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Book Synopsis Spidersilk Extended Edition by : Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea
Download or read book Spidersilk Extended Edition written by Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark has a technically astute group of friends and moved into a new house. Mark considers the video game worlds he designs more like another thread in the multi-verse, another world for the player to explore. Technology and extraordinary are about to mix as Mark fights to discover who and why mysterious thieves are harassing and making off with not merely things but people as well. His new contract boss is apparently connected to them and is possibly conspiring with them. Will he disappear with them? Not all of Marks friends exist in his thread of the multi-verse making them not always the easiest to contact. Inter-dimensional activity and environmental energies seem to be everywhere including the dreamscape allowing for all sorts of possibilities.
Book Synopsis Avian Architecture Revised and Expanded Edition by : Peter Goodfellow
Download or read book Avian Architecture Revised and Expanded Edition written by Peter Goodfellow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential illustrated guide to how birds design and build their nests—now fully revised and expanded Birds are the most consistently inventive builders, and their nests set the bar for functional design in nature. Describing how birds design, engineer, and build their nests, Avian Architecture deconstructs all types of nests found around the world using architectural blueprints and detailed descriptions of the construction processes and engineering techniques birds use. This spectacularly illustrated book features more than 300 full-color images and more than 40 case studies that profile key species worldwide. Each chapter covers a different type of nest, from tunnel nests and mound nests to floating nests, hanging nests, woven nests, and even multiple-nest avian cities. Other kinds of avian construction—such as bowers and food stores—are also featured. Now with more case studies and an updated foreword, this revised and expanded edition includes intricate step-by-step sequences, visual spreads on nest-building materials and methods, and insightful commentary by a leading expert. Illustrates how birds around the world design, engineer, and build their nests Features architectural blueprints, step-by-step sequences, visual spreads on nest-building materials and methods, and expert commentary Includes more than 300 full-color images Covers more than 100 bird species worldwide
Book Synopsis Voyagers of the Silver Sand (The Secrets of Droon: Special Edition #3) by : Tony Abbott
Download or read book Voyagers of the Silver Sand (The Secrets of Droon: Special Edition #3) written by Tony Abbott and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hidden door. A magical staircase. Discover the world of Droon! Trapped! The Rainbow Stairs have disappeared, and Eric, Neal, and Julie are stranded in Droon with no way home. Even worse, Young Sparr and Gethwing have escaped to the Upper World! Eric and his friends have just 24 hours to restore the stairs -- but how? The answers are at the end of a long, enchanted caravan that leads the kids all through Droon's past and present. On the way, they learn that only the magical Five Wizards of Eshku can bring the Rainbow Stairs back. But can the kids find all five wizards in time? Or will they be trapped in Droon forever?
Book Synopsis Abracadabra and Alchemy by : April Aasheim
Download or read book Abracadabra and Alchemy written by April Aasheim and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades ago, Sasha Shantay operated a secret school for young witches and magicians. A hand-written invitation by the grand witch herself was required for admittance. But when Sasha learns that The Final Trial had come upon the world, she hastily closes and hides the school, fearing it would become a beacon for The Dark One and his minions. Her students, including her own four daughters, were put under a Forget Spell, removing its very existence from their minds. But now, memories of the forgotten institution were resurfacing in Sasha's daughters, just as their own children begin their school year. As the once small town of Dark Root booms with new families, Merry is determined to let the past lie in the past. But Maggie, Ruth Anne and Eve are determined to uncover the truth. For not only was the school a safe haven for training, but a depository of knowledge. If not found, it would be lost forever. The Final Trial is upon us. The fate of the world hangs in the balance of one small town and its sisterhood of witches. Return to Dark Root. Secrets. Suspense. Sisters. *** This series, like all Dark Root series, can be read alone, or as part of the Dark Root universe. But if you would like to read more, here is a suggested reading order: Main Series: The Daughters of Dark Root: Four sisters try their hands at life, love and magick in this enchanting, small-town paranormal series. -The Witches of Dark Root -The Magick of Dark Root -The Curse of Dark Root: Part One -The Curse of Dark Root: Part Two -The Shadows of Dark Root * Prequel Series: Alchemy of a Witch: As plague ravishes the land, witchcraft is to blame. A medieval, Dark Root ancestry series. -Part One -Part Two -Part Three: -Part Four * Sequel Series: The Children of Dark Root-A new generation of young witches and warlocks are born. -Inherited Magick -Gifted Magick Sequel Series: Miss Sasha's School of Magick: The children of Dark Root undertake their Magick always stories, and the entire town learns more secrets of Dark Root's haunted past-and uncertain future. -Abracadabra and Alchemy -Bloodlines and Bindings (2022)
Download or read book Spider Silk written by Leslie Brunetta and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under water. Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig have teamed up to produce a substantive yet entertaining book for anyone who has ever wondered, as a spider rappelled out of reach on a line of silk, “How do they do that?” The orb web, that iconic wheel-shaped web most of us associate with spiders, contains at least four different silk proteins, each performing a different function and all meshing together to create a fly-catching machine that has amazed and inspired humans through the ages. Brunetta and Craig tell the intriguing story of how spiders evolved over 400 million years to add new silks and new uses for silk to their survival “toolkit” and, in the telling, take readers far beyond the orb. The authors describe the trials and triumphs of spiders as they use silk to negotiate an ever-changing environment, and they show how natural selection acts at the genetic level and as individuals struggle for survival.
