As tree nuts and peanuts become increasingly recognised for their health-promoting properties, the provision of safe, high quality nuts is a growing concern. Improving the safety and quality of nuts reviews key aspects of nut safety and quality management.
Part one explores production and processing practices and their influence on nut contaminants. Chapters discuss agricultural practices to reduce microbial contamination of nuts, pest control in postharvest nuts, and the impact of nut postharvest handling, de-shelling, drying and storage on quality. Further chapters review the validation of processes for reducing the microbial load on nuts and integrating Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) and Statistical Process Control (SPC) for safer nut processing. Chapters in part two focus on improving nut quality and safety and highlight oxidative rancidity in nuts, the impact of roasting on nut quality, and advances in automated nut sorting. Final chapters explore the safety and quality of a variety of nuts including almonds, macadamia nuts, pecans, peanuts, pistachios and walnuts.
Improving the safety and quality of nuts is a comprehensive resource for food safety, product development and QA professionals using nuts in foods, those involved in nut growing, nut handling and nut processing, and researchers in food science and horticulture departments interested in the area.
Reviews key aspects of nut safety and quality management and addresses the influences of production and processing practices on nut safetyAnalyses particular nut contaminants, safety management in nut processing and significant nut quality issues, such as oxidative rancidityPlaces focus on quality and safety in the production and processing of selected types of nuts

This volume contains a collection of articles on state-of-the-art developments in the construction of theoretical integral techniques and their application to specific problems in science and engineering. Chapters in this book are based on talks given at the Seventeenth International Conference on Integral Methods in Science and Engineering, held virtually in July 2022, and are written by internationally recognized researchers. This collection will be of interest to researchers in applied mathematics, physics, and mechanical, electrical, and petroleum engineering, as well as graduate students in these disciplines and other professionals for whom integration is an essential working tool.

The Nueronomicon combines the traditional magick of many paths with the research of mind-scientists working in secretive military programs. While remaining accessible to the beginner, it represents the first genuine advance in the field of magick over the last 100 years. _____________________ ""This has to be the definitive book on the occult. It's beautifully written and also highly accessible. The artwork is amazing too."" - Pat Mills, originator of 2000 AD ----------- "One of the best magick books I've read for years. I would say on a par with some of Aleister Crowley's works. And that's not a thing I say lightly." - Michael [Mick] Norris illustrator of Liber Null & Psychonaut --------- ""Excellent."" - Ray Sherwin, originator of Chaos Magic --------- ""An education."" Valerie Sinason, The Tavistock Institute

This is the story of one woman's courageous struggle against the relentless encroachment of darkness. Helen Harris, after a childhood marked by unplanned clumsiness, skinned knees, and being known as the class klutz, discovered she was a victim of retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a disease causing progressive blindness and having no known cure. Devastated by this prognosis of ever-growing darkness, this brave and stoic young girl determined nonetheless to make the most of her future.

She was galvanized to furious activity, driven by anger at the abysmal absence of knowledge of RP in the medical community and, in fact, this world. But what could one woman do? Plenty. For someone with no experience in business, public relations, volunteerism, or recruitment, Helen Harris undertook to master them all. One lone woman with the mission to move the mountains of ignorance about a disease even Helen had never heard about, all the while trying to cope with the ever-growing darkness surrounding her and her sons. She came to know that RP was one of a family of related genetic diseases, one more terrifying than the other. These diseases, being of genetic origin, often strike multiple siblings in a family.

This book will lead you through Helen's amazing success in recruiting celebrities to their cause and shedding light into the darkness of RP, involving the medical world in the fight, and garnering support from the political world up to and including a president of the United States. Information on all the new technology that has been developed since Helen's journey began are enclosed within the pages of the book.

The Beatitudes occupy an expansive realm in God's Promised Land, a bountiful spiritual frontier suspended between heaven and earth. Plunge into God's plentiful grace and goodness to explore this marvelous kingdom in his sequenced and purposeful order. The Beatitudes are a supremely challenging journey, requiring significant sacrifice of earthly nature and great emptying of self. The grand reward is total saturation in God's spirit and living life as Jesus did upon this earth. Experience the Beatitudes in all their richness to comprehend even more completely that celestial world's way of life Enter through the Door of Christ and encounter your spiritual poverty alongside God's great richness Climb the Mirrored Mountains of Meekness. Descend into the Purging Valley for the Pure in Heart. Allow each incredible Beatitude to lead you forward toward the unique and purposeful life God has planned for you-first on earth and forever in heaven Discover an ever deeper relationship with God and your fellowman-which will never end, neither here nor there Accompany Wesley Baker's amazing spiritual journey in The Epilogue: The Powerful Pilgrimage of a Suffering Saint, as he finds himself transformed by each Beatitude, allowing them to remake his life in Christ

London, 1943. Across the city prominent figures in science and the military are bursting into flame and being incinerated. Convinced that the Germans have deployed a new terror weapon, a desperate government turns to the one man who can track down the source of this dreadful menace - Sherlock Holmes. The quest for a solution drives Holmes into an uneasy alliance with the country's most brilliant scientific genius, Professor James Moriarty. Only Holmes knows that, behind his facade of respectability, Moriarty is the mastermind behind a vast criminal empire. As they pursue the trail of incendiary murders, Holmes is quite sure that the professor is playing a double game and that there lies ahead a duel to the death which they cannot both survive. A tribute to the classic Universal Pictures Sherlock Holmes film series starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.

