Polyurethane and Related Foams: Chemistry and Technology is an in-depth examination of the current preparation, processing, and applications of polyurethanes (PURs) and other polymer foams. Drawing attention to novel raw materials, alternative blowing agents, and new processing methods, the book accentuates recent innovations that meet increasingly stringent environmental and fire safety regulations as well as higher quality products. Written by Dr. Kaneyoshi Ashida, a renowned pioneer of polyisocyanurate (PIR) foams, the book details the fundamental chemistry and material properties for each category of foams. The author presents mechanisms for chemical modification and foaming reactions, emphasizing the relationship between molecular design and enhanced physical properties. The latter half of the book focuses on polyurethane foams, the largest segment of the polyisocyanate-based foam industry. It contains a fully updated description of the chemistry, raw materials, manufac… More >>

Polyurethane and Related Foams: Chemistry and Technology

Conventional wisdom says that technology change is exponential, giving us an ever-growing number of exciting new products. According to this view, we live in an unprecedented golden age of technological expansion. Not so, according to Future Hype. Author Bob Seidensticker, who has an intimate understanding of technology on professional, theoretical, and academic levels, asserts that today’s achievements are not unprecedented. He explodes nine major myths of technology, including “Change is exponential,” “Products are adopted faster,” and “The Internet changes everything,” and he argues that we can’t control technology change unless we know how it changes. Examining the history of tech hype, Seidensticker uncovers the inaccuracies and misinterpretations that characterize the popular view of technology, explaining how and why this view has been created, and showing how technology change actually works. He concludes with “hype vaccine,” specific strategies to become a shrewder technology… More >>

Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change

Introduction to the Technology of Explosives Paul W. Cooper and Stanley R. Kurowski Introduction to the Technology of Explosives is a clear and concise survey of the technologies and physical processes involved in explosive phenomena. The book is intended to provide the worker new to the field with sufficient background to understand problems that may arise and to interact intelligently with specialists in the field. The book covers the fundamentals of the chemistry of explosives; the mechanics of burning; sound, shock, and detonation; initiation and initiators; scaling in design and analysis; and off-the-shelf explosive devices. It provides the basic calculational skills needed to solve simple, first-order engineering design problems, and emphasizes the crucial importance of safety considerations. The book contains a broad range of data on explosive materials, and their properties and behavior, along with extensive lists of useful references. Example problems with solutions are provid… More >>

Introduction to the Technology of Explosives

Save time developing and grading real-life, case-based assignments for your course with the CaseGrader: Microsoft Excel 2003 Casebook with AutoGrading Technology! The CaseGrader is a Web-based technology plus printed workbook that contains 12 case assignments for Microsoft Excel 2003 that students perform live in the application. Once students complete their projects, they post them online through our secure portal to be automatically graded within seconds! The CaseGrader can be used as an exam to assess multiple skills at once, or as easy-to-use homework assignments that you can easily track and instantly grade…. More >>

CaseGrader: Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Casebook with Autograding Technology

Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series copublished with the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City. These volumes offer rich and timely discourses on a broad range of cultural issues and critical theory. The collection covers topics from urban planning to popular culture and literature, and continually attracts a wide and dedicated readership…. More >>

Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology

This book sets out to answer the key question of how healthcare providers can move from a fragmented to an integrated provision, including how ICT be used to develop a market approach – variety and choice of service providers for patients – against a background of institutionalised and ingrained practices. A team of academic and practitioner experts with many years’ healthcare and research experience considers the broad issues of transforming healthcare using ICTs, electronic health records (EHRs), and approaches taken internationally to the healthcare integration challenge. The book will be essential reading for those involved in ICTs at a strategic or managerial level, and for contractors and developers implementing solutions on their behalf. The book will also be of interest for all those concerned with integrating healthcare and ICT at every level throughout the world…. More >>

Integrating Healthcare With Information and Communications Technology

The book provides a comprehensive treatment of earth-dam breaching and its modeling. The material contained in the book can be readily used for planning and designing dam-disaster relief work. The data and the technical matter contained in the book are not available under one cover anywhere else. The book is timely in that it is being completed in the United Nations Decade for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation. Audience: Practitioners, managers, academians, researchers, as well as graduate students in hydrology, water resources management, natural hazards research and environmental management. … More >>

Dam Breach Modeling Technology

This volume brings together contributions that resemble spotlights thrown on the past twenty-five years of science and technology studies. The contributions cover a broad range: history of science; science and politics; science and contemporary democracy; science and the public; science and the constitution; science and metaphors; and science and modernity. The contributors provide a critical overview of how the field of science and technology studies has emerged and developed. While assessing major achievements and potential, they also cast a critical view on deficiencies; provide a diagnosis of where we stand at present and articulate thoughtful concerns about where to go from here. The 2002 Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook provides ideal teaching material for discussion in class. Social Studies of Science and Technology: Looking Back, Ahead is for practising professionals and students in social studies of science and technology. It is also relevant to social scien… More >>

Social Studies of Science and Technology: Looking Back, Ahead

While thousands of books on baking are in print aimed at food service operators, culinary art instruction, and consumers, relatively few professional publications exist that cover the science and technology of baking. In Bakery Products: Science and Technology, nearly 50 professionals from industry, government, and academia contribute their perspectives on the state of baking today. The latest scientific developments, technological processes, and engineering principles are described as they relate to the essentials of baking.

Coverage is extensive and includes:

* raw materials and ingredients, from wheat flours to sweeteners, yeast, and functional additives;

* the principles of baking, such as mixing processes, doughmaking, fermentation, and sensory evaluation;

* manufacturing considerations for bread and other bakery products, including quality control and enzymes;

* special bakery products, ranging from manufa… More >>

Bakery Products: Science And Technology

The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) is the world’s leading event for the development of offshore resources in the fields of drilling, exploration, production, and environmental protection. This volume is a collection of the seven winning papers inducted in 2009. The classic documents contained in this volume form the core of current practice worldwide. These papers cover major topics in offshore technology such as pile driving, mudslides, storm wave kinematics, tubular joints, response of floating structures, wave return periods, and soil performance during earthquakes…. More >>

Offshore Technology in Civil Engineering: Hall of Fame Papers from the Early Years, Volume Four