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Silver Recovery from Assorted Spent Sources
Toxicology of Silver Ions
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Silver holds three world records; it has the lowest contact resistance, highest electrical conductivity and the best thermal conductivity of all metals. The element's physical strength, brilliance and malleability leads to its many uses from electronics to optical applications.
A new 'silver...
Multiphase Flow Phenomena and Applications
Memorial Volume in Honor of Gad Hetsroni
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This volume is dedicated to a very special person, Professor Gad Hetsroni (1934–2015). His towering figure was familiar to researchers in heat transfer and multiphase flow all over the world. He was the founding Editor of the International Journal of Multiphase Flow and the person who defined and...
by Zishun Liu
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Frontiers in Applied Mechanics is a compilation of cutting-edge research in applied mechanics by 65 of the world's leading researchers and academics. It comprises current new research directions and topics in the field, as well as developments in the classical branches of applied mechanics; namely...
International Handbook of Psychiatry
A Concise Guide for Medical Students, Residents, and Medical Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
This handbook will be a concise guide to important topics in psychiatry with an international focus. It constitutes a précis of the field of psychiatry with emphases on the therapeutic approach to the patient and on the proper diagnosis of major psychiatric disorders.
All psychiatric diagnoses...
Concept and Application of Shariah for the Construction Industry
Shariah Compliance in Construction Contracts, Project Finance and Risk Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
The application of Shariah compliance in business transactions continues to increase. The Asian financial crisis of 1997, global financial crisis of 2007–2008, Enron scandal and other reported ills besieging conventional business transactions have led to advocates of Shariah-compliant business transactions...
Fulfilling the Trust
50 Years of Shaping Muslim Religious Life in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Muslims constitute about half a million or 15 percent of Singapore's multiracial and multireligious population. In 1968, the Singapore Parliament passed the Administration of Muslim Law Act (AMLA), which led to the formation of Muis or the Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (Islamic Religious Council of...
Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram
Guerrilla Insurgency or Strategic Terrorism?
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Boko Haram is now the deadliest "terrorist" organization operational in the world, by virtue of the sheer number of people the group have killed. Together with al-Shabaab, the two groups account for a substantial amount of carnage on the African continent. Analyzed here are the ideologies...
The Minder Brain
How Your Brain Keeps You Alive, Protects You from Danger, and Ensures that You Reproduce
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Ambition, genius, thought, imagination, love, hate, greed and, above all, consciousness ourselves as alive and as part of our world — all this is somehow enabled by the brain. The brain is the person, and if it goes wrong, a person is ruined. This book is about part of what the brain does — a...
by Mannque Rho, Ismail Zahed
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
This book presents, in the form of reviews by world's leading physicists in wide-ranging fields in theoretical physics, the influence and prescience of Skyrme's daring idea of 1960, originally conceived for nuclear physics, that fermions can arise from bosons via topological solitons, pervasively...
by Richard Haight, Adra V Carr
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
This book describes the application of ultrafast laser science and technology in materials and processing relevant to industry today, including ultrafast laser ablation where fundamental studies have led to the development of the world's first femtosecond photomask repair tool. Semiconductor manufacturing...
by E Brian Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
This widely acclaimed text, now in its sixth edition and translated into many languages, continues to present a clear, simple and concise introduction to chemical thermodynamics. An examination of equilibrium in the everyday world of mechanical objects provides a starting point for an accessible account...
by Elissa Daye
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
My time here on this world was embittered from the start. As a carrier, I had very little choice in the matter. The demon inside had been planted long before I even had a voice. From the very minute my first breath entered my body, she was coiled inside like a venomous snake. The Brotherhood wanted...
DRUMS
Distortions, Rumours, Untruths, Misinformation, and Smears
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Fake news is not new, and this issue poses an even greater challenge now. The speed of information has increased drastically with messages now spreading internationally within seconds online. With countless photographs, opinions, and hours of video published online every falsehoods proliferate rapidly....
Tsunami
To Survive from Tsunami
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
The book is organized into two parts: the first part covers (i) the precious lessons obtained from recent actual tsunami disasters including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster, (ii) fundamental knowledge of tsunami for our survival, and (iii) concludes the...