This volume brings together international experts to explore land misuse and mismanagement that is compromising soil qualtiy across the globe. The book assesses farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa with emphasis on land degradation, examines soil management in Brazil and China, and provides a comparison of systems in India and Ohio. It also looks at how culture and spiritual beliefs contribute to the problem. Ultimately, the book helps us understand that the situation is not beyond remediation were we to act with urgency and details achievable methods for improving soil quality.
• Advances in Soil Science
Agriculture
Soil Science
Ecology - Environment Studies
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Bioactive peptides are used to enhance the body’s antioxidant status, antisepsis capacity, immune function, anti-inflammatory capacity, mineral absorption, and appetite. They can also mitigate major metabolic derangements arising from chronic illnesses which result in unwanted weight loss. Presenting data from human studies, clinical trials, and recent research findings, this work summarizes the applications and benefits of this therapy. The book covers host response, quality factors, protein economics, and muscle loss. It includes case studies on aging, AIDS, COPD, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, kidney failure, and tuberculosis.
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Nutrition
Nutraceuticals & Functional Foods
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New and improved desalination technologies have significantly broadened opportunities to access major quantities of safe water in many parts of the world. Created in collaboration with the World Health Organization, this book explains the latest developments in desalination, examining the environmental and public health-related impacts of these technologies. Written by international experts, the text presents specifications for assessing water quality, technical issues associated with desalination technologies, and the chemical aspects of desalinated water and its microbiology.
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Water Management and Sustainability
Drinking Water
Novel Technologies
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Although many references cover ethnoveterinary medicine in some form or another, none give it the intense and scientific scrutiny found in this book. With chapters on biological assays, efficacy testing, and phytochemistry, the book presents hard scientific information in accessible and readable language. It features a multidisciplinary approach to examining the role of herbal medicines in companion and pet animals. Tthe text also discusses access benefit sharing, the Convention of Biodiversity, intellectual property, and the skills required to navigate the minefield of bioprospecting.
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Botany
Natural History
Animal Physiology
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Professional

Presenting important insight into the complexities of arid region hydrology, this book provides the key component to formulate and implement integrated management approaches in catchment systems. It covers basic and applied research, sustained water education, and training programs and considers the advantages of new techniques and instrumentations with adequate support of financial and human resources. Topics include catchment characteristics, rainfall runoff and harvesting, stream flow routing, groundwater hydrology, resource management, and the design of hydraulic structures. The book offers illustrative case studies, conversion tables, and modeling software.
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Hydrology
Hydrogeology
Ground Water
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This book begins with a concise introduction to one of the oldest biotechnological processes – food fermentation – including its history and global varieties. After covering the various preparation techniques and culinary methods, the book addresses the microbiology-phenotypic and genotypic characterizations, the identifications of function microorganisms, the functional and technological properties, and issues related to food safety. The book also explores the functional properties of fermentation, how it improves product shelf life, ensures food safety, enriches nutritional supplements, and increases the probiotic functions in some foods. The rising popularity of probiotic and prebiotic foods and the health benefits they are known for are also discussed.
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Food Laws & Regulations
Brewing
Nutraceuticals & Functional Foods
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Professional

Since the first edition of this volume was published in 1983, it has retained its unique status of being the only book in the field of public administration that analyzes how constitutional law regulates and informs the way administrators interact with each other and the public. Examining First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights as they pertain to these encounters, it explains how public administrators must do their jobs and how administrative systems must operate in order to comply with constitutional law. Supplemented with case citations and lists of articles, books and documents, this text is designed to facilitate further study in a constantly evolving area.
• Public Administration and Public Policy
Government
Public Administration & Management
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From serial murderers to parents who kill, this volume offers a rare glimpse into the minds of predators and contains chilling details of their motives and methods. The book explores gang violence, serial and mass murderers, filicide, rape, workplace violence, school shootings, and hate crimes. It also delves into the unusual and shocking practices of vampirism and cannibalism. Steeped in research, the book contains tables with demographic data and events, discussion questions to provoke further inquiry, and numerous references for further study, making it a compelling resource for professionals and academia alike.
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Psychological Science
Forensic Science - Law
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This update of a best-selling text presents methods of applied mathematics that are particularly suited to address physical problems in science and engineering. This edition incorporates a new chapter that offers an extensive treatment of numerical methods. It also contains new appendices on vector algebra, calculus, and matrix algebra. The author provides a complete treatment of ODEs and PDEs, covers Green’s functions for unbounded and bounded media, and explores self-adjoint systems and orthogonal series. Numerous examples illustrate the various methods of solution and answers to the end-of-chapter problems are included at the back of the book.
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Mathematics & Statistics for Engineers
Mathematical Physics
Differential Equations
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Undergraduate

Supplying an accessible introduction, this book details the analysis and design principles in process-centric architecture. Illustrative examples demonstrate how to architect and design enterprise systems based on business processes central to your organization. The text covers the architectural aspects of business process management, the evolution of IT systems, the importance of a business process focus, the role of workflows, business rules, enterprise application integration, and business process modeling languages such as WS-BPEL and BPML. This forward-looking resource explains how to architect enterprise systems using a BPMS technology platform, J2EE components, and Web services.
• Infosys Press
Management of IT
Software Engineering & Systems Development
Business Information Systems
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