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Industrial Photoinitiators A Technical Guide

Industrial Photoinitiators A Technical Guide

The use of photoinitiators in the UV curing process shows remarkable possibilities in myriad applications. Highlighting critical factors such as reactivity cure speeds and application details Industrial Photoinitiators: A Technical Guide is a practical accessible industrially oriented text that explains the theory describes the products and outlines the practice in simple language for the novice and expert alike. The basics of UV light The book begins by examining the nature of UV light and the types of commercial UV lamps that are available. It discusses the light absorption process and the excited states that are produced by the photoinitiator prior to the production of radicals. Next the book examines the structure of the photoinitiator and the mechanism by which a reactive species is formed along with the deactivating processes that inhibit the various photophysical and photochemical steps that occur as radicals are produced. Commercial photoinitiators Providing a list of companies and suppliers the author explores the distinct groups of commercial photoinitiators and the variations in their structure. He describes the factors that determine which photoinitiators should be chosen for a particular application and how the different types are used. He also explains the reasons why a cured coating may display yellowing and describes the use of stabilizers to reduce the yellowing effect. Cationic curing Exploring a small but growing area of interest in the UV curing industry the book concludes by discussing cationic curing and examines the different scope of parameters and different chemistry involved. It also describes factors that affect the use of cationic photoinitiators. Based on more than 30 years of experience working with photoinitiators W. Arthur Green offers | Industrial Photoinitiators A Technical Guide

GBP 180.00
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A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation

A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation

A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation presents a mathematical formulation of the kinematics dynamics and control of robot manipulators. It uses an elegant set of mathematical tools that emphasizes the geometry of robot motion and allows a large class of robotic manipulation problems to be analyzed within a unified framework. The foundation of the book is a derivation of robot kinematics using the product of the exponentials formula. The authors explore the kinematics of open-chain manipulators and multifingered robot hands present an analysis of the dynamics and control of robot systems discuss the specification and control of internal forces and internal motions and address the implications of the nonholonomic nature of rolling contact are addressed as well. The wealth of information numerous examples and exercises make A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation valuable as both a reference for robotics researchers and a text for students in advanced robotics courses.

GBP 180.00
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Drug Design A Conceptual Overview

Drug Design A Conceptual Overview

The newer research areas in pharmaceutical sciences particularly molecular modeling and simulations prompted a more efficient drug discovery process. Informatics integrated with pharmaceutical sciences (cheminformatics and bioinformatics) became an essential component of drug research. Drug informatics such as genomics and proteomics assists in the Rational Drug Design (RDD). This emerging discipline is known as “Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) which has profound application in RDD. The advanced and adequate practice in drug design informatics is essential for pharmacy graduates. Hence a companion for acquiring knowledge on these concepts is vital. The students of B. Pharmacy M. Pharmacy (Pharmaceutical Chemistry Pharmacology and Pharmaceutics) biotechnology biomedical engineering and other interdisciplinary fields may find this book as a reference guide. The salient features of this book are: • Systematic and simple approach • Emphasis on traditional and modern drug design strategies • Comprehensive coverage for the current advances in the drug design • Experimental section to ensure hands-on-experience Note: T& F does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. | Drug Design A Conceptual Overview

GBP 180.00
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A Systems Approach to Conservation Tillage

A Systems Approach to Conservation Tillage

This book describes concepts value judgments and background information on the expanding conservation tillage practices in the United States and provides a technical appraisal of the state of the art. Still much remains to be learned about the agronomic agricultural engineering and environmental parameters; and it is hoped that the inormation herein presented will stimulate further research toward a more integrated apporach to conversation tillage practices. | A Systems Approach to Conservation Tillage

GBP 205.00
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A Geology for Engineers

