Undersea Vehicles and National Needs
Undersea Vehicles and National Needs

Author: Committee on Undersea Vehicles and National Needs

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1996-12-03

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0309588723

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The United States faces decisions requiring information about the oceans in vastly expanded scales of time and space and from oceanic sectors not accessible with the suite of tools now used by scientists and engineers. Advances in guidance and control, communications, sensors, and other technologies for undersea vehicles can provide an opportunity to understand the oceans' influence on the energy and chemical balance that sustains humankind and to manage and deliver resources from and beneath the sea. This book assesses the state of undersea vehicle technology and opportunities for vehicle applications in science and industry. It provides guidance about vehicle subsystem development priorities and describes how national research can be focused most effectively.

The Universe Below
The Universe Below

Author: William J Broad

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1998-06-16

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 0684838524

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Explores the depths of Earth's oceans to discover a long-hidden world of alien creatures, vanished civilizations, and lost ships, and describes the new technologies that make such expeditions possible.

Y2K in Orbit
Y2K in Orbit

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Technology

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13:

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Surface Phases on Silicon
Surface Phases on Silicon

Author: V. G. Lifshits

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13:

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Divided into two parts, this work begins with preliminary comments regarding the definition of ``surface phases'' and briefly describes the basics of two-dimensional crystallography, including background information about the formation and characterization of surface phases on silicon. The second half is devoted to the particular ``adsorbate/Si'' systems. Contains data on 300 plus surface structures formed on clean Si(111), Si(100) and Si(110) surfaces in the presence of foreign atoms at submonolayer coverages as well as without adsorbates at all. 64 adsorbates are reviewed along with preparation techniques of surface phases, models of their atomic structure and a description of surface properties and surface-related phenomena.

Smaller Satellites: Bigger Business?
Smaller Satellites: Bigger Business?

Author: Michael J Rycroft

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 9401730083

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Y. Fujimori, Symposium Programme Committee Chair, and Faculty Member, International Space University e-mail: [email protected] M.Rycroft, Faculty Member, International Space University e-mail: [email protected] N. Crosby, International Space University e-mail: [email protected] For the sixth annual ISU Symposium the theme was "Smaller Satellites: Bigger Business? Concepts, Applications and Markets for Micro/Nanosatellites in a New Information World". Thus, the Symposium addressed the crucial question: are small satellites the saviour of space programmes around the world It did this from the unique perspective of the International Space today? University - the interdisciplinary, international and intercultural perspective. This Symposium brought together a variety of people working on small satellites - engineers, scientists, planners, providers, operators, policy makers and business executives, together with representatives from regulatory bodies, from national and international organizations, and from the finance sector, and also entrepreneurs. Discussion and debate were encouraged, based on the papers presented and those published here.

Diatoms
Diatoms

Author: F. E. Round

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-12-04

Total Pages: 1208

ISBN-13: 1107393132

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This book presents a wide-ranging introduction to the diatoms together with an illustrated description of over 250 genera. Diatoms are important as perhaps the commonest group of autotrophic plants on earth and are abundant in all waters and on soils and moist surfaces. The introduction describes the diatom cell in detail, the structure of the wall (often extremely beautiful in design), the cell contents and aspects of life cycle and cell division. The generic atlas section is the first account of diatom systematics since 1928 (Karsten in Engler and Prantl: Die Nauturlichen Pflanzenfamilien) and each generic description is accompanied by scanning electron micrographs to show the characteristic structure. Most of the latter have been prepared specially for this work from the authors' own collections. The Diatoms will be the standard reference work on the group for years to come and is an essential reference volume.