Best Selling Books by Paul Lopez

Examines various scientific theories about the extinction of the dinosaurs, involving floods, giant meteorites, cold weather, disease, and simultaneous volcanic eruptions.

Un homme de 60 ans se penche sur son passé et regarde grandir un jeune enfant timide et maladif que les chagrins et les blessures vont conduire trop vite à l''âge adulte. Ce récit émouvant veut prouver que l''amour peut fleurir dans un décor apocalyptique, en l''occurrence la guerre d''Algérie et son cortège de souffrances physiques et morales. L''auteur, qui écrit à la première personne, se peint sans retenue pour livrer son espérance et sa foi inébranlable en la vie.

Clear and simple principles with 125+ recipes for everyday healthy eating You will discover: the 10 key Food Matters nutrition principles ways to healthify your kitchen, including essential ingredients and easy swaps delicious recipes for improved gut health, immunity, energy, and beauty simple lifestyle tips to create healthy habits and morning rituals Easy-to-follow steps, this cookbook will provide you with the tools and motivation you need to make a new healthy lifestyle-one that will last a lifetime.

Veteran students are increasingly prominent in U.S. colleges and universities. The transition from military to civilian life is already challenging, and the transition to the academic realm can be even more so, especially when most veteran students are also first-generation college students, transfer students from community colleges to 4-year universities, or both. The specific problem is that the transition from military to student life requires significant adjustment on the part of both veterans and schools, and it was not known how these students'' school leaders could best help these veteran students adjust. The purpose for conducting this quantitative, historical, non-experimental correlational study is to determine whether targeted programs for veteran students are helpful to show how best to allocate resources for their education. The theoretical framework guiding this study is stress processing theory. The existing literature had not yet explored how effective school programs for veteran students are in helping these students. Therefore, the current study furthered the understanding of stress processing theory and might show academic and practical insights into how resources and funding allocation influenced veteran students. Specifically, I investigated the relationships between school funding, VA benefit funding, academic success, and graduation rates. The findings of the study showed no relationship between VA funding, school funding, and veteran graduation rates. The findings warrant future research on how VA funding and school funding are being used and the types of student veteran programs that are effective in increasing veteran graduation rates and academic performances.

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Describes the various sizes of dinosaurs, including Tyrannosaurus Rex, Diplodocus, and Brontosaurus, as well as some dinosaurs that were as small as dogs.

The application of steel joists to floor construction can be traced back more than 100 years to the use of a sheet steel joist in the State of New York Bank Building in 1855. Since that time various forms of joists have been developed and exploited. As a result, two general types of joists are now on the market: a) Solid web joists; b) Open web, or truss type, steel joists. In order to determine the strength, stiffness, and behavior of these structural sections under load, representative open web steel joists have been tested at the University of Miami, School of Nursing Building (building about to be demolished). Using two hydraulic jacks to apply the load at eight different locations along the strip, the assessment of the ultimate structural performance of the floor system to positive moments in correspondence of selected strips was possible. After analyzing the data collected from the sensors through the data acquisition system, it was concluded that the results obtained from the Finite Element model were consistent compared to the results obtained from the experimental approach, helping to understand better the behavior of this structural system. A recommendation for further study is enclosed.

Astronomical and cosmological evidence suggests that 27% of the energy content of the universe is in the form of non-baryonic matter referred to as "dark matter." Weakly interacting massive particles have long been considered attractive candidates for this dark matter and can be found in a wide variety of models of physics beyond the Standard Model. The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber experiment uses low-pressure gas time projection chambers to search for nuclear recoils caused by interactions between nuclei inside a detector and weakly interacting massive particles in the dark matter halo of the Milky Way galaxy. These detectors are also able to reconstruct the directions of these nuclear recoils, allowing for better rejection of possible background events. This thesis describes the design of a small prototype detector and the strategies used by the DMTPC collaboration to reconstruct events, reject backgrounds, and identify nuclear recoil candidate events. It presents the results of several studies aimed at understanding background events in DMTPC detectors. Finally, this work will present the first results from a nuclear recoil search taken with this detector in a surface laboratory at MIT.

In solid state physics, the study of the effects of disorder led to the discovery of a phase transition. For weak disorder, the solid is a conductor, whereas for strong disorder it becomes an insulator. This is known as the “Anderson transition” or as the “metal-insulator transition”, and can be characterized by a critical exponent ν. It is theoretically predicted that this exponent’s value is universal, i.e., that it is not determined by the microscopic details, but only by the symmetries of the Hamiltonian.The experimental realization of such a system in condensed matter is rather difficult. Decoherence effects cannot neglected and affect critical exponent’s value. To circumvent this phenomenon, we use cold atoms to experimentally realize a kicked rotor. The quantum dynamics of such a system are known to mimic those of the solid state problem. We hence test different sets of parameters controlling the statistical properties of the disorder, and show that the critical exponent ν is independent. We hereby prove the universality of the transition, and determine experimentally its universality class : the Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble. We will then detail an important change in the experimental setup : the installation of a vertical standing wave, and of a time-of-flight velocimetric detection.