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Armed groups : studies in national security, counterterrorism, and counterinsurgency /

Table of Contents: “…Lappen -- Terrorism as an International Security Problem / Martha Crenshaw -- Takin' It to the Streets: Hydra Networks, Chaos Strategies, and the "New" Asymmetry / P. H. Liotta -- Virtual Sanctuary Enables Global Insurgency / Richard Shultz -- Armed Groups: Changing the Rules / T. …”
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Hostile intent and counter-terrorism : human factors theory and application /

Table of Contents: “…Carley, Mia Bloom and Kurt Braddock -- Evaluating emergency preparedness: using responsibility models to identify vulnerabilities / Gordon Baxter and Ian Sommerville -- Socio-cultural factors -- Unintended consequences of the "War on terror": home-grown terrorism and conflict engaged citizens returning to civil society / John Parkinson OBE and Andrew Staniforth -- Parasites, energy and complex systems: generating novel intervention options to counter recruitment to suicide terrorism / Mils Hills and Ashwin Mehta -- Terrorist targeting of schools and educational establishments / Emma Bradford and Margaret A Wilson -- Female suicide terrorism as a function of patriarchal societies / Tanya Dronzina -- Strategies and approaches for counter-terrorism -- Designing visible counter-terrorism interventions in public spaces / Ben Dalton, Karen Martin, Claire McAndrew, Marialena Nikolopoulou and Teal Triggs -- A macro-ergonomics perspective on security: a rail case study / Rose Saikayasit, Alex Stedmon and Glyn Lawson -- Deception and speech: a theoretical overview to inform future research / Christin Kirchhübel, David M Howard and Alex Stedmon -- Evaluating counter-terrorism training using behavioural measures and theory / Joan H. …”
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Biodiesel fuels : science, technology, health, and environment /

Table of Contents: “…Hydrogen-rich syngas production from Biodiesel-derived glycerol: An overview of the modeling and optimization strategies.Bamidele Victor Ayodele, Siti Indati Mustapa, May Ali Alsaffa20. …”
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Sustainable bioresource management : climate change mitigation and natural resource conservation /

Table of Contents: “…Thakur and Sujata Kumari -- Effect of irrigation frequency on tree seedling production / Valasia Iakovoglou -- Saline soils : strategies and perspective to counteract salt stress in crops / Cinzia Forni -- Biopesticides for sustainable crop protection and improvement / M. …”
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Membrane Distillation Principle, Membrane Design and Hybrid System.

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Business Intelligence for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises : an Agile Roadmap Toward Business Sustainability. by Rao-Graham, Lila

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; AUTHORS; INTRODUCTION: CONCEPTIONS OF AGILITY AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE FOR SMES; Digital Business Trends; Conceptions of Agility; Business Intelligence as an Enabler of Agility; SMEs, Business Intelligence and Agility; About this Book; PART I: BI LANDSCAPE -- OPPORTUNITIES FOR SMEs; CHAPTER 1 BARRIERS AND STRATEGIES FOR ENTERPRISE ICT ADOPTION IN SMES; Introduction (Digital Economy -- Implications for Business); SMEs and ICT in Developing Economies; SMEs and ICT Adoption -- Barriers & Challenges…”
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Plant omics and crop breeding /

Table of Contents: “…Potentialities of proteomics for generating abiotic stress tolerant crop species / Ram Kumar, Neha Jain, Vagish Mishra, Nisha Singh, Pragya Mishra, Sajad Majeed Zargar, Ajay Jain, Nagendra Kumar Singh, and Vandna Rai -- 15. Strategies for breeding cereal crops to attain sustainability with major emphasis on rice / R.K. …”
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Healthcare Value Proposition : Creating a Culture of Excellence in Patient Experience. by Omachonu, Vincent K.

