Crc Press: 6180 books
Assessing Command and Control Effectiveness
Dealing with a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Assessing Command and Control Effectiveness: Dealing with a Changing World offers a description of the current state of Command and Control (C2) research in imperfect settings, showing how a research process should assess, analyse and communicate results to the development cycle of methods, work,...
The Handbook of Human-Machine Interaction
A Human-Centered Design Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The Handbook of Human-Machine Interaction features 20 original chapters and a conclusion focusing on human-machine interaction (HMI) from analysis, design and evaluation perspectives. It offers a comprehensive range of principles, methods, techniques and tools to provide the reader with a clear knowledge...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The objective of this book is to report on contemporary trends in the defence research community on trust in teams, including inter- and intra-team trust, multi-agency trust and coalition trust. The book also considers trust in information and automation, taking a systems view of humans as agents...
by Laura A. Rafferty, Neville A. Stanton
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Fratricide has been defined as firing on your own forces, when mistaking them for enemy forces, which results in injury or death. Rates of fratricide incidence have been steadily increasing and the complexity of the contemporary operating environment may lead to a continuation of this trend. Although...
New Tools, Old Tasks
Safety Implications of New Technologies and Work Processes for Integrated Operations in the Petroleum Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
New Tools, Old Tasks explores how Integrated Operations (IO) will influence the safety of offshore drilling operations. The book is based on several years of practical experience combined with a research study on the safety of IO within the drilling domain. The overall objective of the book is to...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Phosphorus is an essential plant nutrient, but global population growth has dramatically reduced the availability of phosphorus fertilizer resources. Despite this scarcity, there remain numerous problems associated with the excessive and inappropriate use of phosphorus leading to non-point source...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Silicone is an important class of materials used in applications that range from industrial assembly to everyday consumer products. Silicones are often delivered and synthesized in dispersion forms, the most common being liquid-in-liquid (emulsion), solid-in-liquid (suspension), air-in-liquid (foam)...
Campus Emergency Preparedness
Meeting ICS and NIMS Compliance
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
An easily digestible guide, Campus Emergency Preparedness: Meeting ICS and NIMS Compliance helps you develop and organize emergency operation plans. It incorporates the key components recommended by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the US Department of Education and outlines the...
Health, Human Rights and the United Nations
Inconsistent Aims and Inherent Contradictions?
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
'In the light of impending environmental catastrophe, people all over the world, in all walks of life, are becoming more aware of the pressing need to act globally. The need to base our decisions and actions less on parochial national advantage, sequestered in hate and suspicion of other nation's...
Air Pollution
Measurement, Modelling and Mitigation, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
This established textbook offers a one-stop, comprehensive coverage of air pollution, all in an easy-reading and accessible style. The fourth edition, broadly updated and developed throughout, includes a brand-new chapter providing a broader overview to the topic for general reading, and presents...
Australian Native Plants
Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Australian Native Plants: Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries provides a comprehensive overview of native food crops commercially grown in Australia that possess nutritional and health properties largely unknown on a global basis. These native foods have been consumed traditionally,...
Fundamentals of Radio Astronomy
Astrophysics
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
As demonstrated by five Nobel Prizes in physics, radio astronomy has contributed greatly to our understanding of the Universe. Courses covering this subject are, therefore, very important in the education of the next generation of scientists who will continue to explore the Cosmos.
This textbook,...
State Fragility Around the World
Fractured Justice and Fierce Reprisal
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Failed and fragile states often govern through the criminalization of otherwise inconsequential or tolerated acts. These weak states also frequently use kidnapping, murder, and other violent or oppressive tactics to maintain order and stay in power. State Fragility Around the World: Fractured Justice...
Nuclear Engineering Fundamentals
A Practical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
NUCLEAR ENGINEERING FUNDAMENTALS is the most modern, up-to-date, and reader friendly nuclear engineering textbook on the market today. It provides a thoroughly modern alternative to classical nuclear engineering textbooks that have not been updated over the last 20 years. Printed in full color, it...