LEADER 05366nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910453660303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-86717-9 010 $a9786611867171 010 $a1-86094-806-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000553294 035 $a(EBL)1214442 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000299517 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11236092 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000299517 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10242914 035 $a(PQKB)10647539 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1214442 035 $a(WSP)0000P408 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1214442 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10699084 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL186717 035 $a(OCoLC)854972447 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000553294 100 $a20050818d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe incredible shrinking bee$b[electronic resource] $einsects as models for microelectromechanical devices /$fJames V. Lawry 210 $aLondon $cImperial College Press ;$aHackensack, NJ $cDistributed in the USA by World Scientific Publishing$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (274 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-86094-585-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-241) and index. 327 $aCONTENTS; Glossary; Preface; Chapter One; What's in This Book; Introductory Note; Why Study Bees?; Vector Competency; Role of Circulation in Disease; Insect Circulation Differs From Ours; Millions of Years of Research and Development; Prototypes; Masters of Small; Bee Fluid Dynamics; How Can Bees Be So Small?; The Non-incredible Non-shrinking Woman; Printer Analogy; Organs Float in a Barrel of Blood; Open Pumps Slosh Insect Blood; The Insect Pump: The Dorsal Vessel; Unidirectional Flow in the Dorsal Vessel; Where Does Her Blood Go?; A Marxian Distribution 327 $aBlood Paths Stay Short and Mostly Outside TubesLow Blood Pressure Promotes Longevity; Hemocoels Adjust to Changes in Volume; Zoom In; Control Points; A Mobile Service Economy; Hemocoels Shrink But Still Coordinate; Why Model Hemocoels?; Sorting; Diffuse Control; Hemocoel as Microprocessor; Safety Factors; New Models and New Control Systems; Shrinking Increases Efficiency; Our Bottom Line: Hemocoels Adapt to Changes That Would Block Closed Pump Tube Systems; Three D Becomes Two D; Now You Have It; Chapter Two; Bees and Devices; Overview; Why Bees?; Dissect to Learn?; Silk Dreams 327 $aWhat We Can DoDNA Computer; Devices, Bees and Philosophy; Emergent Systems; A Monkey Watches The Red Sox; The Monkey's Question?; Emergence; What Do We Mean by Understanding?; Understanding is Relative; Enter Chaos; Shape; Reproduction; Bees and Devices Integrated Within a Common Manifold; Microfluidic Chip; Porous Monolithic Polymers; Scale and Size; Here's the Rub; Scaling; Shape Implies Forces; Condensation and the 'C' Word; It's All in the Edge; Microns or Nanometers?; Insect Units; Micrometers Visualized; Nanometer Analogy; Scale Difficulties; Complexity Magnified 327 $aDivisive Devices: Our Smallest Parts Still StickCorralling Molecules; Nanotech?; Limits? What Limits?; Chip Realities; Bottom Up or Top Down?; Shrinking Big to Small Doesn't Work; What is MEMS?; NEMS; Generalities; A Generic MEMS System; First Simulate; Then Again and Again; VLSI Devices Obey Simple Laws; Bulk Controls Electrons; Diaphragm Pump Compares Unfavorably With a Bee's Heart; Acceleration Sensor Compares Unfavorably With a Bee's Mechanoreceptors; Example of a Sequenced Array; Miniature Parts; Energy; Foreshadowing: Emergent Levels of Metabolism 327 $aThe Monkey's Problem: Analyze Emergent Functions?Comparisons: Bees; Devices; Manufacture; Chip Manufacture: A Dirty Problem; Manufacture Close on the Bee's Knees; Showcase Bee Manufacturing: Chitin; What is Chitin?; Growth; Contained Energy Supplies?; Webs of Levels; Neural Coordination; Copper, Iron and Ordered Structure; When You Are Small Your Rules Are Different; Bees as MEMS: A Summary; Chapter Three; Beauty Before the Beast; A. GRAPHS; Graphs Before Models; Graphs in General; Order and Size; The World Wide Web: A Graph; Properties of Graphs; Restricted Representations; What Graphs Show 327 $aPostman Problem 330 $aBecause vertebrate circulations do not work when shrunk to insect sizes, insects may help us design our smallest machines. Within small bodies, bees separate diffusing substances in an open cavity assisted by locomotion and the beat of the heart. The open arthropod circulation, however, is most efficient when shrunk until its large three-dimensional volume of blood turns into a two-dimensional film of fluid covering only the internal surfaces. This transformation increases the chances to near-certainty that molecules can diffuse from one point to another without getting lost.The Incredible Shr 606 $aBees$xPhysiology 606 $aSize judgment 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBees$xPhysiology. 615 0$aSize judgment. 676 $a573.1/15799 700 $aLawry$b James V$0957291 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453660303321 996 $aThe incredible shrinking bee$92168449 997 $aUNINA