Solitary Refinement
Solitary Refinement

Author: Nadina Mackie Jackson

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2020-12-09

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 152557566X

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A musician’s journey never ends, and the work is often solitary. Fortunately for bassoonists, Solitary Refinement can be a trusted companion throughout their musical career, replete with exercises adaptable by bassoon students who are still developing their skills, all the way to virtuosi seeking to perfect their craft. Drawing on her extensive career as a professional bassoonist and teacher, Nadina Mackie Jackson has assembled a comprehensive volume of technical exercises for the serious bassoonist. This book covers chromatic scales in many permutations and intervals, diatonic scales and chords, and exercises designed to strengthen fundamental basics, such as fingering, embouchure, double tonguing, vibrato, tuning and tone quality. In elegant, accessible prose, Nadina Mackie Jackson also shares her wisdom on the importance and philosophy of technical practice, with sensible advice on how to build good habits. Beyond the exercises, this book also serves as a guide for bassoonists on how to set personal goals and develop a sustained practice that will nurture their musical growth over a lifetime. Solitary Refinement is designed for the seriously committed bassoonist of any age to maintain, develop and expand their command of the bassoon, and will inspire players to see themselves in a world that combines musical passion and fundamental discipline.

Rietveld Refinement
Rietveld Refinement

Author: Robert E. Dinnebier

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-12-17

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 3110461404

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Almost 50 years have passed since the famous papers of Hugo Rietveld from the late sixties where he describes a method for the refinement of crystal structures from neutron powder diffraction data. Soon after, the potential of the method for laboratory X-ray powder diffraction was discovered. Although the method is now widely accepted, there are still many pitfalls in the theoretical understanding and in practical daily use. This book closes the gap with a theoretical introduction for each chapter followed by a practical approach. The flexible macro type language of the Topas Rietveld software can be considered as the defacto standard.

Adaptive Mesh Refinement - Theory and Applications
Adaptive Mesh Refinement - Theory and Applications

Author: Tomasz Plewa

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2004-12-08

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 9783540211471

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Advanced numerical simulations that use adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) methods have now become routine in engineering and science. Originally developed for computational fluid dynamics applications these methods have propagated to fields as diverse as astrophysics, climate modeling, combustion, biophysics and many others. The underlying physical models and equations used in these disciplines are rather different, yet algorithmic and implementation issues facing practitioners are often remarkably similar. Unfortunately, there has been little effort to review the advances and outstanding issues of adaptive mesh refinement methods across such a variety of fields. This book attempts to bridge this gap. The book presents a collection of papers by experts in the field of AMR who analyze past advances in the field and evaluate the current state of adaptive mesh refinement methods in scientific computing.

Automatic Methods for the Refinement of System Models
Automatic Methods for the Refinement of System Models

Author: Julia Seiter

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-04

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 3319414801

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of automatic model refinement, which helps readers close the gap between initial textual specification and its desired implementation. The authors enable readers to follow two “directions” for refinement: Vertical refinement, for adding detail and precision to single description for a given model and Horizontal refinement, which considers several views on one level of abstraction, refining the system specification by dedicated descriptions for structure or behavior. The discussion includes several methods which support designers of electronic systems in this refinement process, including verification methods to check automatically whether a refinement has been conducted as intended.

Abstraction, Refinement and Proof for Probabilistic Systems
Abstraction, Refinement and Proof for Probabilistic Systems

Author: Annabelle McIver

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780387401157

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Provides an integrated coverage of random/probabilistic algorithms, assertion-based program reasoning, and refinement programming models, providing a focused survey on probabilistic program semantics. This book illustrates, by examples, the typical steps necessary to build a mathematical model of any programming paradigm.

Refinement Monoids, Equidecomposability Types, and Boolean Inverse Semigroups
Refinement Monoids, Equidecomposability Types, and Boolean Inverse Semigroups

Author: Friedrich Wehrung

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-09-09

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 3319615998

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Adopting a new universal algebraic approach, this book explores and consolidates the link between Tarski's classical theory of equidecomposability types monoids, abstract measure theory (in the spirit of Hans Dobbertin's work on monoid-valued measures on Boolean algebras) and the nonstable K-theory of rings. This is done via the study of a monoid invariant, defined on Boolean inverse semigroups, called the type monoid. The new techniques contrast with the currently available topological approaches. Many positive results, but also many counterexamples, are provided.

Rietveld Refinement
Rietveld Refinement

Author: Robert E. Dinnebier

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-12-17

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 3110461382

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Almost 50 years have passed since the famous papers of Hugo Rietveld from the late sixties where he describes a method for the refinement of crystal structures from neutron powder diffraction data. Soon after, the potential of the method for laboratory X-ray powder diffraction was discovered. Although the method is now widely accepted, there are still many pitfalls in the theoretical understanding and in practical daily use. This book closes the gap with a theoretical introduction for each chapter followed by a practical approach. The flexible macro type language of the Topas Rietveld software can be considered as the defacto standard.