With extensive research, real-world examples, and hands-on applications, this go-to guide offers a comprehensive look at the principles and practices of biochar-and all of its world-changing uses. Like many human discoveries, biochar has likely been invented, lost, and reinvented multiple times. It can be found in the rich terra preta soils of the Amazon and in the ancient "dark earths" dotting Africa, Asia, and Europe. However, biochar isn't just an archeological curiosity. In The Biochar Handbook, author Kelpie Wilson argues that the simple process of burning organic material in a low-oxygen, low-emission environment could be one of the most powerful tools we have to restore degraded soils and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. In accessible and authoritative prose, Wilson demonstrates that biochar is a low-tech but effective means of reducing wildfire risks, restoring soil carbon, managing manure, weaning farms off of toxic inputs, and producing the best compost ever made. In this book, you'll also find: A pocket history of biochar Step-by-step instructions on making biochar for yourself Applications for soil water retention, pest deterrence, compost enhancement, and more Inspiring examples of ecosystem restoration and improved forest management Low-cost recipes, including Cultured Biochar and Sustainable Potting Soil Wilson makes a compelling case that biochar is both simple to make and a potent solution to a host of knotty problems, both global and close to home. Whether you're a gardener, homesteader, rancher, commercial farmer, permaculturalist, or forest manager, this book will show you how to put biochar to work, making you and your community more resilient as a result. Full-color photographs and illustrations throughout

The only handbook of its kind to bring together materials from a wide range of authoritative works, providing the reader with a comprehensive overview of reform in American education. Crafted in ten skillfully written chapters, Educational Reform covers the history, politics, and processes of educational reform and addresses reforms in curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Starting with a definition of educational reform and where its far-reaching results can lead, the work goes on to assess the role of the public in educational reform, the educational reform industry, and resistance to reform. Of interest to school boards and administrators and useful in graduate and undergraduate courses in education, it is written in a conversational tone that brings the subject out of the realm of dry analysis. Readers will benefit not only from the numerous case studies that intersperse the themes discussed, but also from the extensive bibliography of print and nonprint resources (including websites) listed for further study. There is little doubt that the classroom must change to meet the needs of the 21st century--read Educational Reform to learn just how.

The field of evolutionary computation is expanding dramatically, fueled by the vast investment that reflects the value of applying its techniques. Culling material from the Handbook of Evolutionary Computation, Evolutionary Computation 1: Basic Algorithms and Operators contains up-to-date information on algorithms and operators used in evolutionary computing. This volume discusses the basic ideas that underlie the main paradigms of evolutionary algorithms, evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, and genetic programming. It is intended to be used by individual researchers, teachers, and students working and studying in this expanding field.

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Divided into four parts-Earth, Air, Fire, and Water-this book takes an elemental approach to the study of religion and ecology. It reflects recent theoretical and methodological developments in this field which seek to understand the ways that ideas and matter, minds and bodies exist together within an immanent frame of reference. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Nature focuses on how these matters materialize in the world around us, thereby addressing key topics in this area of study. The editors provide an extensive introduction to the book, as well as useful introductions to each of its parts. The volume's international contributors are drawn from the USA, South Africa, Netherlands, Norway, Indonesia, and South Korea, and offer a variety of perspectives, voices, cultural settings, and geographical locales. This handbook shows that human concern and engagement with material existence is present in all sectors of the global community, regardless of religious tradition. It challenges the traditional methodological approach of comparative religion, and argues that globalization renders a comparative religious approach to the environment insufficient. | Author: Laura Hobgood, Whitney Bauman | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic | Publication Date: March 25, 2021 | Number of Pages: 360 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 1350242799 | ISBN-13: 9781350242791

Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) technology is one of the most important new developments in polymer chemistry. The most significant benefit of RAFT polymerization is that it allows the preparation of new polymeric architectures with defined properties.Spanning the entire field from fundamentals to applications in material science,…

