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Integrated Assessment of Ecosystem Health
Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1566704537 |
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The new approach to ecosystem health is proactive. As a result, the scope of environmental studies is growing and the methods are evolving. Integrated Assessment of Ecosystem Health aggressively broadens the range of ecotoxicology to include its related fields. The book begins with John Cairns, Jr.'s predictions and recommendations for the future ecotoxicology: "New goals must lead to new techniques.... the field of ecotoxicology is in the early stages of a major paradigm shift that is driven by three interrelated forces: 1) heightened interest in sustainable use of the planet, 2) protection of ecosystem , and 3) the shift from emphasis on avoiding deleterious effects to maintaining them in robust health." Later chapters explore the integration of data, intrinsic remediation studies and the ever- increasing number of associated disciplines that are improving our environmental potential. Methodology, itself, is considered as an evolving tool, always in need examination and revision. Cairns, and his co-authors all advocate a constructive, offensive new form of ecoscience. The consensus of scientists is clear: toxic threat and, especially, habitat destruction are the most important environmentl issues, today. The mandate from Integrated Assessment of Ecosystem Health is also decisive: expand the parameters of ecoscience. The future of life on earth depends upon our ability to grow and learn.
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Cost-effective control of SO"2 emissions in Asia [An article from: Journal of Environmental Management]
J. Cofala , M. Amann , F. Gyarfas , W. Schoepp , and Boudr Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000RR0ORU |
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Environmental Management, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Handbook of Polyethylene: Structures: Properties, and Applications (Plastics Engineering (Marcel Dekker, Inc.), 57.)
Andrew Peacock Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0824795466 |
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This text provides the basic history, molecular structure and intrinsic properties, practical applications and future developments of polyethylene production and marketing - including recycling systems and metallocene technology. It describes commercial processing techniques used to convert raw polyethylene to finished products, emphasizing special properties and end-use applications.
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Structures and Properties of Rubberlike Networks (Topics in Polymer Science)
Burak Erman , and James. E. Mark Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0195082370 |
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Rubber elasticity is an important sub-field of polymer science. This book is in many ways a sequel to the authors' previous, more introductory book, Rubberlike Elasticity: A Molecular Primer (Wiley-Interscience, 1988), and will in some respects replace the now classic book by L.R.G. Treloar, The Physics of Rubber Elasticity (Oxford, 1975). The present book has much in common with its predecessor, in particular its strong emphasis on molecular concepts and theories. Similarly, only equilibrium properties are covered in any detail. Though this book treats much of the same subject matter, it is a more comprehensive, more up-to-date, and somewhat more sophisticated treatment.
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Carbon Fibres: Formation, Structure, and Properties
Leighton H. Peebles Manufacturer: CRC-Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0849324505 |
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Carbon Fibers presents an up-to-date review of the progress pertaining to the formation of carbon fibers from rayon, acrylic, and pitch precursors. The book emphasizes the preparation, characterization, and properties of commercial materials. It also considers the compressive properties of carbon fibers, the lack of correlation between surface characterization and fiber-matrix interactions, and the discrepancy between surface composition as determined by XPS and the reaction of surface groups with chemical reagents. Other topics discussed include:
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Thermal Analysis of Polymeric Materials
Bernhard Wunderlich Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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ASIN: 3540236295 |
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Thermal Analysis of Polymeric Materials systematically treats macroscopic measurements by thermal analysis and the quantitative link to microscopic, molecular structure and mobility. Reversible and irreversible thermodynamics, kinetics, quantum mechanics, and statistical thermodynamics are the roots of the described thermal analysis. The book aims to broaden readers’ understanding of materials and the connection of flexible macromolecules (polymers) to small molecules and rigid macromolecules (minerals, salts, and metals). An effort is made to discover how the long, flexible molecules fit into their small phases which are characterized as microphases or nanophases. Their order ranges from amorphous to mesophase-like and crystalline. Ultimately, it is shown that the basic structure-property-processing triangle is connected to the better-known types of molecules and their common macroscopic phases.
