Snakes of Italy
Snakes of Italy

Author: Gabriele Achille

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-01-20

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 3319141066

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This book offers a comprehensive review of the biology of snakes, focusing on Italian species. The snakes of Italy belong to the two families Colubridae and Viperidae, and for each species the systematic classification and chorology including distribution maps are presented. Furthermore, readers will learn how to carry out field studies, how to handle snakes and how to photograph them. The book concludes with a chapter on the iconography of historical Italian snakes and their importance in popular science, and one on myths and legends. This SpringerBriefs volume will appeal to herpetologists and technical staff. The section on iconography may also be of interest to museum staff.

U.S. Army Survival Manual
U.S. Army Survival Manual

Author: U.S. Department of Defense

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-12-28

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13:

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"U.S. Army Survival Handbook" covers all survival skills and techniques that a person can use in order to sustain life in any type of natural environment. The techniques are meant to provide basic necessities like water, food and shelter... Nevertheless, it takes much more than the knowledge to build a shelter, get food and make fire in order to survive successfully. A key ingredient in any survival situation is the mental attitude. It will help you develop your survival skills, as well as the will to survive. It will prepare you for any type of situation, either physical or psychological ordeal. Contents: Psychology of Survival Survival Planning and Survival Kits Basic Survival Medicine Shelters Water Procurement Firecraft Food Procurement Field-Expedient Weapons, Tools, and Equipment Desert Survival Tropical Survival Cold Weather Survival Sea Survival Expedient Water Crossings Field-Expedient Direction Finding Signaling Techniques Survival Movement in Hostile Areas Camouflage Contact With People Survival in Man-Made Hazards

Field Manual Fm 3-05.70 Us Army Survival Guide
Field Manual Fm 3-05.70 Us Army Survival Guide

Author: U.s. Army

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2002-05-01

Total Pages: 678

ISBN-13: 9781537069968

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FM 3-05.70 is the United States Army manual used to train survival techniques (formerly the FM 21-76). It is popular among survivalists and campers. The manual covers a variety of helpful topics such as planning, psychology of survival, emergency medicine, shelter construction, water procurement, firecraft, food procurement (hunting), identification of poisonous plants, and construction of field expedient weapons, tools and equipment.

Paper Based Sensors
Paper Based Sensors

Author:

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2020-06-11

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 0444643451

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Paper Based Sensors, Volume 89, the latest release in this comprehensive series that gathers the most important issues relating to the design and application of these cost-effective devices used in many industries, including health and environment diagnostics, safety and security, chemistry, optics, electrochemistry, nanoscience and nanotechnologies, presents the latest updates in the field. Chapters in this new release include Exploring paper as a substrate for electrochemical micro-devices, Paper-based sensors for application in biological compound detection, Printed paper-based (bio)sensors: design, fabrication and applications, Paper-based electrochemical sensing devices, Multifarious aspects of electrochemical paper-based (bio)sensors, Paper Based Biosensors for Clinical and Biomedical Applications, and more.

Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation
Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation

Author: H.R. Pruppacher

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-06-25

Total Pages: 975

ISBN-13: 0306481006

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Cloud physics has achieved such a voluminous literature over the past few decades that a significant quantitative study of the entire field would prove unwieldy. This book concentrates on one major aspect: cloud microphysics, which involves the processes that lead to the formation of individual cloud and precipitation particles. Common practice has shown that one may distinguish among the following addi tional major aspects: cloud dynamics, which is concerned with the physics respon sible for the macroscopic features of clouds; cloud electricity, which deals with the electrical structure of clouds and the electrification processes of cloud and precipi tation particles; and cloud optics and radar meteorology, which describe the effects of electromagnetic waves interacting with clouds and precipitation. Another field intimately related to cloud physics is atmospheric chemistry, which involves the chemical composition ofthe atmosphere and the life cycle and characteristics of its gaseous and particulate constituents. In view of the natural interdependence of the various aspects of cloud physics, the subject of microphysics cannot be discussed very meaningfully out of context. Therefore, we have found it necessary to touch briefly upon a few simple and basic concepts of cloud dynamics and thermodynamics, and to provide an account of the major characteristics of atmospheric aerosol particles. We have also included a separate chapter on some of the effects of electric fields and charges on the precipitation-forming processes.

True Vipers
True Vipers

Author: David Mallow

Publisher:

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 9780894648779

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A detailed reference work on the nine genera and their species in the subfamily Viperinae. Each account is based on a review of the world literature and includes information on ecology, biology, physiology, toxicology, distribution, behaviour and husbandry.

Snake Venom Metalloproteinases
Snake Venom Metalloproteinases

Author: Jay Fox

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2018-07-10

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 3038424269

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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Snake Venom Metalloproteinases" that was published in Toxins

Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles
Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles

Author: Stephen P. Mackessy

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2021-05-24

Total Pages: 912

ISBN-13: 0429623453

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A decade after publication of the first edition, Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles responds to extensive changes in the field of toxinology to endure as the most comprehensive review of reptile venoms on the market. The six sections of this new edition, which has nearly doubled in size, complement the original handbook by presenting current information from many of the leading researchers and physicians in toxinology, with topics ranging from functional morphology, evolution and ecology to crystallography, -omics technologies, drug discovery and more. With the recent recognition by the World Health Organization of snakebite as a neglected tropical disease, the section on snakebite has been expanded and includes several chapters dealing with the problem broadly and with new technologies and the promises these new approaches may hold to counter the deleterious effects of envenomation. This greatly expanded handbook offers a unique resource for biologists, biochemists, toxicologists, physicians, clinicians, and epidemiologists, as well as informed laypersons interested in the biology of venomous reptiles, the biochemistry and molecular biology of venoms, and the effects and treatment of human envenomation.