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Handbook of Less-Common Nanostructures

Handbook of Less-Common Nanostructures

As nanotechnology has developed over the last two decades some nanostructures such as nanotubes nanowires and nanoparticles have become very popular. However recent research has led to the discovery of other less-common nanoforms which often serve as building blocks for more complex structures. In an effort to organize the field the Handbook of Less-Common Nanostructures presents an informal classification based mainly on the less-common nanostructures. A small nanotechnological encyclopedia this book:Describes a range of little-known nanostructuresOffers a unifying vision of the synthesis of nanostructures and the generalization of rare nanoforms Includes downloadable resources with color versions of more than 100 nanostructuresExplores the fabrication of rare nanostructures including modern physical chemical and biological synthesis techniquesThe Handbook of Less-Common Nanostructures discusses a classification system not directly related to the dimensionality and chemical composition of nanostructure-forming compounds or composite. Instead it is based mainly on the less-common nanostructures. Possessing unusual shapes and high surface areas these structures are potentially very useful for catalytic medical electronic and many other applications.

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The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities Routes Less Travelled

The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities Routes Less Travelled

The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities presents a series of ethnographic studies focusing on the local cultures of mobilities and immobilities emphasizing the everyday sense of contingency and heterogeneity that accompanies them. Compensating for the excess of theory and criticism based on the notion of 'hypermobilities' this book sheds light on the nuanced differences and idiosyncrasies of mobility with a view to rediscovering meanings and lifestyles marked by movement and immobility. Original empirical and global case studies are presented by an international team of scholars exploring the complex negotiated and contingent nature of the social worlds of movement. By avoiding sweeping generalizations on the deeply connected and readily mobile nature of society as a whole this volume sheds light on the diversity of mobility modes in an accessible and interdisciplinary form that will be of key interest to sociologists geographers and scholars of human mobility communication and culture. | The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities Routes Less Travelled

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How to Complete a Risk Assessment in 5 Days or Less

How to Complete a Risk Assessment in 5 Days or Less

Successful security professionals have had to modify the process of responding to new threats in the high-profile ultra-connected business environment. But just because a threat exists does not mean that your organization is at risk. This is what risk assessment is all about. How to Complete a Risk Assessment in 5 Days or Less demonstrates how to identify threats your company faces and then determine if those threats pose a real risk to the organization. To help you determine the best way to mitigate risk levels in any given situation How to Complete a Risk Assessment in 5 Days or Less includes more than 350 pages of user-friendly checklists forms questionnaires and sample assessments. Presents Case Studies and Examples of all Risk Management ComponentsBased on the seminars of information security expert Tom Peltier this volume provides the processes that you can easily employ in your organization to assess risk. Answers such FAQs as:Why should a risk analysis be conducted?Who should review the results?How is the success measured?Always conscious of the bottom line Peltier discusses the cost-benefit of risk mitigation and looks at specific ways to manage costs. He supports his conclusions with numerous case studies and diagrams that show you how to apply risk management skills in your organization—and it’s not limited to information security risk assessment. You can apply these techniques to any area of your business. This step-by-step guide to conducting risk assessments gives you the knowledgebase and the skill set you need to achieve a speedy and highly-effective risk analysis assessment in a matter of days.

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Leading Continuous Improvement Projects Lessons from Successful Less Successful and Unsuccessful Continuous Improvement Case Studies

Leading Continuous Improvement Projects Lessons from Successful Less Successful and Unsuccessful Continuous Improvement Case Studies

This book is a reference for continuous improvement project (CIP) leaders/facilitators in manufacturing and service organizations students (undergraduate and graduate) academics responsible for managing senior projects (Capstone Projects) and teaching quality courses and researchers interested in how organizations could produce more effective and efficient continuous improvement initiatives and projects. The authors collected and analyzed information and results from CIPs they facilitated or co-advised such as the improvement of the service level in a bottle manufacturing organization reduction of changeover in a brewery manufacturing organization reduction of ambulance response time and reduction of scrap in a steel transformation manufacturing organization. Many of the CIPs were previously part of award-winning white papers documenting critical improvements. Throughout this book readers will learn: different types of CIPs metrics to identify successful CIPs the 53 factors related to CIPs success how to manage CIPs behaviors to achieve outstanding results from CIPs. Three of the chapters are supplemented with three or more case studies. In addition the final chapter includes a list of behaviors expected from directors continuous improvement managers CIP leaders/facilitators and CIP team members to obtain the major benefits from CIPs. | Leading Continuous Improvement Projects Lessons from Successful Less Successful and Unsuccessful Continuous Improvement Case Studies

