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What will the city of the future look like? More like an ever-changing and vibrant garden than a static set of buildings and blocks. In 'Living Architecture,' British scientist and architect Rachel Armstrong re-imagines the world's extensive urban areas and argues that in order to achieve sustainable development of the built environment - and help countries like Japan recover from natural disasters - we need to start thinking differently. Armstrong sets the scene for considering different ways of making structures and materials, suggesting that we can 'grow' more ecologically compatible buildings by using life-like technologies, such as protocells. The result is a new kind of architectural practice where cities behave more like an evolving ecosystem than lifeless machines.
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In the tradition of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and the X-Files:A scientist is missing...Alaskan fishermen are getting their fingers bitten off...And the fish we eat is at the root of a conspiracy that will change us all.Paranormal detective Sterling Strange faces his most horrifying case yet. Alaskan fishermen are getting their fingers bitten off. Soon after being mutilated, the fishermen disappear. Sterling's quest to determine the fate of missing men takes him to a wilderness fish farm, far up a remote inlet. But the investigation takes a back seat to survival when Sterling finds himself next on the fish farmer's list.BROOD is a 20,000 word novella (approximately 85 pages) that takes the reader on a wild and frightening ride deep into the wilderness where fish are being bred for more than their meat.Readers praise BROOD:"This is a novella for all seasons. Stephen King watch out!"Hamish, Amazon - 5 stars"This was quite possibly the coolest novella I've ever read. Interesting characters, gripping plot -- can't wait to read more from this writer!"E.J. Whalen, AmazonBROOD also includes bonus material: an extended excerpt from the author's bestselling, 350 page spy thriller, LETHAL CIRCUIT.Readers praise LETHAL CIRCUIT:"Rockin' fast-paced thriller!!! Strap yourself in for a wild ride as backpacker Michael Chase gets caught up in the world of spies and secret agents."Connaisseur, Amazon - 5 Stars"Couldn't stop reading! From the very first page I was gripped by this novel."MAKO, Amazon - 5 Stars"Lars Guignard keeps you hanging at the end of each chapter!"David Trail, Amazon - 5 StarsLETHAL CIRCUIT is the first in the Michael Chase spy thriller series. It has been on the Amazon Technothriller Bestseller List since its release.About the Author: Lars Guignard is a former television writer and graduate of both McGill University and the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Lars's work can be seen on television screens across the globe in series as varied as Beastmaster, Big Wolf on Campus, and Mentors. Lars's work has also been produced for film and published in magazines. Lars now makes his home in the Pacific Northwest where he is putting the finishing touches on the next Strange Investigation.
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What if your cell phone could detect cancer cells circulating in your blood or warn you of an imminent heart attack? Mobile wireless digital devices, including smartphones and tablets with seemingly limitless functionality, have brought about radical changes in our lives, providing hyper-connectivity to social networks and cloud computing. But the digital world has hardly pierced the medical cocoon. Until now. Beyond reading email and surfing the Web, we will soon be checking our vital signs on our phone. We can already continuously monitor our heart rhythm, blood glucose levels, and brain waves while we sleep. Miniature ultrasound imaging devices are replacing the icon of medicineâthe stethoscope. DNA sequencing, Facebook, and the Watson supercomputer have already saved lives. For the first time we can capture all the relevant data from each individual to enable precision therapy, prevent major side effects of medications, and ultimately to prevent many diseases from ever occurring. And yet many of these digital medical innovations lie unused because of the medical community’s profound resistance to change. In The Creative Destruction of Medicine, Eric Topolâone of the nation’s top physicians and a leading voice on the digital revolution in medicineâargues that radical innovation and a true democratization of medical care are within reach, but only if we consumers demand it. We can force medicine to undergo its biggest shakeup in history. This book shows us the stakesâand how to win them.
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For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations.
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This explosive exposé reveals what the biotech industry doesnt want you to knowhow industry manipulation and political collusion, not sound science, allow dangerous genetically engineered food into your daily diet. Company research is rigged, alarming evidence of health dangers is covered up, and intense political pressure applied. Chapters read like adventure stories and are hard to put down: - Scientists were offered bribes or threatened. Evidence was stolen. Data was omitted or distorted. - Government employees who complained were harassed, stripped of responsibilities, or fired. - Laboratory rats fed a GM crop developed stomach lesions and seven of the forty died within two weeks. The crop was approved without further tests. - The only independent in-depth feeding study ever conducted showed evidence of alarming health dangers. When the scientist tried to alert the public, he lost his job and was silenced with threats of a lawsuit. Read the actual internal memos by FDA scientists, warning of toxins, allergies, and new diseasesall ignored by their superiors, including a former attorney for Monsanto. Learn why the FDA withheld information from Congress after a genetically modified supplement killed nearly a hundred people and disabled thousands. Jeffrey Smith has worked in the field of GM foods for nearly a decadewith nonprofit and political groups and at a GMO detection laboratory. His masterful writing style captivates and charms, while his meticulously documented facts leave no doubt about a massive injustice. Eating such experimental food is gambling with your health. Find out how you can protect yourself and your family.
