Retrofitting for Energy Conservation

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Here is an expert guide that offers you practical solutions to remodeling and retrofitting for energy-conservation needs and code requirements. The book covers all 4 major areas of retrofit: electrical, HVAC, architectural, and control Ñplus techniques necessary for completing any job on time and within budget, as well as the newest and most-requested energy-efficient materials. Included are proven methods for retrofitting glass...walls, roofs, and floors...humidity control devices...lighting fixtures...motors ..attic insulation...air handlers...sensors...and much more!

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Free Software.......2005-12-18

I'm the author and I'm writing to say that all the software that is available with proof of purchase (there's an order form in the book) has been upgraded to full commercial, windows versions. They are for annual hvac loads, peak hvac loads (Manual J method), bin analysis, and zonal cavity lighting. The competion costs about $300 each.

Full of jargon and repetitive........2005-08-15

I was disapinted with this book. It is extremely general and theoretical, never specific. The author uses mostly complicated and technical terms when it is not needed. This book is also very repetitive, certain ideas are repeated over and over.

Free Abridged Edition & Software.......2001-03-30

I am the author of this book and I would like to add a few words to the publisher's remarks.

The book focuses on no-cost and low cost projects for buildings of any type. The projects are arranged within each chapter in order of increasing complexity. The first ones begin with projects that, say will apply to any building (including residences), then they get increasingly complex. So there are projects for any budget and any type of facility. In fact, the emphasis is on those that can be done as part of regular maintenance!

The intended audience is not strictly engineering design professionals as you might expect from the title, but also architects, designers, facility managers, realtors, and small business owners.

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Florence not only describes the works of art throughout the city, but also provides some lively and curious insights as well as other useful info, such as maps and the hours that galleries and museums are open. This book explains the important of why anyone visiting Florence for the first time sould try to look beyond the various

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Winter has come, and Mr. and Mrs. Shevvington have nearly succeeded in destroying Anya, the beautiful, dreamy senior who boards with Christina at the Shevvington¹s house. Now the Shevvingtons have set their sights on Christina and her friend, sweet, trusting Dolly. While Christina tries to protect Dolly and bring Anya out of her desperate isolation, the Shevvingtons work to destroy Christina's reputation - to make her schoolmates, and even her parents, think she is crazy. This is book two in the LOSING CHRISTINA series.

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The Best Book of Caroline B. Cooney 's Books.......2005-10-05

The Snow
By: Caroline B. Cooney

The Schooner Inne is an odd place to keep girls. According to Christina Romney the owners are evil, and strange things happen to the girls. This book "The Snow" by Caroline Cooney is about Christina's experience at Schooner Inne.

This book is about a girl named Christina, who is 13. She lives at Schooner Inne, with the Shevvingtons - they own the Inne. She believes that any girl who stays at Schooner Inne, will go insane because the Shevvingtons drive them to insanity. People on the Island think that Christina is a trouble maker because she is always complaining about the Shevvingtons being evil. This is an example from the book that she is making trouble, "You still don't understand! Listen to me. For once, listen to me! The Shevvingtons gave him his orders. They planned this. They trained him." Christina said.

In a way Christina is right about the things happening at the Inne, but she has the wrong evil character. So if you want to find out the evil character then read the book.

The Best Book of Caroline B. Cooney 's Books.......2005-10-05

Evil Cackles.......2005-07-16

Christina is still fighting against the evil of the Shevvingtons, still trapped inside their formiddable home.
A home which now comes with something extra...A laughing lunatic who hides in the attic.
How will Christina ever prove the true nature of the hideous Shevvington couple?

The greatest evil.......2005-06-15

In the world, the greatest evil is the one in people you think you can trust. That is the Sevingtons. They are evil on two legs. They also embody the greatest fear. The fear of when you are right, and in danger, but nobody belives you. Book two of three.

ice cold terror..........2005-04-06

Anya Rothrock has officially lost it. After a terrifying near death experience that landed her boyfriend in a boarding school far away from her, she now floats around town like a wraith. Christina knows that it was the Shevvingtons who destroyed Anya. They are creepy, evil people, but no one seems to see that but Christina. Now they have brought in a new victim: Dolly, Christina's best friend, fresh from Burning Fog Island. They want to destroy her like they did Anya! They capitalize on her fear of heights like they did Anya's fear of the sea. On top of Christina's growing fear for Dolly and her horror of the Shevvingtons, she's hearing creepy noises from the cellar....is she next on the Shevvington's list?

