1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557155203321

Titolo

21st Century Surface Science : a Handbook

Pubbl/distr/stampa

IntechOpen

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910132304403321

Titolo

Handbook of oil spill science and technology / / edited by Merv Fingas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley and Sons, Inc., , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-5231-2358-3

1-118-98998-8

1-118-98996-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (724 p.)

Disciplina

628.1/6833

Soggetti

Oil spills - Prevention

Oil spills - Cleanup

Oil spills - Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Author Biographies; Preface; Part I Risk Analysis; Chapter 1 Risk Analysis and Prevention; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Executive Summary; 1.3 Oil Spill Risk Analysis; 1.3.1 Defining "Oil Spill Risk"; 1.3.2 Factors That Determine the Probability of Spill Occurrence; 1.3.3 Probability Distributions of Spill Volume; 1.3.4 Determining the Probable Locations and Timing of Spills; 1.3.5 Factors That Determine the Consequences/Impacts of a Spill; 1.3.6 Spill Impacts: The Effects of Spill Location Type; 1.3.7 Measuring



Oil Spill Impacts

1.3.8 Interpreting Risk for Policy-Making1.4 Overview of Oil Spill Prevention; 1.4.1 Basic Strategies for Spill Prevention; 1.4.2 Implementation of Spill Prevention Measures; 1.4.3 Effectiveness of Spill Prevention; 1.4.4 Spill Fines and Penalties as Deterrents; References; Part II Oil Properties; Chapter 2 Oil Physical Properties: Measurement and Correlation; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Bulk Properties of Crude Oil and Fuel Products; 2.2.1 Density and API Gravity; 2.2.2 Dynamic Viscosity; 2.2.3 Surface and Interfacial Tensions; 2.2.4 Flash Point; 2.2.5 Pour Point; 2.2.6 Sulfur Content

2.2.7 Water Content2.2.8 Evaluation of the Stability of Emulsions Formed from Brine and Oils and Oil Products; 2.2.9 Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Dispersants on an Oil; 2.2.10 Adhesion; 2.3 Hydrocarbon Groups; 2.3.1 Saturates; 2.3.2 Aromatics; 2.3.3 Resins; 2.3.4 Asphaltenes; 2.4 Quality Assurance and Control; 2.5 Effects of Evaporative Weathering on Oil Bulk Properties; 2.5.1 Weathering; 2.5.2 Preparing Evaporated (Weathered) Samples of Oils; 2.5.3 Quantifying Equation(s) for Predicting Evaporation; References; Part III Oil Composition and Properties

Chapter 3 Introduction to Oil Chemistry and Properties3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Composition of Oil; 3.2.1 SARA; 3.2.2 Sulfur Compounds; 3.2.3 Oxygen Compounds; 3.2.4 Nitrogen Compounds; 3.2.5 Metals; 3.2.6 Resins; 3.2.7 Asphaltenes; 3.3 Properties of Oil; References; Chapter 4 Vegetable Oil Spills: Oil Properties and Behavior; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Oils; 4.3 Historical Spills; 4.4 Aquatic Toxicity; 4.5 Properties of the Oils; 4.6 Behavior in the Environment; 4.7 Oxidation, Biodegradation, and Polymerization; 4.8 Spill Countermeasures; 4.9 Biofuels; 4.10 Conclusions; References

Part IV Oil AnalysisChapter 5 Chromatographic Fingerprinting Analysis of Crude Oils and Petroleum Products; 5.1 Introduction; 5.1.1 Crude Oils and Refined Petroleum Products; 5.1.2 Chemical Components of Petroleum; 5.2 Introduction to Oil Analysis Techniques; 5.2.1 GC; 5.2.2 GC with Mass Spectrometry; 5.2.3 Ancillary Oil Fingerprinting Techniques; 5.3 Methodology of Oil Fingerprinting Analysis; 5.3.1 Oil Sample Preparation and Separation; 5.3.2 Identification and Quantitation of Target Petroleum Hydrocarbons; 5.3.3 Oil Type Screening by GC-FID; 5.3.4 Aliphatic Hydrocarbons in Petroleum

5.3.5 Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Petroleum

Sommario/riassunto

Provides a scientific basis for the cleanup and for the assessment of oil spillsEnables Non-scientific officers to understand the science they use on a daily basisMulti-disciplinary approach covering fields as diverse as biology, microbiology, chemistry, physics, oceanography and toxicologyCovers the science of oil spills from risk analysis to cleanup and through the effects on the environmentIncludes case studies examining and analyzing spills, such as Tasman Spirit oil spill on the Karachi Coast, and provides lessons to prevent these in the future



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955337003321

Autore

Kennedy Graeme D.

