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This book explains how to use stated preference survey methods to measure people¿s preferences based on decision making in hypothetical choice situations. Along with giving introductory explanations of the methods, the book collates information on existing R functions and packages as well as those prepared by the authors. It focuses on core SP methods, including contingent valuation, discrete choice experiments, and best¿worst scaling. All the example data sets and code are available online.

This volume describes tumor cell inactivation from a radiation physics perspective and offers appropriate linear-quadratic parameters for modeling tumor and normal tissue responses. It describes cell killing by radiation from two independent mechanisms: alpha and beta. The authors emphasize the biophysical factors associated with radiation cell killing and provide numbers that can be input into TCP and NTCP models. They also explain how the physical factors of fraction size, dose rate, and radiation quality are used in radiotherapy.

This textbook covers concepts, methods, programming languages, and software tools of designing and developing both Windows-based and web-based information systems, specifically data modeling and design methods. It is designed to enable students and professionals in engineering, business, and science fields to learn up-to-date concepts, methods, and software tools for developing Windows and web-based information systems.

This book explains the basic characteristics of ion beams as applied to the analysis of materials, as well as IBA of art/archaeological objects. It focuses on the fundamentals and applications of ion beam methods of materials characterization. It starts with coverage of the fundamentals of ion beam analysis, including kinematics, ion stopping, R

This book covers the theoretical developments and applications of sequential hypothesis testing and sequential quickest changepoint detection in a wide range of engineering and environmental domains. It reviews recent accomplishments in hypothesis testing and changepoint detection both in decision-theoretic (Bayesian) and non-decision-theoretic (non-Bayesian) contexts. The authors not only emphasize traditional binary hypotheses but also substantially more difficult multiple decision problems. They treat conventional i.i.d. and general non-i.i.d. stochastic models in detail, including Markov, hidden Markov, state-space, regression, and autoregression models.

This work is the third of an encyclopedic four- volume set describing the basic physiology and the chemical sensitivity of chronic degenerative diseases and methods for diagnosis and reversal of chronic illness. Volume III focuses on laboratory data and treatment. Distinguishing itself from previous works on chemical sensitivity, this set explains newly understood mechanisms of chronic disease and hypersensitivity involving core molecular function. It discusses new information on ground regulation system, genetics, the autonomic nervous system, and immune and non-immune functions. It includes sophisticated diagnostic technology and cutting-edge treatment techniques as well as numerous color figures and supporting research.

The previous edition looked critically at the answers human factors would typically provide and compared/contrasted them with current research and insights at that time. Today, the unrelenting pace of technology change and growth of complexity calls for a different kind of safety thinking. This book explains how to turn safety from a bureaucratic accountability back into an ethical responsibility for those who do our dangerous work; how to embrace the human factor not as a problem to control, but as a solution to harness.

Peanut, an amphidiploid, is an important food and oil crop and has an interesting evolutionary history. This book provides a glimpse of the advances in genetic resources and genomics research of peanut made during the last decade. It contains an overview of germplasm, advances in genetic and genomic resources, genetic and trait mapping, proteomic and transcriptomic analyses, functional and comparative genomics studies, and molecular breeding applications. This book should prove useful to students, teachers, and young researchers as a ready reference to the latest information on peanut genetics and genomics.

The field of humic matter research has undergone drastic changes in concepts and principles, and a second edition is now warranted to communicate these advances. This revised and updated edition continues the tradition of providing comprehensive coverage of the genesis, extraction, properties, and impacts of humic matter on agriculture, industry, and the environment. Chapters examine organic matter; present concepts of humus versus humic matter; and explore the nature and distribution, chemical composition, characterization, electrochemical properties, agronomic and industrial applications, and medicinal and pharmaceutical applications of humic substances.

This book provides an overview of calibration and validation techniques for traffic simulation models. It details the data required as an input for the calibration and validation processes and shows how to increase its applicability using data enhancement techniques. It presents an extensive overview of traffic estimation, calibration, and validation techniques, taking into account the key factor of uncertainty. This book derives from the MULTITUDE project of the European Union COST framework.

