This handbook presents a quantitative physical description of all aspects of cellular and organ performance and methods used to measure these functions. Moreover, it covers the physics necessary to understand the theoretical and practical basis for development of diagnostic and therapeutic tools. It offers readers a foundation in relevant physical principles and technology critical to understanding biological functioning for application to biomedical research and healthcare. Throughout, expert contributors emphasize aspects of diagnostic and therapeutic modalities in relation to normal physiological functions.
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While current methods used in ecological risk assessments for pesticides are largely deterministic, quantifiable results garnered using probabilistic methods are attracting growing interest from industries and governments. This book identifies which methods are most appropriate for pesticide assessment and explores their appropriateness as a common suite for general use. The authors discuss classical and Bayesian approaches, various types of Monte Carlo analysis, first order error analysis, probability bounds analysis, interval analysis, and fuzzy mathematics. They then examine how these methods can be used in assessments for other environmental contaminants.
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Exploring issues that confront today’s drug interdiction officer, this book explains how to initiate specific domestic drug interdiction programs and how to use business partnerships to assist law enforcement in identifying potential violators. It examines consensual encounters, drug canines, and interdictions involving trains, buses, airports, and rental vehicles. It also covers interdiction investigations at hotels and those involving storage units and parcel systems. The book includes a chapter on currency seizures as well as chapters on report writing, courtroom testimony, and the role of the interdiction supervisor. Each chapter includes relevant case law that supports the protocol described.
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As the first comprehensive overview of cloud computing for business, this book presents the critical strategies that IT professionals need in order to take advantage of this new technology. Leaders in the field, the authors first explain how cloud computing differs from the grid and from virtualization and then demonstrate how to develop tactics that best utilize the unique capabilities of the cloud. The text includes a comprehensive list of cloud computing providers and detailed tools for integrating cloud capabilities into a business IT structure. With a separate section covering how to secure the cloud perimeter, it also addresses various IT issues as well as compliance regulations.
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This book combines theoretical concepts, real alloy systems, processing procedures, and examples of real-world applications. It reviews properties common to all metals before discussing specific nonferrous alloy systems, iron-carbon alloys, special steels and low carbon sheet steel, and cast irons. Concluding chapters treat powder metallurgy, corrosion, welding, and magnetic alloys. There are appendices on microstructural analysis, stereographic projection, and the Miller–Bravais system for hexagonal crystals. Physical Metallurgy uses engaging historical and contemporary examples that relate to the applications of concepts in each chapter, ample references, and sample problems throughout.
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Drawn from case examples spanning the last 60 years, this book examines incidents of targeted violence, including contract killings, assassinations, and planned kidnappings. Complete with 35 case studies, the text explores numerous attack methodologies employed around the world and regionally. The author, a former SWAT and JTTF team member, analyzes the modus operandi of individual assailants and groups to highlight the commonalities between targeted victims and why certain groups tend to target specific types of individuals. The book concludes with a chapter on victimology.
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This volume provides a basic introduction to toxicology within a framework of chemical risk to ecosystems and to human health and forms the basis of a new approach to teaching toxicology from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective. It presents concepts from chemistry, ecology, physiology, and other disciplines as needed within the context of toxicology. These include as chemical equilibrium, energy, and nutrient flows through ecosystems. It also introduces concepts specific to toxicology, such as risk as a composite of toxicity and exposure, and provides case studies of risk management to illustrate the ways in which laboratory results are used to manage chemical risk to human health and the environment.
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Environmental & Ecological Toxicology
Natural Hazards & Risk
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Considered to be among the very best in the field, this masterwork from renowned experts J. N. Reddy and David Gartling is the latest version of a book that has long been relied upon by practicing engineers, researchers, and graduate students. Noted for its powerful methodology and clear explanations of the subject, this third edition contains considerably more workable exercises and examples associated with problems in heat conduction, incompressible viscous flow, and convection heat transfer. It also uses applied examples to show realistic examples of FEM in thermal and fluid design analysis.
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Focusing on pollutant reduction, abatement, and control, this book provides the necessary tools and methodologies to solve urban stormwater problems. The authors present theories and fundamental concepts of wet weather pollution as a basis for solving engineering problems in practice. The book contains mathematical formulations for modeling the prediction of pollutant transport into both surface waters and soil systems. The entire urban wastewater system—including the drainage catchment and networks, treatment systems and local receiving waters—are examined in this context. The authors also address key points in the analysis, design, and management of urban drainage systems.
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As a result of resurgent interest in renewable energy systems, the application of nanotechnology to photovoltaics has seen major advances in recent years. This book describes such efforts with an emphasis on practical demonstrations and discussions of the associated technical challenges. Each chapter offers a brief review of the nanostructure class considered, key applications beyond photovoltaics, and synthetic methods. The text also addresses the advantages and disadvantages of each nanostructure approach. Chapters dealing with physics and the properties of nanostructures provide sufficient background to understand the basic principles underlying current and future strategies.
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