Cranial Osteiology of the Hylid Frog, Smilisca baudini
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Buffon's Natural History (Volume VI); Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c
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Buffon's Natural History (Volume X); Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c
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Buffon's Natural History (Volume IV); Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c
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Buffon's Natural History (Volume V); Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c
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Buffon’s Natural History (Volume VII); Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c
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Buffon's Natural History (Volume VIII); Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c
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Buffon's Natural History (Volume III); Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c.
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Buffon's Natural History (Volume I)
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Buffon's Natural History (Volume II)
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At the Deathbed of Darwinism
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The Forest Habitat of the University of Kansas Natural History Reservation
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The Nature of Things
In twenty-one engaging essays, Dallas Lore Sharp explores the natural world in lively and readable prose. He concentrates on the small scale of the natural world, a focus that highlights the grandness of nature as a whole. Sharp was born in 1870 in Haleyville, Cumberland County, New Jersey. After a childhood spent exploring the fields, forests, and swamps of South Jersey, he attended Brown University and eventually became Professor of English at Boston University. Writing in the first quarter of the twentieth century, Sharp was among the most popular nature writers of his time. He mused on aspects of nature that could be found in one's backyard, and sometimes further afield, successfully translating the wild world into his readers' living rooms. This is the second selection of Sharp's work published by the South Jersey Culture & History Center.
Science
Science helps us to discover the universe and the world around us and aids us to marvel at strange and wonderful things. The greatest human progresses and advances came true when man doubted his knowledge and sought to discover new challenges. What is the good news? That majority of people are still unaware of many facts about themselves and that there are a lot of things that we need to know about. This book consists of eight chapters in five different areas: the first chapter deals with facts "beyond the earth", the second chapter discusses biological knowledge related to "bipedal human beings", the third, fourth, fifth and sixth chapters deal with other living creatures on the planet Earth (birds, aquatic animals, and terrestrial beings). Chapter 7 is about the earth itself and its nature, and finally, chapter 8 will summarize the seventeen great inventions of history that have changed human life. Navid Farokhi, M.Sc. in Information Technology, futurist and artificial intelligence expert lives in Tehran, Iran. He works in the field of popular science and promotes scientific content among the general public. Author royalties from the book will be donated to MX Publishing's charity causes.
Contribution to the Flora of Yucatan
Contribution to the Flora of Yucatan - Field Columbian Museum, Publication 4, Botanical Series - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
O Pioneers!
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Latest Advances in Nanoplasmonics and Use of New Tools for Plasmonic Characterization
Nanoplasmonics is an area that uses light to couple electrons in metals, and can break the diffraction limit for light confinement into subwavelength zones, allowing for strong field enhancements. In the last two decades, there has been a resurgence of this research topic and its applications. Thus, this Special Issue presents a collection of articles and reviews by international researchers and is devoted to the recent advances in and insights into this research topic, including plasmonic devices, plasmonic biosensing, plasmonic photocatalysis, plasmonic photovoltaics, surface-enhanced Raman scattering, and surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy.
Reconnecting People with Nature through Agriculture
An increasing number of people live in cities. In recent decades, this, combined with rural abandonment and landscape polarisation, has resulted in high land ownership concentrations and agricultural intensification. This, in turn, has resulted in a significant decrease in the resilience of agriculture and overall food systems and threatens the maintenance of traditional indigenous and peasant farming. Therefore, there is an urgent need to reconnect society with the sustainable use of agroecosystems by fostering resilient social-ecological systems, emphasising the links between the functioning of natural systems and human well-being, and stressing the benefits that people derive from them. This Special Issue aims to highlight impactful research and commentaries that focus on attempts to connect people with nature for the promotion of sustainable agricultural transitions. This Issue embraces inter- and trans-disciplinary studies from multiple disciplines (e.g., agricultural sciences, environmental sciences, geography, economy, and sociology), as well as those incorporating other knowledge systems (e.g., local and indigenous) in the co-construction of knowledge for sustainable agriculture, including studies in rural areas (e.g., GIAHS or HNV farmland) and initiatives that address urban-rural relationships or those developed within metropolitan areas (e.g., community-supported agriculture, food hubs, domestic gardens, multifunctional agriculture, and farmers織 or consumers織 cooperatives) and studies assessing the societal and ecological impacts of those initiatives.
