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This book reveals that T. rex was not the only killer in the Cretaceous: insects--from biting sand flies to disease-causing parasites--dominated life on the planet and played a significant role in the life and death of the dinosaurs. Analyzing exotic insects fossilized in Cretaceous amber at three major deposits in Lebanon, Burma, and Canada, the authors reconstruct the complex ecology of a hostile prehistoric world inhabited by voracious swarms of insects. They draw upon tantalizing new evidence from their discoveries of disease-producing vertebrate pathogens in Cretaceous blood-sucking flies, as well as intestinal worms and protozoa found in fossilized dinosaur excrement, to provide a unique view of how insects infected with malaria, leishmania, and other pathogens, together with intestinal parasites, could have devastated dinosaur populations.--From publisher description.
Amber fossils. --- Plants, Fossil --- Dinosaurs --- Insects, Fossil --- Insects, Fossil. --- Paleoecology --- Paleontology --- Amber --- Biological inclusions in amber --- Fossil-bearing amber --- Fossiliferous amber --- Fossils in amber --- Fossils --- Fossil plants --- Plant fossils --- Dinosauria --- Reptiles, Fossil --- Arthropoda, Fossil --- Paleoentomology --- Cretaceous Period --- Diseases. --- Parasites. --- Ecology. --- Biological inclusions --- Inclusions
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WIGs (Wing in Ground) are advanced hybrid air cushion crafts and they offer the combination of speed, fuel efficiency, and ride smoothness. WIG rides above the surface like an airplane on a dynamic air cushion that is produced by the vessel’s forward motion. The adoption of WIG has been slow due to the complicated technology issues surrounding the vessel; it is a hybrid vehicle that combines marine and aviation theory, wing theory and air cushion theory, aerodynamic and hydrodynamic theory. "WIG Craft and Ekranoplan: Ground Effect Craft Technology" provides a comprehensive overview of the design, development and building of WIG vessels. Drawing upon years of practical experience and using numerous examples and illustrative applications, Liang Yun, Alan Bliault and Johnny Doo discuss: Basic principles of WIG craft technology State of the art overview of WIG craft technology in the United States, Russia, Germany, China and Australia Material and structural design of WIG craft Lift and propulsion systems of WIG craft WIG Craft and Ekranoplan: Ground Effect Craft Technology will be of interest to naval engineers, aviation engineers, naval architects, and mechanical engineers interested in the development and research of wing in ground (WIG) and high performance marine vehicles.
Engineering. --- Technology. --- Wing-in-ground-effect machines. --- Wing-in-ground-effect machines --- Military & Naval Science --- Mechanical Engineering --- Naval Architecture --- Automotive Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Law, Politics & Government --- Ground-effect machines. --- Air-bearing vehicles --- Air-cushion vehicles --- Ground pressure vehicles, Minimum --- Ground proximity machines --- Hovercraft --- Ekranoplan --- Mechanics. --- Mechanics, Applied. --- Engineering design. --- Automotive engineering. --- Automotive Engineering. --- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. --- Engineering Design. --- Ground-cushion phenomenon --- Motor vehicles --- Lift fans --- Ground-effect machines --- Mechanics, applied. --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Applied mechanics --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Engineering mathematics --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Design --- Classical mechanics --- Newtonian mechanics --- Physics --- Dynamics --- Quantum theory --- Automobiles --- Design and construction. --- Automotive engineering --- Automobile engineering
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