Waimarino County : & Other Excursions. by Edmond, Martin

Table of Contents: “…Among the ruins with the poor; Lighting Out for the Territory; The Oblate of Unknowing; The Abandoned House as a Refuge for the Imagination; Entoptics; The Inconsolable Song; Strangers in the House of the Mind; 3 ILLUSIONS; Series of Dreams; Marine; El Camino Real; Words on Maps; Three; Hawthorne Canal; Mighty Dread; Westbound Train; Occultation; Welladay.…”
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Spirals and Vortices In Culture, Nature, and Science

Table of Contents: “…Part One -- Cultural History -- Appearance in Nature -- Arts and Beyond -- Part Two -- Spirals, their Types and Peculiarities -- Acoustic Spirals: Analysis of Bach’s prelude in C major -- Part Three -- Liesegang Rings, Spirals and Helices -- Generation of Spirals in Excitable Media -- Chemical Oscillations and SpiralWaves -- Shedding Light on Chaos - Controlling Surface Reactions -- Part Four -- SpiralWaves of the Chemo-attractant cAMP Organise Multicellular Development in the Social Amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum -- SpiralWaves in the Heart -- Patterns and Humans -- Yet More Spirals -- Part Five -- Reaction-diffusion Patterns and Waves: From Chemical Reactions to Cardiac Arrhythmias -- A Lattice-gas Cellular Automaton Model for Discrete Excitable Media -- Kinematics of SpiralWaves in Excitable Media.…”
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World film locations : Las Vegas

Table of Contents: “…FrontCover; Copyright; Titile; Contents; Maps / Scenes; Scenes 1-8 1957 -- 1980; Scenes 9-16 1982 -- 1988; Scenes 17-24 1988 -- 1995; Scenes 25-32 1995 -- 1998; Scenes 33-39 1999 -- 2005; Scenes 40-46 2007 -- 2010; Essays; Las Vegas: City of the Imagination; Pack Mentality: The Vegas of the Original Ocean's Eleven; Electric Dreams: Lighting Up The Strip Sydney Pollack Style; Fear and Loathing: Las Vegas and the Cinema of American Excess; Strings Attached: Las Vegas in Science Fiction 'B' Movies; Dream Machine: Las Vegas as Mythical Destination.…”
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Women in Aerospace Materials Advancements and Perspectives of Emerging Technologies

Table of Contents: “…Development of Organic Nonlinear Optical Materials for Light Manipulation -- Chapter 4. 2D Materials: Molybdenum Disulfide for Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices -- Chapter 5. …”
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Child Labor : an American History. by Hindman, Hugh D.

Table of Contents: “…Children in the Coal Mines; 5. Light Manufacturing: Children in the Glasshouses; 6. …”
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What living as a resident can teach long-term care staff : the power of empathy to transform care by Pedtke, Leslie

Table of Contents: “…-- My 24-hour stay -- Changing the way we hire and orientate new staff : a person-first approach -- It only takes one candle to light another candle -- Epilogue : if you want culture change, you have to take a risk.…”
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Phytohormones and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants by Khan, Nafees A.

Table of Contents: “…Signal transduction of pytohormones under abiotic stresses -- Cross-talks on phytohormones signaling pathways under optimal and stressful conditions -- Phytohormones in salinity tolerance: ethylene and gibberellins cross talk -- Nitric oxide metabolism under environmental stress conditions -- Auxin as part of wound-healing response in plants -- Interaction between ethylene, auxin, light and microtubules during low-pH induced root hair formation in lettuce seedlings -- Cytokinin homeostasis -- Origin of brassinosteroids and their role in oxidative stress in plants -- Hormonal intermediates in the protective action of exogenous phytohormones in plants under salinity: A case study on wheat -- The role of phytohormones in the control of plant adaptation to oxygen depletion -- Stress hormones associated to sunflower germplasms with different sensitivity to drought -- An insight into the relationship between jasmonates and salicylic acid in salt tolerance.…”
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Environmental Nanotechnology Volume 5

