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The Confederacy: Selections from the Four-Volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (Macmillan Compendium)
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The Confederacy focuses on the essential topics from the 4-volume Encyclopedia of the Confederacy, providing a concise version of this 1993 Library Journal Best Reference Source for the general reader. The Compendium is a handy desk reference, and an affordable and space-saving alternative for libraries not in need of the depth of coverage afforded by the parent set. The selection of articles reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the comprehensive edition, and includes maps, illustrations, a full index andbibliographies. One volume
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Excellent Resource.......2005-03-25
This thick volume is a compendium containing selections from the Macmillan Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. It is quite thorough and easy to read, and it is interspersed with photographs of important people and a few maps. If you're looking for one volume on this subject, The Confederacy is a fine choice.
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Considerably revised, this edition of Documents in World History
gives professors a large variety of primary sources from all areas of the world.
The book retains its global emphasis and includes more primary sources that balance social and cultural history with standard selections, political coverage, and fuller coverage of Africa and the Middle East, including Persia. Several individual passages have been replaced or augmented to provide greater richness and interest. Materials on social issues have also been augmented.
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In Cosmic Voyage, Dr. Courtney Brown proved the existence of extraterrestrials using Scientific Remote Viewing, a system of paranormal surveillance developed by the military. Cosmic Explorers goes one step further and introduces us to a new race of alien beings-a species which could prove a serious threat to our planet....
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Intriqueing, but not as great as could be........2004-10-17
In the first half of this title Dr. Courtney Brown explains the difference between the conscious mind and the subspace mind. And it is with the subspace mind that people at the Farsight Institute practice Scientific Remote Viewing.
He writes the proceedure of a Remote viewing Session where the viewer is given a target and views it and makes deductions as to its time/place etc...
In the second half he chronicles a continuation of his earlier work Cosmic Voyage wherein he speculated on the existence of at least two forms of extraterrestials. This part of the book was more a journal of remote viewing sessions concerning these ETs than a scientific paper, and had some metaphysical musings thrown into the mix.
Overall I found the concept of this book intriquing. Scientific Remote viewing as a subject matter immediately sparked my interest and the book will push me to probe it more. In other words I would not accuse Dr. Brown of writing flights of imagination or science fiction. However I felt that although he tried to lay out his thesis (for lack of better wording) in layman's terms there is still a lot I am ignorant of after completing this book. I didn't feel I learnt as much as I could have not neccessarily blaming Brown for that more a matter of deeper reflection on my part combined with a more accessible writing style on his. Possibly the author assumed everyone reading this book had already assumed that they had already read his other title in which case that isn't true.
A read recommended for open-minded people only as some of his theories are quite left of center.
Stages.......2000-12-07
I've not read Cosmic Explorers yet, however, my rating is based on Cosmic Voyage, which I have already read. Remote Viewers, by definition, has no "hard" tangible evidence of what they've viewed in their mind. I've never "seen" God, but believe in God's existence.
It's been said that Discovery comes in three stages: 1. It is ridiculed; 2. It is viciously attacked; and 3. It is accepted as self-evident. Remote Viewing is at Stage 2.
Boring, uninformative, vague, and anything but scientific........2000-08-17
Basically, this book is a collection of outrageous claims regarding various supposed extraterrestrial civilizations, and their interactions with one another and earthlings. No evidence is given anywhere in the book to validate these claims. A single publication -- the Journal for Scientific Exploration, which examines topics "ignored by mainstream science"--is mentioned, but not a word from the journal is included. Worse, the book is boring, vague, and uninformative. Alien civilization is described only briefly and in the most ambiguous of language, while every banal detail how to do "scientific remote viewing" from the comfort of your own home devours nearly all of the book. If you want to know where to find a good restaurant on the Reptilian home world, the e-mail address of the Galactic Federation, or the Martians favorite baseball team, try the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy instead.
