Brings together the techniques of waste processing and recycling, their applications with examples and economic potentials of the processes. This work describes the techniques for the recovery of valuable resources from mineral and metallurgical wastes. It also presents emerging technologies for met[...]
Variance Components Estimation deals with the evaluation of the variation between observable data or classes of data. This is an up-to-date, comprehensive work that is both theoretical and applied. Topics include ML and REML methods of estimation; Steepest-Acent, Newton-Raphson, scoring, and EM algo[...]
The area of "Psychometrics", a field encompassing the statistical methods used in Psychological and educational testing, has become a very important and active area of research, evident from the large body of literature that has been developed in the form of books, volumes and research papers. Mains[...]
BREEAM was launched in 1990 to provide an environmental assessment and labelling scheme for buildings. This publication describes the version for offices.[...]