The prediction of head losses in a pipe system is very important because head losses affect the performance of fluid machinery such as pumps. In a pipe system, two kinds of losses are observed: major losses and minor losses. In Newtonian and non-Newtonian flow, major losses are those that are due to friction in straight pipes and minor losses are those that are due to pipe fittings. Minor losses must be accurately predicted in a pipe system be...
Stephen Fleischman doesn't know how to pull a punch as demonstrated by his hard hitting "Sharp Jabs to the Head, " his essays about the Bush Administration. Now, with his new collection of essays and stories, "Weapons of Words, " he really hits the target about where America is at present. And how we got here. And where we should go from here.You won't find any timidity in these pages. No cover ups. No excuses. But you will find some radical i...
In this entertaining and informative guide, a former non-practicing Catholic who later became a passionate Catholic mother, shares light-hearted guidance for other Catholic parents who aspire to nurture their own faith and pass on what they have learned to their children.Denise Barnes offers a fresh, down-to-earth approach to growing Catholic children while sharing entertaining anecdotes that chronicle her nearly twenty-year spiritual journey....
Leroy, a white medical doctor from Mississippi, leaves America and stays in the village of Morwa, Botswana, at the height of the world-wide euphoria caused by America's moon landing! He becomes a popular community crusader, and a reputable traditional doctor. Epic friction ensues as Jealousman, a territorial village luminary, feels upstaged by Leroy. Leroy's relationships with Jealousman, other locals and visitors to Morwa provide endless oppo...
Mitchell Stone Jr. is a country boy from a small, racially segregated community in Memphis, Tennessee, transplanted into the culture shock of the Southside of 1960 Chicago. Feelings of indifference and alienation from family, a new environment, and gangs propel him on a journey through life beyond imagination. Stone's quest for defining his identity leads him to the rice paddies of Vietnam, into an underworld existence in the fast-paced game o...
Mitchell Stone Jr. is a country boy from a small, racially segregated community in Memphis, Tennessee, transplanted into the culture shock of the Southside of 1960 Chicago. Feelings of indifference and alienation from family, a new environment, and gangs propel him on a journey through life beyond imagination.
Stone's quest for defining his identity leads him to the rice paddies of Vietnam, into an underworld existence in the fast-paced game...
This book provides expert help in assuring that your pharmacy is compliant. The authors have helped hundreds of hospital pharmacies comply with Joint Commission standards and prepare for surveys.
Lead is widely used in hundreds of products but it is non-biodegradable, hence it is simultaneously a versatile product and at the same time a subtle and persistent poison. This is the paradox of lead toxicity. Exposure to lead is a threat to the health and to physical development of young children and adults. The characteristic features of lead toxicity, including anemia, colic, neuropathy, nephropathy, sterility, and coma, were noted both by...
Of the various subspecialty areas in anatomic pathology, neuropathology tends to be one of the least familiar to general pathologists. This volume is biased toward diseases that may be encountered in surgical pathology practice. Moreover, the authors have tried to illustrate as many entities as possible with surgical material.
Visited by the hard weather of melancholy and harsh truth, the terrain of this collection fills with shadows and stone, sorrows and ash - its world broken by a daughter's violent death. But such seasons of pain are not relentless. In rich and memorable lines, Ron Talney gives us delight in vivid images, wisdom in striking tropes. Offering respite and solace, he creates from "...rocks and trees/the poems we need."
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Containing 38 technical papers, this book is a valuable source of information for historical reviews of land and offshore foundations work, fundamental and advanced foundation analytical procedures, foundation design using situ geotechnical measurements,
A branch of ordered algebraic structures has grown, motivated by $K$-theoretic applications and mainly concerned with partially ordered abelian groups satisfying the Riesz interpolation property. This is the first text to integrate the algebraic and analytic aspects of these interpolation groups into a coherent framework for general reference. Requiring only standard first-year graduate courses in algebra and functional analysis, this will mak...
Provides an introductory overview of how to use Ricci flow and Ricci flow with surgery to establish the Poincaré Conjecture and the more general Geometrization Conjecture for 3-dimensional manifolds. It presents the major geometric and analytic results and themes of the subject without weighing down the presentation with too many details, and can be read as an introduction to more complete treatments of the same material.
