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As a consequence of World War II, there were more than 100 million war veterans living in different regions of the world in 1945 while in subsequent decades, the number of people with war experience further increased with new armed conflicts in Asia and Africa. However, veterans have been largely neglected in global historical accounts of the post-1945 era. Spanning historical cases from the United States to South Africa, from Algeria to Iran, this book offers a global perspective into veterans¿ history since World War II. Cold War struggles, racial conflict, decolonization, development, and contested memories marked the experiences of veterans in the making of our times.

Provides readers with a straightforward approach to doing assessment in a way that is meaningful, manageable and sustainable over time. Including a straightforward overview of assessment concepts and principles, as well as practical, easy-to-follow instructions for multiple assessment tools and key steps in the assessment process, this book is a handy, all-in-one how-to guide.

This book describes the various raw materials of biopolymers and their chemical and physical properties, the polymerization process, and the chemical structure and properties of biopolymers and identifies the drawbacks of biopolymers and how to overcome them through modification methods.

This book discusses cosmology from both an observational and a strong theoretical perspective. Readers will gain a comprehensive account of cosmology and the latest observational results, without requiring prior knowledge of relativistic theories, making the text ideal for students.

Neural networks and genetic algorithms draw on the problem-solving strategies of the natural world which differ fundamentally from the mathematically-based computing methods normally used in engineering, and can solve difficult inverse problems based on reduction in disorder -- such as in computational mechanics, earthquake engineering, structural control and engineering design.

The military produces, senses, and consumes a tremendous amount of data. Developing ways to effectively leverage these troves of data to enhance operations is a persistent goal. This book explores data analytics techniques that military scientists and practitioners around the world are doing to achieve this. The book is organized around data analytics applications in the primary military domains of personnel, intelligence, operations, and logistics.

This book explores the creation and use of grasslands by humans from the earliest time to the present and examines the impact of recent human interventions and global warming on their productivity, diversity, and survival.

This book addresses global issues through soil management and outlines strategies of advancing sustainable development goals of the United Nations. It focuses on soil restoration as a strategy to mitigate climate change, the soil-food-water-climate nexus, soil and ecosystem services, as well as soil and carbon farming.

Providing systematic approaches to thermal systems design, Design and Optimization of Thermal Systems, Third Edition, delivers the guidance needed to solve design problems. It presents concepts and procedures for conceptual design, formulation, modeling, simulation, feasible design, and optimization. Emphasizing modeling and simulation, the Third Edition covers the areas of manufacturability, material selection, and sensitivity, genetic and gradient search methods, and knowledge-based design methodology. This edition also features many new and revised examples and problems, and coverage of computer design analysis with MATLAB.

Revised and expanded to reflect the most recent innovations in the field of forensic document examination, the book explains the various methods used to scrutinize documents in question. Coverage includes the assessment of handwriting techniques, accidental and deliberate modification of handwriting, and the proper collection of samples. It also reviews traditional and modern typewriting technologies, as well as the analysis of photocopies, incidental marks, the functions of photography in document examination, and courtroom applications. New sections address Arabic writing, signature machines, quality control and quality assurance, current printers and printer technology, and much more.

Forensic Digital Image Processing provides the forensic investigator with the tools and understanding to extract, optimize and interpret the maximum evidence possible from crime scenes to increase identifications. Coverage includes looking at the issues of image integrity and authentication including forensic image optimization and the manipulation of images. Chapters explore techniques exploiting color theory, modes, and channels to optimize signal-to-noise ratio in images.

This book provides the first dedicated overview of neurophotonics, covering the use of advanced optical technologies to record, stimulate, and control the activity of the brain, yielding new insight and advantages over conventional tools due to the adaptability and non-invasive nature of light.

Written by the authors of successful exam-related titles in obstetrics and gynecology, Get Through MRCOG Part 2: SBAs provides 3 exams' worth of questions mapped to the RCOG syllabus in the newly introduced SBA style. With detailed explanations and relevant references to guidelines, this is the definitive resource for those taking the MRCOG Part 2 examination.

This book will be a comprehensive account of the various facets of nutraceuticals domain. The peruser of this book will find details on various nanotech approaches to nutraceuticals, prebiotics and probiotics, along with their specific applications.

This book outlines the imperative for moving towards a new generation of buildings run largely on natural energy. The chapters were originally published in Architectural Science Review.

The sports agent has become a significant figure in contemporary sports business. Drawing on extensive empirical research into football around the world, this book explains what agents do, how their role has changed, why this is important for future sport business, and how understanding the role of the agent can help us understand labour markets and labour relations in an increasingly globalised sports industry. Focusing on the major European football leagues but also covering the MLS, smaller European leagues, South America, and the Far East, this book goes further than any other in illuminating an important but under-researched aspect of contemporary sport business.

This book looks at ways of reading, uncovering and recovering meanings in postcolonial writing in English through the works of Salman Rushdie. It uses textual criticism and applied literary theory to resurrect the underlying literary architecture of one of the world's most controversial, celebrated and enigmatic authors. It sheds light upon key aspects of Rushdie's craft and the literary influences that contribute to his celebrated hybridity. It analyses how Rushdie uses his exceptional mastery of European, Anglo-American, Indian, Arabic and Persian literary and cultural forms to cultivate a fresh register of English that expands Western literary traditions.