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Hydroponic Food Production A Definitive Guidebook for the Advanced Home Gardener and the Commercial Hydroponic Grower

Hydroponic Food Production A Definitive Guidebook for the Advanced Home Gardener and the Commercial Hydroponic Grower

The eighth edition of Hydroponic Food Production: A Definitive Guidebook for the Advanced Home Gardener and the Commercial Hydroponic Grower serves as a comprehensive guide to soilless culture (hydroponics) for hobby and commercial growers. Extensively updated from the seventh edition published in 2013 this bestseller is a methods book to show the reader how to set up a hydroponic operation with the options of using any of many hydroponic cultures presently used in the industry to grow vegetable crops. Written by Dr Howard M. Resh a recognized authority worldwide on hydroponics the book presents detailed information on hydroponic growing systems and features more than 600 photographs (200 in full color) drawings and tables. New to this edition: Presents greenhouse environmental control systems and examples of sustainable greenhouse technology and demonstrates uses of automation and robotics in harvesting grading and packing. Introduces indoor vertical farming and vertical growing systems as well as the expansion of tropical hydroponics and rooftop greenhouses. Provides information on automation in large-scale raft culture and nutrient film technique (NFT) operations in the growing of lettuce leafy greens and herbs. A new chapter 12 discusses control of environmental factors in greenhouses. It covers information on systems to regulate temperature relative humidity carbon dioxide enrichment lighting and fertigation with examples of sustainable greenhouse technology. This chapter demonstrates automation in the regulation of the greenhouse environment to crop production methods with emphasis on robotics in harvesting to transporting grading and packing equipment. The use of retractable roof structures in tropical humid climates is an alternative for growing greenhouse crops. A new chapter 14 describes vertical indoor farming. It presents background information on early vertical greenhouses and sack culture systems to present vertical systems used by greenhouses and existing vertical greenhouses and future concepts. Vertical indoor farming reviews systems of vertical tiers of shelving growing lettuce leafy greens and herbs under LED lighting in large warehouses. The chapter exemplifies automation in these vertical farms with each specific system and it contains information on vertical growing in containers and/or modular units. Chapter 15 contains new information on tropical hydroponics describing hydroponics in Peru. Expansions of rooftop greenhouses with new locations in New York Chicago and Montreal display updated facilities and crops. | Hydroponic Food Production A Definitive Guidebook for the Advanced Home Gardener and the Commercial Hydroponic Grower

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Basic GIS Coordinates

Basic GIS Coordinates

Coordinates are integral building tools for GIS cartography surveying and are vital to the many applications we use today such as smart phones car navigation systems and driverless cars. Basic GIS Coordinates Third Edition grants readers with a solid understanding of coordinates and coordinate systems and how they operate as well as valuable insight into what causes them to malfunction. This practical and comprehensive guide lays out the foundation of a coordinate system and the implications behind building it as it elaborates on heights two coordinate systems and the rectangular system. The previous editions described horizontal and vertical datums such as the North American Datum 1983 (NAD 83) and the North American Vertical Datum 1988 (NAVD 88). Both will be replaced in 2022 or thereabouts. The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) plans to replace NAD83 with a new semi-dynamic terrestrial reference frame for North America and a new vertical datum will replace NAVD88. The foundation of the new vertical datum will be a temporally tracked gravimetric geoid. The interim period is intended to smooth the transition to the new paradigm and this new edition explores the changes and provides assistance in understanding them.

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Elevator Traffic Handbook Theory and Practice

Elevator Traffic Handbook Theory and Practice

This second edition of this well-respected book covers all aspects of the traffic design and control of vertical transportation systems in buildings making it an essential reference for vertical transportation engineers other members of the design team and researchers. The book introduces the basic principles of circulation outlines traffic design methods and examines and analyses traffic control using worked examples and case studies to illustrate key points. The latest analysis techniques are set out and the book is up-to-date with current technology. A unique and well-established book this much-needed new edition features extensive updates to technology and practice drawing on the latest international research. | Elevator Traffic Handbook Theory and Practice

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Small Wind Turbines for Electricity and Irrigation Design and Construction

