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This comprehensive volume provides an overview of the rapidly expanding field of intelligent computers, explaining what a 'smart' robot is, how it is selected and what must be done to operate such a system. It is designed to help the reader develo...

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The Apple Macintosh Encyclopedia provides easily accessible, brief and understandable information on the topics that you are most likely to have questions about. We have carefully digested the manuals, books, magazine articles, and other informati...

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Most of us do not realize that we are living in revolutionary times. To a large degree, we are in a time of massive economic and industrial change, and perhaps history will one day record this era as the Second Industrial Revolution. Certainly we ...

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This book should be of interest to air pollution engineers, public health authorities, chemical engineers.

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This book should be of interest to students and practitioners of materials science, production engineering, and engineering and design.

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This book should be of interest to designers and procirers of automated systems in all engineering fields (electrical, mechanical, optical and automotive engineering).

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The Apple / / series of computers represents one of the most versatile and powerful home computers available. If you've used your computer for a while, you've probably become quite familiar with Applesoft BASIC. That's good, because once you know ...

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Manufacturing has entered the early stages of a revolutionary period caused by the convergence of three powerful trends: * The rapid advancement and spread of manufacturing capabilities worldwide has created intense competition on a global scale. ...

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"Evolutionary Perspectives in Chemical Ecology" provides a comprehensive view of insect chemical ecology from an evolutionary perspective, showing how natural selection acts upon interacting organisms and how particular physical and biological pro...

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"Evolutionary Perspectives in Chemical Ecology" provides a comprehensive view of insect chemical ecology from an evolutionary perspective, showing how natural selection acts upon interacting organisms and how particular physical and biological pro...

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It is now known that over 90 percent of all plants have established integrative plant-fungal processes in their root systems, and it may well turn out to be the case that virtually all plants have mycorrhizae. In this new work, many of the best re...

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During the last 15 years, the ability to capture and distribute human decision-making skills on a desktop computer has created new possibilities for the management of many types of resources. The resource may be monetary, social, natural or econom...

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This treatment of the chemistry of secondary processes reviews all the major classes of plant natural products: fatty acids, actylenes, hydrocarbons, ketides, quonines, propanoids, coumarins, flavonoids, tannins, amino acids, peptides, carbohydrat...

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Sex ratio, the proportion of a progeny that is female, is an extremely important fitness trait. It is particularly interesting in relation to haplodiploidy, a variety of parthenogenesis in which organisms reproduce without the benefit of fertiliza...

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Sex ratio, the proportion of a progeny that is female, is an extremely important fitness trait. It is particularly interesting in relation to haplodiploidy, a variety of parthenogenesis in which organisms reproduce without the benefit of fertiliza...

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The application of molecular techniques is rapidly transforming the study of plant systematics. The precision they offer enables researchers to classify plants that have not been subject to rigorous classification before and thus allows them to ob...

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The topic of biomonitoring or bioassessment and testing is a vital and rapidly growing field. In "Freshwater Biomonitoring and Benthic Macroinvertebrates", a number of international experts review recent advances in the field. The book includes re...

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Every year between three and four hundred papers are published on the topic of insulin action. This extraordinary publication rate prevents any author from includ ing an exhaustive bibliography in any review or book. Perhaps due to this there is n...

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This book really began in 1980 with our first microcomputer, an Apple II +. The great value of the Apple II + was that we could take the computer programs we had been building on mainframe and mini-computers, and make them available to the many fi...

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Planthoppers include some of the most devastating pests of major agricultural crops throughout the world. One species, the rice brown planthopper, is among the most economically important pests in Asia. In past decades, government policies encoura...

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"The Evolution of Life Histories" shows that natural selection is the principal underlying force moulding life history variation. The book describes in particular the ways in which variation can be analyzed and predicted. There are many different ...

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There are many different types of organisms in the world: they differ in size, physiology, appearance, and life history. The challenge for evolutionary biology is to explain how such diversity arises. The Evolution of Life Histories does this by s...

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Nitrogen fixation is a key component of the nitrogen cycle, one of the most fundamental nutrient cycles in the biosphere. Conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into organic nitrogen compounds can be carried out only by certain bacteria and blue-green...

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Insect Learning is a comprehensive review of a new field. Until recently, insects were viewed as rigidly programmed automatons; now, however, it is recognized that they can learn and that their behavior is plastic. This fundamental change in viewp...

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This book should be of interest to students of genetics, botany, agronomy, plant science, crop science, plant breeding, entomology, animal science and human genetics.

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This book offers constructive ideas to researchers that could lead to the discovery of entirely new classes of drugs. The authors emphasize new topics rather than review work on known antibacterials and antifungals and identify new targets - eithe...

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The field of endocrinology has exploded in the last 20 years because of advances in molecular and cell biology. This text integrates new knowledge about hormone structure and function with the more classical focus on endocrine physiology and metab...

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"Global Climate Change and Life on Earth" focuses on the greenhouse effect and its relation to such crucial issues as deforestation, overpopulation and hunger, pollution, sea level changes, and the loss of biodiversity. These environmental threats...

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This volume is about freshwater fish in streams, lakes, reservoirs and special habitats around the world. It addresses approximately 20 major topics in freshwater fish ecology in a format suitable for use in graduate-level courses. The book focuse...

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