In this book, we have attempted to break new ground. Our study is unique in several respects: not only does it produce a set of maps for a remote and poorly known area of Australia, but also the distributional point data of each species are integrated and compared with the spatial distribution of their larval food plants. The geographic range of each …
Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the “New England Courant.” To this journal he became a contributor, and later …
In 2016, NASA took on a new responsibility: defending our planet from devastating impacts by asteroids and comets that approach the Earth, or near-Earth objects. That event, which followed the prominent Chelyabinsk meteor explosion in 2013, reflected a growing interest in, and concern about, the threat of celestial impacts. In ancient times, the solar system’s small bodies—asteroids and com…
Lakes are interconnected with other water resources. Lakes receive much of their water from streams and ground water. Wetlands adjacent to the lakes, or connected to lakes by streams, often serve as spawning grounds for fish and habitat for diverse species of plants and animals. Protection of all of these natural resources as a whole is vital to the protection of lakes. A complex interdependenc…
Welcome to the 4th edition of this handbook. Over the previous editions, we have tried to evolve the content and style to make the book more accessible and useful to our readers. This has continued in edition four with alterations, in response to reader feedback and as a result of new data emerging in many cancer fields. Oncology has continued to produce novel diagnostics, treatment strategies,…
As a starting point to the accounting process, a company identifi es the economic events relevant to its business. Examples of economic events are the sale of snack chips by PepsiCo, the provision of cell phone services by AT&T, and the payment of wages by Facebook. Once a company like PepsiCo identifi es economic events, it records those events in order to provide a history of its fi nancial …
New York Times bestselling author, Neale Donald Walsch, presents wisdom from his celebrated Conversations with God trilogy and companion works. With gorgeous, original photography depicting nature’s grandeur throughout, coupled with choice selections from Walsch’s celebrated body of work, this beautiful, full-color book will please the senses while the timeless spiritual guidance will de…
We tend to think of the Sun as an image of its disk. Recent years have broughtincreasingly sophisticated images of that disk in the light of single spectral lines andimages of active emissions from its surface and its corona with higher and higherspatial resolution. However, we have no such images of solar energetic particles(SEPs). In a photon-dominated discipline, SEPs are stealthy and obscur…
How much should I feed my dog? Does the food I’m providing meet my dog’s nutritional needs? As our knowledge of the relationship between diet and health continues to advance and as the range of foods available for dogs continues to expand, it’s more important than ever to base feeding choices on good information. The information in this pamphlet is based on Nutrient Requirements of Dogs …
Sitting in the shadow of the north wall of the ruined caravan house (karavanatun) at Arai-Bazarǰuł on a clear day in summer, one can see four mountain peaks. To the west above Aragats, the tallest mountain in the Republic of Armenia, clouds catch and gather, threatening to descend and change the day from sun to hail in minutes. To the northeast, the stooping shoulder of Tełenis hefts a load …