Table of Contents: “…Questions for DiscussionReferences; 3: The Patient Experience; Measuring Patient Experience: HCAHPS Surveys; Tactics and Strategies for Improving HCAHPS Scores; HCAHPS and Health Plans; Questions for Discussion; References; 4: Value Is in the Attention to Detail; Attentiveness-The Gold Standard; The Power of Details; Culture of Attention to Detail; Today's Culture of Distraction; Core Value Principles of ATD; Questions for Discussion; References; Additional Reading; 5: Data and Information; Why Collect Data?…”
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Data Visualization in Society /

Table of Contents: “…/ Lulu Pinney -- Multimodal academic argument in data visualization / Arlene Archer and Travis Noakes -- Section IV Data visualization semiotics and aesthetics -- What we talk about when we talk about beautiful data visualizations / Sara Brinch - A multimodal perspective on data visualization / Tuomo Hiippala -- Exploring narrativity in data visualization in journalism / Wibke Weber -- The data epic: Visualization practices for narrating life and death at a distance / Jonathan Gray -- What a line can say: Investigating the semiotic potential of the connecting line in data visualizations / Verena Elisabeth Lechner -- Humanizing data through 'data comics': An introduction to graphic medicine and graphic social science / Aria Alamalhodaei, Alexandra Alberda, and Anna Feigenbaum -- Section V Data visualization and inequalities -- Visualizing diversity: Data deficiencies and semiotic strategies / John P. Wihbey, Sarah Jackson, Pedro M Cruz, and Brooke Foucault Welles -- What is at stake in data visualization? …”
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Digital Techniques for Documenting and Preserving Cultural Heritage / by MacDonald, L. W. (Lindsay W.), 1950-, Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna

Table of Contents: “…Keats Webb -- Ontology-based structuring of spectral and spatial recording strategies for cultural heritage assets: background, state of affairs, and future perspectives / Ashish Karmacharya and Stefanie Wefers -- Communicating interdisciplinary scholarship: conclusions from COSCH / Anna Bentkowska-Kafel with contribution from Frank Boochs -- Part II. …”
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Roadway safety : identifying needs and implementing countermeasures / by Chandler, Brian E.

Table of Contents: “…-- 6.2.2 Advance warning -- 6.2.3 In-curve warning -- 6.2.4 Speed reduction -- 6.3 Single vehicle run off road -- 6.3.1 Pavement marking -- 6.3.2 Rumble strips -- 6.3.3 Shoulders -- 6.3.4 Safety edgesm -- 6.3.5 Clear zone -- 6.4 Opposite-direction crashes -- 6.4.1 Centerline pavement marking -- 6.4.2 No passing zones -- 6.4.3 Raised pavement markers -- 6.4.4 Centerline rumble strips -- 6.4.5 Median barriers -- 6.5 Wrong-way direction crashes -- 6.5.1 Signing and pavement marking -- 6.5.2 Active warning -- 6.6 Weather and lighting conditions -- 6.6.1 Wet pavement crashes -- 6.6.2 Dark conditions -- 6.7 Clear zone -- 6.7.1 Flatten slopes -- 6.7.2 Fixed object strategies --…”
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Investing in real estate by Eldred, Gary W.

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Prologue: Invest in Property Now Today's Odds Point Directly towards Present and Future Gains Develop and Execute Your Strategy Now Notes Chapter 1 Achieve a Prosperous Future: 22 Ways You Can Earn Profits with Property 1.1 Potential Sources of Profit from Investment Property 1.2 Is Property Your Best Investment Choice? …”
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Hydrophilic interaction chromatography a guide for practitioners /

Table of Contents: “…HILIC-MS for Targeted Metabolomics and Small Molecule Bioanalysis 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The role of HILIC-MS in targeted metabolomics versus other LC modes 7.3 Strategies for method development based on retention behavior of targeted metabolites on HILIC stationary phases 7.3.1 Retention behavior of metabolites on HILIC stationary phases 7.3.2 Robustness, mobile phase compositions, and matrix effects 7.4 Summary Chapter 8. …”
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Behavioral and psychopharmacologic pain management

Table of Contents: “…Dao, Brenda Stoelb and Jay Gunkelman ; 14. Cognitive coping strategies in pain management / Laura E. Pence, Beverly E. …”
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The frugal librarian thriving in tough economic times /

Table of Contents: “…Forrest -- Increasing resources in tough times : a new funding model for the Purdue University career wiki / George Bergstrom and Mary Dugan -- Innovating and saving with joint-use libraries / Emily Dill -- Multi-type regional library member responses to the economic crisis / Tom Taylor -- Museum passes : a low-cost, high-impact partnership / Rebecca Tuck and Lisa Fraser -- Saving by sharing : using open source and shared catalogs to do more with less / John Helling -- Bringing the outside back in : creative and cost-effective outreach strategies / Kacy Vega and Kim Becnel -- Cost factors in digital projects : a model useful in other applications / Lisa L. …”
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The road to information literacy librarians as facilitators of learning /

