Risk applications require a robust knowledge of many attributes of this seemingly simple subject. Using examples and case studies, this book teaches the reader the fundamental and subtle aspects of risk, regardless of the specific situation. The text allows the reader to understand risk analysis while not getting too involved in mathematics.

Correlating chemical structure with toxicity to humans and the environment, and the chemical structure of compounds to their hazardous properties, A Comprehensive Guide to the Hazardous Properties of Chemical Substances, 3rd Edition allows users to assess the toxicity of a substance even when no experimental data exists.

Describes twenty–one of the most important and commonly used additives

A Concise Introduction to Additives for Thermoplastic Polymers focuses on additives for thermoplastic polymers and describes 21 of the most important and commonly used additives from Plasticizers and Fillers to Optical Brighteners and Anti–Microbial additives.

Emphasizing Markovian structures and the techniques that occur in different models, A Course on Queueing Models discusses recent developments in the field, different methodological tools - some of which are not available elsewhere - and computational techniques. The book covers fundamentals on Markovian and regenerative non-Markovian models as well as computational methods, statistical inference, and simulation. It also presents network queues, discrete time queues, optimization, combinatorial treatments in transient analysis, general queues, duality in queues, and new computational methods. Each self-contained chapter features a discussion section that summarizes material and highlights special features.

The first part of this book (Chapters 1 and 2) provides an introduction and discusses basic concepts.  

Chapter 3 deals with the use of the basic human senses for identifying hazards.

Chapter 4 deals with different classes and categories of hazards.

This book offers information on the operating characteristics, efficiencies, design features, reliability, and maintenance of positive displacement and dynamic compressors. It covers a wide spectrum of dynamic and positive displacement process gas compressors.

A Real– Time Approach to Process Control provides the reader with both a theoretical and practical introduction to this increasingly important approach.

Integrating both theory and practice, this comprehensive book encompasses the most widely used acceptance sampling techniques. This second edition includes coverage of ISO 2859 and 3951 standards and the ASTM version (E2234) of MIL-STD-105E, along with a new section on credit-based sampling plans. It also stresses the role of sampling schemes with switching rules and extensively discusses accept zero plans, including TNT, credit-based, the Nelson monograph for c=0, and MIL-STD-1916. The authors introduce the fundamentals of probability theory and provide problems at the end of each chapter with solutions at the end of the text.