Author: Samuel HaughtonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368187295
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Principles of Animal Mechanics
Author: Samuel HaughtonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368187295
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Principles of Animal Locomotion
Author: R. McNeill AlexanderPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691126348
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
How can geckoes walk on the ceiling and basilisk lizards run over water? What are the aerodynamic effects that enable small insects to fly? What are the relative merits of squids' jet-propelled swimming and fishes' tail-powered swimming? Why do horses change gait as they increase speed? What determines our own vertical leap? Recent technical advances have greatly increased researchers' ability to answer these questions with certainty and in detail. This text provides an up-to-date overview of how animals run, walk, jump, crawl, swim, soar, hover, and fly. Excluding only the tiny creatures that use cilia, it covers all animals that power their movements with muscle--from roundworms to whales, clams to elephants, and gnats to albatrosses. The introduction sets out the general rules governing all modes of animal locomotion and considers the performance criteria--such as speed, endurance, and economy--that have shaped their selection. It introduces energetics and optimality as basic principles. The text then tackles each of the major modes by which animals move on land, in water, and through air. It explains the mechanisms involved and the physical and biological forces shaping those mechanisms, paying particular attention to energy costs. Focusing on general principles but extensively discussing a wide variety of individual cases, this is a superb synthesis of current knowledge about animal locomotion. It will be enormously useful to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and a range of professional biologists, physicists, and engineers.
The Principles of animal and vegetable physiology
Author: J. Stevenson BushnanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Principles of Animal and Vegetable Physiology
Author: John Stevenson BushnanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physiology
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Principles of Animal Research Ethics
Author: Tom L. BeauchampPublisher:
ISBN: 0190939125
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This volume presents a framework of general principles for animal research ethics together with an analysis of the principles' meaning and moral requirements. Tom L. Beauchamp and David DeGrazia's comprehensive framework addresses ethical requirements pertaining to societal benefit (the most important consideration in justifying the harming of animals in research) and features a thorough, ethically defensible program of animal welfare. The book also features commentaries on the framework of principles by eminent figures in animal research ethics from an array of relevant disciplines: veterinary medicine, biomedical research, biology, zoology, comparative psychology, primatology, law, and bioethics.
The Principles of Science Applied to the Domestic and Mechanic Arts, and to Manufactures and Agriculture
Author: Alonzo PotterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
A Guide to the Principles of Animal Nutrition
Author: Gita CherianThe Laws and Mechanics of Circulation, with the Principle Involved in Animal Movement
Author: William Harrison TriplettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blood
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Animal Mechanics
Author: Sir Charles BellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal locomotion
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Author: