A comprehensive collection of seminal pieces on environmental criminology, this work focuses on the role that the immediate environment plays in the occurrence of a crime. Legendary contributors demonstrate that a careful analysis of environmental factors is key to understanding the causes of crime, solving crimes, and helping to predict and prevent them. Topics covered include routine activity theory, the geometric theory of crime, the rational choice theory, and the pattern theory of crime. The book also explores concepts related to crime prevention. This volume is invaluable as a textbook and as a professional reference.
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Forensic Science - Law
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While one can choose from a wealth of books on enzymes, none offers this unique focus on fruits and vegetables. Written by an international team of contributors, this book is devoted to enzymes in fruit and vegetable processing: from chemistry to engineering aspects. It provides 14 chapters that among other topics discuss the effect of enzymatic reactions on color, flavor, and texture, enzymatic browning during fruit and vegetable processing, enzyme-assisted production of value added products from fruit and vegetable processing by-products, effect of the non-thermal technologies on fruit and vegetable enzymes, biosensors for fruit and vegetable processing, and future trends for the industrial use of enzymes.
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Fruit & Vegetables
Food Chemistry
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A delineation of the basics of sensory analysis and how it applies to shelf-life studies, this book includes discussions of experimental design aspects, survival analysis methodology, and its extensions. It provides detailed instructions and software functions for performing SSL estimations, accompanied by data sets and the R Statistical Package functions that are available for download. The author presents the cut-off point methodology used to estimate SSL when the survival analysis methods get complicated. He includes a chapter on accelerated storage covering kinetics, calculations of prediction confidence intervals and potential pitfalls.
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Food Packaging
Food Microbiology
Product Development
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Filled with practical examples, this book presents a self-contained discussion of quasilinear hyperbolic equations and systems with applications. It emphasizes nonlinear theory and introduces some of the most active research in the field. The author elucidates all necessary mathematical concepts in the first three chapters, including an introduction to general wave propagation problems. He highlights the application of various approaches, such as singular surface theory, asymptotic methods, and self-similarity, to solve practical physical problems from areas, including gasdynamics, radiation gasdynamics, magnetogasdynamics, nonequilibrium flows, and shallow water theory.
• Monographs and Surveys in Pure and Applied Math
Mathematics & Statistics for Engineers
Fluid Dynamics
Plasmas & Fluids
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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.
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Aerospace Engineering
Instrumentation, Measurement & Testing
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Rather than presenting a lot of information about the field, Concepts in Cereal Chemistry stimulates critical thinking by emphasizing the important concepts related to the science. Written by distinguished researcher and teacher Dr. Finlay MacRitchie, this compact and reader-friendly book focuses mainly on cereal chemistry, but also incorporates relevant theory from the basic sciences, such as physics and genetics. This well-organized resource provides students and researchers in both academia and industry with the information they need to tackle problems likely to arise in cereal research.
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Biotechnology
Food Chemistry
Food Engineering
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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.
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Production Systems
Engineering Project Management
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While Dynamic Programming (DP) has helped solve control problems involving dynamic systems, its value was limited by algorithms that lacked practical scale-up capacity. In recent years, developments in Reinforcement Learning (RL), DP's model-free counterpart, has changed this. Focusing on continuous-variable problems, this unparalleled work provides an introduction to classical RL and DP, followed by a presentation of current methods in RL and DP with approximation. Combining algorithm development with theoretical guarantees, it offers illustrative examples that readers will be able to adapt to their own work.
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Intelligent Systems
Systems & Controls
Machine Learning
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An essential introduction to AC motor control and its application to electric vehicles, this book explains first principles, presenting the information in a concise and logical manner with excellent transitions between theoretical and practical examples of AC motor control. Each chapter focuses on a specific topic and is supplemented by a detailed bibliography of related research in the area. The mathematical theory contained in this book comes from actual research, and each section features detailed diagrams and illustrations, which help readers link presented mathematics to practical results.
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Power Electronics
Systems & Controls
Automotive Technology & Engineering
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Based on the authors 45 years of experience, this book examines the activities that must take place in the development of any system between the completion of the requirements work and the verification of work. The book provides insight into complex problems, focusing on the boundary conditions that exist between the knowledge domains of the specialized engineers populating a program and the product domains related to the product being developed by different teams on a program. It explores the role of the system engineer in design, material procurement, and manufacturing.
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Production Systems
Engineering Project Management
Systems & Control Engineering
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