Drawn from case examples spanning the last 60 years, this book examines incidents of targeted violence, including contract killings, assassinations, and planned kidnappings. Complete with 35 case studies, the text explores numerous attack methodologies employed around the world and regionally. The author, a former SWAT and JTTF team member, analyzes the modus operandi of individual assailants and groups to highlight the commonalities between targeted victims and why certain groups tend to target specific types of individuals. The book concludes with a chapter on victimology.
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Forensic Science - Law
Terrorism
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While current methods used in ecological risk assessments for pesticides are largely deterministic, quantifiable results garnered using probabilistic methods are attracting growing interest from industries and governments. This book identifies which methods are most appropriate for pesticide assessment and explores their appropriateness as a common suite for general use. The authors discuss classical and Bayesian approaches, various types of Monte Carlo analysis, first order error analysis, probability bounds analysis, interval analysis, and fuzzy mathematics. They then examine how these methods can be used in assessments for other environmental contaminants.
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Agriculture
Environmental & Ecological Toxicology
Natural Hazards & Risk
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Exploring issues that confront today’s drug interdiction officer, this book explains how to initiate specific domestic drug interdiction programs and how to use business partnerships to assist law enforcement in identifying potential violators. It examines consensual encounters, drug canines, and interdictions involving trains, buses, airports, and rental vehicles. It also covers interdiction investigations at hotels and those involving storage units and parcel systems. The book includes a chapter on currency seizures as well as chapters on report writing, courtroom testimony, and the role of the interdiction supervisor. Each chapter includes relevant case law that supports the protocol described.
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Forensic Science - Law
Terrorism
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As the first comprehensive overview of cloud computing for business, this book presents the critical strategies that IT professionals need in order to take advantage of this new technology. Leaders in the field, the authors first explain how cloud computing differs from the grid and from virtualization and then demonstrate how to develop tactics that best utilize the unique capabilities of the cloud. The text includes a comprehensive list of cloud computing providers and detailed tools for integrating cloud capabilities into a business IT structure. With a separate section covering how to secure the cloud perimeter, it also addresses various IT issues as well as compliance regulations.
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Internet & Multimedia
Management of IT
Operations Management
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This volume provides a basic introduction to toxicology within a framework of chemical risk to ecosystems and to human health and forms the basis of a new approach to teaching toxicology from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective. It presents concepts from chemistry, ecology, physiology, and other disciplines as needed within the context of toxicology. These include as chemical equilibrium, energy, and nutrient flows through ecosystems. It also introduces concepts specific to toxicology, such as risk as a composite of toxicity and exposure, and provides case studies of risk management to illustrate the ways in which laboratory results are used to manage chemical risk to human health and the environment.
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Environmental & Ecological Toxicology
Natural Hazards & Risk
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Fully revised, the third edition of this practical guide explains how to achieve consistently superior run lengths, low maintenance expenditures, and unexcelled safety and reliability in all pump applications. Written by two practicing engineers with a combined 80-years of experience, this handbook details what facilities must do to accomplish superior performance and low life-cycle cost for pumps of all types and sizes. Aimed at operating technicians, maintenance professionals, project engineers, reliability engineers and managers, the book is an ideal resource for professionals whose work brings them into contact with process pumps.
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Fluid Mechanics
Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
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Updated to reflect Stata 11, this revised edition offers a complete and up-to-date survey of microeconometric methods available in Stata. The authors employ the new margins command, emphasizing both marginal effects at the means and average marginal effects. They also replace the xi command with factor variables, which allow you to specify indicator variables and interaction effects. Along with several new examples, this edition presents the new gmm command for generalized method of moments and nonlinear instrumental-variables estimation. In addition, the chapter on maximum likelihood estimation incorporates enhancements made to ml in Stata 11.
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Quantitative Methods
Statistics & Computing
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Presenting the developments in QRM since the publication of Rajan Suri’s landmark text, Quick Response Manufacturing , this book illustrates how QRM can not only reduce lead times but also improve quality, reduce operating costs, and enable companies to gain a substantial market share. It explains how factories in advanced nations can use QRM strategy to compete with manufacturers in low-wage countries and provides helpful pointers for QRM implementation, including accounting strategies, novel cost-justification approaches, and a stepwise process for implementation. It also includes a CD with time-saving tips to help you work through implementation issues—including simple calculation methods and tools to support the design of your QRM strategy.
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Business & Management
Lean Manufacturing
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Considered to be among the very best in the field, this masterwork from renowned experts J. N. Reddy and David Gartling is the latest version of a book that has long been relied upon by practicing engineers, researchers, and graduate students. Noted for its powerful methodology and clear explanations of the subject, this third edition contains considerably more workable exercises and examples associated with problems in heat conduction, incompressible viscous flow, and convection heat transfer. It also uses applied examples to show realistic examples of FEM in thermal and fluid design analysis.
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Mechanics
Fluid Mechanics
Thermodynamics
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This work highlights the various changes that asphaltenes undergo during catalytic hydroprocessing. After defining and characterizing asphaltene structure, the book examines the composition of petroleum and the processes and catalysts for upgrading heavy oils. It then details the characterization of asphaltenes after hydroprocessing and the effect of reaction conditions on their structures. The authors also analyze the deactivation and characterization of spent hydroprocessing catalysts. They cover sediment formation during hydroprocessing and the role of asphaltenes on this process. The final chapters describe the hydrocracking, kinetics, and fractionation of asphaltenes.
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Fuels
Industrial Chemistry
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