Plate with figures around a pool, two bands of Naskhi inscription

Shamsuddin al-Hasani Abu Zayd; 1 29/64 in.x 1 ft. 1 55/64 in.x 9 59/64 in.; stone-paste painted over glaze with luster

Plate

1 31/32 in.x 9 29/64 in.; silver gilt

Plate with Senmurv enclosed in a roundel

Metalwork, India, Islamic; 1 1/2 in. x 7 13/32 in.; punched, hammered, chased, gilt silver

Plate

1 11/32 in.x 8 31/32 in.; glass, mold-blown, gilt

Plate with King Hunting Lions

Metalwork, Iran, Sasanian; 1 49/64 in.x 10 55/64 in.; hammered, engraved, chased, gilt silver

The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America,

Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.

Wounded, Plate 6, from War (Der Krieg)

Otto Dix; 7 5/8 in. x 11 3/8 in.; etching

Corpse in Barbed Wire, Plate 14, from War (Der Krieg)

Otto Dix; 11 9/16 in. x 9 3/4 in.; etching

A guide to classical learning, or, Polymetis abridged ... : being a work necessary not only for classical instruction, but for all those who wish to have a true taste for the beauties of poetry, sculpture and painting /

Plate engraved by P. Fourdrinier.

The butterfly book: a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America,

Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.

The glass collector; a guide to old English glass,

Plates at end; description of each plate on verso of preceding leaf.

The moth book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the moths of North America.

Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.

The botanical atlas, : a guide to the practical study of plants containing representatives of the leading forms of plant life with explanatory letterpress; /

Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress.

Application of nanoimprinting technique for fabrication of trifocal diffractive lens with sine-like radial profile

The fabrication of submicron-height sine-like relief of a trifocal diffractive zone plate using a nanoimprinting technique is studied. The zone plate is intended for use in combined trifocal diffractive-refractive lenses and provides the possibility to form trifocal intraocular lenses with predetermined light intensity distribution between foci. The optical properties of the designed zone plate having the optical powers 3 D, 0, -3D in the three main diffraction orders are theoretically and experimentally investigated. The results of the theoretical investigations are in good agreement with experimental measurements. The effects of the pupil size (lens diameter) as well as the wavelength-dependent behavior of the zone plate are also discussed.

Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XIV:14th International Conference, Edinburgh, UK, September 17-21, 2016, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN 2016, held in Edinburgh, UK, in September 2016. The total of 93 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 224 submissions. The meeting began with four workshops which offered an ideal opportunity to explore specific topics in intelligent transportation Workshop, landscape-aware heuristic search, natural computing in scheduling and timetabling, and advances in multi-modal optimization. PPSN XIV also included sixteen free tutorials to give us all the opportunity to learn about new aspects: gray box optimization in theory; theory of evolutionary computation; graph-based and cartesian genetic programming; theory of parallel evolutionary algorithms; promoting diversity in evolutionary optimization: why and how; evolutionary multi-objective optimization; intelligent systems for smart cities; advances on multi-modal optimization; evolutionary computation in cryptography; evolutionary robotics - a practical guide to experiment with real hardware; evolutionary algorithms and hyper-heuristics; a bridge between optimization over manifolds and evolutionary computation; implementing evolutionary algorithms in the cloud; the attainment function approach to performance evaluation in EMO; runtime analysis of evolutionary algorithms: basic introduction; meta-model assisted (evolutionary) optimization. The papers are organized in topical sections on adaption, self-adaption and parameter tuning; differential evolution and swarm intelligence; dynamic, uncertain and constrained environments; genetic programming; multi-objective, many-objective and multi-level optimization; parallel algorithms and hardware issues; real-word applications and modeling; theory; diversity and landscape analysis.