High Performance Liquid Chromatography in Phytochemical Analysis

The powerful, efficient technique of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is essential to the standardization of plant-based drugs, identification of plant material, and creation of new herbal medicines. Filling the void in this critical area, High Performance Liquid Chromatography in Phytochemical Analysis is the first book to give a complete description of the techniques, materials, …

Health Physics in the 21st Century

Adopting a proactive approach and focusing on emerging radiation-generating technologies, Health Physics in the 21st Century meets the growing need for a presentation of the relevant radiological characteristics and hazards. As such, this monograph discusses those technologies that will affect the health physics and radiation protection profession over the decades to come. After an introductor…

Illicit Trafficking: A Reference Handbook

This book discusses the illicit trade in the world with all its phenomena. The products in circulation range from money laundering, trade in chemical weapons, narcotics, humans, and even nuclear. In other chapters, problems and solutions are also explained (MM).

Illicit Trafficking

Protecting Industrial Control Systems from Electronic Threats

Aimed at both the novice and expert in IT security and industrial control systems (ICS), this book will help readers gain a better understanding of protecting ICSs from electronic threats. Cyber security is getting much more attention and 'SCADA security' (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) is a particularly important part of this field, as are Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Programm…

Low-Level Radiation and Immune System Damage: An Atomic Era Legacy

Atomic weapons and nuclear power plants: they promised to ensure world peace and provide efficient energy to Americans during the 1940s and 1950s. Meanwhile, the post war prosperity led to the most dramatic population explosion ever witnessed in the United States: the "baby boomer" generation.Times and politics may change, but many baby boomers-as well as their descendants-now live with an unfo…

Reactor Noise

This monograph is one in a series developed through the joint efforts of the American Nuclear Society and The Division of Technical Information of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The objective of this series is the publication of concise, authoritative treatises on selected subjects in nuclear science and technology, realizing a shorter writing and publication schedule together with a lower …

Radioactivity Radionuclides Radiation (Including the Universal Nuclide Chart …

This book consist of Origins and Discovery; Nuclear Energeties; Radioactivity and Nuclear Reactors; Types of Radioactive Decay; Transmutation Research; Archaelogy and Dating; Radioisotopes in Medicine; Scientific and Industrial Applications; and Radiation and the Environment. (Jml)