Best Selling Books by Jonathan Allen

A one-word slapstick story, in which no one will be able to resist joining in with the refrain ''Banana!'' A very cheeky monkey enjoys throwing bananas from trees in the jungle and watching unfortuante animals slip, trip and drop! But monkey is about to get his comeuppance... This is Jonathan Allen at his very best.

Poetry. Art. A collaborative book project by poet Anselm Berrigan and artist Jonathan Allen.

Mr and Mrs Wolf have adopted an orphan wolf, named Philip, but before he can become a big, bad wolf, he has to go to the Wolf Academy.

Poems, punning descriptions, and captioned cartoons depict such peculiar phenomena as a bottle of mousewash, a chicken in thigh-length boots, and a man being frogged to death.

Abstract: The XUV bursts generated from the strong field processes in both gas and solid targets are increasingly becoming important coherent light sources within laboratories as the nature of their generation and control is better understood and are driving the push into studies of attosecond-scale processes in nature. This work discusses experimental studies on the characterization and application of the XUV pulses generated using both infrared and mid-infrared laser sources with femtosecond pulse durations and kHz repetition rates. The methods employed involve the manipulation of the driving fields to gain insight on the nature of the interactions between the material and field that lead to the modulation of the original waveform responsible for the observed high harmonics. Three different experiments are presented that seek to characterize the trend of the harmonics with driving wavelength, reconstruct the orbital structure of molecular targets, and spatially isolate the individual XUV bursts from each optical cycle of the driving pulse.

Change is an album about change. It is a musical introspection of the journey I have taken over four years at Bard College-the people I have met, the things I have learned, and how music has developed for me through that journey. Freshman year, I finished my first album. I did it independently of the school-at the time I was of the persuasion that I knew everything, that no one had anything to teach me, and that my ideas were always right. Of course, as with everyone, this was just a projection of severe insecurity, and fortunately I have had the privilege to become aware of these tendencies and work through them. The album will be available at: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xjJ0R_oeMZ9xOj0yTy0J5lF5kLSNKVhF.

This study evaluates four methods for dissolving complex glassy debris resulting from nuclear detonations. The samples of interest simulate the glassy debris generated from a nuclear detonation’s fireball coming in contact with solid masses. Each method attempts to achieve dissolution through different approaches involving either acid digestion, alkaline digestion, or molten salt fusion. Two of the four methods were modified to retain all elements of the debris or surrogate debris. This retention is critical to the proportional relationships used in identifying fuel types and designs of nuclear weapons. Analysis is conducted with an inductively coupled time of flight mass spectrometer (ICP-TOF-MS) to provide exact elemental composition and yield for each dissolution method. The samples analyzed were trinitite (trin), surrogate trinitite formulation (STF), urban surrogate melt glass (NYC), and MAPEP MaS 32 (MAPEP). All samples have well known elemental compositions except for trinitite, however there are published compositional norms that are predicted for the trinitite. The four methods used were a Lithium Fusion (Larivière Method), a Sodium Hydroxide Fusion (Maxwell Method), an Acidic Digestion (Eppich Method), and a Modified Rapid Acidic Digestion (Auxier Method). Outcomes for the Lithium and the Maxwell Method failed to produce meaningful results due to the mass difference in fusion material compared to the isotopes of interest in the sample material mass. At the maximum concentration limit of 25-35 parts per thousand the mass spectrometer could not meaningfully detect the barium or uranium in any of the samples. The acidic digestion, and the Auxier Method both showed success with detecting appropriate levels of uranium, barium, and other lighter elements. The Auxier Method shows the best results when compared to ideal 100% yield from each sample. For Auxier’s Method, uranium averages a yield of 5%±.02% of ideal. This is 614% above the acidic digestion and over 1200% above the other methods. For barium, the Auxier Method averages a yield of 9% of ideal. This is 595% above the acidic digestion and 4300% above the other methods. The Auxier Method demonstrates repeatability across three runs of each sample and sample independence as percent yields were similar across sample types.

