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Risk Analysis and Control for Industrial Processes - Gas, Oil and Chemicals
Author Hans J Pasman
Risk Analysis and Control for Industrial Processes - Gas, Oil and Chemicalsprovides an analysis of current approaches for preventing disasters, and gives readers an overview on which methods to adopt. The book covers safety regulations, history and trends, industri....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Author Stephane P.A. Bordas , Daniel S. Balint
Advances in Applied Mechanics draws together recent, significant advances in various topics in applied mechanics. Published since 1948, the book aims to provide authoritative review articles on topics in the mechanical sciences. While the book is ideal for scientis....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Oil Spill Science and Technology, 2nd Edition
Author Mervin Fingas
Oil Spill Science and Technology, Second Edition, delivers a multi-contributed view on the entire chain of oil-spill related topics from oil properties and behaviors, to remote sensing through the management side of contingency planning and communicating oil spill ....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Author Juzer Jangbarwala
The world of nanomaterials is complex; there is dubiety as well as unrealistic optimism about costs, practicality, timing for the availability of, and the true capabilities of products featured in the news. The progress of the industry is being affected from the in....
Release Date 2016/12 -
The Environmental Impact Statement After Two Generations
Author Michael R. Greenberg
This book is about a subject that Michael Greenberg has worked on and lived with for almost forty years. He was brought up in the south Bronx at a time when his neighborhood suffered from terrible air and noise pollution, and domestic waste went untreated into the H....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Linear Circuit Design Handbook
Author Hank Zumbahlen , Engineeri Engineeri Analog Devices Inc.
This book enables design engineers to be more effective in designing discrete and integrated circuits by helping them understand the role of analog devices in their circuit design. Analog elements are at the heart of many important functions in both discrete a....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Bill Dunster
The argument for low-cost, zero-energy, zero-waste architecture has never been timelier, while the mainstream has largely abandoned or neglected this agenda: in the UK the recent mandatory zero-carbon performance targets for new homes have been postponed or forgotten at a....
Release Date 2019/06 -
Commercial Client's Guide to Engaging an Architect
Author Nigel Ostime
If you need to understand about engaging the services of an architect, this updated RIBA guide is for you. Straightforward and completely up-to-date regarding legislation, it sets out everything you need to be aware of, for a large or small commercial project. The right a....
Release Date 2019/08 -
Biomedical Imaging: Principles and Applications
Author Reiner Salzer
This book presents and describes imaging technologies that can be used to study chemical processes and structural interactions in dynamic systems, principally in biomedical systems. The imaging technologies, largely biomedical imaging technologies such as MRT, Fluor....
Release Date 2012/05 -
Author R. Russell Rhinehart
An Application-Oriented Introduction to Essential Optimization Concepts and Best PracticesOptimization is an inherent human tendency that gained new life after the advent of calculus; now, as the world grows increasingly reliant on complex systems, optimization has become....
Release Date 2018/05 -
Author Dimitrios Tsivrikos , Adrian Furnham
All in the Mind: Psychology for the Curious, Third Edition covers important, topical, and sometimes controversial subjects in the field of Psychology in an engaging alternative or supplement to traditional student textbooks. The third edition of a successful and un....
Release Date 2016/09 -
Behaviors and Persistence of Nanomaterials in Biomedical Applications
Author Valerio Voliani , Domenico Cassano
In the last two decades, several promising engineered nanomaterials that combine therapeutic features and imaging functionalities have been presented, but very few have arrived on the market.The purpose of this book is to collect and comprehensively dis....
Release Date 2018/07 -
Designing the Purposeful World
Author Clive Wilson
In September 2015, at the United Nations, world leaders agreed on seventeen Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs. This book extrapolates the SDGs into the idea of a purposeful world. In this context, the purpose for humanity is to thrive sustainably alongside othe....
Release Date 2018/03 -
Author Kim Plofker
Based on extensive research in Sanskrit sources, Mathematics in India chronicles the development of mathematical techniques and texts in South Asia from antiquity to the early modern period. Kim Plofker reexamines the few facts about Indian mathematics that have bec....
Release Date 2008/12 -
Author Charles R. Johnson , Shaun M. Fallat
Totally nonnegative matrices arise in a remarkable variety of mathematical applications. This book is a comprehensive and self-contained study of the essential theory of totally nonnegative matrices, defined by the nonnegativity of all subdeterminants. It explores m....