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This fully revised edition of The Neural Crest contains the most current information about this unique structure that has a transient existence in early embryonic life. The ontogeny of the neural crest embodies the most important issues in developmental biology, as the neural crest is considered to have played a crucial role in evolution of the vertebrate phylum. This revised edition includes new data that analyze neural crest ontogeny in murine and zebrafish embryos. Additional features include coverage of advances in our understanding of neural crest cell subpopulation markers, cell lineage analysis, and the introduction of molecular biology to neural crest research. Like its predecessor, this volume is essential reading for students and researchers in developmental biology, cell biology, and neuroscience.

Embryos, Endocrine Cells and the Neural Crest

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Embryos, Endocrine Cells and the Neural Crest

Manufacturer: Witwatersrand University Press
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ASIN: 1868142701

Neural Crest Induction and Differentiation (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)

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Neural Crest Induction and Differentiation (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)

Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0387351361

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Neural Crest Induction and Differentiation, written by an international panel of recognized leaders in the field, discusses all aspects of modern neural crest biology from its evolutionary significance, to its specification, migration, plasticity and contribution to multiple lineages of the vertebrate body, to the pathologies associated with abnormal neural crest development and function. Each chapter provides an invaluable resource for information on the most current advances in the field, with discussion of controversial issues and areas of emerging importance.

The Neural Crest: Including a facsimile reprint of 'The Neural Crest' by Sven Horstadius (Oxford Science Publications)

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The Neural Crest: Including a facsimile reprint of 'The Neural Crest' by Sven Horstadius (Oxford Science Publications)
Brian Keith Hall
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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The Neural Crest: Its properties and derivatives in the light of experimental Research

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The Neural Crest: Its properties and derivatives in the light of experimental Research
Sven Horstadius
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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The neural crest;: Its properties and derivatives in the light of experimental research
Sven Otto Hörstadius
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The Neurology of Neuroblastoma: Neuroblastoma as a Neurobiological Disease

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The Neurology of Neuroblastoma: Neuroblastoma as a Neurobiological Disease
Nina Felice Schor
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ASIN: 1402071442

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Neuroblastoma is the single most common solid tumor of childhood. Although children with small primary neuroblastomas alone are almost always cured by surgery, 65% of children with neuroblastoma already have large bulky tumors or metastatic disease by the time of initial diagnosis. For these children, the 5-year survival rate is only somewhere between 5% and 20% with therapies including surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and bone marrow transplantation. Dr Schor outlines a new approach to these tumors in order to make a difference for these children. There is much information to support the notion that neuroblastomas represent a developmental aberration of the nervous system, rather than a de novo abnormality in a previously normal cell. While the remote, paraneoplastic effects of neuroblastoma are often the purview of the child neurologist, the neoplasm itself has been viewed and approached therapeutically in much the same manner as all other solid tumors, as the purview of the pediatric oncologist. This work takes the view that approaching neuroblastoma rather as a disorder of nervous system development offers new therapeutic possibilities for this common tumor of childhood.

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Neurotrophins and the Neural Crest

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The target of much current research, the neural crest is a transitory tissue of the vertebrate embryo that gives rise to many diverse structures in the adult organism, including the autonomic nervous system, the enteric nervous system, and most primary sensory ganglia, among other cell types and tissues. Reflecting recent investigations, Neurotrophins and the Neural Crest is dedicated to the roles neurotrophins play in neural crest cell differentiation and in the survival of neural crest derivatives. This timely book correlates in vitro data with results obtained from knock-out mice with targeted neurotrophin or receptor deletions, with the goal of determining the fidelity and usefulness of various experimental culture systems. It also covers embryonic expression patterns and functions of neurotrophins and their receptors. Chapters are organized to begin with neural crest-derived tissues as sources for experimental material, including sensory neurons, sympathetic neurons, enteric neurons, melanocytes, and calcitonin-producing cells from the thyroid, and concludes with discussions of the neural crest cells. A broad range of researchers and scientists involved in growth factors, neuroscience, developmental and cell biology, embryology, and many other fields, will find that Neurotrophins and the Neural Crest targets this fast-moving area of research completely and concisely.

