Author: Greg SherleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alien plants
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Invasive Species in the Pacific
Author: Greg SherleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alien plants
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Vitamin A Story
Author: R.D. SembaPublisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
ISBN: 331802189X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This book shows how vitamin A deficiency – before the vitamin was known to scientists – affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story of sailors and soldiers, penniless mothers, orphaned infants, and young children left susceptible to blindness and fatal infections. We also glimpse the fortunate ones who, with ample vitamin A-rich food, escaped this elusive stalker. Why were people going blind and dying? To unravel this puzzle, scientists around the world competed over the course of a century. Their persistent efforts led to the identification of vitamin A and its essential role in health. As a primary focus of today’s international public health efforts, vitamin A has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But, we discover, they could save many more were it not for obstacles erected by political and ideological zealots who lack a historical perspective of the problem. Although exhaustively researched and documented, this book is written for intellectually curious lay readers as well as for specialists. Public health professionals, nutritionists, and historians of science and medicine have much to learn from this book about the cultural and scientific origins of their disciplines. Likewise, readers interested in military and cultural history will learn about the interaction of health, society, science, and politics. The author’s presentation of vitamin A deficiency is likely to become a classic case study of health disparities in the past as well as the present.
The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces
Author: Joint Vision 2020
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Command and control systems
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Joint Vision 2020 is the conceptual template for how we will channel the vitality of our people and leverage technological opportunities to achieve new levels of effectiveness in joint warfighting.
Alumni History of the University of North Carolina
Author: University of North Carolina (1793-1962)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Handbook of Compressed Gases
Author: Compressed Gas AssociationPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461306736
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
In the field of compressed gases and related equipment, there is an expanding core of essential knowledge that people handling and using these materials should be familiar with or should know where to find when necessary. The focus of this book concerns the properties and the accepted means of trans portation, storage, and handling of compressed gases. This Handbook is simul taneously intended as an overview of the subject and a source of supplementary information. It is also intended to serve as a guide to pertinent federal regulatory requirements and published standards of the Compressed Gas Association and other standards-writing bodies. Readers are advised that the CGA technical pamphlets remain the official state ment of policy by the Association on a particular matter. Reference is made throughout this text to the numerous technical pamphlets published by the Com pressed Gas Association. Some of these publications have been incorporated by reference into federal, state, provincial, and local regulations. Since these pam phlets are reviewed on a periodic basis, wherever the text of this Handbook may be found in conflict with corresponding information in the CGA technical pam phlets, the latter shall take precedence.
Construction at Military Posts
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military bases
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Linde
Author: H. DienelPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230509533
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In 1877, university Professor Carl von Linde obtained a patent for his refrigerator from the Imperial Patent Office - a patent for something that was not merely an invention, but the result of serious research in the basic laws of physics. Linde went on to found the Linde Company, one of the biggest German Gas and Engineering companies which became one of the models for science based industries. Today, the Linde Group, headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, is a global technology company dedicated to gas and engineering, material handling and refrigeration. This book examines the history of this company in the context of the history of technology in industry.
Amphibious Training
Author: Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture
Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description