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A comprehensive review of over 2,000 species of plants employed in indigenous African medicine, this book provides a concise description of the materia medica of an enormous and extensively varied continent. It includes a detailed pharmacognostical profile of 170 of the major herbs, including the common name, synonyms, African names, habitat and distribution, medicinal uses, chemical constituents, and published pharmacologic activity. The profiles are presented in both alphabetic order and according to family. The book also provides an introduction to African traditional medicine.

"The Internet poses challenges to traditional social and legal views of free expression, including libel, privacy, and copyright issues.

Global awareness of environmental issues has resulted in the emergence of economically and environmentally friendly bio-based materials free from the traditional side effects of synthetics. This book delivers an overview of the advancements made in the development of biorenewable resources-based materials, including processing methods and potential applications in bio-based green composites. Covering various kinds of cellulosic biofibers, the text provides information on more eco-friendly and sustainable alternatives to synthetic polymers and discusses the present state and growing utility of green materials from natural resources.

This book provides a comprehensive description of the environmental analysis and approval process. It describes then methods and tools available to successfully accomplish the analysis and includes a step-by-step description of how to prepare an environmental analysis document that meets technical, regulatory, and stakeholder expectations and requirements. Case studies drawn from author¿s long experience with preparation and review of environmental analyses illustrate each step. The text details the regulatory mandates and identifies approaches for prediction of impacts, interaction with stakeholders, comparison of alternatives, and obtaining regulatory approval and public acceptance.

With more than 1,000 references from top academic journals, this book offers critical knowledge concerning nutrient ingestion for enhancing exercise and sports performance. It has a clear focus on scientifically based sports nutrition advice to maximize performance. It also addresses exercise metabolism, which governs how nutrients exert physiologic effects that lead to increased athletic potential. The book examines the three key macronutrients¿fat, carbohydrate, and protein¿discussing various aspects of macronutrient metabolism and strategies for their intake. It also covers hydration, body composition, energy balance, gaining muscle, and losing fat.

The acidity or basicity of a compound under various conditions is a crucial property for the action and detection of the compound as a drug, pollutant, or other active chemical agent. Thus, the ability to predict pKa values using theoretical methods is extremely useful. This book describes the insights that have been gained on the intrinsic and extrinsic features that influence a molecule¿s acidity and examines the computational methods developed to estimate acidity from a compound¿s molecular structure. It presents techniques for both general and specific applications.

This book explains how to apply economic analysis to the evaluation of engineering challenges in the petroleum industry. The fully revised third edition is updated to reflect key advancements in petroleum technology and expanded to include chapters on middle stream operations, known as surface petroleum operations (SPO), and natural gas processing and fractionation. By looking globally at the hydrocarbon industry, the improved text offers the reader a more complete picture of the petroleum sector, which includes the global processes of exploration, production, refining, and transportation.

This book uses numerous in-depth explanations, diagrams, calculations, and tables to provide an intensive overview of modern control theory and control system design. Mathematics are kept to a minimum, and engineering applications are stressed throughout. Completely updated and packed with student-friendly features, the sixth edition presents a range of updated examples using MATLAB®, as well as an appendix listing MATLAB functions for optimizing control system analysis and design. Over 75 percent of the problems presented in the previous edition have been revised or replaced.

Written in the same accessible manner as previous editions, this comprehensive book is an essential reference covering the pathology, toxicology, and pharmacology of commonly and some uncommonly abused drugs. It focuses on investigating drug-related deaths, offers practical approaches to detecting drug abuse, and describes medical complications associated with each of the abused drugs. Chapters examine cocaine and other naturally occurring stimulants, synthetic stimulants, hallucinogens, narcotics, anabolic steroids, and solvent abuse. The book also details the origins, history, and production techniques used to make these drugs.

The first of its kind, this book covers the development of purification technologies for phosphoric acid, especially solvent extraction, describing successful processes and setting this period in the historical context of the last 350 years. Individual chapters are devoted to the key derivative products which are still undergoing active development, as well as to sustainability and how to approach the commissioning of these plants. The text is aimed at students of chemistry, chemical engineering, business, and industrial history, and to new entrants to the industry.

This book covers a wide array of topics that have relevance to the global forest products. This managerial view, based on up-to-date scientific research, is a very important tool for forming the "big picture" of the current and future state of the global forest industry. This is the first book of its kind written by a global network of leaders in the field of forest products, marketing, and business development in the forest products sector in academia and industry.

This text looks at Piaget's experimental ideas for probing the most sophisticated ways of children's thinking. It looks at the way that children perceive the causes of phenomena such as the occurence of wind, suggesting that appliance of these thought modes could improve our daily lives.