Book Synopsis Oligomerization of Chemical and Biological Compounds by : Claire Lesieur
Download or read book Oligomerization of Chemical and Biological Compounds written by Claire Lesieur and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many thanks to the authors for high quality chapters and to the referees for helping improve the manuscripts. The book is interdisciplinary, it covers fields from organic chemistry to mathematics, and raises different aspects of oligomerization. It is a great source of information as every chapter introduces general knowledge and deep details. Mixing communities is to instigate novel ideas and hopefully help looking at oligomerization with new eyes.
Book Synopsis Elastomeric Proteins by : Peter R. Shewry
Download or read book Elastomeric Proteins written by Peter R. Shewry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was originally published in 2002. Elastic proteins occur in a wide range of biological systems where they have evolved to fulfil precise biological roles. The best known include proteins in vertebrate muscles and connective tissues, such as titin, elastin and fibrillin, and spider silks. However, other examples include byssus and abductin from bivalve molluscs, resilin from arthropods and gluten from wheat. Interest in elastomeric proteins has been high for several reasons. Firstly, their biological and medical significance, particularly in human disease. Secondly, the unusual properties of proteins such as spider silks provide opportunities to develop materials. Thirdly, the development of scanning probe microscopy makes it possible to study structures and biomechanical properties of these proteins at the single molecule level. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the various aspects of elastomeric proteins.
Book Synopsis Our Transgenic Future by : Lisa Jean Moore
Download or read book Our Transgenic Future written by Lisa Jean Moore and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How scientific advances in genetic modification will fundamentally change the natural world The process of manipulating the genetic material of one animal to include the DNA of another creates a new transgenic organism. Several animals, notably goats, mice, sheep, and cattle are now genetically modified in this way. In Our Transgenic Future, Lisa Jean Moore wonders what such scientific advances portend. Will the natural world become so modified that it ceases to exist? After turning species into hybrids, can we ever get back to the original, or are they forever lost? Does genetic manipulation make better lives possible, and if so, for whom? Moore centers the story on goats that have been engineered by the US military and civilian scientists using the DNA of spiders. The goat’s milk contains a spider-silk protein fiber; it can be spun into ultra-strong fabric that can be used to manufacture lightweight military body armor. Researchers also hope the transgenically produced spider silk will revolutionize medicine with biocompatible medical inserts such as prosthetics and bandages. Based on in-depth research with spiders in Florida and transgenic goats in Utah, Our Transgenic Future focuses on how these spidergoats came into existence, the researchers who maintain them, the funders who have made their lives possible, and how they fit into the larger science of transgenics and synthetics. This book is a fascinating story about the possibilities of science and the likely futures that may come.
Book Synopsis Weird But True 5: Expanded Edition by : National Geographic Kids
Download or read book Weird But True 5: Expanded Edition written by National Geographic Kids and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a collection of true facts about animals, food, science, pop culture, outer space, geography, and weather.
Book Synopsis Engineering the Plant Factory for the Production of Biologics and Small-Molecule Medicines by : Domenico De Martinis
Download or read book Engineering the Plant Factory for the Production of Biologics and Small-Molecule Medicines written by Domenico De Martinis and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plant gene transfer achieved in the early ‘80s paved the way for the exploitation of the potential of gene engineering to add novel agronomic traits and/or to design plants as factories for high added value molecules. For this latter area of research, the term "Molecular Farming" was coined in reference to agricultural applications in that major crops like maize and tobacco were originally used basically for pharma applications. The concept of the “green biofactory” implies different advantages over the typical cell factories based on animal cell or microbial cultures already when considering the investment and managing costs of fermenters. Although yield, stability, and quality of the molecules may vary among different heterologous systems and plants are competitive on a case-to-case basis, still the “plant factory” attracts scientists and technologists for the challenging features of low production cost, product safety and easy scale up. Once engineered, a plant is among the cheapest and easiest eukaryotic system to be bred with simple know-how, using nutrients, water and light. Molecules that are currently being produced in plants vary from industrial and pharmaceutical proteins, including medical diagnostics proteins and vaccine antigens, to nutritional supplements such as vitamins, carbohydrates and biopolymers. Convergence among disciplines as distant as plant physiology and pharmacology and, more recently, as omic sciences, bioinformatics and nanotechnology, increases the options of research on the plant cell factory. “Farming for Pharming” biologics and small-molecule medicines is a challenging area of plant biotechnology that may break the limits of current standard production technologies. The recent success on Ebola fighting with plant-made antibodies put a spotlight on the enormous potential of next generation herbal medicines made especially in the name of the guiding principle of reduction of costs, hence reduction of disparities of health rights and as a tool to guarantee adequate health protection in developing countries.