Discovery and Research on Aquatic Microorganisms
Aquatic environments, including freshwater and marine ecosystems, raw and treated sewage, sludge, and sediments, are home to a huge variety of microorganisms that mediate the recycling of dissolved organic carbon and recalcitrant substrata into food webs and the atmosphere. Archaea, bacteria, filamentous fungi, and yeasts play a key role in degradation processes, and many of them are used or have the potential to be harnessed in bioremediation. The importance of aquatic microorganisms is in their physiology and behavior: they can sink or float, some are motile, others adhere to a range of biotic and abiotic substrates (e.g. algae, invertebrates, sediments, driftwood), and they can form biofilms on surfaces, remain planktonic, or produce a broad diversity of bioactive compounds. By gathering a collection of papers focused on microorganisms in the over-cited environments, this Special Issue will improve the current knowledge of aquatic microbial biodiversity.
Towards the Use of Natural Compounds for Crop Protection and Food Safety
In consideration of the ever-increasing global population, the demand for food-and on food-production-is massive. It is critical that we are able to meet this demand and mitigate the risks and factors that challenge our ability to do so, including pestilence to food crops and biological threats to food safety, before food reaches the consumer. As such, the advancement of measures to both protect crops and facilitate the surety of safe food products to end-users is a research area of great interest and growing development.This book details exciting new research into the use of natural compounds for the protection of crops and food products. From essential oils and their potential uses as naturally derived antimicrobial agents to the use of carbon dioxide as a pesticide and the use of biofertilisers, the articles herein describe and review cutting edge research in this area to help facilitate a more sustainable future.
Computer Vision and Recognition Systems
This cutting-edge volume focuses on how artificial intelligence can be used to give computers the ability to imitate human sight. With contributions from researchers in diverse countries, including Thailand, Spain, Japan, Turkey, Australia, and India, the book explains the essential modules that are necessary for comprehending artificial intelligence experiences to provide machines with the power of vision. The volume also presents innovative research developments, applications, and current trends in the field. The chapters cover such topics as visual quality improvement, Parkinson's disease diagnosis, hypertensive retinopathy detection through retinal fundus, big image data processing, N-grams for image classification, medical brain images, chatbot applications, credit score improvisation, vision-based vehicle lane detection, damaged vehicle parts recognition, partial image encryption of medical images, and image synthesis. The chapter authors show different approaches to computer vision, image processing, and frameworks for machine learning to build automated and stable applications. Deep learning is included for making immersive application-based systems, pattern recognition, and biometric systems. The book also considers efficiency and comparison at various levels of using algorithms for real-time applications, processes, and analysis.
Revealing the Deepest Secrets of Kabbalah
All what you wanted to know beyond our five senses, Miracles, understanding the universe, the human mind and every invisible beings that are always around us on a daily basis.
Revealing the Deepest Secrets of Kabbalah
All what you wanted to know beyond our five senses, Miracles, understanding the universe, the human mind and every invisible beings that are always around us on a daily basis.
The 40th International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering
These proceedings aim to collect the ideas presented, discussed, and disputed at the 40th Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy, MaxEnt 2021. Skilling and Knuth seek to rebuild the foundations of quantum mechanics from probability theory, and Caticha competes in that endeavour with a very different entropy-based approach. Costa connects entropy with general relativity, Pessoa reports new insights on ecology and Yousefi derives classical density functional theory, both through the maximum entropy principle. Von Toussaint, Preuss, Albert, Rath, Ranftl and Kvas report the latest developments in regression and surrogate-based inference with applications to optimization and inverse problems in plasma physics, biomechanics and geodesy. Van Soom presents new priors for phonetics, Stern et al. propose a new haphazard sampling method, and Kelter uncovers two measure theoretic issues with hypothesis testing.
Laika's Window
Laika began her life as a stray dog on the streets of Moscow and died in 1957 aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik II. Initially the USSR reported that Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth, had survived in space for seven days, providing valuable data that would make future manned space flight possible. People believed that Laika died a painless death as her oxygen ran out. Only in recent decades has the real story become public: Laika died after only a few hours in orbit when her capsule overheated. Laika's Window positions Laika as a long overdue hero for leading the way to human space exploration. Kurt Caswell examines Laika's life and death and the speculation surrounding both. Profiling the scientists behind Sputnik II, he studies the political climate driven by the Cold War and the Space Race that expedited the satellite's development. Through this intimate portrait of Laika, we begin to understand what the dog experienced in the days and hours before the launch, what she likely experienced during her last moments, and what her flight means to history and to humanity. While a few of the other space dog flights rival Laika's in endurance and technological advancements, Caswell argues that Laika's flight serves as a tipping point in space exploration "beyond which the dream of exploring nearby and distant planets opened into a kind of fever from which humanity has never recovered." Examining the depth of human empathy--what we are willing to risk and sacrifice in the name of scientific achievement and our exploration of the cosmos, and how politics and marketing can influence it--Laika's Windowis also about our search to overcome loneliness and the role animals play in our drive to look far beyond the earth for answers.
