This text explains vessel manufacture and procedures for quality assurance and control, methods for code specification compliance, all stages of the manufacturing process, and promotes uniformity of inspection, testing, and documentation. Analyzing radiographic testing procedures, the book acts as an explanation to the ASME code, features the A to Z of fabrication methodology, discusses NDT, heat treatment, and pad air and hydrostatic tests, methodology to compile a Manufacturer's Data Report, typical quality, inspection, and test plans, the requirements of welding procedure specification, procedure qualification records, and welder qualification tests, and recommended tolerances for vessels.
• Dekker Mechanical Engineering
Machine Design
Energy
Industrial Chemistry
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Covering the entire subspecialty of anaesthesia for surgery of the eye, this book discusses a range of topics, including: the history of ophthalmic anaesthesia, physiology and pharmacology, anatomy, pre-operative assessment, and paediatric aesthesia.
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Anesthesiology
Ophthalmology
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This title addresses the most important aspect of anaesthetic training - learning in the operating suite. The information is clearly presented and can be easily incorporated into the practice of clinical anaesthesia.
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Anesthesiology
Pediatrics & Child Health
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An Introduction to Commutative Algebra and Number Theory is an elementary introduction to both these subjects. The author begins by reviewing the basics of groups, rings and fields, then explores topics in algebra, such as polynomial rings, UFD, PID, and Euclidean domains, field extensions, and modules. In addition to the usual number theory topics, this book offers glimpses into Warning's and Chevally's theorems and many results of additive number theory, including the derivation of LaGrange's foursquare theorem. The author encourages readers to reach beyond the book's material by offering extensive references and comments beyond the scope of the book.
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Number Theory
Algebra
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This comprehensive treatise provides an in-depth understanding of allelopathy—the mysterious, complex biochemical interactions among plants and microbes. This little-understood phenomenon can lead to changes in nutrient dynamics, vegetation structure, and species diversity. Allelopathy in Agroecosystems explains how this interaction can be used as an environmentally safe method of weed and pest management. The fascinating original research presented here offers incalculable potential for rescuing farmed-out land, increasing crop yields, and cutting back on expensive soil additives.
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Botany
Biodiversity
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This comprehensive treatise provides an in-depth understanding of allelopathy—the mysterious, complex biochemical interactions among plants and microbes. This little-understood phenomenon can lead to changes in nutrient dynamics, vegetation structure, and species diversity. Allelopathy in Agroecosystems explains how this interaction can be used as an environmentally safe method of weed and pest management. The fascinating original research presented here offers incalculable potential for rescuing farmed-out land, increasing crop yields, and cutting back on expensive soil additives.
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Botany
Biodiversity
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Professional

A pilot study conducted at the Gilze water treatment plant of Water Supply North West Brabant demonstrated that adsorptive filtration has several potential advantages over floc filtration, namely: longer filter runs due to slower head loss development; better filtrate quality; shorter ripening time; and less backwash water use. In existing groundwater treatment plants, the high iron (II) adsorption capacity of the iron oxide coated filter media makes it potentially possible to switch the governing mode of operation from floc filtration to adsorptive filtration. To achieve this two options can be considered: iron (II) adsorption under anoxic conditions followed by oxidation with oxygen-rich water; and adsorption of iron (II) in the presence of oxygen and simultaneous oxidation. The first option might be attractive specifically when two filtration steps are available.
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Water Quality & Pollution
Ground Water
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Professional

In recent years, progress in the field of SCQM (supersymmetric classical and quantum mechanics) has been dramatic and the literature continues to grow. This monograph offers an overview of the field and summarizes the major developments of the last 15 years. It provides both a review of the literature and a detailed exposition of the underlying SCQM principles. For those just beginning in the field, the author presents step-by-step details of most of the computations. For more experienced readers, the treatment includes systematic analyses of more advanced topics, such as quasi- and conditional solvability and the role of supersymmetry in nonlinear systems.
• Monographs and Surveys in Pure and Applied Math
Mathematical Physics
Quantum Mechanics
Differential Equations
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Intensive Cropping: Efficient Use of Water, Nutrients, and Tillage is a compilation of current information on the interdependence of and synergies among water, nutrients, and energy for increasing crop performance. For students or professionals of agronomy, soil science, environmental quality, irrigation management or hydrology and farmers, and researchers, this book explains the need for intensive cropping and explores the technologies and practices necessary for proper management of water, nutrients, and energy. With Intensive Cropping you will learn how to improve the quantity of the world's most important crops and use methods that will minimize harm to the environment. Selected by the Pujab Agricultral University (Ludhiana, India) for the Dr. M.S. Randhawa Best Prize for 2000!
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Crop Science
Agriculture
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Professional