E-book Carbon Pricing in Japan

The Paris Agreement adopted in December 2015 sets out the trend toward decar-bonization, which calls for net zero GHG emissions by the latter half of this century.Along with this trend not a few countries have set ambitious emission reductiontargets to address it, and among them Japan officially set an 80% reduction target for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 in the Plan for Global Warmin…

E-book Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Desalination : Energy consumption in p…

Fresh water is essential for human life [1, 2]. Securing fresh water is one of the most important issues for humankind. However, human population has increased steadily, and millions of people are concentrated in metropolitan cities [3, 4]. The amount of natural freshwater is insufficient to meet the demands of the population [5]. Thus, fresh wate…

E-book Network Based High Speed Product Development

The chapter will describe the studies which the book project has finallyfeatured and how the analysis and thesis forming part of the book havebeen arranged. The chapter will describe and show how the thoroughstudy of the subject –High Speed Product Development Processes andModels Based on Networks (NB HS PD)– together with the explo-rative analysis of the product development system of gener…

E-book Human Body Encyclopedia

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E-book Understanding Public Debates : What Literary Studies Can Do

This book makes the case that literary studies can play a key role in un-derstanding public debates in present-day pluralist democracies1 – by his-toricizing and contextualizing them through readings of carefully selected literary texts. The debates I discuss include those on different conceptions of liberty (as they arose, say, during the COVID pandemic), on identity politics an…

E-book Inventions: A Visual Encyclopedia

Discover the amazing inventions throughout history that have shaped the world as we know it. This stunning visual guide explores and explains the greatest inventions, ideas, and discoveries throughout the ages, and introduces their inventors. From fire, stone tools, and the wheel to ploughs and paper, discover the first inventions that shaped societies and grew mighty civilizations and empir…

E-book Kenyan Food Recipes

Complete absence or existence of limited quantified recipes has negatively impacted on optimal gains from dietary activities being promoted by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (MoALF) towards alleviating food and nutrition insecurity, and ultimately malnutrition. The lack of reliable quantified recipes in the country may have therefore led to inc…

E-book Report to Society : Chanel

CHANEL has always been a pioneer of modernity, defining trends in luxury and beauty for more than 100 years. It is a company seeking to constantly reinvent itself, embrace innovation, and challenge existing boundaries through its creativity. CHANEL, following the legacy of our founder, assumes an influentialrole in society and strives to be exemplary in everything we do. CHANEL’s internal mi…

E-book Good Practice Guide : Avocado Value Chain

The Good Practice Guides (GPG) are considered by both the Codex Alimentarius and the European Commission (Regulation on Official Controls (EU) 2017/625 - official controls throughout the food chain1 Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) principles) and thus to prevent and control SPS risks. The Guide of Good Practices that has been elaborated for the Avocado sector is based not only …

E-book Pick, Share, Eat

The compilation of this recipe book fits nicely with the main object of the Country Women’s Association of Victoria. That object is “to improve conditions by community service as they affect the welfare of women and children”. By growing fruits and veggies in our gardens we can be sure of eating fresh foods with the maximum nutritional values. Who could resist the appeal of a crunchy tur…

E-book Bats and Viruses: A New Frontier of Emerging Infectious Diseases

Approximately 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses, and the rate of emergence of zoonotic diseases is on the rise. Bats are being increasingly recognised as an important reservoir of zoonotic viruses of different families, including SARS coronavirus, Nipah virus, Hendra virus and Ebola virus. Understanding bats’ role in emerging zoonotic diseases is crucial to this rapidly expandi…

E-book Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus

In 1976 a deadly virus emerged from the Congo forest. As swiftly as it came, it disappeared, leaving no trace. Over the four decades since, Ebola has emerged sporadically, each time to devastating effect. It can kill up to 90 percent of its victims. In between these outbreaks, it is untraceable, hiding deep in the jungle. The search is on to find Ebola's elusive host animal. And until we find i…

E-book Plagues in World History

Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS. Geographically, these diseases have spread across the entire globe; temporally, they stretch from the sixth century to the present. John Aberth considers not only the varied impact that disease has had upon human hist…

