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A complete treatment of the theory and practice of groundwater engineering, The Handbook of Groundwater Engineering, Second Edition provides a current and detailed review of how to model the flow of w
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This is an extensively illustrated review of 1000 notable men and women who have contributed most to our current knowledge of medicine and surgery over the past 1000 years. Its publication celebrates
Contains papers from a February 1999 symposium on GnRH analogues in cancer and human reproduction, held in Geneva, reporting on the state of the art of GnRH antagonist chemistry, pharmacology, and pre
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Tasked by the Clean Water Act to restore and maintain the integrity of their waters, state and local governments must develop systems for assessing the health of the streams within their borders. They
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From the prediction of complex weather patterns to the design of swimsuits, modeling has, over the years, quietly but steadily become an essential part of almost every field and industry—and ste
Despite generations of change and recent, rapid developments in gas dynamics and hypersonic theory, relevant literature has yet to catch up, so those in the field are generally forced to rely on dated
One of the key features of agricultural development in the last five decades has been intensive groundwater use in the Indo-Gangetic Basin (Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh) and in the Yellow Riv
In the 1970s, Density Functional Theory (DFT) was borrowed from physics and adapted to chemistry by a handful of visionaries. Now chemical DFT is a diverse and rapidly growing field, its progress fuel
Since the 1980s in Europe high-speed rail has emerged rapidly as a means of transportation, and in the upcoming years many more tunnel, bridge and other infrastructure projects will be developed acros
Reflecting a decade’s worth of changes, Human Safety and Risk Management, Second Edition contains new chapters addressing safety culture and models of risk as well as an extensive re-working of
Carcinogenesis is a multifaceted and multistaged disease that can be viewed as a form of chemical toxicity, and as is the case with toxic chemicals, the effects of carcinogens are often produced only
In this third edition, the editors have accounted for the numerous changes for managing poison ingestion and have again provided an essential text for students of pharmacy and the health sciences on t
Accident analysis is not like a classroom problem where the equations are selected and solved, and the matter is considered closed. In this line of forensics, engineering skill must be combined with s
The second edition of this popular text on Maple? programming has been updated to reflect Maple version 15. Suitable for new and advanced users, the guide covers the latest features of Maple and offer
There is a multi-century history of research on natural decadal climate variability (DCV) and attempts to predict it, and there is a substantial amount of evidence of DCV impacts on society, largely a
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