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Nanocellulose-based Materials for Heavy Metal Removal from Wastewater -- Chapter 2 Visible-Light-Responsive Heterostructured Nanophotocatalysts for Organic Pollutants Decomposition -- Chapter 3 Conductive Polymer Nanobiosensors -- Chapter 4 Fabrication and Potential Applications of Nanoporous Membranes for Separation Processes -- Chapter 5 Nanomaterials for effective control of algal blooms in water -- Chapter 6 Nanotechnological Developments in Nanofiber-Based Membranes Used for Water Treatment Applications -- Chapter 7 Fe-based nanomaterials for removing the environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals in water: a review -- Chapter 8 Plasmonics, Vibrational Nanospectroscopy and Polymers -- Chapter 9 Phyto-Nanosensors: Advancement of Phytochemicals as an Electrochemical Platform for various Biomedical Applications -- Chapter 10 Nano-adsorbents in wastewater treatment for phosphate and nitrate removal.…”
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Education, society, and economic opportunity : a historical perspective on persistent issues by Vinovskis, Maris A., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Family, schools, and the challenges of economic opportunity and social reform -- Family and schooling in colonial and nineteenth-century America -- A ray of millennial light: early education and social reform in the Infant School Movement in Massachusetts, 1826-40 (with Dean May) -- The crisis in moral education in Antebellum Massachusetts -- Schooling and poverty in nineteenth-century America -- Horace Mann on the economic productivity of education -- Immigrants and schooling -- Attendance, institutional arrangements, and social support for education -- The controversy over the Beverly High School -- Have we underestimated the extent of Antebellum High School attendance? …”


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Constable at Tate : art and life in landscape

Table of Contents: “…Landscape Painter John Constable (1776-1837) (4:05) -- Technique: Representational Painting (2:44) -- Childhood Influences on Constable's Work (1:41) -- Techniques: Light and Color (4:04) -- Constable's Romantic Period (2:35) -- Constable's Expression of Divinity (2:11) -- Constable's Protestant Beliefs (3:10) -- Constable's Portraiture (3:27) -- Constable's Transitional Period and Marriage (3:35) -- Constable's Large Paintings (3:18) -- Technique: Handling the Paint (3:58) -- Influence of Science of Nature on Constable's Work (2:26) -- "The Cornfield" (2:46) -- "Hadleigh Castle" as an Expression of Grief (4:03) -- Constable's Urban World vs. …”
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Deception in Autonomous Transport Systems Threats, Impacts and Mitigation Policies

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Ethical dilemmas in autonomous driving: philosophical, social and public policy implications -- Smart Cities: Concept, Pillars, and Challenges -- The Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Trade-off: Functional Benefits versus Security Risks -- Connected and Autonomous Vehicles and Infrastructure Needs Exploring Road Network Changes and Policy Interventions -- Centralised Intelligent Traffic Routing in the Light of Disobedience of Drivers -- Detecting Abnormal Vehicle Behaviour: A Clustering-Based Approach -- AI Approaches on Urban Public Transport Routing -- Cyber Threat Intelligence Analysis for Situational Understanding in Autonomous Transport Systems -- Interaction Attacks as Deceitful Connected and Automated Vehicle Behaviour -- Securing Vehicle-to-Drone (V2D) Communications: Challenges and Solutions -- The Use of GPS Spoofing Attacks in Location Deception.…”
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Venice and its neighbors from the 8th to 11th century : through renovation and continuity by Gelichi, Sauro, Gasparri, Stefano

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Stefano Gasparri and Sauro Gelichi -- The first dukes and the origins of Venice / Stefano Gasparri -- Archival documents as narrative the sources of the Istoria Veneticorum and the Plea of Rizana / Annamaria Pazienza -- The waterfront of Istria: sea and identity in the post-Roman Adriatic / Francesco Borri -- Disputes and connections: Venice's affairs in the Regnum Italiae / Chiara Provesi -- The Insula Equilus: a lagoon community in the early Middle Ages / Silvia Cadamuro, Alessandra Cianciosi and Claudio Negrelli -- Setting the scene: the role of Sant'ilario Monastery in early Medieval Venice in light of recent landscape studies / Elisa Corro, Cecilia Moine and Sandra Primon -- Comacchio: a liminal community in a nodal point during the early Middle Ages / Sauro Gelichi -- Conclusion / Sauro Gelichi and Stefano Gasparri.…”
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The 3rd International Conference on Nanomaterials and Advanced Composites Proceedings of NAC 2022, July 15-17, Tokushima, Japan

Table of Contents: “…Damage Behavior of Carbon/Epoxy Laminated Composites Composed of Super-Thin Plies -- Tensile Properties of Fiber-reinforced Plastic-based Epoxy Prepregs Storable at Room Temperature -- Effect of Process Parameters on Feasibility of Production of Cellulose Nanofiber Yarn by Wet Spinning -- Synthesis of N-methyl-D-glucamine Modified Chitosan Nanofibers for Boron Adsorption -- Practical Microfluidic Technologies for In-Vitro Diagnostic Devices -- In-situ Growth of Silicon Nanowires Array and its Field Emission Behavior -- Photoluminescence property of Nano Silica Mixed YAG:Ce Phosphors -- In Situ Observation of Crystal Growth Processes -- Approach for Achieving Effective Photocatalytic Activity Under Visible Light of WO3-x/ SnO2 Produced by Laser Ablation Method -- Study on Cellulose Nanofiber Molding by 3D Printing.…”
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The infinity puzzle : quantum field theory and the hunt for an orderly universe by Close, F. E.

