Fracking : further investigations into the environmental consideration and operations of hydraulic fracturing by Holloway, Michael D., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; An Introduction to Hydraulic Fracturing; 1 Environmental Impact -- Reality and Myth and Nero Did Not Fiddle While Rome Burned; 1.1 The Tower of Babel and How it Could be the Cause of Much of the Fracking Debate; 2 Production Development; 3 Fractures: Their Orientation and Length; 3.1 Fracture Orientation; 3.2 Fracture Length/ Height; 4 Casing and Cementing; 4.1 Blowouts; 4.2 Surface Blowouts; 4.3 Subsurface Blowouts; 4.4 Horizontal Drilling; 4.5 Fracturing and the Groundwater Debate; 5 Pre-Drill Assessments.…”
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Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics : From Air Pollution to Climate Change. by Seinfeld, John H.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Content -- Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Part I: The Atmosphere and Its Constituents -- Chapter 1: The Atmosphere -- 1.1 History and Evolution of Earth's Atmosphere -- 1.2 Climate -- 1.3 Layers of the Atmosphere -- 1.4 Pressure in the Atmosphere -- 1.4.1 Units of Pressure -- 1.4.2 Variation of Pressure with Height in the Atmosphere -- 1.5 Temperature in the Atmosphere -- 1.6 Expressing the Amount of a Substance in the Atmosphere -- 1.7 Airborne Particles…”
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Heat exchangers : types, design, and applications by Branson, Spencer T.

Table of Contents: “…Effect of Pore Density (Pore Size) ; 4.4.3. Effect of Foam Height ; 4.4.4. Effect of Foam Width ; 4.4.5. Effect of Nozzle-to-Foam Tip Distance ; 4.5. …”
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Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics From Air Pollution to Climate Change. by Seinfeld, John H.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Content -- Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Part I: The Atmosphere and Its Constituents -- Chapter 1: The Atmosphere -- 1.1 History and Evolution of Earth's Atmosphere -- 1.2 Climate -- 1.3 Layers of the Atmosphere -- 1.4 Pressure in the Atmosphere -- 1.4.1 Units of Pressure -- 1.4.2 Variation of Pressure with Height in the Atmosphere -- 1.5 Temperature in the Atmosphere -- 1.6 Expressing the Amount of a Substance in the Atmosphere -- 1.7 Airborne Particles…”
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Great Victorian lives an era in obituaries