From Unicorns & Glow Worms To Ass Cream & Water Bed Boobs. How To Survive Breast Cancer
There it is. The "C" Word. You've just been told you have breast cancer...now what? There is a significant amount of uncertainty when it comes to being diagnosed, assembling a team of doctors, and finding a treatment plan. Join Erin on her cancer journey as she shares a very candid, laughable, and real story of fighting and surviving breast cancer. Topics Include: 1. Dealing With Diagnosis 2. Assembling Your Treatment Team 3. Side Effects of Treatment 4. Surgery and Diagnostic Tests 5. Comebacks to the Top 11 Things To Never Say to a Cancer Patient 6. Tips For Survival 7. Life After Cancer Plus...much more Erin shares with you what your doctors won't!
Crossing the Boundaries of Life
A close look at G羹nter Blobel's transformative contributions to molecular cell biology. The difficulty of reconciling chemical mechanisms with the functions of whole living systems has plagued biologists since the development of cell theory in the nineteenth century. As Karl S. Matlin argues in Crossing the Boundaries of Life, it is no coincidence that this longstanding knot of scientific inquiry was loosened most meaningfully by the work of a cell biologist, the Nobel laureate G羹nter Blobel. In 1975, using an experimental setup that did not contain any cells at all, Blobel was able to target newly made proteins to cell membrane vesicles, enabling him to theorize how proteins in the cell distribute spatially, an idea he called the signal hypothesis. Over the next twenty years, Blobel and other scientists were able to dissect this mechanism into its precise molecular details. For elaborating his signal concept into a process he termed membrane topogenesis--the idea that each protein in the cell is synthesized with an "address" that directs the protein to its correct destination within the cell--Blobel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1999. Matlin argues that Blobel's investigative strategy and its subsequent application addressed a fundamental unresolved dilemma that had bedeviled biology from its very beginning--the relationship between structure and function--allowing biology to achieve mechanistic molecular explanations of biological phenomena. Crossing the Boundaries of Life thus uses Blobel's research and life story to shed light on the importance of cell biology for twentieth-century science, illustrating how it propelled the development of adjacent disciplines like biochemistry and molecular biology.
Landslide Hazard and Environment Risk Assessment
Landslides are among the most widespread and frequent natural hazards. Landsliding is linked to the combination of geological, geomorphological, and climatic factors in response to trigger mechanisms, mostly represented by heavy rainfall events, seismicity, or human action. Landslides directly and indirectly impact a territory, causing fatalities and huge socio-economic losses. Consequently, to avoid serious consequences and support sustainable territorial planning, there is a clear need of correct land use policies and best practices for long-term risk mitigation and reduction. In this context, geomorphological field activities, satellite remote sensing, landslide susceptibility mapping, and innovative GIS analysis offer effective support for mapping and monitoring landslides' activity at both the local and regional scales. All landslide types are considered, from rockfalls to debris flows, from slow-moving slides to very rapid rock avalanches. Contributions to this Special Issue report key advances in landslide susceptibility mapping, environmental risk management in mass movement-prone areas, and landslide analysis in different geomorphological/morphostructural environments. Each article describes a distinct methodological approach to accurately investigate landslide phenomena and assess slope stability. Each article provides a scientific basis useful for the implementation of land planning, civil protection activities, and mitigation measures in different geological-geomorphological frameworks.
The Voyage of the Beagle
The Voyage of the Beagle chronicles Charles Darwin's five-year journey around the world and especially the coastal waters of South America as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle. While traveling through these unexplored countries collecting specimens, Darwin began to formulate the theories of evolution and natural selection realized in his masterwork, The Origin of Species. Travel memoir and scientific primer alike, The Voyage of the Beagle is a lively and accessible introduction to the mind of one of history's most influential thinkers.
