Disease is an ever-present threat faced by all human societies. This book addresses four areas that reflect our understanding of disease: its evolution, its implications for human societies, its ecology, and our response to it. Topics such as epidemiological transition, mathematical modeling of disease evolution, parasitic disease, urban pollution and illness, and under-nutrition and obesity are all examined with a goal of widening the reader's holistic view of disease at the beginning of the 21st century. Contributions to the book have been made by experts from a diverse range of disciplines resulting in a synthesis of theory, opinion, and comment that is both absorbing and thought provoking.
• Society for the Study of Human Biology
Public Health - Medical Sociology
Infectious Diseases
Epidemiology
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Professional

This handbook provides a thorough analysis of nondestructive testing used to evaluate concrete structures. It examines the tools and techniques used to estimate the in-place strength of concrete and permeation properties that relate to potential durability and describes the methods used to assess the condition of concrete integrity and steel reinforcement. The authors of each chapter are recognized specialists in the field of nondestructive testing. They discuss the basic methodological principles and offer practical guidance for their use. The book refers to numerous original papers for those interested in more detailed information in lieu of extensive mathematical derivations.
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Concrete Structures
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¿Quién es el pueblo judío? ¿Qué es la religión judía? ¿Cómo se estructuran la familia y la comunidad? ¿En qué consisten sus ritos y tradiciones? ¿Qué es el Talmud? ¿Cómo afronta el futuro el judaísmo?

Color Atlas and Manual of Microscopy for Criminalists, Chemists, and Conservators offers more than 400 color photomicrographs of the most commonly encountered materials to facilitate specimen comparison and rapid identification of organic and inorganic fibers and particles. In a single source, this book presents a range of simple methods to help investigators quickly characterize and identify a broad range of materials. Covering substances such as hair and fibers, minerals and soils, paints, drugs, and dust, the book presents the basic principles of microscopy and directions for sample preparation and examination.
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Forensic Science - Law
Forensic Chemistry
Microscopy
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Written by one of the top biostatisticians in the field, Statistics for Epidemiology fills a substantial niche by explaining the ideas behind the analysis of epidemiological data without requiring a high level of mathematics or resorting to a "cookbook" format. It covers the basic material for analyzing data that arise from simple epidemiological studies, including case-control and matched studies. Methodologically, it describes stratification techniques for handling confounding and interaction and the logistic regression model. The author uses a case-study approach, following a few simple examples through several method chapters rather than introducing a different example at each stage.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science
Epidemiology
Statistics for the Biological Sciences
Textbook
Undergraduate

Keeping pace with current trends in solvent production, this volume builds upon its previous edition with broader coverage of safe handling practices, health effects, physical properties, and chemical synthesis routes to some of the most important organic solvents used in the chemical and allied process industries. This handy reference features a glossary of solvent terminology and an easy-to-reference index of synonyms for chemicals and solvents. The Second Edition features new and updated chapters on the major classes of organic solvents, descriptions for general use, and the chemical formulation, thermodynamic properties, health and toxicity, and combustible characteristics of solvents.
• Chemical Industries
Industrial Chemistry
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Professional

Diálogo acerca de la complejidad y espontaneidad del diálogo como forma de comunicación pedagógica: es así como podríamos caracterizar el contenido de este libro. Una indagación rigurosa de los aspectos morales, políticos y educativos del diálogo en la que el autor consigue reunir con fuerza significativa los abordajes conceptuales de Freire, Bajtin, Gadamer, Habermas, Vigotsky, Wittgenstein y Dewey en un profundo análisis filosófico de la enseñanza, destacando el carácter fundamental del diálogo en la construcción de una sociedad democrática, genuinamente pluralista.
Son las de este libro ideas fecundas para introducir mejoras en las aulas y que no descuidan la dimensión del tiempo histórico: las relaciones igualitarias o asimétricas en relación con el diálogo o las variantes de un posmodernismo antimodernista. Y un aporte fundamental: averiguar si el diálogo descubre lo que ya existía en alguna parte o si en él emerge la novedad en la forma de una verdad de consenso.

Este libro analiza paso a paso la historia y las teorías de la cultura visual, desde la pintura hasta Internet, y plantea cómo y por qué los medios visuales de comunicación se han convertido en algo tan importante en la vida cotidiana contemporánea. Nicholas Mirzoeff sugiere que, en la actualidad, nuestra principal vía de comprensión del mundo es visual y no textual.
Para llegar a estas conclusiones, Mirzoeff examina los siguientes puntos:
?¿Qué es la cultura visual?
?Los elementos de lo visual, incluyendo la perspectiva, el color, la línea y la visión.
?Un amplio abanico de formas visuales, que incluye la pintura, la escultura, la fotografía, la televisión, el cine, la realidad virtual e Internet.
?La importancia de la ?raza? y el origen étnico, el género, la sexualidad y el cuerpo en la cultura visual.
?Las distintas formas de espectáculo que generó en los medios de comunicación la muerte de la princesa Diana de Gales, sin duda el acontecimiento que supuso el inicio de la era de la cultura visual global.

Providing detailed coverage of the physical and biological characteristics of solid waste sites, Waste Sites as Biological Reactors: Characterization and Modeling describes the parameters required to understand, model, and assess the capacity of a waste disposal site as an open biodegradation system. It includes original analyses of waste and reactor kinetics, decomposition, temperature and moisture effects, and heat properties and discusses landfill gas and leachate chemicals generation with detailed composition and property data. Tables and figures provide easy access to the information, and the book discusses various site management options.
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Solid Waste & Recycling
Hazardous Waste & Materials
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