As rising levels of mercury in the environment pose an increasing threat of toxicity to humans and wildlife, several laws already call for industries to reduce mercury emissions at the source. Ecosystem Responses to Mercury Contamination: Indicators of Change outlines the infrastructure and methods needed to measure, monitor, and regulate the...
Acid rain, ozone photochemistry, long-range transport of pollutants, greenhouse
gas emissions and aerosols dominated tropospheric air pollution research
in the last 30 years of the 20^^ century. At the start of the 2V^ century,
acid rain is subject to planned improvement in Europe and North America,
but is a growing problem in Asia....
This book addresses the fundamentals of communications systems and networks, providing
models and analytical methods for evaluating their performance. It is divided into ten chapters,
which are the result of a joint effort by the authors and contributors. The authors and the
contributors have a long history of collaboration, both in...
If you are reading this book, there is a good chance you have heard of Google and its
powerful office productivity suite, Google Apps. Google offers search, email, word
processing, and hundreds of other cloud applications and services that can be available
to the individual and can scale all the way up to massive corporations and...
Just fifteen years ago, the Web was as simple as it
was unimportant: a quirky mechanism that allowed a
handful of students, plus a bunch of asocial, basementdwelling
geeks, to visit each other’s home pages dedicated
to science, pets, or poetry. Today, it is the platform
of choice for writing...
From September 264 to 30 th, 2002, a group of researchers met at Seiano di Vico
Equense, on the Sorrento Peninsula, Italy, to participate in the "Workshop-Short Course
on Volcanic Systems. Gecx:hcmical and Geophysical Monitoring. Melt Inclusions:
Methods, Applications and Problems", sponsored by the Istituto Nazionalr di...
Welcome to Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, Fifth Edition. This book provides a clear
and concise introduction to TCP/IP for newcomers, and also for users who have worked with
TCP/IP but would like a little more of the inside story. Unlike other networking primers that
point and click...
Solve a wide range of problems in your web application quickly and efficiently with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). With this definitive, getting-started guide to version 3 of the popular open source JavaScript library, you’ll learn how to address many of the most common and challenging problems that web development...
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...
The Safety-critical Systems Symposium (SSS), held each February for seventeen
consecutive years, offers a full-day tutorial followed by two days of presentations
of papers. This book of Proceedings contains all the papers presented at SSS’09.
The first paper accompanies the tutorial, which addresses one of the...
Contributions by Surhid Gautam and Lit-Mian Chan. This book presents a state-of-the art review of vehicle emission standards and regulations and provides a synthesis of worldwide experience with vehicle emission control technologies and their applications in both industrial and developing countries. Topics covered include: * The two principal...
This Rapid Review is designed to help you assess—and complete—your readiness
for MCTS exam 70-662: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuring. The Rapid
Review series is intended for exam candidates who already have a solid grasp on the
exam objectives through a combination of experience, skills, and...