Table of Contents: “…., Mathematician: 'The Father of the Computer.' 18 October 1871 -- Emperor Napoleon III, Emperor of the French: 'History will find much to reproach him with, but it is certain his contemporaries have been very unjust to him.' 9 January 1873 -- William Charles Macready, Actor: 'A deep and subtle insight into the shades and peculiarities of character.' 27 April 1873 -- David Livingstone, Missionary and explorer: 'Fallen in the cause of civilization and progress.' 1 May 1873 -- John Stuart Mill, Philosopher and political theorist: 'the most candid of controversialists.'8 May 1873 -- aSir Edwin Landseer, Painter: 'His paintings are known ... through the length and breadth of the land.' 1 October 1873 -- Harriet Martineau, Social and economic critic and novelist: 'A great new light has arisen among English women.' 27 June 1876 -- Sir Titus Salt, Industrialist and philanthropist: 'He was not unmindful of his more public obligations.' 29 December 1876 -- William Henry Fox Talbot, Pioneer photographer: 'The new art, which has since been named photography.' 17 September 1877 -- Pope Pius IX, Pope: 'No man of the present generation can imagine what frenzy seized the generation of 31 years ago.' 7 February 1878 -- George Gilbert Scott, Architect: 'His hands have been more than full.' 27 March 1878 -- John Thadeus Delane, Editor of The Times: 'The man who worked The Times.' 22 November 1879 -- George Eliot, Novelist: 'A woman of rare and noble endowments, a great figure in our literature.' 22 December 1880 -- Thomas Carlyle, Historian and philosopher: 'A great man of letters, quite as heroic as any of those whom he depicted.' 5 February 1881 -- Benjamin Disraeli, First Earl of Beaconsfield, Statesman and novelist: 'The time will come when you will hear me.' 19 April 1881 -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Painter and poet: 'There is in his best work a depth and a subdued glow of colour.' 9 April 1882 -- Charles Darwin, Naturalist: 'One must seek back to Newton or even Copernicus to find a man whose influence on human thought and methods of looking at the universe has been as radical.' 19 April 1882 -- Anthony Trollope, Novelist: 'He was never guilty of the deadly mistake of becoming dull.' 6 December 1882 -- Richard Wagner, Composer: 'A star of the first magnitude ... his work will have a lasting effect on the art of the present and of the future.' 13 February 1883 -- Karl Marx, Political philosopher and economist: 'An attack on the whole capitalist system.' 14 March 1883 -- Victor Hugo, Poet, dramatist and novelist: 'Perhaps the finest literary spirit that France has ever produced.' 22 May 1885 -- Sir Moses Montefiore, Philanthropist: 'Piety, loyalty, and benevolence.' 28 July 1885 -- Franz Liszt, Composer and pianist: 'Hungary had produced a deep impression on his fancy.' 31 July 1886 -- Matthew Arnold, Poet and essayist: 'To a certain number of readers he has as a poet a place apart; a place in the inmost shrine of their affections.' 15 April 1888 -- George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, Field-Marshal: 'It was chiefly in relation ... to the memorable charge of the Light Brigade ... that Lord Lucan's name became historic.' 10 November 1888 -- Wilkie Collins, Novelist: 'A model of all that is most sensational, most thrilling, and most ingeniously probable in the midst of probability.' 23 September 1889 -- Robert Browning, Poet: 'Browning's muse has been for the lifetime of most educated Englishmen a kind of poetical wheel of fortune giving forth.' 12 December 1889 -- John Henry Newman, Cardinal and theologian: 'Two lines can be forever approaching without falling together, but it is not so when the heart is concerned.' 11 August 1890 -- Charles Bradlaugh, Freethinker and politician: 'He was a remarkable figure of a somewhat obsolete type.' 30 January 1891 -- Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish patriot and politician: 'Broken down under such a load of obloquy and disappointment.' 6 October 1891 -- Thomas Cook, Travel agent: 'The originator of the excursion system.' 18 July 1892 -- Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet: 'The most brilliant light in English literature.' 6 October 1892 -- Louis (Lajos) Kossuth, Hungarian patriot: 'All lovers of freedom in every country, all admirers of valour, all men who had hearts to sympathize with the misfortunes of patriots mourned when the Hungarian cause was lost.' 20 March 1894 -- Robert Louis Stevenson, Novelist, poet and travel writer: 'Even when he brooded over the physical and metaphysical nightmares ... the vagaries of his inspirations were invariably kept in check by exquisite taste and sound literary judgment.' 3 December 1894 -- Christina Rossetti, Poet: 'Grace and delicacy combined with a clear and pellucid style.' 29 December 1894 -- T.H. …”
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Georgia Women : Their Lives and Times.

Table of Contents: “…8217; Yet, Before I Am Done with Them8221; -- Amanda America Dickson (18498211;1893) A Wealthy Lady of Color in Nineteenth-Century Georgia -- Mary Gay (18298211;1918) Sin, Self, and Survival in the Post8211;Civil War South -- Rebecca Latimer Felton (18358211;1930) The Problem of Protection in the New South -- Mary Latimer McLendon (18408211;1921) 8220;Mother of Suffrage Work in Georgia8221; -- Mildred Lewis Rutherford (18518211;1928) The Redefinition of New South White Womanhood -- Nellie Peters Black (18518211;1919) Georgia8217;s Pioneer Club Woman -- Lucy Craft Laney (18558211;1933) and Martha Berry (18668211;1942) Lighting Fires of Knowledge -- Corra Harris (18698211;1935) The Storyteller as Folk Preacher -- Juliette Gordon Low (18608211;1927) Late-Blooming Daisy -- Selected Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.…”
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Re-embroidering the robe : faith, myth and literary creation since 1850

Table of Contents: “…Tolkien's "Eucatastrophe," or fantasy as a modern recovery of faith / Joanny Moulin -- Mediaeval myth and modern narrative: Dante's myth of heaven and hell and Charles Williams' Descent into hell / Robert-Louis Abrahamson -- Jesting in earnest: levity and faith in George MacDonald's The light princess / Daniel Gabelman -- Myth, fact and "literary belief": imagination and post-empiricism in C.S. …”
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African literatures and beyond : a florilegium