Small Wind Turbines for Electricity and Irrigation Design and Construction

This practical book deals with the technology of small-power wind turbines as opposed to widely diffused industrial wind turbines and wind farms. It covers the most common wind turbine technologies in the small power segment: horizontal axis both for electrical generation and water pumping vertical axis of the Darrieus type and vertical axis of the Savonius type. With each chapter following the same didactic scheme—a theoretical explanation and practical examples showing calculation procedures—it allows anybody with basic technical knowledge to design and build a small wind turbine for any site. A set of simple spreadsheets is available for download each providing further examples of how to solve specific design problems and allowing the reader to play with changing parameters and see what-if. This simple trial-and-error learning process allows beginners to develop the feeling of the orders of magnitude involved in the design of a small wind power system its potential advantages on other alternative solutions and its limitations under some special circumstances. | Small Wind Turbines for Electricity and Irrigation Design and Construction

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Through Silicon Vias Materials Models Design and Performance

Through Silicon Vias Materials Models Design and Performance

Recent advances in semiconductor technology offer vertical interconnect access (via) that extend through silicon popularly known as through silicon via (TSV). This book provides a comprehensive review of the theory behind TSVs while covering most recent advancements in materials models and designs. Furthermore depending on the geometry and physical configurations different electrical equivalent models for Cu carbon nanotube (CNT) and graphene nanoribbon (GNR) based TSVs are presented. Based on the electrical equivalent models the performance comparison among the Cu CNT and GNR based TSVs are also discussed. | Through Silicon Vias Materials Models Design and Performance

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Multi-purpose High-rise Towers and Tall Buildings

Multi-purpose High-rise Towers and Tall Buildings

Interest continues to develop in the design and construction of high-rise towers and tall buildings structures with heights ranging from 75m to 500m and even more. This volume presents the papers from the third in a series of international conferences on the subject organised by the International Federation of High-rise Structures. The papers have been drawn together under the grand theme of the Conquest of Vertical Space in the 21st Century. The conference has been organised by the UK's Concrete Society and sponsored by the IFHS and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat and the Fdration Internationale de la Prcontrainte (FIP). This prestigious collaboration has brought forth a body of high quality practical and research papers. | Multi-purpose High-rise Towers and Tall Buildings

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Piles and Pile Foundations

Piles and Pile Foundations

Piled foundations are generally designed using empirical methods in particular the traditional capacity based approach on which the majority of codes of practice are based. However in recent years the analysis of pile groups and piled rafts has undergone substantial development in the light of new research and the mechanisms for the interactions between piles soil and rafts or caps have been largely clarified. Paradoxically with relatively large piled rafts it has been found that a design based on the criterion of serviceability with the limitation of absolute and/or differential settlement not only allows a more rational and economical design but is also simpler and more reliable than one based on the traditional approach. This book provides an overview of present design practice of piled foundations under both vertical and horizontal loads and then a presentation of recent advances in the analysis and design of piled rafts. Altogether it forms a thorough guide to the design and analysis of efficient and effective piled rafts and it also serves as a useful design handbook for traditional pile foundations. | Piles and Pile Foundations

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Transforming Agricultural Technology by Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Transforming Agricultural Technology by Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

This book discusses major issues in the field of agriculture: crop diseases lack of storage management pesticide control weed management lack of irrigation and water management and their effective resolution via automation including IoT wireless communications machine learning artificial intelligence and deep learning. It further discusses the sterile insect technique which is a replacement of conventional pesticide and fertilizer techniques. Hydroponics and vertical farming two of the top-ranked agricultural engineering accomplishments of the past century are also discussed. Features: Offers in-depth insights regarding the fundamentals of technologies associated with the agriculture sector Synthesizes earlier works of researchers and inventors in this field Sheds light on the challenges and problems of supply and demand worldwide Encourages the reader to innovate and ideate upon those issues Analyses the wide array of services provided by companies worldwide and discusses recent breakthroughs in agriculture automation This book is aimed at the work of many researchers to obtain a concise overview of the current implementation of automation in agriculture and derive important insight into its upcoming challenges. | Transforming Agricultural Technology by Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

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Towards a New Concept of the Political A Defence of Universalism and Difference

