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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Undergraduate

This third edition describes and illustrates more than 515 fungal species, including 49 oomycetous, 35 zygomycetous, 49 ascomycetous, 38 basidiomycetous, and 344 anamorphic species. All fungi are described alphabetically in order of Oomycota, Zygomycota, Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, and Anamorphic (Deuteromycetous) fungi. For each genus, the atlas includes type species, references, morphology, and materials. The book illustrates all fungi alongside morphologies and colonies of their fresh agar cultures or dried specimens, providing ready access to morphologically similar fungi for quick comparison. This edition also contains a bonus CD-ROM, which includes color versions of all images from the book.
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Agriculture
Botany
Microbiology
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This new edition reflects the many modifications and improvements in the analytical procedures for measuring trace pollutants in environmental matrices that have occurred in the decade since the publication of the first edition. It provides revised and updated analytical methodologies as well as introduces new methods. New chapters include Capillary Electrophoresis , X-Ray Method , Haloacetic Acids , and Nitroaromatics. A new appendix, Characteristics of Hazardous Wastes , has also been added.
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Environmental Sciences
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Major development efforts in organic materials research has grown for an array of applications. Organic spintronics, in particular, has flourished in the area of organic magneto-transport. Reflecting the main avenues of advancement in this arena, this volume explores spin injection and manipulation in organic spin valves, the magnetic field effect in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), and the spin transport effect in relation to spin manipulation. It also examines organic magnets as spin injection electrodes in organic spintronics devices, the coherent control of spins in organic devices using electronically detected magnetic resonance, and the possibility of using organic spin valves as sensors.
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Optics & optoelectronics
Electromagnetics & Microwaves
Condensed Matter Physics
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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.
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Biomedical Engineering
Optics & optoelectronics
Radiology
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Emphasizing the power of up-front planning techniques to prevent projects from imploding, this book explains the tools and concepts of Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) in an easy to understand style. By adding a layer of statistical methods and tools to the front-end of a project, DFSS augments the standard Six Sigma process to ensure that a project fully meets the customers' needs so that delays caused by new requirements and rework after implementation are either eliminated or substantially reduced. Detailed case studies demonstrate project management fundamentals and common pitfalls to translate concepts into practical applications.
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Management of IT
Software Engineering & Systems Development
Engineering Project Management
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This second edition of a bestseller provides a well-illustrated resource that comprehensively covers the design of inherently safer and user-friendly plants. The book demonstrates how chemical plants can withstand human error and equipment failures without serious effects on safety, output, or efficiency. This edition features new chapters that outline the role of inherently safer design in explosion prevention and mitigation and the link between inherently safer design and process safety design. New sections address the hierarchy of controls and highlight human factors in determining risk. The text also includes case studies that review major process incidents.
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Industrial Chemistry
Plant Engineering
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Undergraduate

Based on the authors 45 years of experience, this book examines the activities that must take place in the development of any system between the completion of the requirements work and the verification of work. The book provides insight into complex problems, focusing on the boundary conditions that exist between the knowledge domains of the specialized engineers populating a program and the product domains related to the product being developed by different teams on a program. It explores the role of the system engineer in design, material procurement, and manufacturing.
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Production Systems
Engineering Project Management
Systems & Control Engineering
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Nanoporous materials are critical to various fields of research. In this volume, a pioneering researcher guides experimentalists in their design of nanoporous material using computer simulation methodologies. The book explores molecular modeling, placing a heavy focus on simpler methods such as Monte Carlo simulation and thus proposing easier technology for the bench chemist. It examines density functional theory (DFT) and local reactivity descriptors. It also discusses the synthesis of nanoporous materials, the structural characterization of materials, and the design of new nanoporous materials. Dr. Chatterjee explores projected applications and concludes with a discussion of the catalytic activity of the nanoporous material and the reaction mechanism.
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Materials Chemistry
Materials Science
Catalysis
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Professional