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  • WILDFIRE ARSON PREVENTION GUIDE
    RICHARD WOODS AFSM
    Wildfire arson is often considered an impossible crime to solve. Likewise, offenders frequently consider themselves undetectable. Many agencies often do not have the specialist skills necessary to investigate those responsible for serial wildfire ignitions. As such, perpetrators continue to light fires with little to no likelihood of being caught. An ongoing series of deliberat...

    $1,320.00

  • FUTURE DIMENSIONS OF WORLD FOOD AND POPULATION
    RICHARD G. WOODS
    Is it possible to feed those who now are hungry in the world in addition to the billions of people who will be born by the end of the century? Or are we headed for an inevitable Malthusian catastrophe because the task is impossible? What can developing countries do to increase agricultural self-reliance? What population dynamics accompany the transition from high birth and deat...

    $1,200.00

  • DISTINCT ELEMENT MODELLING IN GEOMECHANICS
    K.R. SAXENA / V.M. SHARMA / RICHARD WOODS
    Linear mathematical assumptions for procedures in other branches of engineering have little relevance for geoengineering, which must accommodate non-linear behaviors. Contributors to eight papers apply the breakthrough numerical modeling Distinct Element Method (Cundall, late 1960s). The design philosophy for structures or excavations in geotechnical engineering is different fr...

    $5,300.00

  • BEHIND HUMAN ERROR
    DAVID WOODS / SIDNEY DEKKER / RICHARD COOK / LEILA JOHANNESEN / NADINE SARTER
    Human error is cited over and over as a cause of incidents and accidents. The result is a widespread perception of a 'human error problem', and solutions are thought to lie in changing the people or their role in the system. For example, we should reduce the human role with more automation, or regiment human behavior by stricter monitoring, rules or procedures. But in practice,...

    $1,420.00