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Customer Experience Management for Water Utilities presents a practical framework for water utilities to become more focussed on their customers. This framework is founded on Service-Dominant Logic, a contemporary theory of marketing that explains value creation as a process of co-creation between...

From the beginning of 21st century, there has been an awareness of risk in the environment along with a growing concern for the continuing potential damage caused by hazards. In order to ensure environmental sustainability, a better understanding of natural disasters and their impacts is essential....

Presents a comprehensive approach to the open questions in solar cosmic ray research and includes consistent and detailed considerations of conceptual, observational, theoretical, experimental and applied aspects of the field. The results of solar cosmic ray (SCR) investigations from 1942 to the present...

This book is a valuable contribution to the debate about the harmful effects of environmental toxicants on human health, which is a growing concern in the 21st century. Complementary chapters decipher the phenomena and highlight the latest developments in environmental toxicology, providing readers...

Special Relativity, Electrodynamics, and General Relativity: From Newton to Einstein is intended to teach students of physics, astrophysics, astronomy, and cosmology how to think about special and general relativity in a fundamental but accessible way. Designed to render any reader a "master...

Kappa Distributions: Theory and Applications in Plasmas presents the theoretical developments of kappa distributions, their applications in plasmas, and how they affect the underpinnings of our understanding of space and plasma physics, astrophysics, and statistical mechanics/thermodynamics. Separated...

Plastic has become a ubiquitous part of modern life. A cheap, lightweight material, it is used in everything from food packaging to consumer electronics and microbeads in cosmetic products. However, we are becoming increasingly aware of the problems our reliance on plastic is causing in the environment....

Nanomaterials in Plants, Algae and Microorganisms: Concepts and Controversies: Volume 2 not only covers all the new technologies used in the synthesis of nanoparticles, it also tests their response on plants, algae and micro-organisms in aquatic ecosystems. Unlike most works in the field, the book...

Nanomaterials in Plants, Algae and Microorganisms: Concepts and Controversies: Volume One discusses the vast amount of nanomaterials that have been released into the environment in a relatively short amount of time. There is a need to understand what the implications to the health of our biota and...

« Vivre et mourir à bord d’un vaisseau monde ». Tel est le point de départ de l’étude de Cameron SmithCameron Smith est anthropologue et professeur à l’université de Portland, USA. Transformations culturelles, évolutions génétiques, bouleversements des moeurs… Pour lui, le voyage interstellaire...

There are 50,000 out of 1 million sightings every year that are deemed credible by ufology researchers and experts. This mini-book is a compendium of scary UFO Incidents (in this author’s opinion) around the world that were either observed by or recorded by credible witnesses {except for the 1897...

The 20th International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application was held in Valencia, Spain, during late 1993. At this conference, a new record of abstracts was submitted, a new record of scientists participated, and a new record of countries was represented. This clearly indicates...

Le 25 mai 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy avait promis la Lune aux Américains. Il connaissait exactement les capacités de ses techniciens, et il avait mis l’argent sur la table. Huit ans plus tard, Niels Armstrong (adieu, l’ami) foulait le sol de l’astre des nuits. A ce jour, personne...

MIRANDO HACIA DELANTEPor Kenneth S. Keyes, Jr. y Jacque FrescoMirando hacia adelante es un fascinante e imaginativo libro en el cual los autores lo transportarán en un viaje a la cultura y tecnología de fines del siglo veintiuno. Luego de la sección introductoria que discute “Las cosas...