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Large Outdoor Fire Dynamics

Large Outdoor Fire Dynamics

Large Outdoor Fire Dynamics provides the essential knowledge for the hazard evaluation of large outdoor fires including wildland WUI (wildland-urban interface) and urban fires. The spread of outdoor fires can be viewed as a successive occurrence of physical and chemical processes – solid fuel combustion heat transfer to surrounding combustibles and ignition of heated combustibles – which are explained herein. Engineering equations frequently used in practical hazard analyses are derived and then integrated to implement a computational code predicting fire spread among discretely distributed combustibles. This code facilitates learning the procedure of hazard evaluation for large outdoor fires. Chapters cover underlying assumptions for analyzing fire spread behavior in large outdoor fires namely wind conditions near the ground surface and fundamentals of heat transfer; the physical mechanism of fire spread in and between combustibles specifically focusing on fire plumes (both reacting and non-reacting) and firebrand dispersal; and the spatial modeling of 3D objects and developing the computational framework for predicting fire spread. The book is ideal for engineers researchers and graduate students in fire safety as well as mechanical engineering civil engineering disaster management safety engineering and planning. Companion source codes are available online.

GBP 90.00
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Stochastic Optimization for Large-scale Machine Learning

Stochastic Optimization for Large-scale Machine Learning

Advancements in the technology and availability of data sources have led to the `Big Data' era. Working with large data offers the potential to uncover more fine-grained patterns and take timely and accurate decisions but it also creates a lot of challenges such as slow training and scalability of machine learning models. One of the major challenges in machine learning is to develop efficient and scalable learning algorithms i. e. optimization techniques to solve large scale learning problems. Stochastic Optimization for Large-scale Machine Learning identifies different areas of improvement and recent research directions to tackle the challenge. Developed optimisation techniques are also explored to improve machine learning algorithms based on data access and on first and second order optimisation methods. Key Features: Bridges machine learning and Optimisation. Bridges theory and practice in machine learning. Identifies key research areas and recent research directions to solve large-scale machine learning problems. Develops optimisation techniques to improve machine learning algorithms for big data problems. The book will be a valuable reference to practitioners and researchers as well as students in the field of machine learning.

GBP 150.00
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Iterative Methods and Preconditioning for Large and Sparse Linear Systems with Applications

Iterative Methods and Preconditioning for Large and Sparse Linear Systems with Applications

This book describes in a basic way the most useful and effective iterative solvers and appropriate preconditioning techniques for some of the most important classes of large and sparse linear systems. The solution of large and sparse linear systems is the most time-consuming part for most of the scientific computing simulations. Indeed mathematical models become more and more accurate by including a greater volume of data but this requires the solution of larger and harder algebraic systems. In recent years research has focused on the efficient solution of large sparse and/or structured systems generated by the discretization of numerical models by using iterative solvers. | Iterative Methods and Preconditioning for Large and Sparse Linear Systems with Applications

GBP 150.00
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Rotary Drilling and Blasting in Large Surface Mines

Rotary Drilling and Blasting in Large Surface Mines

In large surface mining operations drilling and blasting activities constitute more than 15% of the total costs. In order to optimize performance and minimize costs a thorough knowledge of drill and blast operations is therefore extremely important. In this unique reference volume rotary blasthole drilling and surface blasting as applied in large surface mines are comprehensively covered. Both new and classic concepts techniques and methodologies are presented supported by numerous illustrations and practical data. In 26 chapters drilling surface blasting rock rock mass machinery tools and accessories compressors and air flushing computing and practice are many other relevant subjects are treated; the first 16 chapters deal with rotary blasthole drilling and the 10 next chapters with the concepts theory and practice of blasting. Moreover the 14 appendices provide vital technical and commercial data to further support the reader to design plan execute and calculate blasthole drilling operations. This volume is intended for professionals and technicians in mining exploration geological and mechanical engineering who are involved with the design planning and execution of rotary drilling and blasting operations in surface mines. | Rotary Drilling and Blasting in Large Surface Mines

GBP 94.99
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Small Large and Median Groups The Work of Patrick de Mare

Small Large and Median Groups The Work of Patrick de Mare

This book is a remarkable tribute to the memory of Pat de Mare. You will find in these pages a selection of his work that represents his new and different understanding of groups both large and small that has not only had a significant impact on the practice of group therapy in his lifetime but also a potential for revolutionizing current thinking both now and in the future. The editors are owed a great debt of gratitude for putting so much important work together. They have organized the book around three sections on the small median and large groups. What is particularly moving is that each section is introduced by some of Pat's closest friends and colleagues. These introductions are not only invaluable preparation for reading the articles by Pat that follow but are also a poignant tribute to the writers' lives work their thinking and much happiness that came from their close relationship with Pat. | Small Large and Median Groups The Work of Patrick de Mare

