Nanoscale Compound Semiconductors and their Optoelectronics Applications provides the basic and fundamental properties of nanoscale compound semiconductors and their role in modern technological products. The book discusses all important properties of this important category of materials such as their optical properties, size-dependent properties, and tunable properties. Key methods are reviewed, including synthesis techniques and characterization strategies. The role of compound semicondu...

Spectroscopy of Lanthanide Doped Oxide Materials provides a comprehensive overview on the most essential characterization techniques of these materials, along with their key applications. The book describes the application of optical spectroscopy of lanthanides doped inorganic phosphor hosts and gives information about their structure and morphology, binding energies, energy of transition and band gap. Also discussed are the properties and applications of rare earth doped inorganic materia...

In the Survey of Recent Historical Works, which according to custom concludes this IXth volume of the Acta, is a notice of the recent 'Report of the Dutch research, with suggestions for future development'. Such a report could easily be classified as an attempt to bring pressure to bear on financial resources for support of a somewhat neglected branch of scientific effort, indeed as a symptom of the current disease of notatitis. A recent special issue 'Regeren door notas', of the periodica...

The present volume constitutes an attempt to compile contem porary features of diagnosis and treatment of renal and adrenal tumors. A thorough survey of the field is ensured by the authors' considerable scientific experience. Tumors of the kidneys and the adrenal glands are being diagnosed and treated by physicians of different medical disciplines. For both types of tumor, the pathologic cellular substrate is of crucial importance in diagnosis and therapy. In recent years significant diagn...

Dylan is the hot new guy at school and Aspen dreams about battling evil Chancellors with him at night. When he mentions things she's dreamed about in class, she wonders if her fantasy world is real. If it is, she'll have to fight like a warrior and stop saying how good his touch feels when she's dreaming.Book 1 of the Dream Walker Series.

Kasadya: Hellhound Defined (Book #4 of the Kasadya Series)For centuries his only reason for existence was to destroy evil. But when he finally found his mate, that all changed for the deadly Chax De Luca. When the hellhound Kasadya captured his heart, he surrended it to her, thinking he'd finally found what he'd been looking for. Little did he know that his mate would sacrifice herself to save them all.His fury is legend. His wrath, merciless. His love for his mate, undenia...

She fought against all odds and became the warrior she was meant to be … or so she thought. In a world where the rules have changed, can she embrace her destiny and become the hellhound she was meant to be?Kasadya is back in Exsilium and finds her world a little different. Her half-breed fallen friends join her, and they are ordered to complete their apprentice training in order to obtain the right to be guardians. She must learn that her own fate cannot be denied and that others a...

What if the path to success isn't what you expect it to be?For Ian, it was a magic carpet ride. What began as a passion for fashion and life as a hippie in the late '60s led him on an unexpected journey-one that took him overland from Europe to the remote villages of India, eventually stumbling, due to a family tragedy, into the magical world of handmade rugs.In Life's Journey on a Magic Carpet, Ian reflects on the challenging moments, chance encounters, hilarious ...

Valuable land, oil, and murder make strange bedfellows.> WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Summer 2021 – Best Crime FictionDenny McConnell, Private Investigator, is hired to research the deeds, land swaps, and old lawsuits regarding Texas ranchland and oil, the rights to which are now disputed by Wendy Axtell Shearer. Obstacles develop, in part, because of Wendy's charming but flawed character.Denny puts to good use ...

A two-week safari in Africa is the perfect holiday for Britney and her friend Meghan. But Chris, the swoon-worthy tour-guide, is fascinated with the paw-print birthmarks on her arm. Mysterious lions and visions of chains haunt Brit after they share a mind-blowing kiss, but is there something deeper than pure animal attraction between the two?Book 1 in The Stirring series.

The delivery of educational content can take a variety of forms, depending on the dynamics of a particular classroom. With flipped classroom environments, students can better engage and retain concepts and information. Extending the Principles of Flipped Learning to Achieve Measurable Results: Emerging Research and Opportunities shows through detailed case studies how to measure flipped learning results in order to implement Deming’s P-D-S-A cycle for achieving continual improvement in the...

Marty and Gillian Wood settle into routine farm life in rural North Carolina. Marty falls into a deep sleep and grapples with a horrifying creature in his nightmare. The next morning, he bears the wounds of his dream and faces the chilling truth that the dream is real. To his horror, Gillian collapses, stricken by the mark of a demon. Marty faces a grim prospect—he must either travel to a foreign world and battle the demon, Jeez, or watch his beloved Gillian die before his eyes. His only h...