Keeping pace with planning law is no easy matter. The mass of primary and secondary legislation in this field, allied to local and national policy and guidance, make this the most intensively regulated area of the law. This comprehensive practitioner's handbook covers the widest possible range of planning topics in a single volume and is written for planning practitioners in the private and public sectors. This book combines a readily accessible narrative with a substantial body of footnotes for those looking for more detail when it comes to case law and statutory materials. Planning Law: A Practitioner's Handbook provides answers for the busy planning professional to a whole range of problems which commonly arise in the day-to-day practice of planning practitioners. Its advantage lies in the fact that it is a single up-to-date reference book covering a broad range of topics which might otherwise only be found in a number of specialist texts. It also contains sections on village greens, assets of community value, public rights of way, and gypsies and travellers, all of which impact on the realisation of land for planning purposes. The inclusion of these topics will be of particular value to practitioners in the public sector looking for up-to-date guidance in these fields.

This is the original version of this poster, the design of which has been shared online hundreds of thousands of times, even copied, without attribution or any credit. Support the original artist by purchasing here. "Lay versus Lie" is a screenprinted poster with a hand-designed chart of the often-confused past, present, and participle tenses of the verbs "lay" and "lie". It's designed to hang over the bed (get it?) or, if you're a grammar nerd, anywhere else in your home or workplace. The design is intended to mimic the look of an old mimeograph sheet. But the brown ink/paper makes it passable as something even older. from a limited edition of 50 screenprinted with brown ink on 24pt kraft chipboard 18x24 inches, standard frame size ships loosely rolled in a 26-inch long 4-inch diameter tube mailer

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This book presents a highly integrated, step-by-step approach to the design and construction of low-temperature measurement apparatus. It is effectively two books in one: A textbook on cryostat design techniques and an appendix data handbook that provides materials-property data for carrying out that design. The main text encompasses a wide range of…

The Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology focuses on the material culture and lifeways of the peoples of prehistoric and early historic East and Southeast Asia; their origins, behavior and identities as well as their biological, linguistic and cultural differences and commonalities. Emphasis is placed upon the interpretation of material culture to illuminate and explain social processes and relationships as well as behavior, technology, patterns and mechanisms of long-term change and chronology, in addition to the intellectual history of archaeology as a discipline in this diverse region. The Handbook augments archaeologically-focused chapters contributed by regional scholars by providing histories of research and intellectual traditions, and by maintaining a broadly comparative perspective. Archaeologically-derived data are emphasized with text-based documentary information, provided to complement interpretations of material culture. The Handbook is not restricted to art historical or purely descriptive perspectives; its geographical coverage includes the modern nation-states of China, Mongolia, Far Eastern Russia, North and South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and East Timor. 50 Tables, color; 76 Illustrations, color; 59 Illustrations, black and white; XXI, 771 p. 135 illus., 76 illus. in color.

Formulated to assist scientists and engineers engaged in army ordnance research and development programs, this well-known and highly regarded handbook is a ready reference for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as for professionals seeking engineering information and quantitative data for designing, developing, constructing, and testing equipment. Topics include characterizing and comparing the measured performance of a material, product, or process; general considerations in planning experiments; statistical techniques for analyzing extreme-value data; use of transformations; and many other practical methods. 1966 edition. Index. 52 figures. 76 tables.

