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  • Intelligent Fault Diagnosis and Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Rotating Machinery

    • 1st Edition
    • Yaguo Lei
    • English
    Intelligent Fault Diagnosis and Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Rotating Machinery provides a comprehensive introduction of intelligent fault diagnosis and RUL prediction based on the current achievements of the author's research group. The main contents include multi-domain signal processing and feature extraction, intelligent diagnosis models, clustering algorithms, hybrid intelligent diagnosis strategies, and RUL prediction approaches, etc. This book presents fundamental theories and advanced methods of identifying the occurrence, locations, and degrees of faults, and also includes information on how to predict the RUL of rotating machinery. Besides experimental demonstrations, many application cases are presented and illustrated to test the methods mentioned in the book. This valuable reference provides an essential guide on machinery fault diagnosis that helps readers understand basic concepts and fundamental theories. Academic researchers with mechanical engineering or computer science backgrounds, and engineers or practitioners who are in charge of machine safety, operation, and maintenance will find this book very useful.

  • Total Quality Management

    Key Concepts and Case Studies
    • 1st Edition
    • D.R. Kiran
    • English
    Total Quality Management: Key Concepts and Case Studies provides the full range of management principles and practices that govern the quality function. The book covers the fundamentals and background needed, as well as industry case studies and comprehensive topic coverage, making it an invaluable reference to both the novice and the more experienced individual. Aspects of quality control that are widely utilized in practice are combined with those that are commonly referred to on University courses, and the latest developments in quality concepts are also presented. This book is an ideal quick reference for any manager, designer, engineer, or researcher interested in quality.

  • Metal Cutting

    • 2nd Edition
    • E.M. Trent
    • English
    Metal Cutting, Second Edition discusses the metallurgical aspects of metal cutting. The book is comprised of 10 chapters that deal with various concerns in the metal cutting process. Chapter 1 provides an introductory discourse about metal cutting, while Chapter 2 covers the metal cutting operations and terminology. Chapter 3 discusses the essential features of metal cutting, and Chapters 4 and 5 cover the forces and heat in metal cutting. The book also tackles the different materials used in cutting tools, such as steel, carbides, and ceramic. The machinability of the metal cutting process and coolants and lubricants are then explained. The text will be of great use to professionals involved in the metallurgical process of metal cutting.

  • The Liver

    Porta Malorum (the Gateway to Disease)
    • 1st Edition
    • Kasper Blond + 1 more
    • English
    The Liver: Porta Malorum (The Gateway to Disease) presents the fundamental aspects and significance of liver as a detoxicating organ. This book explains the diversity of the signs produced by liver damage. Organized into 17 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the process of assimilation through the activities of the liver cells. This text then discusses the emptying mechanisms of the gall-bladder. Other chapters consider the various diseases, including jaundice, pancreatitis, Bright's disease, bronchial asthma, toxic goiter, hemorrhoids, spontaneous thrombosis in the rectal veins, and varicose veins of the leg. This book discusses as well the generally accepted theory concerning the etiology of appendicitis, with emphasis on bacterial inflammation. The final chapter deals with rectal varicose disorders. This book is a valuable resource for hepatologists, pathologists, morphologists, and physicians. Medical students and research workers interested in the fundamental aspects of the liver will also find this book extremely useful.

  • Physical Security: 150 Things You Should Know

    • 2nd Edition
    • Lawrence J. Fennelly + 1 more
    • English
    Physical Security: 150 Things You Should Know, Second Edition is a useful reference for those at any stage of their security career. This practical guide covers the latest technological trends for managing the physical security needs of buildings and campuses of all sizes. Through anecdotes, case studies, and documented procedures, the authors have amassed the most complete collection of information on physical security available. Security practitioners of all levels will find this book easy to use as they look for practical tips to understand and manage the latest physical security technologies, such as biometrics, IP video, video analytics, and mass notification, as well as the latest principles in access control, command and control, perimeter protection, and visitor management.