Towards a New Concept of the Political A Defence of Universalism and Difference

This book addresses the current crisis of democratic politics and its phase of ‘interregnum’ – in which the past finds it hard to die and the future finds it difficult to be born – by proposing a radical redefinition of the concept of the Political. Drawing on the thoughts of Antonio Gramsci and Walter Benjamin among others it explores the meaning of the lemma auctoritas – the opposition between authority and power – and offers a comparison of the Frankfurt School’s radical critique of power with Georges Bataille’s critique of political economy and consumerist productivism demonstrating how the two ultimately converge. Based on an ontology of the present that is critical of ‘identity obsession’ and advances instead a universalism of difference the author proposes a new understanding of politics founded not on ‘vertical’ domination but on a ‘horizontal’ recomposition of subjectivities allowing interaction and acting-in-common between different forms of life. This book will therefore appeal to scholars of social and political theory. | Towards a New Concept of the Political A Defence of Universalism and Difference

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Medicinal Plants and Mushrooms of Yunnan Province of China

Medicinal Plants and Mushrooms of Yunnan Province of China

Although many texts describe plants from China the focus of this book is to draw on the rich culture and environment of medicinal plants and fungi/mushrooms of Yunnan Province. In fact Yunnan Province covers two global hotspots of biodiversity with the richest biological and cultural diversity in China. In particular the Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (founded in 1938 and located in the capital city of Yunnan Province) has made great contributions in the fields of botany and phytochemistry earning an international reputation. This book covers those medicinal plants and fungi/mushrooms specific to Yunnan Province and is written mainly by KIB experts in this research field. Key Features: Distinct sections cover the breadth of the topic including resource availability (wildly grown or cultivated) sustainability and distribution Discusses plant parts used for medicinal uses (the folklore the ancient and modern uses) Describes the important natural products and the known pharmacologically active components Presents biological activities related to medicinal uses or clinical evidence Cover image: Shilin the stone forest (eroded vertical pinnacles of limestone) landmark of Kunming Yunnan. | Medicinal Plants and Mushrooms of Yunnan Province of China

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Giorgio Armani Empire of the Senses

Giorgio Armani Empire of the Senses

Exploring 35 years of creative output this richly illustrated book offers an unprecedented look into Giorgio Armani’s unique aesthetic corporate and cultural strategies. More than any other designer Armani best represents the global success of the ’Made in Italy’ label. His impact is palpable not simply in women’s fashion and red carpet glamour but is also inseparable from the evolution of the menswear industry. Written in a lively and accessible style the book includes thoughtful and provocative chapters exploring: the evolution of the man’s suit; boutique culture in a global reality; the influence of Orientalism; the designer’s ambivalent relationship with the fashion press; the business of vertical branding; the use of the evening dress to construct the house’s history; power dressing for the modern woman; the relationship between textiles film and the contours of masculinity; the continued dialogue with early twentieth-century aesthetics; as well as the spaces and bodies of the theatre of fashion. The first holistic and critical investigation of one of the most influential fashion houses in the world Giorgio Armani: Empire of the Senses is a must read for anyone interested in the history and theories of fashion. | Giorgio Armani Empire of the Senses

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Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies

Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies

The word ‘diaspora’ has leapt from its previously confined use – mainly concerned with the dispersion of Jews Greeks Armenians and Africans away from their natal homelands – to cover the cases of many other ethnic groups nationalities and religions. But this ‘horizontal’ scattering of the word to cover the mobility of many groups to many destinations has been paralleled also by ‘vertical’ leaps with the word diaspora being deployed to cover more and more phenomena and serve more and more objectives of different actors. With sections on ‘debating the concept’ ‘complexity’ ‘home and home-making’ ‘connections’ and ‘critiques’ the Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies is likely to remain an authoritative reference for some time. Each contribution includes a targeted list of references for further reading. The editors have carefully blended established scholars of diaspora with younger scholars looking at how diasporas are constructed ‘from below’. The adoption of a variety of conceptual perspectives allows for generalization contrasts and comparisons between cases. In this exciting and authoritative collection over 40 scholars from many countries have explored the evolving use of the concept of diaspora its possibilities as well as its limitations. This Handbook will be indispensable for students undertaking essays debates and dissertations in the field.

