Author: Terrance I. Norton
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Keywords: tanks, storage, oil, aboveground
Number of Pages: 60
Published: 2009-01
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 1606921185
ISBN-13: 9781606921180

Oil leaks from aboveground tanks have contaminated soil and water, threatening human health and wildlife. To prevent damage from oil spills, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule in 1973. EPA’s 10 regions inspect oil storage facilities to ensure compliance with the rule. EPA estimates that about 571,000 facilities are subject to this rule. Some states also regulate oil storage tanks. GAO determined how EPA regions implement the SPCC program, the data EPA has to implement and evaluate the program, and whether some st

Authors:Rajni V. Patel, Mehrdad R. Kermani, Mehrdad Moalle
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: piezoelectric, materials, using, suppression, vibration, applied
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2008-03-25
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1600218962
ISBN-13: 9781600218965

Subject Scope: Robotics, Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science The aim of this book is to provide insight on the vibration problem in structurally flexible mechanisms, particularly robotic manipulators. The book covers different aspects of flexible structures. It partially includes the fundamental formulations for modeling of a flexible structure actuated with piezoelectric actuators. Mathematical modeling, when possible, as well as expertimental techniques for obtaining models of flexible structures are discussed. Additionally, different control techniques adapted for fl

Author: Carolyn C. Pertsova
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: trends, research, economics, ecological
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-02-01
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 1600219411
ISBN-13: 9781600219412

This new book presents new and important research in the field of ecological economics which is a transdisciplinary field of academic research that addresses the dynamic and spatial interdependence between human economies and natural ecosystems. Ecological economics brings together and connects different disciplines, within the natural and social sciences but especially between these broad areas. As the name suggests, the field is dominated by researchers with a background in economics and ecology. An important motivation for the emergence of ecological economics has been criticism on the assu

Author:
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Keywords: development, sustainable, textiles
Number of Pages: 435
Published: 2007-01-31
List price: $245.00
ISBN-10: 1600215599
ISBN-13: 9781600215599

This book covers the following themes and cross-cutting research and development activities: agronomy, economics and market trends for the production of natural fibres; synthetic and natural fibres, their properties, processing and applications; properties, performance and primary processing of natural fibres; textile and clothing production processes and properties; nanotechnology applications in fibres, textiles and clothing; comfort and health related applications of textiles; world trade and marketing of fibres, textiles and clothing; modern and innovative textile processing techniques and

Authors:Richard Ebstein, Marsha Kaitz, Maaike Berbee, Fabio C
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: developments, issues, terrorism, global
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2008-03-25
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 1600219306
ISBN-13: 9781600219306

Terrorism is usually described as violence or the perception or threat of imminent violence. Terrorism has been used by a broad array of political organizations in furthering their objectives; both right-wing and left-wing political parties, nationalistic, and religious groups, revolutionaries and ruling governments. Those labeled "terrorists" rarely identify themselves as such, and typically use other generic terms or terms specific to their situation, such as: separatist, freedom fighter, liberator, revolutionary, vigilante, militant, paramilitary, guerrilla, rebel, jihadi or mujaheddin, or

Author:
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Keywords: growth, economic, perspectives
Number of Pages: 283
Published: 2006-03-23
List price: $210.00
ISBN-10: 1594545685
ISBN-13: 9781594545689

Considering the new possibilities offered by endogenous growth models and the improvement of data information, new variables have been introduced in the analysis of economic growth. But in spite of this important effort to develop a wider and more complete perspective of economic growth process, other kinds of relations and factors must be included. And this is the main goal of this book. In the next chapters, authors analyse a set of variables or factors that the new perspective of the economic growth must include and the canonical models don’t consider. The goal is to show that there a

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Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Keywords: analysis, optimization, thermodynamics, time, finite, advances
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-04
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 1590339142
ISBN-13: 9781590339145

Over 170 years ago, Sadi Carnot, a French engineer, published his famous article "Reflections on the motive power of fire" and established a new field of science: classical thermodynamics. Since 1985, the scholars in the Naval University of Engineering (from 1949 to 1998) have been making the research work in the field of finite time thermodynamics. This multi-authored book deals with the recent advances of finite time thermodynamics in the Naval University of Engineering. It illustrates how the gap between thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics is bridged. It also illustrates how