Tag: Investigations

Free Download Small-scale Freshwater Toxicity Investigations: Toxicity Test Methods By Christian Blaise, Jean-François Férard (auth.), Christian Blaise, Jean-François Férard (eds.)
2005 | 552 Pages | ISBN: 140203119X | PDF | 5 MB
Developed, developing and emerging economies worldwide are collectively contributing multiple stresses on aquatic ecosystems by the release of numerous contaminants. This in turn demands that basic toxicological information on their potential to harm living species be available. Hence, environmental protection programs aimed at preserving water quality must have access to comprehensive toxicity screening tools and strategies that can be applied reliably and universally. While a good number of toxicity testing procedures and hazard assessment approaches have been published in the scientific literature over the past decades, many are wanting in that insufficient detail is available for users to be able to fully understand the test method or scheme and to be able to reproduce it successfully. Even standardized techniques published in recognized international standard organization documents are often lacking in thoroughness and minutiae. Paucity of information relating to biological test methods may be consequent and trigger several phenomena including generation of invalid data and resulting toxicity measurements, erroneous interpretation and decision-taking with regards to a particular chemical or environmental issue, or simply abandonment of testing procedures. Clearly, improperly documented toxicity testing methods can be detrimental to their promotion and use, as they open the doorway to unnecessary debate and criticism as to their raison d’être. Furthermore, this situation can indirectly contribute to delaying, minimizing or eliminating their application, thereby curtailing the important role toxicity testing plays in the overall protection and conservation of aquatic ecosystems.

Free Download G.E.R. Lloyd, "Adversaries and Authorities: Investigations into Ancient Greek and Chinese Science "
English | ISBN: 0521556953 | 2010 | 276 pages | PDF | 20 MB
Did science and philosophy develop differently in ancient Greece and ancient China? If so, can we say why? This book consists of a series of detailed studies of cosmology, natural philosophy, mathematics and medicine that suggest the answer to the first question is yes. To answer the second, the author relates the science produced in each ancient civilization first to the values of the society in question and then to the institutions within which the scientists and philosophers worked.

Free Download Hans-Georg Soeffner, "The Designed Myth: Investigations on the Structure and Effect Condition of Utopia"
English | ISBN: 3658397012 | 2024 | 269 pages | EPUB, PDF | 411 KB + 3 MB
Utopian thinking and utopian designs ostensibly represent a belief in human progress. The starting point of utopias is almost always a bad present that is to be overcome. But in the 20th and 21st centuries, doubts are growing about a plannable future designed by enlightened reason, about the project of modernity. Utopias are answered by dystopias. This makes it clear: the basic motif of utopian thinking is the fear of an uncontrollable future, a fear that could perhaps be overcome by the principle of hope (Ernst Bloch), an amiable illusion.

Free Download Martin Nitsche, "Phenomenological Investigations of Sonic Environments"
English | ISBN: 3031659201 | 2024 | 175 pages | EPUB, PDF | 457 KB + 4 MB
Phenomenological approaches to sounds, noises, voices, and music traditionally privilege methods that center visual perception. This book aims not only to phenomenologically describe sonic environments, but also to develop an audition-centered phenomenological methodology to enable this task. "Sonic environment" is this book’s term for the acoustic shape of human life-environment, which is multisensory and does not exclude visual, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory sensations connected with sounds or their sources. Sonic environments (in so far as they are lived) are not composed of separate sounds, but created by "sonic phenomena" – i.e., lived (real or imagined) experiences with sounds, noises, voices, and music. Just as phenomenology traditionally privileges the visual over the audio, phenomenology thematically prefers listening to a voice or a music over less articulated sonic experiences (i.e., sounds without an obvious meaning, melody, or rhythm).In this respect, the book not only provides missing phenomenological descriptions of sonic environments, but also redefines phenomenological methodology with respect to acoustic perception.

Free Download Jennifer Bayuk, "CyberForensics: Understanding Information Security Investigations"
English | 2010 | pages: 175 | ISBN: 1607617714, 1617797030 | PDF | 6,2 mb
Cyberforensics is a fairly new word in the technology our industry, but one that n- ertheless has immediately recognizable meaning. Although the word forensics may have its origins in formal debates using evidence, it is now most closely associated with investigation into evidence of crime. As the word cyber has become synonymous with the use of electronic technology, the word cyberforensics bears no mystery. It immediately conveys a serious and concentrated endeavor to identify the evidence of crimes or other attacks committed in cyberspace. Nevertheless, the full implications of the word are less well understood. Cyberforensic activities remain a mystery to most people, even those fully immersed in the design and operation of cyber te- nology. This book sheds light on those activities in a way that is comprehensible not only to technology professionals but also to the technology hobbyist and those simply curious about the ?eld. When I started contributing to the ?eld of cybersecurity, it was an obscure ?eld, rarely mentioned in the mainstream media. According to the FBI, by 2009 organized crime syndicates were making more money via cybercrime than in drug traf?- ing. In spite of the rise in cybercrime and the advance of sophisticated threat actors online, the cyber security profession continues to lag behind in its ability to inves- gate cybercrime and understand the root causes of cyber attacks. In the late 1990s I worked to respond to sophisticated attacks as part of the U. S.

