crc press nov 2015 (35 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This practical and portable guide has been designed specifically to help academics and students in medicine and surgery departments at universities all over the world, who are required to write in English to maximize exposure to their research, produce professional and accurate academic English and eradicate the errors that occur at all levels from bad habits or gaps in knowledge. By identifying likely mistakes and then instructing the writers on how to correct them, with exercises to encourage self testing, this easily accessible and at-a-glance resource can be kept readily to hand as an invaluable companion during the course of writing an essay, thesis or paper.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Written by two well-respected experts in the field, this new edition of a bestseller has been completely updated and includes more than 50 new cases. The cases appear in random order, just as they would in practice, and are presented as self-assessment problems comprising integrated questions, illustrations and detailed explanations designed to educate as well as to provide answers. The book is designed to appeal to veterinary students preparing for exams, and to veterinary practitioners in their continuing professional development.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Containing more than 100 challenging clinical cases and illustrated with color clinical images, this book covers a wide range of problems including the accurate diagnosis of non-accidental injury to children presenting with bruises, burns, fractures, anogenital injuries, head injuries, abdominal injuries or suspected cases of neglect. Sensitively handled, the cases help practitioners to learn the difference between accidental and non-accidental injury and other findings. The book is an invaluable text for all those in the emergency department, forensic medical specialists, paediatricians, social workers, law enforcement agencies and all those needing to learn to identify cases of non-accidental injury when working with children.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Principles of Housing is an engaging and discursive introduction to the key topics within housing studies. Whereas many books get bogged down in country specific detail, this book argues that the fundamental concepts of what we call housing are relatively stable and unchanging. Each short chapter is designed to be a starting point for a wider conversation, with discussion questions and international case studies helping students to think about how general principles would apply to their own surroundings. Principles of Housing succeeds in being accessible and engaging without shying away from the complexities of housing issues. It will be invaluable to students on housing related courses.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Covering hydrology and water resources, water pollution, water treatment methods and freshwater ecosystems, this book is of interest to professionals and academics involved in hydraulic engineering and related fields.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Providing an introduction to the crucially important topic of groundwater, this text covers all major fields of hydrogeology and includes outlines of the occurrence of groundwater in various rock types, the movement and storage of groundwater, the formulation of groundwater balances, the development of groundwater chemistry, as well as the practical application of hydrogeology for groundwater development. Following a unique systems approach to describe and connect its various elements, the text also explores a large selection of examples of groundwater cases from various parts of the world. In addition, theoretical sections and examples are illustrated with a number of drawings, photos and computer printouts. Suitable for education in hydrogeology at postgraduate and graduate level, the text is also a useful reference tool for professionals and decision-makers involved in water or water-related activities. In the revised paperback edition more attention is paid to the processes in the unsaturated zone, especially those relating to groundwater recharge. Also, the investigation methods are highlighted in the sections where the related theory is dealt with, and they are not presented in the last chapter on groundwater management. The References and Bibliography section is also extended, some figures are improved, and the inevitable 'typing errors' are corrected as well.In the third edition, a more formal basis for the hydro-chemical processes described in the chapter on groundwater chemistry has been added. Mass balances and the principles of dispersion and retardation are introduced. Additional illustrations are provided, also explaining the processes occurring along streamlines.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Approaching the material from the viewpoint of a user of a commercial flow package, this book initially limits the description of the mathematics to the level that is strictly needed to make the correct choices when setting up a case in a commercial flow solver. It discusses the sources of errors in FD solutions using simple examples with finite differences, and they are demonstrated with mesh convergence studies. It focuses on the understanding of how the flow physics interact with a typical finite-volume discretization.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This text provides all the material for a graduate or senior undergraduate course that focuses on the architecture of multicore processors. The book is also useful as a reference for professionals who deal with programming on multicore or designing multicore chips. It addresses programming issues in shared memory multiprocessors, covers the architectures for shared memory multiprocessors, and contains interviews with experts in parallel multicore architecture. It also offers many pedagogical features, including mini case studies, alternative points of view, examples, and online programming assignments and solutions.