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During the upgrading of heavy petroleum, asphaltene is the most problematic impurity since it is the main cause of catalyst deactivation and sediments formation. Exploring many aspects related to asphaltenes composition and conversion, this book highlights the changes that these heavy and complex molecules undergo during catalytic hydroprocessing.

A comprehensive collection of primary documents for students of early American and Atlantic history, "Colonial North America and the Atlantic World" gives voice to the men and women-Amerindian, African, and European-who together forged a new world. These compelling narratives open with a foreword, written by Alan Taylor of the University of California at Davis, which exemplifies the new, more inclusive history of colonial American that embraces the entire continent. The collection of primary documentsthat follow address the major themes of early modern colonialism from the perspective of the people who lived at the time: Spanish priests and English farmers, Indian diplomats and Dutch governors, French explorers and African abolitionists. Evoking the remarkable complexity created by the bridging of the Atlantic Ocean, "Colonial North America and the Atlantic World" suggests that the challenges of globalization-and the growing reality of American diversity-are among the most important legacies of the colonial world.

Toyota Production System methods have rendered remarkable results in high-volume manufacturing plants, but they have not been fully understood and correctly applied in high-mix, low-volume environments. While lean principles do apply, the implementation methods and tools must be adapted and alternate methods embraced in a low-volume environment. This volume is specifically geared for manufacturers that have hundreds to thousands of active part numbers with few or no ongoing forecasted volumes, and for job shops that build only to order. The primary focus is eliminating non-value-added activities and instituting improvements on the most repetitive jobs, a strategy that gives you more time to produce your low-volume work or one-offs. About the author: Greg Lane is a faculty member of the Lean Enterprise Institute and an advisor to the Instituto de Lean Management in Spain. During his time with Toyota, he was one of a handful of candidates selected for a one-year training program conducted by the company's masters. He became certified as a Toyota Production System (TPS) Key Person and continued his work with Toyota, training others in TPS. He has been highly active in working on implementing lean around the world, supporting large and small companies alike. In 1998, he began to focus his lean endeavors on meeting the specific needs of high-mix, low-volume enterprises. During his time as an independent consultant, Greg purchased and operated his own manufacturing company, which specialized in fast turnaround on high-mix, low-volume parts. Greg used TPS to grow the business and nearly double its sales. Greg and his associates have experience not only at adapting the methods contained in this book, but also in applying other tools that are too numerous to detail here. They can be reached for further support with your lean transformation via email: glane@lowvolumelean.com

Integrating the "balancing scorecard" concept with a Baldrige approach, this text explains how to evaluate the current approach to measurement, pinpoint incorrect performance measurements, select the right financial metrics, and more.

The 1996 Meeting of the Rhetoric Society of America commemorated the 25th anniversary of the publication of Lloyd Bitzer and Edwin Black's "The Prospect of Rhetoric". This title presents the essays that illustrate a discipline at odds over the future and demonstrate the continued influence and vitality of other papers, on the same subject.

Deals with moral dilemmas and the development of ethical reasoning. This book focuses on dilemmas, both real and hypothetical, which require moral judgments. It includes essays that share a conception of human nature as inherently social, as well as a healthy respect for the problems or dilemmas which human sociality carries in its wake.

This collection of original essays thoroughly explores the importance of music in thematic and formal terms, both in Eliot's imaginative and critical work.

Based on research from the National Reading Research Center (NRRC) at the Universities of Georgia and Maryland, this special issue of "Educational Psychologist" presents the contributors' synthesized work on reading motivation and engagement.

Interpersonal violence has many faces and many names¿domestic violence, child abuse, school bullying. This book reveals what clinical scientists know and what mental health practitioners can do about interpersonal violence. To advance the way profe

This is a collection of articles and activities designed to engage practicing and prospective ESOL teachers in an ongoing process of reflecting on, critically examining, and investigating theory and practice.

This book elucidates the role of brain-gut peptides in neuroendocrine regulation for understanding how these peptides interact with the reproductive neuroendocrine axis and for developing novel therapeutic agents for fertility or contraceptive therapies.

Presents the cultivation and biotechnological developments that have contributed to the modernization of mushroom farming and the mushroom industry. This book offers various steps in the complex mushroom cultivation process, exploring not only the 'how' but also the 'why'.

This book examines the relationship between organisational performance, advanced manufacturing technologies and workforce development activities and the increased expenditure in both labour and technology in the light of competitive pressures.

Provides a probing analysis of the Iraq war and its consequences from a social conflict perspective by exploring the key historical, political, and social underpinnings.

Positive work relationships can enrich employee's lives, while conversely, the stress caused by corrosive work relationships adds to health care costs faced by organizations and can affect the personal lives of employees. This book offers a comprehensive and multidisciplinary understanding of how relationships enable people at work.

A special issue of "Communication Law and Policy", this communication law book focuses on Siebert's second proposition.

A concise format of the research methodology section of the "Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts", Second Edition. Designed to give K-12 teachers an understanding of the basic categories and functions of research in teaching, is followed by chapters addressing teacher professionalism and the rise of "multiple literacies".

Uses the case of a 6th grade classrm in a small US town to systematically consider how pre-adolescent middle-school children develop a knowledge & understanding of the conventions of art & how they use this knowledge to create artful representations.

This introductory text for students of linguistics, language and education provides background, as well as up-to-date information and resources, that beginning researchers need for studying language diversity and education.

Covers essential information students need in order to understand the media, the mass communication process, and the role of media in society. This title places media processes and individual media in historical context to show their technological evolution and the effects of those changes on society.

This text reports on the attempt to introduce change in schools using a computer-based curriculum innovation for teaching higher-order thinking skills to middle and higher school students.

In this discussion, the author explains what artificial intelligence can do and cannot do, and what benefits it holds for applications such as banking financial services, and expert systems of all kinds.

Dave Eberly's much anticipated sequel to his cornerstone resource on the mathematics associated with game physics

Emphasizes the interpretation of a water analysis or a group of analyses, with applications on ground-water pollution or contaminant transport. This book provides an introduction to water chemistry and descriptions of the origin and interpretation of elements affecting water quality. It includes an overview of organic chemistry.

Focusing on pollutant reduction, abatement, and control, this book provides the necessary tools and methodologies to solve urban stormwater problems. It contains mathematical formulations for modeling the prediction of pollutant transport into both surface waters and soil systems.

Risk analysis is a very challenging field, and a solid understanding of the calculations procedure associated with it is essential for anyone involved. This book provides an overview of the methods used to assess the risk of fires, explosions, and toxic gas dispersion, and then deduce the subsequent effects and consequences of these events.

A technique that is useful in the study of pharmaceutical products and biological molecules, polarization IR spectroscopy has undergone continuous development since it first emerged. This title demonstrates how the technique can be properly utilized to obtain important information about the structure and spectral properties of oriented compounds.

Drawing on the authors' use of the Hadamard-related theory in several successful engineering projects, this book explores the applications and dimensions of Hadamard matrices. It contains a section on the applications of higher-dimensional Hadamard matrices to the areas of telecommunications and information security.

The unprecedented amount of data produced with high-throughput experimentation forces biologists to employ mathematical representation and computation to glean meaningful information in systems-level biology. This book introduces the concepts and theories of systems biology and the applications of systems biology in cancer research.

Air pollution is recognized as one of the leading contributors to the global environmental burden of disease, even in countries with relatively low concentrations of air pollution. This book examines the effect of this complex problem on human health and the environment in different settings around the world.