Teaching Resource - Metallurgy and Materials Science & Engineering

How Many Elements Are There ? — In ancient times all forms of matter were supposed to be derived from the four " elements," — earth, air, fire, and water. Since this theory was overthrown there has never been a time when man could agree on the probable number of elements. At no time has the answer to this question been more nearly within reach than at the present. A study of the atomic numbers of the elements has led to the conclusion that from helium to uranium inclusive there are 91 elements, making with hydrogen a total of 92 possible elements within the limits of our present knowledge.

Adaptive image processing is one of the most important techniques in visual information processing, especially in early vision such as image restoration, filtering, enhancement, and segmentation. While existing books present some important aspects of the issue, there is not a single book that treats this problem from a viewpoint that is directly linked to human perception - until now. This reference treats adaptive image processing from a computational intelligence viewpoint, systematically and successfully, from theory to applications, using the synergies of neural networks, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary computation. Based on the fundamentals of human perception, this book gives a detailed account of computational intelligence methods and algorithms for adaptive image processing in regularization, edge detection, and early vision.

Molecular Biology and Biotechnology by J.M. Walker
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry; 4th edition (January 10, 2001) | ISBN: 0854046062 | Pages: 564 | PDF | 55 MB

As a textbook, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology has always been immensely popular. Now in its fourth edition, it has been completely revised and updated to provide a comprehensive overview of the area, and to reflect all the latest developments. Written by recognised experts, each of the nineteen chapters describes a specific subject area relevant to the subject of biotechnology. The impressive breadth of coverage takes into account both molecular biology and industrial applications and aims to identify the impact that molecular biology has had on the development of biotechnology. Presenting information in an easily assimilated form, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology makes an ideal undergraduate text. It will be of particular interest to students of biology and chemistry, as well as to scientists from outside the field requiring a rapid introduction to the subject.

The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (5 volume set) by Jacqueline L. Longe
Publisher: Thomson Gale; 2 edition (December 15, 2001) | ISBN: 0787654892 | Pages: 3500 | PDF | 83 MB

The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine 2 (GEM2) is a one-stop source for medical information on nearly 1,700 common medical disorders, conditions, tests, and treatments, including high-profile diseases such as AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, and heart attack. This encyclopedia avoids medical jargon and uses language that laypersons can understand, while still providing thorough coverage of each topic. The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine 2 fills a gap between basic consumer health resources, such as single-volume family medical guides, and highly technical professional materials.

Autoantibodies by J.B. Peter and Y. Shoenfeld
Publisher: Elsevier Science (July 31, 1996) | ISBN: 0444823832 | Pages: 910 | PDF | 93 MB

This volume is THE definitive, completely up-to-date, reference work for ALL researchers and clinicians working in autoimmunity. Up-to-Date: This is a timely critical review of more than 100 autoantibodies by leading experts in their respective fields, and includes many recent references. International Experts: The 120 Chapters have been written by the top international cadre of authors who have provided structured, expert contributions. Comprehensive: A total comprehensive perspective on the processes which induce, inhibit or otherwise affect autoantibodies in humans. Useful to Researchers and Clinicians: Chapters generally include methods of detection, pathogenic role, factors in pathogenicity and genetics as well as clinical utility with disease associations and frequencies.

Essentials of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine by R. A. Cawson
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone; 7 edition (October 2, 2002) | ISBN: 0443071063 | Pages: 385 | PDF | 94 MB

Previously titled: Essentials of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine, c1998. Comprehensive introduction to the pathology of oral disease, clinical manifestations, and principles of management. Edition includes color photographs, illustrations and images. For dental students and practitioners.

Delmar's Fundamental and Advanced Nursing Skills by Gaylene Bouska Altman
Publisher: Delmar Thomson Learning; 1 edition (September 3, 1999) | ISBN: 0766807150 | Pages: 1440 | PDF | 58 MB

This highly illustrated text comprehensively covers over 200 nursing skills. Following the five-step nursing process, it is written in a clear, concise, easy-to-follow format to help promote competence in basic and complex nursing skills. Paying careful attention to gender, culture, and age-sensitive issues, the text includes real world situations in various health care environments to provide students with the clinical experiences they may encounter in their career. This, along with the critical thinking feature, helps students fine-tune their critical thinking skills and apply skill knowledge. Client teaching, documentation, equipment, and common errors are strongly emphasized to alert students to important issues and common pitfalls.(skills, procedures, nursing fundamentals, clinical, practice, medical-surgical, med-surg, techniques).

