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Offers information in marine sedimentology, associating generalities to case studies. This book provides an association of information on the origin and transport of sediment particles, the evolution of sediment series and their role as archives of past environments.

Focuses on the theoretical, practical and legislative aspects of vehicle climate control systems for automotive engineering students and service professionals. This book provides the reader with knowledge of A/C systems, refrigerants and possible replacement systems like CO2, and includes coverage of electronic and electrical control.

Presents an introduction to contemporary electronics. This book explains how integrated circuits work, how they are designed and manufactured, and how they are put together into powerful and sophisticated electronic systems.

triazines have made a great impact on agriculture and world hunger by assisting in the development of farming methods, providing greater farming and land use capabilities, and increasing crop yields. This title presents a comprehensive view of the total science and agriculture of these chemicals.

Highlights basic design concepts that can be adapted to technology as well as design material specific to what is happening in the field of analog circuits. This book includes design practices for op amps, feedback loops, and various types of filters.

Covers design practices for switching power supplies and power converters. This book places emphasis on pragmatic solutions to commonly encountered design problems and tasks.

Covers the gamut of embedded design - from hardware to software to integrated embedded systems. This book also discusses various approaches to solving embedded design problems and how to apply theory to actual design tasks.

Includes integrated circuit (IC) and system-level design issues as well as keeping its classic "wire lead" material. This title also includes topics such as: Wires, Resistors, Capacitors, Inductors; Resonant Circuits: Resonance, Insertion Loss; Filter Design: High-pass, Bandpass, Band-rejection; and more.

Addresses applications for hobbyist broadcasting of AM, SSB, TV, FM Stereo and NBFM VHF-UHF signals with equipment that the reader can build himself for thousands of dollars less than similar equipment sold on the retail market. This book contains twenty low-power (LP) transmitter projects.

The different LC-MS techniques were developed to suit specific analytical needs and the application range covered by each one is wide. This book includes analytical methods that can provide benefits using the innovations in LC-MS. It gives an outline on the advantages of various techniques and their applications.

The Curry-Howard isomorphism states an amazing correspondence between systems of formal logic as encountered in proof theory and computational calculi as in type theory. The isomorphism has many aspects, even at syntactic level. This book offers an introduction to the proof theory and related aspects of type theory relevant for the isomorphism.

Suitable for engineers who are working in the field and faced with problems related to pressure vessels and stacks, such as: modification, retrofitting existing pressure vessels or stacks to either enhance process capability, lift, move or replace damaged equipment. This manual provides rules and tips to mitigate or remediate the problems.

A collection of 39 articles written by authorities or based on authoritative research. This book looks beyond everyday applications and routines to an understanding of the social significance of careers in security. It is aimed at practitioners in various sectors as well as students at all levels.

Useful for researchers, students and practitioners interested in using fast and efficient iterative methods to approximate solutions of nonlinear equations, this book addresses four problems.

Focusing on phenomena and concepts rather than on experimental or theoretical techniques, this book aims is to provide the common basis for describing the interaction of atoms and molecules with surfaces. It gives examples of how modern theoretical DFT techniques can be used to design heterogeneous catalysts.

Describes the climate changes that occurred in the Pacific and discusses how these changes controlled the broad evolution of human societies, typically filtered by the effects of changing sea level and storminess on food availability and interaction. This book contains a survey of the evidence for climate, environmental, and societal change.

Covers chemical kinetics models for chemical reactions. This book includes a comprehensive treatment of pressure dependent reactions, which are frequently not incorporated into detailed chemical kinetic models, and the use of computational quantum chemistry, which has become an extraordinarily useful component of the reaction kinetics toolkit.

Originally written for the National Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee to train apprentice and journeymen electricians, this book provides information for equipment installation and covers equipment maintenance and repair. It also includes troubleshooting and replacement guidelines, and contains a minimum of theory and math.

Business Intelligence (BI) is a powerful management approach that can deliver knowledge, efficiency, better decisions, and profit to almost any organization that uses it. This title shows how you can achieve the promise of BI by connecting it to your organization's strategic goals, culture, and strengths while correcting your BI weaknesses.

A design casebook in which the reader is asked to perform analysis of dozens of UCD work situations and propose solutions for the problem set. It contains problems that cover a variety of key tasks and issues facing practitioners, including those that are related to organizational/managerial topics, and UCD methods and processes.

Contains calculated patterns of 218 zeolite materials representing 174 framework topologies. This book includes materials of interest to zeolite scientists following the policies established at IZA conferences.

Chromium nutritional supplements are one of the best selling mineral supplements after calcium as chromium is found in pills, sports drinks, chewing gums, and other products. This book examines the controversial areas of chromium nutrition and biochemistry. It is presented in a point-counterpoint format, providing both sides of major issues.

The original idea of IS is to send two solid-gas streams to impinge against each other at high velocity, enhancing transfer between phases. This book describes fundamentals, major properties and application of IS, as a category of novel technologies in chemical engineering. It includes a number of worked application cases.

Presents a unifying look on different equilibrium concepts in economics, including several models from related sciences. This work describes static and dynamic input-output models, Walras, Cassel-Wald, spatial price, auction market, oligopolistic equilibrium models, transportation and migration equilibrium models.

Replaces the contrived application of the quantum master equation with a satisfactory treatment of quantum fluctuations. This work covers the fluctuations and stochastic methods for describing them. It is of interest to students and researchers in applied mathematics, physics and physical chemistry.

Covers different aspects from the field of analytical food toxicology including techniques and applications to detect food allergens, genetically modified organisms, and novel ingredients. This book focuses on natural toxins in food plants and animals, cancer modulating substances, microbial toxins in foods, and various groups of contaminants.

Addresses the factors responsible for the performance of wood coatings in both domestic and industrial situations. This book explains the underlying factors that influence selection, application and general operational issues. It includes information on the chemistry and technology of coatings. It covers architectural and industrial sectors.

Collects essays about one of the Enlightenment's important mathematicians and scientists, Leonhard Euler, his life, his work, his activities in the St Petersburg Academy, the influence of the Russian Princess Dashkova, and Euler's philosophy. This title describes his influence on the growth of European mathematics and physics in the 19th century.

Discusses and reports on integrated QSAR models, combined into a unique hybrid system. This book assesses the needs of regulators for pesticide approval and how these needs affect QSAR models. It combines theoretical discussion with practical examples, and includes five worked examples of hybrid systems.

Many problems for partial difference and integro-difference equations can be written as difference equations in a normed space. This book deals with the topic of linear and nonlinear difference equations in a normed space. It develops the freezing method and presents results on Volterra discrete equations.