Table of Contents: “…Eastern African Slavery in Life and Literature; Shine your light, Zimbabwe -- South Africa; From Mqhayi to Sole: Four Poems on the Sinking of the Troopship Mendi; Fieldwork as Translation: Linnaeus' Apostle Anders Sparrman and the Hottentot Perspective; ElseWhere; Orality and Performance: A Source of Pan-African Social Self; Africans and Ireland: History, Society, and the Black Nexus; Ira Aldridge in Stockholm.…”
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Production studies : cultural studies of media industries

Table of Contents: “…Ortner -- Audience knowledge and the everyday lives of cultural producers in Hollywood / Stephen Zafirau -- Lights, camera, but where's the action? Actor-network theory and the production of Robert Connolly's Three dollars / Oli Mould -- Both sides of the fence: blurred distinctions in scholarship and production (a portfolio of interviews) / John T. …”


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Memory and change in Europe : Eastern perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Eastern European memories facing historical change and cultural transformations -- The path of bringing the dark to light : memory of the Holocaust in postcommunist Europe / Joanna Beata Michlic -- The rise of an East European community of memory? …”
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Work environments : spatial concepts, usage strategies, communications

Table of Contents: “…/ Claudia Hamm Bastow -- Ergonomic workplace design / Sylke Neumann -- Acoustic design in open-plan offices / Rainer Machner -- Planning of integrated daylight and artificial lighting for the work environment / Katja Scholzig -- User satisfaction as a measure of workplace quality in the office / Andreas Wagner, Karin Schakib-Ekbatan -- Projects -- Office building of Claus en Kaan Architecten in Amsterdam / Claus en Kaan Architecten -- Volksbank in Salzburg / Johann Winter -- AachenMunchener head office in Aachen -- Smart working concept for Credit Suisse in Zurich / Camenzind Evolution -- Factory building in Rehau -- Group8 architects' office in Geneva -- Unilevel headquarters in Hamburg / Behnisch Architekten -- Office building on the Novartis campus in Basel / Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani [and others] -- Ramboll head office in Copenhagen -- The yellow building in London / Allford Hall Monaghan Morris -- Rena lange headquarters in Munich / David Chipperfield Architects -- Nya Nordiska headquarters in Dannenberg / Staab Architekten -- Voestalpine steel service center in Linz -- Office and warehouse of the Sohm company in Alberschwende / Hermann Kaufmann -- Depot of the municipality poing / Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten -- Handicraft estate in Valbonne / Comte, Vollenweider -- Sedus Stoll research and development centre in Dogern / ludloff Architekten -- Trumpf development centre in Ditzingen / Barkow Leibinger Architekten -- "Projekthaus" of the BMW group in Munich / Henn Architekten -- Special laboratories at the University of Leipzig -- Fraunhofer institute in Ilmenau / Staab Architekten -- Courtyard at the Czech Technical University of Prague / Vysehrad Atelier -- Rolex learning center in Lausanne.…”
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Deep Metazoan Phylogeny: the Backbone of the Tree of Life : New Insights from Analyses of Molecules, Morphology, and Theory of Data Analysis.

Table of Contents: “…10 From morphology to phylogenomics: Placing the enigmatic Myzostomida in the tree of life11 Coeloms and nephridia in annelids and arthropods; 12 Arthropod phylogeny and the origin of Tracheata (= Atelocerata) from Remipediaâ€"like ancestors; 13 Phylogeny of the most species-rich group on Earth, the Pterygota : Ancient problems, living hypotheses and bridging gaps; 14 The central complex in Crustacea; 15 Advances in molecular phylogeny of crustaceans in the light of phylogenomic data; 16 Phylogeny of the Chelicerates: Morphological and molecular evidence.…”
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Edge Computing and IoT: Systems, Management and Security Third EAI International Conference, ICECI 2022, Virtual Event, December 13-14, 2022, Proceedings

