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""I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for--but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, Jane, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered . . . unless she does what all the grief, fear, confusion, and fury inside of her demands: find the truth, no matter what"--
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"Seven graduate students are recruited by a microbiology start-up and dispatched to a mysterious lab in Hawaii. There they are promised access to tools that will open a whole new scientific frontier. But once in the Oahu rain forest, the scientists are thrust into a hostile wilderness where they find themselves prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power. To survive, they must harness the inherent forces of nature itself"--Publisher's description....
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Goddess mode volume 1
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"Cassandra Price's life changes forever when she discovers a hidden digital world beneath our own, one where a group of super-powered women are locked in a secret war for the cheat codes to reality. In the near future all of humanity's needs are administered by a godlike artificial intelligence called Azoth, and it's Cassandra Price's humiliating job to do tech support on it. The advent of Azoth has deepened inequality and robbed humanity of its soul,...
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Gene Wars volume 2
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From C.J. Cherryh, one of science fiction′s greatest writers and a 3-time Hugo Award "Best Novel" winner, comes the exciting and long-awaited follow-up to Hammerfall, the second novel of the Gene Wars. In the second volume of "The Gene Wars," C. J. Cherryh further explores the captivating new universe where two interstellar empires, scarred by nanotechnology weaponry, hover in an uneasy detente. Perched at the edge of the galaxy, tiny Concord Station...
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Nanotecnología: Fundamentos y aplicaciones, más que explicar contenidos teóricos, busca hacer posible que el lector se acerque al sentido del diseño y la manipulación de la materia a nivel de átomos o moléculas. A tal fin, la obra abarca un amplio haz de temas y variantes, como la obtención y la caracterización de nanomateriales, la aplicación en áreas como el medio ambiente, la salud, la energética, la industria textil y la agroindustria,...
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La inteligencia artificial (IA), en el contexto de las ciencias de la computación, es el conjunto de sistemas o combinación de algoritmos, cuyo propósito es crear máquinas que imitan la inteligencia humana para realizar tareas y pueden mejorar conforme la información que recopilan. La inteligencia artificial no tiene como finalidad reemplazar a los humanos, sino mejorar significativamente las capacidades y contribuciones humanas. Se hizo presente...
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Cancer is a term used for a collection of diseases in which some of the normal and somatic body cells start dividing and re-dividing out of control . It is a leading cause of the morbidity and mortality worldwide, second only to the cardiovascular diseases . The occurrence of cancer is not new to human kind and the world's oldest recorded case of breast cancer dates back to 1500 BC from ancient Egypt. Some evidences of human osteosarcoma were also...
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Every day, individuals take action based on how they believe innovation will change industries. Yet these beliefs are largely based on guesswork and incomplete data and lead to costly errors in judgment. Now, internationally renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen and his research partners Scott D. Anthony and Erik A. Roth present a groundbreaking framework for predicting outcomes in the evolution of any industry. Based on proven theories...
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Cancer is a deadly disease. It remains as leading cause of death in every country of the world . Cancer is the first or second leading cause of death among people of age above 70 years in 295 countries, according to the recent report by World Health Organization (WHO). As the number of deaths due to cancer enhances, it has partial reflections on the mortality rates caused by other diseases like stroke and coronary heart disease. . In general, the...
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Sonia Contera, catedrática de Física en la Universidad de Oxford, ofrece una perspectiva privilegiada de la «nanoescala»-el reino infinitesimal de las proteínas y el ADN-y revela cómo la nanotecnología transformará la salud y la longevidad humanas.
Basándose en su experiencia como una de las investigadoras más destacadas de la actualidad en este campo, Contera describe las apasionantes formas en que la nanotecnología permite comprender,...
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Want the blood of a supergod?
Jack your metabolism.
Boost immunities.
Think faster.
Think again.
You might remember there's a catch.
The Leap brings progress, but exacts a heavy price.
A dystopian world so close to now, with big secrets and great losses.
You'll need pressure suits for this one.
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In today's fast-paced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the books you'll love, Joosr's brief and accessible eBook summaries fit into your life. Find out more at joosr.com. We stand on the brink of technological advancements that could change everything we know about human life....
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It is 2023 and our intrepid Cape Cod health, safety, and environmental consultants, who some call the best in the business, are continuing to travel globally to help those in everyday headlines with their S, H, & E crises. Client problems range from military to millinery; autism to engulfment; Ukraine to San Francisco's historic Cliff House; Amazon to Mexican pig farms; confined spaces to massive Texas large garbage dumps; civil war submarine health...
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Sonia Contera is professor of biological physics in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford and one of today's leading nanotech pioneers. She lives in Oxford, England. Twitter @SONIACONTERA
The nanotechnology revolution that will transform human health and longevity
Nano Comes to Life opens a window onto the nanoscale-the infinitesimal realm of proteins and DNA where physics and cellular and molecular biology meet-and introduces readers...
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The must-read summary of Jack Uldrich and Deb Newberry's book: "The Next Big Thing Is Really Small: Nanotechnology and the Future of Big Business".
This complete summary of the ideas from Jack Uldrich and Deb Newberry's book "The Next Big Thing Is Really Small" explains that nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter at the atomic level to create better materials, devices and systems, and is set to be the next big thing. In their book, the authors...
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In his landmark book Open Innovation, Henry Chesbrough demonstrated that because useful knowledge is no longer concentrated in a few large organizations, business leaders must adopt a new, "open" model of innovation. Using this model, companies look outside their boundaries for ideas and intellectual property (IP) they can bring in, as well as license their unutilized home-grown IP to other organizations.
In Open Business Models, Chesbrough takes...
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The Great Disruption reveals how 3D printing manufacturing will transform the world in the same way that Henry Ford's Model T upended transportation or Gutenberg's printing press started an information revolution. It traces both the impact of this disruption as it rapidly spreads around the world and affects every kind of industry imaginable, while detailing specific steps that can and should be taken right now to prepare.
The 3D manufacturing revolution...
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