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This collection calls for improved technical communication for the
public through an embodied, situated understanding of environmental
risk that promotes social justice. In addition to providing a
series of chapters about recent issues on risk communication, this
volume offers a diverse look at methodological practices for
students, researchers, and practitioners looking to address
embodied aspects of crisis and risk that incorporate UX,
storytelling, and dynamic text. It includes chapters that bring
embodiment to the forefront of risk communication, highlighting the
cycle of content creation, dissemination, public response and
decision making, continuing iterations of educational efforts, and
recovery, toward increasing adaptive capacity as a whole. In
addition, this work directs necessary attention to overcoming
perceptual difficulties, memory lapses, definitional differences,
access issues, and pedagogical problems in the communication of
risks to diverse publics. This collection is essential reading for
scholars and can be used as a supplemental text or casebook for
courses in technical communication, environmental communication,
risk and crisis communication, science communication, and public
health.
The effective sterilisation of any material or device to be
implanted in or used in close contact with the human body is
essential for the elimination of harmful agents such as bacteria.
Sterilisation of biomaterials and medical devices reviews
established and commonly used technologies alongside new and
emerging processes.
Following an introduction to the key concepts and challenges
involved in sterilisation, the sterilisation of biomaterials and
medical devices using steam and dry heat, ionising radiation and
ethylene oxide is reviewed. A range of non-traditional
sterilisation techniques, such as hydrogen peroxide gas plasma,
ozone and steam formaldehyde, is then discussed together with
research in sterilisation and decontamination of surfaces by plasma
discharges. Sterilisation techniques for polymers, drug-device
products and tissue allografts are then reviewed, together with
antimicrobial coatings for self-sterilisation and the challenge
presented by prions and endotoxins in the sterilisation of reusable
medical devices. The book concludes with a discussion of future
trends in the sterilisation of biomaterials and medical devices.
With its distinguished editors and expert team of international
contributors, Sterilisation of biomaterials and medical devices is
an essential reference for all materials scientists, engineers and
researchers within the medical devices industry. It also provides a
thorough overview for academics and clinicians working in this
area.
Reviews established and commonly used technologies alongside new
and emerging processesIntroduces and reviews the key concepts and
challenges involved in sterilisationDiscusses future trends in the
sterilisation of biomaterials and medical devices"
The creators of the nation's number one best-selling community
cookbook series welcome you to celebrate all of life's ordinary and
extraordinary occasions. Enjoy 48 inspiring menus and over 300 new
and innovative recipes from Baton Rouge, LA, where we celebrate
life through our cooking, and our culinary history is legendary.
This collection calls for improved technical communication for the
public through an embodied, situated understanding of environmental
risk that promotes social justice. In addition to providing a
series of chapters about recent issues on risk communication, this
volume offers a diverse look at methodological practices for
students, researchers, and practitioners looking to address
embodied aspects of crisis and risk that incorporate UX,
storytelling, and dynamic text. It includes chapters that bring
embodiment to the forefront of risk communication, highlighting the
cycle of content creation, dissemination, public response and
decision making, continuing iterations of educational efforts, and
recovery, toward increasing adaptive capacity as a whole. In
addition, this work directs necessary attention to overcoming
perceptual difficulties, memory lapses, definitional differences,
access issues, and pedagogical problems in the communication of
risks to diverse publics. This collection is essential reading for
scholars and can be used as a supplemental text or casebook for
courses in technical communication, environmental communication,
risk and crisis communication, science communication, and public
health.
This community cookbook with over 1.2 million copies sold is
considered by most to be the textbook of Louisiana cuisine. Cajun,
Creole, and Deep South flavors are richly preserved in authentic
gumbos, jambalayas, courts-bouillons, pralines, and more. Inducted
into the McIlhenny Hall of Fame, an award given for book sales that
exceed 100,000 copies
The aim of this book is to contribute to understanding risk
knowledge and to forecasting components of early flood warning,
particularly in the environment of tropical high mountains in
developing cities. This research covers a challenge, taking into
account the persistent lack of data, limited resources and often
complex climatic, hydrologic and hydraulic conditions. In this
research, a regional method is proposed for assessing flash flood
susceptibility and for identifying debris flow predisposition at
the watershed scale. An indication of hazard is obtained from the
flash flood susceptibility analysis and continually, the
vulnerability and an indication of flood risk at watershed scale
was obtained. Based on risk analyses, the research follows the
modelling steps for flood forecasting development. Input
precipitation is addressed in the environment of complex topography
commonly found in mountainous tropical areas. A distributed model,
a semi-distributed model and a lumped model were all used to
simulate the discharges of a tropical high mountain basin with a
paramo upper basin. Performance analysis and diagnostics were
carried out in order to identify the most appropriate model for the
study area for flood early warning. Finally, the Weather Research
and Forecasting (WRF) model was used to explore the added value of
numerical weather models for flood early warning in a paramo area.
Exploring the myriad efforts to strengthen colonial empire that
unfolded in response to France's imperial crisis in the second half
of the eighteenth century, Pernille Roge examines how political
economists, colonial administrators, planters, and entrepreneurs
shaped the recalibration of empire in the Americas and in Africa
alongside the intensification of the French Caribbean plantation
complex. Emphasising the intellectual contributions of the
Economistes (also known as the Physiocrats) to formulate a new
colonial doctrine, the book highlights the advent of an imperial
discourse of commercial liberalisation, free labour, agricultural
development, and civilisation. With her careful documentation of
the reciprocal impacts of economic ideas, colonial policy and
practices, Roge also details key connections between Ancien Regime
colonial innovation and the French Revolution's republican imperial
agenda. The result is a novel perspective on the struggles to
reinvent colonial empire in the final decades of the Ancien Regime
and its influences on the French Revolution and beyond.