Table of Contents: “…Models and methods for data management in IoT -- Forecasting the Temperature of BEV Battery Pack based on Field Testing Data -- The Data Exchange Protocol over Multi-chain BlockchainUsing Zero-knowledge Proof -- A Hybrid Task Offloading and Service Cache Scheme for Vehicular Edge Computing -- On Enhancing Transmission Performance for IoV Based on Improved Greedy Algorithm -- Precise Segmentation on Poly-Yolo, YoloV5 and FCN -- Adaptive approaches to manage energy consumption and security of systems -- Research on DAG Based Consensus Mechanism for Adjustable Load Metering Data -- A Detection and Information Processing Model based on an Automatic Mechanism for Tax Payment Control in Developing Countries -- IEC-FOF: An Industrial Electricity Consumption Forecasting and Optimization Framework -- Demons Hidden in the Light: Unrestricted Adversarial Illumination Attacks -- Edge Intelligence Based Garbage Classification Detection Method -- Mobile computing in wireless networks -- Evaluation of Higher Education System -- Defense Mechanisms against Audio Adversarial Attacks: Recent Advances and Future Directions -- An Empirical Study of Worldwide Plastic Waste Mitigation -- Prediction for Surface Subsidence of Shield Construction in Water-Rich Sand Egg Stratum Based on Edge Intelligence -- Highly Accurate Dynamic Gesture Recognition Method Based on Edge Intelligence -- Distributed computing in IOT -- Edge Intelligence Based Garbage Classification Detection Method -- Adversarial Example Attacks in Internet of Things (IoT) -- Training Node Screening in Decentralized Trusted Federated Learning -- Exploration and Practice of Course Homework Metaverse Based on Extended Reality under Edge Computing -- Federated Learning Based User Scheduling for Real-Time Multimedia Tasks in Edge Devices -- A Co-caching Strategy for Edges Based on Federated Learning and Regional Prevalence -- LSTM-DAM: Malicious Network Traffic Prediction for Cloud Manufacturing System.…”
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Developing life skills through math & science games

Table of Contents: “…Splish, splash, splosh -- Game 19. Reflective lights -- Game 20. Get into shape -- Game 21. Who's walking now? …”
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Imagining global Amsterdam : history, culture, and geography in a world city

Table of Contents: “…Graphic Design, Globalization, and Placemaking in the Neighbourhoods of Amsterdam / Bharain Mac an Bhreithiun -- 15.A Global Red-Light City? Prostitution in Amsterdam as a Real-and-Imagined Place / Manuel B. …”
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Advances in Unconventional Computing Volume 2: Prototypes, Models and Algorithms

Table of Contents: “…Implementing Molecular Logic Gates, Circuits, and Cascades Using DNAzymes -- Enzyme-Based Reversible Logic Gates Operated in Flow Cells -- Modeling and Modifying Response of Biochemical Processes for Biocomputing and Biosensing Signal Processing -- Sensing Time Dependent Inflow Parameters with an Enzymatic Reaction -- Combinational Logic Circuit Based on BZ Reaction -- Associative Memory in Reaction-Diffusion Chemistry -- Calculating Voronoi Diagrams Using Chemical Reactions -- Light-sensitive Belousov-Zhabotinsky Computing through Simulated Evolution -- On Synthesis and Solutions of Nonlinear Differential Equations - a Bio-Inspired Approach -- Marangoni Flow Driven Maze Solving -- Chemotaxis and Chemokinesis of Living and Non-Living Objects -- Computing with Classical Soliton Collisions -- Soliton-Guided Quantum Information Processing -- Models of Computing on Actin Filaments -- Modeling DNA Nanodevices Using Graph Rewrite Systems -- Unconventional Computing Realized with Hybrid Materials Exhibiting the PhotoElectrochemical Photocurrent Switching (PEPS) Effect -- Organic Memristor Based Elements for Bio-Inspired Computing -- Memristors in Unconventional Computing: How a Biomimetic Circuit Element can be Used to Do Bioinspired Computation -- Nature-Inspired Computation: An Unconventional Approach to Optimization -- On Hybrid Classical and Unconventional Computing for Guiding Collective Movement -- Cellular Automata Ants -- Rough Set Description of Strategy Games on Physarum Machines -- Computing a Worm: Reverse-Engineering Planarian Regeneration -- An Integrated In Silico Simulation and Biomatter Compilation Approach to Cellular Computation -- Plant Roots as Excellent Pathfinders: Root Navigation Based on Plant Specific Sensory Systems and Sensorimotor Circuits -- Soft Plant Robotic Solutions: Biological Inspiration And Technological Challenges -- Thirty Seven Things to Do with Live Slime Mould -- Experiments in Musical Biocomputing: Towards New Kinds of Processors for Audio and Music -- Immunocomputing and Baltic Indicator of Global Warming -- Experimental Architecture and Unconventional Computing.…”
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Museum Technology and Architecture

