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The 5th edition of the classic STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS by Aslam
Kassamali teaches students the basic principles of structural
analysis using the classical approach. The chapters are presented
in a logical order, moving from an introduction of the topic to an
analysis of statically determinate beams, trusses and rigid frames,
to the analysis of statistically indeterminate structures. The text
includes solved problems to help illustrate the fundamental
concepts. Access to interactive software for analyzing plane framed
structures is available for download via the text's companion
website.
Contemporary Management of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: A
Precision Medicine Approach summarizes current knowledge and
provides evidenced-based practice recommendations on how to treat
patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. The book presents
topics such as pre-operating imaging, the use of molecular markers
in treatment decisions, neoadjuvant therapy, synchronous colorectal
liver metastasis, and minimally invasive approaches. In addition,
it discusses immunotherapy, targeted therapies and survivorship.
This is a valuable resource for practitioners, cancer researchers,
oncologists, graduate students and members of biomedical research
who need to understand more about novel treatments for colorectal
cancer metastasis.
This book evaluates American foreign policy actions from the
perspective of great power responsibility, with three case studies:
Operation Iraqi Freedom, American drone strikes in Pakistan and the
post- 9/11 practice of extraordinary rendition. This book argues
that the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, American drone attacks in
Pakistan and the practice of extraordinary rendition are the
examples of irresponsible actions undertaken by the U.S. acting as
a great power in international society. Focusing on a major
theoretical approach of International Relations, the English
School, this book considers the responsibilities of great powers in
international society. It points to three obligations of great
powers: to act according to the norm of legality, to act according
to the norm of legitimacy, and to adhere to the principles of
prudence. The author applies the criteria of legality, legitimacy
and prudence, to analyse the three foreign policy endeavours of the
U.S., and, developing a normative framework, clarifies the
implications for future U.S. foreign policy. This book will be of
strong interest to students and scholars of international
relations, international relations theory, American politics,
foreign policy studies, international law, South Asian studies and
Middle Eastern studies.
This book provides a comprehensive knowledge of linear algebra for
graduate and undergraduate courses. As a self-contained text, it
aims at covering all important areas of the subject, including
algebraic structures, matrices and systems of linear equations,
vector spaces, linear transformations, dual and inner product
spaces, canonical, bilinear, quadratic, sesquilinear, Hermitian
forms of operators and tensor products of vector spaces with their
algebras. The last three chapters focus on empowering readers to
pursue interdisciplinary applications of linear algebra in
numerical methods, analytical geometry and in solving linear system
of differential equations. A rich collection of examples and
exercises are present at the end of each section to enhance the
conceptual understanding of readers. Basic knowledge of various
notions, such as sets, relations, mappings, etc., has been
pre-assumed.
1. Discusses carbon allotropes based nanostructured as
corrosion-resistant coatings materials 2. Reviews use of
nanostructure materials based corrosion-resistant coatings as
revolutionized modern industrial practices 3. Focuses on most
advanced nanostructure materials - corrosion-resistant coatings
materials 4. Explores nanostructure materials as
corrosion-resistant coatings materials 5. Evaluates carbon
allotropes as nanostructure materials-based, corrosion-resistant
coatings as options for sustainable and transformational
opportunities
Critically analyzing the specific security threat posed by COVID-19
to global society, the contributors to this book offer a
comprehensive and critical examination of global challenges and
responses while suggesting more balanced and nuanced approaches to
handling these security impacts. The COVID-19 pandemic brought
about a huge challenge to health security across the globe. Several
countries were pushed into lockdown repeatedly to prevent the
spread of infection. The global economy has seen a major slowdown
and disruption of supply chains around the world. There have also
been major implications from changes to traditional security
systems as well as diverse societal change even down to aspects of
daily life. The chapters in this book show that progressive
initiatives have expended a mixture of soft and hard response
strategies that include understanding, containing, fighting, and
preventing COVID-19. They look at major sectors including defense,
trade, health, and bioterrorism among others. In doing so, they
highlight the best practices used around the world to minimize the
threat posed by COVID-19’s impact. A vital resource for security
studies scholars and policymakers.
"Smart, fierce, and poignant: perhaps the most exciting novel yet
by this very talented writer." Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West
and The Reluctant Fundamentalist A Young Pakistani photographer and
his American born Pakistani-German lover travel from California to
Pakistan in an attempt to exorcize their pasts, in order to build
their shared future. Up in the glaciers of Northern Pakistan, a
tragedy at a mountain lake entwines the fates of the two lovers
with the people they encounter there: Miryam, a nomad, travelling
with her family into the mountains to escape persecution, and
Irfan, haunted by ghosts and hoping that the mountains may offer
him a reprieve from his troubles. An expansive look at the
intersection of cultures and what happens at those intersections,
Thinner Than Skin is a powerful and moving read.
