Covering exercises, training curricula, and cost-effective recommendations, this manual prepares first responders to face multiple threats from multiple sources. Applying the concept of cross-training to round out skill-sets, it prepares these diverse outfits to assist each other and overcome traditional philosophical and logistical boundaries. Through table-top scenarios, case examples, and discussion of common sticking points, this innovative book enables response professionals and practitioners to be more effective and better equipped in the face of increased threats and threat potential from multi-faceted disaster scenarios.
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Security Services
Forensic Science - Law
Critical Security
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Written for researchers and clinicians in neurology and neuroscience, this text offers a bridge across the so-called translational divide , to cover innovative treatment strategies that, while based on scientific principles, have yet to be tested rigorously in clinical settings. The text features the contributions of leading researchers in adult and pediatric epilepsy who cover a range of topics including gene therapy, metabolic regulation, and neuroprotective strategies. It offers an understanding of the pathogenesis and mechanisms of various epilepsy syndromes, highlights therapies with the greatest potential, and identifies challenges common to researchers.
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Neuroscience
Neurology
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Professional

Nanotechnology is set to have a profound impact on telecommunications leading to easier convergence of related technologies, massive storage data, compact storage devices, and higher performance computing. Nanotechnology for Telecommunications covers research and developmental issues as well as future directions of MEMS and nanotechnology as they apply to telecommunications. It discusses the impact of nanotechnology on devices such as photonic crystals lasers, light emitters, and sensors. The authors also include a discussion on the challenges associated with the system integration of nano-, micro-, and macro-components in component modules, and telecommunication networks.
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Telecommunications
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Optics & optoelectronics
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Professional

The second volume in the Handbook of Nanostructured Thin Films and Coatings set, this book focuses on functional properties, including optical, electronic, and electrical properties, as well as related devices and applications. It explores the large-scale fabrication of functional thin films with nanoarchitecture via chemical routes, the fabrication and characterization of SiC nanostructured/nanocomposite films, and low-dimensional nanocomposite fabrication and applications. The book also presents the properties of sol-gel-derived nanostructured thin films as well as silicon nanocrystals embedded in SiO 2 matrix and amorphous SiO 2 matrix. It concludes with chapters on controlled micro/nanostructured films and devices and thin film shape memory alloy for microsystem applications.
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Ceramics & Glasses
Materials Science
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The first volume in the Handbook of Nanostructured Thin Films and Coatings set, this book concentrates on the mechanical properties, such as hardness, toughness, and adhesion, of thin films and coatings. It discusses processing, properties, and performance and provides a detailed analysis of theories and size effects. The book presents the fundamentals of hard and superhard nanocomposites and heterostructures, assesses fracture toughness and interfacial adhesion strength of thin films and hard nanocomposite coatings, and covers the processing and mechanical properties of hybrid sol-gel-derived nanocomposite coatings. It also uses nanomechanics to optimize coatings for cutting tools and explores various other coatings, such as diamond, metal-containing amorphous carbon nanostructured, and transition metal nitride-based nanolayered multilayer coatings.
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Ceramics & Glasses
Materials Science
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Professional

The final volume in the Handbook of Nanostructured Thin Films and Coatings set, this book examines the processing and properties of organic thin films, devices, and coatings for clean energy applications. It presents thin film solar cells based on the use of polycrystalline thin film materials, explores anodized titania nanotube array and its application in dye-sensitized solar cells, and reviews the progress and challenges of photovoltaic applications of silicon nanocrystalline materials. The book also looks at semiconductive nanocomposite films for a clean environment, thin coating technologies and applications in high temperature solid oxide fuel cells, and nanoscale organic molecular thin films for information memory applications.
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Ceramics & Glasses
Materials Science
Renewable & Sustainable Energy
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Professional

Offering a perspective on chronic degenerative diseases that disputes the idiopathic label and irreversible prognosis attached to most, this encyclopedia demonstrates that common to chronic diseases is the disruption of systemic and cellular homeostasis, especially by environmental pollutants. Drawing on data collected by the authors in their medical practices, Volume 1 offers an overview of the physiologic basis of homeostasis, exploring how the body deals with toxins, communicates news of assault, and makes provisions for adaptation. The text provides clinicians and researchers with approaches for developing efficient ways to prevent and reverse conditions considered intractable.
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Toxicology
Environmental Health
Primary Health Care & Family Practice
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Political Geography
Industrial Textiles
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Every day, police officers face challenges ranging from petty annoyances to the risk of death in the line of duty. Coupled with these difficulties is, in some cases, lack of community respect for the officers despite the dangers these men and women confront while protecting the public. Exploring issues of courage, integrity, leadership, and character, this volume examines ways to effect organizational change that helps police officers inspire community trust and support with every citizen contact.
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Personnel and Human Resource Management
Forensic Science - Law
Public Administration & Management
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From a multi-disciplinary point of view, this book examines basic concepts, various processing methodologies, and techniques involved in the preparation and characterization of nanobiomaterials that are specific to biomedical applications. It spans their historical development and reviews their current advances in the field. It describes how basic concepts in nanotechnology are applied to the processing of novel nanobiomaterials, including nanostructured metals and alloys. Presenting illustrative examples and a variety of applications, this text offers a solid framework for understanding present and future trends of biomaterials in human health care systems.
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Biomaterials - Materials Science
Materials Science
Biomedical Engineering
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Undergraduate