E-book The Mango Tree : Training and Pruning

Pruning (including training) is one of the most important activities to be performed on a mango plantation to obtain maximum quantitative and qualitative yield. The main objective of pruning in mango cultivation is to create a good tree structure that permits good light penetration, resistance to wind, less sensitivity to pests and diseases, and easy application of aerial treatments and …

E-book Petronas Integrated Report 2022 : Resolutely Progessive

Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) is a leading global energy company committed to powering society’s progress in a responsible and sustainable manner. With close to 50,000 employees and a global reach spanning over 100 countries, we are ranked among the world’s largest corporations by revenue in the Fortune Media IP Ltd’s 2022 Fortune Global 500® list. As Malaysia’s national oil and…

E-book Mining in Indonesia : Investment, Taxation and Regulatory Guide

Since mid-2020, there has been a broad rise in mineral and coal prices driven by a strong demand recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and the restoration of business activities, as well as some pandemic-related supply constraints. The upward trend in mineral prices continued during the first quarter of 2022, with mineral prices surging and reaching record highs in March 2022. The upward trend in…

E-book Comprehensive Geriatric Assesment Toolkit for Primary Care Practitioners

Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) is a process of care comprising a number of steps. Initially, a multidimensional holistic assessment of an older person considers health and wellbeing and leads to the formulation of a plan to address issues which are of concern to the older person (and their family and carers when relevant). Interventions are then arranged in support of the plan. Progre…

E-book Public Procurement : Theory, Practices and Tools

In the European Union (EU) over 250,000 public organizations spend around 2 tril-lion € annually, which is about 14% of GDP, procuring works, supplies, and ser-vices. Also, in countries outside the EU, around 12% of the GDP is spent by public organizations. This can add up to values between 5000 and 8000 € per citizen per year. Despite the considerable impact that public …

E-book Organizational Water Footprint : Analyzing water use and mitigating wa…

Freshwater is sustaining life on our planet but is under increasing pressure due to popula-tion growth, increased water consumption and pollution as well as climate change. Facing freshwater scarcity is one of the major challenges of the 21st century and included in the Sustainable Development Goals as a fundamental target of the international community UN (2015). …

E-book Responsible Procurement : Leading the Way to a Sustainable Tomorrow

In June 1947, a group of nuclear scientists from the former Manhattan Projectlaunched theBulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a magazine that monitors newdevelopments in the life sciences and technology that could inflict irrevocableharm to humanity. That first issue had a simple image on its cover, a clock with itshands set at 7 min to midnight, that was the Bulletin’s visual metaphor to warn …

E-book Next Generation Supply Chains : A Roadmap for Research and Innovation

Megatrends are “large social, economic, political and technological changes [that]are slow to form, and once in place, they influence us for some time” (Kotler2002,p. 137). Trends, as an indication into a direction of change, are driven by megatrends.Forexample,agingpopulationisamegatrendandsomeofitstrendsarebuyinghabits,and workforce gaps. Megatrends are observed over decades (15+years) an…

E-book Process Mining Handbook

Process mining can be defined as follows:process mining aims to improve opera-tional processes through the systematic use of event data[1,2]. By using a com-bination of event data and process models, process mining techniques provideinsights, identify bottlenecks and deviations, anticipate and diagnose perfor-mance and compliance problems, and support the automation or removal ofrepetitive work…

E-book Theory of Vibrating Lifting Tools of Sugar Beet Harvesters

The cultivation and harvesting of sugar beets (roots and leaves) is one of themost labour and energy consuming work processes in the agricultural industry.The most important task in sugar beet farming is to improve the quality of sugarbeet root crop harvesting and reduce energy costs for harvesting. This primarilyconcerns reductions in losses and damage of root crops, as well as a reduction in…

E-book Cancer Intersections: Biomedicine, Health Insurance, and the Paradoxes…

Cancer Intersections is an ethnographic analysis of the complex and paradoxical efforts to access neoliberal, market-based oncological treatments in Colombia, a country where all patients are legally guaranteed access to medical services, including high-cost ones. Drawing on years of fieldwork in Cali, Camilo Sanz explores the deep entanglements between medical, legal, and policy practices that…

