In this book, the four authors show us the condensed experience how to design ship hull structures from a practical viewpoint. In three parts, the book presents the fundamentals, the theory and the application of structural design of hulls. The topics are treated comprehensively with an emphasis on how to achieve reliable and efficient ship structures.

The authors have in particular introduced their experiences with the rapid increase of ship sizes as well as the introduction of ship types wi...

Familiar combinations of ingredients and processing make the structures that give food its properties. For example in ice cream, the emulsifiers and proteins stabilize partly crystalline milk fat as an emulsion, freezing (crystallization) of some of the water gives the product its hardness and polysaccharide stabilizers keep it smooth. Why different recipes work as they do is largely governed by the rules of physical chemistry.

This textbook introduces the physical chemistry essential to unde...

This book offers a practical guide for policy advisors and their managers, grounded in the author's extensive experience as a senior policy practitioner in New Zealand's Westminster-style system of government. A key message is that effective policy advising is less about cycles, stages and steps, and more about relationships, integrity and communication. Policy making is incremental social problem solving.

Policy advising is mostly learned on the job, like an apprenticeship. It starts with ca...

After a brief explanation of why modeling is an indispensable part of software development, the authors introduce the individual diagram types of UML (the class and object diagram, the sequence diagram, the state machine diagram, the activity diagram, and the use case diagram), as well as their interrelationships, in a step-by-step manner.

Over a century ago, psychologists who were fascinated with religion began to study and write about it. People with a background in psychology often lack a solid understanding of the religious traditions they wish to study, and theologians may not be up to date on the latest developments in psychology.

This book is an introductory text on design science, intended to support both graduate students and researchers in structuring, undertaking and presenting design science work. It builds on established design science methods as well as recent work on presenting design science studies and ethical principles for design science, and also offers novel instruments for visualizing the results, both in the form of process diagrams and through a canvas format. While the book does not presume any prior...

Proper design of printed circuit boards can make the difference between a product passing emissions requirements during the first cycle or not. Traditional EMC design practices have been simply rule-based, that is, a list of rules-of-thumb are presented to the board designers to implement. When a particular rule-of-thumb is difficult to implement, it is often ignored. After the product is built, it will often fail emission requirements and various time consuming and costly add-ons are then re...

Dit boek geeft u een actueel beeld van de behandeling van chronische obstructieve longziekten (COPD). Deze editie, van Rik Gosselink en Marc Decramer, is de opvolger van het eind jaren tachtig verschenen boek Fysiotherapie bij CARA. Sinds die eerste druk hebben er binnen het vakgebied aanzienlijke ontwikkelingen plaatsgevonden die bijvoorbeeld ertoe leidden dat het begrip CARA verdween. Momenteel wordt een onderscheid gemaakt tussen astma en COPD op het gebied van etiologie, pathofysiologie e...

Dit nieuwe leerboek maakt een duidelijke koppeling tussen de theoretische basisconcepten en de klinische praktijk. Met behulp van diverse aansprekende klinische voorbeelden, verdiepingsstof en alledaagse casuïstiek behandelen de auteurs de eigenschappen en functies van honderden moleculen en cellen (zowel de hoofdrolspelers als de figuranten).

In Leerboek immunologie wordt het complexe immuunsysteem van de mens helder en overzichtelijk uiteengezet. In de eerste helft van het boek ligt de nad...

Waar gaat het om in de verpleging en in wat voor soort organisatie werken verpleegkundigen? Wat houdt methodisch werken in? Deze en nog veel meer vragen worden aan de hand van duidelijke voorbeelden beantwoord. Dit boek schetst een helder beeld van het vak waarin de mbo-verpleegkundige, na zijn of haar opleiding, komt te werken en geeft praktische handvatten voor de dagelijkse praktijk. Onderwerpen zoals het verpleegkundig proces, het verpleegplan en het zorgleefplan komen uitvoerig aan bod, ...