A Matter Of Size

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,National Materials Advisory Board,Committee to Review the National Nanotechnology Initiative
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309102230

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A Matter of Size by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,National Materials Advisory Board,Committee to Review the National Nanotechnology Initiative Pdf

The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) was created in 2000 to focus and coordinate the nanoscience and nanotechnology research and development (R&D) activities being funded by several federal agencies. The purpose of the NNI is to marshal these research activities in order to accelerate responsible development and deployment of nanotechnology for economic benefit and national security. To take stock of the progress of the NNI, Congress, in P. L. 108-153, the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act, directed the National Research Council to carry out a review of the program every three years. This report presents the results of the first of those reviews, which addresses the economic impact of nanotechnology developments and provides a benchmark of U.S. R&D efforts relative to those undertaken by foreign competitors. In addition, the report offers an assessment of the current status of responsible development of nanotechnology and comments on the feasibility of molecular self-assembly.

Author : SAMUEL MINES
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A MATTER OF SIZE by SAMUEL MINES Pdf

Professor Hiram Dexter put the finishing touches on his toilet by tenderly brushing out his crisp, black Vandyke beard. He stepped back to look at himself in the mirror. He had to stoop a little for even the full-length glass was short for his six feet four inches of gangling height. Nevertheless he regarded his image with undiluted satisfaction. "Ah, Dexter," he sighed, "you're a dashing rascal." Humming tunelessly, for he was quite tone-deaf, he picked up a book titled, "The Nutritive Quotient, Vitamin Factors And Trace Elements of Protein-High Diets," put his hat on, the light out, and left the house.

Author : Robert Jeschonek
Publisher : Robert Jeschonek
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781458149800

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A Matter of Size by Robert Jeschonek Pdf

A Super-Hero Tale by a DC Comics Writer. Who is killing the world's smallest super-heroes? Down-on-his-luck masked avenger Man-Child takes the case, but can he save the remaining Small Wonders from a killer with a twisted crush fetish? Man-Child takes on villainous Mammon and Stigmata without missing a beat, but his own dark secret might be enough to bring him down for good. Fighting through the shadows and gutters, Man-Child confronts the horrors of yesterday and today, learning a brutal lesson the hard way: even a size-changing super-hero can't afford to shrink from the darkness around him...or in the depths of his own heart. Don't miss this action-packed super-hero tale with a difference from Robert T. Jeschonek, whose work for DC Comics laid the foundation for this thrilling new adventure.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0872200728

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On Poetry and Style by Aristotle Pdf

Contains the Poeticsand the first twelve chapters of the Rhetoric, Book III.

Author : John Tyler Bonner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691254425

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Why Size Matters by John Tyler Bonner Pdf

John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of size in biology. In his hallmark friendly style, he explores the universal impact of being the right size. By examining stories ranging from Alice in Wonderland to Gulliver's Travels, he shows that humans have always been fascinated by things big and small. Why then does size always reside on the fringes of science and never on the center stage? Why do biologists and others ponder size only when studying something else—running speed, life span, or metabolism? Why Size Matters, a pioneering book of big ideas in a compact size, gives size its due by presenting a profound yet lucid overview of what we know about its role in the living world. Bonner argues that size really does matter—that it is the supreme and universal determinant of what any organism can be and do. For example, because tiny creatures are subject primarily to forces of cohesion and larger beasts to gravity, a fly can easily walk up a wall, something we humans cannot even begin to imagine doing. Bonner introduces us to size through the giants and dwarfs of human, animal, and plant history and then explores questions including the physics of size as it affects biology, the evolution of size over geological time, and the role of size in the function and longevity of living things. As this elegantly written book shows, size affects life in its every aspect. It is a universal frame from which nothing escapes.

Author : Lauren Downing Peters
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350172562

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Fashion Before Plus-Size by Lauren Downing Peters Pdf

In 2022, it was reported that plus-sizes accounted for nearly twenty percent of all women's apparel sales in the United States and was one of the industry's few growth sectors. For many, this news seemed to herald a remarkably inclusive turn for an industry that long bartered in exclusivity. Yet the recent success of plus-size fashion obscures a rather complicated history–one that can be traced back over a century, and which illuminates the fraught relationship between fashion, fat, and weight bias in American culture. Although many regard fat as a malady of the present, in the early twentieth century it was estimated that more than one-third of American women classified as “overweight.” While modern weight bias had yet to fully cement itself in the American imaginary, the limitations of mass garment manufacturing coupled with the ascendent slender beauty ideal had already relegated larger women to fashion's peripheries. By 1915, however, fashion forecasters predicted that so-called “stoutwear” was well positioned to become one of the most lucrative subsectors of the burgeoning ready-to-wear trade. In the years that followed, stoutwear manufacturers set out to create more space for the fat woman in fashion but, in doing so, revealed an ancillary motivation: that of how to design fat out of existence altogether. Fashion Before Plus-Size considers what came “before” plus-size fashion while also shedding new light on the ways that the fashion industry not only perpetuates but produces weight bias. By situating stoutwear at the confluence of mass manufacturing, beauty ideals, standardized sizing, health discourse, and consumer culture, this book exposes the flawed foundations upon which the contemporary plus-size fashion industry has been built.