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Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Minimally invasive procedures are increasingly utilized and are replacing open surgery to reduce scarring and pain enhance patient recovery and minimize cost. Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery provides step-by-step guidance expert instruction and detailed illustration of current minimally invasive orthopedic spine procedures. With a variety of chapters covering critical developments in the field—including the utilization of biologic materials image-guided surgery and bone fusion—this guide delves into discussions of indications methods for preoperative planning complication avoidance strategies and patient outcomes. Covering emerging technologies and biological advances that will result in smaller incisions less trauma and enhanced patient rehabilitation this book:Helps surgeons identify key anatomical structures for minimally invasive accessConsiders preoperative planning complications and outcomes for all operative methodsUpdates surgeons on significant advances in bone graft substitutes for spine fusionDetails decompression and mini-open surgical techniques—all intended to achieve less traumatic surgical treatments and improve patient outcomesIncludes a section on needle-based procedures for chronic pain relief

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Edible Seaweeds of the World

Edible Seaweeds of the World

Seaweed is used in many countries for very different purposes - directly as food especially in sushi as a source of phycocolloids extraction of compounds with antiviral antibacterial or antitumor activity and as biofertilizers. About four million tons of seaweed are harvested annually worldwide. Of the various species known less than 20 account for 90% of the biomass exploited commercially. This book details 147 species of edible seaweed including scientific name and respective common names geographic location nutritional composition uses and is extensively illustrated. | Edible Seaweeds of the World

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Agroecology The Universal Equations

Agroecology The Universal Equations

Agroecology theory is not endless. A point is reached where the central elements become visible equations distill and a conceptual apex is reached. This is agroecology condensed into core concepts and theorems describing how crops relate to each other the land and their surroundings. This book covers advanced agroecology including agroecological theory as well as applications of biodiversity that underwrite agroecology. Since much of agroecology theory is new the resulting algorithms are equally novel though presented so as to be useful and appreciated by less mathematically inclined professionals. | Agroecology The Universal Equations

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Molecular Mechanisms of Skin Aging and Age-Related Diseases

Molecular Mechanisms of Skin Aging and Age-Related Diseases

Our skin changes as we age. It becomes thinner and loses fat making it less plump and smooth. Clinically aged skin is characterized by wrinkles sagging age spots and dryness. Emphasizing laboratory and clinical research this book comprehensively describes the molecular mechanisms of human skin-aging and age-related skin diseases. This includes molecular understanding of the development of aging skin and its prevention as well as mechanisms-based clinical rejuvenation. The book also focuses on research to develop mechanisms-based anti-skin-aging products. | Molecular Mechanisms of Skin Aging and Age-Related Diseases

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Data Center Storage Cost-Effective Strategies Implementation and Management

Data Center Storage Cost-Effective Strategies Implementation and Management

We overspend on data center storage … yet we fall short of business requirements. It's not about the technologies. It's about the proper application of technologies to deliver storage services efficiently and affordably. It’s about meeting business requirements dependent on data center storage. Spend less deliver more. Data Center Storage: Cost-Effective Strategies Implementation and Management provides an industry insider’s insight on how to properly scope plan evaluate and implement storage technologies to maximize performance capacity reliability and power savings. It provides business and use-case focused coverage of storage technology including storage area networks (SAN) capacity-optimized drives and solid-state drives. It offers key insights on financially responsible spending for data center storage. Delivered in accessible language the book starts with a discussion of the business merits of replacing direct attached compartmentalized storage with consolidated SAN-attached storage. The author advises on the use of service level applications (SLAs) as a tool to drive business unit collaboration with IT and prioritize those actions that impact productivity and profit from those that are less critical. This business guide to applied technologies disassembles big problems into digestible segments to help you understand quantify and fix any problems that arise as you work towards meeting your growing storage needs. The book builds on the consolidation and SLA driven approach to take advantage of the compelling benefits and potential savings of managed hosting and cloud storage. | Data Center Storage Cost-Effective Strategies Implementation and Management

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Protecting Democracy from Dissent: Population Engineering in Western Europe 1918-1926

Protecting Democracy from Dissent: Population Engineering in Western Europe 1918-1926

