Автор: Lietai Yang
Издательство: Woodhead Publishing Ltd
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 1845691873
Количество страниц: 712
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Corrosion monitoring technologies are a vital step in efforts to combat corrosion, which can have major economic and safety implications. This important book provides a comprehensive analysis of the range of techniques for corrosion monitoring. It includes practical applications and case studies.
Автор: Cuneyt M.Alper, Charles D.Bluestone, Margaretha L.Casselbrant
Издательство: BC Decker Inc
Год издания: 2004
isbn: 1550092014
Количество страниц: 554
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
It is common knowledge that otitis media is the most frequent diagnosis made by physicians who provide health care to infants and children. However, clinicians often confront older patients who develop this disease, which occurs in all age groups. It is estimated that over 20,000 adults have tympanostomy tubes inserted in their ears annually. Otitis media is a worldwide disease that not only has a substantial impact on patients and their families, but also is a burden on health care systems in both industrialized nations and developing countries. Thus, we now have Advanced Therapy in Otitis Media, which provides answers to clinical care questions from the most common problems to the relatively rare complications and sequelae of otitis media. This content is targeted at clinicians who face this disease daily, in their practice, in a variety of presentations. They include primary care physicians in the community and in tertiary care medical centers, including pediatricians, internists, family care practitioners, specialists in otolaryngology, immunology and allergy, and infectious diseases, and medical students and residents in training. Because the disease is universal, the information provided is directed toward clinicians around the world.
Автор: Kent H.McKnight, Vera B.McKnight
Издательство: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Год издания: 1998
isbn: 0395910900
Количество страниц: 448
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Nearly all nature-oriented people profess a love affair with the flowers, but only a limited number admit to a similar passion for mushrooms, other than as a table delicacy. Some people would dismiss them as "toadstools," to be ranked with spiders, snakes, bats, and other things that have become symbolic of the dark side of life. By contrast, many country folk on the continent of Europe adore the various edible fungi. They are mushroom lovers— "mycophiles," if you will. But other cultures who live in the lands bordering the North Sea, notably the English, might be called "mycophobes"—toadstool haters. Why this dichotomy? The answer probably lies in tradition, inherited from the lost legends and superstitions of antiquity. Or, the prejudice against mushrooms may have developed because a small minority of species, notably the Amanitas and a few others, are dangerous if eaten. They are toxic; sometimes deadly, or at least hallucinogenic.
Автор: Colin Bentley
Издательство: Butterworth Heinemann
Год издания: 2002
isbn: 0750653302
Количество страниц: 392
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Project management is a very unusual job, but millions of us do it. Project management has been done for centuries. The pyramids, the Great Wall of China, bridges over rivers, holidays, business trips, these are just a few examples of projects. ‘Project management is just common sense.’ Of course it is. So why do so many of us get it wrong? Even if we get one project right, we probably make a mess of the next. And why do we keep getting it wrong time after time? You need to be armed with a little more than common sense when diving into a project such as constructing a pyramid. It’s no good getting half way through, then remembering you forgot to put in the damp course!
Автор: David A.Labonte
Издательство: Wiley
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 0470357673
Количество страниц: 227
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Sometimes the simplest concepts are the hardest to see, but have the greatest impact on life. And so it is with Shiny Objects Marketing. One of two things usually happens when I explain the concept of Shiny Objects Marketing to people. They either give me a dumbfounded look and say, “ Yeah, so? ” as though they ’ ve known this principle all their lives and are wondering what the big deal is; or they let the thought bounce around in their heads for a few moments, congealing and gathering momentum and then suddenly light up as though they ’ ve just undergone a spiritual awakening. The latter “ gets it. ” The former has a lot of work to do to scrape away the obviousness from the glasses through which they view life. They are the same people who look at a sunset and simply see the sun going down, while the latter group sees a beautiful masterpiece of creation. The more you ’ re willing to give in to the notion of Shiny Objects Marketing, the more you will see fundamental and life - changing applications that this concept can bring to your everyday world.