GBP 130.00
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The Front-end of Large Public Projects Paradoxes and Ways Ahead

The Front-end of Large Public Projects Paradoxes and Ways Ahead

Large public projects represent major complex investment and whilst there has been much written about how to develop manage and deliver such projects practice still does not match up with expectations. In this book researchers from the Norwegian Concept Research Programme explore the paradoxes between theory and practice in collaboration with experts in the field of project governance. This book delves into the reality of large public projects to show how they can be managed effectively and efficiently recognising the realities of their context. It offers a range of practical conclusions as to the paradoxes of the governance and management of public projects. The international spectrum of authors draw their examples from the UK Norway Canada France Australia and the Netherlands. Bridging the gap between research theory and practice this book will benefit academics and researchers in the field of project management and corporate governance as well as those in the practice of public project governance civil servants and industry practitioners. | The Front-end of Large Public Projects Paradoxes and Ways Ahead

GBP 130.00
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Erasing the Binary Distinction of Developed and Underdeveloped A Comparative Study of the Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in Imp

Erasing the Binary Distinction of Developed and Underdeveloped A Comparative Study of the Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in Imp

This book challenges the binary distinction of developed and underdeveloped in the categorization of any country while proposing to erase this binary with a yardstick of parity. Through a sample comparative historical study focusing on the question of the emergence of the large-scale steel industry (1880-1914) of four chosen countries two considered developed (Imperial UK and Post-colonial Imperial USA) and two considered underdeveloped (Imperial Russia and Colonial India) it is shown how this yardstick of parity can be applied without the categorization of societies as either developed or underdeveloped. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India Sri Lanka Nepal Bangladesh Pakistan or Bhutan) | Erasing the Binary Distinction of Developed and Underdeveloped A Comparative Study of the Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in Imp

GBP 130.00
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Smart Grids for Renewable Energy Systems Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage Systems

Smart Grids for Renewable Energy Systems Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage Systems

This comprehensive reference text discusses simulation with case studies and realworld applications related to energy system models the large-scale integration of renewable energy systems electric vehicles and energy storage systems. The text covers analysis and modeling of the large-scale integration of renewable energy systems electric vehicles and energy storage systems. It further discusses economic aspects useful for policy makers and industrial professionals. It covers important topics including smart grids architectures wide-area situational awareness (WASA) energy management systems (EMS) demand response (DR) smart grid standardization exertions virtual power plants battery degradation modeling optimization approaches in modeling and smart metering infrastructure. The book: Discusses the analysis and modeling of the large-scale integration of renewable energy systems electric vehicles and energy storage systems Covers issues and challenges encountered in the large-scale integration of electric vehicles energy storage systems and renewable energy systems into future smart grid design Provides simulation with case studies and real-world applications related to energy system models electric vehicles and energy storage systems Discusses the integration of large renewable energy systems with the presence of a large number of electric vehicles and storage devices/systems Discussing concepts of smart grids together with the deployment of electric vehicles energy storage systems and renewable energy systems this text will be useful as a reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of electrical engineering electronics and communication engineering renewable energy and clean technologies. It further discusses topics including electric grid infrastructure architecture interfacing standardization protocols security reliability communication and optimal control. | Smart Grids for Renewable Energy Systems Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage Systems

GBP 110.00
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Structure and Properties of Clusters: from a few Atoms to Nanoparticles

Structure and Properties of Clusters: from a few Atoms to Nanoparticles

This volume on Clusters brings together contributions from a large number of specialists. A central element for all contributions is the use of advanced computational methodologies and their application to various aspects of structure reactivity and properties of clusters. The size of clusters varies from a few atoms to nanoparticles. Special emphasis is given to bringing forth new insights on the structure and properties of these systems with an eye towards potential applications in Materials Science. Overal the volume presents to the readers an amazing wealth of new results. Particular subjects include water clusters Silicon Iron Nickel and Gold clusters carbon-titanium microclusters and nanoparticles fullerenes carbon nanotubes chiral carbon nanotubes boron nanoclusters and more. | Structure and Properties of Clusters: from a few Atoms to Nanoparticles

GBP 145.00
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Robots and AI A New Economic Era

Robots and AI A New Economic Era

Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) are powerful forces that will likely have large impacts on the size direction and composition of international trade flows. This book discusses how industrial robots automation and AI affect international growth trade productivity employment wages and welfare. The book explains new approaches on how robots and artificial intelligence affect the world economy by presenting detailed theoretical framework and country-specific as well as firm-product level-specific exercises. This book will be a useful reference for those researching on robots automation AI and their economic impacts on trade industry and employment. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Robots and AI A New Economic Era

