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Marine Geography

  • 1st Edition
  • August 1, 2029
  • Barbara Bischof
  • English
Marine Geography: Ocean Space and Sense of Place advances the field of marine geography to begin to define it as a unique subdiscipline of geographic thought, and demonstrates how core theory and perspectives must be tweaked to be effective in approaching geographic challenges such as natural resource management, fisheries, coastal development, marine environmental research and exploration, mobilities and legal issues of boundaries and enforcement, and any topics that include human-nature interactions in this space. It provides the geographic theories that must be adjusted and highlights unique spatial characteristics that must be accommodated appropriately to be applied towards issues in marine and coastal systems including boundary-making, dimensions, cultures of science/technologies, access, social constructions, and place vs space. This book lays out ways in which ocean space has been organized by humans and how we have determined boundaries and boundary systems in ocean space.Though Marine Geography: Ocean Space and Sense of Place serves as a reference for a university-level course in marine and coastal geography, it also expands to other disciplines that contain a spatial component including environmental science, maritime industries, political science and international relations, policy professionals, natural resource management, planning/management organizations, and other fields that deal with marine or maritime spaces as an aspect of their focus.

Understanding Paraffin and Asphaltene in the Oil and Gas Industry

  • 1st Edition
  • August 1, 2029
  • Kenneth M. Barker
  • English
Paraffin and asphaltene scaling are long-standing challenges in the oil and gas industry, best known for clogging wells, flowlines, surface facilities, and subsurface formations. Petroleum engineers need to understand the basic chemistry behind these challenges as well as how to test and treat scaling in an economical and environmentally safe way. Understanding Paraffin and Asphaltene in the Oil and Gas Industry delivers the critical tool for engineers of all career levels to understand the formation and properties as well as testing and treating methods. Organized efficiently to break down between paraffins and asphaltenes testing then treatments, engineers can learn from real-world experiences shared by the author from 40-plus years of lessons learned. Covering the spectrum between upstream and downstream equipment, Understanding Paraffin and Ashphaltene in the Oil and Gas Industry gives petroleum engineers the practical depth of knowledge needed to cover what organic deposits are, how to determine what they are in lab and field, what kind of problems they cause, how problems can be prevented, and most importantly how problems can be solved after they have occurred in a cost effective way.

A Comprhensive Guide to Nuclear Fuel Cycles

  • 1st Edition
  • August 1, 2029
  • Florent Heidet
  • English
Nuclear Fuel Cycles: A Comprehensive Guide is a practical and systematic reference which compiles the latest knowledge and research on advanced nuclear fuel cycles. Florent Heidet of Argonne National Laboratory presents an overview of the potential fuel cycle options for a variety of different nuclear reactor types, through an analysis of different plants in different regions. The book begins with a review of current fuel cycles in deployment, before analyzing front-end components, such as natural resources, fuel fabrication and transport. It then moves onto discuss different advanced nuclear reactors as part of the fuel cycle, before analyzing important back-end considerations such as nuclear waste, spent fuel and storage technologies. This book equips readers with an in-depth understanding of this multidisciplinary area, including the scientific and technical nuances of various fuel cycle options, and guides the reader to be able to navigate the myriad of decisions they face in their professional and academic lives.

Planar Gel Electrophoresis

  • 1st Edition
  • August 1, 2029
  • Teck Yew Low
  • English
Planar Gel Electrophoresis: For Protein Separation presents the state-of-the-art in planar gel electrophoretic techniques and how they can be implemented in laboratory practice for protein separation. The book covers the whole of the subject, including its historical background, concepts, applications and new developments in planar gel electrophoresis in protein separation. Chapters are written by experts with deep experience in their field. This volume serves as a practical guide for researchers to choose and utilize suitable sample preparation procedures, also describing notable contemporary uses in planar gel electrophoresis in industrial and academic project environments.

User-Centered Interface Improvement in Libraries

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 2029
  • Ray Laura Henry
  • English
Libraries are optimally positioned to lead user-centered interface improvements, especially in the now-ubiquitous areas of search, discovery, and retrieval of information resources. This book delves more deeply into why that might be the case, as well as how to create those transformative changes. Modern libraries are concerned with improving the experiences our users have with the resources we provide. We operate in a technologically complex environment, however, where we are integrating many diverse resource providers that we have much less control of into our portfolio of services. How do libraries' competing interests, for example, those of standardization and interoperability versus those of personalization and context-awareness act to "intertwingle" across our user interfaces? Literacies Identity and Library Technologies examines historical and contemporary library technology practices through several overlapping lenses. Why library technologies, in particular? Precisely because they are located in a complex, interconnected ecosystem of services whose loci of control are elsewhere, and so where there is a continued struggle to make good on promises like seamless resource access. The initial adoptions, integrations, and ongoing refinements of these technologies exist in what can be described as an information society whose undergirding values are essentially opaque. Despite immersion in this vast sea of knowledge/information/data, many of us who swim in it have no clear sense of its origins or mechanisms. In particular, the core of information navigation for most has become web-scale search, and though it is treated as a utility in nearly the same way heat and light are, even those of us who may teach its use to others often aren't sure exactly how it works. Similarly, users of these systems are impacted by the values underlying their construction in ways that are hidden or invisible to them, so they may not even be able to shift their strategies to more effectively work in these systems.