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Presents an introduction to ecological modelling. This title explains the concepts and processes involved in ecological modelling, presents the developments in the field and provides readers with the tools to construct their own models.

Focuses on the fundamental concepts of agricultural economics. This volume examines the developments in human resources and technology mastery. It considers the processes and impact of invention and innovation in this field. It examines the effects of market forces and analyses the economics of our changing natural resources.

Covers properties of hydrocarbon mixtures, flow natural flow of fluids, natural flow performance, artificial lift methods and corrosion and scaling. This book provides engineers with a basis for understanding important concepts such a flow phenomena, hydrate formation, pressure (surge) waves, or high viscosity liquid flow failure.

Demonstrates the thought processes that are involved in attacking a problem from an SQL perspective to help advanced database programmers solve the puzzles that you frequently face. This book presents a collection of SQL puzzles with a variety of solutions and explanations.

Presents an introduction to refinery engineering topics, from basic concepts and unit operations to overall refinery economics, planning and control. Based on the fundamentals of thermodynamics and kinetics, this text develops the scientific background needed to understand refinery operations.

Offers information on optical networking technologies and techniques. This book discusses componentry and transmission with an emphasis on practical networking issues that affect organizations as they evaluate, deploy, or develop optical networks.

A guide to Test and Measurement.

Perfectly intelligent programmers often struggle when forced to work with SQL. Why? This title intends to change the way you think about the problems you solve with SQL programs. Focusing on three key table-based techniques, it reveals their power through detailed examples and explanations.

Embedded software is present everywhere - from a garage door opener to implanted medical devices to multicore computer systems. This book covers the development and testing of embedded software from many different angles and using different programming languages.

Surveys and explains the technical area of high security locks. This book presents over 100 different locks, organized into 6 basic types. Each chapter introduces the necessary concepts in a historical perspective and further categorizes the locks.

Insecure transportation systems are costing our worldwide mobility-based economy as much as 6 per cent of GDP annually. This title examines this problem in a comprehensive manner and addresses security-based technologies and solutions to minimize risk. It covers air, sea, roadway, rail and public transport modes.

Containing case examples, organizational analysis and project planning tools, this book looks at that longer, organizational view of product development, and how that view can improve product development cycle times and better take advantage of new market opportunities.

Suitable for the practicing or aspiring design consultant, this title brings you step by step through the process of becoming a security consultant, describing how to start the business, market services, write proposals, determine fees, and write a report. It focuses on consulting in security design, not security management.

A companion to "Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science, and Personalities", this volume presents viewpoints on subjects related to analog circuit design. It includes visualizing operation of analog circuits. It also describes troubleshooting for optimum circuit performance, and demonstrates how to produce a saleable product.

Security metrics is the application of quantitative, statistical, and/or mathematical analyses to measuring security functional trends and workload. This title provides basic guidance to security professionals so that they can measure the costs of their assets protection program - their security program - as well as its successes and failures.

Set theory is an autonomous and sophisticated field of mathematics that is extremely successful at analyzing mathematical propositions and gauging their consistency strength. This handbook covers the rich history of scientific turning points in set theory, providing fresh insights and points of view.

Presents the essays on the work in social choice theory and welfare economics. This title discusses the historical background of social choice theory, the vistas opened by Arrow's "Social Choice and Individual Values", the famous 'socialist planning' controversy, and the theoretical and practical significance of social choice theory.

By covering the essential tips and techniques for investigators, this work includes anecdotes, case studies, and documented procedures. It is intended for those interested in investigations, and also for the readers in and out of the law enforcement field.

Covers the key areas of computer science, including recursive function theory, formal languages, and automata. This book is divided into five parts: Computability, Grammars and Automata, Logic, Complexity, and Unsolvability. It also covers in a variety of different arrangements automata theory, computational logic, and complexity theory.

Corporate data is important as companies continue to find new ways to use it. This book deals with assessing the quality of corporate data and improving its accuracy using the data profiling method. It explains data profiling and shows how it fits into the larger picture of data quality.

Describes the risk management methodology as a specific process, a theory, or a procedure for determining your assets, vulnerabilities, and threats and how security professionals can protect them. This book addresses a systematic approach to logical decision-making about the allocation of scarce security resources.

Takes stock of the main empirical findings across a spectrum of corporate finance issues, ranging from econometric methodology, to raising capital and capital structure choice, and to managerial incentives and corporate investment behavior.

Featuring a section on debug, this work includes coverage of avoiding common hardware, software and interrupt problems. It also contains a section on system integration and debug to address the capabilities of emulators and debuggers, a section about combination microcontroller/PLD devices, and information on industry standard embedded platforms.

Provides a source of information containing insights into petrochemical reactions and products, process technology, and polymer synthesis. This book reviews and describes the reactions and processes involved in transforming petroleum-based hydrocarbons into the chemicals that form the basis of the multi-billion dollar petrochemical industry.

Describes the theory behind and the practical design of data conversion circuits as well as describing the different architectures used in A/D and D/A converters. This work provides details on the design of high-speed ADCs, high accuracy DACs and ADCs, and sample-and-hold amplifiers.

Blowout and Well Control Handbook, Second Edition, brings the engineer and rig personnel up to date on all the useful methods, equipment, and project details needed to solve daily well control challenges. Blowouts are the most expensive and one of the most preventable accidents in the oil and gas industry. While some rig crews experience frequent well control incidents, some go years before seeing the real thing. Either way, the crew must always be prepared with quick understanding of the operations and calculations necessary to maintain well control. Updated to cover the lessons learned and new technology following the Macondo incident, this fully detailed reference will cover detection of influxes and losses in equipment and methods, a greater emphasis on kick tolerance considerations, an expanded section on floating drilling and deepwater floating drilling procedures, and a new blowout case history from Bangladesh. With updated photos, case studies, and practice examples, Blowout and Well Control Handbook, Second Edition will continue to deliver critical and modern well control information to ensure engineers and personnel stay safe, environmentally-responsible, and effective on the rig. Features updated and new case studies including a chapter devoted to the lessons learned and new procedures following MacondoTeaches new technology such as liquid packer techniques and a new chapter devoted to relief well design and operationsImproves on both offshore and onshore operations with expanded material and photos on special conditions, challenges, and control procedures throughout the entire cycle of the well

Most Perl programmers were originally trained as C and Unix programmers, so the Perl programs that they write bear a strong resemblance to C programs. However, Perl incorporates many features that have their roots in other languages such as Lisp. This title introduces powerful programming methods and shows how to improve everyday programs.

Valves are the components in a fluid flow or pressure system that regulate either the flow or the pressure of the fluid. They are used in the process industries, especially petrochemical. This book analyzes the use, construction, and selection of valves in a comprehensive manner. It covers environmentally-conscious equipment and practices.

Provides detailed explained processes for each phase of Lean Maintenance implementation providing examples, checklists and methodologies. This work is suitable for every plant and facility that is planning, or even thinking of adopting 'Lean' as their mode of operation.