10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PENUMBRA»
Discover the use of
penumbra in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
penumbra and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Mr.
Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel
With irresistible brio and dazzling intelligence, Robin Sloan has crafted a literary adventure story for the twenty-first century, evoking both the fairy-tale charm of Haruki Murakami and the enthusiastic novel-of-ideas wizardry of Neal ...
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Evoking both the fairy-tale charm of Haruki Murakami and the enthusiastic novel-of-ideas wizardry of Neal Stephenson or Umberto Eco, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like—an establishment you have to enter and ...
3
Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore
This is a clever and whimsical tale with a big heart' The Economist Shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award for First Fiction.
The book also supplies an authoritative series of chapters individually focused on current imaging techniques to target the location and extent of the penumbra.
Geoffrey A. Donnan, Jean-Claude Baron, Stephen M. Davis, 2007
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The
Penumbra Unbound: The Neo-Taoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang
Explores the work of Guo Xiang, a Neo-Taoist thinker who developed a radical philosophy of freedom and spontaneity.
Jade Dupree is a beautician and an undertaker's assistant with a gift for smoothing the ravages of death from the faces of her clientele.
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The Physics of Radiation Therapy
Beam Collimation and Penumbra A collimator system is designed to vary the size
and shape of the beam to meet the individual treatment requirements. The
simplest form of a continuously adjustable diaphragm consists of two pairs of
heavy ...
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Principles of Dental Imaging
The fuzzy portion, or blur, of the shadow around the umbra (shadow) is called the
penumbra or the area of unsharpness. To minimize the unsharpness of the light
shadow, the penumbra must be reduced. The hand image can also be distorted ...
Olaf E. Langland, Robert P. Langlais, John W. Preece, 2002
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Perez and Brady's Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology
Isodose curves show the relative uniformity of the beams across the field at
various depths, and also provide a graphical depiction of the width of the beam's
penumbra region. M)Co teletherapy units exhibit a relatively large penumbra,
and ...
Edward C. Halperin, Carlos A. Perez, Luther W. Brady, 2008
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Clinical Radiation Oncology
This penumbra region is named for geometric shadowing of part of the source, as
is the case for 60Co teletherapy beams, which have a large (2cm) physical
source size. However, the penumbra region for linear accelerator beams is
mostly a ...
Leonard L. Gunderson, Joel E. Tepper, M.d., 2007
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PENUMBRA»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
penumbra is used in the context of the following news items.
El Gamma Penumbra in ARMM's Eid al-Fitr feast
Special guests included shadow-dance group El Gamma Penumbra, this year's winner of the top-rating TV show Asia's Got Talent. «Philippine Star, Jul 15»
Court decision foreshadows more problems
The Constitution does not even mention marriage, let alone between gays, but by finding a so-called penumbra (not the astronomical kind) in ... «The Augusta Chronicle, Jul 15»
The Round Up: The right to die battle – last rites, or the long game?
Whether a Bill of Rights would continue to recognise prisoners as right-holders, not social penumbra, remains to be seen. Yet Dominic Raab's ... «UK Human Rights Blog, Jul 15»
The Stroller
Example: “When the moon passes into the penumbra, it darkens the surface of the moon, making it look as if a 'bite' has been taken from the ... «Martinsville Bulletin, Jul 15»
Penumbra's Summer Institute to Be AWAKE, AUTHENTIC and …
Penumbra's Summer Institute is a three-year leadership development program training young artists to critically engage the world around them ... «Broadway World, Jul 15»
Nick Punto Visits Twins in Anaheim; Enthusiasm Injuries at …
... of Punto's headfirst sliding area, according to Curry, but the penumbra of uncertainty in his path makes a 100% success rate near-impossible. «Twinkie Town, Jul 15»
A look at PowerVR's Ray Tracing GR6500 GPU
You can read all about the technical details in the official blog post, but the short of it is that the ray tracing and penumbra simulation method ... «Android Authority, Jul 15»
CardioBrief: Cardiologists in the Sunshine
The interventional device company Penumbra accounts for Harry Kopelman's $3.5 million and Nicholas Lembo's $2.7 million. TV's famous ... «MedPage Today, Jul 15»
El Gamma Penumbra performs for peace, environment in Cotabato …
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/21 July) – Asia's Got Talent winner El Gamma Penumbra held everyone in awe with its show on Monday that ... «Minda News, Jul 15»
Three New Trials in Stroke: CADISS, VISSIT, and ATTEST
They performed diffusion rate imaging immediately before treatment in order to identify penumbra. Subsequently, they performed CT 24-48 ... «Medscape, Jul 15»
