"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own...

"Discover 25 women who were trailblazers in science, technology, architecture, engineering, and more. Learn about some of the women who defied expectations and introduced the world to new ideas and creations big and small. Fully translated Spanish text"--

"An introduction to the physics of light for young readers, with an overview of photons, transparency, the electromagnetic spectrum, and the mechanics of reflection"--

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever-increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues, especially global climate change and its impacts, creates a demand for authoritative refereed reviews summarizing and synthesizing the results of recent research. For more than 50 years, OMBAR has been an...

This book has been prepared with the aim to present the application of these two state-of-the art technologies in agricultural sciences and food technology, and to explain the protocols for analyses of different plant, animal, microbiological and food samples as well as for different biotechnology procedures. Selected methods and protocols which are used in plant stress physiology, weed science, fruit breeding research, microbial ecology, plant virus...

Female engineers are hard at work designing the technology and infrastructure of our modern world. Women in Engineeringlooks at individuals who are making a major difference in this field. Compelling text, full-color photos, and helpful back matter highlight these women and their work. Features include a table of contents, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library...

Increasing the speed limit of railway tracks is applicable by welding rail joints and employing Continues Welded Rails (CWR). Unfortunately, there are large numbers of curves with the radius less than 400 m in the most conventional railway tracks. Field investigations show that the lateral resistance of the railway track is not adequate for welding the rail joints in the mentioned railway tracks. In fact, elimination of rail joints causes huge longitudinal...

Acoustic Emission in Drying Materials

Blind Source Separation Based Classification Scheme for Myoelectric Prosthesis Hand This research also proposes a visual training method for prosthetic hand control; in particular, it had succeeded in generating a command control for the Robotic hand. The success included the ability in discriminating distinct finger movements (per channel) with respect to time. As the training design aimed to assist people in the rehabilitation who have weaken limbs,...

Remote sensing is a technique for measuring, observing, or monitoring a process or object without physically touching the object under observation. The remote sensing instrumentation is not in contact with the object being observed, remote sensing allows - to measure a process without causing disturbance - to probe large volumes economically and rapidly, such as providing global measurements of aerosols, air pollution, agriculture, environmental impacts,...