Demonstrating how biostatistics helps manage medical uncertainties, this comprehensive edition covers numerous biostatistical methods used in evidence-based patient management, medical research, and health administration. New chapters describe clinical trials, observational studies, laboratory experiments, survival analysis, logistic regression, and clinimetrics. With more real-world examples, this edition also expands discussions on epistemic uncertainties, crossover designs, and equivalence trials. In addition to conventional statistical procedures, it discusses reliability and validity evaluations, quality control methods, and the robustness of results.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series
Statistics for the Biological Sciences
Clinical Implementation
Textbook
Undergraduate

The UN Millennium Summit in 2000 pledged to achieve a set of Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015. They include halving by 2015 the number of undernourished people in the world, which currently stand at 850 million people. This book explores ways and means of achieving the Millennium Development Goal in respect of Food Security. With contributions from world experts.
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Agricultural Engineering
Water Quality & Pollution
Water Management and Sustainability
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Postgraduate

This book facilitates a better understanding of the new information era: the Photonics Century. It combines the most relevant aspects of waveguide theory with the study of current detailed waveguiding technologies. The first three chapters examine the theoretical foundations and bases of planar optical waveguides as well as critical optical properties such as birefringence and nonlinear optical phenomena. The next several chapters focus on contemporary waveguiding technologies that include photonic devices and telecommunications. The book concludes with discussions on additional technological applications, including biomedical optical waveguides and the potential of neutron waveguides.
• Optical Science and Engineering
Optoelectronics
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
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Professional

Drawing on information gathered from a study of the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004, this book explores the development of methodologies for predicting and preparing for tsunamis. The volume provides a state-of-the-art review of tsunami science and indicates thrust areas that have the potential to improve temporal and spatial resolution of tsunami prediction and warning systems. The knowledge base contained in the volume is relevant not only to the Indian Ocean countries, but globally. It will be useful to university students, professionals, and administrators concerned with seismology, ocean science, meteorology, disaster management, coastal management, and related areas.
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Human Geography
Economics and Development
Regional Development
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Postgraduate

This book addresses ways of using remote sensing data to explain and illustrate interactions between atmospheric, oceanic and hydrological processes.
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Water Quality & Pollution
Water Management and Sustainability
Water Science
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Postgraduate

Immunology in Plant Health and Its Impact on Food Safety suggests cost-effective, simple, and sensitive immunological techniques to assess plant health and food safety for the production of desirable foods, feeds, and timbers. This book explores the structure and biochemical constituents of healthy plants and the abiotic and biotic stresses that can cause a marked reduction in quantity and quality of agricultural produce. Researchers, faculty members, and graduate scholars in plant pathology, microbiology, biochemistry, environmental sciences, and food technology will find this text useful for producing healthy plants while maintaining a pollution-free environment.
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Botany
Food Microbiology
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Professional

This book surveys the broad field of mechanical alloying from a scientific and technological perspective to form a timely and comprehensive resource valuable to both students and researchers. The treatment progresses from the historical background through a description of the process, the different metastable effects produced, and the mechanisms of phase formation to applications of mechanically alloyed products. The presentation is straightforward and easy to understand but does not compromise the scientific accuracy. It includes an unusually extensive listing of the results of different metastable effects obtained in various alloy systems along with thorough references in each chapter.
• Dekker Mechanical Engineering
Metals & Alloys
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Professional