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- Meet NASA inventor Lynn Rothschild and her team's Martian fungoid space base / by Adams, William D.,author.(CARDINAL)505176;
"Housing astronauts on the moon and Mars is a huge challenge for future space exploration. Learn how biologist Lynn Rothschild plans to use fungi as a construction technology to build base camps for astronauts. Mush-rooms, anyone? The books in the Out of This World series feature projects that have won grants from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program (NIAC). The program provides funding to teams working to develop bold new advances in space technology."--990L- Subjects: Biographies.; Rothschild, Lynn J.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts; Biologists; Space stations; Space colonies; Building materials; Building; Fungi; Fungi; Inventions; Inventors; Astronautics Technological innovations; Aerospace engineering;
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- The end of the beginning : cancer, immunity, and the future of a cure / by Kinch, Michael,1966-author.(CARDINAL)625685;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-284) and index.For the first time since a 5th century Greek physician gave the name ٢cancer٣ (karkinos, in Greek) to a deadly disease first described in Egyptian Papyri, the medical world is near a breakthrough that could allow even the most conservative doctors and pragmatic patients to use the other ٢c word٣ - cure - in the same sentence as cancer. A remarkable series of events has brought us to this point, thanks in large part to a new ability to more efficiently harness the extraordinary power of the human immune.The End of the Beginning is a remarkable history of cancer treatment and the evolution of our understanding of its dynamic interplay with the immune system. Through Michael Kinch's personal experience as a cancer researcher at Washington University and the head of the oncology program at a leading biotechnology company, we witness the incredible accumulation of breakthrough science and its rapid translation into life-saving technologies that have begun to dramatically increase the quality and quantity of life for cancer patients. Expanding upon Kinch's own remarkable projects to encompass the vaccines being deployed to eliminate cervical cancer, the development of cancer-specific ٢smart bombs٣ in the form of monoclonal antibodies, cellular therapies, and checkpoint inhibitors-The End of the Beginning reveals the incredible transformation of cancer treatment happening today. Kinch details the remarkable history of people, science, technology and disease and presents thrilling next-generation technologies that hold the promise to eliminate cancer for some, and perhaps ultimately, for all.- Subjects: Cancer; Immunotherapy.; Cancer;
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- Notes on infinity : a novel / by Taylor, Austin,1999-author.;
"A singular, extraordinary debut about Zoe and Jack, Harvard students who find themselves propelled into the intoxicating biotech startup world when they announce they've discovered the cure for aging. A different kind of love story where the thirst for achievement consumes and the stakes are forever. Zoe, the daughter of an MIT professor who grew up in her brother's shadow, can envision her future anew at Harvard. Jack, a boy in Zoe's organic chemistry class with unruly hair and a gleam of competitiveness, matches her intellect and curiosity with every breath. When Jack refers Zoe for a position in a prestigious professor's lab, the two become entwined as colleagues, staying up late to discuss scientific ideas. They find themselves on the cusp of a breakthrough: the promise of immortality through a novel antiaging drug. Zoe and Jack set off on their new project in secret. Finding encouraging results, they bring their work to an investor, drop out of Harvard, and form a startup. But after the money, the magazine covers, and the national news stories detailing their success, Zoe and Jack receive a startling accusation that threatens to destroy both the company they built and their partnership. A captivating novel about young love, the allure of immortality, and the recklessness that can come with early success, Notes on Infinity asks: How far would you go to achieve your dreams?"--- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels.; College students; Biotechnology; Aging; New business enterprises; Man-woman relationships; Scandals; Friendship;
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- Work without jobs : how to reboot your organization's work operating system / by Jesuthasan, Ravin,1968-author.; Boudreau, John W.,author.(CARDINAL)195053;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Series Foreword -- Introduction : Work without Jobs Is the New Work Operating System -- Work as Deconstructed Job Elements versus Stable Jobs -- Work Automation Deconstructed : Not Replacing Jobs with Automation but Optimizing Task-Level Combinations of Humans and Automation -- Work Arrangements beyond Employment : A Democratized Work Ecosystem beyond the Fixed Traditional Organizational Boundary -- Deconstructed Workers : Seeing the Whole Person through Skills/Capabilities versus Simply "Jobholders" -- Perpetually Reinventing Deconstructed Work -- Management, Leadership, and Deconstructed Work Coordination : Collaborative Hubs, Teams, Projects, and Agile Work Innovation versus Hierarchy, Structure, Jobs, and Stable Authority -- The New Work Operating System beyond the Organization -- Conclusions and Next StepsWork is traditionally understood as a "job," and workers as "jobholders." Jobs are structured by titles, hierarchies, and qualifications. In Work without Jobs, a Wall Street Journal bestseller, Ravin Jesuthasan and John Boudreau propose a radically new way of looking at work. They describe a new "work operating system" that deconstructs jobs into their component parts and reconstructs these components into more optimal combinations that reflect the skills and abilities of individual workers. In a new normal of rapidly accelerating automation, demands for organizational agility, efforts to increase diversity, and the emergence of alternative work arrangements, the old system based on jobs and jobholders is cumbersome and ungainly. Jesuthasan and Boudreau's new system lays out a roadmap for the future of work. Work without Jobs presents real-world cases that show how leading organizations are embracing work deconstruction and reinvention. For example, when a robot, chatbot, or artificial intelligence takes over parts of a job while a human worker continues to do other parts, what is the "job"? DHL found some answers when it deployed social robotics at its distribution centers. Meanwhile, the biotechnology company Genentech deconstructed jobs to increase flexibility, worker engagement, and retention. Other organizations achieved agility with internal talent marketplaces, worker exchanges, freelancers, crowdsourcing, and partnerships. It's time for organizations to reboot their work operating system, and Work without Jobs offers an essential guide for doing so. -- Provided by publisher."A practical guide for business leaders to rethink work so that it is organized around "tasks" more than "jobs.""--- Subjects: Organizational change.; Work; Personnel management; Flexible work arrangements.; Automation.; Changement organisationnel.; Travail; Personnel;
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- How to start a home-based car detailing business / by Doyle, Renny.(CARDINAL)605014;
Provides strategies for a successful and sustainable automobile detailing business, and includes estimating start-up costs, profiles of professional detailers, equipment needed, marketing methods, and charts and worksheets.- Subjects: Automobile detailing; Automobile detailing; Automobiles; Automobiles; New business enterprises;
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