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Handbook of Firearms and Ballistics: Examining and Interpreting Forensic Evidence

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Does the gunshot residue reveal how far from the target a weapon was fired? Is there any trace evidence to prove the accused handled a specific firearm? What is the likely behaviour of a ricocheting bullet? Do the marks on a bullet prove categorically that it was fired from a particular weapon? These are all issues (amongst others) that the fully...

Combustion, Fourth Edition

Academic Press, 2008

Combustion Engineering, a topic generally taught at the upper undergraduate and graduate level in most mechanical engineering programs, and many chemical engineering programs, is the study of rapid energy and mass transfer usually through the common physical phenomena of flame oxidation. It covers the physics and chemistry of this process and...

Cancer Clinical Trials: Experimental Treatments & How They Can Help You (Patient Centered Guides)

Patient Centered Guides, 1999

For a very few cancers, treatment options are minimally invasive, resoundingly curative, and have very few side effects. However, most cancer patients face treatment options that are less than ideal. The odds they have been given for a chance of recurrence might be frightening. Or, the "cure rate" of treatment might be...

The Pesticide Detox: Towards a More Sustainable Agriculture

Earthscan, 2005

This book seeks to address some of these difficulties and set out some new solutions. Pests, diseases and weeds eat, infiltrate and smother crops and grab their nutrients. If farmers stood back and let nature take its course, there would be insufficient food. They must do something. Pesticides are easy to use, although often costly for farmers. In...

Food Safety

ABC Clio, 2000

It is estimated that 20 percent of all emergency room visits are due to foodborne illness. As dietary habits change to include more meals prepared away from home, higher consumption of fresh foods, and more imported foods, the risks of foodborne illness change. Food safety procedures that we learned from our parents may not be sufficient to keep us...

Chromatographic Analysis of Environmental and Food Toxicants (Chromatographic Science, V. 77.)

CRC Press, 1998

. . .a practical collection. . .describing chromatographic methods for analyzing significant food and environmental contaminants and chronically toxic substances. The table of contents reflects the types of chemicals referenced in this volume. Shibamato focuses. . .concern on gathering adequate knowledge about uptake of substances where humans may...

International Classification of HRCT for Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Diseases

Springer, 2005

Many international experts collaborated in creating this groundbreaking work, a principal-coding system, and in developing reference films and imaging parameters for the International Classification of HRCT for Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Diseases. The book is an authoritative guide to the recognition of dust...

Handbook of Cancer Chemotherapy

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007

Advances in the treatment of cancer have continued at an intense pace over the 25 years since the Handbook of Cancer Chemotherapy was first published in 1982. This is reflected in the expansion of the list of clinically useful antineoplastic drugs from 43 to over 115 and the growth of the ...

Conflicted American Landscapes

MIT Press, 2021

How conflicting ideas of nature threaten to fracture America's identity.

Amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesties: American invest much of their national identity in sites of natural beauty. And yet American lands today are torn by conflicts over science, religion, identity, and politics. Creationists...

Natural Compounds in Cancer Therapy: Promising Nontoxic Antitumor Agents From Plants & Other Natural Sources

Oregon Medical Press, 2001

This book discusses numerous natural compounds that show promise in the treatment of cancer. It examines fully what research has told us about them, and it proposes ways of using them that could significantly increase their value in cancer treatment beyond what has previously been demonstrated. To understand the meaning...

Fish Physiology: Organic Chemical Toxicology of Fishes, Volume 33: Fish Physiology Volume 33

Academic Press, 2014

Fish Physiology: Organic Chemical Toxicology of Fishes discusses the different types of organic chemical contaminants and their respective toxic effects in fish. The book also covers the detection of dissolved organic compounds and methods to assess organic toxicity. Substances addressed in this book include organometallics,...

Infectious Diseases

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003

The Third Edition of this definitive reference provides comprehensive guidelines on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of every infectious disease seen in current clinical practice. More than 300 world-class practitioners detail the full range of clinical infections, microbial agents, viruses, mycobacteria, fungi, and parasites...

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