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Designed for students preparing as advanced practice clinicians, including APRNs, DNPs, DPTs, DOTs, and physician assistants. The book covers both health policy issues and practice financial management issues. Case studies are included with each section.

Based on the analysis of actual problematic samples sent by agricultural and food producers, this handbook is a technical introduction to the investigative methods and technical apparatus for analyzing foods and related byproducts containing contaminants or defects caused by chemical or microstructural irregularities.

An up-to-date course textbook that addresses the core concepts of quality and safety in healthcare. Quality and safety are presented using scientific principles which allow for a methodology resulting in evidence-based measurement of outcomes. Examples and cases are provided throughout to illustrate key concepts.

Investigates the variables needed to design and implement effective crashworthy composite materials. The book explains the concepts and materials needed to enable vehicles and their inhabitants to withstand catastrophic forces, including the design of survival cells and their surrounding architecture.

Provides the skills necessary to teach courses for classroom and online courses. Information is provided in a practical and accessible way and includes best practices for setting up a syllabus and curriculum, test item writing, grading, mentoring students, and personal advancement as a faculty member.

While offering investigations into how sensors, networks, and signaling systems are used in dozens of civil and military applications, a special feature of this book is its exploration of how to enable intelligent life-cycle health management for the industrial internet of things.

Lays out the specific tasks that waterworks operators must know, both to do their job and to achieve certification. After a review of basic maths, the volume explains the fundamentals of how water is pumped, stored, and treated and provides the formulas and calculations for monitoring and controlling water flow in multiple plant operations.

This annual serial contains over 25 research reports on the latest advances in asphalt technology, including pavement rehabilitation, recycling agents, and asphalt mixtures. Assessments investigate the long-term behaviour of asphalt and the effects of age and fatigue. A special section of this volume focuses on pavement ME.

Following the structure of the standard mechanics of materials syllabus, the book includes online exercises, videos and problems to assist engineering students, especially those in civil, mechanical, aerospace, and mining engineering, to grasp the fundamental quantitative concepts of stresses, strains, deformation, stress transformation, etc.

Explians federally mandated programs administered in public education in the United States. The book explains the goals and requirements of dozens of programs and clarifies government regulations affecting students as well as citizens who come in contact with schools.

Features complete and original labs for the integrated laboratory. All materials, protocols, and equipment are spelled out. Each lab is customizable for your department. The book introduces and explains a wide range of lab techniques, and is geared to various ability levels.

Offers an introduction to polymers and an invitation to the field of polymer science and engineering, including plastics and plastics processing. This book covers topics such as: polymerization synthesis and kinetics, applications of probability theory, structure and morphology, thermal and solution properties, and mechanical properties.

Much of the world's recent research and development on metallic foams and porous metals is contained in this fully refereed book. The book explains new ways to design and process metallic foams, including many non-aluminum foams, and illustrates the numerous industry applications where metallic foams and porous metals are being implemented.

Edited by two internationally regarded materials science professors, this book is an important extension of a series presenting composites research from Canada and Japan. Advanced manufacturing technologies reports include CFRP and additive manufacturing. Application areas include aircraft, piping, fasteners and more.

Explains how land treatment works and then delves into the technical improvements that have increased the viability of land treatment in general, including phytoremediation; vadose-zone monitoring; new types of surface irrigation such as centre-pivot, drip and micro-sprinklers; and aquifer recharge and land subsidence strategies.

Provides analytical methods for predicting temperature distribution in isotropic and anisotropic composite media for both steady and transient states, with a focus on how temperature differences affect the properties of composite materials. In so doing, the text offers original equations for the behaviour of heat conduction.

Presents original research on the fire behaviour of building components made from concrete, steel, composites, glasses and timber. Its 135 chapters, written by researchers from 26 nations, contain key technical information on how fire affects widely used construction materials in multiple configurations.

Investigates basic principles and shared understandings regarding the materials and properties of piezoelectrics and ferroelectrics, including concepts such ionic displacement and strain, transmission coefficient, constraint-dependency of piezo materials' properties, mechanical impedance matching, resonance/anti-resonance and more.

Provides selected international research on the entire spectrum of structural health monitoring techniques used to diagnose and safeguard aircraft, vehicles, buildings, civil infrastructure, ships and railroads, as well as their components such as joints, bondlines, coatings and more.

Focuses on enhancing understanding, and characterizing the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, and its place in the current healthcare environment. The book offers guidelines for planning and conducting all phases of a DNP capstone project. Examples of successful projects from varied areas of nursing practice are included.

Presents an empirical and theoretical analysis of how structures and the materials constituting them perform under the extreme conditions of explosions, fire, and impact. Each of the presentations was selected because of its contribution to the science and engineering of how materials, bridges, buildings, tunnels respond to destructive forces.

Focuses on the geological analysis of ore-rich deposits in the western United States, especially ones containing gold and other high-value elements. Hundreds of stratigraphic, lithographic, remote-sensing and core sample examples are presented, particularly of areas likely to host Carlin-type gold deposits.

In presenting recent research in rice science and engineering, this book provides a systematic overview of rice from farming to consumption. It covers each stage of rice production, from pre-harvest to storage, processing, and product applications; and the latest research to improve methods of harvesting, handling, drying, storage, and milling.

Presents 44 papers on the behaviour, process modeling and testing of composites, written by well-known researchers from universities and research centres in Japan and Canada. Special attention is given to advances in reinforcements, manufacturing, and sensing methods for SHM of composite processes and damage.