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Explains how an accurate geoid can be constructed and used for a variety of applied and theoretical geophysical purposes. This book discusses techniques for geoid computation, developed mathematical and computational tools designed for applications, and various interpretations. It illustrates principles and results.

Warns of the continuing danger of nuclear weapons and sets out the argument for collective action to achieve nuclear disarmament.

Deals with heterogeneous photochromic glasses containing silver halide or copper halide nanocrystals. This book explores photochromic glass applications in optical devices.

Reviews the results of many years of research and studies of activator ions and multilevel operating laser schemes, and discusses prospects of using these systems to create fresh types of crystalline lasers. This book is suitable for laser scientists and engineers, physicists, and chemical engineers.

A guide to the issues and solutions surrounding seasonal pools. It introduces vernal pools as a keystone ecosystem in northeastern forests of North America. It provides an overview of the diversity and natural history of their unique biota, focusing on plants, invertebrates, amphibians, and other pool-associated vertebrates.

Presenting a fresh view of the quantitative modeling of microbial growth and inactivation patterns in food, water and biosystems, this book describes various models to predict microbial growth and survival under a variety of conditions. It covers traditional and alternative models of thermal and non-thermal inactivation.

Deals with physical, chemical, and biological aspects of marine science. This text contains an analysis on cold seep sediments, unburnt coal in the marine environment, biofiltration and biofouling on artificial structures in Europe, ecology of rafting in marine ecosystems, effects of globalisation in marine environments, and much more.

Presents an account of results into the problems of anchoring energy and adsorption phenomena in liquid crystals. This is suitable for those working with liquid crystals or complex fluids.

A reference work on major zoonoses of the world. It covers diseases communicable to humans, as well as those diseases common to both animals and humans. It identifies animal diseases that are host specific and reviews the effects of various human diseases on animals.

Distributed computing brings transparent access to as much computer power and data as the user needs for accomplishing any given task - simultaneously achieving high performance and reliability. This book defines a distributed system as one that looks to its users like an ordinary system, but runs on a set of autonomous processing elements (PEs).

Inverse Gaussian distribution has become one of the most important and widely employed distributions, and is often used to model the lifetimes of components. This handbook covers Inverse Gaussian distribution. It is suitable for members of the statistical community and also to applied scientists, engineers, and econometricians.

Dedicated to the advancing area of applied expert systems, this work covers current systems technologies, applications, methodologies and practices. The book first explains systems technologies, then goes on to focus on applied examples in a range of industries.

Discusses the need for reliability, quality and safety as well as historical information, terms, and definitions. This book discusses relevant mathematics, evaluation models and methods, testing, management, and costing.

Presents the principles, concepts, practical use and application of indicators in estuarine research and management practices. This work covers topics including the theory behind environmental indicators and their presumed attributes and the methods and protocols of indicator development and evaluation.

Caffeine - found in tea, coffee, mate, cola beverages, cocoa, and chocolate products - is an integral part of the diet of many people. This book examines the composition, processing, consumption, health effects, and epidemiological correlations of caffeine. It offers an overview of the chemistry and analysis of methylxanthines.

Bioassays are among the ecotoxicologist's most effective weapons in the evaluation of water quality and the assessment of ecological impacts of effluents, chemicals, discharges, and emissions on the aquatic environment. This reference provides an overview of the small-scale aquatic bioassay techniques and applications in use around the world.

Technology is only beginning to catch up with the public demand for foods that are low in fat and taste good. This book describes the science and application of fat re placers in food products, including the multiplicity of technological, legislative, sensory, nutritional, and marketing issues involved.

This text focuses on a range of techniques used in the analysis of drugs in biological fluids. It covers advances in the field and provides examples of their applications. Chiral analysis methods and the impact of chirality are discussed, as well as practical aspects of bioanalytical work.

Offers an approach to the statistical mechanics and principles of cybernetics as a basis for neural network modeling. This work helps to understand the physics of collective behavior pertinent to neural elements and the self-control aspects of neurocybernetics.

This survey of photocatalytic methods for treating water pollutants covers all aspects of light-stimulated detoxification. It discusses natural self-cleaning of sunlit surface ocean water and freshwater, and examines the application of ordinary/concentrated sunlight to the treatment of effluents.

Discusses the genetic variation inherent in corn, genetic materials available, breeding methods, and special problems associated with the development of specialty corns.

Quality and reliability are central to success in every discipline, but perhaps nowhere are they more important or more interconnected than in the practice of analytical chemistry. This work examines the various factors affecting these parameters in each step of the analytical process.

The potential of chaos engineering is recognized worldwide, with research groups actively pursuing the advantages of chaotic phenomena in cryptography, spread spectrum communications, electromagnetic interference reduction, and many other applications. This book addresses the exploitation of chaos in digital communication applications.

It has become apparent that 'quality' is the important factor for success and growth in business. It is, therefore, essential for engineers responsible for design, development, and manufacture of products to understand the concepts and techniques of quality control. This book imparts that understanding.

Describes molecular, electrophysiological, engineering, genetic, behavioral, psychophysical, and imaging techniques that have been adapted to investigate the basic neuronal mechanisms underlying chemoreception. This book investigates various aspects of taste and olfaction.

Contemporary agriculture is a wide-ranging field with its own unique language. This book provides a guide to the terminology of agriculture. It includes various areas of agriculture, from traditional farming to environmental sciences to the developments in biotechnology and genetics.

Describes the application of a pattern recognition scheme to the classification of various types of waveforms and images. This book also discusses the establishment of a brain-to-computer link and analyzes findings from human experiments.

Looking at trends in violence from the individual to the global levels, this book traces the influence of sexuality and death anxiety on human mentality and suggests ways to reverse the increase in destructive behavior. It helps criminologists in profiling and spotting trends.

Introduces the frameworks, methods, designs, algorithms, tests, and implementation of data acquisition, analysis, modeling, prediction, and control in automation for food engineering. Using various examples and case studies from food engineering projects, this book introduces basic methods systematically and describes advanced techniques.

Health Care Providers and other medical personnel are terrified when called to give a deposition. They are unprepared or are frequently given just enough information to make them feel comfortable as they walk into the lawyer's trap. Even if they are given the correct instructions, they are often confused and do not understand the rationale behind them. This book will serve as a basic guide to prepare anyone in the health care industry with the tools necessary to come out of a malpractice deposition unscathed or with as few bruises as possible. TOC:Intro.- Understanding the Enemy.- What Lawyers think About Us.- The Standard of Care.- Our Own Worst Enemy.- Weighing All the Alternatives.- Telling the Truth is Not Enough.- Preparing For The Deposition.- Confronting the Enemy.- Favorite Questions.- Traps to Avoid.- General Advice