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Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactors (Series in Fundamental and Applied Nuclear Physics)
by null H Nifenecker null O Meplan null S DavidThis book describes the basic knowledge in nuclear, neutron, and reactor physics necessary for understanding the principle and implementation of accelerator driven subcritical nuclear reactors (ADSRs), also known as hybrid reactors. Since hybrid reactors may contribute to future nuclear energy production, the book begins with a discussion of
The Applied Studio Model in Higher Music Education: Critical Perspectives and Opportunities (Routledge Studies in Music Education)
by null Kelly A. Parkes null Ryan DanielThis book presents an examination of the applied music studio as part of higher education. Applied music studios are where students learn an instrument or voice in one-to-one settings with high-level musician teachers.This book reconceptualizes this teaching model within higher education, and it provides a critical lens, seated in current research provided by a diverse and highly influential set of researcher authors. It provides expert suggestions for improved teaching and learning practices in the applied music studio for readers who may be teachers themselves. It may also provide direction for leaders, directors, and department chairs who oversee the quality of applied music studio settings in the respective higher education units. The key feature of this book is that each chapter will explore new and relevant research, bringing new knowledge to the reader. Each chapter will also suggest relevant applied music studio practices and opportunities based on this targeted research literature.The primary audience for this book would be applied music studio teachers who engage in teaching within the applied music studio, offering suggestions for higher education and private teaching. A secondary audience would be music education researchers at all levels and who have an interest in contemporary thinking relevant to the applied music studio, as well as those interested in the master-apprentice format for learning in any field. Additionally, directors and chairs of music units globally in higher education would find this book helpful in guiding practice in the applied music studio within higher education settings.
Liposomes, Lipid Bilayers and Model Membranes: From Basic Research to Application
by Georg Pabst Norbert KuCerka Mu-Ping Nieh John KatsarasAs a result of their unique physical properties, biological membrane mimetics, such as liposomes, are used in a broad range of scientific and technological applications. Liposomes, Lipid Bilayers and Model Membranes: From Basic Research to Application describes state-of-the-art research and future directions in the field of membranes, which has evo
The Materials Physics Companion
by null Anthony C. Fischer-CrippsUnderstand the Physics of the Solid StateUpdated and expanded with new topics, The Materials Physics Companion, 2nd Edition puts the physics of the solid state within the reach of students by offering an easy-to-navigate pathway from basic knowledge through to advanced concepts. This edition illustrates how electrical and magnetic properties of mat
Routledge Handbook of African Social Work Education (Routledge International Handbooks)
by Susan Levy, Uzoma Odera Okoye, Pius T. Tanga and Richard IngramThis timely Routledge Handbook creates a much-needed space to explore what makes social work uniquely African, as well as shaping, informing, and influencing a new culturally relevant era of social work. The specific focus on social work education offers approaches to transition away from the hegemony of Western literature, knowledge, and practice models underpinning African social work education. The authors identify what is relevant and meaningful to inform, influence, and reconceptualise culturally relevant social work curriculum. Covering Botswana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, the Handbook comprises both empirical and conceptual chapters, multiple approaches, case studies, and key debates on social work education. It is structured in four parts:• Approaches to Indigenising, Decolonising and Developing Culturally Relevant Social Work Education• Social Work Education: Evolution across Contexts• Embedding Field Practicum into Social Work Education• Knowledge Exchange between the Global South and Global North.The range of indigenous, local knowledge that the Handbook presents is crucial to social work evolving and facilitating for reciprocal learning and knowledge exchange between the Global South and Global North. Whilst the context of the Handbook is Africa, the topics covered are relevant to a global audience engaged in social justice work across social work, social welfare, social development, and sustainability.
Support of Underground Excavations in Hard Rock
by null E. Hoek null P.K. Kaiser null W.F. BawdenThe safe and economical construction of tunnels, mines, and other subterranean works depends on the correct choice of support systems to ensure that the excavations are stable. These support systems should be matched to the characterstics of the rock mass and the excavation techniques adopted. This expansive text explores the design of rockbolts, dowels, cable bolts and shortcrete for underground excavations in hard rock, and covers key topics including rock mass classification systems, and support design for overstressed rock.
