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The DelFly
Design, Aerodynamics, and Artificial Intelligence of a Flapping Wing Robot
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This book introduces the topics most relevant to autonomously flying flapping wing robots: flapping-wing design, aerodynamics, and artificial intelligence. Readers can explore these topics in the context of the "Delfly", a flapping wing robot designed at Delft University in The Netherlands.
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by Kurt M. Cuffey, W. S. B. Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
The Physics of Glaciers, Fourth Edition, discusses the physical principles that underlie the behavior and characteristics of glaciers. The term glacier refers to all bodies of ice created by the accumulation of snowfall, e.g., mountain glaciers, ice caps, continental ice sheets, and ice shelves. Glaciology—the...
The Kennedy Crises
The Press, the Presidency, and Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This analysis of the Kennedy administration's relationship with the press during the Laotian, Berlin, Cuban missile, and Vietnam crises of 1961-63 suggests that press coverage and Kennedy's influence on the press were far more varied than scholars have supposed. Focusing on press coverage of government...
by Estella B. Leopold, Herbert W. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
In the summer of 1969, a federal district court in Denver, Colorado, heard arguments in one of the nation’s first explicitly environmental cases, in which the Defenders of Florissant, Inc. opposed real estate interests intent on developing lands containing an extraordinary set of ancient fossils....
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 1
Cultivation techniques, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Sugarcane is the source of over three quarters of the world’s sugar, and is grown widely in the tropics and sub-tropics. Despite rising demand, average yields have not increased significantly, partly because of continued vulnerability to pests and diseases. In addition, cultivation has been seen...
The Empty Tomb
Being Thoughts on the Resurrection of Our Lord
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
At the present moment it is the fashion to attempt to drive a wedge between the teaching of St. Paul on the subject of our Lord’s Resurrection and that of the Evangelists. It is to this attempt that attention is largely directed in the paper which follows. It is historically certain that the Christian...
by W. S. B. Mathews
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
by B. W. Matz
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Literary criticism about The Pickwick Papers by Dickens. According to the author: "Dickens, like all great authors, had a tendency to underestimate the value of his most popular book. At any rate, it is certainly on record that he thought considerably more of some of his other works than he did of...
by Madison Taylor, Erasmus Darwin, B. W. Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Sleep as a factor in physical economics ranks in importance with respiration and digestion. Those who live normally, who throughout all ordinary exigencies maintain a natural attitude toward life, its strains and responsibilities, may expect to enjoy a full measure of this restorative function ...
Fields Watered with Blood
Critical Essays on Margaret Walker
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood—now available in paperback—constituted the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker’s literary career. As they discuss Walker’s work, including the landmark poetry collection For My People...
Redirecting Innovation in U.S. Health Care
Options to Decrease Spending and Increase Value
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
New medical technologies are a leading driver of U.S. health care spending. This report identifies promising policy options to change which medical technologies are created, with two related policy goals: (1) Reduce total health care spending with the smallest possible loss of health benefits, and...
by B.W. Clapp
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The present and future state of the environment gives rise to ever increasing concern, but much less is known as yet about the past: the damage that has been done since, and by, the Industrial Revolution; how far our predecessors were aware of it; the steps they took; and the gradual development of...
by Nigel F. B. Allington, Sébastien Caré, James W. Ceaser
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
This collective work examines the different conservatisms displayed in the UK and US, particularly in the areas of the meaning of rights, their foreign policy mission, the role of religious activism within their respective party politics, and the impact of the current economic crisis on free-market...
Life After Residency
A Career Planning Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Life After Residency: A Career Planning Guide is an insightful, step-by-step guide to achieving a successful and fulfilling career in medicine. As professors at Stanford University Medical Center, Drs. Melissa Berhow, William Feaster, and John Brock-Utne began running seminars to advise their residents...