Titolo

Structure and meaning in English : a guide for teachers / / Graeme Kennedy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-138-17454-8

1-317-86972-9

1-315-83605-X

1-317-86971-0

1-281-38478-X

9786611384784

1-4082-1172-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (407 p.)

Disciplina

428.0071

428.24071

Soggetti

English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers

English language - Grammar - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2003 by Pearson Education Limited"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Grammar and grammars; Studying grammar; Teaching grammar to learners of English; Chapter 1: The sounds of English; Objectives; 1.1 Speech sounds; 1.1.1 Sounds and symbols; 1.1.2 Practice in reading a phonemic transcription; 1.1.3 Food for thought on English spelling; 1.1.4 Phonemes and allophones; 1.2 The speech process and the organs of speech; 1.2.1 The airstream; 1.2.2 Voicing; 1.2.3 The oral-nasal process; 1.2.4 Advising learners; 1.3 English consonants; 1.3.1 Place of articulation

1.3.2 Manner of articulation1.3.3 Voicing; 1.4 English vowels; 1.5 The distribution of English sounds; 1.5.1 Frequency of English phonemes; 1.5.2 Redundancy; 1.5.3 The positions that phonemes can occur in; 1.5.4 English consonant clusters; 1.5.5 Vowel sequences; 1.5.6 The effect of the environment in which sounds occur; 1.5.6.1 Linking; 1.5.6.2 Rhoticity; 1.5.6.3 Elision; 1.5.6.4 Assimilation; 1.5.6.5 Vowel



length; 1.6 Prosodic features; 1.6.1 Stress; 1.6.1.1 Function word stress; 1.6.1.2 Content word stress; 1.6.1.3 Sentence stress and rhythm; 1.6.2 Intonation; 1.6.2.1 Intonation patterns

1.6.2.2 Functions of intonation patterns1.7 Accents; 1.8 Learners' difficulties with English sounds; 1.8.1 Common problems; 1.8.2 Predicting pronunciation difficulties for learners of English; Chapter 2: Words and their meanings; Objectives; 2.1 Categories of words; 2.1.1 What is a word?; 2.1.2 Function words and content words; 2.1.3 Word classes; 2.1.4 Word lemmas; 2.1.5 Word families; 2.2 Word meanings and functions; 2.2.1 Sense; 2.2.2 Reference; 2.2.3 Connotation; 2.2.4 Word associations; 2.2.5 Semantic components of words; 2.2.6 Prototypes; 2.2.7 Extended meaning; 2.2.8 Polysemy

2.2.9 Homonymy2.2.10 Synonymy; 2.2.11 Antonymy; 2.2.12 Hyponymy; 2.3 Categories of meaning; 2.3.1 Propositional meaning; 2.3.2 Modal meaning; 2.3.3 Social meaning; 2.4 Word structure and word formation; 2.4.1 Roots and affixes; 2.4.2 Types of affixes; 2.4.2.1 Inflectional affixes; 2.4.2.2 Derivational affixes; 2.4.3 Greek and Latin affixes; 2.4.4 Word formation; 2.4.4.1 Borrowing; 2.4.4.2 Word combinations; 2.4.4.3 Blends; 2.4.4.4 Conversion; 2.4.4.5 Abbreviations; 2.4.4.6 Acronyms; 2.5 Word compounds and collocations; 2.5.1 Compounds; 2.5.2 Collocations; 2.6 Word distribution

2.6.1 High frequency words2.6.2 Academic words; 2.6.3 Technical words; 2.6.4 Low frequency words; 2.6.5 Information on word frequency from the British National Corpus; 2.6.6 An academic word list (AWL); Chapter 3: Simple sentence parts, structures and functions; Objectives; 3.1 Utterances and sentences; 3.2 Constituents and structures of simple sentences; 3.2.1 Word order; 3.2.2 Phrases; 3.2.3 Clause elements; 3.2.3.1 Subject; 3.2.3.2 Predicate; 3.3 Clause patterns; 3.3.1 Major clause patterns; 3.3.1.1 Pattern 1: SV; 3.3.1.2 Pattern 2: SVO; 3.3.1.3 Pattern 3: SVC; 3.3.1.4 Pattern 4: SVA

3.3.1.5 Pattern 5: SVOO

Sommario/riassunto

Structure and Meaning in English is designed to help teachers of English develop an understanding of those aspects of English which are especially relevant for learners who speak other languages. Using corpus research, Graeme Kennedy cuts to the heart of what is important in the teaching of English. The book provides pedagogically- relevant information about English at the levels of sounds, words, sentences and texts. It draws attention to those linguistic items and processes which research has shown are typically hard for learners and which lead to errors.Each chapter