This book combines theoretical concepts, real alloy systems, processing procedures, and examples of real-world applications. It reviews properties common to all metals before discussing specific nonferrous alloy systems, iron-carbon alloys, special steels and low carbon sheet steel, and cast irons. Concluding chapters treat powder metallurgy, corrosion, welding, and magnetic alloys. There are appendices on microstructural analysis, stereographic projection, and the Miller–Bravais system for hexagonal crystals. Physical Metallurgy uses engaging historical and contemporary examples that relate to the applications of concepts in each chapter, ample references, and sample problems throughout.
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Mechanics
Materials Science
Metals & Alloys
Textbook

In the nearly 10 years since the publication of the bestselling first edition, interest in green chemistry and clean processes has increased. Many topics, such as fluorous biphasic catalysis, metal organic frameworks, and process intensification, barely mentioned in the first edition, have become major areas of research. In addition, government funding has ramped up the development of fuel cells and biofuels. Designed as a textbook and a reference, the second edition provides an update from the frontiers of green chemistry. Copiously illustrated with over 800 figures, the book takes a broad, interdisciplinary approach to the subject.
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Industrial Chemistry
Environmental Chemistry
Textbook
Undergraduate

Completely revised and updated, this second edition of a bestseller supplies the appropriate understanding of optimum properties for a given application. Addressing the needs of researchers working with time-varying media, the book provides a comprehensive look at the theory, numerical simulation, application, and experimental work. Written by a world leader in research on frequency transformation in a time-varying magnetoplasma medium, this edition focuses on applying a time-varying medium to design a frequency and polarization transformer. It provides the understanding of research techniques useful, in electrooptics, plasma science and engineering, microwave engineering, and solid state devices.
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Electromagnetics & Microwaves
Optoelectronics
Optics & optoelectronics
Reference
Professional

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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Security Services
Forensic Science - Law
Terrorism
Reference

An introduction to the dynamics of internal geologic processes of earth, this book explains the origin of landforms by the processes involved in their evolution. The author expresses process activities in mathematical, empirical, and semi-empirical perspectives to highlight their distinctive identity in specific environmental stress conditions. Each chapter reviews, synthesizes, and provides recent findings and understanding of the complexity of geomorphic processes. They also include competing hypotheses on the evolution of landforms of the given environment. Examples and detailed case studies enable readers to understand the components of process-form relationships.
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Environmental Geology
Textbook

Using a practitioner-oriented style, this book provides guidance on how to collaborate more effectively, with less frustration and better results. The authors articulate an approach that takes advantage of windows of opportunity for real problem solving; brings multi-disciplinary participants to the table to engage more systematically in planning, analysis, decision making, and implementation; breaks down barriers to change; and ultimately, lays the foundation for new thinking and acting. They incorporate knowledge gained from organization and collaboration management research and personal experience to create a fresh approach to collaboration practice.
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Public Administration & Management
Business & Management
Reference
Professional

An introduction to the fundamental aspects of developing modem embedded systems utilizing many cores, this book provides insight into the main problems, limitations, possibilities and future growth. The author begins with coverage of multi-core architecture, application of specific customizable embedded systems, and heterogenous multi-core embedded systems. He then explores multi-core interconnects and NoC, power optimization and reliability issues, and performance tools and benchmarks. The book also covers hardware and software resource management, multithreading, and multi-core programming challenges and includes numerous case studies.
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Computer Engineering
Digital Signal Processing
Microelectronics
Reference

Incorporating information technologies and information management, this work describes evolving areas of efficiency in the healthcare industry due to healthcare informatics enhancements. The book begins with an overview of the shift into new healthcare system structures through the utilization of information technology/systems and the creation of software platforms. It then discusses innovative information systems and their functionality, business intelligence in healthcare, and the use of advanced analytics and information management. The book also examines evolving trends in healthcare, including potential gains through data and information management.
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Management of IT
Healthcare Management
Intelligent Systems
Reference

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
Reference

Clearly outlining the basic principles of coordinate systems, this second edition of a bestseller covers ellipsoids, datums, and plane coordinates as they are used in GIS and GPS. It also covers the geoid and the concepts of elevation. The author explains complex topics with in a logical progression and in a manner which is neither too complicated not oversimplified, avoiding getting bogged down in the mathematics. The new edition expands the material with updates that have occurred in the field during the past five years, especially in the World Geodetic System and International Terrestrial Reference Frame, and includes the upcoming GNSS constellations and coordinate implications.
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Networks
IT Security
Internet & Multimedia
Reference
Professional