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This book offers a comprehensive review of new and emerging solid-state materials-based technologies for radiation detection, integrating aspects of engineering, application physics, and medical science. Each chapter is structured to address the current advantages and challenges of each material and technology presented, as well as to discuss novel research and applications. Containing contributions from leading experts in industry and academia, this text provides a valuable reference for engineers and scientists looking to enhance the performance of radiation detector technology for medical imaging and other applications.

This book presents state-of-the art models for the scheduling, synthesis, design, and resource optimization of batch chemical processes. The text describes different ways to represent and capture time in the optimal allocation of tasks to various units with the objective of maximizing throughput or minimizing makespan. It covers synthesis and design where the objective is mainly to yield a chemical facility, which satisfies all the targets with minimum capital cost investment. It also deals with resource conservation aspects, where water and energy take center stage.

Several studies have suggested varied interactions of heavy metals with phosphates in soils and the effects of phosphate on the bioavailability and mobility of heavy metals. Edited by one of the best specialists in soil science, this book focuses on the impact of phosphate on the fate of heavy metals in soils and heavy metals in the soil-water-plant as affected by phosphate. It features coverage of sorption and mobility influenced by the presence of phosphate in the vadose zone.

This book applies reliability-centered maintenance, engineering economic analysis, and Monte Carlo simulation to enable engineering and management professionals to achieve optimum life-cycle affordability. It presents reliability-centered maintenance from the perspective of design and field sustainment. This text explains the process taken to ensure a design meets specifications and minimizes costs in the process. It gives engineers the knowledge to compare options for minimizing costs while keeping reliability above specifications.

One in six couples around the world experience infertility. Before undertaking expensive and intrusive assisted reproductive treatment such as in vitro fertilization, many seek advice from their physicians or dietitians on what foods and supplements might enhance their fertility. This book provides a comprehensive review of the role of nutrition in human fertility, focusing on the impact of diet and nutritional supplements on essential reproductive processes in women such as ovulation, early embryo development, implantation, and sexual function. It also examines impact on male reproductive hormones and sperm production.

This book surveys the key developments in the science and engineering of the state-of-the-art materials for clean energy. The book provides a broad overview of materials for photovoltaics, solar energy conversion, thermoelectrics, piezoelectrics, supercapacitors, rechargeable batteries, fuel cells, and hydrogen production and storage. Each of these topics is covered by an experienced international group of contributors, all of whom are experts in their respective fields. This is a valuable resource for readers wanting to delve into research for maximizing the efficiency of alternative energy approaches.

Maintaining its user-friendly approach, this new edition of a bestseller summarizes information necessary for the effective and efficient operation of an IACUC. The book covers training programs and discusses professional certifications for IACUC administrative and animal care staff. It provides pointers to principal investigators, discusses interactions between IACUCs and other compliance panels, and addresses occupational health and safety programs and the role they play in the overall animal care and use program. It also delves deeply into bioethics to explore how IACUCs can ensure that each proposal to use animals in research includes an ethical review.

A unique and in-depth presentation of the finite element method (FEM) and the boundary element method (BEM) in structural acoustics and vibrations, this book illustrates the principles using a logical and progressive methodology, which leads to a thorough understanding of their physical and mathematical principles and their implementation to solve a wide range of problems in structural acoustics and vibration. This book helps readers to understand the principles, use of the FEM, and the BEM in structural acoustics and vibrations.

Demonstrating and explaining the health-promoting and therapeutic properties of fermented foods, this comprehensive book covers both the molecular process of fermentation and the resulting benefit to nutritional value and long-term health. Examining a range of fermented food products from yogurt to tempeh to wine, it looks at probiotic activity, degradation of anti-nutritive compounds, and the conversion of substrates into consumable products with enhanced flavor and aroma. Fermentation has also been shown to provide antioxidant functions, suppress allergic reactions, and improve overall digestion.

This book is devoted to practical building and room acoustics, illustrated by numerous examples. It introduces the basics for the different specialists in a design team, and for the client, and guides them in drawing up sensible acoustic specifications. The book is written for non-specialists and gives an outline of potential problems, shows what to consider before the construction project begins, and empowers its readers to express their needs to a specialist consultant and to avoid the worst pitfalls.

This book serves as a thorough review of reproductive biology and phylogeny of lizards and tuatara, a distant relative of lizards. The book is edited by an experienced team with over 400 publications and covers topics including, but not limited to, chemical communication, reproductive anatomy, reproductive cycles, molecular systematics, parental care, and mate choice. This review is a collective piece with authoritative authors from around the globe including the United States, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South America, and Mexico.

Using problems from spatial ecology, this book shows how pattern formation theory can be applied to ecological research. Written in language understandable to most physicists and ecologists, it reveals the mechanisms of pattern formation and pattern dynamics. The book explores the implications of these mechanisms in important ecological problems, including self-organized vegetation patchiness, desertification, and biodiversity in changing environments. It also discusses recent developments, such as pattern-forming systems subjected to external periodic forcing, not covered in similar books.

Proposes a newly defined organizational development role for academic and faculty developers and directors of teaching and learning centres. The strategies outlined provide a practical resource for re-examining the mission and structure of existing centres and to develop their role as change agents.