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This bestseller explores the nature and use of digital images and shows how they can be obtained, stored, and displayed. Along with MATLAB®, this second edition now includes GNU Octave and Python. Programs are written as modular as possible, allowing for greater flexibility, code reuse, and conciseness. This edition also contains new images, redrawn diagrams, and new discussions of edge-preserving blurring filters, ISODATA thresholding, Radon transform, corner detection, retinex algorithm, LZW compression, and other topics.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Seed inoculation is the practice of effectively introducing a high number of nitrogen-fixing bacteria (Rhizobium or Bradyrhizobium) on the surface of legume seeds prior to planting. The bacteria penetrates the root, resulting in the formation of root nodules that fix nitrogen from the air, and make it readily available to the plant. This book describes the need, the development and the use of rhizobia, and how this process may be reproduced successfully around the world, especially in underdeveloped agricultural countries.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Managing technical programs successfully is as much art as it is science. This book illuminates the entire life cycle of the program-from customer's original concept to successful completion. It offers an overview of the entire process and includes helpful ideas and insights into why programs and program managers can fail. Much more importantly, it provides insights as to how program managers can succeed. The book also deals directly with identifying scope creep-both internal and external.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book addresses concepts essential to biomaterial production methods and cell and material interactions. Featuring contributions from molecular biologists, chemists, and material scientists, the text reflects the interdisciplinary nature of bioengineering, covering topics such as biosensing, immunology, and controlled delivery. It explores the cell and material interface and its engineering at length scales ranging from the nano to the macro, providing practical examples. The book explains the role of the cell and material interface in the context of tissue engineering, nanoparticles, natural polymers, and more.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book offers a balanced view of techniques for solving electromagnetic problems, refusing to overemphasize the importance of analytical methods at the expense of numerical techniques. Carefully selected topics provide an appreciation of the kinds of electromagnetic problems tha.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - It is widely believed and repeatedly stated that herbal drugs, being natural, are devoid of all toxic or adverse effects. This misconception often leads to the misuse of herbal drugs either independently or in combination with other drugs. This book embodies a survey of about 1500 medicinal plants and herbal products. It includes more than 100 examples of adverse side effects and drug interactions, a review of herbal drugs from 27 countries, and the effects of 75 commonly used Indian medicinal plants.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - With recent advances in mobile communication technologies, more and more people are accessing cloud computing systems using mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets.Unlike traditional mobile computing systems with limited capabilities, mobile cloud computing uses the powerful computing and storage resources available in the cloud to provide cutting-edge multimedia services. This book discusses the major research advances in mobile cloud computing systems. Contributed chapters from leading experts in this field cover different aspects of modeling, analysis, design, optimization, and architecture of mobile cloud computing systems.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Using the real world production of the animated short and video game Tin Girl as the foundation for learning, you will be shown how to create rigs for a 3D cinematic, and then how to modify those rigs to be ready for game production using popular video game engines.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book, based on material used for lecture courses on physical-chemical mechanics, is a comprehensive overview of physical-chemical mechanics, a discipline that bridges solid-state physics and materials science. It investigates the complex physical-chemical interfacial phenomena that occur during the transition of a dispersed system into a material and of the dispersal of a bulk material. It also devotes attention to the experimental methods used in physical-chemical mechanics and the relevant instruments.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book investigates the OLPS problem. The authors unveil four innovative algorithms based on the cutting edge machine learning techniques and also detail a powerful trading simulation tools. The book includes MATLAB® code for simulation trading systems that use historical data to evaluate the performance of trading strategies.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The health-related effects of asbestos have long been mired in controversy, with industry and plaintiff attorneys playing a significant role. This comprehensive book provides a balanced and extensive evidence-based critical analysis of the literature concerning asbestos-related diseases, from a scientific and historical perspective. The book presents a carefully referenced review of the medical literature on the health effects of asbestos, and reflects the extensive experience of the author in evaluating patients with asbestos-related disorders.