GBP 130.00
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Deficit Politics in the United States Taxes Spending and Fiscal Disconnect

Deficit Politics in the United States Taxes Spending and Fiscal Disconnect

From the clashes between Federalists and Republicans in the 1790s until today partisan battles over taxing spending and public debt have shaped American political development. These battles were formerly constrained by fiscal norms that mandated balanced budgets and low debt. In his Farewell Address President George Washington counseled the nation to cherish public credit by using it as sparingly as possible. In the 1980s however tax cuts and spending increases created large structural deficits and much higher debt levels. With only a brief interruption in the late 1990s deficit politics has been a mainstay ever since. Over this period the Republican Party has passed large tax cuts but failed to retrench the large entitlement programs that continue to raise spending. Likewise the Democratic Party has expanded the domestic role of government but has abandoned the broad-based taxation it supported in the 1990s. Funding their domestic agenda with matching revenues is now as unappealing for Democrats as entitlement cutbacks are for Republicans contributing to the current stalemate of Republican tax policy Democratic spending policy and soaring deficits and debt. The economic risks this entails are serious yet an end to the era of deficit politics is nowhere in sight. | Deficit Politics in the United States Taxes Spending and Fiscal Disconnect

GBP 130.00
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Sample Sizes for Clinical Trials

Sample Sizes for Clinical Trials

Sample Sizes for Clinical Trials Second Edition is a practical book that assists researchers in their estimation of the sample size for clinical trials. Throughout the book there are detailed worked examples to illustrate both how to do the calculations and how to present them to colleagues or in protocols. The book also highlights some of the pitfalls in calculations as well as the key steps that lead to the final sample size calculation. Features: Comprehensive coverage of sample size calculations including Normal binary ordinal and survival outcome data Covers superiority equivalence non-inferiority bioequivalence and precision objectives for both parallel group and crossover designs Highlights how trial objectives impact the study design with respect to both the derivation of sample formulae and the size of the study Motivated with examples of real-life clinical trials showing how the calculations can be applied New edition is extended with all chapters revised some substantially and four completely new chapters on multiplicity cluster trials pilot studies and single arm trials The book is primarily aimed at researchers and practitioners of clinical trials and biostatistics and could be used to teach a course on sample size calculations. The importance of a sample size calculation when designing a clinical trial is highlighted in the book. It enables readers to quickly find an appropriate sample size formula with an associated worked example complemented by tables to assist in the calculations.

GBP 89.99
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Biosecurity in the Making The Threats the Aspects and the Challenge of Readiness

Biosecurity in the Making The Threats the Aspects and the Challenge of Readiness

The explosive growth of bioeconomy and bioscience coupled with an interconnected planet increases the potential impact of large-scale bio-events. Either causing public health threats as in epidemics or posing food security issues from mass poisonings to large-scale starvation such eventualities are direct threats and indirect destabilizers in a planetary context. The issue of Biosecurity thus pervades every affected aspect from exploitations of the agro-sector and the food industry to the Public Health management the novel therapeutic/treatment approaches the new age of space deep-sea and subterranean explorations and the interface with the cyber world and the massive or small-scale projection of violence. It has been present since ancient times tacitly and discreetly but only recently took its present guise the different aspects of which are explored in this book. | Biosecurity in the Making The Threats the Aspects and the Challenge of Readiness

GBP 105.00
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The Monarch and the (Non)-Human in Literature and Cinema Western and Global Perspectives

The Monarch and the (Non)-Human in Literature and Cinema Western and Global Perspectives

This collection studies the representations of the character of the monarch in literature and cinema. Being a person an institution a character archetype and a narrative role the characters of the monarch and other royal or regal characters oscillate between humanity and the non-human. As such they are hybrid forms of existence and subjectivity. The authors of this collection explore this hybridity across large spectra of genres historical periods and cultural contexts. Some of the most prolific and widely read scholars analyze the archetype of the monarch on the page the stage and the screen. They cover large swathes of intersecting creative and interpretive territories including ancient epic and religious poetry Arthurian legends British Renaissance and modern drama British horror films and Hollywood crime and sports films. This collection also features interviews with six prominent comic book writers and artists who discuss the influence of classical royal archetypes on their works. | The Monarch and the (Non)-Human in Literature and Cinema Western and Global Perspectives

GBP 130.00
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The Future of Rural Development Between the Adjustment of the Project Approach and Sectoral Programme Desig

The Future of Rural Development Between the Adjustment of the Project Approach and Sectoral Programme Desig

