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  • Handbook of Recycling

    State-of-the-art for Practitioners, Analysts, and Scientists
    • 2nd Edition
    • Christina Meskers + 2 more
    • English
    Handbook of Recycling, Second Edition is an authoritative review of the current state of recycling, reuse and reclamation processes commonly implemented today, and how they interact with one another. Fully updated to cover recent developments in the field, this second edition has also been restructured to cover general aspects of recycling, applications, technology, recovery and collection, economics, governance and policy. Several new chapters on global recycled material flows, sludges, reinforced plastics, and landfill mining have been added. It concludes with a review of the policy and economic implications, including the impact of recycling on energy use, sustainable development, and the environment. This book is a crucial aid to students and researchers in a range of disciplines, from materials and environmental science to public policy studies.

  • Industrial Piping and Equipment Estimating Manual

    • 2nd Edition
    • Kenneth Storm
    • English
    Industrial Piping and Equipment Estimating Manual, Second Edition delivers a comprehensive overview of information that engineers, estimators, and managers need to develop estimates and create bids. Packed with worksheets covering combined and simple cycle power plants, refineries, compressor stations, ethanol, hydrogen and biomass plants, this reference helps construction engineers and estimators create bids where scope and quantity differences can be identified and project impacts estimated. This updated manual provides a comprehensive, accurate method for compiling piping and equipment man-hour estimates for industrial process plants—including Solar, Geothermal and Biomass EnergyThis comprehensive, current manual details scopes of work based on process and increased safety in field erection. Estimating methods and statistical applications reduce errors for estimators to produce accurate estimates, making it an ideal go-to reference for estimators, engineers and managers with a level of detail and equipment breakdown necessary for today’s complex industrial operations.

  • Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology Series: Surgical Lifting

    • 1st Edition
    • Hooman Khorasani + 1 more
    • English
    Offering a step-by-step, practical approach to increasingly requested cosmetic procedures, Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology: Surgical Lifting, enables you to master the up-to-date cosmetic techniques that produce the superior results your patients expect. Edited by expert surgeons Drs. Hooman Khorasani and Eyal Levit, along with hand-selected experts in each individual area, it covers minimally invasive surgical lifting techniques that can be performed by dermatologic surgeons—all abundantly illustrated and evidence based. A substantial video library demonstrating surgical lifting techniques helps you successfully incorporate the latest procedures into your practice.

  • Complex and Composite Metal Oxides for Gas, VOC, and Humidity Sensors, Volume 1

    Fundamentals and Approaches
    • 1st Edition
    • Bal Chandra Yadav + 1 more
    • English
    Complex and Composite Metal Oxides for Gas, VOC, and Humidity Sensors, Volume 1: Fundamentals and Approaches provides an overview of the advanced nanocomposite metal oxide materials and their uses as gas, VOCs and humidity sensors, which are widely applicable for environmental monitoring in various industries. The first of the two volumes, Fundamentals and Approaches introduces the ground rules essential for the development of smart gas, VOC, and humidity sensors. This volume familiarizes researchers with the different sensors (resistive, electrolyte, optical, etc.) fabricated using metal oxide hybrids and nanocomposites that employ various properties such as electrical, QCM and SAW, SPR, luminescence, and fiber optics. It is a key resource for materials scientists and engineers in academia and R&D as well as environmental scientists.

  • Older Adults in Critical Care, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 35-4
    • Deborah Garbee
    • English
    In this issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, guest editor Deborah Garbee brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Older Adults in Critical Care. Top experts in the field provide readers with the latest on Delirium in Older Adults, Sepsis Across the Continuum, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, and more.

