Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Traditionally society has regulated hazardous industries by detailed references to engineering codes, standards and hardware requirements. This guide to safety and risk analysis in Marine Systems identifies instances where traditional techniques fall short, and highlights uncertainties that manifest within risk analysis.

Intended for professionals and students involved in designing, manufacturing, and specifying products and systems that use batteries, this book provides data on specific battery types, manufacturers and suppliers. It offers coverage of different types of battery, ranging from minute button cells to large installations.

Provides an overview of plant names, including over 12,500 terms covering 298 families, 2,787 genera and 9,427 species which are listed in the alphabetical order of their botanical names. This dictionary offers a presentation of the common names in the four languages. It has more than 17,250 English names.

Provides an overview of the area of research covering various aspects of the separation of isotopes of biogenic elements, from the value of isotope effects to their practical use with the purpose of extraction from the natural mixture of the highly concentrated isotopes. This book is of interest to scientists, engineers, and technical workers.

Contains contributions from the Femtochemistry VII conference held in Washington DC, 17-22 July 2005. This book covers various subjects, including imaging, structural dynamics, and spectroscopies, fundamentals of reaction dynamics, salvation phenomenta, liquids and interfaces, aggregates/particles/surfaces, and protein dynamics and photobiology.

Contains articles about advancements in the development of accounting and its related disciplines from an international perspective. This book welcomes traditional and alternative approaches, including theoretical research, empirical research, applied research, and cross-cultural studies.

Presents work from six different groups working on various aspects of cycloaddition chemistry. This title gives us an account of the chemistry of B-alkoxy-g-pyrones and related species. It discusses advances in rhodium carbenoid chemistry and the unusual cycloaddition processes possible with these intermediates.

This title publishes articles about developments in accounting from an international perspective. This serial examines how these affect the financial reporting and disclosure practices, taxation, management accounting practices, and auditing of multinational corporations.

This fourth volume in the series on biochemistry looks at foundations in modern biochemistry. Topics covered include: the genetic solution; the genetic basis of development; DNA repair; evolution in an RNA world; nitrogen fixation; solute channels; viruses; biochemistry in retrospect and propspect.

Endocrine disease-related genes have been characterized and mutations in these genes have helped explain endocrine disorders. This work talks about the advances in this field. It focuses on aspects of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis including GnRH and GH gene regulation, molecular aspects of insulin, and, insulin-like growth factors and glucagon.

It is clear that electron transfer chemistry is one of the most active areas of chemical study. This title helps scientists who are developing knowledge in this area to describe their research findings. It is suitable for those interested in learning about breakthroughs in this area of chemical research.

This text covers such topics as quantum molecular similarity measures, the similarity of atoms in molecules, and molecular similiarity measures of conformational changes and electron density deformations.

The study of the structure of molecular systems is an enduring area of research. This series is devoted to bringing together articles from leading workers in the field that draw together recent theoretical and experimental results and advances in understanding.

Talks about internals of Real Application Clusters (RAC) operations, cache fusion, fusion recovery processes and the fast reconfiguration of RAC. This book discusses Oracle9i features in a RAC implementation with respect to usage and design considerations, as well as those parameters that are and are not applicable.

Approaches data mining from the perspective of IT professionals using Microsoft data management technologies. This work explains the data mining capabilities in Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 database, Commerce Server, among others. It also details the Microsoft OLE DB for Data Mining standard, and gives readers best practices for using them.

A collection of review articles by experts on structural, synthetic and biological activities, as well as biosynthetic studies relating to bioactive natural products. Papers illustrate the plant kingdom's wide range of natural products and their structural diversity.

This collection is to present the earliest textbooks that grew out of the original development of automatic control, and the many others that followed very soon, in various countries, and in various languages. We set out to collect information on one to four books from each country, including a brief description of the background, history and contents of the book, a picture of the front page, and copies of one to a few "typical" pages. With the latter, we intended to show pages that contain an equation or figure, easily recognizable to anyone familiar with control, embedded in the text written in one of the many languages and, in some cases, in various scripts. The present collection contains 62 entries from 21 countries.

Containing 71 articles, this title provides a review of developments in the field of systems and control. It also provides coverage of the theory and application of systems in specific areas: modelling and simulation, traffic control and biological systems and measurement and software engineering.

The lipids of cellular membranes not only serve roles in controlling structure and fluidity of membrane, but are increasingly recognized for their roles as signalling molecules and modifiers of membrane protein function. This book provides a comprehensive review of specific membrane lipid mediators and their roles in aging and age-related disease.

Presents surveys of the important topics in urban economics. This work contains 6 surveys on locational analysis, 5 surveys of specific urban markets, and 5 surveys of government policy issues.

The secondary aim of this book is to stimulate the development of new and improved standardized stationary phases and columns, in order to improve the reproducibility of separations, as well as the range of applications.

Fish farming has increased in status equal to cattle farming as a source of food for mankind. Reflecting the changes in both quantity of production and technology in Japanese aquaculture, this work includes aquaculture species and discussions on marine ranching and biotechnology.

Covers the research advances in the field of informatics applied to conceptual stages in the generation of artifacts - in particular, buildings. This work addresses the question how far and in what ways creative design can be intelligently automated.