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This book discusses the development and application of photonic techniques which aid the diagnosis and therapeutics of biological tissues in both healthy and diseased states.

Volume 9: Historical Perspectives, Part B: Notable People in Mass Spectrometry of The Encyclopedia of Mass Spectrometry briefly reviews the lives and works of many of the major people who carried out this development, providing insights into the history of mass spectrometry applications through the personal stories of pioneers and innovators in the field. The book presents biographies of notable contributors, including Nobel Prize winners J. J. Thomson, Francis W. Aston, Wolfgang Paul, John B. Fenn, and Koichi Tanaka, along with other luminaries in the field, including Franz Hillenkamp, Catherine Clarke Fenselau, Alfred O. C. Nier, and many more, discussing not only the instruments and their uses, but also providing interesting information on the careers, characters, and life stories of the people who did the work.

How well does your organization manage the risks associated with information quality? Managing information risk is becoming a top priority on the organizational agenda. This book provides you with all the fundamental concepts, guidelines and tools to ensure core business information is identified, protected and used effectively.

An introductory review of the various theoretical and practical aspects of adsorption by powders and porous solids with particular reference to materials of technological importance. It includes chapters dealing with experimental methodology and the interpretation of adsorption data obtained with porous oxides, carbons and zeolites.

Provides an overview of non-relational technologies so that you can become more nimble to meet the needs of your organization. This book covers three areas that make today's new data different from the data of the past: velocity, volume and variety.

Provides the reader with an understandable overview of the chemistry, engineering, and technology of oil sands. This book features: overview of the chemistry, engineering, and technology of oil sands; updates on the evolving processes and new processes; and evolving and environmental regulations regarding oil sands production processes.

Provides an insight into the global developments of the GaAs industry to 2004, and the implications for both suppliers and users of GaAs technology. This report also supplies market analysis by component type and application sectors.

Provides techniques for the development of safe and secure embedded software. This title covers a study of the system architectures, operating systems and hypervisors, networking, storage, and cryptographic issues that must be considered when designing secure embedded systems.

Demystifies the concept, technology and application of analytics and breaks its implementation down to repeatable and manageable steps, making it possible for widespread adoption across all functions of an organization. This title provides an approach to identify opportunities, extract requirements, design variables and build and test models.

Presents an examination of the critical but commonly overlooked checklist method. This book includes a chapter that discusses being mindful of the choice of words, order of questions and how early questions influence later questions, answer scales and how they impact the user response, questionnaire design, and more.

Coulson and Richardson's Chemical Engineering: Volume 2B, Separation Processes, Sixth Edition, covers distillation and gas absorption, illustrating applications of the fundamental principles of mass transfer. Several techniques, including adsorption, ion exchange, chromatographic membrane separations and process intensification are comprehensively covered and explored.

Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure Principles of Policy and Finance, Second Edition, explains how policy and finance issues relate to each part of a project, illuminating process details. This new edition adds public-sector policy and contract management material to newly expanded North American coverage, updated data and historical information, also including revised insights on how to create partnerships in developing countries. As demand for details on public-private partnerships is increasing, this book provides the best all-around guide for people on both sides of the table.