In the aftermath of the First World War the victorious powers – more or less liberal democracies – argued that democracy would bring peace to Europe because this was the only effective way for legitimate states with governments based on the consent of the governed to be organized. What the victorious statesmen failed to foresee was how much conflict this postwar settlement would provoke since it was far from clear exactly which people should qualify for the privilege of self-governance. It is well known that these conflicts played out dramatically and violently in eastern and southeastern Europe in the immediate postwar years. What is less well known is that the contest extended into the western European heartland of the victorious powers as well. There the quest for a new conception of democracy – based on both liberalism and nationalism – led the victors to pursue liberal policies of population engineering with paradoxically the best of intentions: the preservation and stability of democracy itself. In an era in which people were becoming more involved in choosing their governments governments were becoming more involved in choosing their people. While the victors sought to craft a more ethical – or at least more legalistic – form of population engineering than the often violent and ad hoc versions employed further east the result nevertheless remained at odds with the ethical foundations of liberal democracy. | Protecting Democracy from Dissent: Population Engineering in Western Europe 1918-1926

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World Population and World Food Supplies

World Population and World Food Supplies

Originally published in 1954. This great work surveys the distribution of the world’s population and the food production of all countries chosen as important by reason of either their demands on the world food market or their contributions to it. The author concludes that the more advanced countries can be reasonably assured of food supplies for an indefinite period. The less advanced countries can no longer rely on self-contained systems: they must seek co-operation with the advanced countries to supply them with the appliances needed for a more highly developed agriculture. This book at the time gave statesmen and their scientific advisers agriculturalists and agricultural economists an invaluable new instrument. | World Population and World Food Supplies

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Python for Bioinformatics

Python for Bioinformatics

In today's data driven biology programming knowledge is essential in turning ideas into testable hypothesis. Based on the author’s extensive experience Python for Bioinformatics Second Edition helps biologists get to grips with the basics of software development. Requiring no prior knowledge of programming-related concepts the book focuses on the easy-to-use yet powerful Python computer language. This new edition is updated throughout to Python 3 and is designed not just to help scientists master the basics but to do more in less time and in a reproducible way. New developments added in this edition include NoSQL databases the Anaconda Python distribution graphical libraries like Bokeh and the use of Github for collaborative development.

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The Shut Up and Shoot Video Production Guide A Down & Dirty DV Production

The Shut Up and Shoot Video Production Guide A Down & Dirty DV Production

Anthony Q. Artis is a 30-year veteran of the fi lm and TV industry whose features and TV shows have screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and the IFP Market as well as on MTV and the Independent Film Channel. Anthony works professionally as a producer director and cinematographer at MightyAntMedia. com and has taught video production at New York University for two decades now. He is the author of the bestselling Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide (2014) The Shut Up and Shoot Freelance Video Guide (2011) and numerous fi lmmaking courses on LinkedInLearning. com . Accessible and comprehensive this book is a great introduction on how to make movies and video projects with limited resources time or experience. Artis will teach readers the “Down and Dirty” filmmaking mindset which forces fi lmmakers to be creative with their resources do more with less and result in a better faster and less expensive product. Drawing on more than 30 years of experience Artis covers such wide-ranging topics as composition lens choice smartphone filmmaking audio equipment lighting and grip basics and much more. With more than 500 full-color pictures tips from pros checklists and case studies readers will be well prepared to apply their knowledge to their shoots. Written by an indie filmmaker for indie filmmakers this book is perfect for rookies veterans and students who want to maximize their budget while turning in top-quality work. | The Shut Up and Shoot Video Production Guide A Down & Dirty DV Production

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Reversibility of Chronic Disease and Hypersensitivity Volume 4 The Environmental Aspects of Chemical Sensitivity

Reversibility of Chronic Disease and Hypersensitivity Volume 4 The Environmental Aspects of Chemical Sensitivity

Reversibility of Chronic Disease and Hypersensitivity Volume 4: The Environmental Aspects of Chemical Sensitivity is the fourth of an encyclopedic five-volume set describing the basic physiology chemical sensitivity diagnosis and treatment of chronic degenerative disease studied in a 5x less polluted controlled environment. This text focuses on treatment techniques strategies protocols prescriptions and technologies. Distinguishing itself from previous works on chemical sensitivity it explains newly understood mechanisms of chronic disease and hypersensitivity involving core molecular function. The authors discuss new information on ground regulation system genetics the autonomic nervous system and immune and non-immune functions. The book also includes the latest technology and cutting-edge techniques numerous figures and supporting research. | Reversibility of Chronic Disease and Hypersensitivity Volume 4 The Environmental Aspects of Chemical Sensitivity

