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Understanding, Assessing, and Responding to Terrorism

Brian P. Bennett

Preparedness is the best weapon against terrorism Understanding, Assessing, and Responding to Terrorism: Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Personnel gives a detailed explanation of how to imp...

Emergency Management

Lucien G. Canton

This book propounds an all-hazards, multidisciplinary approach to emergency management. It discusses the emergency manager’s role, details how to establish an effective, integrated program, and ...

Nanosilicon

Properties of nanosilicon in the form of nanoparticles, nanowires, nanotubes, and as porous material are of great interest. They can be used in finding suitable components for future miniature dev...

Computational Mesomechanics of Composites

Leon L. Mishnaevsky

Mechanical properties of composite materials can be improved by tailoring their microstructures. Optimal microstructures of composites, which ensure desired properties of composite materials, can ...

Regio- and Stereo-Controlled Oxidations and Reductions, Volume 5

Volume 5 in the <i>Catalysts for Fine Chemical Synthesis</i> series describes new procedures for the regio- and stereo-controlled transformations of compounds involving oxidation or re...

Liquid Phase Epitaxy of Electronic, Optical and Optoelectronic Materials

Liquid-Phase Epitaxy (LPE) is a technique used in the bulk growth of crystals, typically in semiconductor manufacturing, whereby the crystal is grown from a rich solution of the semiconductor onto...

Nitric Oxide

This volume provides a novel insight to the evolutionary and comparative aspects of nitric oxide- nitric oxide synthase system as a central regulator of invertebrate and vertebrate homeostasis. By...

Lateral Alignment of Epitaxial Quantum Dots

<P>This book describes the full range of possible strategies for laterally aligning self-assembled quantum dots on a substrate surface, beginning with pure self-ordering mechanisms and culmi...

Titanium

Gerd Lütjering / James C. Williams

<P>This comprehensive summary of the current state of the art of titanium addresses all aspects of titanium. It is all covered, from the magical metal’s basic characteristics and physical ...

Combinatorial Materials Science

Marc D. Porter

<i>Combinatorial Materials Science</i> describes new developments and research results in catalysts, biomaterials, and nanomaterials, together with informatics approaches to the analys...

Models of Itinerant Ordering in Crystals

This book is devoted to the mathematical description of interesting phenomena which occur in solids, such as ferromagnetism, antiferromagnetism and superconductivity. Superconductivity and its int...

Counterterrorist Detection Techniques of Explosives

The detection of hidden explosives has become an issue of utmost importance in recent years. While terrorism is not new to the international community, recent terrorist attacks have raised the iss...

Centrifugal Separations in Biotechnology

This book is the first devoted to centrifugal separation in biotechnology. It is of value toprofessionals in the chemical, bioprocess, and biotech sectors, and all those concerned with bioseparati...

Metamorphic Rocks: A Classification and Glossary of Terms

Crystals

Ichiro Sunagawa

Light Scattering from Polymer Solutions and Nanoparticle Dispersions

Wolfgang Schärtl

<P>Light scattering is a very powerful method for characterizing the structure of polymers and nanoparticles in solution. As part of the Springer Laboratory series, this book provides a simp...

Practical Data Analysis in Chemistry

The majority of modern instruments are computerised and provide incredible amounts of data. Methods that take advantage of the flood of data are now available; importantly they do not emulate '...

Computational Quantum Mechanics for Materials Engineers

Levente Vitos

<P>This is the only book to cover the most recent developments in applied quantum theory and their use in modeling materials properties. It describes new approaches to modeling disordered al...

Shaped Crystals

<P>This volume offers an overview of the growth of shaped crystals (oxides, fluorides, etc.) by the micro-pulling-down technique. Both melt and solution (flux) growth are considered. The adv...

Environmental Degradation and Transformation of Organic Chemicals

Ann-Sofie Allard