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Mine Wastes
Characterization, Treatment and Environmental Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
This book is not designed to be an exhaustive work on mine wastes. It aims to serve undergraduate students who wish to gain an overview and an understanding of wastes produced in the mineral industry. An introductory textbook addressing the science of such wastes is not available to students despite...
by Roger Marjoribanks
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This practical step-by-step guide describes the key geological field techniques needed by today's exploration geologists involved in the search for metallic deposits. The techniques described are fundamental to the collection, storage and presentation of geological data and their use to locate ore....
Redox
Fundamentals, Processes and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Few processes are as important for environmental geochemistry as the interplay between the oxidation and reduction of dissolved and solid species. The knowledge of the redox conditions is most important to predict the geochemical behaviour of a great number of components, the mobilities of which are...
by A.H. Neilson, D. Mackay, S. Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there appears to be increasing interest in seeing environmental...
by Eiichi Baba, Hideo Kawarada, Wataru Nishijima
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The authors explain the rewarding results from the interdisciplinary collaboration between an environmental study group working on coastal ecosystems and effects of oil spills and applied mathematicians modelling wave motion on sandy beaches. By using the unified Navier-Stokes equations with a Bingham...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Sedimentary coasts with their unique forms of life and productive ecosystems are one of the most threatened parts of the biosphere.
This volume analyzes and compares ecological structures and processes at sandy beaches, tidal mudflats and in shallow coastal waters all around the world. Analyses of...
Primary Energy
Present Status and Future Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The enormous public interest of specialists as well as of engaged and concerned citizens in the energy problem can be understood in view of the fact that the future of national and world-wide economy depends on the availability of sufficient primary energy. The questions arising are: which forms of...
Polymers - Opportunities and Risks I
General and Environmental Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Since their first industrial use polymers have gained a tremendous success. The two volumes of "Polymers - Opportunities and Risks" elaborate on both their potentials and on the impact on the environment arising from their production and applications. Volume 11 "Polymers - Opportunities...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Since the 1990s Grid Computing has emerged as a paradigm for accessing and managing distributed, heterogeneous and geographically spread resources, promising that we will be able to access computer power as easily as we can access the electric power grid. Later on, Cloud Computing brought the promise...
Earth System Modelling - Volume 4
IO and Postprocessing
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
Collected articles in this series are dedicated to the development and use of software for earth system modelling and aims at bridging the gap between IT solutions and climate science. The particular topic covered in this volume addresses the issue of data input/output and post-processing in the context...
Earth System Modelling - Volume 5
Tools for Configuring, Building and Running Models
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Collected articles in this series are dedicated to the development and use of software for earth system modelling and aims at bridging the gap between IT solutions and climate science. The particular topic covered in this volume addresses the process of configuring, building, and running earth system...
Verification and Validation in Systems Engineering
Assessing UML/SysML Design Models
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
At the dawn of the 21st century and the information age, communication and c- puting power are becoming ever increasingly available, virtually pervading almost every aspect of modern socio-economical interactions. Consequently, the potential for realizing a signi?cantly greater number of technology-mediated...
by Wolfgang W. Osterhage
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
In a comprehensive approach this book covers the end-to-end process from request management to change management, error management and migration management to acceptance testing and final data clean up. It is based upon nearly twenty years of experience in tests, acceptance and certification, when...
Computer Engineering and Technology
19th CCF Conference, NCCET 2015, Hefei, China, October 18-20, 2015, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th CCF Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology, NCCET 2015, held in Hefei, China, in October 2015.
The 18 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 158 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on...