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    • Personnel Protection: Residential Security

      • 1st Edition
      • June 9, 2014
      • Jerome Miller + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Personnel Protection: Residential Security is a video presentation. Length: 10 minutes. Executive protection doesn’t end when the executive leaves the office. In Personnel Protection: Residential Security, presenters Jerome Miller and Radford Jones discuss the components of a residential security system. Topics in this 10-minute video presentation of narrated slides include home security and fire alarm systems, safe rooms, personalizing the security program to involve the executive and his or her family, and special considerations for when the residence is a large, wooded, or walled estate. The presenters emphasize the rings of security concept, with each ring designed to detect or deter an attacker.This presentation is one of 11 modules in the Personnel Protection presentation series, which is designed for companies considering an executive security program or for companies with an executive security program already in place. Other topics in this series include: concepts of executive security; advance procedures; the executive threat assessment profile; kidnapping issues and guidelines; security personnel; security procedures for worksite, aircraft, and vehicle operations; and executive compensation issues, including IRS requirements.The Personnel Protection presentation series is a part of Elsevier’s Security Executive Council Risk Management Portfolio, a collection of real world solutions and "how-to" guidelines that equip executives, practitioners, and educators with proven information for successful security and risk management programs.

    • Personnel Protection: Vehicle Operations and Safety

      • 1st Edition
      • June 9, 2014
      • Jerome Miller + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
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      Personnel Protection: Vehicle Operations and Safety is a video presentation. Length: 20 minutes. Because a business executive typically spends a considerable amount of time travelling by vehicle, the greatest risk of injury or death to the executive is by vehicle accident or attack while in the vehicle. In Personnel Protection: Vehicle Operations and Safety, presenters Jerome Miller and Radford Jones discuss the basic security principles of executive driver safety and training. This 20-minute video presentation of narrated slides covers the challenges the executive driver may face, how and why to vary routes, schedules, and vehicles, and the characteristics of a qualified executive driver. This presentation is one of 11 modules in the Personnel Protection presentation series, which is designed for companies considering an executive security program or for companies with an executive security program already in place. Other topics in this series include: concepts of executive security; advance procedures; security personnel; the executive threat assessment profile; kidnapping issues and guidelines; security procedures for residence, worksite, and aircraft operations; and executive compensation issues, including IRS requirements. The Personnel Protection presentation series is a part of Elsevier’s Security Executive Council Risk Management Portfolio, a collection of real world solutions and "how-to" guidelines that equip executives, practitioners, and educators with proven information for successful security and risk management programs.

    • Personnel Protection: Threat Assessment Profile

      • 1st Edition
      • June 9, 2014
      • Jerome Miller + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
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      Personnel Protection: Threat Assessment Profile is a video presentation. Length: 12 minutes. In Personnel Protection: Threat Assessment Profile, presenters Jerome Miller and Radford Jones discuss the threat assessment profile as the basis for determining the need for an executive security program. This 12-minute video presentation of narrated slides covers the range of threats to consider, the executive’s public exposure and any history of threats, local safety issues, and business travel. The presenters emphasize the need for keeping an up-to-date executive dossier containing his or her personal information, in case there is a kidnapping situation. This presentation is one of 11 modules in the Personnel Protection presentation series, which is designed for companies considering an executive security program or for companies with an executive security program already in place. Other topics in this series include: concepts of executive security; advance procedures; security personnel; kidnapping issues and guidelines; security procedures for residence, worksite, aircraft, and vehicle operations; and executive compensation issues, including IRS requirements. The Personnel Protection presentation series is a part of Elsevier’s Security Executive Council Risk Management Portfolio, a collection of real world solutions and "how-to" guidelines that equip executives, practitioners, and educators with proven information for successful security and risk management programs.

    • Geology of the China Seas

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 6
      • June 6, 2014
      • Pinxian Wang + 2 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Geology of the China Seas represents the first English-language synthesis of the available research into the geology of the South and East China Seas. Among the marginal basins worldwide, these areas have been the focus of extensive research activities in the last three decades, and are now among the global hot spots in hydrocarbon explorations and scientific investigations. The region is experiencing rapid economic development with the offshore petroleum industry providing approximately one third of the domestic hydrocarbon production for mainland China. Gas hydrates have been successfully recovered from the China Seas for the first time. Over the years, many volumes on the geology of the China Seas have been published in Chinese. Although an increasing number of papers in English have appeared recently, the majority deal with local or regional paleo-environment and sedimentology, and are scattered in different journals. This book brings together this rich data in one resource, particularly that generated by Chinese marine geologists and petroleum geologists, and provides the very first synthesis of the geology off China.