Free Download Rob Botwright, "Advanced OSINT Strategies: Online Investigations And Intelligence Gathering"
English | ISBN: 1839386479 | 2024 | 302 pages | EPUB | 308 KB
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Free Download Aeolus Kephas, "The Lucid View: Investigations into Occultism, Ufology, and Paranoid Awareness"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 148481228X | EPUB | pages: 222 | 3.2 mb
What governs the laws of physics and makes one man’s reality another man’s hallucination? How many points of view does it take to make a consensus? If reality is in the eye of the beholder, why should we believe anything which we can’t see for ourselves? And if our beliefs and perceptions are creating our reality, isn’t it time we asked ourselves what-or who-is shaping these beliefs, and to what end? Juxtaposing ancient myths and occult teachings with the modern folklore of global conspiracies, satanic rituals, and alien abductions, The Lucid View traces hitherto unexplored parallels between paranoid awareness, magikal thinking, and Surrealism, and finds they all share a common goal: to forge new perspectives out of the raw material of the unconscious, and to shatter the frozen lake of the consensus with the axe of the impossible. Drawing freely on the works of Blake, Rimbaud, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, Poe, Jung, Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, Camus, Breton, Dali, H.P. Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley, William Burroughs, Carlos Castaneda, Philip K. Dick, Jacques Vallee, Terence McKenna, John Keel, Whitley Strieber, and Robert Anton Wilson, The Lucid View covers a wide spectrum of paranormal phenomena and visionary perspectives, and weaves them into an original and spell-binding tapestry. This is a newly revised and updated edition. "The Lucid View is a primer by example-an initiation into the processes whereby Meaning can be invoked to bring the world to life around us. . . We need dangerous ideas and wild theories to bring back the color to existence. Aeolus Kephas points the way." ~Ramsey Dukes, author of The Word Made Flesh, S.S.O.T.S.E.E, and Ramsey’s Little Book of Demons "Replete with fascinating information, marshaled and presented colorfully in a sustained flow of exciting imagery, The Lucid View is a compelling witness to the choices that lie open to us. Utterly intriguing." ~Kenneth Grant, author of Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God. "Aeolus Kephas is the James Shelby Downard of the 21st century." Adam Gorightly, Author of The Shadow over Santa Susana.

Free Download Azra Moeed, "Playful Science Investigations in Early Childhood: A Longitudinal Case Study "
English | ISBN: 981997285X | 2023 | 116 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book showcases a case study of the development of a generalist early childhood education (ECE) teacher into a confident and competent teacher of science in early childhood with support from a mentor. It argues that with guided mentoring, and later, timely support of a mentor as and when required, ECE teachers can deliver the curriculum, teach science by providing opportunities to explore and then build on children’s interest through intentionally planned activities, dialogue, and discourse.

Free Download Safe Haven: The United Kingdom’s Investigations into Nazi Collaborators and the Failure of Justice (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CT9D7NS3 | 2024 | 10 hours and 45 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 296 MB
Author: Jon Silverman, Robert Sherwood
Narrator: Jon Silverman
The controversial 1991 War Crimes Act gave new powers to courts to try non-British citizens resident in the UK for war crimes committed during WWII. But in spite of the extensive investigative and legal work that followed, and the expense of some £11 million, it led to just one conviction: that in 1999 of Anthony (Andrzej) Sawoniuk. Safe Haven considers for the first time why and how convictions failed to follow investigations. Within the broader context of war crimes investigations in the United States, Germany, and Australia, the authors reassess the legal and investigative processes and decisions that stymied inquiries, from the War Crimes Act itself to the restrictive criteria applied to it. Taken together, the authors argue that these-including the interpretations of who could and should be prosecuted and decisions about the nature and amount of evidence needed for trial-meant that many Nazi collaborators escaped justice and never appeared in a criminal court.

Free Download Mariëlle Hoefnagels, "Biology: Concepts and Investigations"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1260575888, 1260259048 | PDF | pages: 913 | 659.6 mb
ISBN: 9781260575880 is an International Student Edition of Biology: Concepts and Investigations (Fifth Edition) 5th Edition by: Mariëlle Hoefnagels. This ISBN: 9781260575880 is Textbook only. It will not come with online access code. Online Access code (should only be purchased when required by an instructor ) sold separately at other ISBN The content of of this title on all formats are the same. Mariëlle Hoefnagels’ passion as a classroom instructor is evident in Biology: Concepts and Investigations, an introductory biology textbook written to explain the general concepts of biology at a level of detail that allows students to understand concepts rather than memorize details.