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Understanding Traffic Systems
Data Analysis and Presentation
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Road traffic and its impacts affect all aspects of modern life, leisure and industry, with safety, congestion and pollution being of greatest public concern. Transport planning increasingly emphasises travel demand management (TDM) and traffic calming - aided by dynamic, lower cost data from Intelligent...
The Vitreous State
Thermodynamics, Structure, Rheology, and Crystallization
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
This book summarizes the experimental evidence and modern classical and theoretical approaches in understanding the vitreous state, from structural problems, over equilibrium and non-equilibrium thermodynamics, to statistical physics. Glasses, and especially silicate glasses, are only the best known...
Biomass for Energy in the Developing Countries
Current Role, Potential, Problems, Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Biomass for Energy in the Developing Countries: Current Role, Potential, Problems, Prospects focuses on biomass energy and its importance to developing countries. This book outlines the reality that supply can no longer meet the demand of this form of energy. This fact is particularly observed in...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of grain legumes Volume 1
Advances in breeding and cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Reviews key developments in understanding crop physiology and genetic diversity and how they have informed advances in breeding new varieties
Coverage of advances across the value chain for grain legume cultivation, from variety selection to post-harvest storage
Discusses the latest trends in disease, insect pest and weed management
by T.D. Lekkas, J.B. Jahnel, C.J. Nokes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Drinking water quality has been a matter of concern for several decades. Disinfection of drinking water improves its microbiological quality and prevents disease outbreaks. However, continuously increasing scientific research concerns the presence of organic and inorganic contaminants in water. Many...
Towards a New Map of Automobile Manufacturing in Europe?
New Production Concepts and Spatial Restructuring
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is the product of four years of collaborative work within the framework of the European Science Foundation's Regional and Urban Restructuring in Europe (RURE) programme. With one exception, all of the chapters have been prepared by participants in RURE - the exception being that commissioned...
Crossing Jordan
North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Jordan is a key area of migration within the Levantine corridor that links the continents of Africa and Asia. 'Crossing Jordan' examines the peoples and cultures that have travelled across Jordan from antiquity to the present. The book offers a critical analysis of recent discoveries and archaeological...
Motor Behavior
Programming, Control, and Acquisition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In recent years there has been steadily increasing interest in motor behavior and a growing awareness that a person not only has to know what to do in a particular situation, but also how to do it. The question of how actions are performed is of central concern in the area of motor control. This volume...
by P.C. Stubbs, W.J. Tyson, M.Q. Dalvi
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Practically everybody in the community uses the transport system, and an eighth of personal consumption expenditure in Britain is spent on transport. This book, first published in 1980 and revised in 1984, presents a synthesis of theoretical and empirical material to explain the elements of transport...
by Paul Whitney, John M. Hinson, Michael W. L. Chee
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Sleep Deprivation and Cognition, Volume 247, the latest release in the Progress in Brain Research series, covers the effects of sleep deprivation, with this new release featuring sections on the Impact of sleep deprivation on long-term memory, Adolescent sleep restriction effects on cognition and...
Caffeine
Chemistry, Analysis, Function and Effects
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Caffeine is known to stimulate the central nervous system but what other functions does it have? This book covers the latest scientific knowledge in a uniquely structured format and is specifically designed to link chemistry with health and nutrition to provide a broad, appealing book. Coverage begins...
Wear of Rock Cutting Tools
Implications for the Site Investigation of Rock Dredging Projects
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This text deals with the dredging of rock by large cutter suction dredgers. The rock properties influencing the mechanical cutting of rock and the wear of cutting teeth are examined, and to verify the model of mechanical rock excavation developed, case studies of dredging projects were performed.
by W.I.P. Mainwaring
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
My introduction to androgens was neither auspicious nor impressive. I was sitting my viva voce examination for a degree in physiology and had haltingly intimated to my examiner (name decorously withheld) that I intended to pursue a career in re search. "On what topic?" was the reply. I...
by Kevin P Keating, Andrew Bell, Michael Graham
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Dark Dossier Magazine is a monthly Print & digital magazine devoted to fiction & nonfiction stories of Ghosts, Aliens, Monsters, & Killers. Every issue of Dark Dossier brings you original and reprint stories from a variety of authors. From bestselling and award-winners to the newcomers...