This is a classic title in flow measurement with a complete approaching that includes information about some measurement physical principles and the issues involved in flow correction due to the pressure and temperature of the fluid measured when considering contractual or basis conditions.

This edition is a valuable guide to the topics, test methods, procedures, and standards of ASTM and other national and international organizations.

This book provides a comprehensive and detailed introduction to the fundamental principles of fuel cell science so that a reader-whether professional or student-can gain a timeless understanding of the fundamentals that will remain relevant and useful even as the specific applications, materials, and designs change.

Useful as a reference for engineers in industry and as an advanced level text for graduate engineering students, takes the reader beyond the theoretical to demonstrate how multiphase flow equations can be used to provide applied, practical, predictive solutions to industrial fluidization problems.

In a journey across 2,000 years, this enthralling book written by a leading South Asian historian, describes the ties of trade, migration, and investment between India and the rest of the world, showing how changing patterns of globalization reverberated on economic policy, politics, and political ideology within India.

This publication reviews the major turning points in the history of economic integration, and in particular the pace at which it has accelerated since the 1990s. It also considers its impact in four crucial areas, namely employment, development, the environment and financial stability.

Cette nouvelle publication de la série Les essentiels de l’OCDE étudie les conséquences de l’interconnexion croissante des marchés et des économies nationales sur nos vies, et examine l’évolution de la mondialisation à la lumière des évènements récents. Si la mondialisation est un phénomène aussi ancien que le commerce, elle n’en reste pas moins controversée.

Ce livre analyse l’univers multidimensionnel de l’aide et du développement, c’est-à-dire les efforts – parfois controversés – menés à l’échelle mondiale pour améliorer la vie des plus pauvres de la planète. Il retrace l’histoire de l’aide, explique d’où elle vient et où elle va, tout en se demandant si elle accomplit autant qu’elle le pourrait.

This book explores the multi-faceted world of aid and development co-operation – a range of global, and sometimes contested, efforts aimed at reducing the impact of poverty. It traces the history of these efforts, explains where they come from and where they are going, and asks whether they are achieving as much as they could.

This report attempts to satisfy the growing demand for quantitative evidence on social well-being and its trendsIt adds some new ones, including indicators of height, perceived health status, risky youth behaviour and bullying. Report providing internationally comparable data on demography and family characteristics, employment and wealth, mobility and housing, health status, social expenditure, subjective well-being, social cohesion, and other social measuresIncluded are such interesting variables as suicides, child care costs, prisoners, gender wage gaps, and mothers in employment.

This book can enlighten important issues involved in the management of cancer, summarizing the state-of-the-art knowledge regarding the disease control and treatment; thus, providing means to improve the overall care of patients that daily battle against this potentially lethal condition.

This book covers recent research topics regarding syntheses techniques of carbon nanotubes and nanotube-based composites, and their applications. This book will be helpful to many students, engineers and researchers working in the field of carbon nanotubes.

This is a comprehensive state-of-the-art book covering general mathematical and physical aspects of processes relevant to optical semiconductor lasers with applications focused on laser metrology, chaotic communications including cryptography, and chaotic random number generation.

In this book, the broad aspects of myocarditis are fully presented by leading international experts. The texts are devoted to both clinical aspects and pathophysiology, and they present comprehensive reviews of the causes of myocarditis, its classification, diagnosis, and treatment, as well as myocarditis in special populations such as pediatric, peripartum and chronic chagasic myocarditis.

This book contributes to the study and search for sustainable responses to global environmental change. The authors of this volume explore environmental change in different places around the world and the diverse responses to such changes.