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Isotopes are atoms of the same element having different atomic mass due to adifferent number of neutrons in their nuclei with the identical number of protons.Some isotopes are unstable due to a specific combination of neutrons and protonswhich occurs naturally or can be artificially produced by bombarding the targetatoms with neutrons in a nuclear reactor or with charged particles in an accelerator.These unstable nuclei attain their stability by emitting nuclear radiations such asneutrons, alpha particles, beta (positron/electron) or gamma rays and are termed asradioisotopes, while the term radioactivity is used to describe these spontaneous,energy emitting, atomic transitions that involve changes in the state of the nucleus ofan atom. Radioactivity was discovered by A. H. Becquerel in l896 when he wasinvestigating the fluorescence of a double sulphate of uranium and potassium, usinga photographic plate. Marie Curie coined the word radioactivitè, investigated thisproperty in a number of minerals containing uranium, which she found to be moreactive and subsequently polonium was discovered. Readers are referred to readmore in NCRP Report No.58, A Handbook of Radioactivity Measurements andProcedures.Radiation from radioisotopes plays a very important role in all fields, useful in our lifesuch as soil and earth science, radioactive dating, environment, archeology,agriculture, biochemical analysis, radiotherapy and cancer treatment, medicaldiagnosis, nuclear medicine, biological sciences, sterilization of medical products, nondestructiveelemental analysis and testing of materials, oceanography, pharmaceutical,radioisotope power systems for space applications and many more.Part 1 Radioisotopes and Radiations in Bioscience 1Chapter 1 Medical Radioisotopes Production: A ComprehensiveCross-Section Study for the Production of Mo and TcRadioisotopes Via Proton Induced NuclearReactions on natMo 3Chapter 2 Use of Radioactive Precursors for BiochemicalCharacterization the Biosynthesis of Isoprenoids inIntraerythrocytic Stages of Plasmodium falciparum 27Chapter 3 Radioisotopes and Nanomedicine 47Chapter 4 Use of Radiation and Isotopes in Insects 67Chapter 5 Radioisotopes in Drug Research and Development:Focus on Positron Emission Tomography 93Chapter 6 Application of Radioisotopes in Biochemical Analyses:Metal Binding Proteins and Metal Transporters 115Chapter 7 Undesirable Radioisotopes Induced by TherapeuticBeams from Medical Linear Accelerators 127Chapter 8 The Use of Radioisotopes to Characterisethe Abnormal Permeability of Red BloodCells from Sickle Cell Patients 151Chapter 9 Boron Studies in Interdisciplinary FieldsEmploying Nuclear Track Detectors (NTDs) 173Part 2 Radioisotopes and Radiology in Medical Science 197Chapter 10 Production and Selection of Metal PETRadioisotopes for Molecular Imaging 199Chapter 11 Radiolabelled Nanoparticles for Diagnosisand Treatment of Cancer 225Chapter 12 3-Dimensional CT Lymphography in Identifyingthe Sentinel Node in Breast Cancer 249Chapter 13 Nuclear Medicine in the Imaging andManagement of Breast Cancer 259Chapter 14 Axillary Reverse Mapping in Breast Cancer 273Chapter 15 Lymphedema: Clinical Picture,Diagnosis and Management 289Chapter 16 Targeting the Causes of Intractable Chronic Constipationin Children: The Nuclear Transit Study (NTS) 305
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Now Jeffrey M. Smiths best-selling book is paired with a new DVD and CD set that shows how genetically modified organisms (GMOs) put our health and environment at risk. This set will impact consumer perceptions and buying habits. DVD 1: Unnatural Selection This stunning, award-winning documentary by Bertram Verhaag and Gabriele Kröber reveals harsh consequences of genetic engineering on three continents. Vandana Shiva, Andrew Kimbrell, Percy Schmeiser and others, describe uncontrollable, self-replicating GM contamination, failed crops, farmer suicides, and new GM animals that threaten natural populations. "Best Film," (CineEco, Portugal), "Best Long Production," (IEFF, Brazil), and "Best Journalistic Achievement," (IEFF, Germany). "Meticulously researched, excellently photographed" Ökomedia DVD 2: Hidden Dangers in Kids Meals: Genetically Engineered Foods Shocking research results, inadequate regulations and warnings from eminent scientists explain why GM foods are dangerous and should be removed from kids meals. The dramatic story of how student behavior in a Wisconsin school was transformed with a healthy diet provides added motivation to make a change. It features Jeffrey Smith and more than a dozen scientists and experts. "Hidden Dangers pierces the myth that our government is protecting our food supply." John Robbins, Diet for a New America "It will change the way you look at food forever." Howard Lyman, Mad Cowboy Audio CD: Youre Eating WHAT? Jeffrey Smiths riveting one-hour talk. "The most powerful presentation I have ever heard on the issue of genetically engineered foods. Craig Winters, The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods Seeds of Deception This is the top-rated, best selling book in the world on GM foods. Smith exposes the serious health dangers of genetically modified foods and the corporate cover-up. A fast-paced thriller of industry manipulation and political collusion, combined with lucid descriptions of genetic engineering and guidance on how to protect yourself and your family.
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There have been at least 25 prototype humans. We are but one more model, and there is no evidence evolution has stopped. So unless you think Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern are the be all and end all of creation, and it just does not get any better, then one has to ask what is next? Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans, two of the world's most eminent science authors, researchers, and entrepreneurs, answer this by taking you into a world where humans increasingly shape their environment, their own selves, and other species. It is a world where our bodies harbor 100 times more microbial cells than human cells, a place where a gene cocktail may allow many more to climb an 8,000 meter peak without oxygen, and where, given the right drug, one could have a 77 percent chance of becoming a centenarian. By the end you will see a broad, and sometimes scary, map of life science driven change. Not just our bodies will be altered but our core religious, government, and social structures as humankind makes the transition to a new species, a Homo evolutis, which directly and deliberately controls its own evolution and that of many other species.
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author: Hoffman, Shirl Pages: 568
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