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Fundamentals of Foundation Engineering

Fundamentals of Foundation Engineering

This book aims to introduce the principle and design of various foundations covering shallow foundations mat foundations earth retaining structures excavations pile foundations and slope stability. Since the analysis and design of a foundation are based on the soil properties under short-term (undrained) or long-term (drained) conditions the assessment of soil properties from the geotechnical site investigation and the concept of drained or undrained soil properties are discussed in the first two chapters. Foundation elements transfer various load combinations from the superstructure to the underlying soils or rocks. The load transfer mechanisms vertical stress or earth pressure distributions and failure modes of each foundation type are clearly explained in this book. After understanding the soil responses subjected to the loadings from the foundation the design methods required factors of safety and improvement measures for each foundation type are elaborated. This book presents both theoretical explication and practical applications for readers to easily comprehend the theoretical background design methods and practical applications and considerations. Each chapter provides relevant exercise examples and a problem set for self-practice. The analysis methods introduced in the book can be applied in actual analysis and design as they contain the most up-to-date knowledge of foundation design. This book is suitable for teachers and students to use in foundation engineering courses and engineers who are engaged in foundation design to create a technically sound construction-feasible and economical design of the foundation system. | Fundamentals of Foundation Engineering

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Ethnicity and Development Addressing the Gaps in New Institutional Economics

Ethnicity and Development Addressing the Gaps in New Institutional Economics

Ethnicity and Development explores the impact of ethnic fragmentation on the success or failure of nations and uses case studies of Bangladesh and Pakistan to illustrate this. It analyzes the role of institutions in engendering economic and social progress and challenges the New Institutional Economics (NIE) narrative. The book argues that the NIE narrative has some gaps particularly that it is blind to ethnic fragmentation and therefore does not account for the construction of institutions that can build national cohesion in low- and low-middleincome countries (L/LMICs). It shows that L/LMICs have a different cultural context and that they need to first build national cohesion on a foundation of horizontal – across ethnic groups – and vertical – across classes – equity. The author’s analysis also examines other novel issues such as the boost that is provided by nations acquiring the right of self-determination. Other novelties are the distinction between prime causes (triggers) for economic development and approaches for economic development. More important for this book is the distinction between natural and constructed nations and the conceptual framework presented to analyze their performance. Finally the study examines the creation of national cohesion in ethnically diverse nations. Addressing a gap in the literature this book will be of interest to researchers in development economics political science and sociology and specialists in comparative politics/political theory with a focus on Area Studies. | Ethnicity and Development Addressing the Gaps in New Institutional Economics

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Fundamentals of Helicopter Dynamics

Fundamentals of Helicopter Dynamics

Helicopter Dynamics Introduced in an Organized and Systematic Manner A result of lecture notes for a graduate-level introductory course as well as the culmination of a series of lectures given to designers engineers operators users and researchers Fundamentals of Helicopter Dynamics provides a fundamental understanding and a thorough overview of helicopter dynamics and aerodynamics. Written at a basic level this text starts from first principles and moves fluidly onward from simple to more complex systems. Gain Valuable Insight on Helicopter Theory Divided into 11 chapters this text covers historical development hovering and vertical flight simplified rotor blade model in flap mode and forward flight. It devotes two chapters to the aeroelastic response and stability analysis of isolated rotor blade in uncoupled and coupled modes. Three chapters address the modeling of coupled rotor–fuselage dynamics and the associated flight dynamic stability and provide a simplified analysis of the ground resonance aeromechanical stability of a helicopter. Explains equations derived from first principles and approximations Contains a complete set of equations which can be used for preliminary studies Requires a basic first–level course in dynamics as well as a basic first–level course in aerodynamics Useful for any student who wants to learn the complexities of dynamics in a flying vehicle Fundamentals of Helicopter Dynamics is an ideal resource for aerospace/aeronautical helicopter and mechanical/control engineers as well as air force schools and helicopter/rotorcraft manufacturers.

