Technological Innovations in Sensing and Detection of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Threats and Ecological Terrorism


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This book arises from the NATO Advanced Study Institute “Technological Innovations in Detection and Sensing of CBRN Agents and Ecological Terrorism” held in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova in June 2010. It comprises a variety of invited contributions by highly experienced educators, scientists, and industrialists, and is structured to cover important aspects of the field that include developments in chemical-biological, and radiation sensing, synthesis and processing of sensors, and applications of sensors in detecting/monitoring contaminants introduced/dispersed inadvertently or intentionally in air, water, and food supplies. The book emphasizes nanomaterials and nanotechnology based sensing and also includes a section on sensing and detection technologies that can be applied to information security. Finally, it examines regional, national, and international policies and ethics related to nanomaterials and sensing. It will be of considerable interest and value to those already pursuing or considering careers in the field of nanostructured materials and nanotechnology based sensing, In general, it serves as a valuable source of information for those interested in how nanomaterials and nanotechnologies are advancing the field of sensing, detection, and remediation, policy makers, and commanders in the field.




Environmental Analysis by Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors


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This book presents an exhaustive overview of electrochemical sensors and biosensors for the analysis and monitoring of the most important analytes in the environmental field, in industry, in treatment plants and in environmental research. The chapters give the reader a comprehensive, state-of-the-art picture of the field of electrochemical sensors suitable to environmental analytes, from the theoretical principles of their design to their implementation, realization and application. The first three chapters discuss fundamentals, and the last three chapters cover the main groups of analytes of environmental interest.




Wilde and Twisted


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Silver-tongued lawyer, Linus Twist, has expensive tastes. The sharpest suits, the purest drugs, and the dirtiest sex; Linus wants it all in excess, especially the sex, and especially with the wrong types of men. So when he impetuously follows a foxy redhead into the gym shower and gets kissed like it means something, Linus knows he's headed for certain disaster. Finnigan Wilde is a dreamer, a wanna-be novelist, searching for himself. In love with the idea of love, Finn only knows what he feels. He woos Linus with lilacs, speaks to him in filthy poetry, and touches him like he doesn't care who's watching. But can Linus set aside his sinister tendencies, his ambition, and one vital fact: that, as far as the world is concerned, Finn is straight? Wilde & Twisted is a bisexual-awakening, opposites-attract novel, with a happily-ever-after.




After the Crash


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This book seeks to diagnose and analyze the social, economic and technological consequences of the 2008 financial crisis, which brought epochal changes to our lives. First and foremost, a paradigm shift arose in economic theories that fail to predict or explain the crisis. On the governmental side, we have been observing a natural parallel between authoritarianism and the way many democratic countries are being governed. Liberalism seems to have failed. Driven by the anger over the crisis and its heavy burden, a variety of technological innovations were birthed and gained momentum. Bitcoin was a manifesto to the monetary system; sharing economy was a rebellion to the consumerist lifestyle; and subscriptions were a threat to ownership. This books ties each of these events to the 2008 crisis and explains the connection.




Bulldozer Capitalism


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Set in the resource frontier of northeastern Turkey, Bulldozer Capitalism studies the rise and decline of an anti-dam/anti-displacement campaign and the political responses to other extractive projects that it helped to shape in its aftermath. The book shows that people can accommodate their own dispossession and displacement if they are directed to negotiate, invest in, and speculate on the destruction of their built environment and nature, and their material and immaterial bonds, wealth, and activities.




The Making of Selim


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The father of the legendary Ottoman sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, Selim I ("The Grim") set the stage for centuries of Ottoman supremacy by doubling the size of the empire. Conquering Eastern Anatolia, Syria, and Egypt, Selim promoted a politicized Sunni Ottoman* identity against the Shiite Safavids of Iran, thus shaping the early modern Middle East. Analyzing a wide array of sources in Ottoman-Turkish, Persian, and Arabic, H. Erdem Cipa offers a fascinating revisionist reading of Selim's rise to power and the subsequent reworking and mythologizing of his persona in 16th- and 17th-century Ottoman historiography. In death, Selim continued to serve the empire, becoming represented in ways that reinforced an idealized image of Muslim sovereignty in the early modern Eurasian world.