Release Date 2011/04 -
Matrix Completions, Moments, and Sums of Hermitian Squares
Author Hugo J. Woerdeman , Mihály Bakonyi
Intensive research in matrix completions, moments, and sums of Hermitian squares has yielded a multitude of results in recent decades. This book provides a comprehensive account of this quickly developing area of mathematics and applications and gives complete proof....
Release Date 2011/07 -
Claiming Your Place at the Fire
Author David Shapiro , Richard J. Leider
To claim one's place at the fire means to live ones life on purpose. When we claim our place at the fire, we enter into the circle of vital elders who have been the source of wisdom in society since time immemorial. We do this by courageously reexamining and r....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Influence for Nonprofit Leaders
Author Deborah Friedman
Influence is an essential component of leadership, especially in a nonprofit environment. Since relationships are vital for a nonprofit's success, a leader needs to be able to influence employees, volunteers, and stakeholders in order to meet the challenges ahead. ....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Author Ram Nidumolu
The Higher Reality of Business The health of business is inextricably linked with the health of humanity and nature. But our current approaches to leadership treat business as entirely separate—and the result has been recurring economic, environmental, and human cri....
Release Date 2013/10 -
Author Sebastian Aeffner , Timo Aspelmeier , Tim Salditt
Covering both physical as well as mathematical and algorithmic foundations, this graduate textbook provides the reader with an introduction into modern biomedical imaging and image processing and reconstruction. These techniques are not only based on advanced instr....
Release Date 2017/10 -
Ion Beam Treatment of Polymers, 2nd Edition
Author Marcela Bilek , Alexey Kondyurin
Ion Beam Treatment of Polymers, Second Edition presents the results of polymer investigations and technique development in the field of polymer modification by high-energy ion beams. It shows how to use ion beam equipment in the polymer industry, as well as how to u....
Release Date 2014/09 -
Industrial Chemical Process Analysis and Design
Author Mariano Martín Martín
Industrial Chemical Process Analysis and Design uses chemical engineering principles to explain the transformation of basic raw materials into major chemical products. The book discusses traditional processes to create products like nitric acid, sulphuric acid, amm....
Release Date 2016/07 -
POWER ELECTRONICS HANDBOOK, 3rd Edition
Author Muhammad Rashid
Power electronics, which is a rapidly growing area in terms of research and applications, uses modern electronics technology to convert electric power from one form to another, such as ac-dc, dc-dc, dc-ac, and ac-ac with a variable output magnitude and frequency. It....
Release Date 2010/10 -
Mathematical Models for Society and Biology, 2nd Edition
Author Edward Beltrami
Mathematical Models for Society and Biology, 2nd edition draws on current issues to engagingly relate how to use mathematics to gain insight into problems in biology and contemporary society. For the new edition, the author uses mathematical models that are simple, ....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Alternative Energy in Power Electronics
Author Muhammad H. Rashid
This new resource is a practical overview of designing, testing and troubleshooting power electronics in alternative energy systems, providing you with the most important information on how power electronics components such as inverters, controllers and batter....
Release Date 2014/10 -
Author With contributions Narkis Shatz and John C. Bortz , Pablo G. Benitez , Juan C. Mi
From its inception nearly 30 years ago, the optical subdiscipline now referred to as nonimaging optics, has experienced dramatic growth. The term nonimaging optics is concerned with applications where imaging formation is not important but where effective and effici....
Release Date 2004/12 -
Aeroacoustics of Low Mach Number Flows
Author William Devenport , Stewart Glegg
Aeroacoustics of Low Mach Number Flows: Fundamentals, Analysis, and Measurement provides a comprehensive treatment of sound radiation from subsonic flow over moving surfaces, which is the most widespread cause of flow noise in engineering systems. This includes fan....
Release Date 2017/02 -
Human Interaction with Electromagnetic Fields
Author Mario Cvetkovic , Dragan Poljak
Human Interaction with Electromagnetic Fields: Computational Models in Dosimetry presents some highly rigorous and sophisticated integral equation techniques from computational electromagnetics (CEM), along with practical techniques for the calculation and measurem....
Release Date 2019/06 -
Author Alan Hess
This is a book about photographing outdoor sports—not as a professional working for a major sports publication or website—but as a parent or friend trying to capture a great memory. In Photographing Outdoor Sports, author and photographer Alan Hess demonstrates that....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Changing Images in Mathematics
Author Amy Dahan Dalmedico , Umberto Bottazini
This book focuses on some of the major developments in the history of contemporary (19th and 20th century) mathematics as seen in the broader context of the development of science and culture. Avoiding technicalities, it displays the breadth of contrasting imag....
Release Date 2013/06