This book gives a practitioner's account of international experiences with rural development seen from a German angle. It argues for a development co-operation for rural areas that actively supports popular participation beneficiaries' self-organization decentralization and consequently smaller self-managed (para)projects rather than large top-down organized rural development projects. | The Future of Rural Development Between the Adjustment of the Project Approach and Sectoral Programme Desig

GBP 175.00
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The Living Land Agriculture Food and Community Regeneration in the 21st Century

The Living Land Agriculture Food and Community Regeneration in the 21st Century

The Living Land sets out a new 'stakeholder' vision for rural regeneration in Europe. It integrates three themes: sustainable agriculture localised food systems and rural community development. All three offer ways of rebuilding natural and social capital and a large 'sustainability dividend' is waiting to be released from current practices - creating more jobs more wealth and better lives from less. | The Living Land Agriculture Food and Community Regeneration in the 21st Century

GBP 175.00
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Mollusks and Marine Environments of the Ten Thousand Islands

Mollusks and Marine Environments of the Ten Thousand Islands

Mollusks and Marine Environments of the Ten Thousand Islands provides the first comprehensive overview of the shells and habitats that are present in the last unexplored coastal area of southwestern Florida. The mysterious and primordial Ten Thousand Islands where the rivers and marshlands of the Everglades empty into the Gulf of Mexico house a number of remarkable marine ecosystems many shown here in detail for the first time. Primary among these are unique worm shell “reef systems ” composed entirely of immense masses of vermetid gastropod mollusks. These previously unexplored and unstudied gastropod reefs which are often many acres in size are shown here to mimic coral reefs in their growth structure and represent the only large-scale molluscan reefs found anywhere on Earth. Living in association with the zonated gastropod reefs are a number of rare and unusual mollusks some of which represent endemic species that are unique to the Ten Thousand Islands. These and many other southwestern Florida shells are illustrated throughout this book along with detailed illustrations and descriptions of the marine and estuarine environments that dominate the archipelago and its adjacent lagoon systems.

GBP 150.00
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Design and Analysis of Pragmatic Trials

Design and Analysis of Pragmatic Trials

This book begins with an introduction of pragmatic cluster randomized trials (PCTs) and reviews various pragmatic issues that need to be addressed by statisticians at the design stage. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each type of PCT and provides sample size formulas sensitivity analyses and examples for sample size calculation. The generalized estimating equation (GEE) method will be employed to derive sample size formulas for various types of outcomes from the exponential family including continuous binary and count variables. Experimental designs that have been frequently employed in PCTs will be discussed including cluster randomized designs matched-pair cluster randomized design stratified cluster randomized design stepped-wedge cluster randomized design longitudinal cluster randomized design and crossover cluster randomized design. It demonstrates that the GEE approach is flexible to accommodate pragmatic issues such as hierarchical correlation structures different missing data patterns randomly varying cluster sizes etc. It has been reported that the GEE approach leads to under-estimated variance with limited numbers of clusters. The remedy for this limitation is investigated for the design of PCTs. This book can assist practitioners in the design of PCTs by providing a description of the advantages and disadvantages of various PCTs and sample size formulas that address various pragmatic issues facilitating the proper implementation of PCTs to improve health care. It can also serve as a textbook for biostatistics students at the graduate level to enhance their knowledge or skill in clinical trial design. Key Features: Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each type of PCTs and provide sample size formulas sensitivity analyses and examples. Address an unmet need for guidance books on sample size calculations for PCTs; A wide variety of experimental designs adopted by PCTs are covered; The sample size solutions can be readily implemented due to the accommodation of common pragmatic issues encountered in real-world practice; Useful to both academic and industrial biostatisticians involved in clinical trial design; Can be used as a textbook for graduate students majoring in statistics and biostatistics. | Design and Analysis of Pragmatic Trials

GBP 89.99
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Swine Production and Management

Swine Production and Management

This book elaborately covers all topics of swine management like breeding feeding housing health management and pork production technology. The book is well supported by a large number of illustrations and tables which makes the understanding of the text very simple and easy. It will be very useful for all students as well as professionals. Note: T& F does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. | Swine Production and Management

GBP 99.99
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Simple Models of Complex Nuclei

Simple Models of Complex Nuclei

applications to the structure of atomic nuclei. The author systematically develops these models from the elementary level through an introduction to tensor algebra to the use of group theory in spectroscopy. The book's extensive and detailed appendix includes a large selection of useful formulae of tensor algebra and spectroscopy. The serious graduate student as well as the professional physicist will find this complete treatment of the shell model to be an invaluable addition to the literature. | Simple Models of Complex Nuclei

GBP 170.00
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