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This book takes a unique interdisciplinary approach to the planned
return of humans to the Moon. With the Artemis Project, the US and
its partners have planned an ambitious project with the creation of
the Lunar Gateway, to be followed by the landing of the first woman
and next man on the Moon. This book explains that the Artemis
project then forms the basis of planned sustained human missions to
Mars. Russia and China have also announced their intentions to
establish a permanent base on the Moon and have commenced the
deployment of modules which will form part of this project. This
book states that whilst there has been a permanent human presence
in Low Earth Orbit since 2000, with the continued crew rotation on
the International Space Station, perhaps the most successful
international collaboration of modern times, the establishment of a
base on the Moon will generate new challenges for human survival
and success. The continued human presence on the space station has
provided an incredible opportunity to observe and study the effect
of being in space upon the human body and the human psyche. In
addition, this book explores that it has provided the scope and
context for a vast range of scientific experiments. Now that it has
become likely that more humans will need to live and work in space
for sustained periods of time, it is essential that we consider
matters beyond the engineering questions of how we go to space to
the broader questions of how we will live there? What will we need?
What will the effects of sustained living in space be for us,
emotionally, cognitively, physically and how do we need to consider
the impact we will have on the environment to which we are
travelling. This book is unique in that, not only does it bring
together a diverse yet complementary set of expertise, but it also
consciously brings those different experts together in jointly
authored chapters, mirroring the way we will have to work together
as teams of diverse experts in space. It creates interwoven
chapters co-written by various teams of psychologists, lawyers,
engineers, regulators, policy experts, architects and cultural
studies experts. This book will enable the fielding and addressing
of the difficult questions that need to be considered before space
habitation may be a successful and sustained mode of existence.
This book fills a gap in the area of space studies which tends to
focus on narrow, discipline specific issues. It provides a
thought-provoking launchpad for further work in this area and above
all, stresses the needs of the human in a hostile environment.
This ambitious publication, now revised and expanded, dissects
fifty-five modern masterpieces through specially commissioned
freehand drawings that reveal the principles and details of what
makes a building meaningful and enduring. Covering six continents,
and ranging from residences to opera houses, influential buildings
of the past seven decades are analysed through detailed
consideration of their key characteristics - site and surroundings,
space and massing, programme and circulation, fenestration and use
of natural light - to give an insight into how each design works as
a cohesive whole. Appealing to architects, students and everyone
who appreciates great buildings, The Elements of Modern
Architecture is an essential reference and inspiration for
generations to come.
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Bioethics (Paperback)
Aveek Ghosh, Karan Sharma, Amit Srivastava
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R999
Discovery Miles 9 990
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Insect resources are vast and diverse due to their massive
diversity. The exploitation and utilization of insect resources is
classified into different categories. The most important among them
are the insects of industrial resources which include the
utilization of silkworm, honeybee, lac insect and dye insect.
Although there are several stages of sericulture from soil to silk,
one of the important stages is the technology of feeding of the
silkworm. In recent years some antimicrobial agents have been used
in sericulture industry as a diet supplement for controlling of
silkworm diseases and to improve the production of silk. The
antibiotic feed supplementation not only prevents infections caused
by pathogens but also enhanced economic parameters in silkworm,
Bombyx mori. Antibiotics administration showed promising results in
harvesting better crop and controlling the silkworm diseases to a
significant level. The bond between antibiotics and silkworm is
further strengthened by the current use of silkworm in drug
screening and pathogen studies system due to its short larval
duration and ethically acceptable model.
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