Author: Arthur Stegen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578490335
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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This book is about biathlon; explaining what it is; what it takes and how it's done; and an historical perspective of the sport in the United States. Biathlon is a unique modern Winter Olympic sport and generally unknown by the American public. Unlike the familiar sports that are played out on athletic fields and gymnasiums across the American landscape, biathlon takes place in a relatively few locations, during the cold winter environment and with few spectators. "Biathlon" is unique in sports and participant success requires the pinnacle of physiological fitness as well as the calmness required for solid accuracy. Although the combined concept of skiing and marksmanship can be traced to prehistoric Scandinavia its role in military planning and strategies came at a much later time and it can be said that the early Scandinavian military ski troops are the true origins of this modern-day exciting sport.It has its roots in a form of human survival where the ability to survive in the natural world depended on one's adeptness to overcome the lack of natural protection and to avoid extinction through strength, endurance, agility and intelligence.Biathlon skills gradually became a genuine international competition in the form of the military patrol race. Because of their training and fitness value patrol competitions started in the Soviet Union and other nations by 1924, and entered the Winter Olympic games in that year. Because of post WW II anti-war sentiments, it was temporarily dropped from the Winter Olympic Games, and then reinstated in 1960. Between 1948 and 1960, however, Biathlon competitions did not disappear, but continued to be popular in Switzerland and Scandinavian countries. This book is also a tribute to the small group of dedicated participants, coaches, administrators and supporters who made contributions to its evolution from its beginning to the dynamic and exciting sport that it is today.
Author: Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031160142
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 863
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2022, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in September 2022. The 56 full papers and 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 420 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on collective intelligence and collective decision-making; deep learning techniques; natural language processing; data minning and machine learning; knowledge engineering and semantic web; computer vision techniques; social networks and intelligent systems; cybersecurity and internet of things; cooperative strategies for decision making and optimization; computational intelligence for digital content understanding; applications for industry 4.0.
Author: Antonio Ferrua
Publisher: Geddes & Grosset, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Art, Byzantine
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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During excavation work in 1955, a unique discovery of early Christian art was made in Rome. Below the city was a catacomb system containing a unique and previously unknown collection of paintings and decoration. This book tells of the discovery and of the research and preservation work carried out to conserve it.
Author: Arthur L. Friedberg
Publisher: Coin & Currency Institute
ISBN: 0871845180
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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A Complete Illustrated Guide with Valuations large size notes, fractional currency, small size notes, encased postage stamps from the first year of paper money (1861) to the present confederate states notes, colonial and continental currency The standard reference work on paper money
Author: Maggie Judkins
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440247080
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 481
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Fully updated and vetted by industry leaders, the Standard Catalog of United States Paper Money, 35th Edition, is an indispensable reference to U.S. currency, offering complete coverage in an easy-to-use format. The new edition of this invaluable catalog features more than 1,000 color notes, essential descriptions and real-world values provided by experts in up to four grades for: • Large and Small Size Currency since 1861 • Gold and Silver Certificates • National Bank Notes by type • Pre-Civil War Treasury Notes • Postage and Fractional Currency • Military Payment Certificates • Error Notes • And much more! The Standard Catalog of U.S. Paper Money stands alone. No other reference contains the vast amount of images, type listings, and price values as found here.
Author: Huw Lemmey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781999675912
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Long, long before the Information Age ended, young Hildegard of Bingen finds beauty in the moral and spiritual ruins of her medieval world. In her forty-third year, she inscribes her cosmic visions into Scivias, an indescribably beautiful codex of writing and illuminations thought to be destroyed during the evacuation of Earth. In a sea cave with cracked amethyst walls on Avaaz, Pinky Agarwalia discovers fragments of this visionary text containing hitherto unknown pathways to a lost vision of human co-existence with plants and non-humans - and the seeds of its rebirth on Avaaz. Bursting with mythic quantum energy, Hildegard's vital linguistic potion viriditas, threaded throughout her communiques, is a lush, verdant, renewable life-force. Her ecological message may be just the magic needed for rebirth on Avaaz. Hildegard's mystic toolkit for the future includes a cosmology, medicine, a morphology of crystals, recipes - and the symbols of a new language. As Pinky Agarwalia traces the diagrams with her fingertip, she suddenly understands - a vision that appears without warning in her own mind - that she must first immerse these materials in water, a guarded substance. In the water, the molecules of the hidden language dissolve, freeze then reconfigure into new shapes, the crystalline language communicated not through sound but by feeling and light. Lingua Ignota, Hildegard's mysterious invented 'unknown language', arrives just in time for a world in flux, one whose coordinates are being recast.
Author: Robert C. King
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489917101
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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The purpose of this and future volumes of the Handbook of Genetics is to bring together a collection of relatively short, authoritative essays or annotated compilations of data on topics of significance to geneticists. Many of the essays will deal with various aspects of the biology of certain species selected because they are favorite subjects for genetic investigation in nature or the laboratory. Often there will be an encyclopedic amount of information available on such a species, with new papers appearing daily. Most of these will be written for specialists in a jargon that is be wildering to a novice, and sometimes even to a veteran geneticist working with evolutionarily distant organisms. For such readers what is needed is a written introduction to the morphology, life cycle, reproductive be havior, and culture methods for the species in question. What are its par ticular advantages (and disadvantages) for genetic study, and what have we learned from it? Where are the classic papers, the key bibliographies, and how does one get stocks of wild type or mutant strains? The chapters devoted to different species will contain information of this sort. Only a few hundreds of the millions of species available to biologists have been subjected to detailed genetic study. However, those that have make up a very heterogeneous sample of the living world.
Author: Peter Spyns
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9789058670694
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Author: Charles Casandjian
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118639464
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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This book is focused on the theoretical and practical design of reinforced concrete beams, columns and frame structures. It is based on an analytical approach of designing normal reinforced concrete structural elements that are compatible with most international design rules, including for instance the European design rules – Eurocode 2 – for reinforced concrete structures. The book tries to distinguish between what belongs to the structural design philosophy of such structural elements (related to strength of materials arguments) and what belongs to the design rule aspects associated with specific characteristic data (for the material or loading parameters). Reinforced Concrete Beams, Columns and Frames – Mechanics and Design deals with the fundamental aspects of the mechanics and design of reinforced concrete in general, both related to the Serviceability Limit State (SLS) and the Ultimate Limit State (ULS). A second book, entitled Reinforced Concrete Beams, Columns and Frames – Section and Slender Member Analysis, deals with more advanced ULS aspects, along with instability and second-order analysis aspects. Some recent research results including the use of non-local mechanics are also presented. This book is aimed at Masters-level students, engineers, researchers and teachers in the field of reinforced concrete design. Most of the books in this area are very practical or code-oriented, whereas this book is more theoretically based, using rigorous mathematics and mechanics tools. Contents 1. Design at Serviceability Limit State (SLS). 2. Verification at Serviceability Limit State (SLS). 3. Concepts for the Design at Ultimate Limit State (ULS). 4. Bending-Curvature at Ultimate Limit State (ULS). Appendix 1. Cardano’s Method. Appendix 2. Steel Reinforcement Table. About the Authors Charles Casandjian was formerly Associate Professor at INSA (French National Institute of Applied Sciences), Rennes, France and the chairman of the course on reinforced concrete design. He has published work on the mechanics of concrete and is also involved in creating a web experience for teaching reinforced concrete design – BA-CORTEX. Noël Challamel is Professor in Civil Engineering at UBS, University of South Brittany in France and chairman of the EMI-ASCE Stability committee. His contributions mainly concern the dynamics, stability and inelastic behavior of structural components, with special emphasis on Continuum Damage Mechanics (more than 70 publications in International peer-reviewed journals). Christophe Lanos is Professor in Civil Engineering at the University of Rennes 1 in France. He has mainly published work on the mechanics of concrete, as well as other related subjects. He is also involved in creating a web experience for teaching reinforced concrete design – BA-CORTEX. Jostein Hellesland has been Professor of Structural Mechanics at the University of Oslo, Norway since January 1988. His contribution to the field of stability has been recognized and magnified by many high-quality papers in famous international journals such as Engineering Structures, Thin-Walled Structures, Journal of Constructional Steel Research and Journal of Structural Engineering.
Author: Anne Warwick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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