John O'Loughlin claims he writes to explore and, above all, to learn, to speculate, to hypothesize, and then, gradually, to correct and modify as he progresses his thinking along more logically advanced lines to what he was thinking about in the first place but had no idea, at the time, of just how wrong or misguided or enslaved by convention such thoughts could be! Thus, he claims, is intellectual progress made – as by degrees and with a sense of adventure that what he is embarked upon is akin to an intellectual and spiritual journey into the unknown which it is his duty, as a thinking writer, to make known, and to do so, moreover, in his own fashion, no matter how unorthodox or paradoxically original that fashion may happen to be (for instance, he makes no apology for the use of a variety of colloquial expressions that he happens to find expedient or somehow pertinent, and what some may regard as an overuse of brackets is to him just another excuse to indulge the curvilinear at the expense of mere rectilinear norms). It is not, he believes, in one's professional interest to copy others, but to be true to oneself and, hence, to act as a pioneer in the field of original thought, but one who overhauls his delusions and misconceptions, his crass generalizations, the more progress he makes, eventually arriving at particular conclusions that mark him out as a true intellectual and spiritual leader whose destiny is unique, because no-one else has ever arrived at such a destination before. Hopefully, this title, for all its intermittent stumblings and misguided presumptions along the way, fulfils that ambition to a greater extent than any of his previous ones, original and thought-provoking as they indubitably were! So be warned! It is not how one starts but where one finishes that justifies one's having embarked upon such a hazardous adventure in the first place! – A Centretruths editorial

Low Energy Particle Accelerator-Based Technologies and Their Applications describes types of low energy accelerators, presents some of the main manufacturers, illustrates some of the accelerator laboratories around the globe and shows examples of successful transfers of accelerators to needed laboratories. Key Features: Presents new trends and the state of the art in a field that's growing Provides an overview of numerous applications of such accelerators in medicine, industry, earth sciences, nuclear non-proliferation and oil Fills a gap, with the author drawing on his own experiences with transporting such relatively large machines from one lab to the other that require a tremendous amount of planning, technical and engineering efforts This is an essential reference for advanced students as well as for physicists, engineers and practitioners in accelerator science. About the Author Dr. Vladivoj (Vlado) Valković, a retired professor of physics, is a fellow of the American Physical Society and Institute of Physics (London). He has authored 22 books (from Trace Elements, Taylor & Francis, 1975, to Radioactivity in the Environment, Elsevier, 1st Edition 2001, 2nd Edition 2019), and more than 400 scientific and technical papers in the research areas of nuclear physics, applications of nuclear techniques to trace element analysis in biology, medicine and environmental research. He has lifelong experience in the study of nuclear reactions induced by 14 MeV neutrons. This research has been done through coordination and works on many national and international projects, including US-Croatia bilateral, NATO, IAEA, EU-FP5, FP6 and FP7 projects. Cover photo credit: 3SDH 1 MV Pelletron system with RF source and analysis endstation designed with the intended purpose of aiding in fusion research. It is capable of Ion Beam Analysis (IBA) techniques such as RBS, ERD, PIXE and NRA. Further detectors could be added to the endstation to allow for other techniques. Installed in Japan in 2014. Courtesy of National Electrostatics Corp.