Aslam and Gunaratna bring together a broad analysis of the
responses of states in Asia to the threats presented by the
COVID-19 pandemic in its early phase. While the impact of the
pandemic has undoubtedly been disastrous, it has also taught many
lessons about social, political, economic, and security norms in
modern civilization. The contributors to this book look at how
these lessons have been learned-often the hard way-by a range of
states including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Indonesia,
Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, and Jordan, as well as by
international organizations including ASEAN. They look at a range
of issues, going beyond the most apparent healthcare concerns to
also look at challenges such as the gig economy, terrorism,
extremism, religious identity, and cybersecurity. Using these
country-based case studies, this book establishes a framework for
understanding these challenges and establishing best practice and
scalable solutions for addressing them. A valuable resource for
scholars and practitioners trying to understand how the world will
and won't be changed by the impact of COVID-19, especially in the
realms of security, society, and economy.
Eco-friendly and comprehensive strategy for policy makers
Accomplished guide for academicians and other stakeholders of
environments Sustainable development in carbon sequestration in
different vegetation landscapes
The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing forms a
theoretical, comprehensive, and critically astute overview of the
history and future of Pakistani literature in English. Dealing with
key issues for global society today, from terrorism, religious
extremism, fundamentalism, corruption, and intolerance, to matters
of love, hate, loss, belongingness, and identity conflicts, this
Companion brings together over thirty essays by leading and
emerging scholars, and presents: the transformations and
continuities in Pakistani anglophone writing since its inauguration
in 1947 to today; contestations and controversies that have not
only informed creative writing but also subverted certain
stereotypes in favour of a dynamic representation of Pakistani
Muslim experiences; a case for a Pakistani canon through a critical
perspective on how different writers and their works have, at
different times, both consciously and unconsciously, helped to
realise and extend a uniquely Pakistani idiom. Providing a
comprehensive yet manageable introduction to cross-cultural
relations and to historical, regional, local, and global contexts
that are essential to reading Pakistani anglophone literature, The
Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing is key reading
for researchers and academics in Pakistani anglophone literature,
history, and culture. It is also relevant to other disciplines such
as terror studies, post-9/11 literature, gender studies,
postcolonial studies, feminist studies, human rights, diaspora
studies, space and mobility studies, religion, and contemporary
South Asian literatures and cultures.
This book looks at the emerging power dynamics in the Indo-Pacific
region and locates India and its interests within the overarching
geostrategic framework. With US and China emerging as leading
players within the region, the book analyses the challenges to
India's foreign policy in the face of new alliances,
counter-alliances, and great power equations that have formed after
the Cold War. It discusses important issues such as China's
strategic forays in the Indian Ocean, the balance of power between
countries, India's Act East opportunities, Russia's re-engagement
in the region, the South China Sea dispute, India's maritime
strategy, and the conundrum of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue
facing India. A comprehensive study of the changing geopolitical
and geostrategic environment of the Indo-Pacific region, the book
will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of
international relations, global politics, foreign policy, maritime
studies, Chinese studies, South Asian studies, geopolitics, and
strategic studies.
This book provides a review of innovative and novel
biotechnological techniques that can be implemented to assess,
analyze, and mitigate harmful pollutants and wastes that result
from agricultural and industrial operations. It helps to meet the
much-needed demand for improvement of low-cost technologies that
tackle pollution problems scientifically for the safeguard of the
environment, focusing on bioremediation solutions that also create
useful and renewable forms of energy. The biotechnological
interventions discussed in the volume include approaches involving
genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and fluxomics.
In addition, biological agents such as microalgae, bacteria, fungi,
and bacteriophage, which can also prove to be helpful in the
elimination of wastes, are explored. Topics in Environmental
Biotechnology: Sustainable Remediation of Contamination in
Different Environs include the associated consequences and hazards
from agricultural and industrial waste and a variety of
bioremediation measures, including the use of bioaugmentation,
biosensors, challenges of biofuel production, and more. The book is
directed to researchers, scientists, industrialists, farmers,
agricultural waste management authorities, as well as to faculty
and students, and aims to help implement these novel technologies
for environmental stability.
Critically analyzing the specific security threat posed by COVID-19
to global society, the contributors to this book offer a
comprehensive and critical examination of global challenges and
responses while suggesting more balanced and nuanced approaches to
handling these security impacts. The COVID-19 pandemic brought
about a huge challenge to health security across the globe. Several
countries were pushed into lockdown repeatedly to prevent the
spread of infection. The global economy has seen a major slowdown
and disruption of supply chains around the world. There have also
been major implications from changes to traditional security
systems as well as diverse societal change even down to aspects of
daily life. The chapters in this book show that progressive
initiatives have expended a mixture of soft and hard response
strategies that include understanding, containing, fighting, and
preventing COVID-19. They look at major sectors including defense,
trade, health, and bioterrorism among others. In doing so, they
highlight the best practices used around the world to minimize the
threat posed by COVID-19's impact. A vital resource for security
studies scholars and policymakers.