Collects over 150 years of key moments in the visual history of the Southern United States, with over two hundred photographs taken from 1850 to present The South is perhaps the most mythologized region in the United States and also one of the most depicted. Since the dawn of photography in the nineteenth century, photographers have articulated the distinct and evolving character of the South’s people, landscape, and culture and reckoned with its fraught history. Indeed, many of the urgent questions we face today about what defines the American experience—from racism, poverty, and the legacy of slavery to environmental disaster, immigration, and the changes wrought by a modern, global economy—appear as key themes in the photography of the South. The visual history of the South is inextricably intertwined with the history of photography and also the history of America, and is therefore an apt lens through which to examine American identity. A Long Arc: Photography and the American South accompanies a major exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, with more than one hundred photographers represented, including Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Gordon Parks, William Eggleston, Sally Mann, Carrie Mae Weems, Dawoud Bey, Alec Soth, and An-My Lê. Insightful texts by Imani Perry, Sarah Kennel, Makeda Best, and Rahim Fortune, among others, illuminate this broad survey of photographs of the Southern United States as an essential American story.  Copublished by Aperture and High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Innovation involves a set of processes which support the production and transformation of knowledge into new processes, technologies and products, goods and services, and provide an organization with particular strengths and value relative to other firms. In such a view, innovation is a key source of customer benefits and sustainable competitive advantage. Technological, Managerial and Organizational Core Competencies: Dynamic Innovation and Sustainable Development investigates the impact of knowledge management, information systems, finance, organizational networks, internationalization, strategic management, marketing, entrepreneurship, and sustainability on an organization that pursues dynamic innovation and sustainable advantage. This book provides research and practice for graduate and undergraduate programs, as well as business firms with different technological, managerial, and organizational perspectives. Further Description from the Editors: This book represents the culmination of an international project to compile inter-disciplinary research that most contributes to innovation. More specifically, this book is about innovation in firms, industries, nations and society. It speaks to professionals and researchers who want to improve their understanding of dynamic innovation and sustainable development. The Editors goal is to foster cross-pollination among researchers. To this aim, the Editors have selected and assembled 35 chapters that illustrate multidisciplinary theoretical perspectives and empiric results on innovation and the roles of Sustainability, Organizational Networks, Entrepreneurship, Knowledge Management, R&D&T (Research, Development and Technology) Management, Marketing, Finance, Internationalization, and Information Systems in the organization that pursues dynamic innovation and sustainable development. Innovation involves processes, organizational elements (or resources ), and Organizational Abilities (OA) that support the production and transformation of knowledge into new knowledge, processes, structures, technologies and products, goods and services. At the firm and industry levels of analysis, innovation can provide organizations with strengths relative to other firms, clusters, and nations and it is a key source of customer benefits and sustainable development. At the collective and societal levels of analysis, innovation can provide humanity with economic, social and environmental wealth through sustainable development. The uniqueness of this book lies in the participants efforts to identify Organizations' Creative Areas (OCA) that can provide core competencies for the organization in pursuit of dynamic innovation and sustainable development. In this perspective, innovation is a dynamic system and it is contingent upon a set of core competencies that couple to each other. Therefore, changing of even one competence can affect the organization's ability to innovate. The book avoids the term competitive advantage and adopts a more fruitful perspective of sustainable development the process of achieving human development in an inclusive, connected, equitable, prudent, and secure manner . An inclusive perspective sees traditional competitive advantage as occupying one extreme, whereas truly sustainable development occupies the opposite extreme. Sustainable development must benefit not only the organization and its customers, but also the whole society and the future of humanity through sustainability . Most chapters of this book fall between these extremes.