This book, first published in 1914, contains five historical essays

This volume explores the diversity and uniformity of Congo Basin hunter-gatherer life by providing detailed but accessible overviews of recent research.

Organizations are facing an engagement crisis. Regardless if they are customers, employees, patients, students, citizens, stakeholders, organizations struggle to meaningfully engage their key constituent groups who have a precious and limited resource: their time. Not surprisingly, these stakeholders have developed deflector shields to protect themselves. Only a privileged few organizations are allowed to penetrate the shield, and even less will meaningfully engage.

First English translation of Freire's 2008 book, in which he considers the importance and meaning of living a life of community and social commitment.

Takes a cross-cultural approach to the study of womenA World Full of Women, 6/e, combines descriptive ethnography, gender theory, and international statistics to present a comprehensive picture of the lives of women. Readers will better comprehend and contextualize women¿s issues and experiences in today¿s world. This title explores the diversity of women¿s lives from class to culture, with examples ranging from women¿s work to marriage patterns, health issues, violence against women, and grassroots organizing.

Takes the study of international relations to the art museum. This book focuses on the British Museum, the National Gallery of London, the Museum of Iraq, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Getty museums, the Guggenheim museums, and 'museum' spaces instantly created by the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.

The research included in this volume examines the competing pressures felt by black women as political agents in the domains of elections, public policy, and social activism

In EGO vs. EQ, Jen Shirkani shares strategies for using emotional intelligence (EQ) as a tool to avoid career derailment. The executive leadership failure rate is high: two in five CEOs fail in the first 18 months on the job.  This book teaches you how to identify the most common reasons for leadership ineffectiveness, and provides tools to raise your EQ, prevent leadership lapses, and avoid the cascading consequences they can produce. Drawing on real-life anecdotes from the author''s 20 years of coaching and consulting, including stories of success and failure from the leaders of vanguard companies in energy, investment, and health care industries, Ego vs. EQ provides research and case study examples in an easy to read, practical format and is ideal for anyone currently in an executive leadership role, including business owners, and those wanting to become a dynamic leader in the future.

Thinkers50 Management Thinker of 2015 Whitney Johnson has a goal: to help us identify and achieve our dreams. Her belief is that we can each achieve greater happiness when focusing both on our dreams and on other people in our lives. In this inspiring book, Johnson directs her attention to teaching women, in particular, a three-step model for personal advancement and happiness.

This book presents a lively and novel way of thinking about the value of dreaming, based in solid comprehension of scientific research on sleep and dreams, but with deep understanding of psychoanalytic and other kinds of interpretations of dreams. Our dreams are a mixture of anticipated virtual as well as remembered real experience. This book tells the story of how neuroscience has helped us reach this startling and exciting conclusion and how the new scientific model builds upon and departs from the dream theories of the past.

This book collects data pertaining to diagrams of quaternary systems based on II¿VI semiconductor compounds. It illustrates up-to-date experimental and theoretical information about phase relations based on II¿VI semiconductor systems with four components. It critically evaluates many industrially significant systems presented in two-dimensional sections for the condensed phases. Each quaternary database description includes the diagram type, possible phase transformations and physical¿chemical interactions of the components, thermodynamic characteristics, and methods for equilibrium investigation and sample preparation.

This book introduces the basic features of SolidWorks Simulation through practical solved examples. It provides a detailed description of all stages and program commands used during static analysis of a body. It offers a description of some common examples and techniques used to reduce the size of the model and to increase the accuracy of the calculations. It also discusses useful, yet hard-to-find information about applications of the program, such as calculations of welded or plastically deformed machine elements.

Human Aging, Second Edition, offers a readable and friendly presentation of the important methods, findings, and theories of human aging, while actively involving the reader in meaningful exercises and critical thinking. Students are repeatedly challenged to apply information in the text to the older adults in their own lives, with suggestions for enhancing the lives of their older relatives. These include guidelines for discussions regarding social, emotional, and environmental changes as well encouraging intellectual and social interaction. New to this Edition: The Companion Website now features "Audio Senior Views", audio interviews with a diverse group of adults that reinforce the main topics in each chapter, while infusing the material with the human element that is often lacking in textbooks. New and updated chapter on Research Methods and Issues stresses issues of critical thinking in the classroom. Social Policy boxes bring students into a discussion of current issues that affect a growing older population, as well as their future experience of human aging.

This book presents an introduction to the chemical and biological properties of alkaloids isolated from M. speciosa as well as their synthetic analogs. It covers various topics from phytochemistry, medicinal chemistry, and pharmacology perspectives. Current research, analgesic effects, and addiction potential are also discussed. As the first extensive text on the basic science and clinical use of Kratom, the book provides readers with a concise yet comprehensive introduction to nature¿s "other opioid."

This book presents a collection of papers from experts in a broad range of disciplines, including history, archaeology, genetics, and linguistics, to provide a detailed understanding of the Vikings in peace and in war. It focuses on one particularly exciting area of the Viking world, namely the north-west section of England, where they are known to have settled in large numbers. The 12 integrated studies in this book are designed to reinvigorate the search for Vikings in this crucial region and to provide must-reading for anyone interested in Viking history.

This book introduces the reader to various types of chemical models and their development. It focuses on the process of development of such models. It discusses various simulation approaches for solving equations illustrated through examples from a wide range of applications.