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Report copyright infringementby David A. Nembhard (Editor)In today's ultra-competitive global business environment, it is becoming increasingly important for companies to reduce spending while simultaneously improving their efficiency and productivity. To achieve this goal, many organizations are opting to implement cross training programs in order to maximize the potential of their existing workforce, thus avoiding the need to outsource. Filling a gap in the literature, Workforce Cross Train...

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Report copyright infringementby William M. Yen (Editor), Shionoya (Editor), Hajime Yamamoto (Editor)Drawing from the second edition of the best-selling Handbook of Phosphors, Fundamentals of Phosphors covers the principles and mechanisms of luminescence in detail and surveys the primary phosphor materials as well as their optical properties. The book addresses cutting-edge developments in phosphor science and technology including oxynitride phosphors and the impact of lanthanide level locatio...

Pharmaceutical Photostability and Stabilization Technology

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph T. Piechocki (Editor), Karl Thoma (Editor)Based on a training course developed by Dr. Joseph T. Piechocki and other experts in this field whose contributions appear in this book for two International Meetings on the Photostability of Drugs and Drug Products, this text clarifies the guidelines set by the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) and provides a comprehensive background in the scientific principles involved in photostability testing. ...

Handbook of Standards and Guidelines in Ergonomics and Human Factors

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Report copyright infringementby Waldemar Karwowski (Editor)A comprehensive review of international and national standards and guidelines, this handbook consists of 32 chapters divided into nine sections that cover standardization efforts, anthropometry and working postures, designing manual material, human-computer interaction, occupational health and safety, legal protection, military human factor standards, and sources for human factors and ergonomics standards. The book delineates the role...

The Business of Mining: Mineral Project Valuation

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Report copyright infringementby Odwyn Jones (Author), Eric Lilford (Author), Felix Chan (Author)The Business of Mining complete set of three Focus books will provide readers with a holistic all-embracing appraisal of the analytical tools available for assessing the economic viability of prospective mines. Each volume has a discrete focus. This second volume discusses, in some depth, alternative means of assessing the economic viability of mining projects based on the best estimate of the reco...

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Report copyright infringementby Shunri Oda (Editor), David Ferry (Editor)Technological advancement in chip development, primarily based on the downscaling of the feature size of transistors, is threatening to come to a standstill as we approach the limits of conventional scaling. For example, when the number of electrons in a device's active region is reduced to less than ten electrons (or holes), quantum fluctuation errors will occur, and when gate insulator thickness becomes too insignifica...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Onwulata (Editor)Encapsulated and Powdered Foods is a practical guide to the characterization and applications of the powdered form of foods. It details the uses of food powder as well as the physical, chemical, and functional properties of particular food powders, such as milk, cocoa, salts, and sugars. The author describes the powder manufacturing processes and a range of related topics, including drying technologies; storage, moisture, lumping, and b...

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Report copyright infringementby J. M. Winterbottom (Editor), Michael King (Editor)Intended primarily for undergraduate chemical-engineering students, this book also includes material which bridges the gap between undergraduate and graduate requirements. The introduction contains a listing of the principal types of reactors employed in the chemical industry, with diagrams and examples of their use. There is then a brief exploration of the concepts employed in later sections for modelling and s...

$Refractory Linings: Thermomechanical Design and Applications$

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Schacht (Editor)This work describes the technology necessary to optimize the performance of any refractory lining. It provides an overview of the thermomechanical behaviour and wear of refractory lining systems, and details the structural behaviour of several classical refractory geometries, highlighting the critical regions of each lining system where high stress is most likely to create fractures. Number of Pages: 504 Dimensi...

Electronic Circuits: Fundamentals and Applications

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Report copyright infringementby Mike Tooley (Author)All the information required to get to grips with the fundamentals of electronics, detailing the underpinning knowledge necessary to appreciate the operation of a wide range of electronic circuits. The book's content is matched to the latest pre-degree level courses (from Level 2 up to, and including, Foundation Degree and HND).Author BiographyMike Tooley has over 30 years' experience of teaching electrical principles, electronics and avioni...