The contributors to this book analyse the different approaches and
modes of terrorist rehabilitation that have been attempted by
Malaysia, and other countries in Southeast Asia. With an emphasis
on the particular contexts within which they operate, this book
examines the factors that determine the relative successes and
failure of a wide range of community initiatives in integrating
terrorists back into society. These initiatives include using
methods based on social psychology, religion, and entrepreneurship
to develop a comprehensive approach to rehabilitating and
deradicalizing terrorists in Malaysia as well as Singapore,
Indonesia and the Philippines. As such it makes an important
contribution to the global policy debate, coloured by the unique
characteristics of the South East Asia region. A valuable resource
for researchers and policymakers seeking constructive ways to
counter violent extremism.
With recent changes in social and political landscapes around the
world the focus of preventive counter-terrorism has shifted in many
places from government to civil society. The contributors analyze
the different approaches of Civil Society Organizations in
preventing and countering violent extremism in various countries in
South and Southeast Asia. The cases examined include, Malaysia,
Indonesia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The key emphasis is
on understanding the context within which each example was
initiated, and the factors that determined their relative success
or failure. The evidence from these cases suggests that much can be
achieved through empowering communities to engage in aiding both
the indoctrinated and those who pose the greatest risk of
radicalization. A valuable contribution to the literature on
preventing and countering violent extremism.
Provides a comprehensive survey of US foreign policy throughout the
Indo-Pacific. Contains 33 newly commissioned chapters from leading
experts in the field. Designed to be of interest to students and
scholars of the US in the Indo-/Asia Pacific; the international
relations of the Indo-/Asia Pacific; and US foreign policy.
Master the basic principles of structural analysis using the
classical approach found in Kassimali's distinctive STRUCTURAL
ANALYSIS, SI Edition, 6th Edition. This edition presents concepts
in a logical order, progressing from an introduction of each topic
to an analysis of statically determinate beams, trusses and rigid
frames, and then to the analysis of statically indeterminate
structures. Practical, solved problems integrated throughout the
presentation help illustrate and clarify the book's fundamental
concepts, while the latest examples and timely content reflect
today's most current professional standards. For further support,
you can download accompanying interactive software for analyzing
plane framed structures from this edition's companion website.
Trust Kassimali's STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS, SI Edition, 6th Edition for
the tools and knowledge you need for advanced study and
professional success.
Develop an understanding of the matrix method of structural
analysis with the contemporary, reader-friendly approach found in
Kassimali's MATRIX ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES, SI, 3rd Edition. Whether
you are an advanced undergraduate or graduate student, this edition
serves as an excellent resource for understanding all key aspects
of the matrix method of structural analysis. Unlike traditional
books that are difficult to read, this edition provides
understandable, clear explanations of concepts with updated
photographs and diagrams as well as flowcharts. Step-by-step
procedures guide you through analysis while updated, intriguing
examples clarify concepts. New and current exercises include
problems working with practical, real-world structures to give you
meaningful practice. Trust this technically and mathematically
accurate presentation to provide the foundation you need in matrix
structural analysis.
GRAFTED BIOPOLYMERS AS CORROSION INHIBITORS Comprehensive resource
explaining the synthesis, characterization, and anticorrosive
applications of green and environmentally benign grafted
biopolymers and their derivatives Grafted Biopolymers as Corrosion
Inhibitors highlight research and technology on sustainable grafted
biopolymers as corrosion inhibitors and detail their rapidly
emerging features and future research prospects. The many forms of
grafted biopolymers and techniques for preventing corrosion are
explored in relation to their macromolecular weights, chemical
makeup, and distinctive molecular and electronic structures. The
book covers state-of-the-art corrosion science and engineering as
well as an in-depth, step-by-step exposition of knowledge on
numerous corrosion systems and their role in contemporary industry.
