Rais, Rasul Bakhsh:War Without Winners; Afghanistan's Uncertain Transition After the Cold War
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Paperback / softback. New. Revised, expanded, and updated, Orthopaedic Biomaterials in Research and Practice, Second Edition introduces materials science and applies it to medical resear… More...
Paperback / softback. New. Revised, expanded, and updated, Orthopaedic Biomaterials in Research and Practice, Second Edition introduces materials science and applies it to medical research and treatment. This book incorporates math and engineering, which makes it accessible to trainees and others working in the industry who are lacking primary mathematical and engineering training. What's New in the Second Edition: In the second edition, the new material includes regeneration, hybrid and replant materials, tissue engineering, electrical stimulation for tissue growth and repair, modeling of material behavior in service, and long-term function of materials in patients. It explores tools for non-destructive and destructive analysis of explanted devices, and provides updates on all material classes including shape memory and degradable alloys, fracture-resistant ceramics, and bioabsorbable polymers. It provides a compendium for implant host response including in-depth discussion of metallosis and hypersensitive response. It also adds new case studies, worked problems, and a complete self-evaluation test with annotated answers. Includes focused, practical study questions after each chapter Presents extensive, detailed figures accompanying example problems and concepts Provides a one-stop reference for understanding all biomaterials that are used in contemporary orthopaedic surgery and beyond Introduces key concepts of relevance in each chapter Orthopaedic Biomaterials in Research and Practice, Second Edition serves as a textbook for orthopaedic residents. It can also serve as a review for the Orthopaedists In-Training Examination (OITE), the Orthopaedic Self-Assessment Examination, or the Orthopaedic Board Examination., 6, Gainesville, FL: University of Florida, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 1995. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Comb binding. Very good. i, 108 pages (printed single-sided only). Figures. Tables. This work had three main thrust areas: Solidification Studies and Single Crystal Growth; Mechanical Behavior of NiAl Single Crystals, and Other Characterization Studies. During the second year of this program, the efforts shifted from specimen preparation and characterization to property measurements and interpretation. Specifically, the authors continued to refine the processing strategies with the goal of producing high quality materials with controlled compositions and impurity levels and to then correlate the properties measured with the impurity and solute levels present. Among the accomplishment was the demonstrated ability to produce single crystals of NiAl with minimal contamination. They also had observations that suggested that NiAl superheats above its melting temperature and felt this merited further consideration. A major focus of this work was the area of mechanical property measurements. Significantly, the authors have shown that both static and dynamic strain aging (SSA and DSA, respectively) occur in NiAl, as originally hypothesized in their initial proposal. This was part of the University Research Initiative of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Dr. Michael Kaufman is currently the Director of Materials and Energy Initiatives at the Colorado School of Mines. Prior to taking this position, he served in various capacities at Mines starting in 2007. He became the Dean of Energy and Materials Programs and Vice Provost for Graduate and Research Initiatives where he served from 2018-2021. In 2021, he joined the Office of Research and Technology Transfer in his current role. Prior to his time at Mines, Dr. Kaufman served on the faculty at the University of North Texas, the University of Florida, and the University of Washington and as a staff member at the National Institute of Science and Technology. His research focus has been in using advanced characterization techniques to study materials with a focus on alloys for structural applications. Reza Abbaschian is an Iranian/American engineer, currently the William R. Johnson, Jr. Family Professor, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the former Dean of the Bourns College of Engineering and, also formerly the Vladimir Grodsky Professor of Materials Science at University of Florida. The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) provides basic research funding to further progress towards Air Force mission needs. AFOSR has a staff of 200 scientists, engineers and administrators headquartered in Arlington, Va., and has foreign technology offices in Santiago, London and Tokyo. The focus of AFOSR is on research areas that offer significant and comprehensive benefits to national warfighting and peacekeeping capabilities, organized by five scientific departments: Dynamical Systems and Control Division; Quantum and Non-Equilibrium Processes Division; Information, Decision and Complex Networks Division; Complex Materials and Devices Division; and Energy, Power and Propulsion Division. AFOSR has formed a strong, productive alliance with other government agencies, industry and the academic community. About 70 percent of the research is conducted in academia and industry and the remaining 30 percent is conducted within AFRL., University of Florida, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 1995, 3, Karachi: Ameena Saiyid, Oxford University Press, 1997. First Edition [stated], Second Impression [stated]. Hardcover. Good/Very good. xi, [1],286, [2] pages. Red ink underlining and comments noted. Frontis map. Preface, Introduction, Revolution, Reforms and Rebellion; The Soviet Intervention; Soviet-Afghan War, The Geneva Accords, The Marxist Regime: Dependent Survival and Collapse; The Afghan Resistance, Transition to Mujahideen Government, The Vortex of Regional Power Rivalry, and Conclusion. Chapter Notes. Bibliography. Index. Dr. Rasul Bakhsh Rais is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, LUMS, Lahore since 2002. Dr. Rais has Ph.D. in Political Science from University of California, Santa Barbara. Before joining LUMS, he remained associated with the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad for nearly 22 years as Professor/Director, Area Study Centre and prior to that as Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations. He was Quaid-i-Azam Distinguished Professor of Pakistan Studies at Columbia University, New York for 3 years, 1991-94. He is author of Recovering the Frontier State: War, Ethnicity and State in Afghanistan, War Without Winners: Afghanistan's Uncertain Transition after the Cold War, Indian Ocean and the Superpowers: Economic, Political and Strategic Perspectives, editor of State, Society and Democratic Change in Pakistan and with Charles H. Kennedy, Pakistan 1995. He has published widely in professional journals on political and security issues pertaining to South Asia, Indian Ocean and Afghanistan. His current research interests are: Modernism, State and Challenge of Radical Islam in Pakistan. The situation created by Soviet intervention in Afghanistan attracted scholarly attention worldwide. But though much was written on Afghanistan, little effort was made to understand the domestic roots of the confrontation, nor was any effort made to explain the linkage between internal strife and external invasion. In this first work of its kind Dr. Rasul Bakhsh Rais analyses all the factors that led to the Afghan tragedy. He examines the nature of the Afghan state and society, the dynamics of the regional and global power structure, the externalization of the civil strife and the resultant fragmentation of political power, thereby adding a fresh perspective to the debate on the politics and security of Afghanistan., Ameena Saiyid, Oxford University Press, 1997, 2.75<