Advancing the development, validation, and use of PRO measures, this book helps readers develop and enrich their understanding of PRO methodology, particularly from a quantitative perspective. Designed for biopharmaceutical researchers and others in the health sciences community, it provides an up-to-date volume on conceptual and analytical issues of PRO measures. The authors include many real-life applications and implement a wealth of simulated datasets to illustrate concepts. Most chapters contain SAS code and output that demonstrate the methodology.

This practical treatment of the best available methods for determining mechanical properties, thermal expansion coefficients, and fracture and strength data for composite materials presents processing techniques, specimen preparation, analyses of test methods, test procedures, and data reduction schemes; covers specific aspects of lamina testing and laminate responses; and examines composite durability issues. The Fourth Edition is revised to include major additions in processing of thermoset resins, neat resin tests, sandwich structures, cure analyses, damage tolerance tests, single fiber tests, fiber matrix interface tests, and more.

The value of an effective well-defined, implemented, and maintained management system is priceless. Based on the requirements of ISO 900 I, ISO 22000, and PAS 220, this text provides a collection of participation-based tools that can be applied to the development, implementation, and maintenance of a management-based system in the food industry. The book clearly explains how to choose the right system for an organization, what the requirements are, how to identify gaps in the system, and ways to integrate these resources into individual operations. The author also compares ISO and HACCP programs as well as includes case studies from professionals.

Like the previous editions, this reference serves as a global surimi and surimi seafood industry guide. It covers the resources, production, technology, and nutrition of surimi and surimi seafood. Revised and expanded, this new edition adds the most up-to-date information on the science of surimi and surimi seafood, with an increase from 17 to 23 chapters coauthored by 63 scientists/industry leaders. Presenting broader, more in-depth content, highlights include historical reviews of the surimi technology and industry, comminution technology and application, coproduct utilization, and nutrition and health benefits.

This book is a concise and comprehensive presentation of numerous fundamental concepts related to the light nature and its interaction with matter. The Dirac approach is used in the description of optics, population inversion, laser gain, and polarization. The book provides insight into practical laser and quantum mechanics. It also explains the use of quantum mathematics which is required to understand the photon as it is used in real systems. Practical, real-world, worked-out examples are used throughout as well as interferometric calculations using MATLAB®.

This book covers the use of the caper bush, its fruit, and its flowers as an article of economic importance from ancient times to current applications. The text explores the particular role of this bush in mythological and religious thinking along with advances in modern chemical and pharmacological research. In addition to reviewing ethnomedical usage in previous times, the authors provide practical discussions of how the unique evolution of the bush impacts present and future applications of the Capparis species for medicine and therapeutic nutrition.

The second edition of this bestselling handbook covers virtually all the information an engineer would need to know about any type of bridge¿from planning to construction to maintenance. It contains more than 2,500 tables, charts, and illustrations in a practical, ready-to-use format and an abundance of worked-out examples give readers numerous step-by-step design procedures. Extensively updated and featuring several new chapters, this volume, Substructure Design, covers bearings, piers and columns, towers, vessel collision design, bridge scour design, foundations, ground investigation, and much more.

This is the first book about fermented food and beverage to focus on solid-state fermentation. The text describes the various reactors used in solid-state fermentation, including static state reactors, dynamic reactors, and other new types of reactors, and provides a detailed introduction to various solid-state fermented foods and beverages, including product category, characteristics, functionalities, safety issues and consumer perception. The authors address such engineering issues as mass and heat transfer and energy equation calculation of solid-state fermentation, dynamic modeling of solid-state fermentation, and process control of solid-state fermentation.

Challenges how Americans think about terrorism, recruitment, and the homegrown threat. This title examines post-9/11 homegrown violent extremism - what it is, the conditions enabling its existence, and approaches that can reduce the risk.

With the considerable increase of AI applications, AI is being increasingly used to solve optimization problems in engineering. In the past two decades, the applications of artificial intelligence in power systems have attracted much research. This book covers the current level of applications of artificial intelligence to the optimization problems in power systems. This book serves as a textbook for graduate students in electric power system management and is also useful for those who are interested in using artificial intelligence in power system optimization.