Table of Contents: “…Walker -- Information lliteracy in a Web-scale discovery world : a case study of user experience vs. content at Sheffield Hallam University, UK / Matthew Borg and Angie Donoghue -- Information literacy and knowledge management tools for first year students / Sharon Favaro -- Forging strong links : strategies for building a collaborative information literate learning community through the school library / Elizabeth Greef -- Librarians : moving from being "the elephant in the room" to becoming central to the learning process / David V. …”
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Sex, power and slavery /

Table of Contents: “…Hopper -- "I ask for divorce because my husband does not let me go back to my country of origin with my brother": gender, family, and the end of slavery in the region of Kayes, French Sudan, 1890-1920 / Marie Rodet -- The fatal sorbet: an account of slavery, jealousy, pregnancy, and murder in a harem in Alexandria, Egypt, ca. 1850 / George Michael La Rue -- Intimate power: sexuality and slavery in the households of the Atlantic world sexual relations between the enslaved and between slaves and nonslaves in nineteenth-century Cuba / Ulrike Schmieder -- "This complicated incest": children, sexuality, and sexual abuse during slavery and the apprenticeship period in the British Caribbean, 1790-1838 / Tara A. Inniss -- Strategies for social mobility: liaisons between foreign men and slave women in Benguela, ca. 1770-1850 / Mariana P. …”
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Statistical disclosure control

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AIChE equipment testing procedure. a guide to performance evaluation /