A Geology for Engineers

No engineering structure can be built on the ground or within it without the influence of geology being experienced by the engineer. Yet geology is an ancillary subject to students of engineering and it is therefore essential that their training is supported by a concise reliable and usable text on geology and its relationship to engineering. In this book all the fundamental aspects of geology are described and explained but within the limits thought suitable for engineers. It describes the structure of the earth and the operation of its internal processes together with the geological processes that shape the earth and produce its rocks and soils. It also details the commonly occurring types of rock and soil and many types of geological structure and geological maps. Care has been taken to focus on the relationship between geology and geomechanics so emphasis has been placed on the geological processes that bear directly upon the composition structure and mechanics of soil and rocks and on the movement of groundwater. The descriptions of geological processes and their products are used as the basis for explaining why it is important to investigate the ground and to show how the investigations may be conducted at ground level and underground. Specific instruction is provided on the relationship between geology and many common activities undertaken when engineering in rock and soil. | A Geology for Engineers

GBP 180.00
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Building and Using a Groundwater Database

Building and Using a Groundwater Database

Building and Using a Groundwater Database is an introductory book that focuses on the fundamentals of groundwater database use. It is an excellent guide for people who collect and use groundwater quality data hydrogeological data and general geological data as well as people who are required to prepare information about groundwater resources for others to use. The book also serves as a textbook for computer-based hydrogeology courses. Many university courses now make use of computerized groundwater data yet no textbook exists to guide students in database use. Building and Using a Groundwater Database provides detailed information regarding the steps and perspectives required to create a database and use it for groundwater management land use practices planning cleanups site investigations and general hydrogeologic reporting. The book is structured to take the reader from the foundations of database development through maintenance and everyday use of the database. Actual examples from selected case studies are used to illustrate database principles. This book is unique in that it deals with the management and structuring of groundwater data as opposed to the collection and interpretation of data. It illustrates how database software managers can be integrated with groundwater software tools. Building and Using a Groundwater Database provides consultants engineers public officials university instructors local and municipal water utilities and banking and loan institutions with a clear concise guide to using groundwater databases.

GBP 180.00
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Aeromedical Transportation A Clinical Guide

Aeromedical Transportation A Clinical Guide

Still the only book published anywhere in the world which is devoted entirely to the principles of aeromedical transport Aeromedical Transportation has rightly become known as the sole reference for the industry. This second edition has been radically revised and updated; featuring the latest research updated references and new chapters on the transport of intensive care patients and medical emergencies/death in flight. Since the first edition was published in 1996 the concept of 'evidence-based medicine' has been accepted as essential in any book which endeavours to be the accepted knowledge base in its subject area. A very practical text international in its approach much of its content is devoted to clinical matters. Administration and organisation are also discussed but are addressed from the standpoint of the clinical aeromedical escort. The text is suitable for medical paramedical and nursing personnel and for those working in organizations whose duties include the transportation of the sick and injured by air. | Aeromedical Transportation A Clinical Guide

GBP 180.00
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A Course in Mathematical Methods for Physicists

A Course in Mathematical Methods for Physicists

Based on the author‘s junior-level undergraduate course this introductory textbook is designed for a course in mathematical physics. Focusing on the physics of oscillations and waves A Course in Mathematical Methods for Physicists helps students understand the mathematical techniques needed for their future studies in physics. It takes a bottom-up approach that emphasizes physical applications of the mathematics. The book offers: A quick review of mathematical prerequisites proceeding to applications of differential equations and linear algebra Classroom-tested explanations of complex and Fourier analysis for trigonometric and special functions Coverage of vector analysis and curvilinear coordinates for solving higher dimensional problems Sections on nonlinear dynamics variational calculus numerical solutions of differential equations and Green's functions

GBP 180.00
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Discovering Group Theory A Transition to Advanced Mathematics

Discovering Group Theory A Transition to Advanced Mathematics

Discovering Group Theory: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics presents the usual material that is found in a first course on groups and then does a bit more. The book is intended for students who find the kind of reasoning in abstract mathematics courses unfamiliar and need extra support in this transition to advanced mathematics. The book gives a number of examples of groups and subgroups including permutation groups dihedral groups and groups of integer residue classes. The book goes on to study cosets and finishes with the first isomorphism theorem. Very little is assumed as background knowledge on the part of the reader. Some facility in algebraic manipulation is required and a working knowledge of some of the properties of integers such as knowing how to factorize integers into prime factors. The book aims to help students with the transition from concrete to abstract mathematical thinking. | Discovering Group Theory A Transition to Advanced Mathematics