Perma/Culture:: Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis

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Report copyright infringementby Molly Wallace (Editor), David Carruthers (Editor)The keyword of this book's title, "Perma/Culture," alludes to and plays on "permaculture," an international movement that can provide a framework for navigating the multiple "other worlds" within a broader environmental ethic. In an effort to introduce the concept of 'Perma/Culture' as a viable protocol for designing agricultural systems that mimic their natural counterparts, this edited collection brings togethe...

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Report copyright infringementby Ken Parsons (Author)Thousands of people continue to die from heat. Heat illnesses and advice for preventing heat casualties at work, during heatwaves, sport and the effects of global warming are described. A new perspective on thermoregulation integrates physiological and psychophysical regulated variables. Heat stress indices, the WBGT and the SWreq are presented. It is time to understand and routinely use computer simulations of people in hot conditions. How ...

Heat-Treatment of Steel: A Comprehensive Treatise On the Hardening, Tempering, Annealing and Casehardening of Various Kinds of Steel, Including High-S

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Report copyright infringementby Erik Oberg (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important eno...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Stephens (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important...

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Report copyright infringementby Terry L. Probert (Author)No one played a bigger part in driving Ford Tractors to market leadership in Australia during the eighties than Noel Howard and in his memoir he tells author Terry L Probert about the reasons for decisions taken both in Australia and World Headquarters in Dearborn that led to the mighty name of Ford disappearing from the tractor market by the mid nineties. NOEL exposes the internal tension between him and other Ford executives both abov...

Drip Irrigation for Agriculture: Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development

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Report copyright infringementby Jean-Philippe Venot (Editor), Marcel Kuper (Editor), Margreet Zwarteveen (Editor)This book documents the enthusiasm, spread and use of drip irrigation systems by smallholders in the global South, in an attempt to explore and explain under which conditions it works, for whom and with what effects. Author BiographyJean-Philippe Venot is a researcher at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD/UMR G-EAU) and is affiliated to the Wate...

Women Soldiers and Citizenship in Israel: Gendered Encounters with the State

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Report copyright infringementby Edna Lomsky-Feder (Author), Orna Sasson-Levy (Author)This is an important and rigorous study exploring the varied and shifting meanings that Israeli women ascribe to their military service. Author BiographyEdna Lomsky-Feder is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and at the School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests include memory and nationalism, war and military, and personal narratives. H...

The Development of Women and Young Professionals in Stem Careers: Tips and Tricks

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Report copyright infringementby Michele Kruger (Author), Hannelie Nel (Author)This book is fluent and systematic. The authors work through the fears and ambitions of young people new to STEM careers in the professional environment. Often, there is a lack of mentors, which leaves a young STEM practitioner exposed and doubting their own abilities.This book encourages young professionals and women in STEM careers to know that they are not alone and provides insight into their ability to deal wit...

Industrial Maintenance: Techniques, Stories, and Cases

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Report copyright infringementby José Baptista (Author)This book explains the tools and processes that allow changes in the way maintenance works. It allows you to learn industrial maintenance and reliability concepts and how to improve the maintenance performance so you can move from reactive maintenance to proactive maintenance.Author BiographyJosé Baptista has 40 years of experience in the field of maintenance and reliability engineering, including 15 years at ABB, where he held several pos...

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Report copyright infringementby Jason A. Maldonado (Author)A Practical Guide to the Safety Profession: The Relentless Pursuit will help reshape the way we talk about safety, prompt action, and engage workers from all levels of an organization. The book includes real-life experiences and characters that are relatable to anyone who has worked in the safety and health field for any amount of time. It will provide answers for every safety professional who has ever asked: "Is this actually making ...

Governance in the Extractive Industries: Power, Cultural Politics and Regulation

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Report copyright infringementby Lori Leonard (Editor), Siba N. Grovogui (Editor)Greater understanding of the forms and consequences of investment and disinvestment in the extractive industries is required as a result of capitalist expansion, recent declines in global commodity prices, and claims that extractive sector projects, especially in the global south, are poverty reduction projects. This book explores emergent forms of governance in mining and extractive industry projects around the w...

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Report copyright infringementby Siddhartha Mitra (Author)This book critically examines the sweeping impacts of robotization and the use of artificial intelligence on employment, per capita income, quality of life, poverty and inequality in developing and developed economies. Author BiographySiddhartha Mitra is Professor of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Number of Pages: 150 Dimensions: 0.34 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Illustrated: Yes ...