    • Nanomagnetism: Fundamentals and Applications

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 6
      • June 6, 2014
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Nanomagnetism: Fundamentals and Applications is a complete guide to the theory and practical applications of magnetism at the nanometer scale. It covers a wide range of potential applications including materials science, medicine, and the environment. A tutorial covers the special magnetic properties of nanoscale systems in various environments, from free clusters to nanostructured materials. Subsequent chapters focus on the current state of research in theory and experiment in specific areas, and also include applications of nanoscale systems to synthesizing high-performance materials and devices.

    • Cerebellar Learning

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 210
      • June 6, 2014
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Progress in Brain Research is the most acclaimed and accomplished series in neuroscience, firmly established as an extensive documentation of the advances in contemporary brain research. The volumes, some of which are derived from important international symposia, contain authoritative reviews and original articles by invited specialists. The rigorous editing of the volumes assures that they will appeal to all laboratory and clinical brain research workers in the various disciplines: neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, neuroendocrinology, neuropathology, basic neurology, biological psychiatry, and the behavioral sciences. This volume, The Cerebellum and Memory Formation: Structure, Computation and Function, covers topics including feedback control of cerebellar learning; cortico-cerebellar organization and skill acquisition; cerebellar plasticity and learning in the oculomotor system, and more.

    • Organic Chemistry

      • 1st Edition
      • June 6, 2014
      • Robert J. Ouellette + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
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      Organic Chemistry provides a comprehensive discussion of the basic principles of organic chemistry in their relation to a host of other fields in both physical and biological sciences. This book is written based on the premise that there are no shortcuts in organic chemistry, and that understanding and mastery cannot be achieved without devoting adequate time and attention to the theories and concepts of the discipline. It lays emphasis on connecting the basic principles of organic chemistry to real world challenges that require analysis, not just recall. This text covers topics ranging from structure and bonding in organic compounds to functional groups and their properties; identification of functional groups by infrared spectroscopy; organic reaction mechanisms; structures and reactions of alkanes and cycloalkanes; nucleophilic substitution and elimination reactions; conjugated alkenes and allylic systems; electrophilic aromatic substitution; carboxylic acids; and synthetic polymers. Throughout the book, principles logically evolve from one to the next, from the simplest to the most complex examples, with abundant connections between the text and real world applications. There are extensive examples of biological relevance, along with a chapter on organometallic chemistry not found in other standard references. This book will be of interest to chemists, life scientists, food scientists, pharmacists, and students in the physical and life sciences.

    • Coastal Disasters and Climate Change in Vietnam

      • 1st Edition
      • June 4, 2014
      • Nguyen Danh Thao + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Coastal Disasters and Climate Change in Vietnam is the first book to focus specifically on natural hazards and climate change in Vietnam. The book examines threats such as tropical cyclones, sea-level rise, flooding, erosion, and salinity intrusion, and their respective effects on coastal structures and environments. It also looks at crucial management and mitigation efforts, including breakwater design, irrigation systems, coastal dunes and dikes, and more. The challenges faced by this country in the future will have important regional and global repercussions; areas such as the Mekong Delta produce a significant proportion of the world’s rice, and coastal impacts on this region will have far-reaching economic and public health effects. This book is an important source of information for government and local policy makers, environmental and climate scientists, and engineers.

    • Damages on Pumps and Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • June 4, 2014
      • Thomas Merkle
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Damage on Pumps and Systems. The Handbook for the Operation of Centrifugal Pumps offers a combination of the theoretical basics and practical experience for the operation of circulation pumps in the engineering industry. Centrifugal pumps and systems are extremely vulnerable to damage from a variety of causes, but the resulting breakdown can be prevented by ensuring that these pumps and systems are operated properly. This book provides a total overview of operating centrifugal pumps, including condition monitoring, preventive maintenance, life cycle costs, energy savings and economic aspects. Extra emphasis is given to the potential damage to these pumps and systems, and what can be done to prevent breakdown.

    • Natural Resources in Afghanistan

      • 1st Edition
      • June 4, 2014
      • John F. Shroder
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Natural Resources in Afghanistan: Geographic and Geologic Perspectives on Centuries of Conflict details Afghanistan's physical geography — namely climate, soils, vegetation, water, hazards, and basic geologic background and terrain landforms — together with details of its rich natural resources, ethnic problems, and relevant past histories. The book couples these details with the challenges of environmental degradation and new environmental management and protection, all of which are considered finally in both pessimistic and optimistic modes. The reader comes away with a nuanced understanding of the issues that are likely to have great affect for this pivotal region of the world for decades to come. With an estimated $1-3 trillion dollars of ore in the ground, and multiple cross-reinforcing cancellations of big Asian power machinations (China, India, Iran, Pakistan), Afghanistan has an opportunity to gain more economic independence. At the same time, however, historic forces of negativity also pull it back toward the chaos and uncertainty that has defined the country and constrained its economic progress for decades.

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