New Developments in Nanosensors for Pharmaceutical Analysis


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New Developments for Nanosensors in Pharmaceutical Analysis presents an overview of developments in nanosensor usage in pharmaceutical analysis, thereby helping pharmaceutical companies attain reliable, precise, and accurate analysis of pharmaceuticals. This book presents very simple, precise, sensitive, selective, fast, and relatively inexpensive methods for pre-treatment, prior to analysis. These methods may be considered for further application in clinical studies and assays. The book includes the manufacturing of sensors for pharmaceutical analysis at nano- or smaller scales, and gives simple and relatable designs for the fabrication of sensors. Twelve chapters cover an introduction to the topic, immobilization techniques, mechanism effect of nanomaterials on structure, optical nanosensors for pharmaceutical detection, chemical nanosensors in pharmaceutical analysis, noble metal nanoparticles in electrochemical analysis of drugs, photo-electrochemical nanosensors for drug analysis, molecularly imprinted polymer based nanosensors for pharmaceutical analysis, nanomaterials for drug delivery systems, nanomaterials enriched nucleic acid-based biosensors, nanosensors in biomarker detection, and nanomaterials-based enzyme biosensors for electrochemical applications. Presents nanosensor types, synthesis, immobilizations and applications in different fields Gives simple repeatable designs for the fabrication of sensors for pharmaceutical analysis Details how to carry out sensitive analysis of pharmaceuticals using nanosensors Describes how to synthesize and immobilize nanosensors, and how nanosensors can be applied in drug assay Proposes innovative ways to optimize pharmaceutical processes with nanosensors




Mongolian Studies


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Sinful memories of Naughty Gül - 2


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Hello, my name is Gül, I live in Istanbul, I am an athletic young woman, six feet tall, with black hair and brown eyes. I weigh fifty-five kilos, I measure one hundred, sixty, ninety. I have two brothers and an older sister. After my mother died, my sister took over all the household chores. While this story opens the curtain of the great mystery behind my mother's death, it tells how I discovered myself and what others want from me in one winter.




Lena's Happiness Secrets


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Lena's Happiness Secret: Lena's Lyckohemligheter is a bilingual mindfulness children's book in English and Swedish. Lena's Happiness Secret: Lena's Lyckohemligheter är en tvåspråkig mindfulness-barnbok på engelska och svenska. Om boken: Lena är ett barn med helt vanliga förmågor.; hon kan se, räkna, känna, smaka och fantisera. Det är allt som behövs för att hon ska vara lycklig. Lena's lycka grundas inte i saker hon inte kan påverka utan endast i en djup och ärlig förståelse av sig själv. Lena's Lyckohemligheter skrevs för att förbättra ditt barns förmåga att leva i nuet, för att uppmuntra henne att ha kontakt med sina sinnen och känslor. Bokens tanke är att plantera ett frö i tidig ålder som kommer hjälpa henne förstå världen hon omges av här och nu. Boken kan hjälpa ditt barn att bli mer fokuserad, medveten och tålmodig. Boken avslutas med en visualiseringsövning som stärker ditt barns kontakt med sig själv och omgivningen. Som förälder kan du göra denna visualiseringsövning medan du läser med ditt barn. Som vuxna försöker vi omdirigera vår förståelse av lycka bort från yttre faktorer för att omfamna den inre, den ovillkorliga kärleken till oss själva. Varför ger vi inte våra barn chansen att öva på att känna den här typen av enhet i tidig ålder? Boken placerar ett verktyg för livet i eran verktygslåda. Lena's Lyckohemligheter kan ta sin plats bland de andra böcker du läser med ditt barn för att hjälpa henne att växa upp som en lycklig individ i kontakt med sig själv. About the book in English: Lena is a child with ordinary powers; she can see, count, touch, taste, feel and imagine. All this is enough for her to be happy. Lena's happiness is due not to outside circumstances, but to her connection with her authentic self. Lena's Happiness Secret was written to enhance your child's capacity to be in the present moment, to encourage her to be in touch with her senses and feelings, and to plant a seed to help her understand the world that surrounds her in the here and now. The book can help your kid to become more focused, aware and patient. The book ends with a visualization exercise that strengthens your child's contact with herself and her surroundings. As a parent, you can do this visualization exercise while reading with your child. As adults, we are trying to redirect our understanding of happiness away from external factors to embrace the internal, the unconditional love of ourselves. Why don't we give our kids the chance to practice feeling this kind of unity at an early age? This will be placing a tool for life in their toolbox. Lena's Happiness Secret can take its place among the other books you read to your child to help her to grow up as a happy individual in contact with herself.