Rib Hillis and Eric Roberts stars in this low-budget sci-fi action feature. An explosion at a mine in Montana inadvertently unleashes a group of fearsome prehistoric dinosaurs that proceed to cause havoc on the nearby town. Cowboy Val Walker (Hillis), who has returned home to get a job and hopefully reunite with his ex-girlfriend Sky (Casey Fitzgerald), teams up with his estranged dad Trent (Roberts) and tries to use his rodeo skills to fight off the giant predators before they completely destroy the town.

This volume deals with the European species of the family Sepsidae, a small family of acalyptrate flies. The taxonomy, biology and faunistics of all the European species are revised with emphasis on the Fennoscandian species, and the detailed distribution of the species known from Fennoscandia, the adjacent areas of Russia, Germany and Great Britain is tabulated in a catalogue. Keys are given to generic level for eggs, larvae and adults, and to species for the adults. Descriptions of the adults are provided for genera and species, together with diagnostic notes on the immature stages. The distribution and biology of the European species is summarized, and the results of extensive type-studies are presented. Illustrations are given of the male fore legs and genitalia of all the European species, and also of other characters of diagnostic importance for the egg, larval and adult stages. Nine genera and 44 species are dealt with, and one new species is described.

Multiferroics, materials with a coexistence of magnetic and ferroelectric order, provide an efficient route for the control of magnetism by electric fields. The authors cover multiferroic thin-film heterostructures, device architectures and domain/interface effects. They critically discuss achievements as well as limitations and assess opportunities for future applications.

This book provides a new approach to the control of food transformation processes, emphasizing the advantage of considering the system as a multivariable one, and taking a holistic approach to the decision-making process in the plant, considering not only the technical but also the economic implications of these decisions. In addition, it presents a hierarchical structure for the global control of the plant, and includes appropriate techniques for each of the control layers. The book addresses the challenges of modeling food transformation processes, using both traditional system-identification techniques and, where these prove impractical, models based on expert knowledge and using fuzzy systems. The construction of optimal controllers for each of these types of models is also discussed, as a means to close a feedback loop on the higher-level outputs of the process. Finally, the problem of production planning is covered from two standpoints: the traditional batch-sizing problem, and the planning of production throughout the season. Systematic season-wide production planning is built upon the models constructed for the control of the plant, and incorporates market- and business-specific information. Examples based on the processing of various foodstuffs help to illustrate the text throughout, while the book's closing chapter presents a case study on advances in the processing of olive oil. Given its scope, the book will primarily be of interest to two groups of readers: food engineering practitioners and students, who are familiar with the characteristics of food processes but have little or no background in control engineering; and control engineering researchers, students and practitioners, whose situation is just the opposite, and who wish to learn more about food engineering and its specific challenges for control. Advances in Industrial Control reports and encourages the transfer of technology in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of new work in all aspects of industrial control.

This monograph lays down the foundations of the theory of complex Kleinian groups, a newly born area of mathematics whose origin traces back to the work of Riemann, Poincare, Picard and many others. Kleinian groups are, classically, discrete groups of conformal automorphisms of the Riemann sphere, and these can be regarded too as being groups of holomorphic automorphisms of the complex projective line CP1. When going into higher dimensions, there is a dichotomy: Should we look at conformal automorphisms of the n-sphere?, or should we look at holomorphic automorphisms of higher dimensional complex projective spaces? These two theories are different in higher dimensions. In the first case we are talking about groups of isometries of real hyperbolic spaces, an area of mathematics with a long-standing tradition. In the second case we are talking about an area of mathematics that still is in its childhood, and this is the focus of study in this monograph. This brings together several important areas of mathematics, as for instance classical Kleinian group actions, complex hyperbolic geometry, chrystallographic groups and the uniformization problem for complex manifolds. "

Both educators and their students are involved in the process of assessment - all parties are expected to meet and exceed expectations in the face of competing conditions. New practices are being developed to enhance students' participation, especially in their own assessment, be it though peer-review, reflective assessment, the introduction of new technologies, or other novel solutions. Though widely researched, few have measured these innovations' effectiveness in terms of satisfaction, perceived learning, or performance improvements. Innovative Practices for Higher Education Assessment and Measurement bridges the gap between political discourse, theoretical approach, and teaching practices in terms of assessment in higher education. Bringing new insights and presenting novel strategies, this publication brings forth a new perception of the importance of assessment and offers a set of successful, innovative practices. This book is ideal for educators, administrators, policy makers, and students of education.

LA COSA MAS BELLA QUE PODEMOS VIVENCIAR ES EL MISTERIO LA FUENTE DE TODAS LAS ARTES Y CIENCIAS VERDADERAS (ALBERT EINSTEIN) ES INTERESANTE SABER NUESTRA FORMA DE PENSAR, QUE QUEREMOS SABER, QUE SIGNIFICADO ES PARA CADA UNO DE NOSOTROS LOS CONCEPTOS QUE EXISTEN EN MATERIA (PARANORMAL, ESOTERICO, MISTICO, OCULTO) PERO, QUE DE NOSOTROS MISMOS? TE HAS PREGUNTADO ALGUNA VES EN QUE CREES, QUE ES LO QUE MAS TE IMPORTA, QUE ES LO QUE TE PARECE INTERESANTE, PUES BIEN DEBES SER SINCERO Y RESPONDERTE A ESTA INTERROGANTE ?DONDE Y QUE ES LA MENTE, DONDE LA TENGO, EN QUE ESPACIO DE MI SER SE ENCUENTRA, TIENES ALGUN LUGAR ESPECIFICO, QUE TE DE LA SEGURIDAD DE UBICARLA, DE SENTIRLA DE COMPRENDERLA, ACASO LA TOCAS, ACASO LA VES, O SOLO ES ALGO QUE CREES SABER, PUEDES CAMBIAR ESTE CONCEPTO YA QUE ESTOY SEGURA QUE NO LA VES NO LA TOCAS NO LA SIENTES, PERO ESTA PRESENTE, NO QUIERO DARTE MI RESPUESTA YA QUE ESTA ES SOLO TUYA, ES PERSONAL, CONSIDERANDO TU SER DESDE TU EDUCACION TUS VALORES TU RELIGION, QUIEN ERES TU Y QUE QUIERES CREER...PUES BIEN, UNA VES QUE YA TIENES TU RESPUESTA DE LO QUE PARA TI REPRESENTA LA MENTE, TE VOY A LLEVAR POR UN MUNDO FASCINANTE QUE TE AYUDARA SI TU QUIERES A COMPRENDER Y ENCAUSAR TU PROPIA VIDA, QUERIDO LECTOR MI PRINCIPAL OBJETIVO DE ESTE LIBRO ES ENTENDER A ESTE SER LLAMADO MENTE .....

This book offers the reader an integrated point of view of fertilization in the animal kingdom. As the research at the molecular and cellular level is scarce compared to the huge diversity of animal species, for each phylum or class representative species have been chosen. Each phylum/class begins with a general description of the sexual and asexual reproduction strategies of the respective species, followed by a description of the reproductive cycle as well as of its reproductive system. The main focus is on the cellular and molecular aspects of fertilization of all the selected representative species, and the book is fully illustrated with photographs and drawings to facilitate understanding.