Science Technology category: 45382 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Offers a comprehensive overview of membrane science and technology from a single source
Written by a renowned author with more than 40 years’ experience in membrane science and technology, and polymer science
Covers all major current applications of membrane technology in two definitive volumes
Includes...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this study provides unique information about the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), which is the Department of the Army's corporate laboratory, strategically placed within the Army Materiel Command (AMC), an institutional...
by Richard Kittler, Miroslav Kocifaj, Stanislav Darula
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2011
Sunlight profoundly influences the Earth's atmosphere and biosphere. Nature fuels the evolution of all living things, their visual systems, and the manner in which they adapt, accommodate, and habituate.
Sun luminance measurements serve as data to calculate typical changes in the daily, monthly,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2009
Enrobed and filled confectionery and bakery products, such as praline-style chocolates, confectionery bars and chocolate-coated biscuits and ice-creams, are popular with consumers. The coating and filling can negatively affect product quality and shelf-life, but with the correct product design and...
Water Is ...
The Indispensability of Water in Society and Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
People are increasingly aware of the role that water has in shaping society and how it impacts quality of life. This is the first book to provide a holistic perspective on water, capturing the full breadth of the science, technology, policy, history, and future outlook for the most important substance...
The Nature of Technology
What It Is and How It Evolves
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
“More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being,” says W. Brian Arthur. Yet despite technology’s irrefutable importance in our daily lives, until now its major questions have gone unanswered. Where do new technologies come from?...
Physics and Technology for Future Presidents
An Introduction to the Essential Physics Every World Leader Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Physics and Technology for Future Presidents contains the essential physics that students need in order to understand today's core science and technology issues, and to become the next generation of world leaders. From the physics of energy to climate change, and from spy technology to quantum computers,...
Comparing High Technology Firms in Developed and Developing Countries
Cluster Growth Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Clusters are geographic concentrations of interconnected companies, specialized suppliers, service providers, and associated institutions in a particular field that are present in a nation or region. The development and upgrading of clusters is an important agenda for governments, companies, and other...
The The Social Construction of Technological Systems
New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
This pioneering book, first published in 1987, launched the new field of social studies of technology. It introduced a method of inquiry--social construction of technology, or SCOT--that became a key part of the wider discipline of science and technology studies. The book helped the MIT Press shape...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
In 1915, with Europe in flames, Americans looked anxiously over their shoulders, wondering whether they, too, would be pulled into the "Great War" raging across an ever-narrower Atlantic Ocean. Conversations that year between Thomas Alva Edison and Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
This compilation of four important reports by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) provides a complete, detailed overview of the progress made by the National Nanotechnology Initiative. The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) is a crosscutting Federal program...
Adventures from the Technology Underground
Catapults, Pulsejets, Rail Guns, Flamethrowers, Tesla Coils, Air Cannons, and the Garage Warriors Who Love Them
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
The technology underground is a thriving, humming, and often literally scintillating subculture of amateur inventors and scientific envelope-pushers who dream up, design, and build machines that whoosh, rumble, fly—and occasionally hurl pumpkins across enormous distances. In the process they astonish...
by Sina Ebnesajjad, Arthur H. Landrock
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Covering a wide range of industrial applications across sectors including medical applications, automotive/aerospace, packaging, electronics, and consumer goods, this book provides a complete guide to the selection of adhesives, methods of use, industrial applications, and the fundamentals of adhesion....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
State-of-the-art developments in multiple new technologies for older adult care
Grounded in a unique team-based geriatrics perspective, this book delivers a broad range of current, evidence-based knowledge about innovative technology that has the potential to advance the care and well being...