Apart from being commercially and socially significant, anchovies and sardines populations occupy crucial positions in the oceans¿ ecosystems. Low in the food chain, clupeoids tend towards abundance, as if their purpose in life was to be eaten and fuel the upper levels of marine trophic chains. The present book covers a broad spectrum of topics on the biology (sytematics, phylogeography, reproduction, feeding) and ecology (habitat characterization, recruitment variability) of anchovies and sardines. It also puts together important information on the state of their fisheries, exploitation, and management.

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science. This series is consistently among the highest ranking impact factors for the marine biology category of the citation indices compiled by the Institute of Scientific Information. It is an essential reference for research workers and students in all fields of marine science, and the series volumes find a place in the libraries of not only marine laboratories and institutes but also universities.

Previous editions cataloged under main entry for Brian S. Everitt.

A student-friendly textbook that defines and explains the concepts of crime, criminal law, and criminology, this book compares and contrasts early criminal behavior and today's modern forms of crime. It also explores society¿s responses to criminal behavior in the past and in the present day. It covers both major and lesser-known crime causation theories and their impact on society. Ideal for a one-semester course, each chapter begins with a set of objectives and concludes with a summary. Interactive questions promote classroom discussion and practicum sections facilitate contextual learning.

A substantial revision of a text for a standard instrumentation and measurements course taught in many departments of electrical engineering as well as bioengineering, biophysics, and applied physics, this third edition is fully updated to incorporate the latest developments in instrumentation and include new problems and examples. Ideal for upper division and graduate students requiring an overview of instrumentation, the book features two new chapters on wireless instrumentation and microsensors, new material on the design of micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) sensors, and extensive biomedical examples and problems.

This text provides a detailed discussion of simulation theory and its applications. It covers current simulation trends, related literature, and the direction of future technologies as well as input modeling, optimization with simulation, continuous simulation, discrete simulation, hybrid simulation, simulation in supply chains and manufacturing, and simulation for multiple disciplines. It also describes various probability distributions required for simulation, random number generation techniques, and explains how to put Microsoft® Excel¿, MATLAB®, and Simulink® to practical use in the simulation process.

This book is a thoroughly up-to-date treatment of all the available technologies for biomass conversion. Each chapter looks at the viability and implementation of each technology with examples of existing equipment and plants. In addition, the text addresses the economics of biomass processing. The book could also be used as a supplementary text for senior undergraduate courses on biomass processing.

This book not only covers the underlying concepts involved in the design, analysis, and implementation of wireless multimedia communication systems, but also tackles advanced topics such as mobility management, security components, and smart grids. It discusses important standardization processing activities regarding wireless networking, presents specific schemes proven to be useful, and highlights challenges associated with meeting complex connectivity requirements. It provides wireless mesh and multimedia sensor network architectures, protocols, and design optimizations, as well as numerous figures, tables, examples, references, and a glossary of acronyms.

Bringing together information previously available only from disparate journal articles and databases, this book describes the unique characteristics and applications of 17 rare earth materials (REMs). It defines their chemical, electrical, thermal, and optical characteristics. Maintaining a focus on physical and chemical properties, the book addresses the history and critical issues pertaining to mining and processing of rare earth materials. Coverage includes extraction, recycling, refinement, visual inspection, identification of spectroscopic parameters, quality control, element separation, pricing control, and environmental / geo-political considerations.

This book addresses the theory and practice of every important technique for lossless beam shaping. It provides experimental results as well as guidance on when beam shaping is practical and when each technique is appropriate, describes the latest advances in beam profile measurement technology and laser beam shaping using diffractive diffusers, and includes new chapters on axicon ring generation systems, laser-beam-splitting (fan-out) gratings, vortex beams, and microlens diffusers. It also contains new material on wavelength dependence, channel integrators, geometrical optics, and optical software.

