Filled with practical guidance on how to conduct selenium risk assessments in the aquatic environment, this book offers the latest information on assessment techniques, gives the current state of contamination in industrialized countries, and raises awareness for developing nations. Written by leading experts, it describes best practices for designing experiments to collect information on aquatic effects and trophic transfer of selenium for risk assessments, presents numerous case studies both US and international, and gives insight as to how current and future ecosystems may or may not be affected.
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Environmental & Ecological Toxicology
Natural Hazards & Risk
Environmental Chemistry
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This text provides a solid foundation for the study of advanced mathematics and covers many interesting applications of linear algebra, which show how linear algebra is essential in such diverse areas as combinatorics, differential equations, optimization, and approximation. The book discusses important concepts and methods from numerical linear algebra and contains a range of exercises in each section, including some that can be solved using a computer package such as MATLAB ® . It also incorporates mini-projects that encourage students to develop topics not covered in the text. A forthcoming solutions manual is available for qualifying instructors.
• Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications
Algebra
Computational Physics
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Discussing the science, technology, and philosophy of organic agriculture, this book addresses relevant issues and concepts along with practical applications. Chapters cover soil fertility and plant nutrition; individual plant requirements; liming; farm manures, green manures, and composts; mulching and tillage; and weed, insect, and disease control, as well as companion planting and storage. Accessible to undergraduate students in organic farming and gardening, and sustainable agriculture, the text includes a glossary with common technical and scientific terms used in conventional and organic agriculture.
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Crop Science
Soil Science
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This full-color book explores the design variations and applications of micromaps, which link statistical information to an organized set of small maps. It illustrates the three main types of micromaps (linked, conditioned, and comparative) and summarizes the cognitive research and statistical thinking behind these designs. The book then explains the specific design elements and applications of each of the main micromap designs. To compare and contrast their purposes, limitations, and strengths, the final chapter applies all three of these techniques to the same demographic data for Louisiana before and after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Many supplementary resources are available on the book’s website.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Interdisciplinary Statistics
Statistics for the Biological Sciences
Statistics
Data Preparation & Mining
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The nano revolution has made available powerful new tools for studying biological phenomena, allowing a deeper look into biological problems. This book provides a complete overview of new developments in optical microscopy that enables structure determination at the nanoscale. The list of contributors represents top experts in their respective fields who have led the current upsurge or have laid the foundation for the development of modern microscopes and techniques. They offer a state-of-the-art treatment of critical topics in nanoscopy, ranging from imaging and manipulation to spectroscopy and visualization. The editor takes a truly interdisciplinary approach, combining the science and tools of biologists, physicists, and engineers.
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Optoelectronics
Optics & optoelectronics
Microscopy
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This text presents the basic principles of sound graphical design and applies these principles to engaging examples using the graphical functions available in R. The author emphasizes the fundamentals of statistical graphics and describes the strengths and weaknesses of each graphical display. He also presents technical theoretical details on topics such as the estimation of quantiles, kernel density estimation, locally weighted polynomial regression, and splines. The book includes examples of real-world data, end-of-chapter exercises, and many illustrations, with some in color. R code is available for download on the book’s website.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science
Statistics & Computing
Statistical Theory & Methods
Mathematics & Statistics for Engineers
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Professional

Understanding the basics of speech coding is necessary for the design of various modern devices that rely on speech interfaces such as cell phones and PDAs. Offering a detailed yet easily accessible introduction to the field, Principles of Speech Coding provides an in-depth examination of the underlying signal processing techniques that are used in speech coding. The authors present speech coding standards from various organizations, including the ITU. With a focus on applications such as Voice-over-IP telephony, this comprehensive text demonstrates the practical implementation of a popular standardized speech coder on a DSP processor and covers the most recent research findings.
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Digital Signal Processing
Telecommunications
Computer Graphics & Visualization
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For managers to truly excel into a position of leadership they must increase efficiency and develop the soft skills necessary to inspire people to do more with less. Providing a series of practical and tested lessons, this book offers a clear, coherent, and effective way of tactfully directing project managers. Written by a highly successful author, it gives real world examples, survey materials including a high performing team questionnaire, and exercises in conflict resolution, conflict continuum, and team effectiveness. It also provides a website with downloadable documents and a podcast to continually reinforce the material.
• Industrial Innovation
Production Systems
Engineering Project Management
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Illustrating a wide range of practical applications, GIS in Hospital and Healthcare Emergency Management explains how hospitals and healthcare facilities can improve their emergency management and disaster preparedness through the use of GIS. The text aims to raise the level of understanding of the role of GIS in emergency management planning among hospital healthcare emergency managers, risk managers, decision-makers, and regulating and accrediting organizations. The author covers spatial aspects of planning, preparedness, response, and recovery. A CD-ROM with color images, useful forms, exercises, and additional resources is also included.
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Agriculture & Environmental Sciences
Health & Safety
Critical Security
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This book details one of the most innovative concepts in space flight: tethered space systems. These involve connecting satellites in orbit around Earth using thin cables called tethers. There are a number of interesting applications for this concept, such as energy production from the interaction between the system and the magnetic field of the Earth, momentum transfer for a satellite, microgravity laboratories, and the space elevator. The text presents several models, focusing on the simplest but most important system, which consists of two satellites in orbit around the Earth. The authors derive equations of motion and describe methods of analysis.
• Advances in Engineering Series
Aerospace Engineering
Instrumentation, Measurement & Testing
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