Each chapter include an introduction, isolation and purification,
synthesis methods, worked examples, current applications, and
future predictions. Edited and contributed to by well-known
researchers, scientists and experts from academia and industry,
Grafted Biopolymers as Corrosion Inhibitors includes information
on: Basics of corrosion, economic adverse effects and its
mitigation, and past and present developments and future directions
of corrosion inhibition Corrosion inhibitor classification and
selection criteria, chemical, electrochemical, and surface
characterization, and computational techniques for corrosion
monitoring Sustainable grafted biopolymers, covering synthesis and
characterizations, properties and applications, and factors
affecting biopolymers grafting Grafted natural exudates gums,
pectin, chitosan, starch, cellulose, alginates, dextrin, and
biopolymer composites and nanocomposites as sustainable corrosion
inhibitors Delivering the recent advancements in sustainable
grafted biopolymer for the anticorrosive applications arena,
Grafted Biopolymers as Corrosion Inhibitors is an essential
resource for scholars in academia and industry, working corrosion
engineers, and materials science, engineering, and chemistry
students.
The Routledge Handbook of Tea Tourism provides comprehensive and
cutting-edge insights into global tea tourism. With contributions
from leading scholars and experts across 19 countries, it
demonstrates the interdisciplinary nature and breadth of topics
associated with global tea tourism. Tea is deeply connected to
tourism through both travel and consumption. For host communities
it provides an opportunity for diversification from the production
and/or serving of tea while sharing cultural traditions and
improving livelihoods. The Handbook is organised into five parts,
with an introduction and epilogue, and the first part begins with
an overview of historical and contemporary perspectives on the
foundations of tea tourism. It digs into the roots of such tourism
in China, the relationship of wild tea to indigenous tourism in
Vietnam, heritage railways to tea tourism, and tea tourism in
Africa. The second part examines sustainable tea tourism, with
examples from Thailand, Turkey, Sri Lanka and India. The third part
explores the management and marketing of tea tourism, highlighting
tools and techniques for development and the impact of social media
on the tea tourism experience. It draws on examples of tea tourism
experience in diverse settings, such as the English tea room, a
pearl milk tourism factory in Taiwan and a hot spring tea
destination in Japan. The fourth part provides perspectives on
innovation and practice in tea tourism, such as gastronomical tea
tourism in Turkey, Japan and Thailand; tea cafes and community
diversification in Japan; the role of GIAHS designation in tea
tourism; and tea tour guiding in Iran. Finally, the fifth part
provides insights on resilience in tea tourism, examining topics
such as human-wildlife conflicts and the impact of the COVID-19
pandemic on the sector in both Asia and Europe. This Handbook
provides a valuable resource for students and researchers,
presenting a rich collection of theoretical and empirical insights,
an agenda for future directions in the field and end-of-chapter
discussion questions. It also serves as a useful tool for key
stakeholders, aiming to increase interaction between academia and
industry, encouraging the development of sustainable responsible
tea tourism that benefits local communities on a global basis.
At the onset of the twenty-first century, 'youth studies' emerged
as a distinct field of inquisition. Discourses and debates in the
field have since become more sophisticated, and the spectrum of
analysis has likewise broadened. However, it is striking to note
how little reference is made to young people of peripheral regions
like Central Asia. The Sociology of Central Asian Youth seeks to
critically broaden the discussion on youth transitions discourse by
moving beyond the geographical terrain of North America, Britain,
Australia and Western Europe. The work establishes an in-depth
understanding of young Central Asians, with a special focus on
those in Uzbekistan. This is accomplished through the explanatory
powers of the various forms of sociological theory and,
specifically, by pursuing an ambitious aim: to introduce the
classic sociological debate about the relationship between
structure and agency in social behaviour into the study of modern
Central Asia. Presenting the experiences of youth against the
backdrop of contemporary socio-economic and cultural changes in the
post-Soviet space, this empirical monograph will appeal to
postgraduate students and post/doctoral researchers interested in
fields such as Youth Studies, Central Asian Studies, Social
Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Sociology.
The contributors to this book analyse the different approaches and
modes of terrorist rehabilitation that have been attempted by
Malaysia, and other countries in Southeast Asia. With an emphasis
on the particular contexts within which they operate, this book
examines the factors that determine the relative successes and
failure of a wide range of community initiatives in integrating
terrorists back into society. These initiatives include using
methods based on social psychology, religion, and entrepreneurship
to develop a comprehensive approach to rehabilitating and
deradicalizing terrorists in Malaysia as well as Singapore,
Indonesia and the Philippines. As such it makes an important
contribution to the global policy debate, coloured by the unique
characteristics of the South East Asia region. A valuable resource
for researchers and policymakers seeking constructive ways to
counter violent extremism.
This book covers a broad range of topics relating to carbon
nanotubes, from synthesis and functionalization to applications in
advanced biomedical devices and systems. As they possess unique and
attractive physical, chemical, optical, and even magnetic
properties for various applications, considerable effort has been
made to employ functionalized carbon nanotubes as new materials for
the development of novel biomedical tools, such as diagnostic
sensors, imaging agents, and drug/gene delivery systems for both
diagnostics and clinical treatment.
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