Table of Contents: “…B.J. and the cosmic quarks -- A comedy of errors -- Intermission : 1975 -- Heavy light -- Warmly admired, richly deserved -- The big machine -- Intermission : end of the twentieth century -- To infinity and beyond.…”
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New Bedford's Civil War by Mulderink, Earl F.

Table of Contents: “…"A burning and shining light": prosperity and enlightened governance in antebellum New Bedford -- "The nearest approach to freedom and equality": African Americans in antebellum New Bedford -- "Suppression of an unholy rebellion": wartime mobilization on the home front -- "Citizen-soldiers of Massachusetts": New Bedford's volunteers in the Civil War -- "Boys, I only did my duty": New Bedford's black soldiers in the fifty-fourth Massachusetts -- "Worthy recipients": New Bedford's black veterans and the web of social welfare -- "Business is extremely dull": whaling and manufacturing in wartime New Bedford -- "The position of our city has materially changed": public costs and municipal governance during the Civil War -- "The great hope for the future": New Bedford in the postbellum era -- "On the altar of our common country": contested commemorations of the Civil War.…”
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Assessment of carbon footprint in different industrial sectors. Volume 2

Table of Contents: “…A Review on Energy use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Derived of Worldwide Hake Fishing -- A Life Cycle Assessment Application: The Carbon Footprint of Beef in Flanders (Belgium) -- Carbon Footprint and Energy Estimation of Sugar Industry: An Indian Case Study -- Carbon Footprint as a Single Indicator in Energy Systems: The Case of Biofuels and CO2 Capture Technologies -- Reduction in Carbon Footprint of Coal Fired Thermal Power Plants by Promoting CFL and LED Lights in Households, Offices and Commercial Centres -- Assessment of Carbon Footprinting in the Wood Industry -- Carbon Footprint of Recycled Products: A Case Study of Recycled Wood Waste in Singapore -- Sector-wise Assessment of Carbon Footprint Across Major Cities in India -- The use of Carbon Footprint in the Wine Sector: Methodological Assumptions.…”
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Aging Mind : Opportunities in Cognitive Research. by Staff, National Research Council

Table of Contents: “…Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- 1 Understanding the Aging Mind -- 2 Neural Health -- 3 Cognition in Context -- 4 Structure of the Aging Mind -- 5 Implementation -- References -- A Age-Related Shifts in Neural Circuit Characteristics and Their Impact on Age-Related Cognitive Impairments -- B Homeostatic Processes in Brain Aging: The Role of Apoptosis, Inflammation, and Oxidative Stress in Regulating Healthy Neural Circuitry in the Aging Brain -- C The Bearable Lightness of Aging: Judgment and Decision Processes in Older Adults…”
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Advances in VLSI, Communication, and Signal Processing Select Proceedings of VCAS 2018

Table of Contents: “…BER Performance Evaluation of Different Modulation Techniques for Underwater FSO Communication System -- Reliable Location-Aware Routing Protocol for Urban Vehicular Scenario -- Temperature Dependent Analog, RF and Linearity Analysis of Junctionless Quadruple Gate MOSFETs for Analog Applications -- Performance of Double Gate Tunnel FET Devices with Source Pocket -- Image compression Using hybrid approach and adaptive scanning for color images -- Sparse Matrix Completion for Effective Recommendation System -- Enhanced XOR-based Progressive Visual Secret Sharing Using Multiple Decryptions -- EEG Seizure Detection from Compressive Measurements -- Noise cancellation using Adaptive Filter -- A Novel Approach for Compensation of Light Variation Effects with KELM Classification for Efficient Face Recognition -- A Hybridization of Fuzzy Logic and Deterministic Learning Machine for Face Recognition.…”
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What we owe : truths, myths, and lies about public debt by Cottarelli, Carlo

Table of Contents: “…Institutional fiscal constraints -- Conclusion : the unbearable lightness of public debt.…”
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Subalternity and Religion : the Prehistory of Dalit Empowerment in South Asia. by Wakankar, Milind

Table of Contents: “…Part III The prehistory of historical religion7 The suspension of iconoclasm: Myth and allegory in the time of deities; 8 Miracle and violence: The allegorical turn in Kabir, Dnyaneswara, Tukaram; 9 Deity and daivat: The antiquity of light in Tukaram; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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