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Officially endorsed by OCR, this inspiring student book has been
carefully designed to match the new OCR A Level Geology
specification and has been written by experienced Geology authors
and teachers. // Its engaging visual style and clear explanations
support and motivate you throughout the course and help you
thoroughly prepare for your assessments // Highly illustrated with
large, clear diagrams and a wide range of geological photographs to
illustrate the key information and content. // Case studies and key
term definitions help you connect theory and reality, allowing you
to apply your understanding of earth science to the examination. //
Contains support for the mathematics component of the course
throughout to help you develop your maths skills. // Includes
practice questions with answers to test your knowledge and help
introduce you to the new assessment criteria. //
The English astronomer Richard A. Proctor was already a well-known
populariser of science when he published Other Worlds Than Ours in
1870, joining a ferocious debate about the possibility of life on
other planets in which Whewell (1853) and Brewster (1854) had also
participated. Taking his cue from the seventeenth-century French
astronomer Fontenelle's classic book The Plurality of Worlds,
Proctor discusses Victorian discoveries about the solar system and
describes what was then known about each of the planets. He
evaluates the habitability of Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus and
Saturn in the light of his belief in the possibility of
extraterrestrial life. The text includes many illustrations of the
planets, a spectacular map of Mars, and theoretical views of the
Milky Way. Influenced by Darwin, Proctor had a teleological view of
the universe and believed that eventually the cosmos would be
filled with living things.
The complexity of modern computer networks and systems, combined
with the extremely dynamic environments in which they operate, is
beginning to outpace our ability to manage them. Taking yet another
page from the biomimetics playbook, the autonomic computing
paradigm mimics the human autonomic nervous system to free system
developers and administrators from performing and overseeing
low-level tasks. Surveying the current path toward this paradigm,
Autonomic Computing: Concepts, Infrastructure, and Applications
offers a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research and
implementations in this emerging area. This book begins by
introducing the concepts and requirements of autonomic computing
and exploring the architectures required to implement such a
system. The focus then shifts to the approaches and
infrastructures, including control-based and recipe-based concepts,
followed by enabling systems, technologies, and services proposed
for achieving a set of "self-*" properties, including
self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization, and
self-protection. In the final section, examples of real-world
implementations reflect the potential of emerging autonomic
systems, such as dynamic server allocation and runtime
reconfiguration and repair. Collecting cutting-edge work and
perspectives from leading experts, Autonomic Computing: Concepts,
Infrastructure, and Applications reveals the progress made and
outlines the future challenges still facing this exciting and
dynamic field.
Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors
presents leading-edge research that focuses on design methodology,
infrastructure support and scalable architectures developed by the
150 million dollar DARPA United States Department of Defense RASSP
Program. The contributions to this edited work include an
introductory overview chapter that explains the origin, concepts
and status of this effort. The RASSP Program is a multi-year
DARPA/Tri-Service initiative intended to dramatically improve the
process by which complex digital systems, particularly embedded
signal processors, are designed, manufactured, upgraded and
supported. This program was originally driven by military
applications for signal processing. The requirements of military
applications for real-time signal processing are typically more
demanding than those of commercial applications, but the time gap
between technology employed in advanced military prototypes and
commercial products is narrowing rapidly. The research on
methodologies, infrastructure and architectures presented in this
book is applicable to commercial signal processing systems that are
in design now, or will be developed before the end of the decade.
Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors is a
valuable reference for developers of embedded digital systems,
particularly systems engineers for signal processing systems (such
as digital TV, biomedical image processing systems and
telecommunications) and for military contractors who are developing
signal processing systems. This book will also be of interest to
managers who are charged with responsibility for creating and
maintaining environments and infrastructures for developing large
embedded digital systems. The chief value for managers will be the
defining of methods and processes that reduce development time and
cost.
Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors
presents leading-edge research that focuses on design methodology,
infrastructure support and scalable architectures developed by the
150 million dollar DARPA United States Department of Defense RASSP
Program. The contributions to this edited work include an
introductory overview chapter that explains the origin, concepts
and status of this effort. The RASSP Program is a multi-year
DARPA/Tri-Service initiative intended to dramatically improve the
process by which complex digital systems, particularly embedded
signal processors, are designed, manufactured, upgraded and
supported. This program was originally driven by military
applications for signal processing. The requirements of military
applications for real-time signal processing are typically more
demanding than those of commercial applications, but the time gap
between technology employed in advanced military prototypes and
commercial products is narrowing rapidly. The research on
methodologies, infrastructure and architectures presented in this
book is applicable to commercial signal processing systems that are
in design now, or will be developed before the end of the decade.
Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors is a
valuable reference for developers of embedded digital systems,
particularly systems engineers for signal processing systems (such
as digital TV, biomedical image processing systems and
telecommunications) and for military contractors who are developing
signal processing systems. This book will also be of interest to
managers who are charged with responsibility for creating and
maintaining environments and infrastructures for developing large
embedded digital systems. The chief value for managers will be the
defining of methods and processes that reduce development time and
cost.
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Goodnight Ship (Hardcover)
Richard Anthony Martinez; Illustrated by Matt Pikarsky
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Periods of environmental hypoxia (Low Oxygen Availability) are
extremely common in aquatic systems due to both natural causes such
as diurnal oscillations in algal respiration, seasonal flooding,
stratification, under ice cover in lakes, and isolation of densely
vegetated water bodies, as well as more recent anthropogenic causes
(e.g. eutrophication). In view of this, it is perhaps not
surprising that among all vertebrates, fish boast the largest
number of hypoxia tolerant species; hypoxia has clearly played an
important role in shaping the evolution of many unique adaptive
strategies. These unique adaptive strategies either allow fish to
maintain function at low oxygen levels, thus extending hypoxia
tolerance limits, or permit them to defend against the metabolic
consequences of oxygen levels that fall below a threshold where
metabolic functions cannot be maintained.
The aim of this volume is two-fold. First, this book will review
and synthesize the adaptive behavioural, morphological,
physiological, biochemical, and molecular strategies used by fish
to survive hypoxia exposure and place them within an environmental
and ecological context. Second, through the development of a
synthesis chapter this book will serve as the cornerstone for
directing future research into the effects of hypoxia exposures on
fish physiology and biochemistry.
Key Features
* The only single volume available to provide an in-depth
discussion of the adaptations and responses of fish to
environmental hypoxia.
* Reviews and synthesizes the adaptive behavioural, morphological,
physiological, biochemical, and molecular strategies used by fish
to survive hypoxia exposure.
* Includes discussion of the evolutionary and ecological
consequences of hypoxia exposure in fish.
Nunavut is a land of islands, encompassing some of the most remote
places on Earth. It is also home to some of the world's most
fascinating bird species. Birds of Nunavut is the first complete
survey of every species known to occur in the territory. Co-written
by a team of eighteen experts, it documents 295 species of birds
(of which 145 are known to breed there), presenting a wealth of
information on identification, distribution, ecology, behaviour,
and conservation. Lavishly illustrated with over 800 colour
photographs and 155 maps, this is a visually stunning reference
work on the birds that live in and visit Nunavut.
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The Darkness of Glass (CD)
Justin Richards; Illustrated by Anthony Lamb; Read by Tom Baker, Louise Jameson
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This range of two-part audio dramas stars Tom Baker reprising his
most popular role as the Fourth Doctor (from 1974 - 1981) with a
number of his original TV companions. Cut off from the TARDIS, the
Doctor and Leela find themselves stranded on a small island. But
they are not alone. It is 1907, and members of the Caversham
Society have gathered on the hundredth anniversary of the death of
Mannering Caversham, the greatest Magic Lanternist who ever lived.
But Caversham was also a supernaturalist who claimed to have
conjured up a demon from the depths of hell. As people start to
die, the Doctor begins to wonder if Caversham's story might have
more than a grain of truth in it. Can the Doctor and Leela discover
what really happened to Caversham a century ago? And if they do,
will they live to tell the tale...? The fourth series in a Big
Finish range which is hugely popular with fans of the classic TV
series Doctor Who. Writer Justin Richards has not only written Big
Finish scripts and BBC novels, but is the writer behind The
Invisible Detective children's books. As well as Doctor Who, Louise
Jameson has been seen in Bergerac, Eastenders, and many other UK
shows. Cast: Tom Baker (The Doctor), Louise Jameson (Leela), Mark
Lewis Jones (Professor Oliver Mortlake), Julian Wadham (Joseph
Holman), Sinead Keenan (Mary Summersby), Rory Keenan (David Lacey).
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Chance and Luck
Richard Anthony Proctor
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Chance and Luck
Richard Anthony Proctor
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