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A Place for Rain
Michelle Schaub; Illustrated by Blanca Gómez
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R456
R368
Discovery Miles 3 680
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Pitter-patter, splutter-splatter, drizzle turns to roar. . . .
DOWNPOUR! But where do all those raindrops go? Dirty stormwater
runoff can cause big problems, polluting rivers, ponds, and
waterways. So this classroom plans and builds a rain garden,
collecting excess water in barrels, creating paths for waterflow
with stones and bricks, and planting native flowers and grasses
that help the water percolate and invite wildlife to feed and
pollinate. With Michelle Schaub’s lively, engaging storytelling,
and Blanca Gómez’s bright, beguiling illustrations, A Place for
Rain provides an upbeat and actionable approach to an important
environmental issue, and empowers readers with the tools to reduce
pollution, diminish flooding, and create a habitat for wildlife.
Informational backmatter includes instructions and resources for
readers to build their own rain garden.
While several available texts discuss molded plastic optics, none
provide information on all classes of molded optics. Filling this
gap, Molded Optics: Design and Manufacture presents detailed
descriptions of molded plastic, glass, and infrared optics. Since
an understanding of the manufacturing process is necessary to
develop cost-effective, producible designs, the book extensively
covers various manufacturing methods, design guidelines,
trade-offs, best practices, and testing of critical parameters. It
also discusses topics that often arise when designing systems with
molded optics, such as mitigating stray light and mating systems by
eye. The first three chapters of the book focus on subjects
important to the design of systems using molded optics: optical
design, visual optics, and stray light. Following these background
chapters, the text provides in-depth information on the design and
manufacture of molded plastic optics, molded glass optics, and
molded infrared optics. The final chapter on testing emphasizes the
special characteristics of molded optics. Experts in their
particular areas, the authors draw on their considerable knowledge
and real-world experiences to give a thorough account of the design
and manufacture of molded plastic, glass, and infrared optics. The
book will help readers improve their ability to develop systems
that employ molded optics.
While several available texts discuss molded plastic optics, none
provide information on all classes of molded optics. Filling this
gap, Molded Optics: Design and Manufacture presents detailed
descriptions of molded plastic, glass, and infrared optics. Since
an understanding of the manufacturing process is necessary to
develop cost-effective, producible designs, the book extensively
covers various manufacturing methods, design guidelines,
trade-offs, best practices, and testing of critical parameters. It
also discusses topics that often arise when designing systems with
molded optics, such as mitigating stray light and mating systems by
eye. The first three chapters of the book focus on subjects
important to the design of systems using molded optics: optical
design, visual optics, and stray light. Following these background
chapters, the text provides in-depth information on the design and
manufacture of molded plastic optics, molded glass optics, and
molded infrared optics. The final chapter on testing emphasizes the
special characteristics of molded optics. Experts in their
particular areas, the authors draw on their considerable knowledge
and real-world experiences to give a thorough account of the design
and manufacture of molded plastic, glass, and infrared optics. The
book will help readers improve their ability to develop systems
that employ molded optics.
Integrated Population Models: Theory and Ecological Applications
with R and JAGS is the first book on integrated population models,
which constitute a powerful framework for combining multiple data
sets from the population and the individual levels to estimate
demographic parameters, and population size and trends. These
models identify drivers of population dynamics and forecast the
composition and trajectory of a population. Written by two
population ecologists with expertise on integrated population
modeling, this book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the
relevant theory of integrated population models with an extensive
overview of practical applications, using Bayesian methods by means
of case studies. The book contains fully-documented, complete code
for fitting all models in the free software, R and JAGS. It also
includes all required code for pre- and post-model-fitting
analysis. Integrated Population Models is an invaluable reference
for researchers and practitioners involved in population analysis,
and for graduate-level students in ecology, conservation biology,
wildlife management, and related fields. The text is ideal for
self-study and advanced graduate-level courses.
Bayesian statistics has exploded into biology and its
sub-disciplines, such as ecology, over the past decade. The free
software program WinBUGS, and its open-source sister OpenBugs, is
currently the only flexible and general-purpose program available
with which the average ecologist can conduct standard and
non-standard Bayesian statistics.
Comprehensive and richly commented examples illustrate a wide range
of models that are most relevant to the research of a modern
population ecologistAll WinBUGS/OpenBUGS analyses are completely
integrated in software RIncludes complete documentation of "all" R
and WinBUGS code required to conduct analyses and shows "all" the
necessary steps from having the data in a text file out of Excel to
interpreting and processing the output from WinBUGS in R
Molding processes continue to innovate and push the boundaries of
optical systems, not only for state-of-the-art, high-volume
consumer products but also touching on almost every application
where optics are used, from automotive headlights and medical
endoscopes to thermal weapon sights for the warfighter. The most
common optical molding technologies are injection molding of
optical plastics and precision glass molding. This Field Guide
primarily focuses on these two technologies but also covers the
full spectrum of optical molding. It provides a convenient and
concise source of knowledge on optical molding technologies and
will be a valuable addition to a publication base that is rather
limited.
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