Ergonomics in Design: Methods and Techniques

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Report copyright infringementby Marcelo M. Soares (Editor), Francisco Rebelo (Editor)Currently people deal with various entities (such as hardware, software, buildings, spaces, communities and other people), to meet specific goals while going about their everyday activities in work and leisure environments. These entities have become more and more complex and incorporate functions that hitherto had never been allocated such as automation, use in virtual environments, connectivity, personaliza...

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Report copyright infringementby Joshua Davis (Author)"Los inventores es una de esas historias raras que es difícil soltar. Narrada de manera impecable, es hilarante y también triste." --Chris Anderson, autor de The Long TailEn junio de 2004 el equipo de la preparatoria Carl Hayden, de Phoenix, sorprendió a todos los asistentes a la competencia anual de robótica auspiciada por la nasa cuando resultó ganador en el evento. No era para menos, el equipo estaba conformado por cuatro adolescentes, c...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard A. Gabriel (Author)The history of American military operations in the post-Vietnam era has been marked by failure and near-disaster. Since 1970, American forces have been committed in five operations--in Sontay to rescue prisoners, in Cambodia on behalf of the crew of the Mayaguez, in Iran to rescue the American hostages, in Beirut, and in Grenada--and in each case they have failed. Gabriel tells how and why each was crippled by faulty intelligence, clu...

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Report copyright infringementby John Gregory Dunne (Author)In 1967, John Gregory Dunne asked for unlimited access to the inner workings of Twentieth Century Fox. Miraculously, he got it. For one year Dunne went everywhere there was to go and talked to everyone worth talking to within the studio. He tracked every step of the creation of pictures like "Dr. Dolittle," "Planet of the Apes," and "The Boston Strangler." The result is a work of reportage that, thirty years later, may still be our mo...

Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City

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Report copyright infringementby Robin Nagle (Author)"Meticulous . . . [Nagle's] passion for the subject really comes to life." --The New York Times New York City produces more than twelve thousand tons of household trash and recyclables a day. As quickly as it accumulates, it's hauled away. But who makes that happen? What's life like for the workers with careers built around garbage? In Picking Up, the anthropologist Robin Nagle takes us inside New York City's Department of Sanitation, a lar...

Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal

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Report copyright infringementby Zachary Karabell (Author)Award-winning historian Zachary Karabell tells the epic story of the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century--the building of the Suez Canal-- and shows how it changed the world. The dream was a waterway that would unite the East and the West, and the ambitious, energetic French diplomat and entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps was the mastermind behind the project. Lesseps saw the project through fifteen years of financial cha...

The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight

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Report copyright infringementby Martha Ackmann (Author), Lynn Sherr (Foreword by)For readers of The Astronaut Wives Club, The Mercury 13 reveals the little-known true story of the remarkable women who trained for NASA space flight. In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America's first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts...

Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch

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Report copyright infringementby Dan O'Brien (Author)For twenty years Dan O'Brien struggled to make ends meet on his cattle ranch in South Dakota. But when a neighbor invited him to lend a hand at the annual buffalo roundup, O'Brien was inspired to convert his own ranch, the Broken Heart, to buffalo. Starting with thirteen calves, "short-necked, golden balls of wool," O'Brien embarked on a journey that returned buffalo to his land for the first time in more than a century and a half. Buffalo f...

Space Shuttle Challenger: Ten Journeys Into the Unknown

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Report copyright infringementby Ben Evans (Author)This book will take readers back to a time when the Space Shuttle represented the dawn of a new age in space travel, a time when the fabled final frontier was drawing inexorably closer as each year passed. It details the stories of Challenger's missions from the points of view of the astronauts, engineers, and scientists who flew and knew her and the managers, technicians, and ground personnel who designed her and nursed her from humble beginn...

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Report copyright infringementby Grant Heiken (Author), Eric Jones (Author)This book explains how the Apollo crews learned to work on the lunar surface. Its lively and informative text draws heavily on transcripts and photographs to illustrate points. It puts the reader on the lunar surface with the astronauts, sharing their observations, excitement, and frustrations. The carefully selected photographs show the stark beauty of the lunar surface. There are excerpts from the mission transcripts ...