Origin and Evolution of the Vertebrate Telencephalon, with Special Reference to the Mammalian Neocortex (Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology)

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Origin and Evolution of the Vertebrate Telencephalon, with Special Reference to the Mammalian Neocortex (Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology)
F. Aboitiz , and J. Montiel
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ASIN: 3540497609

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There is little doubt that the vertebrate brain is the most complex structure we know. As with any complex structure, there is the immediate question about its origins. How could such a complex design develop from the simplest multicellular animals? This problem has pervaded the study of evolutionary biology since its beginnings. Although Darwin (1859, 1871) proposed an impecable mechanism (natural selection) for the gradual transformation of species including human origins, even he sometimes expressed certain doubts about the origin of highly complex structures. This issue has been highly debated both within science and outside it.

The authors follow an approach that has been termed "developmental evolutionary genetics", which seeks to establish a correspondence between embryological processes and the phylogenetic history of an organism. Modern understanding of these hypotheses acknowledges that in fact, early embryos are readily distinguishable among them, and that human embryos are human embryos during all development; they do not pass from a jellyfish stage to a fish stage and so on (Garstang 1922; Gould 1977; Richardson et al. 1997). However, it is also recognized that embryos pass through successive stages in which they acquire the characters proper to each of the nested phylogenetic categories to which they belong. Thus, there is a general concordance between embryonic stages and the phylogenetic history.

Assessing contributions of cranial neural crest to the skull in Xenopus laevis: (Dissertation)

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Assessing contributions of cranial neural crest to the skull in Xenopus laevis: (Dissertation)
Joshua Benjamin Gross
Manufacturer: ProQuest Information and Learning
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It is widely recognised that students on present-day chemistry courses need to develop a portfolio of practical skills. Progressive Development of Practical Skills in Chemistry is the second in a series of publications from the Royal Society of Chemistry which are directed towards the early part of an undergraduate chemistry programme. This book features a variety of practical activities spanning a wide range of chemistry. Activities are arranged in order of increasing skills development and demand and each is accompanied by a guide for demonstrators. A technical guide is also included detailing all reagent and equipment requirements. Trialled in universities across the UK pre-publication students and lecturers will welcome this book as an aid to the development of skills in degree courses.

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The area covered by this volume represents a broad choice of some interesting research topics in the field of dynamical systems and applications of nonlinear analysis to ordinary and partial differential equations. The contributed papers, written by well known specialists, make this volume a useful tool both for the experts (who can find recent and new results) and for those who are interested in starting a research work in one of these topics (who can find some updated and carefully presented papers on the state of the art of the corresponding subject).

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"Like love, Greek poetry was not for hereafter," writes Eva Stehle, "but shared in the present mirth and laughter of festival, ceremony, and party." Describing how men and women, young and adult, sang or recited in public settings, Stehle treats poetry as an occasion for the performer's self-presentation. She discusses a wide range of pre-Hellenistic poetry, including Sappho's, compares how men and women speak about themselves, and constructs an innovative approach to performance that illuminates gender ideology. After considering the audience and the function of different modes of performance--community, bardic, and closed groups--Stehle explores this poetry as gendered speech, which interacts with performers' bodily presence to create social identities for the speakers. Texts for female choral performers reveal how women in public spoke in order to disavow the power of their speech and their sexual power. Male performers, however, could manipulate gender as an ideological system: they sometimes claimed female identity in addition to male, associated themselves with triumph over a defeated (mythical) female figure, or asserted their disconnection from women, thereby creating idealized social identities for themselves. A final chapter concentrates on the written poetry of Sappho, which borrows the communicative strategy of writing in order to create a fictional speaker distinct from the singer, a "Sappho" whom others could re-create in imagination.

Performance and Gender in Ancient Greece: Nondramatic Poetry in its Setting

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Performance and Gender in Ancient Greece: Nondramatic Poetry in its Setting
Eva Stehle
Manufacturer: Princeton Univ. Press
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