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Excerpt: Prologue the mystery would never be solved. It would simply join others, like the tunguska event or the square crater on callisto, in the catalogue of unexplained occurrences. The initial worldwide excitement waned within a few months, as it became clear that no quick answers would be found. For a few years grieving relatives would, with some success, press officialdom to maintain the studies and inquiries. But there were no lawyers to keep the fires stoked. The...
Government Reference Publication
Excerpt: Principles Relating Organ Structure and Function Behavior offers a sensitive way to monitor damage to the functioning of the central nervous system. Recognition of this obvious fact as a general principle has been relatively recent, although it has been an established part of the toxic effects of certain chemicals for many years. Behavioral toxicology, as a term, has a recent origin as the principle just stated. It is the functioning of the central nervous syste...
Excerpt: BUCK did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy do...
Excerpt: So? what?s gone with the wind in Florida Bay? It?s sea grass indirectly. Strong winds cause resuspension in this shallow bay and reduces light availability; it is believed the winds attribute to the sea grass die-off. The amount of wind stress required for resuspension to occur (critical wind stress) varies spatially, depending on the bottom type (less energy is needed to resuspend bare sandy bottom than vegetated bottom). Once resuspension occurs, settling time...
Preface: A preface to the first edition of ?Jane Eyre? being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. My thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions. To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant. To my Publishers, for the aid their tact, their energy, their practical sense and f...
Excerpt: Toxicogenomics is a new undertaking in the pursuit of human genes relevant to health risk from environmental toxicants and related stress. Such stress spans a range of dire threats in the human condition from ultraviolet to blue light, from particulate diesel exhaust to complex chemical mixtures in the air, from threats in reused airplane air to threats in herbal remedies, from threats in the food supply from pesticides to threats from genetically modified organ...
Transcript of a 19.5-hour interview completed under the auspices of the UCLA Oral History Program; Epstein recollects his life, bookseller friends, and the development of his stores, first in Long Beach, in the downtown Book Row of the twenties, and the landmark Pickwick Bookstore on Hollywood Boulevard; The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; Bookseller; Vol. 2 includes index; The UCLA Oral History Program : catalog of the collection / compiled by Cons...
Additional Subjects: Zeitlin, Jake, 1902-; Pickwick Book Shop; Dawson's Book Shop
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Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tidewater dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with s...
Excerpt: EILEAN AROS. IT WAS a beautiful morning in the late July when I set forth on foot for the last time for Aros. A boat had put me ashore the night before at Grisapol; I had such breakfast as the little inn afforded, and, leaving all my baggage till I had an occasion to come round for it by sea, struck right across the promontory with a cheerful heart. I was far from being a native of these parts, springing, as I did, from an unmixed lowland stock. But an uncle of ...
Marshalsea Prison (Southwark, London, England) ; Children of prisoners ; Inheritance and succession ; Debt, Imprisonment for ; Fathers and daughters
Nutrition
Nutrition Reference Publication
Preface: TAC initiated its discussions on abiotic stress genomics at TAC 80 in March 2000 at ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria. Under the agenda item Trends in Science ? Implications for CGIAR, TAC discussed the opportunities offered by the new sciences in improving the relevance, quality and impact of research in the CGIAR. In the area of biological sciences, TAC considered that the advances in molecular biology had important long-term implications for CGIAR?s work on genetic enhan...