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This textbook begins with conventional power generation technologies, including steam power plants and gas turbine cycles. It then introduces more advanced cycles, including combined heat and power (CHP) cycles, combined cycle power plants (CCPP), integrated gasification combined cycles (IGCC), and fuel cells.

Forensic Neuropathology is written by experts for specialists and trainees alike addresses concerns of the forensic pathologist and neuropathologist by tackling the problems that arise during the post-mortem examination and subsequent legal proceedings.

This textbook on Bayesian Statistics can be used to teach an upper division statistics course, a master's level course, a Ph.D. level course or used independently by researchers. It emphasizes the art of data modeling and analysis over technicalities and is rich with technical demonstrations available to Ph.D. students who need them and to others who are interested in them. The new edition features new material and new exercises and shifts the software focus from WinBUGS to OpenBUGS.

This comprehensive textbook covers current state-of-the-art shotcrete technology. It provides an overview of the many and various uses of shotcrete. It includes chapters with case histories on shotcrete materials and mixture proportioning, performance, shotcrete research, equipment and shotcrete application.

This book provides an introduction to the behavior and design of composite steel-concrete buildings. It covers the latest design methodologies recommended in Eurocodes and Australian standards for composite construction. Design concepts are introduced and derived from fundamental mechanics to outline a clear overview of available guidelines. The basic concepts describing the response of composite slabs, beams, and columns are tied to current developments in industry and academia. Advanced topics are presented where they relate to real structural applications.

This new edition of Cardiovascular Disease in Companion Animals now covers the horse as well as the dog and cat. The comprehensive, superbly illustrated book has been completely revised, expanded into five key sections, and contains a new Summary Formulary at end.

This book will present a unified and up-to date introduction to ROC methodologies, covering both diagnosis (classification) and prediction. The book will emphasize the practical implementation of these methods using standard statistical software such as R and STATA.

This book presents the advanced statistical methods for mapping pharmacogenetic control by integrating pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles of drug-body interactions. This book is suitable for graduate students and researchers in the field of biology, medicine, bioinformatics and drug design and delivery.

A comprehensive reference to molecular gastronomy, this book highlights techniques that have enabled chefs to achieve new and better ways of preparing food. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach encompassing the physics, biology, and chemistry of food as well as food preparation along with practical tips on molecular cooking. It offers an introductory overview and perspective on key issues and contains a complete A-Z guide to scientific terminology, ingredients, tools, and methods, as well as innovative recipes by world-renowned chefs.

With an updated edition including new material in additional chapters, this one-of-a-kind handbook covers not only current standardization efforts, but also anthropometry and optimal working postures, ergonomic human computer interactions, legal protection, occupational health and safety, and military human factor principles.

This gives a comprehensive introduction to the (standard) statistical analysis based on the theory of martingales and develops entropy methods in order to treat dependent data in the framework of martingales. The author starts a summary of the martingale theory, and then proceeds to give full proofs of the martingale central limit theorems.

The book focuses on problem solving for practitioners and model building for academicians under multivariate situations. This book helps readers in understanding the issues, such as knowing variability, extracting patterns, building relationships, and making objective decisions.

Statistical Modeling and Data Analysis: An Introduction

This book focuses on current research and methodologies developed for re-engineering cancer clinical trials and also for "hot" areas in drug development trials such as adaptive design, seamless Phase 2-3 trials, and personalized medicine using biomarkers. Background statistical methodology is summarized in the Appendix.

Research on mixed models has been extensive over the most recent decade. This book differs from the authors' previous monographs on longitudinal data in that it focuses on mixed models of a linear, generalized linear and nonlinear type. The book pays attention to recent developments that include diagnostics, semi-parametric methodology, non-normal random effects, multivariate longitudinal data, high-dimensional outcomes, joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data and discrimination and classification based on longitudinal data using mixed models.

A comprehensive introduction to the technical and socioeconomic issues surrounding global energy, this text presents a fresh new treatment on the fundamentals of energy science, technology, and policy implications. It addresses the need for diversity in any nation¿s energy portfolio and the educational requirements of scientists, engineers, and policymakers today. Taking an introductory yet rigorous approach, the book covers alternative and sustainable supply strategies, such as wind and solar. It uses real-life examples of current and future technologies and offers many hands-on exercises.

Designed for medical researchers without a background in statistics, this text takes readers easily from basic boxplots and t-tests to linear and logistic regression and survival analysis to more complex generalized linear and nonlinear models and longitudinal data analysis. With many examples and data drawn from real biomedical research, the book focuses on practical statistical analyses using SPSS. It requires no prior statistical background and only assumes familiarity with elementary mathematics. A solutions manual and figures slides are available with qualifying course adoption.

Chirality plays a major role in biological processes and the enantiomers of a bioactive molecule often possess different biological effects. Accurate assessment is critical as isomeric impurities may have unwanted toxicological, pharmacological, or other effects. Separation techniques remain the method of choice for this area of drug research but there is a great deal of trial and error in choosing a particular column for a chiral separation. This book gives a rationale for choosing a stationary phase that is based on the relationship that exists between the analytes and the chiral stationary phases. The text provides examples to underline the separation mechanism.

An introduction to a new paradigm in social, technological, and scientific discourse, this book presents an overview of statistical methods for describing, modeling, and inferring biological networks using genomic and other types of data. It covers a large variety of modern statistical techniques, such as sparse graphical models, state space models, Boolean networks, and hidden Markov models. The authors address gene transcription data, microRNAs, ChIP-chip, and RNAi data. Along with end-of-chapter exercises, the text includes many real-world examples with implementations using a dedicated R package.

With discussions on many developments in Bayesian methodologies, this work considers statistical issues in biomedical research. It includes an overview of Bayesian statistics, a discussion of rates and proportions with applications in clinical and other population-based studies, and developments in clinical trial design.

This textbook provides a comprehensive and systematic coverage of regional policy, dealing with core theories and looking at contemporary challenges in practice, addressing regional policy across the world.

This book examines the phenomenon of social withdrawal in Japan, which ranges from school non-attendance to extreme forms of isolation and confinement, known as hikikomori.