Thomas Sinclair, "Bringing Skepticism to Crop Science "
English | ISBN: 3031144139 | 2022 | 72 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Global food production and climate change among other concerns are societal issues that require major research input from crop science. While suggestions are abundant on how crop science can help to resolve these issues, many of the suggestions come from people who are not actually familiar with the challenges and requirements to modify crop plants grown under field conditions to achieve the necessary improvements. Efforts to alter a gene or even several genes have very rarely proven successful in having impact on crop production under realistic field conditions. This lack of success has not been addressed head on. This book serves as a reminder to crop scientists and others that open, clear-minded assessments of the entirety of evidence concerning a hypothesis is required before making claims of possible increases in crop performance. This attitude of skepticism is not a negative attitude but rather an employment of the cornerstone of scientific investigation based on formation and evaluation of hypotheses. Skeptical analyses are to be presented in the book on some of the common suggestions for improving crop plants. The six specific topics to be addressed are photosynthesis, seed number, nitrogen use efficiency, water use efficiency, crop water loss, and unconfirmed field observations. Each of the topics in this book, will first be reviewed to present the origins of the popular assumptions about how specific plant modification will result in improved crop performance. The review of the background information will be followed by an examination of the evidence, logic, and predicted outcomes for the assumed benefits of the modifications. Finally, each chapter will offer novel, alternate approaches to plant modification that have documented support for positively impacting crop performance. The book will not be written in specialized, detail language but offer access for those with a wide range of interests in options for increasing crop production in the future. The goal of the book is to provide information that is useful to those with interests ranging from climatologist to food-oriented sociologists. Of course, the topics covered will be of direct interest to those studying plant sciences, particularly crop scientists. The hope is to challenge a reader to re-examine some of her/his assumptions about crop improvement and approach the topic with a renewed practice of skepticism in formulating and evaluating hypotheses.
Brain Injury Medicine, Third Edition
by Zasler, Nathan D.;Katz, Douglas I.;Zafonte, Ross D.;, Douglas I. Katz, Ross D. Zafonte, David B. Arciniegas, M. Ross Bullock, Flora M. Hammond, Jeffrey S. Kreutzer, Risa Nakase-Richardson, Thomas K. Watanabe
English | 2022 | ISBN: 978-0826143044 | 1891 pages | True PDF EPUB | 398.86 MB
Bootstrapping Microservices with Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform, Second Edition (MEAP V06)
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781633438569 | 392 Pages | PDF EPUB | 20 MB
Taking a microservices application from proof of concept to production is a multi-step operation that relies on tools like Docker, Terraform, and Kubernetes. The best way to learn the whole process is to build a project from the ground up. That's exactly what you'll do in this book!
Birthing the Miraculous: The Power of Personal Encounters with God to Change Your Life and the World by Heidi Baker
English | ISBN: 1621362191 | 224 pages | EPUB | January 7, 2014 | 2.17 Mb
God has promised us miracles. Are you willing to do what it takes to see them through?
Biowaste and Biomass in Biofuel Applications
by Yashvir Singh
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032193581 | 313 pages | True PDF | 11.74 MB
Mukul S. Bansal, "Bioinformatics Research and Applications: 18th International Symposium, ISBRA 2022, Haifa, Israel, November 14-17, 2022,"
English | ISBN: 303123197X | 2022 | 404 pages | PDF | 39 MB
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2022, held in Haifa, Israel, in November 14-17, 2022.
Stevo Najman, "Bioceramics, Biomimetic and Other Compatible Materials Features for Medical Applications "
English | ISBN: 303117268X | 2023 | 424 pages | PDF | 16 MB
This book reports on advanced biomaterials such as bioceramics, hydrogels, biopolymers, nanomaterials, membranes, and other compatible materials for medical applications. It introduces materials as bioactive coatings that utilize or mimic natural mechanisms and structures important for tissue and organ healing and repair. One section of the book is devoted to bone substitutes and osteogenic biomaterials. It also describes biomaterial-cell-tissue interactions, which are of critical importance for various applications in regenerative medicine, orthopedics, and implant functions. The chapters present fabrication methods and testing of various materials for medical applications. Special emphasis is given to natural patterns, theoretical models, and new insights into material characterization, particularly on fractal natural boundaries and mimicry designs taken from nature and implemented in photonics science and engineering. This multidisciplinary book is written by leading researchers and experts in their fields, and serves researchers, students, physicians, and engineers.
Bio-Inspired Land Remediation
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031049306 | 891 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 34 MB
Land is fundamental to the human life. The upper layer of land is a non-renewable resource, and source of food. Therefore, land health is essential to long-term food security and to promote sustainable livelihoods. On account of urbanization, industrialization and population growth, land pollution is one of the major issues worldwide. As a result, land pollution is continuing across the world, and has been linked with a wide range of potentially toxic contaminants at rates that deteriorate land quality. Land pollution can result either anthropogenic activities or natural activities. The major contaminants of land pollution are metalloids, petroleum hydrocarbon, radioactive elements, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), Pesticide, other organic pollutants, etc. that comes from different types of sources. In urban and peri-urban areas, irrigation of agricultural land with polluted water is also a reason of land pollution. Therefore, land security is an important issue for future sustainability. Its remediation and management are important issue worldwide to protect land quality and functions. Land pollution means degradation of earth's surface. Polluted land comes under the category of degraded land. Hence, the remediation of polluted land is essential for regaining biodiversity and ecosystems services and thereby achieving United Nations-Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs).This fact showed the need to develop research into land remediation. Bio-inspired land remediation has undergone a huge development. Therefore, Biomanagement has a lot of potential to secure upper earth's surface through the land remediation programs targeted during the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030). This book explores the remediation of land pollution that includes Phytoremediation, Bioremediation (bacterial remediation and fungal remediation), Vermiremediation, Biochar-based remediation and other Bio-inspired remediation. This book will be a remarkable asset for research scholars, environmentalists, ecological scientist, agriculturist, practitioners, policy makers, entrepreneurs, and other stakeholders alike.
Robert Gardner, "Bicycle Science Fair Projects "
English | ISBN: 0766070166 | 2015 | pages | EPUB | 5 MB
From demonstrating gravitational pull to measuring speed and efficiency, your bicycle is a great tool to use when planning your next science fair project. Diagrams, detailed instructions, and photographs make these projects easy to do, earning you that prize at the science fair!
Ninik Suhartini, "Beyond the Informal: Understanding Self-Organized Kampungs in Indonesia "
English | ISBN: 3031222385 | 2023 | 190 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book provides a much-needed analysis of the pivotal role of the urban kampung in Indonesia's urbanization process and importantly, provides a deeper understanding of how these communities create their complex socio-physical environments through self-organization. The book challenges the current formal approaches and practices to modern planning in Indonesia where many kampungs are classed as illegal and excluded from city plans. Beyond informality unpacks via three case studies the self-generated planning and development arrangements and mechanisms which occur parallel to processes of formal exclusion, adaptation, negotiation and modification. Kampungs are posited as inseparable urban entities contributing to the complex assemblage of the city and the dynamics of contemporary urban planning and design.