Tannic Acid-Protein Complexes
This book will be of interest of scholars and academics of Food Science, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Pharmacy, Medicine fields, among others. Tannic acid (TA) is a bioactive molecule that shows some functional properties, such as antidiabetic, antimutagenic, and antimicrobial activities. However, it also presents some limitations like bitter taste and astringent sensation on the palate, which reduces its acceptance by consumers. TA can form complexes with proteins and this ability may be useful to deliver this important molecule in different matrices. In this book, we relate the determination of thermodynamic parameters of TA-proteins complex formation. The thermodynamic properties of complexes formation in general and specifically the driving force of the TA-protein interaction were dependent on the chemical structure of the biopolymers. TA can perform the molecular recognition process of both hydrophilic and hydrophobic sites. The knowledge about the thermodynamic parameters can provide information to understand driving forces to form complexes with TA and, consequently, to select the better protein to carry TA or to develop nutraceuticals for better starch digestion.Edited by Ana Clarissa dos Santos Pires, Associated Professor of Food Technology Department of Federal University of Vicosa and Luis Henrique Mendes da Silva, Full Professor of Chemistry Department of Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil.Contributors include: Talma Duarte Freitas, Eliara Acipreste Hudson, Jaqueline de Paula Rezende, Yara Luiza Coelho, M獺rcia Cristina Teixeira Ribeiro Vidigal.
The Voyage of the Beagle
The Voyage of the Beagle chronicles Charles Darwin's five-year journey around the world and especially the coastal waters of South America as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle. While traveling through these unexplored countries collecting specimens, Darwin began to formulate the theories of evolution and natural selection realized in his masterwork, The Origin of Species. Travel memoir and scientific primer alike, The Voyage of the Beagle is a lively and accessible introduction to the mind of one of history's most influential thinkers.
Land of Women
A bestseller memoir in Spain that calls us to reexamine how we view women and rural life
An Invertebrate Fable
Invertebrates are fascinating, their shapes and behaviour intriguing. Some species are vital as pollinators of our crops and garden flowers, or control insect pests, including aphids. In this poetry collection, the author takes us into the English countryside, its hedges and roads sides, woodlands, grasslands, dunes, ponds and rivers, in search of these creatures. Most are very familiar to us - butterflies, dragonflies, beetles, slugs and snails, as well as the slowly marching millipede or scuttling centipede - all vital players in the ecosystem, often overlooked and underappreciated. Either way, they all have their place in the great scheme of things on planet Earth, its biodiversity and rhythms.
The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit
Expanding upon his viral TEDx Talk, psychology professor and social scientist John V. Petrocelli reveals the critical thinking habits you can develop to recognize and combat pervasive false information and delusional thinking that has become a common feature of everyday life. No matter how smart we believe ourselves to be, we're all susceptible to bullshit--and we all engage in it. While we may brush it off as harmless marketing sales speak or as humorous, embellished claims, it's actually much more dangerous and insidious. It's how Bernie Madoff successfully swindled billions of dollars from even the most experienced financial experts with his Ponzi scheme. It's how the protocols of Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward resulted in the deaths of 36 million people from starvation. If we don't question the information we receive from bullshit artists to prove their thoughts and theories, we allow these falsehoods to take root in our memories and beliefs. This faulty data affects our decision making capabilities, sometimes resulting in regrettable life choices. But with a little dose of skepticism and a commitment to truth seeking, you can build your critical thinking and scientific reasoning skills to evaluate information, separate fact from fiction, and see through bullshitter spin. In The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit, John V. Petrocelli provides invaluable strategies not only to recognize and protect yourself from everyday bullshit, but to accept your own lack of knowledge about subjects and avoid engaging in bullshit just for societal conformity. With real world examples from people versed in bullshit who work in the used car, real estate, wine, and diamond industries, Petrocelli exposes the red-flag warning signs found in the anecdotal stories, emotional language, and buzzwords used by bullshitters that persuade our decisions. By using his critical thinking defensive tactics against those motivated by profit, we will also learn how to stop the toxic misinformation spread and call out bullshit whenever we see it.
A New Ecological Order
The rise of industrial capitalism in the nineteenth century forged a new ecological order in North American and Western European states, radically transforming the environment through science and technology in the name of human progress. Far less known are the dramatic environmental changes experienced by Eastern Europe, in many ways a terra incognita for environmental historians and anthropologists. A New Ecological Order explores, from a historical and ethnographic perspective, the role of state planners, bureaucrats, and experts--engineers, agricultural engineers, geographers, biologists, foresters, and architects--as agents of change in the natural world of Eastern Europe from 1870 to the early twenty-first century.Contributors consider territories engulfed by empires, from the Habsburg to the Ottoman to tsarist Russia; territories belonging to disintegrating empires; and countries in the Balkan Peninsula, Central and Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. Together, they follow a rhetoric of "correcting nature," a desire to exploit the natural environment and put its resources to work for the sake of developing the economies and infrastructures of modern states. They reveal an eagerness among newly established nation-states, after centuries of imperial economic and political impositions, to import scientific knowledge and new technologies from Western Europe that would aid in their economic development, and how those imports and ideas about nature ultimately shaped local projects and policies.
