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Download e-book for kindle: Science, Technology, and Innovation: Capacity Building for by Michael Ehst, Michael Ehst (Editor) Alfred Watkins

By Michael Ehst, Michael Ehst (Editor) Alfred Watkins

ISBN-10: 0821373803

ISBN-13: 9780821373804

ISBN-10: 0821373811

ISBN-13: 9780821373811

This ebook summarizes, and highlights major messages from, a February 2007 international discussion board convened via the realm financial institution to debate options, courses, and rules for development technological know-how, know-how and innovation (STI) capability to advertise sustainable development and poverty relief in constructing international locations.

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Martin Gardner's Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, 2nd Edition PDF

By Martin Gardner

ISBN-10: 0486203948

ISBN-13: 9780486203942

This reasonable and witty appraisal examines the various crazes and quackeries that experience masqueraded as technological know-how. Discussions include hollow earth theories; Charles fortress and the Fortean Society; Wilhelm Reich and orgone intercourse energy; dianetics; flying saucers; food and clinical fads; even more. "A very capable and even-tempered presentation." — the recent Yorker.

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Download PDF by Roy Kellaway, Tim Harrington: Feeding Concentrates: Supplements for Dairy Cows, Revised

By Roy Kellaway, Tim Harrington

ISBN-10: 0643069410

ISBN-13: 9780643069411

ISBN-10: 0643091041

ISBN-13: 9780643091047

Specializes in feeding concentrates to pasture fed cows to accomplish excessive milk production.This ebook provides recommendations for feeding strength and protein vitamins to pasture-fed dairy cows and examines the capability fiscal merits. potent supplementary feeding of concentrates is important to the luck of all dairy farms. This e-book is a considerably revised variation of 'Feeding Concentrates: vitamins for Dairy Cows' DRDC 1993. It makes a speciality of feeding concentrates to pasture fed cows to accomplish excessive milk construction in step with cow in step with hectare, and should support farmers to choose which supplementations provide the simplest leads to their specific scenario. the advantages that come up from supplementary feeding comprise better stocking charges, merchandising of development in heifers and younger cows; larger physique rating and elevated lactation size while pasture is much less to be had; enhanced pasture use; diminished price in step with tonne of pasture eaten; flexibility to extend milk construction whilst milk costs are excessive; and elevated milk protein content material whilst the strength content material in pasture is low. This variation has completely reviewed the problems and obviously records the result of learn fairly for grains supplementation. The summaries and proposals in every one bankruptcy may be rather necessary to dairy farmers in making most sensible administration judgements in relation to focus feeding.

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Download e-book for kindle: Menander: A Rhetor in Context by Malcolm Heath

By Malcolm Heath

ISBN-10: 0191531782

ISBN-13: 9780191531781

ISBN-10: 0199259208

ISBN-13: 9780199259205

Historic colleges of rhetoric taught scholars tips on how to devise arguments in criminal and political disputes, and the way to precise them. Many students think that those thoughts more and more misplaced their sensible relevance lower than the Roman Empire. This unique reassessment of the heritage and social importance of rhetoric in past due antiquity exhibits the way it was once taught, and why the talents it promoted have been nonetheless believed to have an instantaneous software within the next careers of the rhetoricians' pupils.

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New PDF release: The Micronauts Book 1 - Micronauts

By Steve Lyons

ISBN-10: 0743458400

ISBN-13: 9780743458405

ISBN-10: 1591767814

ISBN-13: 9781591767817

Booklet 1 of an all-new trilogy by means of Steve Lyons, bestselling writer of X-MEN: THE LEGACY QUEST TRILOGY and health professional WHO: THE CROOKED international. Angel's present is a small mid-western city identified for its pleasant neighbours, its world-class apple pie...and an interdimensional portal; a tear within the textile of time and area. Ryan Archer and his scientist father Dallas, have come to Angel's present to discover an evidence to this phenomenon. at the start, the research is going good, yet then Ryan starts off to note extraordinary little issues, like recognising contributors of alien races that experience travelled throughout the portal - extraterrestrial beings casually pointed out a Micronauts. after which there are the mysterious disappearances. whatever is incorrect during this city - Ryan is familiar with it. as the mystery of Angel's reward is attached to an enigmatic determine who has been haunting his desires of overdue - a determine who has come to warn him of significant hazard.

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Download e-book for kindle: Structure Formation in Solution : Ionic Polymers and by Norio Ise, Ikuo Sogami

By Norio Ise, Ikuo Sogami

ISBN-10: 3540252711

ISBN-13: 9783540252719

ISBN-10: 3540277153

ISBN-13: 9783540277156

This publication is designed to severely assessment experimental findings on ionic polymers and colloidal debris and to turn out a theoretical framework in line with the Poisson-Boltzmann strategy. constitution formation in ionic polymer ideas has attracted recognition because the days of H. Staudinger and J. D. Bernal. An self sufficient examine on ionic colloidal dispersions with microscopy supplied a compelling proof of constitution formation. fresh technical advancements have made it attainable to amass suitable details for either ionic polymers and colloidal debris in dilute structures. the phenomenal phenomenon experimentally came upon is microscopic inhomogeneity within the solute distribution in macroscopically homogeneous systems.To account for the commentary, the current authors have invoked the life of the counterion-mediated appeal among equally charged solute species, as well as the generally authorized electrostatic repulsion.

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