The incredible shrinking bee [[electronic resource] ] : insects as models for microelectromechanical devices / / James V. Lawry |
Autore | Lawry James V |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Imperial College Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 573.1/15799 |
Soggetto topico |
Bees - Physiology
Size judgment |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-86717-9
9786611867171 1-86094-806-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; 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
Blood 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 What 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 Divisive 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 The 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 Postman Problem |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453660303321 |
Lawry James V | ||
London, : Imperial College Press | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The incredible shrinking bee [[electronic resource] ] : insects as models for microelectromechanical devices / / James V. Lawry |
Autore | Lawry James V |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Imperial College Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 573.1/15799 |
Soggetto topico |
Bees - Physiology
Size judgment |
ISBN |
1-281-86717-9
9786611867171 1-86094-806-5 |
Classificazione |
33.93
53.32 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; 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
Blood 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 What 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 Divisive 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 The 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 Postman Problem |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782203003321 |
Lawry James V | ||
London, : Imperial College Press | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The incredible shrinking bee : insects as models for microelectromechanical devices / / James V. Lawry |
Autore | Lawry James V |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Imperial College Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 573.1/15799 |
Soggetto topico |
Bees - Physiology
Size judgment |
ISBN |
1-281-86717-9
9786611867171 1-86094-806-5 |
Classificazione |
33.93
53.32 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; 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
Blood 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 What 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 Divisive 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 The 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 Postman Problem |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824436903321 |
Lawry James V | ||
London, : Imperial College Press | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Why do bees buzz? [[electronic resource] ] : fascinating answers to questions about bees / / Elizabeth Capaldi Evans and Carol A. Butler |
Autore | Evans Elizabeth Capaldi <1968-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina | 595.79/9 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ButlerCarol A. <1943-> |
Collana | Animal Q & A |
Soggetto topico |
Bees
Bees - Physiology |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-56242-8
9786612562426 0-8135-4920-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ONE. Bee Basics -- TWO. Bee Bodies -- THREE. Bee Behavior -- FOUR. Bee Love -- FIVE. Bees in the Hive -- SIX. Bees at Work -- SEVEN. Honey -- EIGHT. Bees on the Move -- NINE. Bee Stings and Other Defenses -- TEN. Dangers to Bees -- ELEVEN. Beekeeping -- A. Bee Organizations -- B. Suggestions for Further Reading -- References -- Index -- About the Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458557403321 |
Evans Elizabeth Capaldi <1968-> | ||
New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Why do bees buzz? [[electronic resource] ] : fascinating answers to questions about bees / / Elizabeth Capaldi Evans and Carol A. Butler |
Autore | Evans Elizabeth Capaldi <1968-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina | 595.79/9 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ButlerCarol A. <1943-> |
Collana | Animal Q & A |
Soggetto topico |
Bees
Bees - Physiology |
ISBN |
1-282-56242-8
9786612562426 0-8135-4920-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ONE. Bee Basics -- TWO. Bee Bodies -- THREE. Bee Behavior -- FOUR. Bee Love -- FIVE. Bees in the Hive -- SIX. Bees at Work -- SEVEN. Honey -- EIGHT. Bees on the Move -- NINE. Bee Stings and Other Defenses -- TEN. Dangers to Bees -- ELEVEN. Beekeeping -- A. Bee Organizations -- B. Suggestions for Further Reading -- References -- Index -- About the Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791334503321 |
Evans Elizabeth Capaldi <1968-> | ||
New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Why do bees buzz? : fascinating answers to questions about bees / / Elizabeth Capaldi Evans and Carol A. Butler |
Autore | Evans Elizabeth Capaldi <1968-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina | 595.79/9 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ButlerCarol A. <1943-> |
Collana | Animal Q & A |
Soggetto topico |
Bees
Bees - Physiology |
ISBN |
1-282-56242-8
9786612562426 0-8135-4920-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ONE. Bee Basics -- TWO. Bee Bodies -- THREE. Bee Behavior -- FOUR. Bee Love -- FIVE. Bees in the Hive -- SIX. Bees at Work -- SEVEN. Honey -- EIGHT. Bees on the Move -- NINE. Bee Stings and Other Defenses -- TEN. Dangers to Bees -- ELEVEN. Beekeeping -- A. Bee Organizations -- B. Suggestions for Further Reading -- References -- Index -- About the Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815005103321 |
Evans Elizabeth Capaldi <1968-> | ||
New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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