Prehospital Trauma Care
by Eldar Soreide Christopher M. GrandeComprehensive in scope and content, Prehospital Trauma Care (PTC) covers all aspects of emergency medicine-triage assessment and treatment, anesthesia, intensive care, psychiatry, health and military disasters, burns, shock, and surgery.Written by over 70 distinguished international experts representing Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA.Considering geographic and cultural perspectives in trauma care, Prehospital Trauma Care explores: demographics and mechanisms of injury in PTC organization of PTC in developed countries worldwide the hierarchy of the prehospital trauma team and crew-resource management features of initial patient care from advanced airway management to state-of-the-art fluid resuscitation and prevention of hypothermia, including provision of adequate analgesia specialized approaches to blunt and penetrating trauma treating special groups such as the traumatized child and the entrapped patient, as well as specific situations, including chemical injuries and hypothermia transport and extraordinary challenges such as rural areas, mass attendance events, terrorism, and VIP protection and much more Promoting an efficient trauma chain of survival and a secure continuum of care, Prehospital Trauma Care is essential reading for emergency medicine and critical care physicians, anesthesiologists, surgeons, pediatricians, sports medicine specialists, air and ground transport nurses, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, and all related medical specialists with an interest in trauma care.
Intelligent Control Systems Using Soft Computing Methodologies
by Ali Zilouchian Mo JamshidiIn recent years, intelligent control has emerged as one of the most active and fruitful areas of research and development. Until now, however, there has been no comprehensive text that explores the subject with focus on the design and analysis of biological and industrial applications. Intelligent Control Systems Using Soft Computing Methodologies does all that and more.Beginning with an overview of intelligent control methodologies, the contributors present the fundamentals of neural networks, supervised and unsupervised learning, and recurrent networks. They address various implementation issues, then explore design and verification of neural networks for a variety of applications, including medicine, biology, digital signal processing, object recognition, computer networking, desalination technology, and oil refinery and chemical processes.The focus then shifts to fuzzy logic, with a review of the fundamental and theoretical aspects, discussion of implementation issues, and examples of applications, including control of autonomous underwater vehicles, navigation of space vehicles, image processing, robotics, and energy management systems. The book concludes with the integration of genetic algorithms into the paradigm of soft computing methodologies, including several more industrial examples, implementation issues, and open problems and open problems related to intelligent control technology.Suitable as a textbook or a reference, Intelligent Control Systems explores recent advances in the field from both the theoretical and the practical viewpoints. It also integrates intelligent control design methodologies to give designers a set of flexible, robust controllers and provide students with a tool for solving the examples and exercises within the book.
Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition in Clinical Practice
by null Carlos H. LifschitzCovers endocopic procedures and common surgical operations of the gastrointestinal tract and liver!Contains an overview of nutrition for normal and sick pediatric patients!Examines the supply, digestion, absorption, and metabolic utilization of lipids and their importance for growth, body composition, health, and well-being!Describing early detection and therapeutic approaches to hyperlipidemias in children and young adults, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition in Clinical Practice reveals the latest findings on protein and calcium requirements presents new information on specific nutrients used preferentially by the gut supplies the rationale for the exclusive use of human milk in breastfeeding infants explains the use of nucleotides in infant formulas and the emerging benefits of probiotics offers an overview of recent research and clinical experience in the enteral nutrition of premature infants details diagnoses and therapies for infants and children with severe feeding problems gives critical insight into intravenous nutrition considers the digestive enzymes and transporter proteins needed to absorb carbohydrates as well as the consequences of their deficiencies Addressing nutritional, metabolic, and mechanistic aspects of protein, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition in Clinical Practice is a comprehensive reference for pediatricians; pediatric gastroenterologists, hepatologists, and nutritionists; molecular biologists; geneticists; neonatologists; pathologists; and medical students in these disciplines.
Chromosomal Instability and Aging: Basic Science and Clinical Implications
by null Fuki Hisama null Sherman M. Weissman null George M. MartinThis text examines the relationship between DNA damage and repair, cellular senescence, genomic instability, and aging. The authors provide in-depth discussions of various types of DNA damage, the DNA repair network, and cellular responses to genetic damage to assess their impact on the modulation of aging processes and age-related diseases, includ
Global Contamination Trends of Persistent Organic Chemicals
by Bommanna G. Loganathan Paul K. S. LamEnvironmental pollution by man-made persistent organic chemicals (POCs) has been a serious global issue for over half a century. POCs are prevalent in air, water, soil, and organisms including wildlife and humans throughout the world. They do not degrade and cause long-term effect in organisms. Exposure to certain POCs may result in serious environ
Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets: Human, Animal and Planetary Health (Earthscan Food and Agriculture)
by Joyce D’Silva Carol McKennaThis book makes the case for an urgent move away from industrial agriculture towards regenerative farming and the promotion of plant-based diets.How we produce, distribute and consume food are critical issues for the health and well-being of humans, animals and the environment. In order to develop a sustainable food system, this book argues for a radical change in farming and food consumption. Containing contributions from world renowned experts, this book promotes regenerative farming as the means to preserve planetary health, establish sustainable, healthy and secure diets and safeguard the welfare of animals. Chapters discuss broad ranging issues from climate change and biodiversity conservation to animal sentience and intensive farming, and the role of financial markets and food businesses. The book concludes with chapters discussing the routes in policy and practice to transforming the food system and achieving real-world change.This book is a must read for students, scholars and policymakers interested in establishing sustainable farming and food systems, for human health, animal welfare and environmental protection.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution‑Non Commercial‑No Derivatives (CC‑BY‑NC‑ND) 4.0 license.
Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems: Assessment, Design, and Life-Cycle Performance
by Dan M. Frangopol Mitsuo Kawatani Chul-Woo KimFocussing on structural reliability methods, reliability-based optimization, structural system reliability and risk analysis, lifetime performance and various applications in civil engineering. Invaluable to all concerned with structural system reliability and optimization, especially students, engineers, and workers in research and development.
Wave Optics: Basic Concepts and Contemporary Trends
by null Subhasish Dutta Gupta null Nirmalya Ghosh null Ayan BanerjeeThis book combines classical optics with some of the latest developments in the field to provide an appreciation and understanding of advanced research topics. Requiring only a basic knowledge of electromagnetic theory and mathematics, the text covers the fundamentals of wave optics, focusing on concepts related to advances in negative materials and superresolution, reflectionless potentials, plasmonics, spin-orbit interaction, optical tweezers, Pendry lensing, and more. The book includes MATLAB codes for specific research problems and draws parallels with corresponding quantum problems whenever possible to broaden the horizon.
Digital Control Applications Illustrated with MATLAB
by null Hemchandra Madhusudan ShertukdeDigital Control Applications Illustrated with MATLAB covers the modeling, analysis, and design of linear discrete control systems. Illustrating all topics using the micro-computer implementation of digital controllers aided by MATLAB, Simulink, and FEEDBACK<<, this practical text:Describes the process of digital control, followed by a review
Teaching Arguments: Rhetorical Comprehension, Critique, and Response
by null Jennifer FletcherNo matter wherestudents' lives lead after graduation, one of the most essential tools we can teach them is how to comprehend, analyze, and respond to arguments. Students need to know how writers' and speakers' choices are shaped by elements of the rhetorical situation, including audience, occasion, and purpose. In Teaching Arguments: Rhetorical Comprehension, Critique, and Response, Jennifer Fletcher provides teachers with engaging classroom activities, writing prompts, graphic organizers, and student samples to help students at all levels read, write, listen, speak, and think rhetorically.Fletcher believes that, with appropriate scaffolding and encouragement, all students can learn a rhetorical approach to argument and gain access to rigorous academic content. Teaching Arguments opens the door and helps them pay closer attention to the acts of meaning around them, to notice persuasive strategies that might not be apparent at first glance. When we analyze and develop arguments, we have to consider more than just the printed words on the page. We have to evaluate multiple perspectives; the tension between belief and doubt; the interplay of reason, character, and emotion; the dynamics of occasion, audience, and purpose; and how our own identities shape what we read and write. Rhetoric teaches us how to do these things.Teaching Arguments will help students learn to move beyond a superficial response to texts so they can analyze and craft sophisticated, persuasive arguments - a major cornerstone for being not just college-and career-ready but ready for the challenges of the world.
Mercer's Textbook of Orthopaedics and Trauma Tenth edition
by Sureshan Sivananthan Eugene Sherry Patrick Warnke Mark D MillerHighly Commended, BMA Medical Book Awards 2013Orthopaedic problems account for over one-third of all medical and surgical problems. Mercer's Textbook of Orthopaedics and Trauma provides all the information required by the senior trainee or qualified specialist to improve understanding and management of any given condition or disease in this area.Si
Thin Film Magnetoresistive Sensors (Series in Sensors)
by null S TumanskiThin Film Magnetoresistive Sensors presents a comprehensive review of thin film magnetoresistive (MR) sensors, including the theory of MR effects as well as the design, fabrication, properties, and applications of MR sensors. With over 1,000 references, the book fully reviews the theory, development, and use of these sensors. It provides essential information about the performance of various kinds of sensors, including permalloy magnetoresistors, spin valve sensors, multilayer sensors, colossal effect sensors, spin dependent tunneling sensors, and magnetoimpedance sensors.
Facial Plastic, Reconstructive and Trauma Surgery
by Robert W. DolanThis text explores reconstructive surgery for congenital, traumatic and post-surgical facial and neck defects. Key chapters discuss wound healing, flap survival and tissue augmentation and the reconstruction of the mandible, tongue, pharynx and maxilla.
