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This monograph on chemical treatment is one of a series of eight on innovative site and waste remediation technologies that are the culmination of a multi organization effort involving more than 100 experts over a two year period.

The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry provides the compilation of today's knowledge of processes in the natural environment and the behavior and impact of pollutants. It provides a valuable source for environmental managers, decision-makers, and scientists. Volume 5A is dedicated to water pollution.

The Author shows that in an international career mobility context, the rules of the game change compared to the rules in a pure national career context, which challenges the pertinence of national career models in understanding repatriation in a Franco-German context.

Eine geradlinige Karriere wird in der dynamischen Arbeitswelt immer seltener. Viele Arbeitnehmer engagieren und etablieren sich in Branchen, Aufgaben und Berufen, die mit ihrer ursprünglichen Ausbildung wenig zu tun haben. Die Autoren erkunden die besonderen Stärken und Eigenschaften von Quereinsteigern und führen zahlreiche berufliche Metamorphosen zusammen. Nach einer kompakten Analyse der Arbeitsmarktsituation folgen praktische Tipps von der konstruktiven Selbstreflektion über erfolgreiche Bewerbungen und die Probezeit bis zur Bewältigung fachlicher oder sozialer Hindernisse im Berufsalltag. Die guten Chancen für Quereinsteiger werden nicht nur von Zahlen, Daten und Fakten bestätigt. Auch aufschlussreiche Interviews mit Vertretern renommierter Unternehmen, z. B. Accenture, BASF, Deutsche Bahn, IKEA oder REWE und Gespräche mit erfolgreichen Quereinsteigern bieten Einblicke in individuelle Wege zum Traumjob, inspirieren zu neuen Zielen und zeigen Wert und Sinn mancher Umwege¿ eine lebendige, praxisorientierte Hilfestellung für die berufliche Neuorientierung und den gelungenen Neustart.

This book describes how genomics has revolutionized our scientific understanding of agriculturally important plant-associated bacteria. The contributions show how genomics has greatly accelerated progress toward understanding the biology of these bacteria and how that understanding can be translated into novel crop protection methods.

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This book presents a concise introduction to Bartlett and Bartlett-type corrections of statistical tests and bias correction of point estimators.

The resulting theory of contestation entails four main features, namely types of norms, modes of contestation, segments of norms and the cycle of contestation.

Just as ants create an anthill without being aware of it, unintended side effects of human activity create all manner of social trends and crises. Finally, it looks at the way side effects of new technologies, especially computers and communication, have created an Information Revolution, the full repercussions of which are yet to be seen.

The daily analysis of whole-body MRI datasets uncovers many incidental findings, which are discussed by an interdisciplinary advisory board of physicians.

This volume aims to stimulate discussions on research involving the use of data and digital images as an understanding approach for analysis and visualization of phenomena and experiments. The emphasis is put not only on graphically representing data as a way of increasing its visual analysis, but also on the imaging systems which contribute greatly to the comprehension of real cases.Scientific Visualization and Imaging Systems encompass multidisciplinary areas, with applications in many knowledge fields such as Engineering, Medicine, Material Science, Physics, Geology, Geographic Information Systems, among others.This book is a selection of 13 revised and extended research papers presented in the International Conference on Advanced Computational Engineering and Experimenting -ACE-X conferences 2010 (Paris), 2011 (Algarve), 2012 (Istanbul) and 2013 (Madrid). The examples were particularly chosen from materials research, medical applications, general concepts applied in simulations and image analysis and other interesting related problems.

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of cosmic acceleration due to dark energy, a discovery that is all the more perplexing as nobody knows what dark energy actually is.

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The selected chapters closely correspond to the project management knowledge areas introduced by the Project Management Body of Knowledge, including its extension for managing software projects.The contributions are grouped into four parts, preceded by a general introduction.

Blind Source Separation intends to report the new results of the efforts on the study of Blind Source Separation (BSS). The book is likely to be of interest to university researchers, R&D engineers and graduate students in computer science and electronics who wish to learn the core principles, methods, algorithms and applications of BSS.

The goal of this book is to provide the anesthesiologist with an overviewof hemostasis and the mechanisms underlying bleeding and coagulation ingeneral and to assist in the understanding of specific coagulation disorders asthey may occur in the various anesthesia subspecialties.