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Relating Materials Properties to Structure with MATPROP Software: Handbook and Software for Polymer Calculations and Mat
D. J. David , Ashok Misra , and D.J. David Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1587160889 |
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Relating Materials Properties to Structure: Handbook and Software for Polymer Calculations and Materials Properties lays the foundation for an understanding of the basic structure of materials and the significant distinguishing features between major classes. It provides a method of comparison between the structure of different classes of materials and their attendant properties. The structural differences between individual polymers and the resultant properties are a primary focus, since this is the only class of materials where data and techniques allow properties to be estimated. This book and CD-ROM software package provides an easy, straightforward technique for estimating polymer properties via simple software. The software permits the user to see the effects of changing a structure, and to estimate the properties of a polymer that might be unavailable or very time-consuming to find. The ability of the software to estimate the miscibility of various polymer blends is one of its most valuable aspects. While most methods that are extremely easy make simplifying assumptions that adversely affect accuracy, in this case, the inaccuracies introduced do not obviate the usefulness of the software or techniques. Relating Materials Properties to Structure: Handbook and Software for Polymer Calculations and Materials Properties Software offers the most comprehensive system presently available. Invaluable to all involved in fundamental polymer research, new product polymer alloy development, investigating polymer/plasticizer miscibility, and those involved in designing and specifying polymeric materials required to meet mechanical, physical, thermal, electrical and blending properties.
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Structure and Transport Properties in Organized Polymeric Materials (Series in Contemporary Chemical Physics)
Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 981021894X |
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Structure and mechanics of woven fabrics (Woodhead Publishing in Textiles)
Jinlian Hu Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0849328268 |
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Fabric mechanics are fundamental to the way textiles are designed, tested and manufactured and underpin the way woven fabrics are used in the modern world. With fully comprehensive coverage of all aspects of fabric anisotropy, stress-strain relationships and fabric drape modelling and testing, structure and mechanics of woven fabrics, discusses and exemplifies all major aspects of fabric mechanics and their relevance to every stage of the contemporary textile industry. ?? After a general introduction illustrating the role and study of woven fabric mechanics, the first group of chapters examines the structural, tensile, bending and shear properties of woven fabrics. Sections cover the general behaviour of these properties, how they are modelled and their anisotropy. Drape deformation modelling is covered extensively, one chapter detailing theory and a second, computation and simulation. The properties of fabrics with seams and fabric complex deformation analysis and simulation are also detailed. ?? Structure and mechanics of woven fabrics is an essential reference for all textile academics, students, researchers, technicians, engineers and technologists, covering all areas of textile material applications, from composites and geotextiles, to medical textiles and biotextiles.
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Ionomers: Synthesis, structure, properties and applications
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 075140392X |
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The rise in the production and use of polymers as everyday materials has for the most part been due to advances in polymers synthesis allowing the manufacture of huge range of materials suitable for many different applications. The current and potential applications of ion-containing polymers or ionomers are many and varied. One of the most well-established of these is the use of perfluorinated ionomers as members in chlor-alkali cells. Ionic interactions may also be used to modify the properties of thermoplastics, as in the case of the well-known Surlyn materials which are widely used in packaging applications. Other current applications of ionomers include their use as thermoplastic elastomers blend compatibilizers and fluid additives such as dispersants.