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What is Hysteresis loop or bh curve and Hysteresis loss? Hysteresis loop or bh curve gives information about the magnetic properties of a material. By studying hysteresis loop and bh curve all the magnetic properties related information of a material can be easily traced out. Hysteresis loopIn another word’s we can define Hysteresis loop as, “When a ferromagnetic material is magnetized in a one direction, it will not come back to zero magnetization when the applied magnetizing field is taken out. It must be driven back to zero by a magnetizing field in the opposite or reverse direction. If an alternating magnetic field is applied to the material, its magnetization will trace out a loop (in the form of curve graph) called a hysteresis loop. The absence of re-traceability of the magnetization curve (H) is the property called as hysteresis and it is associated with the presence of magnetic domains in the material. bh curveA hysteresis loop shows the relationship between the induced magnetic flux density (B) and the magnetizing force (H). This is the reason it is also called as the B-H curve. Below figure shows an example of hysteresis loop; Hysteresis loop or B-H curve Below points explains the Hysteresis loop or B-H curve; The loop is produced by measuring the magnetic flux (B) of a ferromagnetic material when the applied magnetizing force is changed (H). A ferromagnetic material which has been never before magnetized or demagnetized ferromagnetic material will trail the dashed line (see the figure) as magnetizing force (H) is increased. The dashed line shows that, the larger the quantity of current applied (H+), the stronger the magnetic field in the component (B+). At "a" point nearly all of the magnetic domains are aligned and an extra increase in the magnetizing force will generate very little increase in magnetic flux. The magnetic saturation point has been reached for the material. When magnetizing force (H) is decreased to zero, the curve will move or change from "a" point to "b" point. At this point, we can notice that some magnetic flux leftovers in the material even though the magnetizing force (H) is zero. This is called as the point of retentivity on the graph and shows the remanence or level of remaining magnetism in the material. Some of the magnetic domains stay aligned, but some magnetic domains lose their alignment. With the application of magnetizing force in reverse direction, the curve moves to "c" point, where the flux has been decreased to zero. This point is called as coercivity point on the curve or loop. The reversed magnetizing force has reversed plenty of the domains, so that the remaining flux within the material is zero. To remove the residual magnetism from the material a force has to be apply, this required force is called as the coercive force or coercivity of the material. In the negative direction when magnetizing force is increased, the material will become again magnetically saturated or material under goes in saturation, but in the opposite or reverse direction i.e. towards "d" point. Decreasing magnetizing force (H) to zero brings the curve to "e" point. The available level of remaining magnetism is equal to that achieved in the other direction. Increasing magnetizing force (H) back in the positive direction will return or bring back the magnetic flux (B) to zero. We can notice that, the curve did not return back to the beginning or origin of the graph because some magnetizing force is needed to remove the remaining or residual magnetism. Now the curve in the graph will take a diverse or different path from “f” point back to the saturation point, here at this point it with complete the loop. Below image shows B-H curve measurement on Oscilloscope; B-H curve measurement on Oscilloscope Advantages of Hysteresis loop or bh curve The outcome of magnetic hysteresis loop shows; The magnetisation process of a ferromagnetic core. The part of the curve the ferromagnetic core is magnetised decides flux density because this depends on the circuits previous history which gives the core a form of “memory”. Ferromagnetic materials have memory because they stay magnetised after the external magnetic field has been taken out. Relays, solenoids and transformers can be easily magnetised and demagnetised because, they are made up of Soft ferromagnetic materials such as silicon steel or iron, which have very narrow magnetic hysteresis loops resulting in very small amounts of residual magnetism. Residual magnetism can be overcome by a coercive force; energy which is in use is dissipated as heat in the magnetic material. This heat is known as hysteresis loss, the material’s value of coercive force decides the amount of loss. A very small coercive force can be made that have a very narrow hysteresis loop by adding additive’s to the iron metal such as silicon. Magnetisation and demagnetisation of soft magnetic materials with narrow hysteresis loops are easy. Hysteresis loop for Soft and Hard Material Applications of Hysteresis There are varieties of applications of the hysteresis in ferromagnets. Many of the applications make use of their capability to hold a memory; like magnetic tape, computer hard disks and debit cards - credit cards. In these applications, hard magnets which have high coercivity like chromium and iron are required so the memory is not easily removed. Let understand it in detail; Because of presence of magnetic domains in the material the magnetization curve is not re-traceable (which is termed as hysteresis). After re-orientation of magnetic domains, it will take some magnetizing field or energy to turn them back again. This characteristic of ferromagnetic materials is useful as a magnetic "memory". Some configurations of ferromagnetic materials will maintain a forced magnetization forever and are useful as "permanent magnets". The magnetic memory features of chromium and iron oxides are useful in audio tape recording and also for the magnetic storage of data on computer hard disks. Soft magnets which have low coercivity for example iron oxide is used for the ferrite cores in electromagnets. The low coercivity decreases that energy loss related with hysteresis. This low energy loss at the time of hysteresis loop is the main reason of using soft iron for electric motors and transformer cores. What is Hysteresis loss? As current flows in the forward and reverse directions the magnetization and demagnetization of the core happens which result in Hysteresis loss. When we apply external magnetizing force to a material and as we increase the magnetizing force (current), the magnetic flux also increases, but when the magnetizing force (current) is decreased, the magnetic flux decreases gradually and not at the same rate. So, when the magnetizing force touches zero, the flux density didn’t come to zero and still has a positive value. Now the magnetizing force must be applied in the negative direction so the flux density reaches zero. The link between the magnetizing force (H) and the magnetic flux density (B) is shown on a hysteresis loop or curve. The energy required for completing a full cycle of magnetizing and de-magnetizing is shown by the area of the hysteresis loop. Also this area of the loop characterizes the energy lost during this magnetisation process. Below is the equation for hysteresis loss; Where; Pb = hysteresis loss (W) η = Steinmetz hysteresis coefficient, depending on material (J/m³) Bmax = maximum flux density (Wb/m²) n = Steinmetz exponent, ranges from 1.5 to 2.5, depending on material f = frequency of magnetic reversals per second (Hz) V = volume of magnetic material (m³) The hysteresis loss results in wasted energy which is proportional to the area of the magnetic hysteresis loop. In AC transformers, hysteresis loss is always a problem where the current is continually changing the flow of direction and by this the magnetic poles continually flows in reverse direction and causes loss in the core. Conclusion Hysteresis loop provides information about the magnetic properties of a material. It is important that the B-H hysteresis loop is as small as possible so loss will be less because shape of B-H curve decides the loss. Bigger the area then more is the loss and vice-versa. The shape of hysteresis loop depends upon the nature of the material used i.e. iron or steel. More details on Ferrite you can find in my previous blog; “Ferrite, Ferrite structure and Ferrite properties”.

