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Recent Advancements on Expansive Soils (Sustainable Civil Infrastructures)

Springer, 2018

This volume includes a collection of technical papers on an important topic in geotechnical engineering; the behavior and treatment of expansive soils. The research studies include investigations into novel stabilization techniques for expansive soils using different admixtures or mechanical consolidation techniques, as well as new experimental...

Bioactive Compounds of Medicinal Plants: Properties and Potential for Human Health (Innovations in Plant Science for Better Health: From Soil to Fork)

Academic Press, 2018

This volume sheds new light on the immense potential of medicinal plants for human health from different technological aspects. It presents new research on bioactive compounds in medicinal plants that provide health benefits, including those that have proven especially effective in treating and managing diabetes mellitus and...

Human Geoscience (Advances in Geological Science)

Springer, 2019

This book is a product of the joint efforts of interdisciplinary academic fields under the integrative framework of human geoscience. Human geoscience is a new genre of geoscience concerned with the natural phenomena that occur on the surface of the Earth and their relations with human activities. It therefore has connections with many...

Physics in Biology and Medicine, Fourth Edition (Complementary Science)

Academic Press, 2012

Physics in Biology and Medicine, Fourth Edition explores concepts in physics as they apply to living systems. The discussion is organized into 18 chapters encompassing thermodynamics, electricity, optics, sound, solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, and atomic and nuclear physics. Each chapter provides a brief review of the background physics...

Urban Environment: Proceedings of the 10th Urban Environment Symposium (Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries)

Springer, 2012

The 10th Urban Environment Symposium (10UES) was held on 9–11 June 2010 in Gothenburg, Sweden. UES aims at providing a forum on the science and practices required to support pathways to a positive and sustainable future in the urban environment. The UES series is run by Chalmers University of Technology within the Alliance for Global...

Cold Regions Engineering 2012

American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012

Proceedings of the 15th International Specialty Conference on Cold Regions Engineering, held in Quebec City, Canada, August 19-22, 2012. This collection contains 82 peer-reviewed papers on new developments in cold regions engineering and technologies. These papers offer a truly international view of the current state of knowledge in different...

Quantitative Remote Sensing in Thermal Infrared: Theory and Applications (Springer Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry)

Springer, 2013

Remote sensing, by definition, is the acquisition of information about objects or events without making physical contact. In the broad usage, remote sensing refers to the use of both the force fields (such as gravity and magnetism) and electromagnetic spectrum to detect, classify, and identify the objects or events. In the...

Principles of Environmental Physics, Fourth Edition: Plants, Animals, and the Atmosphere

Academic Press, 2013

Principles of Environmental Physics: Plants, Animals, and the Atmosphere, 4e, provides a basis for understanding the complex physical interactions of plants and animals with their natural environment. It is the essential reference to provide environmental and ecological scientists and researchers with the physical principles, analytic...

Microbiological Research In Agroecosystem Management

Springer, 2013

Agroecosystem is an ideal dynamic functional system with a set of chemical and biological interaction taking place in plant surface either below or above the ground levels. These levels of interaction activities fundamentally with microorganism-plant-soil systems are extended upto the level of entire agricultural economy. Greatly simplified,...

Sustainable Agriculture Reviews: Volume 13

Springer, 2013

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. It is a discipline that addresses current issues: climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control...

Russian Avant-Garde (Art of Century)

Parkstone Press, 2007

The Russian Avant-Garde was born at the turn of the 20th century in pre-revolutionary Russia. Intellectual and cultural turmoil had then reached a peak and provided fertile soil for the formation of the movement. For many artists influenced by European art, the movement represented a way of liberating themselves from the social and aesthetic...

Statistics for Censored Environmental Data Using Minitab and R

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Praise for the First Edition

" . . . an excellent addition to an upper-level undergraduate course on environmental statistics, and . . . a 'must-have' desk reference for environmental practitioners dealing with censored datasets."
—Vadose Zone Journal

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