E-book Between Conventional and Experimental: Mass Housing and Prefabrication…

How conventional and experimental prototypes and series created an architecture for all. Mass housing and prefabrication shaped global modernist architecture like no other aspect of industrialised construction. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how both conventional and experimental prototypes and series gave rise to an architecture for all and responded to crises, nation-building…

E-book Misery to Mirth : Recovery from Illness in Early Modern England

The history of early modern medicine often makes for depressing reading. It implies that people fell ill, took ineffective remedies, and died. A few snippets from Roy and Dorothy Porter’s classic study, In Sickness and in Health, encapsulate this pes-simism: they speak of the ‘universal sickness, suffering, and woe’ of the early mod-ern past, a time in which ‘people died like f…

E-book Endometrial Cancer: A Guide for Patients

This guide for patients has been prepared by the Anticancer Fund as a service to patients, to help patients and their relatives better understand the nature of endometrial cancer and appreciate the best treatment choices available according to the subtype of endometrial cancer. We recommend that patients ask their doctors about the tests or types of treatments needed for their type and stage of…

E-book Europe's Beating Cancer Plan: Communication from The Commission to The…

Cancer concerns us all in one way or another. In 2020, 2.7 million people in the European Union were diagnosed with the disease, and another 1.3 million people lost their lives to it. Cancer is an individual diagnosis that has important impacts on patients, but it also severely affects the lives of their families and friends. Europe urgently needs a renewed commitment to cancer prevention, t…

E-book Functional Somatic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents : A Stress-Sys…

Every day in hospitals, doctors’ surgeries, and school sick bays around the world, children (including adolescents) present with what have come to be known as functional somatic symptoms. These symptoms are ones that cannot be explained by an identifiable disease process—even after an extensive medical assessment has been done. They reflect, instead, …

E-book Human and Planetary Health: The Urgency to Integrate into One Health

In his professional journey, travelling through an upcoming field of surgery with apparently unlimited possibilities, Kees van Laarhoven witnessed major milestones and breakthroughs. Already as a medical student, he was amazed by surgical courage. During residency, he experienced hard work, diligence and perseverance of surgical professionals. Today as a surgeon with over 25 years of clinical e…

E-book Quantifying Quality of Life : Incorporating Daily Life into Medicine

There are many ways to define health. Health is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” [1, 2] This definition has recently been challenged by a team of international experts who suggested that health be defined as “the ability to adapt and …

E-book SIDS Sudden infant and early childhood death : The past, the present a…

Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), once known as “cot death”, has been a somewhat controversial term that on one hand has been criticized for not being a proper diagnosis with pathognomonic features, contrasting on the other hand with situations where it has been uncritically and inconsistently applied to all manner of infant deaths. It has been argued that SIDS …

E-book Tropical Flowering Plants: A Guide to Identification and Cultivation

This book bridges a long-standing gap between obscure references in tropical botany and the gardener's need for an accurate, practical guide with clear photographs. Incorporating the latest advances in plant taxonomy from the definitive text of Dr. Walter Judd, the book is a rare work of scrupulous research — and magnificent photography — that will be as useful to the gardener as it is to t…

E-book Lust, Anger, Love: Understanding Sexual Addiction and the Road to Heal…

Sexual addiction is a problem that affects millions of people. Maureen Canning, LMFT, who has extensive experience treating sex addicts, explains its roots and how those afflicted can recover. This book also explains the poisonous childhood seeds that lead to public scandals like the revelations involving former congressman Mark Foley. Canning shows how compulsions are the product…

E-book Antisense RNA Design, Delivery, and Analysis

Oligonucleotides are short single-stranded sections of DNA orRNA that contain 20-deoxyribo-nucleosides or ribo-nucleosides,respectively, which are linked by 30–50phosphodiester linkages(Fig.1a). Antisense oligonucleotides are those that are complemen-tary to a section of naturally occurring RNA, such as an mRNA or aviral RNA, to form Watson–Crick base pairs and to thus inhibit abiological f…

