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  • How to Obtain Abundant Clean Energy How to Obtain Abundant Clean Energy
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    How to Obtain Abundant Clean Energy

    The Three Mile Island accident, the periodic occurrence of long gas lines until sufficient price increases are achieved, our dependence on foreign powers for a large fraction of our energy supply, and continual controversy in...
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  • The Brain and Regulation of Eye Movement The Brain and Regulation of Eye Movement
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    The Brain and Regulation of Eye Movement

    Dr. Shakhnovich brought out the original Russian edition of this work in 1974. Fully half of that book was concerned with his own studies of eye movements. These included observations on patients with neuromuscular disorders...
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  • Computer-Aided Engineering for Manufacture Computer-Aided Engineering for Manufacture
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    Computer-Aided Engineering for Manufacture

    The development of the 'factory of the future' by major international corporations such as General Motors, IBM, Westinghouse, etc now involves many practising engineers. This book is an attempt to identify and describe some of...
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  • Tractor-Implement Systems Tractor-Implement Systems
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    Tractor-Implement Systems

    Agriculture has benefited considerably from the wide-scale use of tractors and associated implements. Tractors have developed along two, at times contradictory, design paths. The first of these has resulted in functional...
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  • Computing Techniques for Robots Computing Techniques for Robots
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    Computing Techniques for Robots

    I. ALEKSANDER Kobler Unit for Information Technology Management, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England It is now over half a decade since Joseph Engelberger wrote: 'Given a six-articulation arm of any...
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  • Walking Machines Walking Machines
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    Walking Machines

    The first chapter of this book traces the history of the development of walking machines from the original ideas of man-amplifiers and military rough-ground transport to today's diverse academic and industrial research and...
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  • Artificial Vision for Robots Artificial Vision for Robots
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    Artificial Vision for Robots

    I. ALEKSANDER Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics BruneI University, England The three key words that appear in the title of this book need some clarification. First, how far does the word robot reach in the...
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  • Performance and Computer-Aided Design Performance and Computer-Aided Design
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    Performance and Computer-Aided Design

    What are the design or selection criteria for robots that will be capable of carrying out particular functions? How can robots and machines be installed in work locations to obtain maximum effectiveness? How can their ...
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  • Modelling and Control Modelling and Control
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    Modelling and Control

    This first volume in the series is based on part of a course that I taught in various state and private institutions during 1979 and 1980. It was concerned with the design and control of stationary, articulated robots operating...
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  • International Directory of Psychology International Directory of Psychology
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    International Directory of Psychology

    In the past several decades, psychology has grown so rapidly in many countries that no one has been able to keep up-to-date on more than a handful of countries. To be sure, the highly developed countries of North America,...
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  • Tree Fruit Production Tree Fruit Production
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    Tree Fruit Production

    This is a revised and updated edition of the book Tree Fruit Production, first published in 1959 and extensively revised in the second edition in 1972. Considerable advances have been made in recent years in the scientific...
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  • Electromagnetic Fields and Circadian Rhythmicity Electromagnetic Fields and Circadian Rhythmicity
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    Electromagnetic Fields and Circadian Rhythmicity

    This book is the first in a new series entitled ''Advances in Circadian Physiology." Our aim in this and subsequent volumes is to document and critically analyze the state of knowledge on biological clocks, circadian rhythms...
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  • Emerging Strategies in Neuroprotection Emerging Strategies in Neuroprotection
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    Emerging Strategies in Neuroprotection

    SOLOMON H. SNYDER Receptor Research Reaches Neurology: Relevance to Neurodegenerative Diseases and Stroke President George Bush has heralded the 1990s as the decade of the brain, based largely on the rapid escalation of...
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  • From the Retina to the Neocortex From the Retina to the Neocortex
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    From the Retina to the Neocortex

    David Courtnay Marr was born on January 19, 1945 in Essex, England. He went to the English public school, Rugby, on scholarship and between 1963 and 1966 studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge University where he...
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  • Molecular Biology of G-Protein-Coupled Receptors Molecular Biology of G-Protein-Coupled Receptors
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    Molecular Biology of G-Protein-Coupled Receptors

