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Standard Handbook of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering: Volume 1

Gulf Professional, 1996

This petroleum and natural gas engineering two-volume handbook is written in the spirit of the classic handbooks of other engineering disciplines. The two volumes reflect the importance of the industry its engineers serve (i.e., Standard and Poor's shows that the fuels sector is the largest single entity in the gross domestic...

Fuzzy-Like Multiple Objective Decision Making (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing)

Springer, 2011

Everyday people need to make decisions, and the decision makers usually face multiple, conflicting objectives and uncertain environments. The research about uncertain multi-objective decision making problems has been profolic. It mainly provides decision makers with the help to find optimal solutions for many objectives under...

Utilizing Information Technology Systems Across Disciplines: Advancements in the Application of Computer Science (Premier Reference Source)

Information Science Publishing, 2009

In the information technology age coupled with computer advances, information systems have become an integral part of many disciplines; accordingly, business, marketing, medicine, communication, banking, geography, physics, chemistry, aviation, pilots, forensics, agriculture, and even traf.c lights have one thing in common called...

America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones

Trine Day, 2004

The book began with an anonymous donation to the author of an 8-inch package of documents in the early 1980s. Nothing less than the membership list and supporting documents for a truly secret society the Yale Skull and Bones.

The late Johnny Johnson, of Phoenix Arizona was the spark that moved me to write first a...

Food Supply Chain Management

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Food is always a matter of interest, a means of providing energy, the raw material that builds and maintains our well-being, a defence against illness, a pleasure to consume when well prepared and presented, a basis for social interaction and enjoyment at home, in a restaurant, canteen or perhaps even hospital or school. Our...

Electric Power Research Trends

Nova Press, 2007

The world is becoming increasingly electrified. For the foreseeable future, coal will continue to be the dominant fuel used for electric power production. The low cost and abundance of coal is one of the primary reasons for this. Electric power transmission, a process in the delivery of electricity to consumers, is the bulk...

Urban Ecology: An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature

Springer, 2008

Urban Ecology is the study of ecosystems that include humans living in cities and urbanizing landscapes. It is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that aims to understand how human and ecological processes can coexist in human-dominated systems and help societies with their efforts to become more sustainable. It has deep roots in...

Testing of Genetically Modified Organisms in Foods

CRC Press, 2004

Examine several methods of testing for genetically modified organisms and the reasons behind their strict regulation!

Testing of Genetically Modified Organisms in Foods is the first study of the screening methods and tools utilized for determining the presence of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food products. Leading...

Remote Sensing of Snow and Ice

CRC Press, 2005

Although our planet is characterized by water, the extent to which water in its frozen state plays a role in the functioning of the Earth is perhaps underappreciated. Snow and ice cover about a sixth of the Earth’s surface, as snow lying on the ground, as glaciers and larger masses of terrestrial ice, including the huge...

Energy Supply and Renewable Resources

Facts on File, 2007

One has only to read a newspaper or magazine to realize the importance of energy at this early juncture of the 21st century. It will surely become more critical as world demand for oil continues to increase and its supply peaks and begins to fall.

Industrialized nations have become addicted to an ever-increasing...

Next Generation Photovoltaics: High Efficiency through Full Spectrum Utilization (Series in Optics and Optoelectronics)

Taylor & Francis, 2003

This book results from a meeting that took place in Cercedilla, Madrid, Spain in March 2002. The meeting was about new ideas that could lead us to better use of the solar spectrum with the ultimate goal of achieving superior photovoltaic devices and, consequently, a reduction in their price. The meeting, despite being short,...

Web, Graphics & Perl TK: Best of the Perl Journal

O'Reilly, 2003

This is the second of three “Best of the Perl Journal” O’Reilly books, containing the crème de la crème of the 247 articles published during the Perl Journal’s 5-year existence as a standalone magazine. This particular book contains 39 articles covering the web, graphics,...

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