COMPLETED INTRODUCTION TO PHOTOGRAPHY By J. HARRIS GABLE. Originaly published in 1940. Contents include: PREFACE xiii PART I. THEORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY I. PICTURES AND PICTURETAKERS 3 II. THE LENS 7 III. THE CAMERA 18 IV. TYPES OF CAMERAS 2.9 V. FILM 38 VI. OTHER PHOTOGRAPHIC TOOLS 48 PART II. PICTURETAKING VII. OUTDOOR PICTURES 63 VIII. INDOOR PICTURES 76 IX. PORTRAITS AND POSED PICTURES 84 X. SPECIAL SUBJECTS 92. XI. SPECIAL METHODS OF PICTURETAKING 107 XII. MOVIES 134 PART III. DARKROOM WORK XIII. DEVELOPING 153 XIV. PRINTING AND FINISHING 167 XV. ENLARGING 180 XVI, THE DARKROOM 191 vu viii CONTENTS XVIL SPECIAL DARKROOM WORK: 2.01 XVIII. COLOR PRINTS 2.14 XIX. EXHIBITIONS AND SALONS 2.2.4 PART IV. LABORATORY MANUAL X4i INDEX 2.65 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS MITZI Frontispiece Facing t a ff i. LANDSCAPE Photograph by Claude Pilger 78 z. PUMP AND STONE BARN Photograph by D wight Kirsch 78 3. INFORMAL PORTRAIT BY DAYLIGHT 79 4. PORTRAIT BY STANDARD LIGHTING 79 5. PROFILE PORTRAIT 79 6. MARIHUANA: POSED PICTURE 79 7-J-94 8. THREE WISE FOOLS Photograph by George Holmes 94 9. NEBRASKA CAPITOL Photograph by Claude Pilger 94 10. JANICE 94 11. CLOUDS Photograph by Claude Pilger 95 iz. FLOWERS Photograph by Claude Pilger 95 13. LIGHTNING Photograph by Claude Pilger loz 14. DREAM LAKE ioz 15. KITTENS Photograph by Claude Pilger 101 1 6. BASEBALL: ACTION PICTURE Photograph by H. A. Coleman 103 17. DEFIANCE Photograph by Claude Pilger 103 18. COPY OF COLORED BIBLE COVER Photograph by Claude Pilger H4 19. PHOTOMACROGRAPH Photograph by Claude Pilger 114 zo. INFRARED PICTURE Photograph by Claude Pilger 114 zi. PHOTOMICROGRAPH OF TOOTH SECTION 115 zz. SAND: TEXTURE PICTURE Photograph by Claude Pilger 115 Z3.OVEREXPOSED, NORMALLY EXPOSED, AND UNDEREXPOSED NEGATIVE I 7 Z4-NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE I 7 zj. UNDEREXPOSED, NORMALLY EXPOSED, AND OVEREXPOSED PRINT I 7 I ix x ILLUSTRATIONS 2.6. NORMAL NEGATIVE PRINTED ON THREE CONTRASTS 171 2.7, PRINTS FROM FLAT AND HARD SUCTIONS OF NEGATIVE SHOWN IN ILLUSTRATION 2.) 171 z8. TEXTURE PRINT 182. 2.9. SNOW EFFECT PRINT 382. 30. SEVEN DIAMETER ENLARGEMENT 182. 31. PRINTING-IN CLOUDS 183 32.. PATTERN xio 33. NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE PHOTOGRAMS 2.10 34. PHOTOMONTAGE Photograph by Claud* Ptl r 2.11 35. RELIEF PRINT zii 36. BACK OF A MUCH-EXHIBITED PRINT 2.2.8 37. PAPER NEGATIVE PROCESS LIST OF FIGURES i. FOCAL LENGTH OF LENS 8 z. FOCAL LENGTH GOVERNS SIZE OF IMAGE 9 3. Focus FOR FAR AND NEAR OBJECTS, SHOWING CIRCLES OF CONFUSION u 4. STOPPING DOWN REDUCES CIRCLES OF CONFUSION iz 5. F: STOP RATIOS 13 6. COMPARATIVE SPEEDS OF LENSES 14 7. MENISCUS LENS 15 8. Focus OF COLORS 15 9. ACHROMATIC LENS 15 10. THEORY OF RECTILINEAR LENS 16 11. LENS ELEMENTS AND RESPECTIVE SPEEDS 17 n. COUPLED RANGE FINDER DIAGRAM 19 13. WESTON EXPOSURE METER zz 14. THE SHUTTER 15 15. VIEW FINDER z6 16. CAMERA OBSCURA zg 17. ACTION OF REFLEX CAMERA 34 18. PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE iSSo's 41 19. INGREDIENTS IN MAKING FILM 41 zo. FILM NOTCHES 46 zi. ACTION OF FILTERS 49 zz. TRIPOD 54 Z3. TILT-PAN HEAD 55 Z4. FILM PACK 57 ZJ. KODAFLECTOR 5 z6. COMPOSITION DIAGRAM FOR ILLUSTRATION i 74 17. DIAGRAM FOR ILLUSTRATION 3 76 z8. INTERIOR GROUP LIGHTING DIAGRAMS 80 zg. PORTRAIT LIGHTING DIAGRAMS 87 30. KODACHROME DIAGRAM Io8

Britain and the Olympic Games, 1908-1920 focuses upon the presentation and descriptions of identity that are presented through the depictions of the Olympics in the national press. This book breaks Britain down into its four nations and presents the debates that were present within their national press.

Carole Turner and her husband Jim survive a mysterious plane crash only to discover that their lives are changed in ways they could not even imagine. As they struggle to understand and to cope with those changes, they come to a painful decision: they must go their separate ways to save their children. And only time will tell whether they will ever see each other again. ************ [TRACINGS] ... "is a delightful, feel-good romance and something more - an exploration of a 'what-if' situation that forces the reader to consider his or her own life choices and values.The tone and theme [of TRACINGS] remind [this reviewer] of Nicolas Sparks' romance novels. It is easy and pleasant reading, and it has great value." RQuest review