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The Official History of Privatisation Vol. II Popular Capitalism 1987-97

The Official History of Privatisation Vol. II Popular Capitalism 1987-97

This is Volume II of Professor Parker's authoritative Official History of Privatisation covering the period from the re-election of Margaret Thatcher in 1987 to the election of Tony Blair in 1997. Volume II considers in detail several of the major privatisations including those of airports steel water electricity coal and the railways as well as a number of smaller ones. Each privatisation involved major challenges in terms of industrial restructuring organising successful sales and in a number of cases establishing effective regulatory regimes. The policy evolved and new methods of selling and regulating were put in place that enabled further disposals to occur. Monolithic nationalised industries with their emphasis on the benefits of economies of scale vertical integration and rationalisation were replaced by industrial structures rooted in the importance of commercial management risk taking and competition. In government departments and parts of the National Health Service direct employees were replaced by private contractors and private investment became a characteristic of public infrastructure in the form of PFI/PPP schemes. This study draws heavily on the official records of the British government to which the author was given full access and on interviews with the leading figures involved in each of the privatisations including ex-ministers civil servants business and City figures as well as academics that have studied the subject. This book will of great interest to students of privatisation British political history and of business and economics in general. | The Official History of Privatisation Vol. II Popular Capitalism 1987-97

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Dynamic RAM Technology Advancements

Dynamic RAM Technology Advancements

Because of their widespread use in mainframes PCs and mobile audio and video devices DRAMs are being manufactured in ever increasing volume both in stand-alone and in embedded form as part of a system on chip. Due to the optimum design of their components—access transistor storage capacitor and peripherals—DRAMs are the cheapest and densest semiconductor memory currently available. As a result most of DRAM structure research and development focuses on the technology used for its constituent components and their interconnections. However only a few books are available on semiconductor memories in general and fewer on DRAMs. Dynamic RAM: Technology Advancements provides a holistic view of the DRAM technology with a systematic description of the advancements in the field since the 1970s and an analysis of future challenges. Topics Include: DRAM cells of all types including planar three-dimensional (3-D) trench or stacked COB or CUB vertical and mechanically robust cells using advanced transistors and storage capacitors Advancements in transistor technology for the RCAT SCAT FinFET BT FinFET Saddle and advanced recess type and storage capacitor realizations How sub 100 nm trench DRAM technologies and sub 50 nm stacked DRAM technologies and related topics may lead to new research Various types of leakages and power consumption reduction methods in active and sleep mode Various types of SAs and yield enhancement techniques employing ECC and redundancy A worthwhile addition to semiconductor memory research academicians and researchers interested in the design and optimization of high-density and cost-efficient DRAMs may also find it useful as part of a graduate-level course. | Dynamic RAM Technology Advancements

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Groundwater Assessment Modeling and Management

Groundwater Assessment Modeling and Management

Your Guide to Effective Groundwater ManagementGroundwater Assessment Modeling and Management discusses a variety of groundwater problems and outlines the solutions needed to sustain surface and ground water resources on a global scale. Contributors from around the world lend their expertise and provide an international perspective on groundwater management. They address the management of groundwater resources and pollution waste water treatment methods and the impact of climate change on groundwater and water availability (specifically in arid and semi-arid regions such as India and Africa). Incorporating management with science and modeling the book covers all areas of groundwater resource assessment modeling and management and combines hands-on applications with relevant theory. For Water Resource Managers and Decision MakersThe book describes techniques for the assessment of groundwater potential pollution prevention and remedial measures and includes a new approach for groundwater modeling based on connections (network theory). Approximately 30 case studies and six hypothetical studies are introduced reflecting a range of themes that include: groundwater basics and the derivation of groundwater flow equations exploration and assessment aquifer parameterization augmentation of aquifer water and environment water and agriculture the role of models and their application and water management policies and issues. The book describes remote sensing (RS) applications geographical information systems (GIS) and electrical resistivity methods to delineate groundwater potential zones. It also takes a look at:Inverse modeling (pilot-points method)Simulation optimization modelsRadionuclide migration studies through mass transport modelingModeling for mapping groundwater potentialModeling for vertical 2-D and 3-D groundwater flowGroundwater Assessment Modeling and Management explores the management of water resources and the impact of climate change on groundwater. Expert contributors provide practical information on hydrologic engineering and groundwater resources management for students researchers scientists and other practicing professionals in environmental engineering hydrogeology irrigation geophysics and environmental science.

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