Download or read book Taking the pulse of US national parks written by Erin Kathleen Shanahan and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
If you’ve ever had a medical check-up, did you wonder why they put a cuff around your forearm, gave it a squeeze, and made you sit still and quiet? Or why they asked you to open your mouth so they could stick a thermometer under your tongue? Or put that cold stethoscope against your chest while you took deep breaths followed by sticking a clothespin thingamabob on your finger? What’s up with all the gizmos and gadgets and why all the bother?
What’s up is that all of these instruments measure the conditions of some of the most important, life-supporting functions, or vital signs, which keep your carcass from becoming, well, a carcass. The squeezy cuff is reading your blood pressure, which indicates how strongly your blood is pumping through your pipes. The thermometer measures your core body temperature, which affects many chemical reactions in your body that supply energy for your cells. With a stethoscope, the swooshing sound of air moving in and out of your lungs can be listened to. And the clothespin doohickey tracks the amount of oxygen being carried by your blood. Vital signs are critical indicators of your body’s overall health. By tracking them as you grow and mature, these measurements can be used as a guide or reference point for when your body isn’t feeling all that great.
Now what does your blood pressure have to do with US National Parks? While human vital signs are important in evaluating your body’s health, ecological vital signs are indicators for measuring ecosystem health. An ecosystem is a community of living organisms like frogs, trees, or bacteria, and nonliving materials such as water, dirt, and rocks that are located together and interact on some level. In a healthy ecosystem, all of the living and nonliving members exist in a state of natural balance in harmony with their environment. When something new enters the community, say a strange weed or insect, or something in the environment shifts, such as the air temperature becoming warmer, the health of the ecosystem can be threatened. Monitoring ecological vital signs gives scientists a reference point or baseline of the natural condition and alerts them when there is a change. While a healthy ecosystem can continue to support all its members and adapt to change, sometimes changes are too great and members of the ecosystem become stressed and have a hard time keeping up.
Although US National Parks are some of the most protected areas on the planet, the ecological health of many of these carefully safeguarded lands is increasingly uncertain due to our rapidly changing global environment. Here we present a collection of articles about how we study and understand the health of park ecosystems by measuring and tracking the condition of ecological vital signs. This scientific data helps park managers protect the valued resources of our parks and lessen harmful impacts when change is inevitable.
Download or read book Pulse on Parks written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a detailed analysis of results of the Pulse on Parks Survey relative to major open space issues described by survey respondents. This review examines the level of support for particular open space allocations, features, and amenities. It also describes interrelationships which exist. The report is presented in five sections. Section 1 discusses structured and unstructured sports, while informal play, walking and jogging, etc. is discussed in Section 2. Festivals, cultural and special events is covered in Section 3; Section 4 presents relaxation and nature appreciation. Finally, Section 5 discusses the importance versus performance evaluation of parks and open space allocation.
Download or read book Pulse on Parks written by Calgary (Alta.). Parks/Recreation Department and published by . This book was released on 1992* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pulse on Parks written by Calgary (Alta.). Parks/Recreation Department and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objectives of the study were to enhance the level of awareness of Calgarians with regards to the project; to provide an opportunity for public input into the master planning process; to select and implement a survey design that will provide a level of confidence of 95 percent for the analysis of results on a community by community basis; to measure the current usage patterns of Calgarians relative to parks and open spaces; to provide an opportunity for Calgarians to identify their parks and open space preferences; and to oversee the design of the survey. This report details the results of this 1991 survey. It focuses on the survey methodology, data collection procedures, and data management procedures employed during this survey.
Download or read book Park Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pulse written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pulse written by Robert Frenay and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulse is not about dance music, not about heart rates—and not about electromagnetic fields. What it does describe is a sea change in human affairs, a vast and fundamental shift that is about to transform every aspect of our lives. Written in lively prose for lay readers, Pulse shows how ideas that have shaped Western science, industry, and culture for centuries are being displaced by the rapid and dramatic rise of a "new biology"—by human systems and machines that work like living things. In Pulse, Robert Frenay details the coming world of • emotional computers • ships that swim like fish • hard, soft, and wet artificial life • money that mimics the energy flows in nature • evolution at warp speed And these are not blue-sky dreams. By using hundreds of vivid and concrete examples of cutting-edge work, Frenay showcases the brilliant innovations and often colorful personalities now giving birth to a radical new future. Along the way, he also offers thoughtful conclusions on the promises—and dangers—of our transformation to the next great phase of "human cultural evolution."
Download or read book Pulse on Parks 1991 Urban Parks Survey written by Calgary (Alta.). Calgary Parks & Recreation and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Station "M", P.O. Box 2100, Calgary, Alberta T2P 2M5 Canada.