High surface area, a microporous structure, and a high degree of surface reactivity make activated carbons versatile adsorbents, particularly effective in the adsorption of organic and inorganic pollutants from aqueous solutions. Activated Carbon Adsorption introduces the parameters and mechanisms involved in the activated carbon adsorption of organic and inorganic compounds. This text brings together the most significant research on surface structure and processes, adsorption theories and isotherm equations, and applications from the latest literature on carbon adsorption.

The book clearly explains the surface-related interactions of activated carbons, their energetics, and the applicability of adsorption isotherm equations and their deviation from adsorption data. It then explores numerous applications in a wide range of areas, such as nuclear technology, vacuum technology, food technology, pharmaceuticals and medicine, gas storage, oil refining, and environmental remediation. Topics include: oils and fats, molecular sieves, refining of liquid fuels, pesticides, dyes, drugs, and toxins. Three chapters are dedicated to environmental applications, including the adsorption of halogenated organic compounds and the removal of hazardous gases and vapors, organo-sulphur compounds, and other inorganic compounds from wastewater and groundwater.

Activated Carbon Adsorption presents a complete survey of the growing number of state-of-the-art applications supported by a compilation of the latest perspectives in research concerning carbon surfaces and their adsorption processes from aqueous solutions. Its unified approach promotes further research towards improving and developing newer activated carbon adsorbents and processes for the efficient removal of pollutants from drinking water and industrial effluents.

Steel Heat Treatment: Equipment and Process Design presents the classical perspectives that form the basis of heat treatment processes while incorporating detailed descriptions of the latest advances since the 1997 publication of the first edition. This book covers the basic principles of heat treatment and the equipment used in modern industrial settings. It also offers detailed coverage of induction heat treatment as well as important types of furnaces, heat transfer, cooling processes, computation, power supplies, laser treatments, residual stress and loading, microstructural analysis, and quality control. The book features thoroughly updated and new information, most notably in the chapters on vacuum heat processing, designing quench processes, laser hardening, and metallurgical property testing.

Handbook of Soil Analysis: Mineralogical, Organic and Inorganic Methods by Marc Pansu
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (June 14, 2006) | ISBN: 3540312102 | Pages: 993 | PDF | 11.2 MB

This handbook is a reference guide for selecting and carrying out numerous methods of soil analysis. It is written in accordance with analytical standards and quality control approaches.It covers a large body of technical information including protocols, tables, formulae, spectrum models, chromatograms and additional analytical diagrams. The approaches are diverse, from the simplest tests to the most sophisticated determination methods in the physical chemistry of mineralogical and organic structures, available and total elements, soil exchange complex, pesticides and contaminants, trace elements and isotopes.As a basic reference, it will be particularly useful to scientists, engineers, technicians, professors and students, in the areas of soil science, agronomy, earth and environmental sciences as well as in related fields such as analytical chemistry, geology, hydrology, ecology, climatology, civil engineering and industrial activities associated with soil.

Diffusion-Limited Reactions by C. H. Bamford
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology (March 1, 1985) | ISBN: 0444423540 | Pages: 404 | PDF | 11.4 MB

Over the last twenty years or so, the field of diffusion-limited reaction rates in solution has seen a rapid growth of interest and activity. Since the review by Noyes in 1961, there have been many hundreds of articles published. The development of experimental techniques to probe chemical reactions occuring over times as short as a few picoseconds has stimulated renewed interest in the rate of approach of reactants towards each other.

Chemometrics: A Practical Guide (Wiley-Interscience Series on Laboratory Automation) by Kenneth R. Beebe
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 1 edition (March 31, 1998) | ISBN: 0471124516 | Pages: 360 | PDF | 11 MB

Chemometrics explains how to apply the most widely used pattern recognition and multivariate calibration techniques to solve data analysis problems. This practical guide describes all key methods in terms of processes and applications in order to help the reader easily identify the best technique for a given situation.

Drawing on years of industrial experience with chemometric tools, the authors share their six basic steps, or "habits," for achieving reliable chemometric results, and cover key areas such as:
* Defining and understanding the problem
* Experimental planning and design
* Preprocessing of samples and variables
* Supervised and unsupervised pattern recognition
* Classical and inverse methods of multivariate calibration

Complete with helpful chapter-end summaries, technical references, and more, this book is an invaluable hands-on resource for analytical chemists and laboratory scientists who use chemometrics in their work.

