Interaction of Radiation with Matter

This book deals specifically with the interaction of radiation with matter. Specifically divided into four chapters. The subject covers basic knowledge of radiation, atoms, radioactivity, x-rays, interactions of electrons and photons, and is also accompanied by questions and problems. This textbook can be read by students of engineering physics, nuclear medicine, and nuclear engineering and eve…

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).

Radiation Protection: A Guide for Scientists, Regulators, and Physicians, Fou…

This highly successful manual has served for nearly three decades as the definitive guide to the safe use of radioactive materials. Completely revised and updated, the fourth edition presents a new dimension by adding coverage of nonionizing radiation, and is thus concerned with the entire field of radiation protection. The author takes the novel approach of introducing the whole range of en…

Safety and the Security Professional: A Guide to Occupational Safety and Heal…

The first section of this book are introduction. These sections explore such topics as the role of security in the safety program, important government agencies and resources, and the financial impact of safety programs. Without the information presented in these pages, your safety program will not be effective. The second and third sections of this book cover the specific building blocks of a …

Safety Culture: Theory, Method and Improvement

This book is devoted to studying the relationship between culture and safety. This relationship, epitomized by the concept of safety culture, has undoubtedly become one of the hottest topics of both safety research and practical efforts to improve safety. For instance, most oil companies today have programmes devoted to improving the company's safety culture. Lessons learned from these accident…

Risk, Vulnerability and Everyday Life

It is now sociological common sense to declare that, in everyday life, large numbers of people approach matters of work, family life, trust and friendship with 'risk' constantly in mind. This book, provides an introductory overview and critical assessment of this phenomenon. Iain Wilkinson outlines contrasting sociological theories of risk, and summarizes some of the principle discoveries of em…

Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, Volume 1

F.P. Lees Loss Prevention provides the fundamentals for any viable prevention program throughout all segments of industry. It covers recognized good engineering practices that can transform a good company into a GREAT company through protection of profits from unintended incidents, downtime, and litigation costs. These volumes cover it all and are as critical to a corporation's bottom line as a…

Reliability Engineering Handbook, Volume 2

This book is intended to be used as a first text in reliability engineering by upper-level undergraduate and first-year graduate students, and as a working book by the practicing reliability engineer or the initiate. Great emphasis has been placed on clarity of presentation and practicality of subject matter. Some knowledge of the mathematics of probability ad statistics would be helpful but is…

Safeware: System Safety and Computers

This book examines what is currently known about building safe electromechanical systems and looks at the accidents of the past to see what lessons can be applied to new computer-controlled systems. One obvious lessons is that most accidents are not the result of unknown scientific principles but rather of a failure to apply well-known, standard engineering practices. A second lesson is that ac…

Bodyspace: Anthropometry, Ergonomics and Design

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ISBN/ISSN

0850663407

Deskripsi Fisik

275 p. : illus. ; 21 cm

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

620.82 Phe b