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Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Engineering for sustainability is an emerging theme for the twenty-first century, and the need for more environmentally benign electric power systems is a critical part of this new thrust. Renewable energy systems that take advantage of energy sources that won’t diminish over time and are independent of fluctuations in...

Water Dynamics in Plant Production

CABI Publishing, 2003

The source of life is water. Life began in the oceans, which represent the largest stock of water on Earth. Much less water is stored below the land surface in the form of fresh groundwater, amounting to not quite 0.8% of the earth’s total water reserves, while lakes and rivers combined only contribute a further...

Malware Forensics Field Guide for Windows Systems: Digital Forensics Field Guides

Syngress Publishing, 2012

Since the publication of Malware Forensics: Investigating and Analyzing Malicious Code in 2008, the number and complexity of programs developed for malicious and illegal purposes has grown substantially. The 2011 Symantec Internet Security Threat Report announced that over 286 million new threats emerged in the past year....

Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Incident Management Plan

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Whether an international corporation or a small business, developing and utilizing

a Business Continuity Management (BCM) Plan protects companies and their personnel, facilities, materials, and activities from the broad spectrum of risks that face businesses and government agencies on a daily basis, whether at home or...

Insulin Resistance: Insulin Action and its Disturbances in Disease

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Hormone resistance syndromes are typically thought of as rare, usually genetic, disorders with a severe but relatively stereotyped clinical and biochemical profile. While there are syndromes of severe insulin resistance that conform to this description, defective insulin action is of much more pervasive biomedical importance....

Atmospheric Deposition: In Relation to Acidification and Eutrophication (Studies in Environmental Science)

Elsevier Limited, 1995

In the early 1980s, the problem of acidification was acknowledged on a governmental level in the Netherlands as posing a major environmental threat. The concern for damage to forests and ecosystems, and materials and monuments, as well as for acidification of soils and moorland pools stimulated research and policy development. Acid...

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Clinical decisions in modern medical practice are increasingly influenced by ethical and legal issues, but few doctors have been formally trained in medical law and ethics, and are unsure of potential sources of accessible information, which leaves them exposed to public criticism and the threat of legal action. Perioperative medicine and...

Diagnostic Atlas of Common Eyelid Diseases

CRC Press, 2007

For any clinician dealing with ophthalmic diseases, individual lesions of the eyelid and conjunctiva can be extremely confusing. From a practical perspective such lesions are either benign or malignant, and can be cystic or solid, melanotic or amelanotic. Certainly the most important diagnostic question is whether the lesion...

Nonviral Vectors for Gene Therapy, Part 2, Volume 54, Second Edition (Advances in Genetics)

Academic Press, 2005

Since the pioneering discovery by Felgner et al. (1987) that cationic lipid can efficiently transfect cells, there was a surge of research activity in this area. The field received another boost when Nabel et al. (1993) successfully completed a small phase I clinical trial in gene therapy of melanoma using cationic liposome as a...

How to Cheat at Securing Your Network (How to Cheat)

Syngress Publishing, 2007

Most Systems Administrators are not security specialists. Keeping the network secure is one of many responsibilities, and it is usually not a priority until disaster strikes. How to Cheat at Securing Your Network is the perfect book for this audience. The book takes the huge amount of information available on network security and...

Guide to Network Defense and Countermeasures

Cengage Learning, 2013

This book is intended to provide students and professionals with a solid foundation in the fundamentals of advanced network security. The previous edition of this book placed significant emphasis on intrusion detection, but this edition aims to provide a more balanced approach to the topic of network defense and countermeasures. As...

Managing Business Risk: A Practical Guide to Protecting Your Business

Kogan Page, 2009

The balance between risk and reward is the very essence of business: you have to take risks in order to generate returns and, generally speaking, higher returns involve greater risks. However, there is a difference between risks taken as a result of careful judgement and those taken unwittingly.

In a world of...

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