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Investigating light
\"Budding scientists will love learning about the properties of light by planning and carrying out investigations that explore how the energy form can be reflected, manipulated, and refracted.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Facts at Your Fingertips
This series explains and illustrates the science of physics and its everyday applications. Physics is concerned with matter - the stuff from which everything is made - and with energy in all its forms. Both light and sound are forms of energy and this book explains the properties of light, including where it comes from, how it travels, and how it is reflected and refracted. The properties of sound are also explored; what is it and how is it made and recorded? Diagrams and simple experiments help to provide a perfect introduction to the science of light and sound.
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Light
\"In this book, young readers will discover interesting facts about light, and discover a variety of fun experiments to test their knowledge.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The impacts of sleep disturbance on birds: a review of the knowledge gaps
Sleep is an evolutionarily conserved behaviour critical to animal function. While the exact functions of sleep are still unclear, the ubiquity of sleep behaviour and its potential high costs (e.g. reduction in foraging time, increased vulnerability to predators) suggest sleep serves a critical role for animals. Animals that share environments with humans, such as urban birds, face numerous anthropogenic stimuli that are likely to fragment or alter their sleep. In this literature review, we synthesise the current research available on sleep disturbance in birds and provide suggestions for future research to address key gaps. Our analysis revealed that knowledge on how sleep disturbance affects birds is currently fragmented, is often inferred rather than explicitly measured, and fails to connect causal mechanisms to ecologically relevant outcomes. To address these critical knowledge gaps, we suggest that future research on sleep should: 1) incorporate both the effect of stimuli on sleep and the resulting consequences of this sleep loss on the behaviour and fitness of the study species; 2) broaden to include contexts other than migration and seasonal change; 3) include juvenile birds that are still in the development phase; and 4) explore a greater range of the potential functional consequences of disrupted sleep. Understanding the fitness‐related consequences of sleep disturbance from anthropogenic stimuli will provide critical insights into the impact of these stimuli on birds, and how to mitigate the impacts of sleep disturbance in urban environments.
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Sources of light
\"This book looks at the different places light comes from, including natural and artificial sources. - Discover the difference between a light source and a reflective object and how you can tell which is which. - Look at our largest and most important light source - the Sun - and what happens when you take sunlight away. - Explore light technology by finding out how we use lasers and fiber optics. And much more!\"-
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Light and sound
This series explains and illustrates the science of physics and its everyday applications. Physics is concerned with matter-the stuff from which everything is made-and with energy in all its forms. Both light and sound are forms of energy and this book ex
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The luminous and the grey
Color surrounds us: the lush green hues of trees and grasses, the variant blues of water and the sky, the bright pops of yellow and red from flowers. But at the same time, color lies at the limits of language and understanding. In this absorbing sequel to Chromophobia —which addresses the extremes of love and loathing provoked by color since antiquity—David Batchelor charts color's more ambiguous terrain. The Luminous and the Grey explores the places where color comes into being and where it fades away, probing when it begins and when it ends both in the imagination and in the material world. Batchelor draws on neuroscience, philosophy, novels, films, and artists' writings—as well as his own experience as an artist working with color—to understand how we see and use colors. He considers the role of color in creation myths, industrial chemistry, and optics, and examines the particular forms of luminosity that saturate the modern city. Following this inquiry into the hues that we face every day, he turns to one that is both color and noncolor: grey itself, which he reveals is as much a mood, feeling, and existential condition as a shade that we experience with our eyes. Deftly argued, always thought-provoking, and ever entertaining, The Luminous and the Grey is a beautiful study of how we see and feel our multicolored world.
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The science of light
A look at the science behind the creation, travel, and appearance of light.
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Systematic review of intravenous immunoglobulin in haemolytic disease of the newborn
Passive transfer of potentially significant red cell antibodies is a recognised hazard, reported in the company literature but only as a serological phenomenon, not as a clinical warning.
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