Ph. D., MIT, BS...yes! A review of the reviewers:.......2000-07-09
I haven't read "Cosmic Explorers" yet, just "Cosmic Voyage" so far, but I just needed to say something to these extremely educated reviewers down below. I'm sure you are all very intelligent, and have worked extremely hard (and spent a great deal of money) to get your degrees and titles. Please remember one thing, however: hundreds of years ago, people with educational backgrounds similar to yours insisted that the Earth was the center of the universe, it was flat, and that monsters rested just beyond the edge of the horizon. This was scientific fact back then, and there was apparently a great amount of scientific "proof" establishing it.
Scientific Fact: the larger the mind is, the more difficult it is to open.
Thank you.
An excellent example of nonsense.......2000-05-19
This book shows what can happen when an intelligent person gets involved with very high strangeness without being grounded. While you wouldn't be convinced that remote viewing is real from this book, there is enough solid evidence elsewhere to believe that it exists. Unfortunately, the leap the author takes from a poorly understood perceptual anomaly to malevalent aliens among us is much better explained as simple psychological projection than as anything even hinting at truth. You read through this book, hoping that the author will eventually apply some solid reality-testing, or even display a moment of thoughtful self-reflective assessment of his message. But you search in vain.
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Workbook Of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates: An Introduction to Dispersion Modeling
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This completely updated and revised Second Edition of the popular Workbook of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates provides an important foundation for understanding dispersion modeling as it is being practiced today. The book and accompanying diskette will help you determine the impacts of various sources of air pollution, including the effects of wind and turbulence, plume rise, and Gaussian dispersion and its limitations. Information is shown in summary graphs as well as in equations. The programs included on the diskette allow you to "get the feel" for the results you'll obtain through the input of various combinations of parameter values. The sensitivity of data to various parameters can be easily explored by changing one value and seeing the effect on the results. The book presents 37 example problems with solutions to show the estimation of atmospheric pollutant concentrations for many situations.
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bible of dispersion.......2001-06-20
I am reading 1969 version of this book. I have borrowed this book from a Professor. It is a good stariting point for the formulation basics in dispersion. Up to now I had seen the names of Gaussian type, had never faced with the formulations. Thanks to Bruce Turner
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To comply with legal and other standards, businesses and regulators are increasingly required to make decisions based on risk assessments of the potential effects of their activities on the environment. Atmospheric dispersion modelling is a cost-effective method, allowing various scenarios to be explored before expensive investment takes place.
Those involved in plant design, setting operating conditions, comparing options for site location and the estimation of exposures resulting from releases will welcome the expertise offered by this guide to such an important environmental management tool. Most literature focuses excessively on the mathematical theory behind modelling or on modelling for specific regulatory purposes. Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling corrects such ommissions by giving an understanding of the background to the methodolgies, providing exercises to develop the skills to carry these out and including examples of the use of commercially available models to enable the reader to assess the results of modelling for risk assessment.
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Guidelines for Use of Vapor Cloud Dispersion Models (Center for Chemical Process Safety (Ccps).)
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Guidelines for Evaluating the Characteristics of Vapor Cloud Explosions, Flash Fires, and BLEVEs
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The second edition of this essential reference updates and combines two earlier titles to capture the many technological advances for predicting the "footprint" of a vapor cloud release. Cited by EPA in its 1996 document, "Off-Site Consequence Analysis Guidance," the aim of the book is to encourage and facilitate the development and use of dispersion modeling as an everyday tool, providing practical understanding of basic physical and chemical principles, guidance in selecting release scenarios and the best available models, and information and examples on how to run some models and interpret outputs. Equally useful to beginners and experts, it compares 22 programs based on input from model developers, and presents 7 examples of typical accidental release scenarios. The book comes with a disk providing input and output data for scenarios.