Biosensors
Biosensors are analytical devices used for the detection of a chemical substance, or analyte, which combines a biological component with a physicochemical detector. Detection and quantification are based on the measurement of the biological interactions. The biological element of a biosensor may consist of tissues, microorganisms, organelles, cell receptors, enzymes, antibodies and nucleic acids. These devices have been shown to have a wide range of applications in a vast array of fields of research, including environmental monitoring, food analysis, drug detection and health and clinical assessment, and even security and safety. The current Special Issue, "Biosensors: 10th Anniversary Feature Papers", addresses the existing knowledge gaps and aids the advancement of biosensing applications, in the form of six peer-reviewed research and review papers, detailing the most recent and innovative developments of biosensors.
Brink of Madness
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Nature Is Screaming! Are We Ready to Listen
It's no secret that the threat of wildfires has steadily grown in the United States since the 1980s. Part of the reason is human encroachment. Another significant factor is climate change. Reversing climate change will not happen overnight, and people will continue to roll the dice to live in woodland areas. But what can be done now is to minimize the property and environmental damage caused by fires.To that end Steve Conboy, founder of M-Fire Holdings, has developed non-toxic, plant-based products and systems that help property owners defend their homes and businesses from wildfires. In this book he explains the critical part better controlling wildfires plays in defending the carbon stored in wood buildings. In this book he also advocates for additional reforestation, investments in clean solar and wind energy, and providing better and faster ways to proactively defend wildlands from fires to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect its flora, fauna, and water sources from the toxic chemicals currently used in firefighting."I created this system because I was tired of seeing so many people lose their homes and have their lives uprooted. And what sets this system apart is that our core product is an eco-friendly, proactive, wildfire defense solution for property owners as well as for mass timber producers and prefab factory-built housing developers. It offers everyone a tangible way to play an integral part in keeping our planet sustainable by reducing the CO2 released into our environment."
The Ecological Role of Salamanders as Predators and Prey
Salamanders are relevant components of many terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. However, despite the importance of salamanders in many resource-consumer networks, their functional role remains remarkably understudied. Therefore, this volume, entitled The Ecological Role of Salamanders as Prey and Predators, provides an opportunity for researchers to highlight the new research on the ecological role of salamanders and newts in prey-predator systems, their trophic behavior, and the variability of their trophic niche in space and time. Various innovative methods, such as COI metabarcoding and network analysis, are applied in the present study to test both the classical and new hypotheses concerning the trophic ecology of salamanders and their interactions with their prey. The present volume is composed of one review and seven research papers, all of which are published after undergoing a complete and impartial peer-review process.
Recent Innovations in Post-harvest Preservation and Protection of Agricultural Products
The global food supply chain relies on engineered systems, operational practices, and logistics to preserve, protect, process, and deliver agricultural crops along complex supply lines from farmers in low-, middle-, and high-income countries to markets around the world. Food and nutrition security is compromised by post-harvest losses (and food waste) that have been estimated to be as high as 20% in durable and 40% in perishable crops. Preserving crops using technologies and practices such as timely harvesting, evaporative cooling, cold and frozen storage, drying, and dehydrating, and protecting crops using technologies and practices such as damage-less handling, controlled and modified atmosphere storage, non-chemical heat and gas treatment, plant-derived protective films for individual fruits and vegetables, and improved packaging containers are critical to preserving nutrients, improving livelihoods, and realizing an efficient food system.This Special Issue aims to cover recent progress and innovations in science, technology, engineering, operational practices, and logistics related to post-harvest preservation and protection of durable and perishable agricultural crops. It seeks contributions that improve effectiveness, efficiency, reliability and sustainability in post-harvest handling of crops from field to end use that preserve product quality and result in foods and feeds which are nutritious and safe for human and animal consumption.
Waste Collection and Treatment for a Suburban Area. Case Study Narhe
Case Study from the year 2018 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: 100, Savitribai Phule Pune University, formerly University of Pune (Sinhgad College), course: Civil Engineering, language: English, abstract: In the present study, an attempt has been made to provide an effective collection system (software-based), transportation and disposal of Solid Waste in Narhe. Urban waste collection is also one of the factors that should be considered in the Solid Waste Management Capacity of the respective city. In the present case study, the solid waste management system for Narhe in which the collection and disposal system is mainly concentrated. The total quantity of solid waste generated in the Pune city (Pune Municipal Corporation) is estimated to be around 1700 Tonnes Per Day (TPD). Whereas Narhe counts to 40-45 TPD. In absence of appropriate systems, inadequate institutional arrangement and poor financial health of urban local bodies, suburbs are following rudimentary methods of waste disposal creating problems for public health and environmental sanitation.