GBP 180.00
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Managing Industrial Hazardous Waste- A Practical Handbook

Managing Industrial Hazardous Waste- A Practical Handbook

Here is your new handbook full of information and guidance necessary to understand and comply with the myriad and complex hazardous waste regulations. This handbook explains the regulations regarding identification and listing of hazardous wastes walks the reader through the three determinations for all manufacturing firms gives in-depth explanations of applicable standards outlines the DOT standards applicable to shippers of hazardous wastes presents a philosophical basis for corporate compliance gives how to for actions and the paperwork necessary for such a program and concludes with some practical information not commonly found in textbooks or regulations. This essential resource for personnel with waste management responsibilities at manufacturing firms should prove a valuable resource. This book will assist these practitioners in establishing or modifying regulatory compliance programs. This valuable new book helps you to reduce waste generation segregate hazardous wastes reuse on-site or off-site recycle or reclaim treat to reduce hazards secure land disposal follow regulatory standards use best management practices and establish or modify compliance programs. | Managing Industrial Hazardous Waste- A Practical Handbook

GBP 190.00
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Phylonyms A Companion to the PhyloCode

Phylonyms A Companion to the PhyloCode

Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode which is a set of principles rules and recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades - lineages of organisms - are defined by reference to hypotheses of phylogenetic history rather than by taxonomic ranks and types. This volume will document the Real World uses of PhyloCode and will govern and apply to the names of clades while species names will still be governed by traditional codes. Key Features Provides clear regulations for implementing new guidelines for naming lineages of organisms incorporates expressly evolutionary and phylogenetic principles Works with existing codes of nomenclature Eliminates the reliance on rank-based classification in favor of phylogenetic relationships Related Titles: Rieppel O. Phylogenetic Systematics: Haeckel to Hennig (ISBN 978-1-4987-5488-0) Cantino P. D. and de Queiroz K. International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature (PhyloCode) (ISBN 978-1-138-33282-9). | Phylonyms A Companion to the PhyloCode

GBP 210.00
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Numerical Methods for Differential Equations A Computational Approach

Numerical Methods for Differential Equations A Computational Approach

With emphasis on modern techniques Numerical Methods for Differential Equations: A Computational Approach covers the development and application of methods for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations. Some of the methods are extended to cover partial differential equations. All techniques covered in the text are on a program disk included with the book and are written in Fortran 90. These programs are ideal for students researchers and practitioners because they allow for straightforward application of the numerical methods described in the text. The code is easily modified to solve new systems of equations. Numerical Methods for Differential Equations: A Computational Approach also contains a reliable and inexpensive global error code for those interested in global error estimation. This is a valuable text for students who will find the derivations of the numerical methods extremely helpful and the programs themselves easy to use. It is also an excellent reference and source of software for researchers and practitioners who need computer solutions to differential equations. | Numerical Methods for Differential Equations A Computational Approach

GBP 205.00
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Game Feel A Game Designer's Guide to Virtual Sensation

Game Feel A Game Designer's Guide to Virtual Sensation

Game Feel exposes feel as a hidden language in game design that no one has fully articulated yet. The language could be compared to the building blocks of music (time signatures chord progressions verse) - no matter the instruments style or time period - these building blocks come into play. Feel and sensation are similar building blocks where game design is concerned. They create the meta-sensation of involvement with a game. The understanding of how game designers create feel and affect feel are only partially understood by most in the field and tends to be overlooked as a method or course of study yet a game's feel is central to a game's success. This book brings the subject of feel to light by consolidating existing theories into a cohesive book. The book covers topics like the role of sound ancillary indicators the importance of metaphor how people perceive things and a brief history of feel in games. The associated web site contains a playset with ready-made tools to design feel in games six key components to creating virtual sensation. There's a play palette too so the desiger can first experience the importance of that component by altering variables and feeling the results. The playset allows the reader to experience each of the sensations described in the book and then allows them to apply them to their own projects. Creating game feel without having to program essentially. The final version of the playset will have enough flexibility that the reader will be able to use it as a companion to the exercises in the book working through each one to create the feel described. | Game Feel A Game Designer's Guide to Virtual Sensation

