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Describes cork as a natural product, as an industrial raw-materials, and as a wine bottle closure. This book presents a compilation of scientific knowledge on cork production and use. Covering topics ranging from cork formation to post-harvest procedures, it explains the physical... properties, mechanical properties and quality of cork.
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Front-Line Librarianship: Life on the Job for Librarians presents a diverse range of observations, viewpoints and useful commentary on the current workplace experiences of librarians and their associates. The book's author presents an unrivalled portrait of front-line librariansh...ip that is based upon his unique experience and voice. Chapters consider workplace matters, the fate of hardcopy books, speechmaking at conferences, the effects of recessions on libraries, continuing education, and corporate gift-giving programs. This book will make an excellent and useful addition to library collections in library science.
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Part of the Savvy Manager's Guide series, this book describes the basic architectural components of a business intelligence environment, ranging from traditional topics such as business process modeling, data modeling, to modern topics such as business rule systems, data profilin...g, information compliance and data quality, and data mining.
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As the Internet has grown, so have the challenges associated with delivering static, streaming, and dynamic content to end-users. This book addresses the topic of content networking tracing the evolution from traditional web caching to the open and more flexible architecture. It ...also includes the Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP).
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Offers you with a practical framework for understanding how cohesive sediments are transported, deposited and eroded. This book supplies insight into applying hydraulic design as well as understanding the behavior of cohesive sediments in a flow field.
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Suitable for engineers involved in the use of engineered materials across engineering and electronics, this book brings together the professional reference content. It contains material that ranges from basic to advanced topics including materials and process selection and explan...ations of properties of metals, ceramics, plastics and composites.
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Focuses on the realities of product development, showing how user interaction scenarios can make usability practices an integral part of interactive system development. This book interleaves HCI theory and concepts with a running case study demonstrating their application.
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Presents a treatment of special techniques for dealing with spatial data, particularly in the field of geographic information systems (GIS). This book surveys various techniques, such as spatial data models, algorithms, and indexing methods, developed to address specific features... of spatial data that are not handled by mainstream DBMS technology.
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Safety in any workplace is extremely important. In the case of the electrical industry, safety is critical and the codes and regulations which determine safe practices are diverse and complicated. This book brings together the regulations and practices for electrical safety and t...ranslates these complicated standards into easy to understand terms.
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Tells how companies are applying the key principles in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and shows this by use of examples of UK company accounts. This book covers the key points of each standard and links that with actual practice.
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