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What are the goals of monetary policy and how are they transmitted? This title summarizes evidence on the roles of money in the economy, the effects of information, and the growing importance of nonbank financial institutions.

What tools are available for setting and analyzing monetary policy? This title examines evidence on subjects as varied as price-setting, inflation persistence, the private sector's formation of inflation expectations, and the monetary policy transmission mechanism.

A hospital can continue to function during a disaster or terrorist attack if a Hospital Emergency Response Team (HERT) protects the facility by the establishing and staffing of an Emergency Treatment Area. This title helps to develop a free-standing operational team capable of protecting the healthcare center and its employees.

How do economists understand and measure normal social phenomena? This book provides a summary of social choice economics, from norms and conventions to the exchange of discrete resources.

How can economists define social preferences and interactions? Culture, familial beliefs, religion, and other sources contain the origins of social preferences. This book describes scholarship on social choice and includes evidence about social preferences. It summarizes research on theoretical and applied economic analyses of social preferences.

Optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science. This title covers such topics as: 3D optical microscopy; transformation optics and geometry of light; photorefractive solitons; stimulated scattering effects; optical vortices and polarization singularities; and, quantum feedforward control of light.

Presents the synthesis, description, nomenclature and analysis of "3D-nets" or "3D-networks" and the relation of the nets to the physical properties of the materials. This work introduces the mathematics, and includes a short guide to programs useful for retrieving, analysing and naming nets. It also provides 3D illustrations.

Contains the proceedings of the 20th International Cryogenic Engineering Conference.

Traditional dental materials such as metals and ceramics have a number of disadvantages such as cost and the significant damage caused in grinding to make space for such reconstructions. Fiber-reinforced composites (FRCs) are a novel group of dental materials characterized by fibrous fillers that are being increasingly used in place of traditional prosthodontic materials. They allow fabrication of minimally invasive, lightweight, durable and biocompatible restorations. This book will provide clinicians and students with theoretical and clinical guidelines to use the FRCs for dental applications. The book begins with an introduction to the fundamentals of FRCs in dentistry. Further chapters cover the treatment possibilities, fabrication and application procedures of FRCs, followed by information on care and maintenance.

Emerging Membrane Technology for Sustainable Water Treatment provides the latest information on the impending crisis posed by water stress and poor sanitation, a timely issue that is one of the greatest human challenges of the 21st century. The book also discusses the use of membrane technology, a serious contender that can be used to confront the crisis on a global scale, along with its specific uses as a solution to this escalating problem.Provides a unique source on membrane technology and its application for water treatmentFocuses on technologies designed for the treatment of seawater and brackish waterHighlights the most economically and environmentally friendly membrane technologiesLists various technologies and emphasizes their link to renewable energy, energy efficiency, nanotechnology, reuse, and recycle

Digital Detectives: Solving Information Dilemmas in an Online World helps students become independent and confident digital detectives, giving them the tools and tactics they need to critically scrutinize web-based digital information to ascertain its authenticity, veracity, and authority, and to use the information in a discerning way to successfully complete academic tasks. Enabling students to select and use information appropriately empowers them to function at a higher level of digital information fluency, acting as discerning consumers of, and effective contributors to, web-based information.Offers a situated, problem-solving approach to deepen students'' analytical and research skillsExplores a practical, real-life dilemma that is typically experienced by undergraduates in the course of their academic work, especially those transitioning from secondary to third-level educationFocuses on the authentic educational needs of undergraduates as expressed by educators, but also students themselvesAddresses a specific central dilemma which is identified at the outset, but also uses the opportunity to reveal to students the broader contextual issues which frame the problem they are exploring

Provides comprehensive coverage of sealing technology, bringing together information on all aspects of this area to enable you to make the right sealing choice. This title includes coverage on the seals applicable to static, rotary and reciprocating applications, and the best materials to use in your sealing systems.

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Offers a comprehensive volume of applied circuit design solutions to aid systems designers with elegant and practical design techniques. This book covers switching regulator design, linear regulator design, microprocessor power design, battery management, powering LED lighting, automotive and industrial power design.

Focuses on natural and anthropogenic environmental contaminants and their implications for human health and the environment. This volume examines environmental impacts on soils, groundwater, freshwater, the oceans and atmosphere in the context of both inorganic geochemistry and organic geochemistry.

Almost all contemporary organic synthesis involve transition metal complexes as catalysts or particular reagents. This book provides the reader with detailed accounts of elementary processes within molecular catalysis to allow its development and as an aid in designing catalytic systems.

Magnetic methods are widely used in exploration, engineering, borehole and global geophysics. This book covers the physical and mathematical principles of these methods regardless of the area of application. It analyzes Ampere's law the force of interaction between currents.

Concerned with the processing and separation of fine solid particles in liquid solutions using interfacial technology. This book describes interfacial separation techniques and discusses the general and specific fundamentals of the techniques. It provides comprehensive coverage on particle technology, mineral processing and water treatment.