Spend your few moment to read a book even only few pages. Reading book is not obligation and force for everybody. When you don't want to read, you can get punishment from the publisher. Read a book becomes a choice of your different characteristics. Many people with reading habit will always be enjoyable to read, or on the contrary. For some reasons, this understanding the academic role a handb...

The Practitioner's Handbooks are produced by the AASHTO Center for Environmental Excellence. The Handbooks provide practical advice on a range of environmental issues that arise during the planning, development, and operation of transportation projects. The Handbooks are primarily intended for use by project managers and others who are responsible for coordinating compliance with a wide range o...

Th is review exam ines th e use of vigor tests for tree s e eds . It suggests th at precise evaluations of th e s e tests and th e ir application w ith s eeds of w oody plants is not yet possib le . Th is is due to th e w ide genetic variation, prim arily m anifested in variab le m aturity and dorm ancy, th at exists in m ost tree s e ed lots. Sensitive m easurem ents of germ ination rate durin...

Hemorheology is multidisciplinary and strongly needs intuition, associative skills of synthesizing knowledge. Therefore, we believe that the education of its fundamentals is an important task. Opportunities to get experiences, collect ideas and increase knowledge in the field of hemorheology include conferences and congresses, summerschools, workshops, laboratory visits, study trips, reading re...

Introducing metrics to a software development organization is a complex process that begins with the difficult task of selecting a high pay-off basic suite of metrics to be implemented. The selection process is made more difficult by the fact that information on OO metrics and metrification in general is still found primarily in abstract research journals. The journals are not always accessible...

BACKGROUND Numerous dermatoses affects children, depending on age, region and socioeconomic status. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of pediatric dermatoses at the Dermatology Department of a University Hospital, involving the diagnosis, age and sex. METHODS Epidemiologic cross-sectional study carried out in the period between July 2006 and December 2007. There were reviewed the handbo...

The Cambridge Handbooks on Construction Robotics series focuses on the implementation of automation and robot technology to renew the construction industry and to arrest its declining productivity. The series is intended to give professionals, researchers, lecturers, and students basic conceptual and technical skills and implementation strategies to manage, research, or teach the implementation...