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  • Sago Palm

    Multiple Contributions to Food Security and Sustainable Livelihoods

    This open access book addresses a wide variety of events and technologies concerning the sago palm, ranging from its botanical characteristics, culture and use to social conditions in the places where it is grown, in order to provide a record of research findings and to benefit society. It discusses various subjects, including the sago palm and related species; differentiation of species of starch ... Read more

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  • Mother Earth What a Life You've Had!

    by Lenny Everson ...
    Mother Earth, What a Life You’ve Had is a summary of most of the problems and successes life on Earth has encountered since it began some three billion years ago. volcanoes, comets, and asteroids have many times caused major and minor extinction events such as that of the dinosaurs. ... Read more

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  • Forest Radioecology in Fukushima

    Radiocesium Dynamics, Impact, and Future

    This is an open access book that provides holistic information on the radioactive contamination of forests. Topics are highly interdisciplinary, ranging from the dynamics of radioactive cesium in forest ecosystems to the radiation protection or the socio-economic aspects of radiation effects. It is designed to help people understand the radioactive contamination in forests and provide hints of how ... Read more

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  • Ecosystem-Based Management, Ecosystem Services and Aquatic Biodiversity

    Theory, Tools and Applications

    Aquatic ecosystems are rich in biodiversity and home to a diverse array of species and habitats, providing a wide variety of benefits to human beings. Many of these valuable ecosystems are at risk of being irreversibly damaged by human activities and pressures, including pollution, contamination, invasive species, overfishing and climate change. Such pressures threaten the sustainability of these ... Read more

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  • Traktat Über Die Liebe Aus Der Sicht Eines Fürchterlichen Nerds

    Das Ihnen vorliegende Buch ist eine Weiterentwicklung des weithin bekannten "Traktats über die Liebe aus der Sicht eines fürchterlichen Nerds". Verbesserungen und Ergänzungen berücksichtigen die Kommunikation mit den Lesern früherer Ausgaben dieses Traktats und umfassen teilweise auch andere Artikel, die der Autor seit der Veroffentlichung der zweiten und dritten Ausgabe dieses Traktats verfasst ... Read more

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  • Herpes and Alzheimer's

    by Matthew Horne ...
    Multiple infectious pathogens have been associated with Alzheimer's. Medication may reduce the risk of dementia by suppressing several types of herpes viruses. Acyclovir 200 mg per day, and/or Amenamevir 100 mg per day may be effective.It is unknown if pathogens slowly eat away at the brain tissue over many years, or very quickly as the immune system senesces in old age. Regardless, cognitive ... Read more

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  • Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks - From Hagedorn Temperature to Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at CERN

    With a Tribute to Rolf Hagedorn

    Edited by Johann Rafelski ...
    This book shows how the study of multi-hadron production phenomena in the years after the founding of CERN culminated in Hagedorn's pioneering idea of limiting temperature, leading on to the discovery of the quark-gluon plasma -- announced, in February 2000 at CERN.Following the foreword by Herwig Schopper -- the Director General (1981-1988) of CERN at the key historical juncture -- the first part ... Read more

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  • Учение Джуал Кхула - Биология (включая статьи по праноедению)

    Series Book 5 - Учение Джуал Кхула - Эзотерическое Естествознание
    Это пятая книга из серии «Эзотерическое Естествознание». Она содержит статьи по биологии , а также по вопросам праноедения (бретарианства или неедения).Здесь мы заново переосмысливаем основы информации, официально признанной наукой и преподаваемой школьникам и студентам. И как всегда, во-многом не сходимся с положениями биологической науки.Например, мы иначе понимаем назначение дыхания и питания. ... Read more

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  • Saberes tradicionais e locais

    reflexões etnobiológicas

    Durante séculos, diversos conhecimentos elaborados e mantidos por grupos sociais considerados à margem da sociedade receberam a classificação de conhecimento popular e conhecimento vulgar, o que demarcou o distanciamento entre esses saberes e o mundo das ciências. Este livro destaca, sob a perspectiva da etnobiologia, o potencial dos saberes tradicionais na construção de ações sustentáveis, ... Read more

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  • Suffocating On Mount Improbable

    by Bud Stark ...
    This book is an attempt to reestablish a hope that the universe is somehow directed, among students of evolution who have turned to atheism. To do that, one must confront Richard Dawkins of Oxford University. He holds the atheistic command in the battle between random biological evolution and biological directedness whom some call intelligent design. He holds the command but not the science. ... Read more

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  • Field Notes From a Cruise

    In 2004, with the goal of not only seeing, but touching, a whale, I boarded Searcher out of San Diego. This narrative was composed mostly on board and two weeks later, at the end, in the Cabo airport. And yes, I did touch a whale. ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Sustainability Towards a Regenerative Economy

    Series Book 15 - Future City
    This open access book is based on work from the COST Action “RESTORE - REthinking Sustainability TOwards a Regenerative Economy'', and highlights how sustainability in buildings, facilities and urban governance is crucial for a future that is socially just, ecologically restorative, and economically viable, for Europe and the whole planet. In light of the search for fair solutions to the climate ... Read more

