Civil & Environmental
mobi |eng | 2012-04-27 | Author:Winer, Ethan [Winer, Ethan]

Figure 10.6: This file contains the same impulse three times in a row. The second version used a linear phase equalizer to apply 18 dB of boost at 300 Hz ...
( Category: Instruction & Study May 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Marteel-Parrish, Anne E.; Abraham, Martin A.; & MARTIN A. ABRAHAM

Aspartame was discovered by accident by Jim Schlatter, a chemist at G.D. Searle in 1965. Jim Schlatter was working on drugs for the treatment of gastric ulcers when he spilled ...
( Category: Environmental May 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-30 | Author:Edward O. Wilson

An ivory-billed woodpecker. (From James C. Greenway Jr., Extinct and Vanishing Birds [New York: American Committee for International Wildlife Protection, 1958], p. 358.) A new and already world famous Lazarus ...
( Category: Environmental May 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Darrin Lunde

Theodore Roosevelt (left) on the cowcatcher of a train used by the Smithsonian African Expedition in Kenya. R. J. Cuninghame (center) was Roosevelt’s professional hunting guide, and Dr. Edgar Mearns ...
( Category: Wildlife April 14,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Stefanie Iris Weiss [Weiss, Stefanie Iris]

Music, Sweet Music A 2008 study conducted by Dr. Michael Miller, director of preventative cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, reported that blood vessel diameter improved ...
( Category: Environmental April 2,2016 )
azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Moehle, Jack [Moehle, Jack]

FIGURE 10.3 Punching shear failures at (a) interior and (b) exterior connections. (After Hwang and Moehle, 2000a.) 10.3 Slab-Column Systems Modern concrete building construction commonly uses two forms of slab-column ...
( Category: Structural March 1,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:George Monbiot [Monbiot, George]

10 The Hushings . . . the smashed faces Of the farms with the stone trickle Of their tears down the hills’ side. R. S. Thomas Reservoirs Of all the ...
( Category: Environmental February 29,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:William Souder [Souder, William]

The “safety” of a pesticide is a relative question, as the toxicity of any substance depends on the dose and the route of exposure. Calling a compound an “insecticide” identifies ...
( Category: Environmental February 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-20 | Author:John Thackara

8 CARING: FROM CURE TO CARE, FROM ME TO WE I was emboldened, upon arriving at the Mayo Clinic’s Centre for Innovation, to learn from the conference host that ‘people ...
( Category: Environmental February 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-09 | Author:Jon Wilkman [Wilkman, Jon]

10. Los Angeles on Trial Nine days after the St. Francis flood ebbed into the Pacific, accusations of a link between the disaster and a dynamite plot headlined newspapers and ...
( Category: Environmental February 15,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-10 | Author:David Blockley [Blockley, David]

A third possible behaviour of the tower is that the friction between the bricks is so great that the top brick doesn’t slide but eventually starts to rotate about an ...
( Category: Structural January 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-26 | Author:Wood, David Muir [Wood, David Muir]

New Orleans 2005 It wasn’t the miles of buildings stripped of their shingles and their windows caved in or the streets awash with floating trash or the live oaks that ...
( Category: Civil & Environmental January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-21 | Author:David Blockley [Blockley, David]

Michael Faraday (1791–1867) was the pupil of Sir Humphry Davy and his successor as head of the Royal Institution in London. He was a chemist and a great experimental physicist ...
( Category: Structural January 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:Ted Koppel [Koppel, Ted]

13 The Ark Builders It’s like the ants and the grasshoppers, and how they froze to death because they didn’t prepare. — ALAN MATHENY, PREPPER For the most part, public ...
( Category: Electric November 7,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Grondzik, Walter T., Kwok, Alison G. [Grondzik, Walter T., Kwok, Alison G.]

924 Chapter 19 Water Supply Pump house Hinman Creek Drip irrigation Canal irrigation Ancient oak Site Diagram Wappo Indian Period 18th C. 19th C. 20th C. Xeriscape meadow ( a) ...
( Category: Design & Construction October 17,2015 )