A host of questions confront environmental professionals dealing with treatment of hazardous wastes. For example, what is the nature of the pollutants? What is the contaminated media? What is the concentration of each pollutant? While all these issues are important, it is essential to assess the treatability of each pollutant before a process can be properly selected and designed. To meet this need, Physicochemical Treatment of Hazardous Wastes systematically examines the treatability of hazardous wastes by different physicochemical treatment processes according to the Quantitative Structure and Activity Relationship (QSAR) between kinetic rate constants and molecular descriptors. The author explains the degradation kinetics and mechanisms of organic pollutants in terms of elementary reactions.

"Characterization of Cereals and Flours" is a state-of-the-art reference that details the latest advances to characterize the effects of manufacturing processes and storage conditions on the thermal, mechanical, and structural properties of cereal flours and their products - examining the influence of moisture absorption, storage temperature, baking, and extrusion processing on flour and cereal product texture, shelf-life, and quality. The book discusses the influence of additives on pre- and post processed food biopolymers; the development of databases and construction of state diagrams to illustrate the state and function of cereal flours before, during, and after production; and the current techniques in image analysis, light and electron microscopy, and NMR spectroscopy used to analyze the microstructure of cereal products. It also discusses the methods used to optimize processing parameters and formulations to produce end-products with desirable sensory and textural properties; the shelf life of cereal products; and the relationships between the sensory and physical characteristics of cereal foods.

Guidelines for Process Equipment Reliability Data, with Data Tables by Center for Chemical Process Safety (Repost)
Publisher: Wiley-AIChE (February 15, 1989) | ISBN: 0816904227 | Pages: 303 | PDF | 10.4 MB

This book supplements CPQRA Guidelines by providing information on obtaining some equipment reliability data needed for quantitative risk analyses. It deals, therefore, with rates of equipment failures, the number of equipment failures in 1 million operating hours or in 1000 demands on the equipment. The means to improve equipment performance and data on causes of equipment failure are a segment of reliability engineering and are not addressed here. Human error rates, also needed for a CPQRA, and human reliability in CPI operations will be addressed in another Guidelines presently under development. As discussed in the CPQRA Guidelines, a full risk analysis is not always necessary to fully understand the hazards of a process. However, when one is needed, generic reliability data are often the only data available to a risk analyst.

Ship-shaped Offshore Installations: Design, Building, and Operation by Jeom Kee Paik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (January 15, 2007) | ISBN: 0521859212 | Pages: 560 | PDF | 10.5 MB

Ship-shaped offshore units are some of the more economical systems for the development of offshore oil and gas, and are often preferred in marginal fields. These systems are especially attractive to develop oil and gas fields in deep and ultra-deep water areas and remote locations away from existing pipeline infrastructures. Recently, the ship-shaped offshore units have been applied to near shore oil and gas terminals. It is an ideal text and reference on the technologies for design, building and operation of ship-shaped offshore units, within inevitable space (and time) requirements. The book includes a range of topics, from the initial contracting strategy to decommissioning and the removal of the units concerned. Coverage includes both fundamental theory and principles of the individual technologies. This book will be useful to students who will be approaching the subject for the first time as well as designers working on the engineering for ship-shaped offshore installations.

Damage and Interfacial Debonding in Composites (Studies in Applied Mechanics) by D.H. Allen
Publisher: Elsevier Science (July 1, 1996) | ISBN: 0444823387 | Pages: 284 | PDF | 9.5 MB

Written by leading authorities in the field of damage and micromechanics of composites, this book deals mainly with the damage impaired in composites due to different types of loading. It examines the different types of damage in composites in the fiber, matrix, debonding and delamination. It also reviews the theoretical characterization of damage, its experimental determination as well as the numerical simulation of damage.

Essentials of Microbiology for Dental Students by Jeremy Bagg
Publisher: xford University Press, USA; 2 edition (February 2, 2006) | ISBN: 0198564899 | Pages: 348 | PDF | 62 MB

This book presents the science of microbiology in a clinical context that is relevant to the safe and effective practice of dental surgery. Microbiology is a rapidly moving discipline. Since the First Edition, a number of infectious diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and SARS have emerged as significant clinical problems. There have also been changes in the epidemiology of certain infections, for example sexually transmitted diseases.

These issues are all covered in this new edition. The book has been updated throughout, and changes to antimicrobial drug prescribing regimens have been included. Major new chapters include those on fungi, human herpes viruses, infections of the central nervous system, and use of antimicrobial agents in dentistry. The chapters dealing with sterilisation, disinfection and infection control procedures in dentistry have been completely re-written, to reflect recent significant changes in decontamination protocols which have been stimulated by the problem of prion diseases. This book will serve as a core reference text for use throughout all years of the undergraduate dental curriculum, as a refresher course for postgraduate students, and as a continuing source of reference for dentists in clinical practice.

