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Paediatric Forensic Medicine and Pathology
by Anthony Busuttil Jean KeelingChild abuse and suspicious child deaths are very complicated matters for clinicians, pathologists, law enforcement officials and legal professionals to investigate. Meanwhile, the evidence base for forensic pathology, especially in paediatrics, is steadily growing.
Color Atlas and Manual of Microscopy for Criminalists, Chemists, and Conservators
by Thomas Kubic Nicholas PetracoProfessionals in many disciplines, from archeology to forensic science and anthropology, must be able to identify organic and inorganic fibers and particles. In a single source, this book presents a range of simple methods to help readers quickly characterize and identify a broad range of materials.
Liver Metabolism and Fatty Liver Disease (Oxidative Stress and Disease #34)
by Oren TiroshAbout 30% of the general population suffers from Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, and the incidence of more serious fatty liver disorders increases with obesity. This discusses the current understanding of development of liver disease and the clinical aspects of fatty liver disease by examining the current knowledge regarding the absorption, metabolism of fat in the liver. It summarizes the current knowledge regarding the involvement of oxidative stress, the metabolic effects inflammation, and the effect of nutrition in the disease development and progression.
Building A Wireless Office
by Gilbert HeldSales of IEEE 802.11x compliant wireless LANs are exploding. Unfortunately the manuals accompanying the equipment do not address topics such as site selection, equipment interoperability with products from other vendors, and how to acquire and configure the different firewall, network address translation, and router software necessary when connecting to the Internet. Building a Wireless Office is a how-to guide that explains technical issues in non-technical terms. Written for a wide audience, it teaches how wireless LANs operate, the difference between available and emerging products, and why wireless LANs that operate at higher data rates may not be suitable or cost effective for all organizations.
Landslides and Climate Change: Proceedings of the International Conference on Landslides and Climate Change, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, UK, 21-24 May 2007
by R. McInnes J. Jakeways H. Fairbank E. MathieInvestigates the relationship between landslides and climate change. Considers proactive approaches to hazard and risk management, combining geohazard modelling and prediction with effective risk management and informed planning policy, as a means of safeguarding the sustainability of communities at risk.
Oceanography and Marine Biology: An annual review. Volume 53 (ISSN)
by A. C. Dale I. P. Smith R. N. Hughes D. J. HughesThe book examines basic areas of marine research, subjects of special and topical importance; and new areas as they arise. This series is consistently among the highest ranking in terms of impact factor in the marine biology category of the citation indices compiled by the Institute of Scientific Information. It is an essential reference for research workers and students in all fields of marine science, and the series volumes find a place in the libraries of universities, marine laboratories, research institutes and government departments.
Finding Your Way with Your Baby: The Emotional Life of Parents and Babies
by Dilys Daws Alexandra de RementeriaFinding Your Way with Your Baby explores the emotional experience of the baby in the first year and that of the mother, father and other significant adults. This updated edition is informed by latest research in neuroscience, psychoanalysis and infant observation and decades of clinical experience. It also includes important new findings about how the mother’s brain undergoes massive restructuring during the transition to parenthood, a phenomenon that has been named ‘matrescence.’ The authors engage with the difficult emotional experiences that are often glossed over in parenting books – such as bonding, ambivalence about the baby, depression and the emotional turmoil of being a new parent. Acknowledgement and understanding of this darker side of family life offer a sense of relief that can allow parents to harness the power of knowing, owning and sharing feelings to transform situations and break negative cycles and old ways of relating. With real-life examples, the book remains a helpful resource for parents, as well as professionals interested in ideas from psychoanalytic clinical practice including health visitors, midwives, social workers, general practitioners, paediatricians and childcare workers.
Electronics in Textiles and Clothing: Design, Products and Applications
by L. Ashok Kumar C. VigneswaranThis book covers the basic fundamentals of electronics and their applications in textiles and clothing product development. With increasing awareness about the e-textiles, researchers and scientists are finding ways to treat the textile materials integrating with electronics for communication/signal transferring applications. The book discusses wearable electronics, fabric production techniques for wearable electronics, design of circuits and integration into wearable electronic fabrics, product development, software development, design and development of wearable electronic flexible solar tent, and garment integrated wearable electronic products.
Berry Fruit: Value-Added Products for Health Promotion (ISSN)
by Yanyun ZhaoValued for its unique flavors, textures, and colors, berry fruit is a rapidly-growing crop that provides significant health benefits due to its many bioactive components. Berry Fruit: Value-Added Products for Health Promotion provides an understanding of the functional chemicals, shelf-life and microbial safety concerns, and applications in the food industry. Written by international experts, each chapter presents scientific background, research results, critical reviews of relevant issues, and case studies. Chapters include worldwide production information, bioactive food constituents and their potential health benefits, methods of enhancing food quality, and potential uses of berry processing by-products.