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Individual Counseling and Therapy Skills and Techniques

Individual Counseling and Therapy Skills and Techniques

Individual Counseling and Therapy 3rd edition goes beyond the typical counseling textbook to teach the language of therapy from the basic to the advanced. Lucidly written and engaging this text integrates theory and practice with richly illustrated real-life case examples and dialogues that demystify the counseling process. Readers will learn how to use winning skills and techniques tailored to serve clients—from intake to problem exploration awareness raising problem resolution and termination. Students have much to gain from the text’s depth insights candor and practicality—and less to be befuddled by while they develop their therapeutic voice for clinical practice. PowerPoints chapter test questions and an instructor’s manual are available for download. | Individual Counseling and Therapy Skills and Techniques

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Accounting Irregularities in Financial Statements A Definitive Guide for Litigators Auditors and Fraud Investigators

Accounting Irregularities in Financial Statements A Definitive Guide for Litigators Auditors and Fraud Investigators

Accounting irregularities are at the heart of those kinds of frauds that hit financial statements and include misstatement misclassification as well as misrepresentation. In essence they involve manipulation of accounting data description or disclosure in order to distort the true financial picture of the organization in question. This book provides an in-depth practical reference designed for litigators investigators auditors accountants and other professionals who need to understand and combat accounting irregularities and to uphold the integrity of financial statements. Regulators will find this book an essential source of ideas and references when considering reforms. Educators and students will see this book as an alternative inspiring way of understanding accounting and how to stay alert for accounting irregularities. The first two chapters introduce the basics of accounting irregularities in the context of the financial reporting environments and generally accepted accounting principles in the UK and Hong Kong. Perpetrators often seek ways to creating financial illusions in four common directions - selling more costing less owning more and owing less as discussed in Chapters 3 to 6. The seventh chapter considers various ways that perpetrators manipulate the classification and disclosure of financial statements. Chapter 8 explores three scenarios of accounting irregularities - tax evasion theft and commercial dispute. The concluding chapter sets out the deterrents to accounting irregularities in two dimensions. At the micro-level deterrents are implemented within the authority of the organization in question whilst the macro-level deterrents refer to the external environment beyond the controls of any individual organization. | Accounting Irregularities in Financial Statements A Definitive Guide for Litigators Auditors and Fraud Investigators

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Revival: Beethoven (1933)

Revival: Beethoven (1933)

The original intention was that this book should be entirely biographical. If it be true however that out main interest is (or ought to be) in what a composer did rather than in what he was the truth applies especially to Beethoven and above all at the present time. The scheme of the book has therefore been modified so as to include a survey of his work. An attempt to make such survey cover the whole of Beethoven’s output would result in little more than a catalogue with annotations to brief as to convey hardly anything of the essential quality of the music. It seemed therefore that the limited space would be best used and the needs of the general reader more fully met by a much less rigid and comprehensive method. | Revival: Beethoven (1933)

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Concrete Segmental Bridges Theory Design and Construction to AASHTO LRFD Specifications

Concrete Segmental Bridges Theory Design and Construction to AASHTO LRFD Specifications

Segmental concrete bridges have become one of the main options for major transportation projects world-wide. They offer expedited construction with minimal traffic disruption lower life cycle costs appealing aesthetics and adaptability to a curved roadway alignment. The literature is focused on construction so this fills the need for a design-oriented book for less experienced bridge engineers and for senior university students. It presents comprehensive theory design and key construction methods with a simple design example based on the AASHTO LRFD Design Specifications for each of the main bridge types. It outlines design techniques and relationships between analytical methods specifications theory design construction and practice. It combines mathematics and engineering mechanics with the authors’ design and teaching experience. | Concrete Segmental Bridges Theory Design and Construction to AASHTO LRFD Specifications

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The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography

The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography

This compendium examines the choices construction inclusions and exemptions and expanded practices involved in the process of creating a photograph. Focusing on work created in the past twenty-five years this volume is divided into sections that address a separate means of creating photographs as careful constructs: Directing Spaces Constructing Places Performing Space Building Images and Camera-less Images. Introduced by both a curator and a scholar each section features contemporary artists in conversation with curators critics gallerists artists and art historians. The writings include narratives by the artist writings on their work and examinations of studio practices. This pioneering book is the first of its kind to explore this topic beyond those artists building sets to photograph. | The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography

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Fish Swimming in Turbulent Waters Hydraulic Engineering Guidelines to assist Upstream Passage of Small-Bodied Fish Species in Standard Box

