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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Environmental Health
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Considered the definitive work on sex-related homicide, this second edition details the theoretical and psychological basis for sexual homicide and offers practical investigative checklists and directions for processing and interpreting the crime scene. A comprehensive discussion of sexual deviance, it analyzes the typology of offenders to determine their signature aspects. It introduces the latest information on DNA technology, includes a new chapter on the infamous 30-year BTK investigation, offers new research developed from the Working Group of Human Asphyxia (WGHA), and provides a revised chapter on criminal personality profiling and investigative analysis. The new edition contains nearly 400 color photos.
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Covering each aspect of a waste management facility, from contaminant receipt, handling, and storage to stack discharge and dispersion, this reference explores the operation and evaluation of incineration and conversion (gasification) systems for hazardous and non-hazardous gaseous, liquid, biosolid, and solid wastes. Highlighting breakthroughs in air pollution control, the book discusses advances in materials handling, waste processing, refractory and materials engineering, combustion technology, and energy recovery to reduce and control toxins and pollutants in the environment. It includes an accompanying CD containing spreadsheets and computer applications for practical analysis of waste characteristics and combustion systems.
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Based on more than fifteen years of research and practice, this book introduces the environmental and economic sustainability assessment (EESA), a new way to make decisions that meets the challenges of the 21 st century. Incorporating elements of life-cycle analysis, risk assessment, cost-benefit analysis, and comprehensive sensitivity analysis, EESA provides a fully quantitative, objective, and rational way to include all of the social, environmental, and economic issues relevant to a decision into one comprehensive analysis. The author demonstrates how to apply EESA using examples across a number of major industries.
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This timely three-volume set captures novel developments in the films and coatings area in relation to nanoscience and nanotechnology. For newcomers to the field, the books serve as introductions and stepping-stones to enter the field with little confusion. For experts, the books provide up-to-date information that can assist them in their research and help them contribute to the advancement of the technology. Figures, tables, and images are included in all three volumes. The first book concentrates on the mechanical properties of thin films and coatings, the second focuses on functional properties as well as related devices and applications, and the final volume examines organic thin films, devices, and coatings for clean energy applications.
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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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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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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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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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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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Materials Science
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