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 100.0 PURPOSE & SCOPE 1 101.0 Purpose 1 102.0 Scope 1 200.0 DEFINITION AND DESCRIPTION OF TERMS 2 201.0 Flow Quantities 2 202.0 Key Components 3 203.0 Mass Transfer Efficiency 4 203.1 Theoretical Trays or Plates or Stages 4 203.2 Overall Column Efficiency 4 203.3 Apparent Murphree Tray Efficiency 4 203.4 Ideal Murphree Tray Efficiency 4 203.5 Murphree Point Efficiency 4 203.6 HETP 4 203.7 HTU 4 203.8 NTU 4 204.0 Operating Lines 5 205.0 Pinch 5 206.0 Maximum Throughput 5 206.1 Maximum Hydraulic Throughput 5 206.2 Maximum Operational Capacity 5 206.3 Maximum Efficient Capacity 5 207.0 Minimum Operating Rate 5 208.0 Operating Section 5 209.0 Hardware 6 209.1 Components of a Trayed Column 6 209.2 Components of a Packed Column 7 300.0 TEST PLANNING 9 301.0 Preliminary Preparation 9 301.1 Safety 10 301.2 Environmental Considerations 10 301.3 Test Objectives 10 301.4 Organizational Resources 10 301.5 Schedule 10 301.6 Review of Historic Operating Data 10 302.0 Column Control and Instrumentation 11 303.0 Peripheral Equipment 11 304.0 Pre-test Calculations 11 304.1 Process Simulation 11 304.2 Dry Run 11 305.0 Types of Tests 12 305.1 Performance Tests 12 305.2 Acceptance Tests 12 306.0 Specific Areas of Interest 12 306.1 Packing Efficiencies 12 306.2 Tray Efficiencies 12 306.3 Overall Column Efficiency 13 306.4 Capacity Limitations 13 307.0 Energy Consumption 14 308.0 Pressure Drop Restrictions 15 309.0 Data Collection Requirements 15 309.1 Process Operating Data 15 309.2 Gamma Scan Data 15 310.0 Conditions of External Streams 18 310.1 Overall and Component Material Balances 18 310.2 Overall Enthalpy Balances 18 311.0 Internal Temperatures 18 311.1 Heat Balances 18 311.2 Internal Profiles 18 312.0 Internal Samples 20 312.1 Internal Samples for Efficiency Checks 20 312.2 Internal Samples for Overall Performance 20 313.0 Pressure Profiles 20 314.0 Data Requirements-Physical Properties 20 314.1 Test Mixtures 20 314.2 Essential Data 21 315.0 Auxiliary Data 21 316.0 Test Procedure Documentation 21 400.0 METHODS OF MEASUREMENT AND SAMPLING 22 401.0 System Controls and Operating Stability 22 402.0 Measurement of Temperatures 22 402.1 Accuracy 22 402.2 Errors 22 403.0 Measurement of Flow Rates 24 403.1 Orifice Meters 24 403.2 Rotameters 25 403.3 Vortex Flow Meters 25 403.4 Coriolis Flow Meters 25 403.5 Magnetic Flow Meters 25 403.6 Pitot Tube (or Annubar) 25 403.7 Direct Volume or Weight Measurement 26 404.0 Measurement of Column Pressure Drop 26 404.1 Instrument 26 404.2 Pressure Taps 26 404.3 Seal Pots 33 404.4 Leakage Check 33 404.5 Accuracy 33 405.0 Sampling Procedure 34 405.1 General 34 405.2 Selection of Sampling Points 34 405.3 Sample Connections 35 405.4 Containers 35 405.5 Sampling of High Boiling Materials 36 405.6 Sampling of Intermediate Boiling Materials 37 405.7 Sampling of Materials Having Boiling Points Below -50°F (-46°C) 40 405.8 Leakage Check 41 405.9 Labeling and Handling the Samples 41 500.0 TEST PROCEDURE 43 501.0 Preliminary 43 502.0 Test Procedure for Maximum Hydraulic Throughput 43 502.1 Flood Symptoms 44 502.2 Performing Capacity Tests 45 502.3 Optional Test Technique - Gamma Scanning 48 503.0 Considerations Affecting Efficiency Test Procedure 48 503.1 Rigorous Versus Shortcut Efficiency Tests 48 503.2 Strategy of Efficiency Testing 49 503.3 Early Preparation for Efficiency Tests 50 503.4 Last-minute Preparations for Efficiency Tests 53 503.5 Establishment of Steady State Conditions 55 503.6 The Test Day 56 503.7 Concluding Test 56 600.0 COMPUTATION OF RESULTS 601.0 Verification of Test Data and Simulation Models 58 602.0 Material Balance 59 602.1 End Effects 59 603.0 Enthalpy Balance 59 603.1 Overall Balance 59 603.2 Internal Flow Rates 60 604.0 Hydraulic Performance 60 604.1 Trayed Column 60 604.2 Packed Column 61 605.0 Efficiency Performance 61 605.1 Trayed Column 62 605.2 Packed Column 69 700.0 INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS 76 701.0 Sources of Experimental Error 76 701.1 Material and Enthalpy Balances 77 702.0 Effects of Experimental Error 78 703.0 Design versus Performance 78 703.1 Mechanical/Tower Equipment 78 703.2 Process Conditions 78 704.0 Hydraulic Performance 79 704.1 Mechanical/Tower Equipment 79 704.2 Tray 79 704.3 Packing 80 704.4 Process Conditions 80 705.0 Mass Transfer Performance 81 705.1 Mechanical/Tower Equipment 81 705.2 Tray 81 705.3 Packing 82 705.4 Maldistribution 82 705.5 Process 84 706.0 Test Troubleshooting 85 706.1 Analysis Procedure 85 706.2 Sampling 85 706.3 Equilibrium Data 85 706.4 Temperature Measurements 85 706.5 Heat and Material Balances 86 706.6 Fluctuation of Process Conditions 86 706.7 Pressure Drop Measurements 86 706.8 Incorrect Prediction of Pressure Drop 86 706.9 Errors in Assumptions in Modeling Mass Transfer 86 706.10 Multicomponent Systems Deviate from Binary Data 87 706.11 High Purity Separation 87 706.12 Test and Design Conditions 87 800.0 APPENDIX 88 801.0 Notation 88 801.1 Greek Symbols 90 802.0 Sample Calculations 90 802.1 General Analysis of Test Data 90 802.2 Packed Column 91 802.3 Trayed Column 107 803.0 References 126.…”
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Green extraction and valorization of by-products from food processing /

Table of Contents: “…3.1.2 Membrane Processes in the Dairy Industry3.2 Ion-Exchange Techniques; 3.3 Protein Hydrolysis and Recovery of Bioactive Peptides; 3.3.1 General Aspects; 3.3.2 Strategies and Processes for Obtaining Bioactive Peptides; 4 Innovative Extraction Methods Applied to Dairy By-Products; 4.1 Affinity Chromatography; 4.2 Magnetic Separation; 4.3 Supercritical Fluid Extraction; 4.4 Use of Ultrasound in Processing Steps; 4.5 Improved Separation of Proteins Using Charged Ultrafiltration Membranes; 5 Properties and Applications of Dairy By-Products and Their Molecules; 6 Conclusion; References…”
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