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This digital document is a journal article from Atmospheric Environment, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The operational meteorological air quality model (OML) was used to calculate the urban dispersion of air pollutants originating from ships in three Danish ports: Copenhagen, Elsinore and Koge. Oxides of nitrogen (NO"x=NO+NO"2) emitted by ships in the port of Copenhagen contributed substantially to the overall NO"x pollution in central Copenhagen. This would have an impact on human health if most of the NO were occasionally transformed into NO"2, for which the European Community's legal limit is defined by the 19th-highest annual hourly value being 200@mgm^-^3 NO"2. Emissions by the ships caused a maximum 19th hourly NO"x concentration of 615@mgm^-^3. In a small area of housing estates and office blocks near the harbour, it exceeded 200@mgm^-^3 NO"x, and over several square kilometres of central Copenhagen, the emission by ships in harbour similarly caused values of 50-200@mgm^-^3 NO"x. In the port of Elsinore, ferries contributed significantly to the NO"x pollution in the neighbourhood around the harbour. Emissions of particulate matter (PM) by ships in Copenhagen harbour caused neighbourhood concentrations equivalent to only 0.2-0.4% of the European Community's legal annual mass-based limit value for the protection of human health. However, ship emissions are dominated by ultrafine particles, as are diesel vehicle emissions, which adversely affect human health. Particulate emissions from ships contribute 8-15% of that of all urban road traffic to the background PM"1"0 levels in the harbour neighbourhoods. In Elsinore, the PM problem was less significant than in Copenhagen. Ships in both harbours will contribute insignificantly to urban pollution with sulphur dioxide (SO"2), once the anticipated regulations on sulphur content in marine fuels are implemented. In Koge, the low activity in the harbour meant that ships did not significantly affect urban air quality.
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Traffic assignment, pollutant emission and dispersion models were applied to a major UK city so as to assess the air quality impacts of five road pricing schemes. Schemes were evaluated with reference to: exceedence of air quality standards for six pollutants; greenhouse gas emission; redistribution of pollution, an environmental justice concern; and road network performance as traffic speed and trip distance. Results were compared to alternatives of do nothing, network development and clean fuel promotion. The air quality benefits of a modest distance-based charge are highlighted. However, whilst road pricing shows potential as an air quality management tool, its value and suitability are strongly sensitive to prior air quality and emission source apportionment in the application city.
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An analytical technique to solve the Eulerian advection-diffusion equation for nonstationary conditions and passive contaminant within the Planetary Boundary Layer is analysed in this paper. The approach produces comparable results when considering the most important quantity in air-pollution application, that is the ground level concentration distribution. This is a promising result as this computer-based technique may be used for quantitative and qualitative estimations of contaminant distribution.
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Odour emissions are episodic, characterised by periods of high emission rates, interspersed with periods of low emissions. It is frequently the short term, high concentration peaks that result in annoyance in the surrounding population. Dispersion modelling is accepted as a useful tool for odour impact assessment, and two approaches can be adopted. The first approach of modelling the hourly average concentration can underestimate total odour concentration peaks, resulting in annoyance and complaints. The second modelling approach involves the use of short averaging times. This study assesses the appropriateness of using different averaging times to model the dispersion of odour from a landfill site. We also examine perception of odour in the community in conjunction with the modelled odour dispersal, by using community monitors to record incidents of odour. The results show that with the shorter averaging times, the modelled pattern of dispersal reflects the pattern of observed odour incidents recorded in the community monitoring database, with the modelled odour dispersing further in a north easterly direction. Therefore, the current regulatory method of dispersion modelling, using hourly averaging times, is less successful at capturing peak concentrations, and does not capture the pattern of odour emission as indicated by the community monitoring database. The use of short averaging times is therefore of greater value in predicting the likely nuisance impact of an odour source and in framing appropriate regulatory controls.