    LESLIE L. IVERSEN The present series of volumes is well timed, as the impact of molecular genetics on pharmacology has been profound, and a comprehensive review of the rapid advances of the past decade is much needed. Since the...
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  • Large Scale Scientific Computing Large Scale Scientific Computing
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    Large Scale Scientific Computing

    In this book, the new and rapidly expanding field of scientific computing is understood in a double sense: as computing for scientific and engineering problems and as the science of doing such computations. Thus scientific...
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  • Primate Social Systems Primate Social Systems
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    Primate Social Systems

    This book grew from small beginnings as I began to find unexpected patterns emerging from the data in the literature. The more I thought about the way in which primate social systems worked, the more interesting things turned...
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  • Tissue Culture of Trees Tissue Culture of Trees
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    Tissue Culture of Trees

    1 John H. Dodds The culture offragmen ts of plant tissue is not a particularly new science, in fact as long ago as 1893 Rechinger (1893) described the formation of callus on isolated fragments of stems and roots. The culture of...
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  • The Mathematical Gardner The Mathematical Gardner
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    The Mathematical Gardner

    -~- T he articles in this book are dedicated to Martin Gardner, the world's greatest expositor and popularizer of mathematics. While our papers are confined to this single subject, Gardner's interests and accomplishments have a...
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  • Public Program Analysis Public Program Analysis
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    Public Program Analysis

    The past two decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the demand for analyses of health and public affairs program data. Governments at the federal and state levels have stimulated, if not mandated, much of this increased...
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  • A Primer of Molecular Biology A Primer of Molecular Biology
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    A Primer of Molecular Biology

    In arecent plenary address to the American College of Cardiology, Dr. Leroy Hood stated that he expected the application of the techniques of recombinant DNA and molecular biology to medicine would advance the field more in the...
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  • Illustrated Guide to Jewelry Appraising Illustrated Guide to Jewelry Appraising
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    Illustrated Guide to Jewelry Appraising

    There is more to appraising jewelry than just being parable sales and a value determination. Then, all this information, with clear jewelry descriptions, must be able to put a dollar value on an item. The title of ap­ ...
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  • Conran Design Guides Tableware Conran Design Guides Tableware
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    Conran Design Guides Tableware

    taken specially for Conran Octopus by S, mon Lee: 5 top. 22-23. 29 below. 30-31. 43 I:CHINA 23 above. 53 left. 58. 71 We would like to thank the following for their cooperation: The Conran Shop Design Museum Rosenthal Sasaki...
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  • The Art and Science of Inventing The Art and Science of Inventing
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    The Art and Science of Inventing

    The Independent Inventor Most persons have at some time in their lives invented somethin- perhaps a gadget for making some task easier or a method for increas­ ing the economy of an everyday operation. Aside from a certain...
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  • The Foreman/Supervisor S Handbook The Foreman/Supervisor S Handbook
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    The Foreman/Supervisor S Handbook

    The Foreman/Supervisor's Handbook is offered as a com­ prehensive and authoritative text which presents the kind of prac­ tical information the foreman or supervisor needs in order to be effective on the job. It completely...
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  • Greenhouse Effect and Sea Level Rise Greenhouse Effect and Sea Level Rise
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    Greenhouse Effect and Sea Level Rise

    Winston Churchill, whose output as a writer was so prodigious that one might reasonably wonder whether he was paid by the page, was him­ self put off by long works. As prime minister of Great Britain, he once pushed away a...
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  • I386/I486 Advanced Programming I386/I486 Advanced Programming
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    I386/I486 Advanced Programming

    This book gives x86 assembly language programmers a view about how to use the resources and features provided by the i386/i486 processor, the newest and most advanced microprocessor from the Intel x86 family. Because the...
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  • Substantial Rehabilitation & New Construction Substantial Rehabilitation & New Construction
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    Substantial Rehabilitation & New Construction