Pack of 2 Books Cracking Maths focuses on the skills of the curriculum, rather than just the content, promoting real understanding, especially in areas such as problem-solving. All levels of the series are supported by engaging and stimulating digital resources, an invaluable teacher’s handbook and fantastic online materials. Meticulously reviewed to ensure complete coverage of the curriculum and seamless transition between years Problems and questions reflect ‘maths in real life’ A School/Home Link book is included, with additional work for children to complete at home to reinforce each of the units covered in the Junior Infants pupil’s book. Interactive digital resources demonstrate new concepts while actively engaging pupils

Now in its third edition, A Handbook of Diction for Singers is a complete guide to achieving professional levels of diction in Italian, German, and French. Combining traditional approaches in the teaching of diction with new material not readily available elsewhere, author David Adams presents the sounds of each language in logical order, along with essential information on matters such as diacritical marks, syllabification, word stress, and effective use of the variety of foreign-language dictionaries. A Handbook of Diction for Singers places particular emphasis on the characteristics of vowel length, the sequencing of sounds between words, as well as the differences between spoken and sung sounds in all three languages, all while taking care to clarify concepts typically difficult for English-speaking singers. This revised third edition offers significantly expanded coverage of each language as well as a new chapter that introduces readers to the specific sounds unique to those languages. The result is a concise yet thorough treatment of the three major languages of the classical vocal repertory, and an invaluable reference for vocalists and voice teachers. 200 music examples

Learning to read is easy with the right materials! The Abeka Reading Program is supported by a wide range of phonics-based language arts materials that increase reading comprehension and refine thinking skills. At the heart of our phonics materials is the Handbook for Reading. This invaluable teaching tool for the application of phonics rules may be used at any level from child to adult for initial teaching of phonics and reading, for reinforcement of skills, or for remedial work. It clearly presents the six easy steps to reading. The consonant-vowel blends and words in this reader are arranged to correlate with the sequence in which the special phonics sounds are taught. Ample practice and thorough review are provided. By mastering the simple phonics in this book, any person will be well on his way to becoming a skillful reader. Not sure how to pronounce the phonics sounds? See our Basic Phonics Sounds CD. Handbook for Reading Teacher Edition is also available. 155 pages.