Download or read book Parks Recreation written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of MRI Pulse Sequences written by Matt A. Bernstein and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-09-21 with total page 1041 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is among the most important medical imaging techniques available today. There is an installed base of approximately 15,000 MRI scanners worldwide. Each of these scanners is capable of running many different "pulse sequences", which are governed by physics and engineering principles, and implemented by software programs that control the MRI hardware. To utilize an MRI scanner to the fullest extent, a conceptual understanding of its pulse sequences is crucial. Handbook of MRI Pulse Sequences offers a complete guide that can help the scientists, engineers, clinicians, and technologists in the field of MRI understand and better employ their scanner. - Explains pulse sequences, their components, and the associated image reconstruction methods commonly used in MRI - Provides self-contained sections for individual techniques - Can be used as a quick reference guide or as a resource for deeper study - Includes both non-mathematical and mathematical descriptions - Contains numerous figures, tables, references, and worked example problems
Download or read book War Expenditures written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stone Cold Heart written by Laura Griffin and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin “delivers another top-notch thriller" (RT Book Reviews) in her beloved Tracers series, about a leading forensic anthropologist who uncovers eerie clues in a high-stakes case that threatens to deliver her to the doorstep of a cold-blooded murderer. When local rock climbers stumble upon abandoned human bones in a remote Texas gorge, Sara Lockhart is the first to get the call. She has a reputation as one of the nation’s top forensic anthropologists, and police detective Nolan Hess knows she is just the expert he needs to help unravel this case. Although evidence is scarce, Nolan suspects the bones belong to a teenage climber who vanished last summer. But as Sara unearths strange clues, she finds chilling similarities to a case from her past—a case that now threatens to rock Nolan’s community. While Sara digs deep for answers, the stakes rise higher as another young woman disappears without a trace. Investigators work against the clock as Sara races to discover the truth, even if her harrowing search brings her face to face with a stone-cold killer. With her signature breathless pacing and suspenseful twists and turns, Stone Cold Heart demonstrates why “Laura Griffin never fails to put me on the edge of my seat” (USA TODAY).
Download or read book Thoracic Park written by A. Sampath Kumar and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Describes In Some Detail The Human Side Of Cardiac Surgical Practice. It Recounts Its Moral, Social, Financial And Other Constraints Which The Suffering Patients Face And How The Doctor Patient Relationship Can Help Them In All These Areas. Some Of These Stories Are Heart Breaking While You May Find Some Hilarious. In Any Case All Are True Stories And The Identity Of The Patients Has Been Safeguarded. It Is Hoped That You Will Enjoy Reading These Stories.
Download or read book War Expenditures Camps 3 v written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Expenditures in the War Dept and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pulse of My Heart written by Brian O'Mara-Croft and published by Behler Publications. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patty O'Mara-Croft's "widowmaker" heart attack was a cruel assault on her body, threatening the happiest years of her life. Originally misdiagnosed as a panic attack, common among women who suffer heart attacks, Patty's heart suffers permanent damage, and her precarious condition threatens to raze all joy and hope between Patty and her husband, Brian. In a recounting both informative and inspirational, heartbreaking and funny, Patty and Brian share their stories from their own unique perspectives—the first-person account of painful revelations and medical struggles and a loved one's experience of despair, hope, and renewal. Families in medical crisis are getting sucker-punched every day and need help from those who overcame it and emerge stronger than before. The dual voice of both authors represents a love that flourishes, even as Patty's health weakens and is no longer a viable candidate for a heart transplant. Pulse of My Heart is part medical mystery, part comedy of errors, part family drama, and an enduring love story. The field notes at the back of the book focus on: The sometimes-strained relationship between doctors and patient Preparing for anticipatory grief The potential for addiction when narcotics are part of the drug protocol Dealing with familial strife during a time of need Struggling with others' prayers when one's own faith is strained Trying to maintain some level of dignity in an utterly undignified environment Finding ways to be an effective parent in a blended family when illness demands so much attention
Download or read book Parks and Recreation System Planning written by David Barth and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parks and recreation systems have evolved in remarkable ways over the past two decades. No longer just playgrounds and ballfields, parks and open spaces have become recognized as essential green infrastructure with the potential to contribute to community resiliency and sustainability. To capitalize on this potential, the parks and recreation system planning process must evolve as well. In Parks and Recreation System Planning, David Barth provides a new, step-by-step approach to creating parks systems that generate greater economic, social, and environmental benefits. Barth first advocates that parks and recreation systems should no longer be regarded as isolated facilities, but as elements of an integrated public realm. Each space should be designed to generate multiple community benefits. Next, he presents a new approach for parks and recreation planning that is integrated into community-wide issues. Chapters outline each step—evaluating existing systems, implementing a carefully crafted plan, and more—necessary for creating a successful, adaptable system. Throughout the book, he describes initiatives that are creating more resilient, sustainable, and engaging parks and recreation facilities, drawing from his experience consulting in more than 100 communities across the U.S. Parks and Recreation System Planning meets the critical need to provide an up-to-date, comprehensive approach for planning parks and recreation systems across the country. This is essential reading for every parks and recreation professional, design professional, and public official who wants their community to thrive.
Download or read book Pulse of the Nation written by Martin Breheny and published by Hachette Books Ireland. This book was released on 2024-10-03 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE GAA book of 2024 - covering 140 years of the agony and the ecstasy of Ireland's national games and their place at the heart of Irish life.