    The procedures in this manual distill six years of learning about the most efficient acquisition and construction methods in this country for high volume production of housing affordable to low-income people. The people in the...
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  • Chemical Reactions in Complex Mixtures Chemical Reactions in Complex Mixtures
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    Chemical Reactions in Complex Mixtures

    In recent years there has been a convergence of trends in chemical reaction engineering and chemistry which have set the stage for significant advances in kinetic and thermodynamic modeling of processes. New analytical chem­...
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  • Palaeozoic Fishes Palaeozoic Fishes
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    Palaeozoic Fishes

    I have revised Moy-Thomas's widely used book on Palaeozoic fishes in an attempt to incorporate some of the considerable advances that have been made in this field over the last 30 years, which have in some respects made the...
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  • Handbook of High-Speed Machining Technology Handbook of High-Speed Machining Technology
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    Handbook of High-Speed Machining Technology

    The United States now spends approximately $115 billion annually to perform its metal removal tasks using conventional machining technology. Of this total amount, about $14 billion is invested in the aerospace and associated...
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  • Peatlands Peatlands
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    Peatlands

    For many centuries peatlands have been a source of fascination to naturalists and scientists. When the itinerant John Leland passed through the peatlands of Central Wales in 1538 his comment was 'The pastures and montaynes of...
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  • Physiology and Pathology in the Perinatal Period Physiology and Pathology in the Perinatal Period
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    Physiology and Pathology in the Perinatal Period

    The course of history is never one of smooth progression. Periods of relative quietness are interrupted by periods of wars and revolution. This pattern resembles that of a river which, before flowing into the delta, has to pass...
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  • Intelligent robotics Intelligent robotics
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    Intelligent robotics

    An industrial robot routinely carrying out an assembly or welding task is an impressive sight. More important, when operated within its design conditions it is a reliable production machine which - depending on the ...
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  • Printed Circuit Board Assembly Printed Circuit Board Assembly
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    Printed Circuit Board Assembly

    Assembly of 'difficult' components onto printed circuit boards is emerging as an important application area for small, fast industrial robots. For other robot tasks - for example paint spraying or arc welding - the applications...
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  • Cytotoxic Cells Cytotoxic Cells
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    Cytotoxic Cells

    Our motivation for putting together this book was the need for a single source reference that could be used as an introduction to cell-mediated cytotoxicity for newcomers to this field, such as students and fellows beginning...
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  • Neurodevelopment, Aging and Cognition Neurodevelopment, Aging and Cognition
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    Neurodevelopment, Aging and Cognition

    It was Oscar Wilde who defined the tragedy of old age by saying that " . . . as soon as you are old enough to know better, you don't know anything at all. " As improvements in the quality of health care bring about longer life,...
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  • Behavioral Development of Nonhuman Primates Behavioral Development of Nonhuman Primates
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    Behavioral Development of Nonhuman Primates

    The present volume represents the result of two years of work originally begun as a fifteen-member student project under my supervision at NASA - Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif­ ornia. As a means of acquainting team...
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  • Computer Technology Computer Technology
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    Computer Technology

    During the past decade, dramatic advances have been made in computer technology. These advances are primarily as a result of the tremendous progress in semiconductor technology, paced by planar processing and LSI. Great strides...
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  • Macromolecules and Behavior Macromolecules and Behavior
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    Macromolecules and Behavior

    In the five years since the publication of the First Edition, a tremendous amount of research has been conducted attempting to relate macromolecules and behavior. New approaches to the overall problem have developed. Several...
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  • Noise and Nonlinear Phenomena in Nuclear Systems Noise and Nonlinear Phenomena in Nuclear Systems
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    Noise and Nonlinear Phenomena in Nuclear Systems

    The main goal of the meeting was to facilitate and encourage the application of recent developments in the physical and mathematical sciences to the analysis of deterministic and stochastic processes in nuclear engineering. In...
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