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High Temperature Oxidation and Corrosion of Metals, Second Edition, provides a high level understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of high temperature alloy oxidation. It uses this understanding to develop methods of predicting oxidation rates and the way they change with temperature, gas chemistry, and alloy composition. The book focuses on the design and selection of alloy compositions which provide optimal resistance to attack by corrosive gases, providing a rigorous treatment of the thermodynamics and kinetics underlying high temperature alloy corrosion. In addition, it emphasizes quantitative calculations for predicting reaction rates and the effects of temperature, oxidant activities, and alloy compositions. Users will find this book to be an indispensable source of information for researchers and students who are dealing with high temperature corrosion.

Part 1 introduces key RHC technologies and discusses RHC in the context of global heating and cooling demand. Part 2 then contains chapters focusing on particular RHC technologies. Part 3 reviews enabling technologies, such as thermal storage and district heating. Part 4 provides international RHC case studies.

Support in higher education is an emerging area of great interest to professors, researchers and students in academic institutions. Sustainability in Higher Education provides discussions on the exchange of information between different aspects of sustainability in higher education. This book includes chapter contributions from authors who have provided case studies on various areas of education for sustainability.

Meeting Health Information Needs Outside of Healthcare addresses the challenges and ethical dilemmas concerning the delivery of health information to the general public in a variety of non-clinical settings, both in-person and via information technology, in settings from public and academic libraries to online communities and traditional and social media channels. Professionals working in a range of fields, including librarianship, computer science and health information technology, journalism, and health communication can be involved in providing consumer health information, or health information targeting laypeople. This volume clearly examines the properties of health information that make it particularly challenging information to provide in diverse settings.

Governments have introduced policies to widen the participation of disadvantaged students in higher education. Widening participation policies are also introduced to ensure that higher education contributes to social and economic outcomes. This book includes important insights from 23 leading scholars across 11 countries on a wide range of topics that focus on government policies, institutional structures and the social and economic impacts of widening participation. While widening participation policies and outcomes in developed countries are more widely documented, the policies, achievements, and challenges in other countries such as Brazil, China, Indonesia, South Africa and Palestine are not so widely disseminated. Therefore, the `untold stories¿ of policies and outcomes of widening participation are a key part of this book. The chapters are organised according to three overarching themes, which include national and transnational studies of the history of widening participation and current policies; inclusive learning and academic outcomes; and socioeconomic structures, concepts and theories.

A manual for applying mechanical and physical principles to the various phases of facility piping and pipeline system design, construction and operation. It provides practicing engineer and senior field personnel with an exposition of piping and pipeline theory, fundamentals, and application.

Internet Congestion Control provides insights into the latest and most critical developments in internet congestion control, emphasizing analytical modeling of congestion control systems. Using the lens of analytical modeling highlights the common threads that underlie the algorithms used in the design and analysis of congestion control protocols. . As the Internet grows in usage, its networks can become congested, deteriorating their quality and speed. To reduce congestion, there are hundreds of different algorithms network engineers can use and Internet Congestion Control sums these efforts drawing a clear path forward. . Internet Congestion Control begins with an analysis of models of congestion control systems, continuing with a detailed description of the congestion control protocols used in four distinct areas. It not only describes the protocols but analyzes the protocol's mathematical models as well. . . Internet Congestion Control provides practicing network engineers and researchers with comprehensive and accessible coverage of analytical models of TCP congestion control, giving readers everything needed to understand the latest developments and research in analytical modeling of network congestion control.

Applied Computing in Medicine and Health is a comprehensive presentation of on-going investigations into current applied computing challenges and advances, with a focus on a particular class of applications, primarily artificial intelligence methods and techniques in medicine and health. . Applied computing is the use of practical computer science knowledge to enable use of the latest technology and techniques in a variety of different fields ranging from business to scientific research. One of the most important and relevant areas in applied computing is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in health and medicine. Artificial intelligence in health and medicine (AIHM) is assuming the challenge of creating and distributing tools that can support medical doctors and specialists in new endeavors. The material included covers a wide variety of interdisciplinary perspectives concerning the theory and practice of applied computing in medicine, human biology, and health care. . Particular attention is given to AI-based clinical decision-making, medical knowledge engineering, knowledge-based systems in medical education and research, intelligent medical information systems, intelligent databases, intelligent devices and instruments, medical AI tools, reasoning and metareasoning in medicine, and methodological, philosophical, ethical, and intelligent medical data analysis.

Practical Financial Modelling, 3e, is an audit/quality book on model development. With directness and simplicity it uses realism to improve the modeling process. It emphasizes audits, controls, checks of models for accuracy, and reliability. New content on validation and verification, model use, and sensitivity analysis is presented through a top-down approach to illuminate the modeling process. This book isn't about the details of building cash flow models. It's about building better cash flow models. Entirely compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley, it provides more details than other books yet is general enough for applying its methodology to many applications.

The goal of any research assessment is to evaluate the value or quality of the research in comparison to other research. As quality is highly subjective and difficult to measure, citations are used as a proxy. Citations are an important part of scholarly communication and a significant component of research evaluation, with the assumption being that highly cited work has influenced the work of many other researchers and hence it is more valuable. Recently we have seen new online data sources being researched for this purpose and disruptive ideas with the power to change research assessment, and perhaps even science as a whole, have been born. Altmetrics is the new research area that investigates the potential of these new data source as indicators of the impact that research has made on the scientific community and beyond, and thus possibly also as indicators of the societal impact of research. This book will present some of these new data sources, findings from earlier altmetrics research, and the disruptive ideas that may radically change scholarly communication.

Design Recipes for FPGAs provides a rich toolbox of design techniques and templates to solve practical, every-day problems using FPGAs. Using a modular structure, it provides design techniques and templates at all levels, together with functional code, which you can easily match and apply to your application. Written in an informal and easy to grasp style, this invaluable resource goes beyond the principles of FPGAs and hardware description languages to demonstrate how specific designs can be synthesized, simulated and downloaded onto an FPGA. In addition, the book provides advanced techniques to create `real world¿ designs that fit the device required and which are fast and reliable to implement.