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Many industries use control systems to insure that parameters such as temperature or altitude behave in a desirable way over time. This book offers an alternative failure detection approach that addresses two of the fundamental problems in the safe and efficient operation of modern control systems: failure detection and model identification.

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Traces the advantages and dangers of mankind's inventions.

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Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. James C. Whorton's history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the introduction of chemical pesticides in the 1860s. The book

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Best Science Writing features 12 award-winning and compelling examples of science journalism. This anthology offers a variety of styles, methods, and techniques that work for the science writer.

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This volume is designed to provide a framework for studying the public policy implications of a broad range of biomedical technologies. Contributors address such issues as new reproductive technologies, animal experimentation, contraceptive drugs, genetic markers and technology and the aging society.

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An overview of the first ten years of the industrial revolution in applied molecular genetics, this work discusses the birth and expectations of the biotechnology industry, the response to products of genetic engineering and the social and political discourse on the direction of biotechnology.

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An overview of the first ten years of the industrial revolution in applied molecular genetics, this work discusses the birth and expectations of the biotechnology industry, the response to products of genetic engineering and the social and political discourse on the direction of biotechnology.

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Provides an introduction to various areas of biotechnology, covering such topics as: a history of the science behind biotechnology; the tools of biotechnology; innovations; biotechnology in everyday life; and ethical issues of biotechnology. This book helps understand the basics of one of the most important scientific fields of endeavour.

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The final section is devoted to a presentation of public policy responses to biotechnology and includes four chapters that center on issue development and responsibilities, economic development and public policy as they relate to biotechnology, and a challenge to congressional policy makers and policy analysts.

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At the age of 17, Samuel L Broadnax was enlisted as a pilot at the Tuskegee Army Air Base. Although he left the Air Corps at the end of the WWII, his experiences inspired him to talk with other pilots and black pioneers of aviation. This book presents an account of the history of African Americans in the skies from the beginnings of manned flight.

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A paperback edition of the original text first published in 1977.

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Over the last two decades, the image of the U.S. space program has become seriously tarnished.

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The volume includes a chronology of the automobile's evolution, a glossary of technical terms, a selected bibliography, and more than 20 photographs and illustrations.

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The story of the evolution of the urban freeway, the competing visions that informed it, and the emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation.

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This revised edition of the popular Chickens in Your Backyard covers all the basics of raising and caring for healthy, happy chickens.

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A unique chronology with entries describing the key events in the 3,000-year conflict between religion and science over the explanation and definition of life on Earth.

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Showcasing experiments in architecture, engineering, and construction designemploying technological infrastructures that link people and their ideas across physical, intellectual, and cultural boundariesthe authors consider such issues as the links between competence and innovation and between individual and collective knowledge.