Ingenieurswissenschaften

Hydrothermale Vergasung von Algenbiomasse

Julian Matzenberger

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Technik, Note: 1, Universität Wien, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Steigende Treibhausgasemissionen und die Verknappung fossiler Ressourcen sind zwei de...

Making Salmon

Joseph E. Taylor

<p>Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Award, American Society for Environmental History</p><br /><br />Das E-Book Making Salmon wird angeboten von University of Washington ...

Driven Wild

Paul S. Sutter

<p>In its infancy, the movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States was motivated less by perceived threats from industrial and agricultural activities than by concern over the ...

George Perkins Marsh

David Lowenthal

<p>George Perkins Marsh (1801�1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights,...

Irrigated Eden

Mark Fiege

<p>Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fiege�s fascinating and innovative study of irrigation in southern Idahoï¿...

Where Land and Water Meet

Nancy Langston

<p>Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambiguous ways, and riparian zones, where land and water meet, have effects far outside their boundaries. Using the Malheur Basin in southeast...

Mission-Critical and Safety-Critical Systems Handbook

This handbook provides a consolidated, comprehensive information resource for engineers working with mission and safety critical systems. Principles, regulations, and processes common to all criti...

Visual Perception for Manipulation and Imitation in Humanoid Robots

Pedram Azad

Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Heart

<P>Stem cell research has the potential to affect the lives of millions of people around the world. This research is now regularly front-page news, and realizing the promise of mesenchymal s...

Microbiology Handbook

Fish and seafood are prime sources of animal protein. Because of their health advantages over red meats, the consumption of fish and seafood has increased. As catches can often live in contaminate...

MEGADESIGN and MegaOpt - German Initiatives for Aerodynamic Simulation and Optimization in Aircraft Design

Bioengineering Research of Chronic Wounds

<P>Pressure-related chronic wounds are an important health concern that affects millions of patients and accumulates billions in annual costs. These wounds may occur when soft tissues are me...

Introduction To Interfaces And Colloids, An: The Bridge To Nanoscience

John C Berg

Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety

This book tackles the debate over nanotechnology's environmental, health and safety (EHS) by thoroughly explaining EHS issues, financial implications, foreseeable risks (i.e. exposure, dose, h...

Web Wisdom

Marsha Ann Tate

The Rhine

Mark Cioc

<p>The Rhine River is Europe�s most important commercial waterway, channeling the flow of trade among Switzerland, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. In this innovative study, Mark Cioc...

Faith in Nature

Thomas Dunlap

<p>The human impulse to religion--the drive to explain the world, humans, and humans’ place in the universe – can be seen to encompass environmentalism as an offshoot of the secular, mat...

Politics of Climate Change

Strain Effect in Semiconductors

Scott E. Thompson / Yongke Sun / Toshikazu Nishida

Strain Effect in Semiconductors: Theory and Device Applications presents the fundamentals and applications of strain in semiconductors and semiconductor devices that is relevant for strain-enhance...

Structural Plasticity

Guo-Wei Ma / Jian-Chun Li / Mao-Hong Yu

<P>Limit and shakedown analysis for structures can provide a very useful tool for design and analysis of engineering structures. "Structural Plasticity - Limit, Shakedown and Dynamic Pla...