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  • Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture

    Series series Maritime Literature and Culture
    This open access edited collection explores various aspects of how oceanic im/ mobilities have been framed and articulated in the literary and cultural imagination. It covers the entanglements of maritime mobility and immobility as they are articulated and problematized in selected literature and cultural forms from the early modern period to the present. In particular, it brings cultural mobility ... Read more

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  • Integrated Treatment Technology of Rural Domestic Sewage

    Ten Cases of Integrated Sewage Treatment in Rural Area of China

    This open access book provides integrated treatment technology of rural domestic sewage, and highlights ten typical cases in China. The integrated sewage treatment system (ISTE) combine sewage pretreatment, biological treatment, sedimentation, and disinfection, which particularly suitable for decentralized domestic wastewater treatment in rural areas without pipe networks. The main advantages of ... Read more

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  • Guidelines for the Fisheries and Aquaculture Sector on Damage and Needs Assessments in Emergencies

    In the last few decades, natural disasters have become more frequent and increasingly destructive. Populations depending on fisheries and aquaculture for their livelihoods are threatened not only by natural hazards but also by human-induced events and other developments beyond their control. Most small-scale fishers and fish workers live in developing countries, and they often face a multitude of ... Read more

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  • Genetic Algorithms

    Examines the application of genetic algorithms in order to solve technical problems. Provides a working case study of a robotic spider and how it can learn to walk without being instructed in physics or explicitly programmed to perform that function. ... Read more

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  • Estudos Ambientais e Agroecológicos em Propriedades Rurais

    O livro Estudos ambientais e agroecológicos em propriedades rurais destina-se a apresentar estudos realizados por professores e seus respectivos orientandos do curso superior de Tecnologia em Agroecologia do Instituto Federal (IF Baiano), campus Uruçuca e campus Guanambi, e por alunos do curso de especialização em Agroecologia, com ênfase na Agricultura Familiar, da Universidade Estadual de Santa ... Read more

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  • Prosopis Juliflora and Climate Change: Energy and Livelihoods of People in Semi-Arid Drought Prone Areas

    The ‘Prosopis debate’ has become an important topic of discussion and policy in India during recent years, primarily due to Prosopis juliflora becoming an aggressive weed in several states, , though the plant had earlier, in the late sixties/early seventies been introduced by state Department of Forest activities for greening degraded land and as fencing material. Now 30-40 years later Prosopis ... Read more

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  • Безракетная индустриализация ближнего космоса: проблемы, идеи, проекты

    Материалы сборника отражают тематику и содержание докладов, представленных в рамках III международной научно-техническойконференции «Безракетная индустриализация ближнего космоса: проблемы, идеи, проекты». Конференция 2020 г. посвящалась темерешения глобальных проблем современности геокосмическими средствами; принципам конструирования транспортно-инфраструктурногогеокосмического комплекса; ... Read more

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  • Research On "Atom"

    Series series Scientific Studies
    Scientists discovered atoms and sub-atomic particles but are still under development.The scientists do not have the complete picture. Quranic Atomic Model is the best and in advance above all current human made models on this subject. This booklet is intended for layman as well as scientific researchers.Although the word 'atom' comes from the Greek for indivisible, we now know that atoms are not ... Read more

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  • Double-crossing the Cross?: The Intel on Intelligent Design

    Is intelligent design a stupendous scientific discovery with significant theological implications? Or is it pseudo-theology, pseudo-science and a passing fad? Read on. Intelligent design will be evaluated biblically, scientifically, and especially on the basis of the cross because the cross is central to properly understanding the Creator. ... Read more

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  • Tree Care Kit

    Learn how to improve urban tree health, position urban trees to better withstand severe weather (hurricane, ice storms, drought), and minimize damage and loss of not only the beloved trees, but also surrounding structures (homes, vehicles, powerlines, etc.) -- Be Tree Wise. Protect Life and Limbs. ... Read more

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  • Rivers of the Anthropocene

    Edited by Jason M. Kelly ...
    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.This exciting volume presents the work and research of the Rivers of the Anthropocene Network, an international collaborative group of scientists, social scientists, humanists, artists, policy makers, and community organizers ... Read more

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  • 「複製羊」技術應用於雌性猿和猩猩生殖系統改良之構想藍圖

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    by 明治天皇 ...
    Series Book 1 - 1
    本文提出雌性複製猿、猩猩之生殖系統改良的構想藍圖,這是應用複製羊桃莉生物技術,在雌性複製猿、猩猩的生殖器官與交配方式做改良。改良特色是雌性複製猿、猩猩是無性生殖,會生出大便大小的「收縮囊」,收縮囊會逐漸膨脹形成「軟體組織的低等生物」。人猿總科雄性動物是體外授精,人猿總科雄性動物與「軟體組織的低等生物」交配,胎兒在「軟體組織的低等生物」體內發育。本文最後探討無性生殖的雌性複製猿、猩猩與男性人類體外授精,生出「新品種人猿」的雜交種,對於此「新品種人猿」雜交種的繁衍能力和後代子孫存活能力做了預測。 ... Read more

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