Book Synopsis Extracellular Composite Matrices in Arthropods by : Ephraim Cohen
Download or read book Extracellular Composite Matrices in Arthropods written by Ephraim Cohen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasis is placed on the elaborate cuticular matrices in insects and crustaceans, spider and insect silks, sialomes of phytophagous and blood-feeding arthropods as well as on secretions of male and female accessory glands. Focus is placed largely on insects, due to the extensive body of published research that in part is the result of available whole genome sequences of several model species (in particular Drosophila melanogaster) and accessible ESTs for other species. Such advances have facilitated fundamental insights into genomic, proteomic and molecular biology-based physiology. This new volume contains comprehensive contributions on extracellular composite matrices in arthropods. The building blocks of such matrices are formed in and secreted by single layered epithelial cells into exterior domains where their final assembly takes place.Additionally, the unique mechanical properties of natural biocomposites like chitin/chitosan, the crustacean mineralized exoskeleton, the pliant protein resilin or insect and spider silks, have inspired basic and applied research that yield sophistical biomimetics and structural biocomposite hybrids important for future industrial and biomedical use. In summary, this book provides an invaluable vast source of basic and applied information for a plethora of scientists as well as textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate students.
Book Synopsis Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by : LessWrong aka Eliezer Yudkowsky
Download or read book Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality written by LessWrong aka Eliezer Yudkowsky and published by . This book was released on 2010-02-28 with total page 1983 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petunia Evans married a biochemist, and Harry Potter grew up in a house filled to the brim with books, reading science and science fiction. Then came the Hogwarts letter, introducing strange new opportunities to exploit. And new friends, like Hermione Granger, and Draco Malfoy, and Professor Quirrell. HP:MoR is now complete at 122 chapters and 2000 pages. Authors notes, fan art, alternative formats, and other information may be found at http://www.hpmor.com/ . This mirror contains both the the flowing text directly from https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108, and the book style PDF from the tex code at https://github.com/rjl20/hpmor If you have suggestions, or wish to report a problem regarding this version of HP:MoR, contact me at [email protected] and I will try to fix it.
Book Synopsis Spider Ecophysiology by : Wolfgang Nentwig
Download or read book Spider Ecophysiology written by Wolfgang Nentwig and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 43,000 species, spiders are the largest predacious arthropod group. They have developed key characteristics such as multi-purpose silk types, venoms consisting of hundreds of components, locomotion driven by muscles and hydraulic pressure, a highly evolved key-lock mechanism between the complex genital structures, and many more unique features. After 300 million years of evolutionary refinement, spiders are present in all land habitats and represent one of the most successful groups of terrestrial organisms. Ecophysiology combines functional and evolutionary aspects of morphology, physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology with ecology. Cutting-edge science in spiders focuses on the circulatory and respiratory system, locomotion and dispersal abilities, the immune system, endosymbionts and pathogens, chemical communication, gland secretions, venom components, silk structure, structure and perception of colours as well as nutritional requirements. Spiders are valuable indicator species in agroecosystems and for conservation biology. Modern transfer and application technologies research spiders and their products with respect to their value for biomimetics, material sciences, and the agrochemical and pharmaceutical industries.
Book Synopsis Bio-Inspired Wettability Surfaces by : Zheng Yongmei
Download or read book Bio-Inspired Wettability Surfaces written by Zheng Yongmei and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through natural evolvement in thousands of years, biosurfaces have become highly adaptable to display their biological functions perfectly. Interestingly, they have developed micro-/nanostructures with gradient features to achieve smart wetting controls, such as ultra-hydrophobic water repellency in lotus leaf, directional water collection in wette
Download or read book Spider Silk written by Charley Marsh and published by Timberdoodle Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spider silk. Lighter than air. Indestructible. No wonder Rita King wears spider silk skinsuits and wants them for her crew. To get them Rita must give in to the Spider Woman’s unusual demand. “Come to Kwaku.” Kwaku. Home of the mysterious Spider Woman. Home to the giant silk spiders. Never before visited by an outsider. Why the invite now? Spider Silk, Book Six of the Junkyard Dog series, takes Rita King and her companions into the bizarre and deadly world of spider silk. A science fiction adventure mystery
Download or read book Journal of Dong Hua University written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bio-Inspired Technologies for the Modern World by : R. Ramakrishna Reddy
Download or read book Bio-Inspired Technologies for the Modern World written by R. Ramakrishna Reddy and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-08-23 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature gives us ample opportunity to understand and observe her secrets, and scientists and inventors can and do study the characteristics of things in nature to come up with amazing and astonishing technologies and products invented as a result. This new volume provides a sampling of technological issues that have been tackled with the help of biologically inspired engineering, by such things in nature as bionic plants, the lotus leaf, insects and beetles, geckos, bats, spiders, and butterflies. It considers bio-inspired technologies that have been applied in water purification, for business lessons, in healthcare and medicine, and more. This unique volume is an inspiring resource for professionals, researchers, scholars, engineers, and businessmen and businesswomen interested in the latest developments by studying the wonders of natural science.
