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Covers practical applications of Variable Speed Drives (VSDs) in process control and materials handling, such as those for pumping, ventilation, conveyers, compressors and hoists. This work provides coverage of key topics such as troubleshooting, control wiring, operating modes, braking types, automatic restart, harmonics, and more.

Dealing primarily with applications of statistics, this text is divided into six parts; results for specific distributions; linear estimations; inferential methods; prediction; goodness-of-fit tests; and applications.

Inorganic membrane science and technology is a field of membrane separation technology. This book describes the fundamental principles of both synthesis of inorganic membranes and membrane supports and also the associated phenomena of transport and separation in a semi-quantitative form. It is useful for scientists and engineers.

Hardbound. This volume is devoted to Sample Surveys, which is the most widely used method in statistical practice. It covers many theoretical and practical aspects of social and biological investigations, and is a valuable guide for those involved in designing sample surveys.

Written by the Working Party on Culture Media, of the International Committee on Food Microbiology and Hygiene, this is a handy reference for microbiologists wanting to know which media to use for the detection of various groups of microbes in food, and how to check their performance.

Health economics has made or stimulated numerous contributions to various areas of economics: the theory of human capital; the economics of insurance; principal-agent theory; asymmetric information; econometrics; the theory of incomplete markets; and, the foundations of welfare economics. This title surveys the literature in health economics.

Encapsulates the author's many years of experience gained designing manufacturing systems and supply-chains in factories across the world. This work provides a proven, logical sequence of events needed to design effective modular factories capable of competing with the world's best.

Brings together the work of a motion picture film laboratory together with the specialist techniques for preservation and restoration of archival film. This book includes coverage of digital technology and is useful for conservators, archivists, curators worldwide, film history and film conservation students.

Reviews the transport pricing policy debate and reports on the advances made in measuring the marginal social costs of transport, particularly through UNITE and other European research projects. This book examines how the results of case studies might be generalised to obtain estimates of marginal social costs for various circumstances.

Presents the principles of constructing dynamic macroeconometric models and their use in economic analyses and forecasting. This title discusses the principles of specifying equations of structural macromodels, covering both developed marked economies, transition economies and world-wide models. It covers major issues in the use of macromodels.

Presents a thesis that structure and function in a variety of condensed systems - from the atomic assemblies in inorganic frameworks and organic molecules, through molecular self-assemblies to proteins - can be unified when curvature and surface geometry are taken together with molecular shape and forces.

A guide to the continually evolving field of labour economics. This volume concentrates on the following topics: interactions between the labour market and the macroeconomy; and policy issues within the labour market.

Contains an alphabetical listing of approximately 30,000 acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations and symbols covering approximately 2,000 fields and subfields ranging from areas such as Pelagic Ecology to Anthrax Disease, Artificial Organs to Alternative Cancer Therapies, Age-related Disorders to Auditory Brainstem Implants, and others.

Provides an analysis of research into activated carbons, focussing on their wide-ranging applications, and the complexity and flexibility in their manufacture and use. This title covers such areas as: the activation process, modifications to porosity, properties of activated carbons, applications, and theoretical.

The first edition of this reference work was published in 1993, bringing together international perspectives on research and development in giftedness and talent. This new edition has been fully updated and rewritten, with information on new trends. It includes 12 completely new chapters.

Presents the principles of Damage Mechanics along with the research findings. This work presents both isotropic and anisotropic damage mechanisms. It includes chapters that are solely dedicated to experimental investigations conducted by the authors. It also presents experimental data for damage in composite materials.

Guides the security professional through the ins and outs of premises security liability. This book provides an overview of risk assessment techniques, identification of reasonable security measures, legal issues and litigation strategies.

Geometric Function Theory is a central part of Complex Analysis. This book deals with this field and its ramifications and relations to other areas of mathematics and physics. It focuses on the theory of conformal and quasiconformal mappings. It also includes a collection of independent survey articles in the field of Geometric Function Theory.

The simple task of grasping objects has been studied for centuries by scientists, therapists and engineers who have tried to understand and duplicate the versatility of the human hand. This book presents the complete anatomy of the upper limb, the basics of computational modeling, and the fundamentals of prosthetic and dexterous robot hands.

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Provides a multidisciplinary collection of chapters on the cerebellum with topics covering a spectrum from development and molecular neurobiology, cell physiology and plasticity to motor control, system physiology, functional imaging and pathology. This book also gives general concepts in global issues of cerebellar development and functions.

Focuses on the transient aspects of the preocesses in tribology highlighting the differences obtained with stationery conditions, be they experimental analytical or numerical.

Presents the developments in a variety of topics related to the integrated design and control. This book comprises four distinct parts: Process characterization and controllability analysis; Integrated process design and control Methods; Plant wide interactions of design and control; and Integrated process design and control extensions.

Cognition is explained as the continuous interplay between brain, body, and environment, without relying on classical notions of computations and representation to explain cognition. This book offers an overview of developments in cognition research, relying upon non-classical approaches.

Hydrogen is an almost ideal fuel and its wider use results in decreased air pollution. However, its production from renewable resources remains a major challenge. This volume contains papers presented at the "Workshop on Biohydrogen 2002". It evaluates the status of Biohydrogen research and includes research on different fuel opportunities.

The world is chiral. Most of the molecules in it are chiral, and asymmetric synthesis is an important means by which enantiopure chiral molecules may be obtained for study and sale. Using examples from the literature of asymmetric synthesis, this book presents a detailed analysis of the factors that govern stereoselectivity in organic reactions.

This rewritten and updated text for students and practising chemical engineers is based on the long-running post-experience course produced by the University of Bradford, in association with the Institution of Chemical Engineers.

Anyone who has ridden more than three bikes will know that there are differences - sometimes big differences - in the way they react. This book looks at motorcycle tuning and how this affects individual bikes, concentrating on chassis tuning.

Teaches readers how to evaluate their engines and how to assess what work you can undertake yourself, and what is best left to a specialist. Armed with little more than a set of files, you can make profound changes to the output power of a two-stroke.