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Wood: Nature's Cellular, Polymeric Fibre-Composite
J. M. Dinwoodie Manufacturer: Maney Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0901462357 |
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Polymeric Materials: Structure, Properties, Applications
Gottfried W. Ehrenstein , and R. P. Theriault Manufacturer: Hanser Gardner Pubns ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1569903107 |
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Political Decisions and Agency Performances
R. Torenvlied , and Rene Torenvlied Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0792360923 |
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This work analyzes the implementation of controversial public policy. A single, overarching model provides the framework for testing competing theories, ranging from Max Weber's bureaucracy theory and Woodrow Wilson's theory of administration to more recent ideas on how the legislature controls the bureaucracy. The model combines ideas about policy implementation drawn from different disciplines: political science, public administration, sociology and economics. The author uses a novel empirical test design to measure agency performance and deviations from political decisions taken in three Dutch local authorities. In contrast to more conventional implementation studies, this work adopts a `few variables, many cases' approach. The model and empirical tests, which are fully clarified in the book, together offer a novel framework for the analysis of complex implementation processes. A previous version of the book (written in Dutch) was awarded the prestigious Van Poelje prize of the Dutch Association for Public Administration and the 1996 annual award of the Dutch Political Science Association.
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Political Decisions and Agency Performance.
Rene Torenvlied Manufacturer: Kluwer Academic Pubs. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000N65OSY |
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Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition (Transformation of the Classical Heritage)
Robert Lamberton Manufacturer: University of California Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0520066073 |
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Here is the first survey of the surviving evidence for the growth, development, and influence of the Neoplatonist allegorical reading of the Iliad and Odyssey. Professor Lamberton argues that this tradition of reading was to create new demands on subsequent epic and thereby alter permanently the nature of European epic. The Neoplatonist reading was to be decisive in the birth of allegorical epic in late antiquity and forms the background for the next major extension of the epic tradition found in Dante.Customer Reviews:
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The Literary Microcosm: Theories of Interpretation of the Later Neoplatonists (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition)
J. A. Coulter Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 9004044892 |
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The Neoplatonists
John Gregory Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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The Neoplatonist philosophers who flourished between the third and sixth centuries AD had a profound influence on western philosophy, on both Christian and Islamic literature and the visual arts from the Renaissance to modern times. This extensively revised and updated second edition of Neoplatonists provides a valuable introduction to the thought of four central Neoplatonic philosophers, Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus and Iamblichus. John Gregory presents new translations of a selection of key passages from Neoplatonist writings, an introduction that puts in context the writings, and an epilogue detailing the legacy and influence of Neoplatonist thought.
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Sallust on the Gods
Neoplatonist Sallustius Manufacturer: Philosophical Research Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0893144010 |
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Translated by Thomas TaylorIntroductory Preface by Manly P. Hall
Sallust was a Neoplatonic philosopher who flourished in the fourth century A.D. and is said to have written the present work for the benefit of Emperor Julian. Taylor's added notes and commentaries give valuable insights into the essential meaning, which is often obscure in the actual texts. This volume also includes translations of The Pythagoric Sentences of Demophilus and Proclus' Five Hymns, along with Five Hymns by Thomas Taylor; it is a photographic facsimile of the extremely scarce original edition of 1795.
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Dionysius the Areopagite and the Neoplatonist Tradition (Ashgate Studies in Philosophy & Theology in Late Antiquity)
John Dillon , and Sarah Klitenic Manufacturer: Ashgate Pub Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0754603857 |
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The Libraries of the Neoplatonists (Philosophia Antiqua)
Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9004156410 |
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Muslim Neoplatonists: An Introduction to the Thought of the Brethren of Purity
Ian Rich Netton Manufacturer: RoutledgeCurzon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0700714669 |
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Designed as an introduction to their ideas, this book concentrates on the Brethren's writings, analysing the impact on them of thinkers such as Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle and the Neoplatonists and tracing the influences of Judaism and Christianity.
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Muslim neoplatonists: An introduction to the thought of the Brethren of Purity, Ikhwan al-Safa
Ian Richard Netton Manufacturer: G. Allen & Unwin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0042970431 |
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The Mysticism Of The Neoplatonists
Robert A. Vaughan Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1417932805 |
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THIS 42 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Hours With the Mystics, by Robert A. Vaughan. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564590119.
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Pleasure and the Good Life: Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists (Philosophia Antiqua)
Gerd Van Riel , and Gerd Van Riel Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9004117970 |
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