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Dancing in the Sky is the first complete telling of the First World War fighter pilot training initiative established by the British in response to the terrible losses occurring in the skies over Europe in 1916. This program, up and running in under six months despite enormous obstacles, launched Canada into the age of flight ahead of the United States. The results enabled the Allies to regain control of the skies and eventually win the war, but at a terrible price. Flying was in its infancy and pilot training primitive. This is the story of the talented and courageous men and women who made the training program a success, complete with the romance, tragedy, humour, and pathos that accompany an account of such heroic proportions. A valuable addition to Canada’s military history, this book will appeal to all who enjoy an exceptional adventure story embedded in Canada’s past.

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When the new medium of CD-ROMs emerged, industry figures and critics alike proclaimed their virtually unlimited potential. Adapting material from well-established media like television and film, CD-ROMs have quickly transformed genres such as science fiction and horror. At the same time, the realities of actual CD-ROMs often fall short of their utopian visions. On a Silver Platter marks a «coming of age» for CD-ROMs as a commercially and aesthetically significant medium demanding critical attention. Greg Smith brings together media scholars such as Lisa Cartwright, Henry Jenkins, Janet Murray, and Scott Bukatman to analyze how CD-ROMs offer alternatives to familiar places—to museums, to cities, and especially to classrooms. Examining specific CD-ROM titles, including, Sim City, Civilization, and Phantasmagoria, the contributors argue that CD-ROMs are complex texts worthy of close consideration, both for how they have changed our understanding of space and genre, and for how they will impact the development of future media. By examining particular CD-ROM texts and contexts, On a Silver Platter probes this new medium for insight and understanding into the current state of multimedia and into the future of technology.

