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Category : Fluid dynamic measurements
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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FLUCOME.
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Fluid dynamic measurements
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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FLUCOME '91
Author: Woong-Chul YangPublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Surface Water Modeling
Author: Ching Jen ChenPublisher:
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Category : Hydrologic models
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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The Threat of Pandemic Influenza
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309095042
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Public health officials and organizations around the world remain on high alert because of increasing concerns about the prospect of an influenza pandemic, which many experts believe to be inevitable. Moreover, recent problems with the availability and strain-specificity of vaccine for annual flu epidemics in some countries and the rise of pandemic strains of avian flu in disparate geographic regions have alarmed experts about the world's ability to prevent or contain a human pandemic. The workshop summary, The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready? addresses these urgent concerns. The report describes what steps the United States and other countries have taken thus far to prepare for the next outbreak of "killer flu." It also looks at gaps in readiness, including hospitals' inability to absorb a surge of patients and many nations' incapacity to monitor and detect flu outbreaks. The report points to the need for international agreements to share flu vaccine and antiviral stockpiles to ensure that the 88 percent of nations that cannot manufacture or stockpile these products have access to them. It chronicles the toll of the H5N1 strain of avian flu currently circulating among poultry in many parts of Asia, which now accounts for the culling of millions of birds and the death of at least 50 persons. And it compares the costs of preparations with the costs of illness and death that could arise during an outbreak.
The Journal of Fluid Control
Author: Flow Visualization VI
Author: Yoshimichi TanidaPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642848249
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Over the last decade, flow visualization has advanced in step with the progress in laser and computer technologies. The scope of the International Symposium on Flow Visualiza- tion will be broader than ever, covering the range of infor- mation generally thought of as nonvisual and reflecting the inclusion of computer - aided methodologies. The Sixth In- ternational Symposium on Flow Visualization aims to attract the participation of experts and users of flow viualizing techniques on furthering an advanced philosophy for the de- velopment of the methods and their applications.
Fundamentals of Fluid Power Control
Author: John WattonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139480227
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
This exciting reference text is concerned with fluid power control. It is an ideal reference for the practising engineer and a textbook for advanced courses in fluid power control. In applications in which large forces and/or torques are required, often with a fast response time, oil-hydraulic control systems are essential. They excel in environmentally difficult applications because the drive part can be designed with no electrical components and they almost always have a more competitive power/weight ratio compared to electrically actuated systems. Fluid power systems have the capability to control several parameters, such as pressure, speed, position, and so on, to a high degree of accuracy at high power levels. In practice there are many exciting challenges facing the fluid power engineer, who now must preferably have a broad skill set.
Flu
Author: Gina KolataPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429979356
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Veteran journalist Gina Kolata's Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It presents a fascinating look at true story of the world's deadliest disease. In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic felled the young and healthy virtually overnight. An estimated forty million people died as the epidemic raged. Children were left orphaned and families were devastated. As many American soldiers were killed by the 1918 flu as were killed in battle during World War I. And no area of the globe was safe. Eskimos living in remote outposts in the frozen tundra were sickened and killed by the flu in such numbers that entire villages were wiped out. Scientists have recently rediscovered shards of the flu virus frozen in Alaska and preserved in scraps of tissue in a government warehouse. Gina Kolata, an acclaimed reporter for The New York Times, unravels the mystery of this lethal virus with the high drama of a great adventure story. Delving into the history of the flu and previous epidemics, detailing the science and the latest understanding of this mortal disease, Kolata addresses the prospects for a great epidemic recurring, and, most important, what can be done to prevent it.
Atlas of Visualization
Author: Yasuki NakayamaPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780849326578
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Visualization is a novel interdisciplinary science for making any phenomenon clear by visualizing the invisible using computer techniques. The Atlas of Visualization presents the latest advances in visualization techniques, image processing, computer graphics, and visualization of measured and compound results. Focusing on both experimental and computer-aided visualization, this encyclopedic resource discusses all aspects of this new and evolving science. This volume includes cutting-edge information on turbulent flow, vortex, water spray, PIV, jet flames, thermal plume and numerical simulation, and heat and mass transfer. Encompasses all aspects of visualization! The Atlas of Visualization is concerned with all aspects of visualization, not just with engineering and physics applications, but with applications in disciplines such as the biomedical sciences, oceanography, agriculture, meteorology, and sports science. The aim of this book is to provide a medium for announcing the latest advances in visualization. Full color presentation! Books on visualization could not discuss complex phenomena without the use of color photographs. For this reason, the Atlas of Visualization is issued in full color. This allows the complex phenomena to be presented clearly, and combined phenomena are illustrated with quantitative results and detailed structure. Global perspective! The chapters and gravures in the Atlas are contributed by the world's top researchers, and provides both researchers and technicians with extremely useful information from the foremost innovators in the field of visualization. Computer scientists, mechanical engineers, physicists, applied and biological scientists, meteorologists, and sports scientists, as well as students of these disciplines, will find the Atlas of Visualization an essential source of all the latest knowledge in the field of visualization.
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