American Practical Navigator
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Page : 1532 pages
File Size : 14,74 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Nautical astronomy
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Author :
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Page : 1532 pages
File Size : 14,74 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Nautical astronomy
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Author : Nathaniel Bowditch
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Page : 868 pages
File Size : 49,54 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Nautical astronomy
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Author : Anthony Palmiotti
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870336300
Calculations in terrestrial navigation. Compasses & compass error. Tides & tidal currents. The sailings.
Author : Nathaniel Bowditch
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Page : 1412 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Nautical astronomy
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Author : Rüdiger Wehner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 22,7 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674247922
Winner of the Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences A world-renowned researcher of animal behavior reveals the extraordinary orienteering skills of desert ants, offering a thrilling account of the sophisticated ways insects function in their natural environments. Cataglyphis desert ants are agile ultrarunners who can tolerate near-lethal temperatures when they forage in the hot midday sun. But it is their remarkable navigational abilities that make these ants so fascinating to study. Whether in the Sahara or its ecological equivalents in the Namib Desert and Australian Outback, the Cataglyphis navigators can set out foraging across vast expanses of desert terrain in search of prey, and then find the shortest way home. For almost half a century, Rüdiger Wehner and his collaborators have devised elegant experiments to unmask how they do it. Through a lively and lucid narrative, Desert Navigator offers a firsthand look at the extraordinary navigational skills of these charismatic desert dwellers and the experiments that revealed how they strategize and solve complex problems. Wehner and his team discovered that these insect navigators use visual cues in the sky that humans are unable to see, the Earth’s magnetic field, wind direction, a step counter, and panoramic “snapshots” of landmarks, among other resources. The ants combine all of this information to steer an optimal course. At any given time during their long journey, they know exactly where to go. It is no wonder these nimble and versatile creatures have become models in the study of animal navigation. Desert Navigator brings to light the marvelous capacity and complexity found in these remarkable insects and shows us how mini brains can solve mega tasks.
Author : Nathaniel Bowditch
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Page : 906 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Nautical astronomy
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Page : 404 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Nautical astronomy
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Author : Nathaniel Bowditch
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Page : 798 pages
File Size : 24,3 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Nautical astronomy
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Author : Deborah M. Christensen
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Page : pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781635930351
"The oncology nurse navigator is one of the few roles in nursing in which an individual nurse is accountable for and invested in providing patient-centered care throughout an entire disease trajectory. This book provides novice nurse navigators and those developing or working in navigation programs with an overview of the role of the nurse navigator in cancer care and outlines the development of a navigation program, the skills and training needed to work as a nurse navigator, methods to evaluate outcomes, and issues related to assisting patients with specific types of cancers"--
Author : David Lewis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 1994-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824815820
This new edition includes a discussion of theories about traditional methods of navigation developed during recent decades, the story of the renaissance of star navigation throughout the Pacific, and material about navigation systems in Indonesia, Siberia, and the Indian Ocean.