Elemental Concentration and Pollution in Soil, Water, and Sediment
This book, entitled "Elemental Concentration and Pollution in Soil, Water, and Sediment", presents an updated overview of the main trace elements in living organisms. This collection brings researchers from different fields together, including those from biogeochemistry and ecotoxicology in various environmental media, in order to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the environmental fate of trace elements in their biogeochemical cycles for different ecosystems.
Cantilever-Based Sensors
Microcantilevers are typically rectangular-shaped bars, approximately 100-200 μm long, 20-40 μm wide, and 0.5-1 μm thick, and are made of silicon or silicon nitride. Their mechanical response is often described as a very soft spring. The static deformation of a cantilever allows for the detection of the smallest forces with unprecedented sensitivity, whereas the resonance frequency of its dynamic response can be used to measure extremely small masses or fluid properties. Cantilever-based sensors have received considerable interest in the last few decades, as they offer an unparalleled opportunity for the development of highly sensitive biophysical and chemical sensors, employed in a very wide spectrum of applications. These sensors have been widely utilized in electronics, automotive and aerospace systems, biophysics, environmental monitoring, and medical diagnosis sectors, among others. Their working principle is often based on the interaction between a micrometric cantilever and its surrounding medium, where the mechanical device responds to changes in some environmental property, such as temperature, pressure, flow, density, viscosity, or the presence of some analytes of interest. In this Special Issue, several meaningful examples of the application of cantilever sensors are considered, and recent experimental performances and updated modeling of their mechanical responses are presented. Finally, some review articles offer the researchers as updated overview on cantilever dynamics and two meaningful applications: endoscopy and high-speed AFM.
Battlefield 3
"Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment."-Ralph Waldo Emerson In Spiritual Laws (1841), Emerson makes a case for simplicity as the path to serenity and success. According to the author, our intellects are clouded by material interests, and he argues that it is only by emptying our minds and turning to spiritual solutions that great men are able to use their natural intuition and talents effectively.
A History of Pain
[The enlightened individual] . . . "should see that he can live all history in his own person."-Ralph Waldo Emerson, History In History (1841), Emerson explores the philosophical principle that an enlightened individual "should see that he can live all history in his own person." In his view, individual minds contain principles of the universal mind, and so we can learn from those principles by studying biography. Through reading about others, we can learn about our own natures and consequently about the human experience.
Probable Impossibilities
The acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way" (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities--and impossibilities--of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between. Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, whom The Washington Post has called "the poet laureate of science writers," explores these questions and more--from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang. Probable Impossibilities is a deeply engaged consideration of what we know of the universe, of life and the mind, and of things vastly larger and smaller than ourselves.
Crossing the Boundaries of Life
A close look at G羹nter Blobel's transformative contributions to molecular cell biology. The difficulty of reconciling chemical mechanisms with the functions of whole living systems has plagued biologists since the development of cell theory in the nineteenth century. As Karl S. Matlin argues in Crossing the Boundaries of Life, it is no coincidence that this longstanding knot of scientific inquiry was loosened most meaningfully by the work of a cell biologist, the Nobel laureate G羹nter Blobel. In 1975, using an experimental setup that did not contain any cells at all, Blobel was able to target newly made proteins to cell membrane vesicles, enabling him to theorize how proteins in the cell distribute spatially, an idea he called the signal hypothesis. Over the next twenty years, Blobel and other scientists were able to dissect this mechanism into its precise molecular details. For elaborating his signal concept into a process he termed membrane topogenesis--the idea that each protein in the cell is synthesized with an "address" that directs the protein to its correct destination within the cell--Blobel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1999. Matlin argues that Blobel's investigative strategy and its subsequent application addressed a fundamental unresolved dilemma that had bedeviled biology from its very beginning--the relationship between structure and function--allowing biology to achieve mechanistic molecular explanations of biological phenomena. Crossing the Boundaries of Life thus uses Blobel's research and life story to shed light on the importance of cell biology for twentieth-century science, illustrating how it propelled the development of adjacent disciplines like biochemistry and molecular biology.
