Messages From An Owl

Author : Max R. Terman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781400864256

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Messages from an Owl by Max R. Terman Pdf

When zoologist Max Terman came to the rescue of a great horned owlet in a Kansas town park, he embarked on an adventure that would test his scientific ingenuity and lead to unprecedented observations of an owl's hidden life in the wild. In Messages from an Owl, Terman not only relates his experiences nursing the starving owlet, "Stripey," back to health and teaching it survival skills in his barn, but also describes the anxiety and elation of letting a companion loose into an uncertain world. Once Terman felt that Stripey knew how to dive after prey, he set the owl free. At this point his story could have ended, with no clue as to what the young bird's fate would be--had it not been for Terman's experimentation with radio tags. By strapping the tags to Stripey, he actually managed to follow the owl into the wild and observe for himself the behavior of a hand-reared individual reunited with its natural environment. Through this unique use of telemetry, Terman tracked Stripey for over six years after the bird left the scientist's barn and took up residence in the surrounding countryside on the Kansas prairie. The radio beacon provided Terman with information on the owl's regular patterns of playing, hunting, exploring, and protecting. It enabled him to witness the moments when Stripey was bantered and mobbed by crows, when other owls launched fierce attacks, and when a prospective mate caught Stripey's eye. On occasional returns to the barn, the owl would follow Terman around as he performed chores, usually waiting for a handout. Until now, scientists have generally believed that an owl nurtured by humans becomes ill-adapted for meeting the challenges of life in the wild. Terman's research proves otherwise. Stripey surpassed all expectations by becoming a totally independent wild creature. With Terman, however, Stripey remained tame, allowing the author to explore something one rarely sees in owls: a warm interest in humanity. Terman engagingly re-creates this dimension of Stripey as he describes with humor and compassion the daily challenges of probing the life of a "phantom winged tiger." Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : A. S. S. Nsang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : IND:30000055885507

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The Owl's Message by A. S. S. Nsang Pdf

Author : Vladimir Marik,Duncan McFarlane,Paul Valckenaers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540451853

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Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing by Vladimir Marik,Duncan McFarlane,Paul Valckenaers Pdf

The increasing complexity of manufacturing systems as well as the overall demands for flexible and fault-tolerant control of production processes stimulates (among many others) two key emerging technologies that are already making an important breakthrough in the field of intelligent manufacturing, control, and diagnostics. These two paradigms are: • the holonic approach based on the event-driven control strategy, usually aimed at modular control systems that are directly physically linked with the manufacturing hardware equipment, and • the multi-agent approach developed in the area of distributed information processing. The research communities working in both these fields are approaching the problem of intelligent manufacturing from different viewpoints and, until recently, to a certain extent, in an independent way. We can however observe quite a clear convergence of these fields in the last few years: the communities have started to cooperate, joining efforts to solve the painful problems involved in achieving effective industrial practice. We can see convergence in the terminology, standards and methods being applied.

Author : Franki Storlie
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781462020706

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Animal Totem Guides: Messages for the World by Franki Storlie Pdf

Franki Storlie believes that every person possesses a spirit heart and soul that waits to be reawakened and longs to seek spiritual knowledge. In her guidebook Animal Totem Guides: Messages for the World, Storlie relies on her Native American ancestry and her personal experiences to provide clear direction on how each of us can connect with our own souls and spiritual guides, ultimately realizing true joy, inner peace, wisdom, and love in the process. Storlie has been studying and practicing spiritual teachings for the past twenty years and partners with nature in order to teach others how to meditate, bond with their inner selves, and find balance in a busy and often chaotic world. As she shares twelve totem animal stories that illustrate each animals characteristics and area of influence, she encourages others to begin connecting with the power animals that protect, guide, and communicate wisdom through our own hearts and souls. Animal Totem Guides: Messages for the World provides guidance and wisdom for anyone interesting in walking a new spiritual pathway beside power animals who, through their gifts of strength and illumination, will not only help us heal ourselves, but also our beautiful Earth.

Author : Dr. Hiren B. Soni
Publisher : Google Book Publishers
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Owl: The Mysterious Bird by Dr. Hiren B. Soni Pdf

Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes over 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight. Exceptions include the diurnal northern hawk-owl and the gregarious burrowing owl. Owls hunt mostly small mammals, insects, and other birds, although a few species specialize in hunting fish. They are found in all regions of the Earth except polar ice caps and some remote islands. Owls are divided into two families: the true (or typical) owl family, Strigidae, and the barn-owl family, Tytonidae. Throughout human history, owls have variously symbolized dread, knowledge, wisdom, death, and religious beliefs in a spirit world. In most Western cultures, views of owls have changed drastically over time. Owls can serve simultaneously as indicators of scarce native habitats and of local cultural and religious beliefs. Understanding historical and current ways in which owls are viewed, and not imposing Western views on other cultures, is an important and necessary context for crafting owl conservation approaches palatable to local peoples. The Book Owl: The Mysterious Bird is a systematic compilation of authentic and standard literature published by renowned ornithologists, professionals, amateurs and hobbyists of the world in the field of ornithology and wildlife biology. It also covers author’s (HBS) personal observations and published research work in the wild terrains of Gujarat (India) during his research exposure of 24 years as an Ornithologist and Wildlife Biologist. The present book highlights the remarkable key-points and noteworthy information about owls in terms of introductory notes on anatomy, sexual dimorphism, adaptations for hunting, flight and feathers, vision, hearing, talons, beak, camouflage behavior, breeding and reproduction, evolution and systematics, food and hunting, pellets, eyes, plumage, feet, breeding, calls, holistic information about owls (e.g. food and hunting, pellets, eyes, plumage, feet, breeding, calls), symbolisms about owls (African cultures, ancient European and modern Western culture, Asia, Hinduism, native American cultures), motifs and mythology, markers of gods, knowledge, wisdom, and fertility, owls in lore and culture, owls in tribal folklores, owls in mythology and culture, owls in Greek and roman mythology, owls in English folklore, owls in American Indian culture, owl mythology: a global perspective, human impacts on owls, individual impacts, toxicological impacts on owls, agricultural impacts on owls, impacts of habitat alteration on owls, legal protection to owls, owls as environmental indicators, towards a tolerant conservation, rodent control, attacks on humans, and conservation issues. The author has also acknowledged all the researchers, scientists, authors, website developers, NGOS, URLs, and direct or indirect informers in the form of ‘Citations’ in the section ‘Selected Bibliography’. This book will definitely be a ready reference material and handy study guide for students, researchers, scientists, folklore specialists, and bird conservationists around the world. The author renders his immense gratitude and enormous thankfulness to all the informants, who have helped him directly or indirectly during the compilation of this work.

Author : Rieka Moonsong
Publisher : Rock Point Gift & Stationery
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-09-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781631069963

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Owl Magick by Rieka Moonsong Pdf

Find your perfect enchanting, spiritual familiar with Owl Magick.

Author : Riichiro Mizoguchi,Zhongzhi Shi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540383291

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The Semantic Web – ASWC 2006 by Riichiro Mizoguchi,Zhongzhi Shi Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Asian Semantic Web Conference, ASWC 2006, held in Beijing, China, in September 2006. The 36 revised full papers and 36 revised short papers presented together with three invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 208 full paper submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections.

Author : Sascha Ossowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789400755833

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Agreement Technologies by Sascha Ossowski Pdf

More and more transactions, whether in business or related to leisure activities, are mediated automatically by computers and computer networks, and this trend is having a significant impact on the conception and design of new computer applications. The next generation of these applications will be based on software agents to which increasingly complex tasks can be delegated, and which interact with each other in sophisticated ways so as to forge agreements in the interest of their human users. The wide variety of technologies supporting this vision is the subject of this volume. It summarises the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action project on Agreement Technologies (AT), during which approximately 200 researchers from 25 European countries, along with eight institutions from non-COST countries, cooperated as part of a number of working groups. The book is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of Agreement Technologies, written and coordinated by the leading researchers in the field. The results set out here are due for wide dissemination beyond the computer technology sector, involving law and social science as well.

Author : Salvatore F. Pileggi,Carlos Fernandez-Llatas
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000792072

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Semantic Interoperability Issues, Solutions, Challenges by Salvatore F. Pileggi,Carlos Fernandez-Llatas Pdf

Semantic technologies are experimenting an increasing popularity in the context of different domains and applications. The understanding of any class of system can be significantly changed under the assumption any system is part of a global ecosystem known as Semantic Web.The Semantic Web would be an evolving extension of current Web model (normally referred as Syntactic Web) that introduces a semantic layer in which semantics, or meaning of information, are formally defined.So, semantics should integrate web-centric standard information infrastructures improving several aspects of interaction among heterogeneous systems. This is because common interoperability models are progressively becoming obsolete if compared with the intrinsic complexity and always more distributed focus that feature modern systems. For example, the basic interoperability model, that assumes the interchange of messages among systems without any interpretation, is simple but effective only in the context of close environments. Also more advanced models, such as the functional interoperability model that integrates basic interoperability model with the ability of intepretating data context under the assumption of a shared schema for data fields accessing, appears not able to provide a full sustainable technologic support for open systems.The Semantic Interoperability model would improve common interoperability models introducing the interpretation of means of data. Semantic interoperability is a concretely applicable interaction model under the assumption of adopting rich data models (commonly called Ontology) composed of concepts within a domain and the relationships among those concepts.In practice, semantic technologies are partially inverting the common view at actor intelligence: intelligence is not implemented (only) by actors but it is implicitly resident in the knowledge model. In other words, schemas contain information and the "code" to interpretate it.

