Monitoring for Gaseous Pollutants in Museum Environments
Monitoring for Gaseous Pollutants in Museum Environments

Author: Cecily M. Grzywacz

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2006-09-01

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 0892368519

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With an emphasis on passive sampling, this volume focuses on the environmental monitoring for common gaseous pollutants. It offers an overview of the history and nature of pollutants of concern to museums and the challenges facing scientists, conservators, and managers seeking to develop target pollutant guidelines to protect cultural property.

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Genetic Algorithms and their Applications
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Genetic Algorithms and their Applications

Author: John J. Grefenstette

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2014-01-02

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1317760247

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Computer solutions to many difficult problems in science and engineering require the use of automatic search methods that consider a large number of possible solutions to the given problems. This book describes recent advances in the theory and practice of one such search method, called Genetic Algorithms. Genetic algorithms are evolutionary search techniques based on principles derived from natural population genetics, and are currently being applied to a variety of difficult problems in science, engineering, and artificial intelligence.

The Korean War
The Korean War

Author: Stanley Sandler

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-10-17

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0813157218

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The Korean War has been termed "The Forgotten War" or the "Unknown War." It is a conflict which never assumed the mythic character of the American Civil War or World War II. However, this book asserts, it would be impossible to understand the Cold War and indeed post 1945 global history without knowledge of the Korean War. Providing a history of the Korean peninsula before the war and including a detailed analysis of the fighting itself, The Korean War goes beyond the battlefield to deal with the war in the air, ground attack, and air evacuation. The study also evaluates the contributions of the UN naval forces, the impact of the war on various homefronts and issues such as defectors, opposition to the war, racial segregation and integration, POWs and the media. Recently-released Soviet documents are used to assess the role of China, the Soviet Union, North and South Korea and the allied forces in the conflict. This fascinating work offers a unique analysis of the Korean War and will be invaluable to students of twentieth-century history, particularly those concerned with American and Pacific history.