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Both Special ISSUES of ScienceDevMag-VOL2 ISSUE 1 A & B are written as e-books detailing current understanding and suggesting new and comprehensive solutions to today&#39;s leading contemporary global conundrums being a) global pathogenic Pandemics such as Covid-19 and future similar ailments that are anticipated to more prevalent & calamitous; b) Solutions to remedy future prevalence and observed devastating effects of such pandemics by providing tangible proposed bio-engineering-based solutions such as the herein-proposed Rapid In-situ Diagnostics & Instantaneous Cure / Correction &ndash; &quot;RAIDIC&quot; system, The proposed RAIDIC system would surpass most current proposals on the current search for a Covid-19 cure since it&#39;s more comprehensive; can be easily customized & even re-designed as an in-situ / wearable device to enable Oxygen supply and Carbon Dioxide excretion from the body sufficiently to render breathing unnecessary. Such would be an essential tool in life threatening oxygen depleting illnesses, firestorms & rescue operations and nowadays space exploration and eventual habitation. The books also detail proposals to address underdevelopment as a prevalent susceptibility to proliferation and observed recurrent catastrophic impacts of such ailments to humanity.<br>The author is a holder of a PhD (Chemistry- University of Stellenbosch, South Africa); MSc (Environmental Engineering -focused on chemical & civil engineering of natural systems -KTH Stockholm Sweden) & BSc Chemistry & Zoology (University of Namibia) and numerous other technical Diplomas from Universities in the US, UK and India. He is the renowned primary postulator and discoverer of globally-popularised adaptations of surface physical and chemical properties of fog-basking beetles of the Namib desert with cross-cutting applications in human technologies (from new-age water generation, engine cooling & de-watering systems; various nanotech applications and beyond) as captured in Nature Magazine, Science Magazine, Scientific American and numerous other leading global scientific journals during 2001 when his groundbreaking research was first introduced to the global scientific community; and this discovery continues to inspire new research, innovations and publications to date. He ever-since continued to uphold this ingenuity in e.g. his proposed large scale in-situ greenhouse gas chemical conversion into economic goods; discovered a potentially world 2nd / 3rd biggest Uranium & miscellaneous deposit merely using freely-available Google Earth (www.namibianuclearcorporation.com ) as well as new Heavy Rare Earths and Gold deposits. The author&#39;s 2009 proposed SADC Governments co-owned global e-tourism venture (&quot;Internet Global Tours&quot; &ndash; attached Namibian company registration details CC/2010/1345 + 4 other then reserved appropriate company names) remains viable todate & could be pursued – with anticipated returns in excess of U$ 100s of Billions per annum for SADC Governments if implemented as per the author&#39;s 2009 comprehensive design (as opposed to some of the new approaches recently mentioned on CNN and South Africa&#39;s Carte Blanche TV programme that merely utilizes a TV output; have neither of the multi-$Billion user-interfaces nor multi-$Billion revenue-streams proposed in the author&#39;s 2009 proposal); and most unfortunately only end-up benefitting private corporations as opposed to larger national development coffers & Governments that make such opportunities feasible in the first place. <br>Both ISSUES introduce the author&#39;s above innovations and interventions, however, ScienceDevMag-VOL2 ISSUE 1 A details the proposed (UNGAOS = UN GLOBAL ALLIANCE ON SUSTAINABILITY or UNGAOUD = UN GLOBAL ALLIANCE ON UNDER DEVELOPMENT) and programmes towards rapid sustainable industrilisation of developing-nations. It also details modalities for global realization of essential global UN-Academia collaboration under the above programme to rapidly facilitate and oversee R& D as well as pursue herein-proposed merger & alignment of national and global funding & development objectives and instruments in pilot developing countries with contemporary collective global knowledge & expertise towards transformation of developing countries (preliminarily in 2-4 poor nations per continent) into sustainable emerging or industrialised economies within 5 &ndash; 10 year timeframes prior to broader global replication.<br>ScienceDevMag-VOL2 ISSUE 1 B includes all the above but further details the proposed &quot;RAIDIC&quot; system that is anticipated to surpass most current proposals on the ongoing accelerated global research for a Covid-19 Cure; and RAIDIC would be more comprehensive since it could be easily customized & easily upgraded as an in-situ / wearable device to enable Oxygen supply and Carbon Dioxide excretion from the body sufficiently to render breathing unnecessary- an essential tool in life threatening oxygen depleting illnesses; firestorms & rescue operations and nowadays space exploration and eventual habitation.<br>My earlier 2017 VOL 1 ISSUE 1 (available on AMAZON – ASIN: B06XJ6Y6W7 ) expounds on proposed projects; programmes; new innovative approaches and global cooperation towards Leap-frogging socio-economic & sustainable industrial advancement of developing nations: opportunities; approaches; scientific innovation; business concepts & innovative solutions to global challenges&quot; e.g. therein author&#39;s proposed automated large-scale greenhouse gas conversion systems to desirable products for coal-based power plants and oil refineries. <br>Both the above and / similar approaches are urgently required considering the persistently deteriorating socio-economic conditions in many a developing nation; the anticipated prevalence of even more cataclysmic global pandemics that would further disproportionately impoverish such already vulnerable societies; and are anticipated to bear a pronounced upshot on humanity&#39;s collective well-being, as well as constitute essential discourse, strategies and actions necessary for humanity&#39;s sustained advancement.<br>

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Semiconductors and Modern Electronics is a brief introduction to the physics behind semiconductor technologies. Chuck Winrich, a physics professor at Babson College, explores the topic of semiconductors from a qualitative approach to understanding the theories and models used to explain semiconductor devices. Applications of semiconductors are explored and understood through the models developed in the book. The qualitative approach in this book is intended to bring the advanced ideas behind semiconductors to the broader audience of students who will not major in physics. Much of the inspiration for this book comes from Dr. Winrich's experience teaching a general electronics course to students majoring in business. The goal of that class, and this book, is to bring forward the science behind semiconductors, and then to look at how that science affects the lives of people.

