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The rising tide of threats, from financial cybercrime to asymmetric military conflicts, demands greater sophistication in tools and techniques of law enforcement, commercial and domestic security professionals, and terrorism prevention. Concentrating on computational solutions to determine or anticipate an adversary's intent, Adversarial Reasoning:...

An increase in major natural disasters-and the growing number of damaging events involving gas, electric, water, and other utilities-has led to heightened concerns about utility operations and public safety. Due to today's complex, compliance-based environment, utility managers and planners often find it difficult to plan for the action needed to...

Developed to comply with the fifth edition of the AASHTO LFRD Bridge Design Specifications [2010]- Simplified LRFD Bridge Design is "How To" use the Specifications book. Most engineering books utilize traditional deductive practices, beginning with in-depth theories and progressing to the application of theories. The inductive method in the book...

This text is intended for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in mathematics who have taken an initial course in discrete mathematics or graph theory. The text introduces a number of discrete structures, such as hypergraphs, finite topologies, preorders, simplicial complexes, and order ideals of monomials, that most graduate students in...

Revised and updated, Chemical Reagents for Protein Modification, Third Edition is an encyclopedic work describing the many approaches to the site-specific modification of proteins. More than 2,000 references are cited describing the development of the various reagents. This book explores how the use of site-specific protein modification relates to...

In countries with democratic traditions, police interactions with the mentally ill are usually guided by legislative mandates giving police discretion and possibly resulting in referrals for assistance and treatment. But all too frequently, the outcome of these interactions is far less therapeutic and leads to a cycle of arrests and ultimately...