The American workforce is changing, creating new challenges for employers
to provide occupational health services to meet the needs of
employees. First, a shift from manufacturing to services, knowledgecentered,
and mobile work has changed the focus of occupational health
from physical injury and exposure-related illness...
Do you want to let your creativity run wild in Photoshop, but don't know where to start? Are you having trouble getting your ideas out of your head and onto the screen? Do you need your photomontages to look convincing... and fast?
Nobody knows more about how to work quickly under pressure and still produce top-notch results than...
A practical introduction to writing synthesizable Verilog code
Rapid change in IC chip complexity and the pressure to design more complex IC chips at a faster pace has forced design engineers to find a more efficient and productive method to create schematics with large amounts of logic gates. This has led to the development of Verilog; one of...
This is the most systematic, comprehensive and up-to-date book on the theoretical analysis of piezoelectric devices. It is a natural continuation of the author s two previous books: An Introduction to the Theory of Piezoelectricity (Springer, 2005) and The Mechanics of Piezoelectric Structures (World Scientific, 2006). Based on the linear,...
“… the best handbook on membrane technology, which is currently on the market... ” –Membrane News (on the previous edition)
Building on the success of the previous edition, Membrane Technology and Applications Third Edition provides a comprehensive overview of separation membranes, their...
This open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have “emerged” under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countries to choose the particular paths that led to their “emergence,” and what challenges confront them. If we are to...
As an IT manager you face innumerable problems and projects with incredible pressure to finish them on time and under budget.
More and more IT managers are realizing that project management processes can help them address these problems. The project life cycle is one such process.
WHEN I FIRST started working as a nutritionist in elite sport
over a decade ago, the most common thing I would hear from
athletes was: ‘James, I’m here because Coach says I need to
lose weight.’
Fortunately things have moved on just a little since then.
Nutrition has become an integral part of...
The structure, function, and pathologies of the human kidney - simplified and explained
Written in a concise, conversational style this trusted text reviews the fundamental principles of renal physiology that are essential for an understanding of clinical medicine. Combining the latest research with a fully integrated...
For many years there has been a very positive link between podiatry and clinical dermatology, but unfortunately they largely
remain apart in most medical cultures, both in training and in practice. Where they have begun to overlap in the clinical
treatment of foot dermatological problems the benefits rapidly become obvious to those...
Service Oriented Architecture has the potential to be the next great paradigm that will once and for all change computing as we know it. The main promise of Service Oriented Architecture is that business systems can be used by anyone, from anywhere, at any time and on any system.
The popularity in Service Oriented Architecture is largely...
In a Darwinian world, religious behavior - just like other behaviors - is likely to have undergone a process of natural selection in which it was rewarded in the evolutionary currency of reproductive success. This book aims to provide a better understanding of the social scenarios in which selection pressure led to religious practices becoming...
