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The Elephant's Secret Sense by Caitlin O'Connell
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:Caitlin O'Connell

10 Ivory Ghosts It does not require many words to speak the truth. —C HIEF JOSEPH, leader of the Nez Perce (1732–94) IT WASN ’T UNTIL 1998, three years after ...
( Category: Mammals March 16,2020 )
Hot Carbon by John F. Marra
epub |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:John F. Marra

I will return later to the subject of carbon-14 dating, involving much older dates than the Shroud of Turin, Ötzi, or the Bronze Age. To get a perspective on these ...
( Category: Oceanography March 16,2020 )
Ditch of Dreams by Steven Noll & David Tegeder
epub |eng | 2009-03-15 | Author:Steven Noll & David Tegeder

6 Floating Logs, Dying Trees, and Clogging Weeds During his legendary campaign for the United States Senate in 1970, Lawton Chiles walked the length of the state to take the ...
( Category: Environmental March 16,2020 )
Innumerable Insects by Michael S. Engel
epub |eng | | Author:Michael S. Engel

Flies are among the most ecologically varied of all insects, and some—such as the stalk-eyed flies (family Diopsidae), figured here among their relatives—are textbook examples of exaggerated male ornamentation resulting ...
( Category: Entomology March 16,2020 )
Real-Time Stability in Power Systems by Savu C. Savulescu
epub |eng | | Author:Savu C. Savulescu

Smed T, Andersson G, Sheblé GB, Grigsby LL (1991) A new approach to AC/DC power flow. IEEE Trans Power Syst 6(3):1238–1244CrossRef Stott B (1979) Power system dynamic response calculations. Proc ...
( Category: Engineering March 15,2020 )
50 Hikes in the North Georgia Mountains by Johnny Molloy
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Johnny Molloy

26 Sosebee Cove Trail TOTAL DISTANCE: 0.5 mile HIKING TIME: 1 hour VERTICAL RISE: 150 feet RATING: Easy MAPS: USGS 7.5’ Coosa Bald, Trails Illustrated #777: Springer & Cohutta Mountains ...
( Category: Running & Jogging March 15,2020 )
Most Good, Least Harm by Zoe Weil
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Zoe Weil

If one is concerned about chemicals in tap water, or heavy metals and bacteria in well water, it’s easy enough to install a countertop water filter, a far less expensive ...
( Category: Decorating March 15,2020 )
Electricity Markets by Sayyad Nojavan & Kazem Zare
epub |eng | | Author:Sayyad Nojavan & Kazem Zare

6.2 Uncertainty Modeling In this chapter, uncertain sources are split into two categories: electricity prices and renewable production. The price of electricity in various markets is the most substantial factor ...
( Category: Industries March 15,2020 )
Recycling Construction Demolition Waste: A LEED-Based Toolkit (GreenSource) by Greg Winkler
epub |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Greg Winkler

Identify the Markets Urban areas contain a well-developed network of recycling facilities, which can be located through directories published by the municipality, Web sites run by local nonprofits, builder’s exchanges, ...
( Category: Manufacturing March 15,2020 )
Quality Wars by JEREMY MAIN
epub |eng | 1994-07-15 | Author:JEREMY MAIN

CONCLUSIONS The stories of Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Milliken, Motorola, and Xerox (and Ford in the previous chapter) carry a clarion message for any organization attempting to travel along the TQM journey. ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 15,2020 )
Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass by Geddy Lee
epub |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Geddy Lee

KC:I want to say it was like ’90—the year that Freddie died. And I happened to walk into Norman’s shop, which is rare for me because it’s in the West ...
( Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects March 15,2020 )
Earthquake Prediction by David Nabhan
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:David Nabhan

Saturnian moon, Prometheus, discovered in 1980 (NASA). Chapter Eleven 4.5 Quintillion Joules Joseph Stalin can be faulted for any number of terrible shortcomings. That’s probably the kindest way to describe ...
( Category: Geophysics March 15,2020 )
Optimization of the Fuel Cell Renewable Hybrid Power Systems by Nicu Bizon
epub |eng | | Author:Nicu Bizon

4.8.2 WT Hybrid Power System The simulation diagram of the WT hybrid power system is presented in Fig. 4.39. The results are comparatively presented for both GaPESC and PESC schemes, ...
( Category: Economics March 15,2020 )
Unleashing Your Dog by Marc Bekoff
epub |eng | | Author:Marc Bekoff

DOGS ALSO NEED ALONE TIME If you have a dog with separation anxiety, this enhancement might make you chuckle (or perhaps cry). But just like people, dogs may want to ...
( Category: Horses March 15,2020 )
Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Systems (BIPVS) by Andrés Julián Aristizábal Cardona Carlos Arturo Páez Chica & Daniel Hernán Ospina Barragán
epub |eng | | Author:Andrés Julián Aristizábal Cardona, Carlos Arturo Páez Chica & Daniel Hernán Ospina Barragán

(5.2) In order to carry out the sizing of this equipment, the generator-inverter relative size is defined so that the photovoltaic generator is oversized between 0.8 and 1 with respect ...
( Category: Architecture March 15,2020 )

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