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Welcome to the Harbor + Sprout Oceanography Patchwork Study, the June 2022 release of our original elementary-level homeschool unit study curriculum. This unit study features 4 weeks of lesson plans and materials covering all 9 of our core subjects plus a playful supplemental section of thematic activities. This unit study is meant for use by children ages 3-12.  This unit is delivered via a secure link as a digital download. Shop our corresponding Morning Basket Pack by Rebecca Clarke of Whimsy Printables here! CONTENT: Handbook Daily, weekly, and monthly planning pagesBooklist including stories, poems, and field guides with recommended ages, subject correspondence, and brief summaries for each titleLesson plans for 4 levels of learningFamily read aloud recommendationsCharacter kit- new monthly character illustrated by Stephanie Groves to act as your guide through the unitUnit Recipe Supply List Science Week 1: The OceansWeek 2: Ocean LayersWeek 3: Ocean AnimalsWeek 4: Protect our Oceans! Nature Study Week 1: Seashell CreaturesWeek 2: SeaweedWeek 3: Tidal PoolsWeek 4: Sea Turtles Language Arts Week 1: The Tide Rises, The Tide FallsWeek 2: AdverbsWeek 3: HyperboleWeek 4: Words From the Sea Writing Week 1: PlanWeek 2: ResearchWeek 3: WriteWeek 4: Revise History Week 1: The Atlantic OceanWeek 2: The Pacific OceanWeek 3: The Indian OceanWeek 4: The Arctic and Southern Oceans Geography Week 1: BermudaWeek 2: MapsWeek 3: Marine Life Around BermudaWeek 4: Our Oceans Music Week 1: Communicating with MusicWeek 2: Musical WavesWeek 3: Sounds on the OceanWeek 4: Sounds of the Sea Art Week 1: The BeachWeek 2: The ShallowsWeek 3: The OceanWeek 4: The Deep Sea Math Week 1: Data OrganizationWeek 2: Counting and Skip CountingWeek 3: Seashell BingoWeek 4: Oceanography Coloring Game Supplement Nature Activities Anatomy of a Humpback WhaleAnatomy of an OctopusColor and Decorate the FishColoring PostersFish Pattern MatchLand or Sea Sorting GameOcean 3 Part CardsOcean Creatures FlashcardsOcean Memory GameOcean Number CardsOcean Word Build Wellness & Quiet Time Ocean Tic Tac ToeOcean Word SearchOcean Dot PaintingOcean 3 Part Cards Writing & Language Arts Oceanography VocabularySpelling List and CardsWord SearchesSpelling ShellsWords in WordsOceanography Copy WorkPoetry NarrationWriting Reference Pages Each lesson comes with a lesson plan split into 4 distinct levels of learning to help you use the materials for your child's individual needs. This allows for family-style learning for ages 3-12 and years worth of connection and education!

Make economics resonate to high school students. This practical handbook will help economics and social studies teachers foster critical thinking by introducing students to the real-life dimensions of the major controversies in contemporary economics. Filled with useful teaching tips and user-friendly information on finding engaging materials and activities for the classroom, the book also includes detailed coverage of the Voluntary National Content Standards for economics. "Introducing Economics" is a one-stop resource for high school teachers who want to make economics relevant to their students' lives. It includes more than 50 sections with lists of suggested "Activities and Resources," many with Internet links. It features boxed "Hints for Clear Teaching" tips for presenting particularly difficult topics. It provides an annotated resource guide to more than 30 organizations involved in economics education, with associated Internet links. It follows the flow of topics in a typical economics course. It addresses real-life topics that are ignored or glossed-over in traditional textbooks - economics and the environment, the distribution of income and wealth, discrimination, labor unions, globalization, the power of corporations, and more. It offers critical guidance for meeting all 20 Voluntary National Content Standards in economics, and also provides an overview of the political and intellectual history and contemporary state of economics education.