Author : Sidian Morning Star Jones,Stanley Krippner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781591432289

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The Shamanic Powers of Rolling Thunder by Sidian Morning Star Jones,Stanley Krippner Pdf

Eyewitness accounts of Rolling Thunder’s remarkable healings, legendary control over the weather and animals, and inspiring teachings • Includes accounts of Rolling Thunder by his grandson Sidian Morning Star Jones, Stanley Krippner, Alberto Villoldo, Larry Dossey, William Lyon, Jean Millay, John Perry Barlow, Stephan Schwartz, Ed Little Crow, Leslie Gray, Oh Shinna Fast Wolf, Jürgen Kremer, and David Sessions, among others • Shows how his teachings and powers have transcended his death and how many of his climate change predictions have come to pass One of the most celebrated and controversial Native American medicine men of the 20th century, Rolling Thunder (1916-1997) was known for his remarkable healings and for his ability to call on the forces of Nature, typically in the form of thunder clouds. He was also a passionate activist who worked to trigger social change on behalf of Native American tribes. Sought after as a lecturer and workshop leader, he used the money he earned from teaching to construct Meta Tantay, a community in the Nevada desert. In this book, edited by his grandson Sidian Morning Star Jones and longtime friend Stanley Krippner, we hear directly from people profoundly changed by Rolling Thunder, whether through direct experience or through his teachings. We learn of his legendary interactions with animals and the forces of Nature and hear from witnesses to his remarkable healings, including the healing of a young boy where a “mist wolf” was seen by several people. We learn of Rolling Thunder’s inspiring impact on men and women now devoted in service to humankind and the Earth and read stories both insightful and humorous from friends that prove his climate change predictions true. Revealing his trickster teachings, his legendary shamanic powers, his devotion to the Earth, and how his impact did not stop with his death, these stories of Rolling Thunder from a variety of sources demonstrate how transformation can come even while walking gently on the Earth.

Author : Jennifer Ackerman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780861546916

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What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman Pdf

*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* ‘And if anyone knows anything about anything…it's Owl who knows something about something.’ Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne From prehistoric cave paintings to the prints and etchings of Picasso, owls have captivated and inspired us for millennia. Whether they appear as ancient Athenian symbols of wisdom, ghostly harbingers of death, or the cuddly sidekicks of Harry Potter and Winnie the Pooh, these birds have continued to fascinate and disturb us in equal measure. Through revelatory new behavioural research, Jennifer Ackerman provides an intimate glimpse into these magnificent creatures’ lives. From the evolutionary quirks behind their silent flight and rotating heads, to their romantic relationships and parenting styles, What an Owl Knows brings the rich natural history of owls to life. Deftly weaving together science and art, Ackerman journeys into the owl’s moonlit world and asks: what is it about these birds that so enthrals us?

Author : Ivan Lirkov,Svetozar D. Margenov,Jerzy Wasniewski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642298431

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Large-Scale Scientific Computing by Ivan Lirkov,Svetozar D. Margenov,Jerzy Wasniewski Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations, LSSC 2011, held in Sozopol, Bulgaria, in June 2011. The 74 revised full papers presented together with 3 plenary and invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on robust multigrid, multilevel and multiscale, deterministic and stochastic methods for modeling highly heterogeneous media, advanced methods for transport, control and uncertain systems, applications of metaheuristics to large-scale problems, environmental modelling, large scale computing on many-core architectures, multiscale industrial, enviromental and biomedical problems, efficient algorithms of computational geometry, high performance Monte Carlo simulations, voxel based computations and contributed papers.

Author : Garcia, Roberto
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781605660677

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Semantic Web for Business: Cases and Applications by Garcia, Roberto Pdf

"This book provides simple costs and benefits analysis showing that the Semantic Web is prepared for e-business"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Matthew Heroux,Wednesday Kirwan
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781647007218

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Owl Love You by Matthew Heroux,Wednesday Kirwan Pdf

The sun is setting, time to rise! At dusk, when an owl’s day is just beginning, a baby owl asks questions and a mama owl offers comforting answers in this gentle, reverse bedtime book, featuring lulling, lyrical text and luminous illustrations of the nighttime world.

Author : Shujun Li,Miecyslaw Kokar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461409687

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Flexible Adaptation in Cognitive Radios by Shujun Li,Miecyslaw Kokar Pdf

This book provides an introduction to software-defined radio and cognitive radio, along with methodologies for applying knowledge representation, semantic web, logic reasoning and artificial intelligence to cognitive radio, enabling autonomous adaptation and flexible signaling. Readers from the wireless communications and software-defined radio communities will use this book as a reference to extend software-defined radio to cognitive radio, using the semantic technology described.