The Wiley Dictionary of Civil Engineering and Construction provides comprehensive coverage of a broad range of technical disciplines. The definitions are designed to be of use to professionals in architecture, engineering, surveying, building, construction, forestry, mining, and public works. Entries include terms, concepts, names, abbreviations, tools, and techniques common to these disciplines, and virtually all terms and their functions were supplied by working professionals and experts in each field.

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Describes the hardware and software needed to make a pulse oximeter, and includes the equations, methods, and software required for them to function effectively. This book describes how oxygen is delivered to the tissue, historical methods for measuring oxygenation, and the invention of the pulse oximeter in the early 1980s.

In the early 20th century, the audience was seen as a mass of people, mostly unknown to one another, that was unified through exposure to media. This concept is now accepted. This book looks into the meaning of audience. Media scholars have qustioned the utility of the mass audience concept, characterizing it as insensitive to differences among audience members, arguing that it serves only a narrow set of industrial interests. The authors of this volume offer the opinion that these assertions are often false and unwarranted either by the historical record or by contemporary industrial...

This reader brings together texts which articulate or debate with the mode of theology most commonly identified as 'post-liberal'.

This volume contains the proceedings of the workshop on "Soil Monitoring: Methods for Early Detection and Surveying of Soil Contamination and Degradation," held at the ETH seminar centre "Stefano Franscini" of Monte Verita, Ascona (Switzerland) from October 18 - 23, 1992. Seventy participants, representing a variety of institutions, nations, and disciplines, discussed the concepts, approaches, status, gaps, problems, and perspectives of soil pollution monitoring. The idea for this workshop came from A. Desaules when he was installing the Swiss National Soil Monitoring Network (NABO) as his...