Helioseismic Diagnostics of Solar Convection and Activity

Helioseismic Diagnostics of Solar Convection and Activity
Author: Zdenek Svestka
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 565
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401143773

This book focuses on the recent advances in our understanding of solar convection and activity, and on new methods and results of helioseismic diagnostics. It provides a comprehensive overview of the current status of the field and presents new ideas and approaches.

Extraterrestrial Seismology

Extraterrestrial Seismology
Author: Vincent C. H. Tong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2015-06-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1316298884

Seismology is a highly effective tool for investigating the internal structure of the Earth. Similar techniques have also successfully been used to study other planetary bodies (planetary seismology), the Sun (helioseismology), and other stars (asteroseismology). Despite obvious differences between stars and planetary bodies, these disciplines share many similarities and together form a coherent field of scientific research. This unique book takes a transdisciplinary approach to seismology and seismic imaging, reviewing the most recent developments in these extraterrestrial contexts. With contributions from leading scientists, this timely volume systematically outlines the techniques used in observation, data processing, and modelling for asteroseismology, helioseismology, and planetary seismology, drawing comparisons with seismic methods used in geophysics. Important recent discoveries in each discipline are presented. With an emphasis on transcending the traditional boundaries of astronomy, solar, planetary and Earth sciences, this novel book is an invaluable resource and reference for undergraduates, postgraduates and academics.

Definition of Suicide

Definition of Suicide
Author: Edwin Shneidman
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1977-07-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 146162813X

Shneidman presents basic ideas of the common characteristics of suicide. He offers a fresh definition of the phenomenon, which includes direct implications for preventive action.

Issues in Life Sciences—Acarology, Arachnology, and Entomology: 2012 Edition

Issues in Life Sciences—Acarology, Arachnology, and Entomology: 2012 Edition
Author:
Publisher: ScholarlyEditions
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2013-01-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1481646338

Issues in Life Sciences—Acarology, Arachnology, and Entomology: 2012 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Entomology. The editors have built Issues in Life Sciences—Acarology, Arachnology, and Entomology: 2012 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Entomology in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Life Sciences—Acarology, Arachnology, and Entomology: 2012 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Egress Design Solutions

Egress Design Solutions
Author: Jeffrey Tubbs
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 547
Release: 2007-05-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0471719560

The architect's primary source for information on designing for egress, evacuation, and life safety, Egress Design Solutions, Emergency Evacuation and Crowd Management Planning, is written by proven experts on egress issues. Meacham and Tubbs are engineers with Arup, an international firm with a stellar reputation for quality design and engineering. Their book examines egress solutions in terms of both prescriptive and performance-based code issues. A portion of the book focuses on techniques for providing egress design solutions and for coordinating egress systems with other critical life safety systems. Another part reviews historic and recent tragic life-loss fire events. As such, this is easily the most comprehensive take on the subject, written especially for architects.

Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375–1550

Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375–1550
Author: Juhani Norri
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 2897
Release: 2016-06-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317151089

Medical texts written in English during the late Middle Ages have in recent years attracted increasing attention among scholars. From approximately 1375 onwards, the use of English began to gain a firmer foothold in medical manuscripts, which in previous centuries had been written mainly in Latin or French. Scholars of Middle English, and editors of medical texts from late medieval England, are thus faced with a huge medical vocabulary which no single volume has yet attempted to define. This dictionary is therefore an essential reference tool. The material analysed in the Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375–1550 includes edited texts, manuscripts and early printed books, and represents three main types of medical writing: surgical manuals and tracts; academic treatises by university-trained physicians, and remedybooks. The dictionary covers four lexical fields: names of sicknesses, body parts, instruments, and medicinal preparations. Entries are structured as follows: (1) headword (2) scribal variants occurring in the texts (3) etymology (4) definition(s), each definition followed by relevant quotations (5) references to corresponding entries in the Dictionary of Old English, Middle English Dictionary, and The Oxford English Dictionary (6) references to academic books and articles containing information on the history and/or meaning of the term.