Fish Swimming in Turbulent Waters Hydraulic Engineering Guidelines to assist Upstream Passage of Small-Bodied Fish Species in Standard Box

Low-level river crossings including culverts are important for delivering a range of valuable socioeconomic services including transportation and hydrological control. These structures are also known to have negative impacts on freshwater river system morphology and ecology including the blockage of upstream fish passage particularly small-body-mass fish species. Given the enormous environmental problems created by road crossings new hydraulic engineering guidelines are proposed for fish-friendly multi-cell box culvert designs. The focus of these guidelines is on smooth box culverts without appurtenance with a novel approach based upon three basic concepts: (I) the culvert design is optimized for fish passage for small to medium water discharges and for flood capacity for larger discharges (II) low-velocity zones are provided along the wetted perimeter in the culvert barrel and quantified in terms of a fraction of the wetted flow area where the local longitudinal velocity is less than a characteristic fish speed linked to swimming performances of targeted fish species and (III) the culvert barrel is smooth without any other form of boundary treatment and appurtenance. The present monograph develops a number of practical considerations in particular relevant to box culvert operations for less-than-design discharges. It is argued that upstream fish passage capabilities would imply a revised approach to maintenance in part linked to the targeted fish species. This reference work is authored for civil and environmental engineers as well as biology and ecology scientists interested in culvert design. While the book is aimed to professionals the material is also lectured in postgraduate courses and in professional short courses. | Fish Swimming in Turbulent Waters Hydraulic Engineering Guidelines to assist Upstream Passage of Small-Bodied Fish Species in Standard Box

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Research Software Engineering with Python Building software that makes research possible

Research Software Engineering with Python Building software that makes research possible

Writing and running software is now as much a part of science as telescopes and test tubes but most researchers are never taught how to do either well. As a result it takes them longer to accomplish simple tasks than it should and it is harder for them to share their work with others than it needs to be. This book introduces the concepts tools and skills that researchers need to get more done in less time and with less pain. Based on the practical experiences of its authors who collectively have spent several decades teaching software skills to scientists it covers everything graduate-level researchers need to automate their workflows collaborate with colleagues ensure that their results are trustworthy and publish what they have built so that others can build on it. The book assumes only a basic knowledge of Python as a starting point and shows readers how it the Unix shell Git Make and related tools can give them more time to focus on the research they actually want to do. Research Software Engineering with Python can be used as the main text in a one-semester course or for self-guided study. A running example shows how to organize a small research project step by step; over a hundred exercises give readers a chance to practice these skills themselves while a glossary defining over two hundred terms will help readers find their way through the terminology. All of the material can be re-used under a Creative Commons license and all royalties from sales of the book will be donated to The Carpentries an organization that teaches foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide. | Research Software Engineering with Python Building software that makes research possible

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Rationality Nationalism and Post-Communist Market Transformations A Comparative Analysis of Belarus Poland and the Baltic States

Rationality Nationalism and Post-Communist Market Transformations A Comparative Analysis of Belarus Poland and the Baltic States

This title was first published in 2000: A comparative analysis of market transformation in Poland Belarus and the Baltic states with particular emphasis on cross-national variations in speed and direction of post-Communist economic reforms. While many studies tend to concentrate on the economic aspects of market reforms analysis of the broader institutional framework is less common. This book therefore focuses on the influence of historical and cultural conditions on the formation of economic policy. The findings presented indicate that far from being a purely rational process driven exclusively by considerations of economical efficiency post-Communist market transformation is influenced by socio-political and cultural factors which are able to account for cross-national variations in speed and direction of reforms. | Rationality Nationalism and Post-Communist Market Transformations A Comparative Analysis of Belarus Poland and the Baltic States

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Public Enterprise and Economic Development

Public Enterprise and Economic Development

Originally published in 1959 the subject of this book is an aspect of economic development which despite its importance had rarely attracted more than incidental attention at the time. The author’s interest in public enterprise in underdeveloped countries was stimulated by a year’s residence in Turkey. He felt the time had come for a general comparative study. Defining comparative as (1) between developed and underdeveloped countries and (2) between different underdeveloped countries at dissimilar stages of development or with dissimilar development perspectives. The purpose of the first is to discover what the developed can offer the underdeveloped by way of adaptable experience and relevant ideas; that of the second to examine the use of public enterprise in the many different social economic and political contexts to be found in the less advanced parts of the world. | Public Enterprise and Economic Development

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