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Dinamite. Una storia di anarchici e poliziotti, indagini e terrore
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Range Precision of LADAR Systems
A key application of Laser Detection and Ranging (LADAR) systems is measurement of range to a target. Many modern LADAR systems are capable of transmitting laser pulses that are less than a few nanoseconds in duration. These short-duration pulses provide excellent range precision. However, randomness in the detected laser signals places limits on the precision. The goal of this dissertation is to quantify the range precision limits of LADAR systems. The randomness in the time between photon arrivals, which is called shot noise, is discussed in depth. System-dependent noise sources such as dark current and detector gain variation are considered. The e ect of scene-dependent parameters including background light, target obscuration, and target orientation is also discussed. Finally, noise mitigation strategies such as pulse averaging and gain equalization are described and tested on simulated and real LADAR data. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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LOVE, the ESSENCE, the TRUTH!
This work is truly inspired by the written Word of God and includes parts of my experience as a created child of the Most High, King of kings. It explains what is pleasing to God and what God loves, which we, as man and woman, usually misunderstand.
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The Invention of Air
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A Walk in Our Cleats
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The Infernal Machine
"A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York-and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat-from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map"--
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Mistletoe and the Emerging Future of Integrative Oncology
Human disease is an elaborate dance between behavior, our environment, and chance. Medicine tries to tame human disease with science, but when our knowledge falls short, disease wins. This is too often the case with cancer. We spend billions of dollars each year trying to better understand it and develop tools to ease its effects. Today, many allopathic medical practitioners are beginning to seek out a greater connection with holistic and integrative approaches. The authors of this book introduce one specific therapy and make a case for integrative health in general, including anthroposophically extended medicine, naturopathy, and other holistic approaches. Mistletoe therapy has long been considered a viable treatment for cancer by the European medical community and is beginning to gain recognition in North America, as well. The mistletoe plant possesses many remarkable properties. As a therapy, it represents a rediscovery of ancient wisdom and shows us how the science of modern medicine might expand its reach and reconnect with a more human-centered medicine. The book was structured following the syllabus for a three-day practitioner training hosted by the Physicians' Association for Anthroposophic Medicine (PAAM). The chapters highlight several of our key lectures in a condensed form. The book serves as an introductory summary of--not a replacement for--those intensive professional trainings. This book is constructed as a journey and is meant to be read in its entirety, whether by a patient, a practitioner, a supporter of integrative oncology, or anyone who takes a deep interest in one's own health concerns. The text is accessible, and the reader does not need a science background to understand the majority of the content. While this book should not be considered a treatment or diagnostic manual, it is intended to both prepare practitioners to begin mistletoe therapy training and to make this information available in an accessible form to anyone interested in learning about this approach to treating cancer. Illustrated in color and b/w
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El mapa fantasma
En ?El mapa fantasma' se cuenta la historia de la aterradora epidemia de cólera que envolvió Londres en 1854 y sus dos héroes poco probables: el anestesista doctor John Snow y el afable clérigo, el reverendo Henry Whitehead, quienes derrotaron la enfermedad mediante una combinación de conocimiento local, investigación científica y elaboración de mapas. Al contar su extraordinaria historia, Steven Johnson también explora todo un mundo de ideas y conexiones, desde el terror urbano hasta los microbios, los ecosistemas y la Gran Peste, los fenómenos culturales y la vida en la calle. Una poderosa explicación de cómo se ha dado forma al mundo en que vivimos.
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My Brother's Cross
My Brother's Cross is a work that is the culmination of verses that came together piece by piece over the years. During various worship services, thoughts and feelings came together to express how one might keep the vision of Christ close while living in a world full of pain and difficulties. It helps people remember that Christ lives and He is with everyone through all that they experience. The artwork portrays what the journey of mortality for someone living with depression may be like; from living on earth and being taken to Christ and then returning once again.
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País De Las Maravillas, El
En esta historia ilustrada, Steven Johnson se adentra en los aspectos lúdicos de la tecnología. Reúne para eso un elenco de personajes excéntricos y entrañables, inmersos en un sinfín de anécdotas que muestran "la cocina" de un puñado de inventos que fueron llamados providencialmente a cambiar el mundo, nuestro mundo. Este libro es también un viaje a través del tiempo y las civilizaciones, que hilvana estaciones y paradas a golpe de capítulos a cual más sorprendente. Así desfilan ante el lector, como revelados por primera vez, la historia de la moda y de las grandes tiendas, el comercio de especias, los instrumentos músicos-desde la flauta de hueso hasta los teclados más sofisticados, sin olvidar a los ejecutantes autómatas o las pianolas-, las máquinas de escribir, las linternas mágicas, los aparatos de aberraciones ópticas y los espacios físicos destinados al placer, como tabernas y parques de diversiones. Johnson nos presenta también a sujetos poco o mal conocidos, y al hacerlo el lector se pregunta por qué demonios no los conocía de antes, ya sea por su genio, su locura, su originalidad, su velado protagonismo. En suma, El País de las Maravillas es un periplo a través del asombro, el ocio y la diversión, que devuelve nuestra mirada a los objetos por todos conocidos para exhibirlos bajo una nueva luz: la de sus historias jamás contadas.
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Enemy of All Mankind
"Thoroughly engrossing . . . a spirited, suspenseful, economically told tale whose significance is manifest and whose pace never flags." -The Wall Street Journal From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Ghost Map and Unexpected Life, the story of a pirate who changed the world Henry Every was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular-and wildly inaccurate-reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Every's most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a major shift in the global economy. Enemy of All Mankind focuses on one key event-the attack on an Indian treasure ship by Every and his crew-and its surprising repercussions across time and space. It's the gripping tale one of the most lucrative crimes in history, the first international manhunt, and the trial of the seventeenth century. Johnson uses the extraordinary story of Henry Every and his crimes to explore the emergence of the East India Company, the British Empire, and the modern global marketplace: a densely interconnected planet ruled by nations and corporations. How did this unlikely pirate and his notorious crime end up playing a key role in the birth of multinational capitalism? In the same mode as Johnson's classic nonfiction historical thriller The Ghost Map, Enemy of All Mankind deftly traces the path from a single struck match to a global conflagration.
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Who Could Have Imagined!
Michele Moore wanted a unique relationship with God. She found a church family and a pastor to lead her down a spiritual path, but longed for a deeper relationship with the Father. Even as God worked alongside her through her life, a lack of focus kept Him hidden from her sight. She prayed that His presence would be revealed.Be careful what you ask of God, because He might give you exactly what you desire.Michele never could have imagined that the close relationship with God she’d prayed so hard for would come through Stevens-Johnson Syndrome—a condition that took her to the brink of death and through a difficult recovery.In this book Michele shares her pain and suffering as she travels through this illness and arrives victorious with God on the other side. Through telling her own experiences she hopes others will learn to be still and listen when God speaks, to hold fast to their faith when life seems impossible, and to celebrate the miraculous ways He works to fulfil His promises.Will you trust God?
€ 24,00