Table of Contents: “…Preface, by Bárbara Rangel, José Manuel Amorim Faria, and Vitor Abrantes -- Part I: Ibere Camargo Foundation -- Concept sketches, by Álvaro Siza Studio/Álvaro Siza -- Chapter 1 Construction as a conceptual language, by Bárbara Rangel, José Manuel Amorim Faria, and João Pedro Poças Martins -- General Arrangement Drawings, by Álvaro Siza Studio -- Construction images, by Álvaro Siza Studio -- Chapter 2 Iberê Carmargo Foundation: why is this a successful project, by Jose Luiz Canal -- Chapter 3 The efficiency of air conditioning energy systems in the Iberê Camargo contemporary art museum, by Raul Vasconcelos Bessa -- Chapter 4 Lighting and museums, by Raul Serafim -- Chapter 5 From the utilization of rainwater to the re-use of grey water, by Armando Silva Afonso -- PART II The Coach Museum_Lisbon, by Paulo Mendes da Rocha -- Sketch models, by Paulo Mendes da Rocha -- Chapter 1 Display of technique, by Bárbara Rangel, José Manuel Amorim Faria, and João Pedro Poças Martins -- General Arrangement Drawings, by Paulo Mendes da Rocha -- Final images, by Arménio Teixiera -- Chapter 2 Engineering as a lesson in architecture, by Bárbara Rangel and Fernando Brandão Alves -- Chapter 3 The engineering of the new Coach Museum, by Rui Furtado, Armando Vale, Paulo Silva, Bruno Henriques and Luis Oliveira -- Chapter 4 Museums as seen through a building physics lens, by Hugo S. …”
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Imagine Math Between Culture and Mathematics by Emmer, Michele

Table of Contents: “…Costamagna -- Women’s Contributions to the Progress of Mathematics: Lights and Shadows by E. Strickland -- The Mathematical Ideas of Luca Pacioli Depicted by Iacopo de’ Barbari in the Doppio ritratto by E. …”
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The poetics of Chinese cinema

Table of Contents: “…; All Together Now -- Red Poetics: The Films of the Chinese Cultural Revolution Revolutionary Model Operas; The "Model Works"; Genealogy of a Hybrid; The Three Prominences; Cinematic Poetics of the Model Works; Conclusion -- Renewal of Song Dynasty Landscape Painting Aesthetics Combined with a Contemplative Modernism in the Early Work of Chen Kaige -- Poetics of Two Springs: Fei Mu versus Tian Zhuangzhuang; Two Springs; Two Traditions; The Traditional Modernist; Staging; Editing; Voiceover; Conclusion: The Lost Opportunity -- Remaking Ozu: Hou Hsiao-hsien's Café Lumière; Café Lumière Prism; Café Lumière segmentation; Yoko's Six Days; Into the Dark: Tokyo Twilight; Reunion with Jiang Wenye: A Glimpse of the Empire's Edge; Into the Light: A Coda -- Hong Kong Puzzle Films: The Persistence of TraditionPuzzles and Practices: Peter Chan and Wu Xia (2011); Screenwriting Practices at Milkyway Image; A Complex Case: Blind Detective (Johnnie To, 2013); Reconsiderations -- Can Poetics Break Bricks?…”
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Jewish and Christian liturgy and worship : new insights into its history and interaction

Table of Contents: “…Reif -- Biblical texts in Jewish prayers : their history and function / Ruth Langer -- Parashat 'Asser te'asser' in Piyyut and Piyyut commentary / Elisabeth Hollender -- Developments within the statuary text of the Birkat ha-Mazon in light of its poetic counterparts / Avi Shmidman -- Observation on the relationship between JPA poetry and the Hebrew Piyyut tradition : the case of the Kinot / Michael Rand -- What Jacob actually wrote about Ephraim / Andrew Palmer.…”
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