There are diverse technological contexts where fluids and suspensions are perturbed by applied fields like interfaces or intrinsically governed by complex interparticle potentials. When these interactions act over lengthscales comparable to the fluid particle size and become strong enough to frustrate particle packing or rearrangements, they drive systems to exhibit microscopically inhomogeneous (i.e., position-dependent) structural and relaxation responses. We use computer simulations and statistical-mechanical tools to find connections between such frustrating interactions and inhomogeneous fluid responses, which can profoundly impact macroscopic material properties and processing requirements. We first consider how to measure and predict the position-dependent and average diffusion coefficients of particles along inhomogeneous free-energy landscapes (i.e., potentials of mean force). Characterizing diffusion in such inhomogeneous fluids is crucial for modeling, e.g., the transit of colloids across microfluidic devices and of solutes through biological membranes. We validate a practical technique based on the Fokker-Planck diffusion formalism that measures diffusivities based solely on particle trajectory data. We focus on hard-sphere fluids confined to thin channels or subjected to external fields that impose density fluctuations at various wavelengths. We find, for example, that hydrodynamic predictions of tracer diffusion in confinement are surprisingly robust given non-continuum solvents. We also demonstrate that correlations between fluid static structure and diffusivity can qualitatively depend on the lengthscale of density fluctuations or the onset of supercooling. We next examine fluids governed by competing short-range attractions and long-range repulsions that drive formation of equilibrium cluster phases, which comprise monodisperse aggregates of monomers. The formation of such morphologies greatly impacts, e.g., the manufacturing of therapeutic protein solutions. We first address a major challenge in probing the real-space structure of such suspensions: detecting and characterizing cluster phases based on the static structure factor accessible via scattering experiments. Using computer simulations and liquid-state theory, we validate rules for interpreting low-wavenumber features in the structure factor in terms of cluster emergence, size, spatial distribution, etc. We then validate a thermodynamic model that predicts cluster size based on the strengths of monomer interactions, adapting classical nucleation theory to incorporate new empirical scalings for the surface energies of small stable droplets.

Rhyming text describes the colorful clothes that a cat puts on as it gets dressed.

What if we could see that the "other" is really "us?" What if local, regional and global narratives celebrated our differences--all of them: language, skin color, ethnic heritage, traditions, religious beliefs etc... Our variety (diversity) is the spice of life and what makes this a truly rich and beautiful planet. At the same time, however, we share so much more in common than our differences. What if we embraced our shared, common humanity? There would be no "other" to hate.

Klein Konijn is gek op het maken van dierengeluiden. Ze roept heel hard ''Boe''. Dan komt er een kalfje kijken. Samen roepen ze vervolgens hard ''Bêê''. Prentenboek met grote zwartomlijnde figuren tegen een witte achtergrond. Vanaf ca. 2 jaar.

Six chickens have disappeared, and Detective Hubert Hound with assistant Reg are on the case. 4-7 yrs.

Fission track detection and analysis is used primarily in nuclear safeguards to identify special nuclear material. Identification of isotopic ratios is a crucial step in understanding the intended use of nuclear material and the nature of the materials production cycle. Unfortunately, this methodology uses etchable track detectors that require significant expertise and intensive labor to process. This study developed a novel method using lithium fluoride (LiF) as a fluorescing nuclear track detector to conduct fission track analysis for isotopic prediction of uranium enrichment. Individual latent tracks produced by fission products were observed in LiF for the first time. These tracks were identified using fluorescence microscopy with a confocal laser scanning microscope. Specifically, lithium fluoride''s F2 and F3 + defects were excited and observed for fluorescing emission. These observations required the use of highly sensitive detectors that could maintain at least a one to ten signal to noise ratio while detecting single photon signal. Fission tracks were verified with concurrent 252Cf alpha tracks and agreement with variations in exposure times. Experiments with uranium fuel glued to LiF detectors were used to predict enrichment. These samples were exposed to 1014 neutrons in a custom irradiator and then particles were characterized based on the number of tracks observed by the confocal laser scanning microscope. Predictions of uranium isotopes required calculation of particle mass contributing significantly to error. Seven of ten particles fell with error of prediction, two of which were depleted uranium samples and had predicted track counts of less than one per fuel grain. This work proves the viability for a new method of identifying particles with fission track analysis. It reduces the work hours required to analyze an environmental sample for fissionable material by removing the need to etch traditional solid state nuclear track detectors.

A boy describes all the special things about his tabby cat.

Prince Eggbert makes a series of increasingly noisy tries to awaken a sleeping princess, but it is his assistant''s gentle kiss that succeeds.