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Part of Microsoft’s radical new WinFX API is the foundation code-named Indigo, now commonly known as Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). WCF technology allows web developers to create services that communicate and interoperate with each other and other programs and applications. This text is real-world oriented, offering a practical WCF programming model, and chapters on creating a WCF web service; hosting and consuming WCF services; deploying and managing WCF services; reliable messaging and queue management, and WCF Security. As there are currently few books available on WCF, this book will be useful to WCF developers, who tend to be early adopters.

Sometimes shocking, these incredible stories of faith in the third world reaffirm the true power of God. Any obstacle faced by American Christians will seem small after reading inspiring demonstrations of faith in China and other countries where missionaries are subject to imprisonment at the whim of a local magistrate. This book also includes a manageable, realistic plan of 28 daily Bible readings each no more than 20 minutes long - based on biblical principles from the stories. -- Chapter sequence is based on how people come to know the Bible -- Compelling proof of the Bible's power in times of hardship -- Stories take place far from the safety and comfort we take for granted -- Extended reading programs offer a comprehensive Bible overview in six months, or a complete reading in three years

The structure of polymer brushes has been the subject of considerable theoretical and experimental activity. The equilibrium properties of uncompressed low and medium density polymer brush layers predicted by self-consistent field theory and simulations have been confirmed by a number of experiments primarily utilizing scattering techniques. Much less well understood is the structure such brushes adopt during compression and confinement. Reported here are the structural determination results of two different cases of confinement. In the first case, moderate grafting density PS brushes are confined between two surfaces. Although force spectroscopy techniques such as the Surface Force Apparatus and various Scanning Probe Microscopies have been very useful in quantifying the interaction forces between polymer layers, these techniques are indirect in that interaction forces are measured and structure is inferred. Presented are measurements of polymer brush density distributions in good solvent as a function of compression. The extension and interpenetration of the brushes are unambiguously determined using neutron reflectivity and contrast matching techniques. The measurements reveal a significant increase in brush concentration at the grafting surface with compression. This is in contrast to theoretical predictions of uniform density distributions as polymer brushes are compressed. The low interpenetration and brush compaction at the anchor surface provides new insight into why such layers are so effective at reducing friction and wear between surfaces. Secondly, ultra-high grafting density polystyrene (PS) brushes available through new, "grafting from" synthetic schemes based on atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) allow confinement studies due to lateral crowding of the chains. Most literature work on ATRP grafted polymer films has employed ellipsometry for structural characterization. Using neutron reflectivity which provides higher resolution information of the film's thickness, roughness, and uniformity, the structure of 0.44 chains/nm2 and 0.71 chains/nm2 polystyrene brushes is given a function of molecular weight. The dry film thickness scaled linearly with chain molecular weight. Under good solvent conditions, strongly stretched brushes of moderate molecular weight were found to maintain a parabolic density distribution consistent with theoretical predictions. Anomalous behavior was observed for higher molecular weights and higher grafting density, suggesting that entanglements are much more pronounced in "grafted from" systems.

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Psychology - Cognition, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne, language: English, abstract: What kind of inner progress urges the tax evader to pay his tax: Is it the sovereign thought about the consequences, the late conviction that paying taxes is honest or is it more than thinking and feeling – perhaps it is an unavoidable reaction on that external tax collecting factor, determined by the tax payer's genes? This research paper is a view inside the taxpaying individual itself: In case of taxation an internal motivation to cooperate exists and it is influenced by the level of neurotransmitters.