Sustainable Agroecosystem Management: Integrating Ecology, Economics, and Society
by Patrick J. Bohlen Gar HouseSustainable Agroecosystem Management: Integrating Ecology, Economics, and Society examines the challenges for developing integrated approaches to the management of agricultural ecosystems. Providing historical background of attempts to bridge the ecological and agricultural sciences, this book highlights recent efforts to integrate natural and social science perspectives. Through various case studies with global applications, the text explores practical innovative strategies, policies, and research needs for emphasizing whole system productivity, diversification of agricultural operations, and management of agricultural systems that sustain multiple functions including ecological integrity.
Principles of Proteomics
by Richard Twyman Ph.D Cfe George A.Principles of Proteomics, Second Edition, provides a concise and user-friendly introduction to the diverse technologies used for the large-scale analysis of proteins, as well as their applications, and their impact in areas such as drug discovery, agriculture, and the fight against disease. Proteomics is a fast-advancing field in which researchers seek to capture all the proteins in the cell and characterize them in ever more detail. Principles of Proteomics has been fully updated to reflect the most recent developments in the field without losing its focus on the underlying principles. With worked examples, case studies profiling both established and emerging technologies, and further reading lists for each chapter, Principles of Proteomics is an ideal introduction for students, researchers and those working in the industry.
Principles of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis: Theory and Practice (Practical Aspects Of Criminal And Forensic Investigation Ser.)
by Stuart H. James Paul E. Kish T. Paulette SuttonAs witnessed in landmark criminal cases, the quality and integrity of bloodstain evidence can be a crucial factor in determining a verdict.
Get ahead! Specialties: 250 SBAs for Finals (Get ahead!)
by Hannah Roberts Fiona Bach Elizabeth Waddington Peter Cartledge Mahesh JayaramThis new edition of Get ahead! Specialties: 250 SBAs for Finals is an invaluable practice aid for medical students preparing for final exams. Written by an experienced team of authors under the guidance of Saran Shantikumar, it covers the entire syllabus in a clear and comprehensive style. The book covers paediatrics, obstetrics, gynaecology, and psychiatry. With practice questions similar to those in the real exam and full explanatory answers, this book is an essential aid for achieving success in the medical school final exams.
Handbook of Prebiotics and Probiotics Ingredients: Health Benefits and Food Applications
by Susan Sungsoo Cho E. Terry FinocchiaroWhile there is little dispute that probiotics and prebiotics, alone and together, have been proven to promote gastrointestinal health and proper immune function, the challenge faced by researchers is finding not only the right combinations, but also finding those that are fully compatible with the formulation, processing, packaging, and distribution of functional foods. This volume comprehensively explores these variables and highlights the most current biological research and applications. It examines the sources of prebiotics and probiotics, describes the physiological functions of both products, and discusses promising applications for a plethora of disorders.
An Introduction to Mathematics for Engineers: Mechanics
by Stephen LeeThis new introductory mechanics textbook is written for engineering students within further and higher education who are looking to bridge the gap between A-Level and university or college.
Forensic Biology
by Richard LiFocusing on forensic serology and forensic DNA analysis, this book introduces students to the methods and techniques utilized by forensic biology laboratories. Using schematic illustrations to clarify concepts, this second edition explores the latest DNA profiling tools, contains three new chapters, and provides 200 new images. It also includes new tables for many chapters. Covering the full scope of forensic biology, the book uses an accessible style designed to enhance students education and training so they are prepared, both in the laboratory and in the field.
Fractured Rock Hydrogeology (ISSN)
by John M. SharpUnderstanding of groundwater flow and solute transport in fractured rocks is vital for analysis of water resources, water quality and environmental protection, geotechnical and engineering projects, and geothermal energy production. This book includes theoretical and practical analyses using numerical modelling, geochemistry, isotopes, aquifer tests, laboratory tests, field mapping, geophysics, geological analyses, and some unique combinations of these types of investigation. Current water resource and geotechnical problems and the techniques now used are also discussed. Aimed at practicing hydrogeologists, engineers, ecologists, resource managers, students and earth scientists.
Introduction to Compiler Construction in a Java World
by Bill Campbell Swami Iyer Bahar Akbal-DelibasImmersing students in Java and the JVM, this text enables a deep understanding of the Java programming language and its implementation. It focuses on design, organization, and testing, helping students learn good software engineering skills and become better programmers. By working with and extending a real, functional compiler, students develop a hands-on appreciation of how compilers work, how to write compilers, and how the Java language behaves. Fully documented Java code for the compiler is accessible on a supplementary website.