Автор: Robert S.McElvaine, Tony Badger, Roger Biles, Patricia Sullivan, Joe W. Trotter
Издательство: Thomson Gale
Год издания: 2004
isbn: 0028659082
Количество страниц: 596
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
The Great Depression, the worldwide economic collapse that began in 1929 and ended only well after the outbreak of World War II a decade later, remains a topic of widespread fascination.There are several reasons for such continuing interest.Among them is the fact that the experience was seared into the lives, memories, and outlooks of an entire generation, coloring its members’ views of their subsequent experiences. Another reason for the intense interest in the Depression is that it seemed to contradict the expectations of most Americans and their experiences of relative prosperity throughout most of the time since. Then there is the era’s defiance of the modern trend toward individualism and the identification of personal well-being with material consumption. Those who object to the modern rush toward ever greater selfishness and self-indulgence are drawn to the alternate visions of co-operation and rejection of consumerism evident in the Great Depression.
Автор: Christian Bluhm, Ludger Overbeck, Christoph Wagner
Издательство: Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Год издания: 2002
isbn: 158488326X
Количество страниц: 285
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
In today's increasingly competitive financial world, successful risk management, portfolio management, and financial structuring demand more than up-to-date financial know-how. They also call for quantitative expertise, including the ability to effectively apply mathematical modeling tools and techniques. An Introduction to Credit Risk Modeling supplies both the bricks and the mortar of risk management. In a gentle and concise lecture-note style, it introduces the fundamentals of credit risk management, provides a broad treatment of the related modeling theory and methods, and explores their application to credit portfolio securitization, credit risk in a trading portfolio, and credit derivatives risk. The presentation is thorough but refreshingly accessible, foregoing unnecessary technical details yet remaining mathematically precise.Whether you are a risk manager looking for a more quantitative approach to credit risk or you are planning a move from the academic arena to a career in professional credit risk management, An Introduction to Credit Risk Modeling is the book you've been looking for.
Автор: John McIlwain
Издательство: DK Children
Год издания: 2009
isbn: 0756651964
Количество страниц: 256
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
This is a child's perfect dictionary. Thousands of fascinating entries, definitions, photographs and pictures make this dictionary an essential reference for readers, writers and curious minds of all ages. Organised like a traditional dictionary from A to Z, clear descriptions and examples explain and illustrate everything from Astronaut to Zoo. It is perfect for building your child's understanding of language and improving their spelling and grammar. Packed with special full-page features on major subjects and developed in close consultation with experts in children's language teaching, this is the ultimate reference tool for your child.
Автор: Anna Del Conte, Thomas Laessoe
Издательство: DK ADULT
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 0756638674
Количество страниц: 192
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Beginning in the kitchen, readers learn how to prepare wild fungi for cooking, then how to make sixty mouthwatering recipes from Scrambled Chanterelles to Baked Mushroom Polenta. Moving on to the field, The Edible Mushroom Book tells you where and when to forage, provides an identification guide, and includes information on more than fifty-five edible mushrooms.
Автор: Terry L.Koglin
Издательство: Wiley
Год издания: 2003
isbn: 0471419605
Количество страниц: 682
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
This book is intended to be a description of movable bridges of the United States and a comprehensive source of engineering information for bridges of this type. It discusses selection, design, construction, maintenance, inspection, and evaluation of movable bridges. Movable bridges are basically very large machines, so that although this area does not dominate the book, there is a heavy emphasis on mechanical machinery. Structural and electrical issues are discussed, but because a great deal of information in those areas also pertains to many subjects other than movable bridges, their presentation here is limited. Space limitations prevent the more complete examination of several topics in movable bridge engineering that would be of interest to many readers. Other topics that some would have liked to see discussed have been left out altogether. No attempt has been made to present a “cookbook” method of solving problems, not so much due to space limitations as to the belief by the author that each movable bridge is unique and should be designed, constructed, maintained, inspected, and evaluated on that basis. Anyone with a specific movable bridge problem is invited to ask the author for specific assistance. Contact can be made via the Wiley web site (www.wiley.com/go/movablebridge). Any other comments, particularly updates of movable bridge information such as the listing of movable bridges which can also be found at the Wiley web site, are welcome.
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