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UNINA9910154682903321 |
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Busch Nathan E. <1971-> |
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The politics of weapons inspections : assessing WMD monitoring and verification regimes / / Nathan E. Busch, Joseph F. Pilat |
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Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2017] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (401 pages) |
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Weapons of mass destruction |
Nuclear arms control - Verification |
Chemical arms control - Verification |
Biological arms control - Verification |
Disarmament - On-site inspection |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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What are monitoring and verification regimes? -- South Africa -- Iraq -- Libya -- Verifying global disarmament -- Applying lessons to the "difficult cases" : North Korea, Iran, and Syria -- Conclusion : strengthening monitoring and verification regimes. |
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Given recent controversies over suspected WMD programs in proliferating countries, there is an increasingly urgent need for effective monitoring and verification regimes—the international mechanisms, including on-site inspections, intended in part to clarify the status of WMD programs in suspected proliferators. Yet the strengths and limitations of these nonproliferation and arms control mechanisms remain unclear. How should these regimes best be implemented? What are the technological, political, and other limitations to these tools? What technologies and other innovations should be utilized to make these regimes most effective? How should recent developments, such as the 2015 Iran nuclear deal or Syria's declared renunciation and actual use of its chemical weapons, influence their architecture? The Politics of Weapons Inspections examines the successes, failures, and lessons that can be learned from WMD |
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monitoring and verification regimes in order to help determine how best to maintain and strengthen these regimes in the future. In addition to examining these regimes' technological, political, and legal contexts, Nathan E. Busch and Joseph F. Pilat reevaluate the track record of monitoring and verification in the historical cases of South Africa, Libya, and Iraq; assess the prospects of using these mechanisms in verifying arms control and disarmament; and apply the lessons learned from these cases to contemporary controversies over suspected or confirmed programs in North Korea, Iran, and Syria. Finally, they provide a forward-looking set of policy recommendations for the future. |
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UNINA9910830090403321 |
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Dynamics of environmental bioprocesses [[electronic resource] ] : modelling and simulation / / Jonathan B. Snape ... [et al.] |
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Weinheim ; ; New York, : VCH, c1995 |
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1-281-75864-7 |
9786611758646 |
3-527-61539-3 |
3-527-61538-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (524 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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628.168015118 |
628.5/01/5118 |
628.5015118 |
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Bioremediation - Mathematical models |
Water - Pollution - Mathematical models |
Bioremediation - Computer simulation |
Water - Pollution - Computer simulation |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Dynamics of Environmental Bioprocesses; Preface; Organisation of the Book; ISIM Simulation Software; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; |
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Nomenclature for Chapters 1 and 2; 1 Modelling Principles; 1.1 The Role of Modelling in Environmental Technology; 1.2 General Aspects of the Modelling Approach; 1.3 Model Classification; 1.3.1 Deterministic Models; 1.3.2 Stochastic Models; 1.3.3 Steady-State Models; 1.3.4 Dynamic Models; 1.4 General Modelling Procedure; 1.5 Simulation Tools; 1.6 ISIM; 1.7 Introductory ISIM Example: WASTE; 1.8 Formulation of Dynamic Balance Equations |
1.8.1 Mass Balance Procedures1.8.1.1 Case A . Continuous Stirred-Tank Reactor; 1.8.1.2 Case B . Tubular Reactor; 1.8.1.3 Case C . River with Eddy Current; 1.8.1.4 Rate of Accumulation Term; 1.8.1.5 Convective Flow Terms; 1.8.1.6 Production Rate; 1.8.1.7 Diffusion of Components; 1.8.1.8 Interphase Transport; 1.8.1.9 Case A . Waste Holding Tank: Total and Component Mass Balance Example; 1.8.1.10 Case B . The Plug-Flow Tubular Reactor; 1.8.1.11 Case C . Biological Hazard Room; 1.8.1.12 Case D . Lake Pollution Problem; 1.8.2 Energy Balancing |
1.8.2.1 Case A . Determining Heat Transfer Area or Cooling Water Temperature1.8.2.2 Case B . Heating of a Filling Tank; 1.9 Chemical and Biological Reaction Systems; 1.9.1 Modes of Reactor Operation; 1.9.1.1 Batch Reactors; 1.9.1.2 Semi-Continuous or Fed-Batch Operation; 1.9.1.3 Continuous Operation; 1.9.2 Reaction Kinetics; 1.9.2.1 Chemical Kinetics; 1.9.2.2 Biological Reaction Kinetics; 1.9.2.3 Simple Microbial Growth Kinetics; 1.9.2.4 Substrate Uptake Kinetics; 1.9.2.5 Substrate Inhibition of Growth; 1.9.2.6 Additional Forms of Inhibition; 1.9.2.7 Other Expressions for Specific Growth Rate |
1.9.2.8 Multiple-Substrate Kinetics1.9.2.9 Structured Kinetic Models; 1.9.2.10 Interacting Micro-Organisms; 1.10 Modelling of Bioreactor Systems; 1.10.1 Stirred Tank Reactors; 1.10.2 Modelling Tubular Plug-Flow Reactor Behaviour; 1.10.2.1 Steady-State Balancing; 1.10.2.2 Unsteady-State Balancing; 1.11 Mass Transfer Theory; 1.11.1 Phase Equilibria; 1.11.2 Interphase Mass Transfer; 1.11.2.1 Case A . Steady-State Tubular and Column Modelling; 1.11.3 Case Studies; 1.11.3.1 Case A . Aeration of a Tank of Water; 1.11.3.2 Case B . Biological Oxidation in an Aerated Tank |
1.11.3.3 Case C . Determination of Biological Oxygen Uptake Rates by a Dynamic Method1.11.4 Gas-Liquid Phase Transfer Across a Free Surface; 1.12 Diffusion and Biological Reaction in Solid Phase Biosystems; 1.12.1 External Mass Transfer; 1.12.2 Finite Difference Model for Internal Transfer; 1.12.3 Case Studies for Diffusion with Biological Reaction; 1.12.3.1 Case A . Estimation of Oxygen Diffusion Effects in a Biofilm; 1.12.3.2 Case B . Biofilm Nitrification; 1.13 Process Control; 1.14 Optimisation. Parameter Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis |
1.14.1 Case A . Estimation of Bioreaction Kinetic Parameters for Batch Degradation Using ESL and SIMUSOLV |
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Dynamic environmental processes are complex; the easiest and most effective way to understanding them lies through the disciplines of dynamic modelling and computer simulation.The prerequisite modelling fundamentals are presented in the first chapter in a manner comprehensible to students as well as to practising scientists and engineers. The second chapter describes the many environmental processes that lend themselves to modelling, for example pollution and wastewater treatment. The third part of the book provides 65 simulation examples both on the page and on an accompanying diskett |
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