Progress in Mine Safety Science and Engineering II
by Xueqiu He Wenxue Chen Xiangchun Li Hani Mitri Baisheng Nie Yunhai Wang Ting X RenProgress in Mine Safety Science and Engineering II discusses mine safety techniques and technologies, methods and approaches, as well as problems and issues, and will be of invaluable to academics and engineers interested or involved in mine safety issues.
Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation (ISSN)
by Shane G. Sturman L. Wayne Hoover David E. Zulawski Douglas E. WicklanderBuilding on the foundation of the bestselling first edition, Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation, Second Edition expands its coverage to include discussions of false confessions, telephone interviewing, field interviewing, sexual harassment interviewing, confronting the alleged harasser, pre-employment interviewing, new legal aspects, juvenile interviewing, common mistakes, and frequently asked questions. Useful in both the law enforcement and private sectors, this work allows readers to deal effectively with the complex problems of interviewing and interrogating victims, witnesses, suspects, and even prospective employees.
Critical Urban Infrastructure Handbook
by M. HamadaA reference for engineers and facilities professionals involved in the planning, operations, management, and maintenance of all urban utilities, this handbook addresses water supply and sewerage, power, gas, telecommunications joint utility corridor (utilidor) lifeline facilities, and other critical civil infrastructure lifelines. It covers the design and construction of facilities, maintenance, disaster management, environmental protection, and disaster and emergency recovery measures. It also discusses urban planning, life cycle cost, GIS analysis of lifeline systems, computerized integrated management systems, and the use of new materials and technologies.
Vision Rehabilitation: Multidisciplinary Care of the Patient Following Brain Injury
by Penelope S. Suter Lisa H. HarveyProviding all of the necessary information required to provide post-acute vision rehabilitative care following brain injury, this multidisciplinary book bridges the gap between theory and practice and presents clinical information and scientific literature supporting the diagnostic and therapeutic strategies applied. It covers all areas of vision care including the structure and function of the eye, organization of visual perception in the brain, and rehabilitation concepts applied to the visual system. It offers cutting-edge research, prescribing lenses and prisms, and therapy techniques that will enable even the experienced clinician to provide enhanced care to the brain injury patient.
Land Rights, Ethno-nationality and Sovereignty in History (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)
by Stanley L. Engerman Jacob MetzerThe complex relationships between ethno-nationality, rights to land, and territorial sovereignty have long fed disputes over territorial control and landed rights between different nations, ethnicities, and religions. These disputes raise a number of interesting issues related to the nature of land regimes and to their economic and political implications.The studies drawn together in this key volume explore these and related issues for a broad variety of countries and times. They illuminate the diverse causes of ethno-national land disputes, and the different forms of adjustment and accommodation to the power differences between the contesting groups. This is done within a framework outlined by the editors in their analytical overview, which offers contours for comparative examinations of such disputes, past and present.Providing conceptual and factual analyses of comparative nature and wealth of empirical material (both historical and contemporary), this book will appeal to economic historians, economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and all scholars interested in issues concerning ethno-nationality and land rights in historical perspective.
Computational Modeling of Polymer Composites: A Study of Creep and Environmental Effects (Applied and Computational Mechanics)
by Samit Roy J.N. ReddyThis book provides a better understanding of the theories associated with finite element models of elastic and viscoelastic response of polymers and polymer composites. It covers computational modeling and life-prediction of polymers and polymeric composites in aggressive environments. It begins with a review of mathematical preliminaries, equations of anisotropic elasticity, and then presents finite element analysis of viscoelasticity and the diffusion process in polymers and polymeric composites. The book provides a reference for engineers and scientists and can be used as a textbook in graduate courses.
Hotel Laguna: A Novel
by Nicola HarrisonIn 1942, Hazel Francis left Wichita, Kansas for California, determined to do her part for the war effort. At Douglas Aircraft, she became one of many “Rosie the Riveters,” helping construct bombers for the U. S. military. But now the war is over, men have returned to their factory jobs, and women like Hazel have been dismissed, expected to return home to become wives and mothers.Unwilling to be forced into a traditional woman’s role in the Midwest, Hazel remains on the west coast, and finds herself in the bohemian town of Laguna Beach. Desperate for work, she accepts a job as an assistant to famous artist Hanson Radcliff. Beloved by the locals for his contributions to the art scene and respected by the critics, Radcliff lives under the shadow of a decades old scandal that haunts him.Working hard to stay on her cantankerous employer’s good side, Hazel becomes a valued member of the community. She never expected to fall in love with the rhythms of life in Laguna, nor did she expect to find a kindred spirit in Jimmy, the hotel bartender whose friendship promises something more. But Hazel still wants to work with airplanes—maybe even learn to fly one someday. Torn between pursuing her dream and the dream life she has been granted, she is unsure if giving herself over to Laguna is what her heart truly wants.