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Part of the "Sustainable Management of Sediment Resources" mini-series, this volume gives an overview on sediment treatment with a European perspective. It provides an overview on the costs involved in sediment treatment. It is suitable for those new to sediment treatment as well as specialists in the field.

Includes sections on: Sampling; Chemical analysis; Biological analysis; Effect directed analysis and toxicity; Identification evaluation; Benthos sediment quality assessment; Modelling of pollutant fate and behaviour; and, Sediment quality guidelines. This book offers an overview on sediment quality and impact assessment of pollutants.

Covers useful areas of electrical engineering. This book offers tips, tools of the trade, design and applications information along with summarized theory, equations and formulas.

Part of "The Newnes Know It All Series", this book serves as a desk reference that will be an engineer's first port of call for key information, design techniques and rules of thumb.

A collection of lectures given in July 2007 at the Les Houches Summer School on 'Dynamos'. It provides a pedagogical introduction to topics in Dynamos.

Suitable for scientists who are active in magnetism research, this book offers readers with novel trends and achievements in magnetism.

Gives various quality assurance and control measures to be taken, from sampling to expression of results. This work provides practical aspects of quality control to be applied both for the analyst and top management; and describes the use of reference materials for statistical control of methods and use of certified reference materials.

Describes a lightweight, open source infrastructure, called QP that enables direct manual coding UML statecharts and concurrent event-driven applications in C or C++ without big tools. This book focuses on core concepts rather than tools which are always changing allowing the reader to continue to use this information with various projects.

Well test planning is one of the most important phases in the life cycle of a well, if done improperly it could cost millions. This book provides a road map to guide the reader through the maze of governmental regulations, industry codes, local standards and practices.

Inductively coupled plasma atomic or mass spectrometry is one of the most common techniques for elemental analysis. Because the sample introduction system can be a limiting factor in the analytical performance, it is crucial to optimize its design and its use. This book provides knowledge and instructions to obtain the best out of the technique.

Contains seven survey articles that present different topics in Evolutionary PDE's.

Draws an image of evolution from the thermodynamic viewpoint, which gives fresh insights into the processes and mechanisms that have driven evolution. This book features a thermodynamic interpretation to quantify the various steps of evolution and to show that evolution has followed an exponential growth curve.

Offers an overview of the underlying principles of SERS, from the fundamental understanding of the effect to its potential applications. This book is suitable for newcomers to the field, graduate students, researchers or scientists, attracted by the many applications of SERS and plasmonics or its basic science.

Modeling and software have become key instruments used to promote sustainability and improve environmental decision processes, especially through systematic integration of various knowledge and data and their ability to foster learning and help make predictions. This book presents the advances in environmental modeling and software.

Suitable for engineers working with mission and safety critical systems, this work introduces principles, regulations, and processes common to various critical design projects. It offers comprehensive coverage of key concerns for designers of critical systems including standards compliance, verification and validation and design tradeoffs.

Shows how to design and experiment with IC amplifiers. This work provides information to design and build IC amplifier circuits from 'scratch'. It also presents a variety of circuit configurations to make designing easier, and gives basics for the various phases of practical design. It includes information on amplifier ICs and related components.

Documents and explains geochemical anomaly and mineral prospectivity mapping by using a geographic information system (GIS). This book reviews and couples the concepts of mapping geochemical anomalies and mineral prospectivity and spatial data models, management and operations in a GIS. It details methods in which GIS plays an important role.

Offers a vision of the dynamics of the main disasters in South America, describing their mechanisms and consequences on South American societies. This book includes human-induced disasters, such as desertification in Patagonia and soil erosion in Brazil.

Packed bed columns are largely employed for absorption, desorption, rectification and direct heat transfer processes in chemical and food industry. This book considers the theories of mass transfer processes and shows how they help the construction of highly effective packings.

Current computer graphics hardware and software make it possible to synthesize near photo-realistic images, but the simulation of natural-looking motion of articulated figures remains a difficultand challenging task. Skillfully rendered animation of humans, animals, and robots can delight and move us, but simulating their realistic motion holds great promise for many other applications as well, including ergonomic engineering design, clinical diagnosis of pathological movements, rehabilitation therapy, and biomechanics.Making Them Move presents the work of leading researchers in computer graphics, psychology, robotics and mechanical engineering who were invited to attend the Workshop on the Mechanics, Control and Animation of ArticulatedFigures held at the MIT Media Lab in April 1989. The book explores biological and robotic motor control, as well as state-of-the-art computergraphics techniques for simulating human and animal figures in a natural and physically realistic manner.

Features contributions from researchers in various areas of management accounting research, and concludes with examples of management accounting research from around the world. This volume includes key topics such as performance measurement, balanced scorecard, incentives, and compensation schemes.

Presents an overview of the technical and artistic nature of digital compositing. This book covers a wide range of topics from basic image creation, representation and manipulation, to a look at the visual cues that are useful to create a believable composite.

Devoted to stationary partial differential equations, this book covers topics such as in particular domain perturbations for boundary value problems, singular solutions of semi-linear elliptic problems, positive solutions to elliptic equations on unbounded domains, symmetry of solutions, and, stationary compressible Navier-Stokes equation.

Biotechnology is a diverse, complex, and rapidly evolving field. This volume comprises expert reviews on a diverse range of topics, ranging from gene expression microarray analysis to the use of ethnomedicines and ethnomedicinal phytophores to treat herpes viruses. It also includes more than 150 figures that elucidate and reinforce key points.

Includes historical and autobiographical perspectives of the developments in biochemistry through the contributions of scientists. This book reflects scientists' careers and their impact on biochemistry.

A collection of papers from the 6th International Conference on Cohesive Sediments, September 2005, divided into two major categories. These papers cover basic processes, including erosion, settling, flocculation, and consolidation as well as the application of the understanding of cohesive sediments to address specific issues.

Models for dislocation structure and motion are presented for nanocrystals, nucleation at grain boundaries, shocked crystals, interphase interfaces, quasicrystals, complex structures with non-planar dislocation cores, and colloidal crystals.

Covers micro-thermal analysis, pulsed thermal analysis, fast-scanning calorimetery, and, the use of quartz-crystal microbalances. This book includes reviews of heating - stage spectroscopy, the range of electrical techniques available, applications in rheology, catalysis and the study of nanoparticles.

Describes the modern structure of the Quantum Mechanics of Non-Hamiltonian and Dissipative Systems theory. This book is suitable for courses for undergraduate students as well as graduate students and specialists in physics mathematics and other sciences.

Covers various aspects of the dynamics of surface processes. This book addresses the subjects of energy exchange in gas atoms, surface collisions, the rules governing dissociative adsorption on surfaces, the formation of nanostructures on surfaces by self-assembly, and the study of surface phenomena using ultra-fast lasers.