  • The Human Thymus

    • 1st Edition
    • Gideon Goldstein + 1 more
    • English
    The Human Thymus presents the immunological aspect of the thymus. It discusses the lymphopoietic and immunological functions of the human thymus. It addresses the physiological function of thymus that regulates neuromuscular transmission by the secretion of thymin. Some of the topics covered in the book are the origin of thymic lymphocytes; development of Hassall’s corpuscles; humoral immune responses; neonatal thymectomy and wasting disease; mode of action of thymin at the neuromyal synapse; experimental autoimmune thymitis; and neuromuscular block associated with experimental autoimmune thymitis. The diseases induced with Freund’s complete adjuvant are covered. The spontaneously occurring autoimmune diseases are discussed. The text describes the size of the human thymus. A study of the experimental effect of hormones on thymic size is presented. A chapter is devoted to the thymic hypoplasia and immunological deficiencies. Another section focuses on the histopathology of thymus in myasthenia gravis. The book can provide useful information to scientists, doctors, students, and researchers.

  • Exercises in Chest X-Ray Diagnosis

    • 1st Edition
    • John A. Elliott + 1 more
    • English
    Exercises in Chest X-Ray Diagnosis serves as a teaching aid for postgraduates working towards the MRCP and FRCP. This book provides a test of clinical knowledge and competence and for this reason a simple question and answer format has been adopted. This book is organized into two parts. Part 1 consists of questions related to the abnormalities on the chest film that may reflect local thoracic disorders or may mirror systemic disease processes. Part 2 presents the answers to the exercises and provides brief clinical reviews and short accounts of radiological differential diagnosis. This book is a valuable resource for physicians and radiologists in training.

  • Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition

    • 1st Edition
    • W. Haresign + 1 more
    • English
    Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition — 1986 focuses on developments in the compositions of animal feeds. The book first discusses studies on the fat content of human diet. The text also looks at future trends in the marketing of animal products with particular reference to fats. The book then discusses the manipulation of fat characteristics in animal products; antinutritional factors related with dietary fats and oils; and method of analysis of feedingstuffs for the identification of crude oils. The text highlights the implications for research and the feed compounder of oils and fats determination and the implications of biotechnology for animal nutrition. The book discusses the manipulation of milk yield with growth hormone (GH). Endogenous GH and lactation potential; mechanisms underlying the galactopoietic effects of bovine growth hormone (bGH); and galactopoietic action of exogenous bGH are discussed. The text also explains near infrared reflectance analysis of forages, residues in animal products, and nutrient modulation of the immune system. The book also highlights probiotics in pig diets and use of synthetic amino acids in poultry and pig diets. The book is a good source of information for readers wanting to study the compositions of animal feeds.

  • The Running-In Process in Tribology

    Proceeding of the 8th Leeds–Lyon Symposium on Tribology, Held in the Institute National des Science Appliquées de Lyon, France, 8–11 September 1981
    • 1st Edition
    • D. Dowson + 2 more
    • English
    The Running-In Process in Tribology is a collection of papers presented during the 8th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology held in the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France in September 1981. The symposium was attended by 87 delegates from 13 countries, which showed a great level of interest on the scientific and industrial problems of running-in. Twenty eight papers are presented in the book, covering basic thermodynamics, mechanics of continuous solids, metallurgy, polymers, profilometry, and surface physics. Major topics such as elastohydrodynamics, roughness, and thermal effects in tribology are discussed as well. Mechanical engineers and materials scientists will find the book very insightful.

  • Perspectives in Basic and Applied Toxicology

    • 1st Edition
    • Bryan Ballantyne
    • English
    Perspectives in Basic and Applied Toxicology features a collection of essays on various aspects of toxicology. It aims to relate fundamental knowledge of toxicology to its application in assessing relevance of that information to the causation of adverse health effects, predicting hazardous situations, defining protective and precautionary measures, and the recognition and management of intoxication in humans. Another objective of this volume is to encourage those with responsibility for the training of toxicologists to instill a greater concern about ethical and moral issues as fundamental to the practice of toxicology as a profession with wide-ranging social implications. This book is organized into 14 chapters. The coverage of these chapters include assessment of chemical hazards in the workplace, the relation between animal studies and epidemiology in the context of industrial toxicology, carcinogenicity testing in animals, and biochemical evaluation of neurotoxicity. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate toxicologists, pharmacologists, physicians, industrial hygienists, and other health professionals.

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