ACP Medicine, 2006 Edition (Two Volume Set) by David C. Dale
Publisher: WebMD Professional Publishing; 2 edition (September 2005) | ISBN: 0974832766 | Pages: 2845 | PDF | 74 MB

The 2006 bound edition of ACP Medicine is larger than ever, with more than 3000 pages, over 1,100 figures and algorithms, nearly 1,000 tables, and over 16,500 references. Examples of expanded coverage include new chapters on breast mass, pelvic mass, and the Pap smear, which have been added to the Gynecology and Women's Health section, as well as a new rheumatology chapter on fibromyalgia. In addition, cardiac resuscitation and adult preventive care chapters have been updated to include the latest guidelines. Overall, 45% of the material in the book either has been updated or is new.

Materials Surface Processing by Directed Energy Techniques (European Materials Research Society Series) by Yves Pauleau
Publisher: Elsevier Science; 1 edition (September 5, 2006) | ISBN: 0080444962 | Pages: 744 | PDF | 9.3 MB

The current status of the science and technology related to coatings, thin films and surface modifications produced by directed energy techniques is assessed in this book. The subject matter is divided into 20 chapters - each presented at a tutorial level - rich with fundamental science and experimental results. New trends and new results are also evoked to give an overview of future developments and applications.

* Provides a broad overview on modern coating and thin film deposition techniques, and their applications.
* Presents and discusses various problems of physics and chemistry involved in the production, characterization and applications of coatings and thin films
* Each chapter includes experimental results illustrating various models, mechanisms or theories

Atomic Force Microscopy in Cell Biology, Volume 68 (Methods in Cell Biology) by Bhanu P. Jena
Publisher: Academic Press; 1st edition (June 3, 2002) | ISBN: 0125441711 | Pages: 415 | PDF | 9.3 MB

This is the first book to cover the history, structure, and application of atomic force microscopy in cell biology. Presented in the clear, well-illustrated style of the Methods in Cell Biology series, it introduces the AFM to its readers and enables them to tap the power and scope of this technology to further their own research. A practical laboratory guide for use of the atomic force and photonic force microscopes, it provides updated technology and methods in force spectroscopy. It is also a comprehensive and easy-to-follow practical laboratory guide for the use of the AFM and PFM in biological research.

A richly illustrated, clinically oriented textbook with well-balanced coverage of both neurophysiology and neuroanatomy provides all the knowledge you need for Board exam preparation and practice! This 3rd Edition offers meticulous updates from cover to cover ... a new, more user-friendly page layout ... 300 USMLE-style review questions, with answers and rationales ... and access to the entire text online, plus many other features, at www.studentconsult.com.

Geranium and Pelargonium. History of Nomenclature, Usage and Cultivation by Maria Lis-Balchin
Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (October 3, 2002) | ISBN: 0415284872 | Pages: 344 | PDF | 7.8 MB

Confusion about the genera Geranium and Pelargonium existed even before Linnaeus' binomial system of classification bundled both into the former category in 1753. Despite later evaluations that separated the two, many practitioners of alternative medicine and aromatherapists, among others, remain unaware of the distinction. Laymen and plant sales personnel are often equally in the dark - the majority of garden center 'geraniums' are Pelargonium species and cultivars. This work aims to dispel myths and peel away layers of incorrect and muddled information which contribute to the unclear image of the genera.

Pueraria: The Genus Pueraria (Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles) by Wing Ming Keung
Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (August 8, 2002) | ISBN: 0415284929 | Pages: 320 | PDF | 4.9 MB

Pueraria has been woven in Asian societies for more than two millennia, having been used in cooking, weaving, decorating and treating human ailments. It was not until 1876 when Pueraria lobata was brought to Philadelphia from Japan, that plants of the genus Pueraria were introduced to the USA. However, before long, its excellent nutritional value, remarkable hardiness and growing rate, and elaborate root system raised it to prominence in the fodder and fertilizer industry, and in soil conservation programs throughout the south. But recent ingenious research efforts may yet again turn this robust plant into a valuable cash crop for US farmers. This is the first book of its kind to be published on this medicinal and industrial plant genus. It has been assembled with a broad and diverse readership in mind, including students, educators and prevention and treatment practitioners as well as research scientists from a broad range of disciplines. This comprehensive book contains a concise description of the age-old knowledge, as well as authoritative scientific information that parallels the rapid increase in our scientific understanding of Pueraria.