Author: Committee on the Biological Confinement of Genetic
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: organisms, engineered, genetically, confinement, biological
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2004-05-05
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 0309090857
ISBN-13: 9780309090858

Examines biological methods that may be used with genetically engineered plants, animals, microbes, and fungi. DLC: Transgenic organisms--Safety measures.Book DescriptionGenetically engineered organisms (GEOs) have been under development for more than 20 years while GE crops have been grown commercially during the last decade. During this time, a number of questions have cropped up concerning the potential consequences that certain GEOs might have on natural or managed ecosystems and human health. Interest in developing methods to confine some GEOs and their transgenes to specifically designat

Authors:R. D. Hazeltine, J. D. Mei,
Publisher: Dover Publicatio
Keywords: confinement, plasma
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2003-12-29
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0486432424
ISBN-13: 9780486432427

Detailed and authoritative, this graduate-level text examines the essential physics underlying international research in magnetic confinement fusion. It offers readable, thorough accounts of the fundamental concepts behind methods of confining plasma at or near thermonuclear conditions. 1992 edition.

Author: Robin Sheppard
Publisher: Ecademy Press Limited
Keywords: confinement, solitary
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2007-10-22
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 1905823258
ISBN-13: 9781905823253

Robin Sheppard had always seemed like a lucky guy! Proud father of two sons in their late teens, Sam the eldest (the musical one) and Charlie (the artistic one); still good friends with his first wife Georgina known always as George and partnered by the effervescent and indomitable Suzanne known by all as Suzi; when his hitherto contented life took a different turn. He had bounded through 50 years of an unfettered existence working in places that didn’t feel like any factory or office you might know. A universe largely comprising five star hotels set in manicured gardens, with fine wines

Author: John Rasmussen
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Keywords: confinement, isolation, man
Number of Pages: 339
Published: 2007-10-31
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0202361454
ISBN-13: 9780202361451

This book focuses on those special circumstances in which men (alone or in groups) are isolated or confined for periods of time long enough to affect the way in which they think and behave. Active research in these phenomena initially grew out of a concern about prisoners of war in Korea and the presumed effects of "brainwashing," but this interest has been augmented by the technological advances that have allowed men to enter into isolation situations previously unattainable - in outer space, under the sea, on the face of the moon, or in remote places on the earth’s surface. For the sci

Author: Joy James
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: prisons, detention, policing, confinement, states
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2002-02-08
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0312294506
ISBN-13: 9780312294502

The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world; 70 percent of the nearly two million incarcerated in prisons and immigration detention centers are people of color. States of Confinement uncovers the political, social, and economic biases in policing and punishment. The distinguished contributors- Angela Y. Davis, Manning Marable, Gary Marx, Robert Meeropol, Julie Su, and Judi Bari-discuss abuses of police powers in American society. They expose racial profiling and sentencing disparities that target African Americans and Latinos, the sexual explo

Author: M. N. Rosenbluth
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Keywords: trends, physics, research, confinement, ideas, tokamak, new
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 1994-08
List price: $166.00
ISBN-10: 1563961318
ISBN-13: 9781563961311

Thermonuclear fusion research using the confinement device tokamak represents one of the most prominent science projects in the second half of the 20th century. International Tokamak Community is now committing significant effort and funds to experiments with burning plasma, hot and dense enough to produce significant nuclear fusion reactions. The methods used to enhance tokamak performance have a profound and immediate effect on machine design. This book provides an up-to-date account of research in tokamak fusion and puts forward innovative ideas in confinement physics.

Authors:M. Cahay, J. P. Leburton, David J. Lockwood, S. Ba
Publisher: Electrochemical Society
Keywords: confinement, quantum, materials, luminescent, advanced
Published: 2002-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 156677330X
ISBN-13: 9781566773300