GBP 180.00
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Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Basic and Clinical Studies of a Neuropeptide

Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Basic and Clinical Studies of a Neuropeptide

This book provides a comprehensive summary of data from basic and clinical studies in support of a role for corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) as a neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system (CNS). It includes descriptions of the anatomy of CRF and its receptors in the CNS as well as the characterization of CRF receptors and the second messenger systems mediating effects of CRF in the brain. It discusses the autonomic behavioral and electrophysiologic effects of CRF administration in the brain. This work also includes a section which covers the role of brain CRF in the etiology and pathophysiology of a variety of neurologic psychiatric and endocrine disorders. Endocrinologists brain researchers and neuroendocrinologists are among those who will find this reference both useful and interesting. | Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Basic and Clinical Studies of a Neuropeptide

GBP 205.00
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Understanding the Oceans A Century of Ocean Exploration

Understanding the Oceans A Century of Ocean Exploration

Understanding the Oceans brings together an internationally distinguished group of authors to consider the enormous advances in marine science that have been achieved since the voyages of HMS Challenger a century ago. The whole book draws inspiration from the seminal contribution made by the research conducted on those voyages and each contributor considers the significance of the findings relating them to the exciting developments of today and tomorrow. Covering the whole spectrum of the marine sciences the book has been written and edited very much with the non-specialist reader in mind. Marine scientists whether students or researchers will welcome this authoritative sweep through the history of their subject through to the present day; other scientists will find the book to be an accessible and informative introduction to marine science and its historical roots. | Understanding the Oceans A Century of Ocean Exploration

GBP 180.00
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Organization of the Extracellular Matrix A Polarization Microscopic Approach

Organization of the Extracellular Matrix A Polarization Microscopic Approach

This book describes analysis techniques and results of topics such as physical backgrounds chemical backgrounds and principal methods of topo-optical reactions used in ultrastructure research of the ECM; orientation patterns of GAGs and collagen in different tissues/cartilage cornea kidney basement membranes and skin; factors involved in the formation of submicroscopically ordered matrix structure; and cell-matrix interactions including cytoskeleton-cell-membrane-matrix relationships. A summarization of the advantages and limitations of polarization microscopy compared to electron microscopy in ultracellular research is also included. Cell biologists histologists pathologists and biochemists in connective tissue research will find this book to be an invaluable reference tool. | Organization of the Extracellular Matrix A Polarization Microscopic Approach

GBP 180.00
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The Little Adsorption Book A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists

The Little Adsorption Book A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists

This unique approach to the basic concepts of adsorption is written for students engineers scientists and others who need a clear presentation of adsorption processes. Unlike other texts on this subject which are written for the specialist and rely heavily on advanced mathematics this unique book helps you solve everyday problems in applications of adsorption without complex mathematics or computers. The author a recognized expert in the field gives you a quick introduction to the underlying physics of absorption and explains how to apply adsorption to solve analytical and design problems. Rich with practical examples and enhanced by illustrations that support the text this refreshingly straightforward presentation helps you cut through the complexities of adsorption to find fast answers to pressing real-world questions. | The Little Adsorption Book A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists

GBP 180.00
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Organic Reaction Mechanisms A Step by Step Approach Second Edition

Organic Reaction Mechanisms A Step by Step Approach Second Edition

This text is designed to teach students how to write organic reaction mechanisms. It starts from the absolute basics - counting the numbers of electrons around a simple atom. Then in small steps the text progresses to advanced mechanisms. the end all the major mechanistic routes have been covered. The text is in the form of interactive sections which are designed to facilitate the assimilation of the information conveyed so that by the end the student should already know the contents without the need for extensive revision. | Organic Reaction Mechanisms A Step by Step Approach Second Edition

GBP 180.00
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