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - There are numerous factors engineers, geologists, marine, and environmental scientists must be aware of involving seafloor processes and geotechnology (to work in a safe and environmentally responsible manner in either the deep ocean or coastal zone). This difference is due in part to the nature of the sediment column which varies from the continental shelf and slope, to the abyssal plains. This book provides a comprehensive survey of these factors and discusses marine in situ investigation, drilling, soil sampling, sediment properties and laboratory testing techniques.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Trophoblasts are cells in the human placenta that play a vital role in fetal growth and pregnancy. This book discusses the role of nutrients on human placental development with particular focus on the impact of nutrients on trophoblast function. Exposure to nutrients in utero is critical, as it affects the development of chronic diseases such as type2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and obesity in later life. The text also reviews the role of fatty acids, folic acids and specific vitamins.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book brings value to anyone working with or designing natural fiber composite structures. It helps readers understand the value these materials can add to projects, how to choose the best materials and treatments, how to safely design and fabricate products made of natural fiber composites, and how to test them for safety. It covers the characterization of natural fibers, matrices and respective composites, and how to enhance their performance and processing as well as testing and degradation issues.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book assesses current efforts in marine biomedicine and evaluates the implications of recent advances on the future of the field. The book covers four sections. The first one addresses the technology that has recently been brought to bear on the study of marine natural products, including omic and bioinformatic techniques. The second focuses on lead discovery and reviews various products and their activities. Examples of clinically successful marine products and discussions of approaches to the clinic are presented in the third section while the last section discusses prospects for the future of marine biodiscovery.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The product of 20 years of research, this book covers topics in soft tissue elasticity in vivo, from measurement techniques to clinical applications. It provides, for the first time, a single source that systematically introduces the various techniques for in vivo measurement of soft tissue elasticity in an effort to ease the difficulty between learning technical details and clinical applications of techniques. It also proposes two critical directions for the future of the field that would establish standardized and comparable protocols in clinical research and practice.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Flow Injection Analysis of Food Additives gives you the tools you need to analyze food and beverage additives using FIA. This sets it apart from other books that simply focus on the theoretical basis and principles of FIA or on the design of equipment, instrumentation, manifold, and setting mechanism. Truly unprecedented in its scope, this book represents the work of 80 authors from 14 countries who combine efforts to give you the first review on measurements of additives and other substances by FIA in relation to the use of additives in food.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - These are the proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Science and Production Management, 16th - 17th April 2015, Tatranská trba, High Tatras Mountains - Slovak Republic . The proceedings contain articles focusing on:

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book is one of the first to explore the key role played by redox proteins and their interaction network in a wide range of essential cellular processes in all domains of life. The book explains how the mitochondrial respiratory chain is dynamically organized in supercomplexes even under physiological conditions. It also addresses the impact of supercomplex assembly on mitochondrial morphology, physiology, and biogenesis to shed light on the molecular mechanisms of pathological situations, including aging.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book provides 1-page short biographies of scientists and engineers working in the area of hydraulic engineering and fluid dynamics in the USA. On each page, a notable individual is highlighted by: (1) Exact dates and locations of birth and death; (2) Educational and professional details, including also awards received; (3) Reasons for inclusion in book by highlighting key publications; (4) Short bibliography including both individual's own, and source literature such as Who's who details, or retrieve details for portrait; (5) Portrait or photo showing e.g. book cover of individual, or photo of a typical work as a dam or a canal. This volume includes almost 1,000 individuals, of which there are only 2 women. The book also has a detailed Index, and a 2-page list of individuals (normally born in Europe) retained in previous volumes (1 and 2, ) having a relation to this volume 3. The book also contains a map of the USA in which the major American rivers are highlighted, given their close relation to projects made by several of the individuals presented in the book.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Event-based systems are a class of reactive systems, characterized by efficient utilization of communication, computation and energy resources, deployed in a wide spectrum of engineering disciplines including control, communication, signal processing, and electronic instrumentation. This book contains 23 chapters contributed by more than 60 leading researchers from around the world. It provides an up-to-date picture of the developments in event-based control and signal processing, with a focus on networked sensor and control systems.