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This text covers the fundamentals of reciprocating compressors and the techniques for maintaining them. It discusses the theory of operation, and describes methods of proper installation, troubleshooting, overhauling and repairing of all types of compressors.

The scope of service provided by professional accountants is influenced by legislation and case law as well as the dictates of a variety of government and private sector agencies. This annual serial addresses regulatory issues and policy affecting the practice of accountancy, broadly defined.

A comprehensive reference for security professionals. It covers the psychological, the physical, and the practical aspects involved in training defensive tactics. It stresses the types of situations a security professional could encounter and recommends how to handle them. It draws on the author's almost 40 years of experience.

Cell separation is at the core of methods in experimental biology and medicine. This book provides examples of how to calculate the volume magnetic susceptibility, a fundamental quantity for calculating the magnetic force acting on a cell, from various types of magnetic susceptibilities available in literature.

Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is an emission spectroscopy technique where atoms and ions are primarily formed in their excited states as a result of interaction between a tightly focused laser beam and the material sample. This book includes the basic principles and developments in instrumentation and the applications of LIBS.

Knowledge Representation, which lies at the core of Artificial Intelligence, is concerned with encoding knowledge on computers to enable systems to reason automatically. This book reviews twenty-five key topics in knowledge representation. It is useful for students, researchers and practitioners in various areas of Artificial Intelligence.

Describes methods for evaluation of long-term performance of Permeable Reactive Barrier (PRB) systems, especially of those targeting heavy metals, specifically uranium, and organic contaminants by sorption and/or precipitation mechanisms. This book presents an approach to investigating long-term performance of permeable reactive barriers.

Suitable for researchers in business, accounting and finance, this book features articles, which address a range of issues and obstacles that researchers have confronted at various stages in their respective research careers.

Germanium is a semiconductor material that formed the basis for the development of transistor technology. This book aims to provide an in-depth coverage of the field, including various advances in Ge-technology and the fundamentals in material science, device physics and semiconductor processing.

This is the first volume in a series dealing with advances in haemodynamics and haemorheology. Topics covered in this book include viscoelastic properties of blood and blood analogues; blood flow through narrow tubes; and numerical modelling of blood flow.

A practical guide for industry or academics to the measurement of surface area and pore size using the tool of physical adsorption. It describes the instrumentation for measuring the isotherm, and presents recommendations as to what instrumentation would be most appropriate for a particular application.

Introducing zeolites, and related materials such as crystalline aluminium phosphates and clays, this volume provides treatments of zeolite theory (including a review of major developments), zeolite laboratory and research practice, and zeolite industry applications. It serves students and individuals as a guidebook.

Presents work that has been conducted as part of the research project 'Discourse on ethical questions of biomedicine' of the interdisciplinary Working Group Bioethics and Science Communication at the Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC)in Berlin-Buch, Germany.

Addresses emerging statistical challenges in epidemiological, biomedical, and pharmaceutical research. This volume features: methods for assessing Biomarkers, analysis of competing risks; clinical trials including sequential and group sequential, crossover designs, cluster randomized, and adaptive designs; and, structural equations modelling.

Analyses three important heterogeneous processes, namely, adsorption, ion exchange and catalysis, from fundamental kinetics to reactor design with emphasis on their environmental applications. This title provides basic knowledge of major environmental problems and connects them to chemical engineering.

A continuation of the multi-volume "A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems", this book focuses on abduction. Here, abduction is construed as ignorance-preserving inference, in which conjecture plays a pivotal role. Abduction is a response to a cognitive target that cannot be hit on the basis of what the agent currently knows.

Information Security is achieved through a mix of technical, organizational and legal measures. This book includes: the emergence of cryptology as a discipline during the Renaissance, the Black Chambers in 18th century Europe, the breaking of German military codes during World War II, and the histories of the NSA and its Soviet counterparts.

A simple prototype hydrodynamic instability demonstrates many features of other flow instabilities. In this text, the authors discuss the special case of interfacial wave dynamics on a thin film that flows down an inclined plane.

Traditionally society has regulated hazardous industries by detailed references to engineering codes, standards and hardware requirements. This guide to safety and risk analysis in Marine Systems identifies instances where traditional techniques fall short, and highlights uncertainties that manifest within risk analysis.

Intended for professionals and students involved in designing, manufacturing, and specifying products and systems that use batteries, this book provides data on specific battery types, manufacturers and suppliers. It offers coverage of different types of battery, ranging from minute button cells to large installations.

Brings together a systematic review of the research topics, empirical findings, and methods that comprise modern labor economics. This book intends to serve as an introduction to what has been done in this field, and indicates possible future trends in both spheres of public and private decision-making.

Provides an overview of plant names, including over 12,500 terms covering 298 families, 2,787 genera and 9,427 species which are listed in the alphabetical order of their botanical names. This dictionary offers a presentation of the common names in the four languages. It has more than 17,250 English names.

Provides an overview of the area of research covering various aspects of the separation of isotopes of biogenic elements, from the value of isotope effects to their practical use with the purpose of extraction from the natural mixture of the highly concentrated isotopes. This book is of interest to scientists, engineers, and technical workers.

Contains contributions from the Femtochemistry VII conference held in Washington DC, 17-22 July 2005. This book covers various subjects, including imaging, structural dynamics, and spectroscopies, fundamentals of reaction dynamics, salvation phenomenta, liquids and interfaces, aggregates/particles/surfaces, and protein dynamics and photobiology.

Contains articles about advancements in the development of accounting and its related disciplines from an international perspective. This book welcomes traditional and alternative approaches, including theoretical research, empirical research, applied research, and cross-cultural studies.

Presents work from six different groups working on various aspects of cycloaddition chemistry. This title gives us an account of the chemistry of B-alkoxy-g-pyrones and related species. It discusses advances in rhodium carbenoid chemistry and the unusual cycloaddition processes possible with these intermediates.

This title publishes articles about developments in accounting from an international perspective. This serial examines how these affect the financial reporting and disclosure practices, taxation, management accounting practices, and auditing of multinational corporations.