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The assimilation potential (assimilative capacity) of the atmosphere can be represented in two ways: one as the ventilation coefficient and the other as the dispersion potential of emission loads discharged into the region. In the present study, the atmospheric assimilation potential of a typical urban area in Kochi city has been determined with respect to sulfur dioxide (SO"2). The ventilation coefficient is directly proportional to the assimilation potential of the atmosphere and has been computed using meteorological parameters in all four seasons (winter, summer, monsoon and post-monsoon) of the years 1998-1999 represented by January, April, July and October respectively. The diurnal variation in ventilation coefficients shows that the assimilative capacity of the atmosphere is high during the afternoon and is reduced during the evening and morning in all the seasons. Among all the seasons, monsoon and post-monsoon have the poorest assimilative capacity throughout the day. In the second approach, the assimilation potential is estimated through dispersion modelling in terms of the concentration of pollutants, which is inversely proportional to the assimilative capacity of the atmosphere. The Industrial Source Complex (ISC) dispersion model for point sources has been used to predict the spatial and temporal distribution of SO"2 under three different industrial scenarios (type of industries existing in the Kochi region, refinery and power plant). The model predictions indicate that monsoon is the most critical season having maximum pollution, followed by summer and post-monsoon. Lowest pollution was observed in winter. The assimilative capacity in terms of the ventilation coefficient is very poor indicating high pollution potential in all the seasons. However, dispersion modeling suggests that if industrial development is planned properly, additional industrial sources can be accommodated by restricting the emission loads to be within the assimilation potential of the region.
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This paper presents computational simulations of atmospheric dispersion experiments conducted around isolated obstacles in the field. The computational tool used for the simulations was the code ADREA-HF, which was especially developed for the simulation of the dispersion of positively or negatively buoyant gases in complicated geometries. The field experiments simulated involve a single cubic obstacle normal to the mean wind direction and two upwind sources of ammonia and propane, with the ammonia source located at different lateral positions [Mavroidis, I., Griffiths, R.F., Hall, D.J., 2003. Field and wind tunnel investigations of plume dispersion around single surface obstacles. Atmospheric Environment 37, 2903-2918]. Concentrations and concentration fluctuations for both gases were calculated by the model and compared with the experimental results. Certain modelling aspects were studied, such as the effect of using different turbulence closure schemes in the computations. Furthermore, specific characteristics of dispersion were investigated using the computational tool, such as the effect of the lateral displacement of a source on the concentration fluctuations intensity, the effects of natural variability and the sensitivity of concentrations to wind direction fluctuations. The results showed a good level of agreement between calculated and measured concentrations and concentration fluctuations when ensemble averaged data were available from the field experiments. Differences observed between measured and predicted concentrations and concentration fluctuations, in the case of laterally displaced sources, were mainly attributed to the specificities of the experimental cases, such as the interaction of a laterally displaced plume with an obstacle, and to the variability observed in the field. The effect of this variability is indicated by the difference between the predicted-to-observed ratios of ensemble-averaged centreline values for propane and the respective ratios from the single ammonia experiment with co-located gas sources, the latter being higher by upto 30% for concentrations and 70% for concentration fluctuations. Using the computational tool it was shown that, for a laterally displaced source, a change of 5^o in the mean wind direction can lead up to a 100% variation in the measured concentrations.
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The problem of determining the source of an emission from the limited information provided by a finite and noisy set of concentration measurements obtained from real-time sensors is an ill-posed inverse problem. In general, this problem cannot be solved uniquely without additional information. A Bayesian probabilistic inferential framework, which provides a natural means for incorporating both errors (model and observational) and prior (additional) information about the source, is presented. Here, Bayesian inference is applied to find the posterior probability density function of the source parameters (location and strength) given a set of concentration measurements. It is shown how the source-receptor relationship required in the determination of the likelihood function can be efficiently calculated using the adjoint of the transport equation for the scalar concentration. The posterior distribution of the source parameters is sampled using a Markov chain Monte Carlo method. The inverse source determination method is validated against real data sets acquired in a highly disturbed flow field in an urban environment. The data sets used to validate the proposed methodology include a water-channel simulation of the near-field dispersion of contaminant plumes in a large array of building-like obstacles (Mock Urban Setting Trial) and a full-scale field experiment (Joint Urban 2003) in Oklahoma City. These two examples demonstrate the utility of the proposed approach for inverse source determination.
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