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Photonic and Electronic Properties of Fluoride Materials: Progress in Fluorine Science, the first volume in this new Elsevier series, provides an overview of the important optical, magnetic, and non-l
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Concise Geologic Time Scale: 2016 presents a summary of Earth's history over the past 4.5 billion years, as well as a brief overview of contemporaneous events on the Moon, Mars, and Venus. The authors
Thermodynamic Approaches in Engineering Systems responds to the need for a synthesizing volume that throws light upon extensive field of thermodynamics from the chemical engineering perspective and ap
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Rethinking Bhopal: A Definitive Guide to Investigating, Preventing, and Learning from Industrial Disasters is the go-to source for anyone seeking to learn how to improve process safety management (PSM
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Clinical Challenges in Therapeutic Drug Monitoring: Special Populations, Physiological Conditions and Pharmacogenomics focuses on critical issues in therapeutic drug monitoring including special requi
Zeolites and Zeolite-like Materials offers a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the important areas of zeolite synthesis, characterization, and applications. Its chapters are written in an educati
Geological Controls for Gas Hydrate Formations covers all aspects of gas hydrate exploration from data acquisition to processing and interpretation in a single reference, presenting the geological cha
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High-Resolution NMR Techniques in Organic Chemistry, Third Edition, describes the most important NMR spectroscopy techniques for structure elucidation of organic molecules and the investigation of the
Rural Water Systems for Multiple Uses and Livelihood Security covers the technological, institutional, and policy choices for building rural water supply systems that are sustainable from physical, ec
Gold Ore Processing: Project Development and Operations, Second Edition, brings together all the technical aspects relevant to modern gold ore processing, offering a practical perspective that is vita
Various optimization methods for structural size, shape, topology designs have been developed and widely employed in engineering applications. Among which, topology optimization has been recognized as
Boron Nitride Nanotubes in Nanomedicine compiles, for the first time in a single volume, all the information needed by researchers interested in this promising type of smart nanoparticles and their ap
Visibility: The Seeing of Near and Distant Landscape Features reviews the science of visibility from how to measure it quantitatively to its impacts by one of the foremost experts in the field. Carefu
The lack of adherence to medication is a growing public health problem worldwide and is costing many patients their good health and healthcare systems billions of dollars. Analytical Chemistry for Ass
Industrial Catalytic Processes for Fine and Specialty Chemicals provides a comprehensive methodology and state-of-the art toolbox for industrial catalysis. The book begins by introducing the reader to
Management of Hemostasis and Coagulopathies for Surgical and Critically Ill Patientsoffers a concise guide to a sub-specialty of transfusion medicine from the clinical laboratory perspective. It focus
Data Gathering, Analysis and Protection of Privacy through Randomized Response Techniques: Qualitative and Quantitative Human Traitstackles how to gather and analyze data relating to stigmatizing huma
Genetic methodologies are having a significant impact on the study of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Using genetic science, researchers have identified over 200 genes that cause or contribute
Energy Storage discusses the needs of the world’s future energy and climate change policies, covering the various types of renewable energy storage in one comprehensive volume that allows readers to c
This book is a practical, user-friendly reference for plastics engineers working with biopolymers and biodegradable plastics addressing topics that are required for the successful development of cohes
Qualitative Analysis of Nonsmooth Dynamics: A Simple Discrete System with Unilateral Contact and Coulomb Friction explores the effects of small and large deformations to understand how shocks, sliding
Researchers’ knowledge of gliomas continues to advance rapidly at both the basic and translational levels, andGliomas provides a thorough overview of the evolving fields of tumor biology and clinical
Autoimmune neurologic disease results when the immune response to the body’s own organs run wild and causes the immune system to attack itself. Autoimmunity is a main element in numerous nervous syste
Nanocolloids: A Meeting Point for Scientists and Technologists presents an easy-to-read approach to current trends in nanoscale colloid chemistry, offering relatively simple, scalable, and economicall
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Through three detailed chapters, this book outlines the functions and capabilities of static converters such as sensors used in protection devices and energy storage devices with a thorough revie
