Along with providing an understanding of the scientific basis of air pollution, this volume helps readers better appreciate social and environmental determinants of public health and apply country-based research evidence to reduce health disparities and environmental inequalities. It also encourages future research and policy action on the health and environmental consequences of air pollution from the local to global level. With contributions from a distinguished group of international experts, the book not only covers general modeling, monitoring, and characterization techniques but also includes field studies and cases that offer valuable insight into region-specific issues.
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Air Pollution
Environmental Health
Environmental
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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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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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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

Over the past four decades, there has been immense progress in every area of lignin science. This volume provides an up-to-date compendium of research on selected topics. The book discusses commonly used chemical degradation methods, spectroscopic methods, studies of isolated lignins and lignin in situ , polymer properties related to thermal stability and molecular motion of lignin in the solid state, and applications of electronic structure calculations to the chemistry of lignin. Also discussed are lignin reactions that occur during the chemical pulping of wood, bleaching, lignin biodegradation, biopulping and biobleaching, the photochemistry of lignin, and pharmacological properties of lignans.
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Natural Products
Materials Chemistry
Industrial Textiles
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This popular text presents some of the most important and widely used methods for solving PDEs. Along with a new chapter on complex variable methods, this edition includes new sections on Cauchy–Euler equations, Bessel functions, Legendre polynomials, spherical harmonics, applications of Fourier transformations, and general hyperbolic equations. It lists additional mathematical models based on PDEs and shows how the methods of separation of variables and eigenfunction expansion work for equations other than heat, wave, and Laplace. The author also added many new worked examples and exercises. Ancillary materials are available for qualifying instructors.
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Differential Equations
Mechanical Engineering
Advanced Mathematics
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Undergraduate

Written by leading experts, this book examines the inner workings of governments in East Asia, in particular its public administration and related public policy processes. It focuses on the apparatus of government — the agencies, their values, context, and policies within which they operate. Organized in parallel sections, the book covers the history, public policy processes, organization, HRM, ethics, corruption, intergovernmental relations, performance management, and e-government. The book includes essential knowledge and facts, discussions of emerging issues, and useful resources for further reading.
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Public Administration & Management
Government
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Designed for students across all of engineering, this text offers the multidisciplinary approach needed to develop a foundation in mechatronics. It covers electrical and mechanical components, sensors and instrumentation, drives and actuators, controls, signal processing, component interfacing, modeling, and design. Practical applications and tools introduced up front are uniformly integrated throughout the book. Cases studies and worked examples that make use of MATLAB ® , Simulink ® , and LabView ® application and case studies are included, as are numerous exercises, most based on real engineering practice.
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Instrumentation, Measurement & Testing
Machine Design
Aerospace Engineering
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Undergraduate