MRI: Physics, Image Reconstruction, and Analysis (Devices, Circuits, and Systems)
by Angshul Majumdar Rabab Kreidieh Ward Krzysztof IniewskiThe field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has developed rapidly over the past decade, benefiting greatly from the newly developed framework of compressed sensing and its ability to drastically reduce MRI scan times. MRI: Physics, Image Reconstruction, and Analysis presents the latest research in MRI technology, emphasizing compressed sensing-based image reconstruction techniques. The book begins with a succinct introduction to the principles of MRI and then: Discusses the technology and applications of T1rho MRI Details the recovery of highly sampled functional MRIs Explains sparsity-based techniques for quantitative MRIs Describes multi-coil parallel MRI reconstruction techniques Examines off-line techniques in dynamic MRI reconstruction Explores advances in brain connectivity analysis using diffusion and functional MRIs Featuring chapters authored by field experts, MRI: Physics, Image Reconstruction, and Analysis delivers an authoritative and cutting-edge treatment of MRI reconstruction techniques. The book provides engineers, physicists, and graduate students with a comprehensive look at the state of the art of MRI.
Business Competitiveness and Sustainability: Theory, Practice, and Future Challenges (Innovation and Technology Horizons)
by Marco Arraya João J. FerreiraThis book presents seven internal dimensions that have a direct impact on an organization’s global competitiveness and sustainability: purpose, leadership, passion, people-centered, customer-centric, infrastructure, and viability.An organization operates as a complex adaptive system that is impacted by external factors that make up its environment. These external factors, in turn, compel managers to make decisions and take deliberate actions that stimulate the organization's internal dimensions to enhance its competitiveness. Therefore, a competitive organization achieves a sustained level of productivity that leads to growth and the attainment of its objectives, resulting in increased income and well-being. Chapters in this book provide readers with a framework that demonstrates how these dimensions can be studied and analyzed individually, as well as how cultivating a coherent, mutually reinforcing system can enhance an organization's competitive advantage. This book also includes illustrative case studies and proposes an instrument to measure an organization's competitiveness.Providing a strategic framework for enhancing competitiveness in VUCA environments, this book will interest scholars and students in strategic management, competitiveness, innovation, and international business.
Molecular and Supramolecular Chemistry of Natural Products and Their Model Compounds
by null Jurgen-Hinrich Fuhrhop null Claus EndischAn assessment of the known properties of natural products and their model compounds to determine their usefulness in biological and medical experimentation, as well as in synkinetics - the reversible synthesis of noncovalent compounds. It explores new techniques such as cryoelectron and scanning force microscopy and solid-state NMR spectroscopy of
Wind Energy Systems: Control Engineering Design
by null Mario Garcia-Sanz null Constantine H. HoupisPresenting the latest developments in the field, Wind Energy Systems: Control Engineering Design offers a novel take on advanced control engineering design techniques for wind turbine applications. The book introduces concurrent quantitative engineering techniques for the design of highly efficient and reliable controllers, which can be used to sol
Advances in Marine Structures
by C. Guedes SoaresThis collection of papers addresses various aspects related to design analysis of marine structures, including: Methods and Tools for Loads and Load Effects; Methods and Tools for Strength Assessment; Experimental Analysis of Structures; Materials and Fabrication of Structures; Methods and Tools for Structural Design and Optimisation; and Structural Reliability, Safety and Environmental Protection.The book will appeal to academia, research organizations, classification societies, shipyards, ship design offices, governmental bodies, consultants, and shipowners.
Teaching Design for Sustainable Futures: Community, Construction, and Creativity (Routledge Focus on Design Pedagogy)
by Lina Ahmad and Marco SosaTeaching Design for Sustainable Futures: Community, Construction, and Creativity explores how creativity can be integrated into sustainability education within the built environment. Through diverse international case studies, the book emphasizes the importance of creative approaches, community engagement, and hands-on learning, in addressing complex environmental challenges, fostering innovative design practices, and bridging the gap between theory and realworld application. Readers will gain valuable insights into the role of creativity in driving sustainable design education, with six case studies showcasing practical applications of creative methodologies to sustainability challenges. Key elements include community-driven projects, interdisciplinary collaboration, and experiential learning, all aimed at fostering student engagement and promoting innovative thinking. By integrating sustainability into real-world design challenges, the book equips educators and students with practical tools and frameworks for embedding creativity deeply into sustainability education, preparing them to address future environmental and societal issues.This book is particularly valuable for educators, researchers, and practitioners in design and sustainability fields who seek to enhance their teaching and professional practices through creative approaches. Its interdisciplinary focus makes it an essential resource for those aiming to develop innovative solutions to environmental challenges, including design educators, sustainability professionals, and students committed to advancing sustainable development initiatives.