The aim of this book is to contribute to understanding risk
knowledge and to forecasting components of early flood warning,
particularly in the environment of tropical high mountains in
developing cities. This research covers a challenge, taking into
account the persistent lack of data, limited resources and often
complex climatic, hydrologic and hydraulic conditions. In this
research, a regional method is proposed for assessing flash flood
susceptibility and for identifying debris flow predisposition at
the watershed scale. An indication of hazard is obtained from the
flash flood susceptibility analysis and continually, the
vulnerability and an indication of flood risk at watershed scale
was obtained. Based on risk analyses, the research follows the
modelling steps for flood forecasting development. Input
precipitation is addressed in the environment of complex topography
commonly found in mountainous tropical areas. A distributed model,
a semi-distributed model and a lumped model were all used to
simulate the discharges of a tropical high mountain basin with a
paramo upper basin. Performance analysis and diagnostics were
carried out in order to identify the most appropriate model for the
study area for flood early warning. Finally, the Weather Research
and Forecasting (WRF) model was used to explore the added value of
numerical weather models for flood early warning in a paramo area.
Welcome to a Second Helping of the dishes that reflect Louisiana's
love affair with food. Full of flavor from the Cajun-Creole region,
recipes come from homemakers and chefs alike. Now available in a
new Concealed Wire-O binding.
Exploring the myriad efforts to strengthen colonial empire that
unfolded in response to France's imperial crisis in the second half
of the eighteenth century, Pernille Roge examines how political
economists, colonial administrators, planters, and entrepreneurs
shaped the recalibration of empire in the Americas and in Africa
alongside the intensification of the French Caribbean plantation
complex. Emphasising the intellectual contributions of the
Economistes (also known as the Physiocrats) to formulate a new
colonial doctrine, the book highlights the advent of an imperial
discourse of commercial liberalisation, free labour, agricultural
development, and civilisation. With her careful documentation of
the reciprocal impacts of economic ideas, colonial policy and
practices, Roge also details key connections between Ancien Regime
colonial innovation and the French Revolution's republican imperial
agenda. The result is a novel perspective on the struggles to
reinvent colonial empire in the final decades of the Ancien Regime
and its influences on the French Revolution and beyond.
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Robert Darvel, a young and penniless French engineer at the turn of
the twentieth century, is an amateur astronomer obsessed with the
planet Mars. Transported by a combination of science and psychic
powers to Mars, Robert must navigate the dangers of the Red Planet
while trying to return to his fiancee on Earth. Through his
travels, we discover that Mars can not only support life but is
also home to three different types of vampires. This riveting
combination of science fiction and the adventure story provides a
vivid depiction of an imagined Mars and its strange, unearthly
creatures who might be closer to earthly humans than we would care
to believe. Originally published in French as two separate volumes,
translated as The Prisoner of the Planet Mars (1908) and The War of
the Vampires (1909), this vintage work is available to
English-language audiences unabridged for the first time and
masterfully translated by David Beus and Brian Evenson.
The beloved series INJUSTICE is back--with a prequel! INJUSTICE:
YEAR ZERO! Before Superman, Batman, or the Justice League were
household heroes, there was the JSA! But when a secret begins to
unravel within the JSA, will it lead to the unraveling of the
heroes we know today? Is there a traitor within the ranks of our
heroes? Or is someone hiding something that could ruin every DCU
superhero forever? No one is safe in INJUSTICE: YEAR ZERO! Collects
Injustice: Year Zero #1-14.
Colonial and post-colonial port cities in the Atlantic and Indian
Ocean regions brought together laboring populations of many
different backgrounds and statuses - legally free or semi-free
wage-laborers, soldiers, sailors, and the self-employed, indentured
servants, convicts, and slaves. From the seventeenth to the
nineteenth century the labor of these 'motley crews' made port
cities crucial hubs of the emerging capitalist world market and
centers of imperial infrastructure. The nine chapters in this
volume investigate the interaction between different groups of
laborers around the docks and the neighborhoods that stretched
behind them. How did the mixture of many different groups of
laborers shape patterns of work and life, authority and control,
exclusion and inclusion, group-competition and joint resistance?
What roles did gender, race and status play in maintaining
divisions or enabling solidarities? Together, the nine case studies
present a vibrant picture of social relations and working-class
cultures in port cities.
Thanks to NASA's Dawn mission, the last half-decade has witnessed a
significant advance in our understanding of Ceres. The largest
object between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, Ceres is the most
water-rich body in the inner solar system after Earth which shows
evidence of brine-driven activity in its recent history, and even
possibly at the present. The potential existence of a subsurface
ocean or regional seas in Ceres and its salt- and organic-rich
composition underscore its astro-biological significance. After
signaling the discovery of the asteroid belt more than two
centuries ago, Ceres once again reveals new insights for us to
understand the formation, evolution, and habitability of this large
icy body in our solar system. This book reviews the current state
of knowledge about Ceres after the extensive scientific exploration
by the Dawn mission. Starting from the introduction of the
discovery of Ceres and what we know about this enigmatic world
before Dawn's arrival, each chapter focuses on one aspect of Ceres,
including its surface composition, its geology, the role of water
ice in shaping Ceres's surface, its interior structure, and
expressions of cryovolcanic or brine activity at the surface.
Following this framework, the book addresses the astro-biological
significance of Ceres. The last chapter summarizes the new
questions opened by the Dawn mission and the next step to exploring
the dwarf planet closest to Earth.
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