable bound of the error and disturbance in quantum measurement has been derived.The obtained bound is determined for the first time by the quantum fluctuations and correlation functions of the observables, which characterize the non-classical fluctuation of the observables. The result provides the upper bound of our knowledge obtained by quantum measurements.The method developed in this thesis will be applied to a broad class of problems related to quantum measurement to build a next-generation clock standard and to successfully detect gravitational waves.

Forschung mit Röntgenstrahlen: Bilanz eines Jahrhunderts (1895–1995)

Die Entdeckung der Röntgenstrahlen im Jahre 1895 hat, wie kein anderes wissenschaftliches Ereignis zuvor, die Entwicklungen in den verschiedensten Disziplinen beeinflußt. Namhafte Wissenschaftler durchleuchten die wichtigsten Entdeckungen und Anwendungen im Bereich der Röntgentechnik.

Forschungen zur Reichs-Idee im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen #10)

Forstliche Bodenkunde und Standortslehre

The Fortran 2003 Handbook: The Complete Syntax, Features and Procedures

The Fortran 2003 Handbook is a definitive and comprehensive guide to Fortran 2003 and its use. Fortran 2003, the latest standard version of Fortran, has many excellent features that assist the programmer in writing efficient, portable and maintainable programs. This all-inclusive volume offers a reader-friendly, easy-to-follow and informal description of Fortran 2003, and has been developed to provide not only a readable explanation of features, but also some rationale for the inclusion of features and their use. This highly versatile handbook is intended for anyone who wants a comprehensive survey of Fortran 2003.

FORTRAN 77 — strukturiert (Informationstechnik und Datenverarbeitung)