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The last decades have shown a remarkable increase in the number of heavy rains, typhoons and earthquakes. These natural phenomena are the main causes for geohazards. As a result the mitigation of geohazards has become a major research topic in geotechnical engineering, and in re…
Hard drives and disk management receive scant attention from the industry press, yet recent surveys have identified disk failure as the #1 source of server downtime. Combine this fact with the skyrocketing TCO of data storage management, and it is apparent that server disk manag…
Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics Ii
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Over the past several decades, the theme of supramolecular chemistry (SC) has permeated nearly all aspects of chemical endeavor. Not surprisingly, it has also pervaded the field of solvent extraction (SX), inspiring the framework for this volume of Ion Exchange and Solvent Extra…
Presenting key advancements in the areas of ion exchange and solvent extraction, this volume discusses the growth in the field and the synergies it has created with a myriad of scientific endeavours, from decontamination to deionization, mining to microelectronics and drug deliv…
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