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Fosters a thorough understand of radiation dosimetry concepts: detailed solutions to the exercises in the textbook "Fundamentals of Ionizing Radiation Dosimetry"!

Compositional Grading in Oil and Gas Reservoirs offers instruction, examples, and case studies on how to answer the challenges of modeling a compositional gradient subject. Starting with the basics on PVT analysis, applied thermodynamics, and full derivations of irreversible thermodynamic-based equations,...

Metal Oxide Nanostructures: Synthesis, Properties and Applications covers the theoretical and experimental aspects related to design, synthesis, fabrication, processing, structural, morphological, optical and electronic properties on the topic. In addition, it reviews surface functionalization and...

Una sociedad a punto de cambiar para siempre Jerez de la Frontera, años treinta: Beltrán de la Cueva, carismático y ambicioso, heredero de una de las sagas bodegueras más importantes de la ciudad está comprometido con una joven de su clase. Pero en su camino se interpone una pasión...

Precision agriculture is based on the ability to identify inter and intra-field variability and to use this information for more targeted crop management. By using resources more efficiently, precision agriculture can make agriculture more productive and sustainable. This volume reviews the key elements...

After Manuel Cruz moves from the United States to the South American Republic of Banador, he thinks he is going to live in paradise. Instead, he finds himself hiding out in a hut at the edge of a marsh, after leaving behind his wife, children, and haciendas. Somebody wants Manuel dead, and he thinks...

Have you ever wondered if the Internet can really damage a relationship? Have you ever wondered whether there is a risk in having cyber-friends when you are committed to someone? Has your significant other ever cheated on you with someone on the Internet? Based on a study of sexual behavior...

Grenouille baissa la tête vers les plantes dans le petit pot de fleurs bleu. « Moi ? » demanda Grenouille. « Je ne peux pas sauter ». Les plantes pensèrent que Grenouille était timide ; elles savaient bien que les grenouilles pouvaient sauter. Frog looked down at the plants in the little...

Quando voltou definitivamente para o Brasil, Clarice Lispector não teve dúvidas e escolheu o Rio de Janeiro para fixar residência e criar seus filhos. Como cronista, sempre procurou seus temas nas ruas da cidade ou em conversas com seus mais bem informados habitantes. Em Crônicas para jovens:...

A escrita singular de Clarice Lispector sempre surpreendeu. Não poderia ser diferente com suas crônicas, que trazem à luz um aspecto sempre curioso de situações corriqueiras nas relações humanas e, neste caso, também na vida dos bichos. Isto porque, para Clarice, não existe um patamar hierárquico...

The second drama in this volume, "The Wonderful Magician", is perhaps better known to poetical students in England than even the first, from the spirited fragment Shelley has left us in his "Scenes from Calderon." The preoccupation of a subject by a great master throws immense...

The potential impact of anthropogenic pollutants such as agrochemicals on the environment is of global concern. Increasing use of certain compounds can result in contamination of food, water and atmospheric systems and in order to combat this pollution it is important to be able to accurately monitor...

El nombre de Daniel Buren se encuentra vinculado, desde mediados de los años sesenta, a una vía de producción en el arte contemporáneo que ha procedido a la paulatina pero incesante deconstrucción de los diferentes fundamentos sobre los que se apoya la maquinaria institucional. Sus reiterados...

Desde la brumosa certeza de que está a punto de traspasar la frontera de la vida y la muerte, Pancho Villa viaja al corazón de sus recuerdos y salda cuentas con la vida. En No me dejen morir así escuchamos una sola voz: la de la memoria de Villa, la del fantasma sin descanso que rastrea sus pasos...