You have just received your new biofeedback device with its instruction manual. You ask yourself: How can I personally use the equipment to encourage my self-growth? How can I help my patient to relax his spastic colon? How best can I use the equipment with my client who has chronic anxiety? How can I use this equipment in my research examining the correlation between location of muscle contraction and specific emotions? What is the best way to teach my students an understanding of the basis of the signal and the problem of artifacts? Should I have purchased this device or would I have been better off with another type of biofeedback equipment? How can I integrate the use of this device and other biofeedback equipment with such techniques of unstressing as progressive relaxation and meditation? Can I harm myself or others, either physically or emotionally, with the equipment? Where can I look for additional information regarding the use of biofeedback equipment? These questions and others have been raised over and over in our teaching of biofeedback to both students and professionals. This manual has been structured so as to provide both background information and experiences that will allow the user to answer these questions. The manual is based on the premise that the only way to really learn (' 'know' ') about biofeedback is through self-experience.

Summarizes a world-wide survey to assess the availability of commercial steam engines, steam turbines and Stirling engines providing up to 150 kW electrical or mechanical power output and suitable for use in conjunction with a biomass-fuelled system.

Vampires are real and they might be the only family Emma King has left. The monsters she once watched in late night movie marathons are now Emma's only help against the shadowy organization she has fought her whole life to escape. Her most formidable allies in the struggle against her mother's power-hungry death cult are more dangerous than she could have ever imagined. Vlad and his coven have waged ware with the Order for centuries, clinging to the veil of anonymity their secret affords them. With civilian lives caught in the crossfire, it's up to Emma and the coven to save the city from the wrath of the Order. Caught between her mother's violent standoff with police and her growing feelings for one of the coven's most imposing vampires, Emma prepares for the inescapable battle ahead. Does Emma have the strength to bring down her mother or will she let the city fall into the hands of the Order? Faced with that impossible question Emma must ask herself: What is the cost of peace?

A platform for analysis of material properties under extreme conditions, where a sample is bathed in radiation with a high temperature, is under development. This hot environment is produced with a laser by depositing maximum energy into a small, high-Z can. Such targets were recently included in an experimental campaign using the first four of the 192 beams of the National Ignition Facility, under construction at the University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. These targets demonstrate good laser coupling, reaching a radiation temperature of 340 eV. In addition, there is a unique wavelength dependence of the Raman backscattered light that is consistent with Brillouin backscatter of Raman forward scatter [A.B. Langdon and D.E. Hinkel, Physical Review Letters 89, 015003 (2002)]. Finally, novel diagnostic capabilities indicate that 20% of the direct backscatter from these reduced-scale targets is in the polarization orthogonal to that of the incident light.

Deposition of maximum laser energy into a small, high-Z enclosure in a short laser pulse creates a hot environment. Such targets were recently included in an experimental campaign using the first four of the 192 beams of the National Ignition Facility [J.A. Paisner, E.M. Campbell, and W.J. Hogan, Fusion Technology 26, 755 (1994)], under construction at the University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. These targets demonstrate good laser coupling, reaching a radiation temperature of 340 eV. In addition, the Raman backscatter spectrum contains features consistent with Brillouin backscatter of Raman forward scatter [A.B. Langdon and D.E. Hinkel, Physical Review Letters 89, 015003 (2002)]. Also, NIF Early Light diagnostics indicate that 20% of the direct backscatter from these reduced-scale targets is in the polarization orthogonal to that of the incident light.

To Emma King, the only thing worse than losing her grandmother is having to call the cops on her cult leader mother the night of the wake. Now a mysterious stranger Emma met in the family graveyard says he wants to talk. Reeling from her mother's attack and pursued by death worshiping sycophants called the Order; Emma needs a place to lie low. A phone call to the mysterious stranger sends Emma into a high-stakes' world of secrets. Towering over the Houston skyline in the fortress Vlad calls his apartment, Emma faces a truth she never saw coming. Her mother might be evil, but she isn't wrong. Monsters do exist. A storm is gathering. The Order is closing in. Will Emma make the right choice before one is made for her? Is the devil she knows better than the one she just met? Find out in The Line of Tepes, the first in E.A. Williams' sizzling new supernatural thriller series. Join Emma's fight for her life today!

We experimentally demonstrate that application of laser smoothing schemes including smoothing by spectral dispersion (SSD) and polarization smoothing (PS) increases the intensity range for efficient coupling of frequency doubled (527 nm) laser light to a long scalelength plasma with n{sub e}/n{sub cr} = 0.14 and T{sub e} = 2 keV.