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Phase transformations are among the most intriguing and technologically useful phenomena in materials, particularly with regard to controlling microstructure. After a review of thermodynamics, this book has chapters on Brownian motion and the diffusion equation, diffusion in solids based on transition-state theory, spinodal decomposition, nucleation and growth, instabilities in solidification, and diffusionless transformations. Each chapter includes exercises whose solutions are available in a separate manual. This book is based on the notes from a graduate course taught in the Centre for Doctoral Training in the Theory and Simulation of Materials. The course was attended by students with undergraduate degrees in physics, mathematics, chemistry, materials science, and engineering. The notes from this course, and this book, were written to accommodate these diverse backgrounds.

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Practically every display technology in use today relies on the flat, energy-efficient construction made possible by liquid crystals. These displays provide visually-crisp, vibrantly-colored images that a short time ago were thought only possible in science fiction. Liquid crystals are known mainly for their use in display technologies, but they also provide many diverse and useful applications: adaptive optics, electro-optical devices, films, lasers, photovoltaics, privacy windows, skin cleansers and soaps, and thermometers. The striking images of liquid crystals changing color under polarized lighting conditions are even on display in many museums and art galleries – true examples of 'science meeting art'. Although liquid crystals provide us with visually stunning displays, fascinating applications, and are a rich and fruitful source of interdisciplinary research, their full potential may yet remain untapped.

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Open microfluidics, the study of microflows having a boundary with surrounding air, encompasses different aspects such as paper or thread-based microfluidics, droplet microfluidics and open-channel microfluidics. Open-channel microflow is a flow at the micro-scale, guided by solid structures, and having at least a free boundary (with air or vapor) other than the advancing meniscus. This book is devoted to the study of open-channel microfluidics which (contrary to paper or thread or droplet microfluidics) is still very sparsely documented, but bears many new applications in biology, biotechnology, medicine, material and space sciences. Capillarity being the principal force triggering an open microflow, the principles of capillarity are first recalled. The onset of open-channel microflow is next analyzed and the fundamental notion of generalized Cassie angle (the apparent contact angle which accounts for the presence of air) is presented. The theory of the dynamics of open-channel microflows is then developed, using the notion of averaged friction length which accounts for the presence of air along the boundaries of the flow domain. Different channel morphologies are studied and geometrical features such as valves and capillary pumps are examined. An introduction to two-phase open-channel microflows is also presented showing that immiscible plugs can be transported by an open-channel flow. Finally, a selection of interesting applications in the domains of space, materials, medicine and biology is presented, showing the potentialities of open-channel microfluidics.

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This book provides a general introduction to nanogels, and designs of various stimuli-sensitive nanogels that are able to control drug release in response to specific stimuli. Nanogels are three-dimensional nanosized networks that formed by physically or chemically crosslinking polymers. They have highly interesting properties such as biocompatibility, high stability, particle size adjustment, drug loading capability and modification of the surface for active targeting. They can respond to stimuli which results in the controlled release of drug and targeting of the site.

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Gene therapy as a potential method for treatment of genetic disorders and other malignancies as well as treatment of many cancers has attracted a great amount of attention in recent years. Current research focuses on stable and smart drug/gene delivery systems, including controlled release. Smart nanostructures have been considered as a promising approach when applied to drug and gene delivery systems, and could solve the problems related to the inefficient transfer of medication to the affected cells.

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Nanomaterials and nanostructures are the original product of nanotechnology, and the key building blocks for enabling technologies. In this context, this book presents a concise overview of the synthesis and characterization methods of nanomaterials and nanostructures, while integrating facets of physics, chemistry, and engineering. The book summarizes the fundamentals and technical approaches in synthesis, and processing of nanostructures and nanomaterials, so as the reader can have a systematic and quick picture of the field. This book focuses on functional aspects of nanomaterials that have a high relevance to immediate applications, such as catalysis, energy harvesting, biosensing, and surface functionalization. There are chapters addressing nanostructured materials and composites and covering basic properties and requirements of this new class of engineered materials.

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