Production chemistry issues result from changes in well stream fluids, both liquid and gaseous, during processing. Since crude oil production is characterized by variable production rates and unpredictable changes to the nature of the produced fluids, it is essential for production chemists to have a range of chemical additives available for rectifying issues that would not otherwise be fully resolved. Modern production methods, the need to upgrade crude oils of variable quality, and environmental constraints demand chemical solutions. Thus, oilfield production chemicals are necessary to overcome or minimize the effects of the production chemistry problems.Production Chemicals for the Oil and Gas Industry, Second Edition discusses a wide variety of production chemicals used by the oil and gas industry for down-hole and topside applications both onshore and offshore. Incorporating the large amount of research and applications since the first edition, this new edition reviews all past and present classes of production chemicals, providing numerous difficult-to-obtain references, especially SPE papers and patents. Unlike other texts that focus on how products perform in the field, this book focuses on the specific structures of chemicals that are known to deliver the required or desired performanceΓÇöinformation that is very useful for research and development.Each updated chapter begins by introducing a problem, such as scale or corrosion, for which there is a production chemical. The author then briefly discusses all chemical and nonchemical methods to treat the problem and provides in-depth descriptions of the structural classes of relevant production chemicals. He also mentions, when available, the environmental properties of chemicals and whether the chemical or technique has been successfully used in the field. This edition includes two new chapters and nearly 50 percent more references.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the essential theories behind cloud computing and the Windows Azure cloud platform. Sharing insights gained by the author while working at Microsoft¿s headquarters, it presents nearly 70 end-to-end examples with step-by-step guidance on implementing typical cloud-based scenarios. The book is organized into four sections: cloud service fundamentals, cloud solutions, devices and cloud, and system integration and project management. Each chapter contains detailed exercises to help readers develop valuable hands-on skills in cloud service development.

Focusing on Walsh/block pulse domain analysis, this book presents orthogonal Walsh functions for analyzing power electronic systems. It covers two major members of the piecewise constant orthogonal function family: orthogonal Walsh and block pulse functions. These bi-valued functions are compatible to digital processing and, by increasing the number of component functions, a continuous-like solution can be obtained. The book shows how the methods are useful for power electronic systems and their optimization.

This book spells out the theoretical structure, methodology and philosophy of the science of autecology. The autecological approach focuses on the interactions of individual organisms (and their species-specific adaptations) with the spatio-temporal dynamics of their environment as a basis for interpreting patterns of diversity and abundance in natural systems. This organism-based approach to ecological interpretation provides a strong alternative to more traditional approaches and relates mechanistically to the underlying disciplines of anatomy, physiology, and behavior. The book includes illustrations, specific examples, graphs, maps, and other diagrams.

Modeling and Inverse Problems in the Presence of Uncertainty collects recent researchΓÇöincluding the authorsΓÇÖ own substantial projectsΓÇöon uncertainty propagation and quantification. It covers two sources of uncertainty: where uncertainty is present primarily due to measurement errors and where uncertainty is present due to the modeling formulation itself. After a useful review of relevant probability and statistical concepts, the book summarizes mathematical and statistical aspects of inverse problem methodology, including ordinary, weighted, and generalized least-squares formulations. It then discusses asymptotic theories, bootstrapping, and issues related to the evaluation of correctness of assumed form of statistical models. The authors go on to present methods for evaluating and comparing the validity of appropriateness of a collection of models for describing a given data set, including statistically based model selection and comparison techniques. They also explore recent results on the estimation of probability distributions when they are embedded in complex mathematical models and only aggregate (not individual) data are available. In addition, they briefly discuss the optimal design of experiments in support of inverse problems for given models. The book concludes with a focus on uncertainty in model formulation itself, covering the general relationship of differential equations driven by white noise and the ones driven by colored noise in terms of their resulting probability density functions. It also deals with questions related to the appropriateness of discrete versus continuum models in transitions from small to large numbers of individuals.With many examples throughout addressing problems in physics, biology, and other areas, this book is intended for applied mathematicians interested in deterministic and/or stochastic models and their interactions. It is also s

Exploring the details of mobility and manipulative technologies, this volume provides insight into current research trends and discusses technologies that are under development. Each chapter covers one specific technology, starting with a general introduction, followed by technical details and an assessment from the user viewpoint¿including the user benefits, user suitability, cost, reliability, and required infrastructure. Each chapter also provides illustrations or photographs of the devices, making it accessible to lay and clinical audiences. The book also identifies shortcomings, current research related to the technology, and possible development opportunities.

Lasers perform many unique functions in a plethora of applications, but there are many inherent risks. This book presents simple, effective ways for users to evaluate the hazards of any laser procedure. Reflecting the exponential use of laser technology over the last several years, this second edition explains many factors affecting laser use, from vibration control, power meter selection & use, pitfalls in laser lab design to reviews of laser accidents.

Containing a detailed list of defects and damage types, this must-have reference examines defect criticality in composite structures and recommends repair actions to restore structural integrity. Relating defect detection methods to defect type, it reviews NDI processes for finding and identifying defects in composite materials and discusses failure modes and mechanisms of composites due to defects. Merging his experience in composite airframe maintenance and repair with indispensable reports and articles, the author explains how defects and damage in composite materials and structures impact component performance.