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This volume on materials engineering comprises a collection of abstracts of recent scholarly papers and articles concerning a wide variety of topics related to the effects of structural defects and diffusion in many material areas, including thin-film manufacturing and facing metals. Review from Book News Inc.: This volume on materials engineering provides a collection of abstracts for recent scholarly papers and articles on a wide variety of topics related to the effects of structural defects and diffusion in several material areas including thin film manufacturing and faced metals. The abstr

Diffusion --- Materials --- Engineering --- Engineering materials --- Industrial materials --- Engineering design --- Manufacturing processes --- Gases --- Liquids --- Physics --- Separation (Technology) --- Solution (Chemistry) --- Solutions, Solid --- Matter --- Packed towers --- Semiconductor doping --- Defects --- Properties

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The original work presented in this thesis constitutes an important contribution to modern Cosmic Ray (CR) physics, and comes during one of the most exciting periods of this field. The first part introduces a new numerical code (DRAGON) to model the CR propagation in our Galaxy. The code is then used to perform a combined analysis of CR data, making it possible to determine their propagation properties with unprecedented accuracy. The second part is dedicated to a theoretical interpretation of the recent crucial experimental results on cosmic electron and positron spectra (PAMELA, Fermi-LAT experiments).  Using the tools developed in the first part of the thesis, the author convincingly argues for the existence of a new spectral component, which could arise either from local astrophysical sources, such as pulsars, or from Dark Matter annihilation or decay. This thesis is a highly advanced work; the methods, analysis and results are clearly and carefully presented.  This work is set to become an important reference document for any future work in this area.

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