The editors of the SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering have
worked toward the expanded use of SI units for this fifth edition. In some
instances, however, US customary units have been retained. For example,
when equations, correlations,…
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The University of Ottawa Press acknowledges with gratitude the support extended to
its publishing list by Heritage Canada through the Canada Book Fund, by the Canada
Council for the Arts, by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences…
Any mature discipline and profession requires understanding of its core competencies. Also, the exercise of
defining core competencies is itself well worth while,
because it prompts a profession to look closely at itself,
its goals and its…
The editors are pleased to introduce Van Nostrand’s Scientific Encyclopedia,Tenth Edition, thus building upon the long tradition of excellence that dates back some seventy years to the First Edition, published in 1938 as a single volume over 1,200…
Ever since machinery was first developed to help man with his labours a
heavy price in injuries and damage has been paid for the convenience. In
the early days of the Industrial Revolution when labour was cheap, little
regard was paid to the pain…
Welcome to the Robot Revolution. By this, we do not mean an uprising of our robots,
as told in literature and film — at least not yet. But, today, robotics is a rapidly advancing
field with a growing stable of different robot models and their…