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    • Federated Identity Primer

      • 1st Edition
      • December 10, 2012
      • Derrick Rountree
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Identity authentication and authorization are integral tasks in today's digital world. As businesses become more technologically integrated and consumers use more web services, the questions of identity security and accessibility are becoming more prevalent. Federated identity links user credentials across multiple systems and services, altering both the utility and security landscape of both. In Federated Identity Primer, Derrick Rountree.

    • Law Firm Librarianship

      • 1st Edition
      • December 10, 2012
      • John Azzolini
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The legal information environment is deep, wide, and dynamic with many participants, including courts, parliaments, legislatures, and administrative bodies. None exemplifies the agile, knowledge-engaging legal player better than the law firm. Current, authoritative information is essential for the successful representation of clients. The firm's most dependable resource for retrieving information is its library staff. Law Firm Librarianship introduces the reader to the challenges, qualifications, and work conditions of this distinct type of research librarian. The book begins by asking what law firm librarianship is, whilst the second chapter focuses on the law firm and its culture. The third chapter covers the law firm library itself, including the practical aspects of the firm librarian's interaction with his or her professional environments. The next chapter considers the effects of legal publishing practices, and the penultimate section surveys the various research tools the firm librarian relies on for sound knowledge. The book concludes by looking at the dynamic qualities of law firm librarianship.

    • Radioactivity Measurements

      • 1st Edition
      • December 2, 2012
      • W. B. Mann + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The authors have addressed the basic need for internationally consistent standards and methods demanded by the new and increasing use of radioactive materials, radiopharmaceuticals and labelled compounds. Particular emphasis is given to the basic and practical problems that may be encountered in measuring radioactivity. The text provides information and recommendations in the areas of radiation protection, focusing on quality control and the precautions necessary for the preparation and handling of radioactive substances. New information is also presented on the applications of both traditional and innovative instruments in the fields of diagnostic and clinical radiology, radiation protection, biomedical research, industrial and agricultural applications, power production and waste control.

    • Cells and Tissues

      • 1st Edition
      • December 2, 2012
      • Rogers
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Cells and Tissues: An Introduction to Histology and Cell Biology begins by explaining why histology should be studied. Some chapters follow on the techniques for studying cells and tissues, the anatomy of the cell, the epithelia, the connective tissues, and the blood. This book also covers topics on the immunity against foreign material; contractility, specifically at how it is brought about and at how the system changes in a stationary cell; and harnessing of contraction to produce movement. This text also looks into the communication systems within cells, the life and death of cells, and the histological sections of small intestine. The responses of the body to injury in the processes of inflammation and repair are also explored. This book will be useful to students starting in histology, though it does assume some elementary knowledge of biochemistry and of the structure of the mammalian body.

    • Insect-Fungus Interactions

      • 1st Edition
      • December 2, 2012
      • Bozzano G Luisa
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The first and only book to summarize this fascinating topic. This symposium volume reviews the current state of knowledge in four principal areas: mycophagy, mutualism, insect spread of plant fungal disease, and insect mycopathology.

    • Environmental Toxicology of Pesticides

      • 1st Edition
      • December 2, 2012
      • Matsumura
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Environmental Toxicology of Pesticides provides an overview of the state of knowledge in the major pesticidal subject areas and describes the efforts and approaches underway in solving or understanding these problems. The book emerged from the United States-Japan seminar on ""Environmental Toxicology of Pesticides"" held in Oiso, Japan, in October 1971. The purpose of the seminar was to discuss and exchange ideas and technology on the problems associated with pesticidal contamination in these two countries. The book is organized into eight parts. Part I reviews pesticide use and contamination levels in Japan, the United States, and Britain. Part II examines the environmental impact of mercury. Part III presents studies on chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides. Part IV examines the effects of fungicides, herbicides, organophosphates, and carbamates. Part V deals with the microbial degradation of pesticides. Part VI examines the photodecomposition of pesticides. Part VII investigates the biological effects of pesticides on wildlife. Part VIII deals with the development of new pesticides.

    • Food Texture and Viscosity

      • 1st Edition
      • December 2, 2012
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Drawing together literature from a myriad of sources, this book focuses on the texture and viscosity of food as well as the techniques for measuring these properties. Food Texture and Viscosity: Concept and Measurement includes a brief history of the field and its basic principles and then goes on to provide a detailed discussion of the physical interactions between the human body and food, objective methods of texture measurements, commercially available instruments and their uses, various types of viscous flow, and sensory methods for measuring texture and viscosity. An appendix lists names and addresses of suppliers for anyone interested in purchasing equipment. Incorporating material from numerous sources across a wide range of disciplines, this book will prove valuable to students, faculty, researchers, and anyone working in food technology and sensory evaluation.

    • Avian Biology

      • 1st Edition
      • December 2, 2012
      • Donald S. Farner + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Written by international experts from many disciplines, this multi-volume treatise is a comprehensive survey of the established data and principles of avian biology. The volumes thoroughly review knowledge of the 8600 living species of birds-knowledge resulting from advances in instrumentation and technology and improved transportation facilities that permit more detailed, far-ranging field studies than ever before. The emphasis is on the significance of avian biological research to such areas of biology as ethology, ecology, population biology, evolutionary biology, and physiological ecology.

    • Pathology in Marine Science

      • 1st Edition
      • December 2, 2012
      • Frank O. Perkins + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Pathology in Marine Science contains the majority of papers presented at the Third International Colloquium on Pathology in Marine Aquaculture held in Gloucester Point, Virginia, USA in October 1988. The book serves as a record of the progress of concerted research in marine pathobiology and also as a useful reference tool. The compendium consists of contributions that are reflective of the subdisciplines of the biological sciences that are of immediate concern to investigators interested in pathology in marine aquaculture. Topics discussed include viruses, bacterioses, mycoses, protozoan diseases, metazoan parasitic diseases, toxicological syndromes, teratological and neoplastic diseases, epidemiology/epizoot... nutritional pathology, and immunology. Marine scientists, aquaculturists, and researchers on marine life science will find the text useful.

    • Lipids in Cereal Technology

      • 1st Edition
      • December 2, 2012
      • Bozzano G Luisa
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Lipids in Cereal Technology provides a comprehensive review of cereal lipids and their role in cereal processing and products. Topics range from acyl lipids and non-saponifiable lipids in cereals, such as barley and maize, to lipid metabolism in germinating cereals, physical state of lipids and their technical effects in baking, the effect of storage on the lipids and breadmaking properties of wheat flour, and lipids in pasta and pasta processing. Organized into 19 chapters, this review brings together the knowledge and experience of an international group of experts. It begins with an overview of the fundamental aspects of cereal grain lipids and enzymes. It then discusses the specific cereals, processing, and cereal products. Moreover, the book explains the composition and distribution of lipids in the grain, the biochemical changes that occur when the grain germinates, and the biochemistry of the enzymes involved in lipid degradation. Some chapters focus on wheat and the significance of lipids in milling, flour storage, baking, and pasta manufacture. Other chapters consider individual cereals such as rice, oats, maize, malt, and barley along with corn oil, wheat germ oil, and other cereal products.

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