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An Engineer's Alphabet
Written by America's most famous engineering storyteller and educator, this abecedarium is one engineer's selection of thoughts, quotations, anecdotes, facts, trivia and arcana relating to the practice, history, culture and traditions of his profession. The entries reflect decades of reading, writing, talking and thinking about engineers and engineering, and range from brief essays to lists of great engineering achievements. This work is organized alphabetically and more like a dictionary than an encyclopedia. It is not intended to be read from first page to last, but rather to be dipped into, here and there, as the mood strikes the reader. In time, it is hoped, this book should become the source to which readers go first when they encounter a vague or obscure reference to the softer side of engineering.
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Guinness world records. Man-made marvels!
About marvelous buildings, vehicles, machinery, and the people who dared to dream big by building them.
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This explains everything : deep, beautiful, and elegant theories of how the world works
\"Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything presents 150 of the most deep, surprising, and brilliant explanations of how the world works, with contributions by Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, Nassim Taleb, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker, and more\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Disturbances in a Generalized Thermoelastic Half-Space with Voids and Microtemperatures Due to a Mechanical Force
The two-dimensional deformation of a generalized thermoelastic half-space with voids and microtemperatures under the action of a mechanical force was investigated. The effect of the voids and microtemperatures in this half-space on the displacements, the stresses, the temperature distribution, the change in the volume fraction field, and the first heat flux momentum in it was determined on the basis of the normal-mode analysis with the use of the Lord–Shulman and Green–Lindsay theories for an insulated boundary.
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Ask an astronaut
\"Based on his historic mission to the International Space Station, Ask and Astronaut is Tim Peake's guide to life in space, filled with answers to the best of the thousands of questions he's been asked by people all over the world since his return to Earth.\"--Jacket.
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Modeling Unsteady Thermomechanodiffusion Vibrations of a Hingedly Supported Timoshenko Beam
The work is devoted to investigating the influence of the mechanical field on temperature and diffusion processes occurring under steady bending of slender beams. The model used here takes account of the finite velocity of propagation of thermal and diffusion disturbances . A mathematical formulation of the problem includes the system of equations of unsteady flexural vibrations of the beam with account of heat and mass transfer, that has been obtained from the general thermomechanodiffusion model for continuous media using the generalized principle of virtual displacements. With the example of a hingedly supported three-component beam fabricated from a zinc, copper, and aluminum alloy and exposed to unsteady bending moments, the authors have investigated the interaction of mechanical, temperature, and diffusion fields, and also have analyzed the influence of relaxation effects on the kinetics of heat and mass transfer.
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Mad science : Einstein's fridge, Dewar's flask, Mach's speed, and 362 other inventions and discoveries that made our world
\"365 days of inventions, discoveries, science, and technology, from the editors of Wired Magazine...Every day of the year has a rich scientific and technological heritage just waiting to be uncovered, and Wired's top-flight science-trivia book MAD SCIENCE collects them chronologically, from New Year's Day to year's end, showing just how entertaining, wonderful, bizarre, and relevant science can be. In 2010, Wired's popular \"This Day in Tech\" blog peaked with more than 700,000 page views each month, and one story in 2008 drew more than a million unique viewers. This book will collect the most intriguing anecdotes from the blog's run--one for each day of the year--and publish them in a package that will instantly appeal to hardcore techies and curious laypeople alike\"--Provided by publisher.
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Quantitative impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown on nuclear medicine in France: the CORALINE study
PurposeThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic reshaped the usual risk: benefit equilibrium that became a trade-off between the infection exposure risk for the patient (and for staff) and the risk associated with delaying or cancelling the nuclear medicine examination. This study aimed at quantifying the impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown in France on nuclear medicine examination volume together with volume of examination cancellation and non-attendance.MethodsWe retrospectively assessed the volume of planned examinations from 1 month before to 1 month after the first lockdown in French high-volume nuclear medicine departments (NMD) sharing the same information management system including both university hospitals, UH (n = 7), and cancer centres, CC (n = 2).ResultsThe study enrolled 31,628 consecutive patients referred for a nuclear medicine examination performed or not (NMEP or NMEnP). The total volume of NMEP significantly dropped by 43.4% between the 4 weeks before and after the starting of the lockdown. The comparison of the percentage of NMEP and NMEnP between UH and CC is significantly different (p < 0.001). The percentage of NMEP during the study was 67.9% in UH vs 84.7% in CC. Percentages of NMEnP in UH and CC were due respectively to cancellation by the patient (14.9 vs 7.4%), cancellation by the NMD (9.5 vs 3.4%), cancellation by the referring physician (5.1 vs 4.4%) and non-attender patients (2.7 vs 0.2%).ConclusionThe study underlines the public health issue caused by COVID-19 above the pandemic itself and should be useful in preparing for potential resource utilisation and staffing requirements.
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