Engineering & Transportation
epub |eng | 2018-09-20 | Author:Lane, Nick;

1 How do we reconcile Max Rubner’s exponent of 2/3 with Max Kleiber’s 3/4? The usual answer is that within species the metabolic rate does indeed vary with 2/3, and ...
( Category: Cell Biology January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-02-16 | Author:James Meese

What’s in a Name? Regulating User-Generated Content At first glance, the Canadian UGC exception appears to be a clever piece of legal reform. Copyright law needs to respond to the ...
( Category: Canadian January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-06 | Author:Sternberg, Robert J.

( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-26 | Author:Robert Plomin

12 The DNA fortune teller It has been known for decades that the heritability of psychological disorders and dimensions is caused by many DNA differences, not just one or two ...
( Category: Developmental Biology January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Dieter Helm [Helm, Dieter]

China’s economic model An export-led growth strategy requires others to have a corresponding demand for imports. The Chinese transformation just happened to coincide with the great late-twentieth-century boom in the ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-21 | Author:Donn Eisele,Francis French [Eisele, Donn]

8. The Grandeur of Earth I watched the earth roll past the spaceship windows. Earth is a fascinating thing to watch from two hundred miles up. We managed to put ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-28 | Author:Katrina Forrester

7 New Right and Left BY THE END of the 1970s, the New Right had arrived.1 Under the Reagan administration, state-sponsored financial deregulation and the turn to global capital markets ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:McCartin, Joseph A.; [McCartin, Joseph A.;]

REAGAN’S PROMISE As his team perfected a contingency plan tight enough to defeat a national strike in 1981, one thought haunted Langhorne Bond: would President Jimmy Carter have the nerve ...
( Category: Airport January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-25 | Author:Sarah T. Roberts [Roberts, Sarah T.]

Social Media Expertise as Brand Protection Although the firm began as a strictly commercial content moderation operation, offering its services to news and media companies challenged by the comments sections ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Patel, Kiran Klaus; [Patel, Kiran Klaus;]

BROADENING SECURITY Power to the People While many parts of the 1935 New Deal legislation only affected small pockets of society, the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) had a far-reaching impact ...
( Category: Comparative Politics January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-02 | Author:Hugh White [White, Hugh]

Interoperability Few ideas drive so much spending with so little thought as interoperability. Interoperability refers to designing our forces so they can operate alongside other countries’ forces, especially our closest ...
( Category: Comparative Politics January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-04 | Author:Jim Thatcher, Josef Eckert [Jim Thatcher, Josef Eckert]

Fig. 7-1. From left to right: Foursquare homepage showing locations of friends; Foursquare profile page; Foursquare check-in screen showing nearby locations. Courtesy of Emily Fekete. While Foursquare is an excellent ...
( Category: Information Systems January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Zallen, Jeremy;

Filling and dipping a frame. Children filled these frames layer by layer at incredible speeds, slotting splint after splint into grooves cut in the wooden strips strung and stacked across ...
( Category: History of Technology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:James C. Scott [Scott, James C.]

Figure 12. Prisoners in neck fetters. Photo courtesy of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad, Dr. Ahmed Kamel A curious confirmation of the conditions of slave and enslaved debtors in Ur III ...
( Category: Assyria, Babylonia & Sumer January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-02 | Author:Antulio J. Echevarria II

Chapter 5 Terror and terrorism “Terror is a psychological weapon of unbelievable power,” claimed Jacques Soustelle, the governor general of Algeria during its bloody war of independence (1954–1962). “Before the ...
( Category: Engineering January 19,2020 )