E-book Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction

Sex is at the core of our identities. And when it becomes a compulsion, it can unravel our lives. Out of the Shadows is the premier work on this disorder, written by a pioneer in its treatment. Revised and updated to include the latest research--and to address the exploding phenomenon of cybersex addiction--this third edition identifies the danger signs, explains the dynamics, and describes the…

E-book Rockets and People Vol 4: The Moon Race

In the final volume of the series, Chertok recounts the period of 1968 to 1974. Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoirs of Academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian, fills that ga…

E-book Rockets and People Vol 3: Hot Days of the Cold War

In this third volume Chertok continues his fascinating narrative on the early history of the Soviet space program, from 1961 to 1967, arguably the peak of the effort. Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The …

E-book Rockets and People Vol 2: Creating a Rocket Industry

Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoirs of Academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian, fills that gap. In these writings, spread over four volumes, Chertok not only describes and re…

E-book Rockets and People, Volume 1

Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoirs of Academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian, fills that gap. In these writings, spread over four volumes, Chertok not only describes and re…

E-book Civic Medicine : Physician, Polity, and Pen in Early Modern Europe

Communities great and small across Europe for eight centuries have contracted with doctors. Physicians provided citizen care, helped govern, and often led in public life. Civic Medicine stakes out this timely subject by focusing on its golden age, when cities rivaled territorial states in local and global Europe and when civic doctors were central to the rise of shared, organized written inform…

E-book Euthanasia : Searching for the Full Story Experiences and Insights of …

For more than 20 years I have practiced nursing, first in oncology services, then in palliative care. As a teacher and psychotherapist for the past 10 years, I have had the opportunity to continue working with nursing students in palliative care and psychi-atric services, as well as to supervise nursing teams. An ethicist by training, I belong to an ethics committee in a neuropsychiatric hospit…

E-book A Wartime Necessity

During World War II, advances in aviation became unmistakable. Many nations’ air forces entered the war flying biplane aircraft that were not much different from their predecessors of the previous world war. They were soon eclipsed by aircraft that took advantage of new designs that utilized many aeronautical advances of the interwar period such as new powerplants, stressed-skin aluminum stru…

E-book Spacecraft Structures: A Lesson in Engineering

NASA engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center, along with their partners at other NASA centers and in private industry, are designing and building the next generation of rockets and spacecraft to transport cargo, equipment, and human explorers to space. Known collectively as Deep Space Exploration Systems, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the Orion spacecraft, and ground systems at Kenned…

E-book The Seine River Basin

Water resources are indispensable for social development. Human needs shapedrivers and river basins, leading to a drastic modification of the global water cycle.Changes due to human activities are so large nowadays that they override naturalprocesses, leading to the end of a geological era and the beginning of a new onecalled“the Anthropocene”first conceptualized by Crutzen [1, 2]. Using th…

E-book Grassland use in Europe

Grass seeds include the coleoptile (shoot sheath), the scutellum, the radicula and the coleorrhiza (root sheath) (Figure1.1). The scutellum is homologous to the leaf lamina of the cotyledon and the coleoptile to the leaf sheath of the cotyledon. Co-leoptile and coleorrhiza are membranes that protect shoot and leaf meristems and the radicula, respectively, during the first step of the germinatio…

E-book The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine

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E-book Surgery: An Illustrated History

Designed like a fine art book, this beautiful work by the foremost American historian of surgery represents the finest pictorial record of the history of surgery ever assembled between two covers. Writing from a surgeon' perspective, Dr. Rutkow traces the development of surgery from its crude beginnings, from a primitive craft to one of modern society's most accomplished achievements. Brief bio…

E-book Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History

See the greatest medical breakthroughs come to life through superb illustrations! From ancient herbal medicine to traditional Chinese medicine, take a visual tour throughout the history of medicine with this comprehensive medical reference book.

E-book 70 Years of Levothyroxine

n the opening chapter of this book, we consider the history of the therapeutic use of levothyroxine (LT4). Recognition of the therapeutic value of LT4 emerged from experience gained from, essentially, empirical administration by physicians of crude thyroid extracts to people with advanced sequelae of hypothyroidism [1–4]. These clinical experiments arose from early studies of people w…