  • Pediatrics for the Physical Therapist Assistant

    • 2nd Edition
    • Roberta O'Shea
    • English
    Master the PTA’s role in treating and managing pediatric conditions! Comprehensive yet easy to understand, Pediatrics for the Physical Therapist Assistant, 2nd Edition provides the knowledge and skills you need to succeed both in the classroom and in clinical practice. The text guides you through a myriad of topics including child development, assessment tools, intervention principles, neurologic and muscular disorders, and congenital disorders such as Down Syndrome, along with other pediatric conditions including limb deficiencies and sports injuries. This edition adds six new chapters including a chapter introducing Movement Systems Analysis for pediatrics. From a team of expert contributors led by PT clinician/educator Roberta Kuchler O'Shea, this book teaches not only the lessons learned from textbooks and research but also from children and their families.

  • Situaciones de respuesta rápida en el enfermo crítico

    Casos clínicos de pacientes hospitalizados
    • 1st Edition
    • Arsalan Zaidi + 1 more
    • Spanish
    El cuidadoso seguimiento de los pacientes de riesgo, la intervención temprana y el oportuno traslado a la unidad de cuidados intensivos (UCI) desde los servicios hospitalarios generales han demostrado mejorar los resultados clínicos. Situaciones de respuesta rápida en el enfermo crítico. Casos clínicos de pacientes hospitalizados está diseñado para ayudar a reconocer los signos fundamentales de deterioro en los pacientes ingresados en planta y para garantizar que el traslado a la UCI se realiza antes de que se produzcan resultados clínicamente adversos. Mediante el uso de estrategias pedagógicas de probada eficacia, esta innovadora obra vincula teoría y práctica a través del repaso de casos procedentes de distintos entornos clínicos y académicos.

  • Braunwald. Tratado de cardiología

    Texto de medicina cardiovascular
    • 12th Edition
    • Peter Libby + 5 more
    • Spanish
    Actual, exhaustiva y basada en la evidencia, Braunwald. Tratado de cardiología continúa siendo la referencia más acreditada en su campo y la principal fuente de información sobre cardiología para médicos en ejercicio y en período de formación de todo el mundo. Esta 12.ª edición, completamente actualizada, sigue la tradición de excelencia de las anteriores, con una cobertura rigurosa y avanzada sobre nuevos fármacos, nuevas guías de práctica clínica, modalidades de imagen de mejor rendimiento y el último desarrollo de la medicina de precisión, que rigen el desarrollo de la práctica de la medicina cardiovascular. Dirigido y redactado por expertos en la materia de prestigio mundial, este texto, distinguido con varios galardones, constituye una pauta de referencia multimedia sin parangón en relación con los más diversos aspectos de esta disciplina, compleja y en rápida evolución.

  • Innovation in Upper Extremity Fracture Treatment, An Issue of Hand Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 39-4
    • Lauren M Shapiro + 1 more
    • English
    In this issue of Hand Clinics, guest editors Drs. Lauren Shapiro and Robin Kamal bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Innovation in Upper Extremity Fracture Treatment. Advances in the treatment of upper extremity fractures have led to techniques that include smaller incisions, enhanced implant design, and novel surgical approaches. In this issue, top experts discuss the advanced techniques can be applied to hand surgery practice to improve patient outcomes.

  • Health and Environmental Applications of Biosensing Technologies

    Clinical and Allied Health Science Perspective
    • 1st Edition
    • Murugan Veerapandian + 2 more
    • English
    With emerging biological threats from pathogenic microorganisms and increasing environmental pollutants, it is essential to ensure the safety needs of individuals and the ecosystem are met. Modern materials science and engineering has evolved over the years to better develop devices to test abnormalities. Affordability, accessibility, and reliability of any analytical system is the prime necessity for a modern diagnostic application. Health and Environmental Applications of Biosensing Technologies: Clinical and Allied Health Science Perspective presents a detailed overview on biosensor design systems and optimal fabrication technologies to create a greater impact on various industries and help organizations break existing performance tradeoffs to deploy biosensor technologies across inter/transdisciplin... businesses. The book presents novel and emerging trends in biosensor design and healthcare applications focused on API detection, communicable/non-com... disease diagnosis, food quality monitoring, agro-environmental analysis, bio-defense, and industrial pollutant sensing. In addition, wearable biosensors, commercial products, and safety regulations for biosensing technologies are summarized.

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