This book, the first volume in the new Green Syntheses series, presents reaction pathways that include a single reaction or a multi-step sequence to a known product. A unique feature of this series is to include green metrics as a key component of submissions of original works in order to substantiate the level of "greenness" of new chemical processes. It helps fill an expressed need by both academia and industry to incorporate, together with accurate synthetic protocols, metrics analysis as a means to rigorously define efficiency and sustainability of chemical syntheses.

Emphasizing computational algorithms and techniques, this updated edition of a popular monograph provides a complete picture of plasma physics, computational methods, cutting-edge applications, and processing techniques. Reflecting the growing importance of computer-aided approaches to plasma analysis and synthesis, it showcases recent advances in fabrication from micro- and nano-electronics, MEMS/NEMS, and the biological sciences. This edition reflects recent progress in the quantitative understanding of non-equilibrium low-temperature plasma, surface processing, and predictive modeling of the plasma and the process.

This must-have book provides a succinct introduction to the systemization, noise sources, and signal processes of image sensor technology, discussing image information and its four factors: space, light intensity, wavelength, and time. Insightfully illustrated, the text explains how image sensors convert optical image information into image signals, as well as details the operational principles, pixel technology, and evolution of CCD, MOS, and CMOS sensors. It also describes sampling theory and explores causes for the decline of image information quality.

This book focuses on the different intermediates and raw material options that can generate energy output and products equivalent to conventional fossil energy sources. It presents short-term options for clean alternative energy sources that complement the development of long-term sustainable energy infrastructures. Detailing the chemical processes for each technology, the text also assesses the environmental impacts, benefits, and performance of the various processes and fuel products. It also summarizes processing and transportation issues, process design options, safety concerns, regulations, and other practical considerations associated with alternative fuels.

This is an introductory book on helicopter dynamics. The aim of this book is to introduce the students/engineers to the basic principles of helicopter dynamics. The book focuses on three major topics: (i) rotor blade idealization and blade dynamics in flap, lag, and torsion modes; (ii) rotor blade aeroelastic stability (coupled flap-lag and coupled flap-torsion); (iii) coupled rotor-fuselage dynamics. It covers hover, forward flight, and other maneuver flights. Starting from basic physics of rotating systems, the equations of motion have been derived in vector form.

This book describes the history, culture, production, microbiology, biochemistry, nutritional value, and roles of the diet of indigenous alkaline-fermented foods. The rise in pH during the production of these foods results in an environment that makes the substrate unsatisfactory for the growth of undesirable microorganisms and determines what microorganisms can survive, multiply, and carry out the fermentation. This book emphasizes the processes in the fermentations and the factors that influence the development of the characteristic microbiota and the biochemical and organoleptic changes induced by them.

Written to provide clinicians, educators, researchers, and students in rehabilitation with a comprehensive overview of the theory, practice, and evidence base of goal setting, this first-of-its-kind reference provides an authoritative, state-of-the-art knowledge of the practice. The authors cover a broad range of different approaches to goal setting, with input from experts from North America, Europe, and Australia. This book is applicable to patients with stroke, traumatic brain injury, neurological disorders, spinal cord injury, and other conditions.

Focusing on green chemistry and sustainability, this book discusses how plasma treatment has been used to modify textile properties. The book highlights the benefits of generating plasma and the reaction mechanisms between the surface of a textile and plasma species. The text addresses factors such as the nature of plasma gas, gas flow rate, system pressure, and discharge power that affect the final results of plasma treatments. An opening chapter presents current "brown" methods of treating textiles, exploring the environmental, economic and social costs of these methods. Throughout the book, the author presents the twelve principles of green chemistry and how they can be applied to the textile industry.

Do for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) pose a threat to traditional providers of higher education, or do they play a vital role at a time when the capacity of public and private non-profits to meet demand is constrained? This book offers an analysis of for-profit colleges and universities, reviewing their history and business strategies.