Translating fundamental principles into day-to-day engineering concepts, this reference provides the tools to accurately measure process efficiency and sustainability in the power and chemical industries. It helps engineers recognize why losses occur and how they can be reduced utilizing familiar thermodynamic principles. It also compares the present industrial society with an emerging metabolic society in which mass production and consumption are in closer harmony with the natural environment. The book uses classic thermodynamic principles for clear understanding, analysis, and optimization of workflows, environmental resources, and driving forces in the chemical and power industries.
• Green Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Economics & Policy
Energy
Industrial Chemistry
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Professional

The second edition of a bestseller, this book critically examines the successes and failures of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) during the course of the past decade. The new subtitle reflects this edition’s focus on meta-principles critical to moving ahead and successfully building ITS infrastructures that take advantage of smart/green technologies. The book identifies challenging problems that must be addressed in order to bring real quality of life improvements and positively impact our environmental and civil infrastructure systems.
• Mechanical Engineering Series
Transportation Engineering
Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing
Intelligent Systems
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Professional

Many tribological devices act as viable bearings in contrast to basic hydrodynamic theory. Similarly, powder films possess quasi-hydrodynamic features that allow them to act as conventional fluid film bearings. These phenomena have led to a novel definition of lubricants as intermediate layers, detailed in the present volume. Tribology of Interface Layers illustrates that the various lubrication modes, from dry to hydrodynamic to powder lubrication, overlap to such a degree that they exist on a tribological spectrum. Based on experimental and theoretical work, this text shows how the interdependence of powder and hydrodynamic lubrication exemplify this continuum in tribological processes.
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Tribology
Metals & Alloys
Mechanics
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Professional

A culmination of the authors’ years of extensive research on the topic, this book provides a complete, self-contained introduction to advances in relational data clustering. It presents a novel theoretical framework as well as the most state-of-the-art models for relational data clustering. The authors also describe a family of new algorithms for various relational clustering problems arising in a wide range of important applications. Concepts and theory are explained through detailed application examples and the book includes a comprehensive reference list of related literature.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series
Data Preparation & Mining
Statistics & Computing
Machine Learning
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This text covers the major areas of modern time series models and theory, including time and spectral domain and univariate and multivariate time series methods. It also discusses recent techniques for modeling time series data, such as dynamic graphical models, SMC methods, and nonlinear/non-Gaussian dynamic models. Emphasizing model-based, computationally intensive analysis of structured time series, the authors present analyses of real time series data in numerous examples and case studies to illustrate the flexibility and practical impact of the models and methods. Many of the data sets, R and MATLAB ® code, and other material are available on the authors’ websites.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science
Statistical Theory & Methods
Statistics
Statistics & Computing
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Professional

Emphasizing applications and practical computing aspects, this book presents an up-to-date review of Bayesian hierarchical methods. It provides a complete treatment of the main modeling settings, including meta-analysis, time series, nonlinear regression, and multilevel, multivariate, panel, spatial, and survival data. The text includes realistic worked examples from the social and health sciences, mainly employing the WinBUGS package but also incorporating BayesX code. The author also illustrates MCMC sampling from first principles using R. A set of programs linked to the worked examples is available on www.crcpress.com
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Statistical Theory & Methods
Statistics & Computing
Statistics for the Biological Sciences
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Professional

Edited by renowned protein scientist and bestselling author Roger Lundblad, with the assistance of Fiona Macdonald of CRC Press, this volume represents a dramatic revision — the first in two decades — of one of biochemistry's most referenced works. Presented in a simple-to-use format, this popular reference allows quick access to the most frequently used data on proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, and carbohydrates. Covering a wide range of topics, from classical biochemistry to proteomics and genomics, it also details the properties of commonly used biochemicals, laboratory solvents, and reagents.
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Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
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Professional

Addressing the latest problems in biomedical optics and biophotonics, this handbook describes advanced biophotonics methods and techniques intensively developed in recent years. It discusses optical and terahertz spectroscopy and imaging methods for biomedical diagnostics based on the interaction of coherent, polarized, and acoustically modulated radiation with tissues and cells. It covers modalities of nonlinear spectroscopic microscopies, photonic technologies for therapy and surgery, and nanoparticle photonic technologies for cancer treatment and UV radiation protection. The text also elucidates the advanced spectroscopy and imaging of normal and pathological tissues.
• Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Optics & optoelectronics
Radiology
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Focusing on practical approaches for the experienced investigator, a 27-year veteran of the FBI presents a hands-on volume drawn from years of experience interviewing suspects. The main focus of the book is the targeted subject interviewing process (TSI). This technique combines all known tactics learned from criminal personality profiling and investigative analysis into an effective strategy for interviewing a suspect. The book describes the skill sets and essential elements that directly contribute to a successful interrogation and outlines an interview plan using these analytical and profiling concepts. Employing crime scene scenarios to demonstrate concepts, the book includes a victim questionnaire capturing offender behavior, form templates, and a glossary.
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Forensic Science - Law
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Based on the lecture notes of the renowned Hubert I. Aaronson, this text details the fundamental principles of phase transformations in metals and alloys upon which steel and other metals industries are based. Instead of relying strictly on a pedagogical approach, it documents the evolution of phase transformation concepts. The authors present topics by describing a phenomenon and then following up with a corresponding hypothesis or alternative explanation. In this way, the book also shows how the field continues to evolve and meet new challenges.
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Metals & Alloys
Thermodynamics
Condensed Matter Physics
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