Author : United States. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Customs administration
ISBN : OSU:32437000591004

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Court of Customs and Patent Appeals Reports by United States. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals Pdf

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Patent laws and legislation
ISBN : UOM:39015074799993

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Decisions of Commissioner of Patents and U.S. Courts in Patent and Trademark and Copyright Cases by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062488429

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Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States Courts in Patent and Trade-mark and Copyright Cases by United States. Patent Office Pdf

"Compiled from Official gazette. Beginning with 1876, the volumes have included also decisions of United States courts, decisions of Secretary of Interior, opinions of Attorney-General, and important decisions of state courts in relation to patents, trade-marks, etc. 1869-94, not in Congressional set." Checklist of U. S. public documents, 1789-1909, p. 530.

Author : Tom Hayes,Michael S. Malone
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101155707

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No Size Fits All by Tom Hayes,Michael S. Malone Pdf

Today’s markets have splintered into millions of powerful consumer communities— how can businesses adapt? It’s no secret that traditional mass marketing— network television, newspapers, direct mail—is dying. Consumer markets are increasingly fragmented, even as they become more connected, transparent, and global. The future of business is about penetrating selfforming niches, from affinity groups on Facebook to thousands of satellite channels and millions of private online communities. So how can businesses reach new customers, win their trust, and earn their loyalty? Tom Hayes and Michael S. Malone urge an entirely new approach, embracing small, trust-based online groups as powerful vehicles for creating customers and gathering invaluable feedback. But what they call “marketing 3.0” isn’t as simple as setting up a YouTube channel. Drawing on many case studies, the authors offer a new set of tools for a world where attention is harder than ever to capture, but even more lucrative to hold. They explain how to use social media for a new kind of marketing—bottom-up instead of top-down, personal rather than public, subtle rather than full frontal. The payoff is a return to the power of oldfashioned handselling—turbocharged by bleedingedge technology.

Author : William A. Calder
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486691918

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Size, Function, and Life History by William A. Calder Pdf

Zoologist provides a quantitative baseline for comparative zoology and demonstrates the value of allometric correlations as an analytical tool. New Introduction. References.

Author : Colm Durkan
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781786346636

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Size Really Does Matter: The Nanotechnology Revolution by Colm Durkan Pdf

'The text is lightly written but, underneath the entertaining gloss of anecdote and personal detail, this is actually an intensely serious and carefully constructed book, aimed at informing the educated public about science in general and nanotechnology in particular. It is attractively produced, with innumerable well-captioned coloured images … To my mind, Colm Durkan has succeeded in combining the accessible style of the best science journalists with the authority and vision that come from being a successful scientist and an expert in his field.'Contemporary PhysicsNanotechnology is a buzz word many of us have heard but are uncertain what it really means. This book works to dispel the myths and unravel the truth about this branch of science and technology that has already touched many aspects of our lives, from cheaper and faster medical diagnostic tools and more effective ways to deliver existing ones to helping to create new medicines and electronic devices.Size Really Does Matter starts by looking at the science and history of nanotechnology, followed by real-life examples of how it is used, what cutting-edge research is being carried out and why, and potential risks of this exciting new technology.It is written in an accessible style with genuine enthusiasm for the topics it addresses, including how nanotechnology hopes to address problems in several fields, such as cancer research, novel devices, new materials and improved manufacturing methods for existing products.Related Link(s)

Author : Dave De ruysscher,Heikki Pihlajamäki,Albrecht Cordes,Serge Dauchy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004351868

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The Company in Law and Practice: Did Size Matter? (Middle Ages-Nineteenth Century) by Dave De ruysscher,Heikki Pihlajamäki,Albrecht Cordes,Serge Dauchy Pdf

This volume brings together nine chapters that address the topic of the scale and size of companies, in both legal and economic history, in the Middle Ages, the Early Modern Period, and in the nineteenth century.

Author : MaryRose Spence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Diet
ISBN : 0143772066

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Everyday Diet Secrets by MaryRose Spence Pdf

You should have a life - not a diet. Diets don't work, because a diet designed for everybody isn't designed for your body. This is a book of tips to help you on your weight loss journey, written by a qualified and experienced dietician who has helped hundreds of people move away from the short-term results of fad diets and into a lifestyle of long-term successful weight loss and control. Find out the truth about so-called weight loss foods, and learn to choose the right foods (and amounts) for you.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Temporary National Economic Committee,United States. Temporary National Income Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1552 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015049233698

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Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power by United States. Congress. House. Temporary National Economic Committee,United States. Temporary National Income Committee Pdf