Highway Bridge Management provides the bridge maintenance engineer and bridge manager with key information necessary to effectively manage highway bridges and other structures. The appropriate maintenance of highway bridge structures is vital to the safe and economic transport of goods and people. The bridge maintenance engineer has to have a skill set of asset management, inspection and assessment techniques, value engineering and prioritisation methods, repair techniques, legal and safety matters and stakeholder engagement. This book contains all the necessary information required to manage a highway bridge effectively and provides information beyond that found in the UK Design Manual for Roads and Bridges. Featuring case studies charting successes and failures, this is a necessary purchase for all maintenance engineers, supervising engineers, bridge managers, client organisations and graduate engineers tasked with performing bridge maintenance tasks, ensuring that all your bridge structures will be fit for purpose for future generations.

Since the publication of the first edition, interest in the field has continued to rise, most notably in pain management. Anesthesia and Analgesia in Laboratory Animals focuses on the special anesthetic, analgesic, and post-operative care requirements associated with experimental surgery. Fully revised and updated this new edition provides the reader with agents, methods, and techniques for anesthesia and analgesia that ensure humane and successful procedural outcomes.
* New to this edition - Section V which deals with new issues covering pain research, ethical issues, legal issues, and imaging studies. S
* New to this edition - Section IV now includes chapters on ferrets, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates.
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As a Yogic science, Vedic Astrology has been practiced for more than 5000 years with one ultimate aim: to provide insight and guidance towards the fulfillment of the soul's destiny. Vedic Astrology provides a map of the soul's territory, to quicken the journey and avoid delays in the process. You can learn to read the map of the birth chart and thereby harness the trends of the cosmos. This book is based on a tutorial course, and is arranged to systematically introduce the most important variables necessary to understand a Vedic horoscope. Topics Include: Meditation and Astrology The Planets Planetary Conditions The Houses Planetary Aspects The Ascendant Planetary Yogas Divisional Charts Vimshotari Dasha System Transits Jyotish and Ayurveda Astrological Remedies The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Through "The Art and Science of Vedic Astrology," by Richard Fish and Ryan Kurczak, you will gain a solid understanding of the foundational material needed to comprehend the mystical science that is Vedic Astrology.