Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Covers such topics as anaesthetics, cannulation and injection techniques, and surgery. This book is useful to fisheries scientists, aquaculturists, and animal biochemists, physiologists and endocrinologists; it will provide researchers and students with a pertinent information source from theoretical and experimental angles.

Provides an introduction into the method of inverse spectra - a powerful method successfully employed in various branches of topology. This book includes surveys (including proofs of several statements) of the Hilbert cube and Hilbert space manifold theories. It also presents the developments of the Menger and Nobeling manifold theories.

This text indicates those variables which in general may need a better control. Examples illustrate the impact that those variables may have on various characteristics. A series of representative studies are presented so that insight can be obtained about the effects of these parameters.

Polymeric materials have a profound presence in chemical, pharmaceutical, biomedical, manufacturing, infrastructure, electronic, optical and information technologies. This book provides a comprehensive coverage of thermodynamic and thermal behaviours of various polymeric materials as well as methodologies of thermal analysis and calorimetry.

Surveys the research on Agent-based Computational Economics, the computational study of economic processes modeled as dynamic systems of interacting agents. This book covers such topics as: learning; empirical validation; network economics; social dynamics; financial markets; innovation and technological change; market design; and more.

Covers both basic and applied sciences in a rather specified area of pulp and paper manufacture. This book also covers the basic science of lignocellulose enzymology and plant genetics in many other contexts, and reviews the application of biotechnology in process and product development.

Of the plant species, woody plants produce the most abundant biomass resources, playing important roles in the suppression of carbon dioxide increase and supplying huge energy and resources. These work discusses the results of research for global resource and energy, biomass production and environmental problems from the aspect of woody science.

Biotechnology is in many respects shaping our life and affecting our means of production and the creation of jobs. This book reviews specific topics in biotechnology.

Considers the main physicochemical aspects of foam and foam films such as preparation, structure, and properties, giving an emphasis on foam stability. This book reveals the quantitative approach in treating foams that is based on foam film behaviour and the techniques for controlling the foam liquid content.

Offers empirical research and investigation of pure theories of investment in the sports and lotto markets. With overviews of scholarship on the industry side of racetrack and other betting markets to betting exchanges and market efficiencies, this work considers a variety of sports in countries around the world.

Reviews the area of telomerase research with a focus at the molecular and cellular levels. This volume is suitable for graduate students and postdocs in the telomerase field and for established investigators in other fields who are beginning to study telomerase in their particular research program.

Catastrophes under anesthesia have focused attention on the interaction between drugs, including prescribed and non-prescribed medications, including interactions with vitamins, herbal preparations, traditional remedies, and food supplements. This book summarizes the adverse effects of a large range of drugs used in anesthesia.

Focuses on the purpose of the conference to discuss the results of developments and prospect in science and technology of the field. This book covers the key issues and materials related to the conference such as: molecular assemblies in solutions; fine particles and colloidal dispersions; supramolecular organized films; and more.

Presents an account of the information related to adverse drug reactions and interactions from the clinician's point of view. This work describes reports of adverse drug effects, setting them into context in terms of clinical relevance and importance, and cross-referring to previous reports where necessary.

The conference on Functional Analysis and Its Applications took place in Lviv, Ukraine and was dedicated to Polish mathematician Stefan Banach. This book contains scientific contributions of the conference participants, mostly in the areas of functional analysis, general topology, operator theory and related topics.

Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is an adaptive form of cell death that plays a critical role in turnover of mitotic cells and various tissues in the adult, including epithelial cells, fibroblasts and various endocrine cells. This book details the molecular, biochemical and cellular mechanisms of apoptosis.

Includes chapters which provide the reader with insight into the inter-relationships of the function of different organelles in the sequences of events that lead to cellular dysfunction and degeneration in the aging human population.

Explains well test analysis and the use of advanced interpretation models. This book contains chapters such as: Principles of Transient Testing, Analysis Methods, Wellbore Conditions, Effect of Reservoir Heterogeneities on Well Responses, Effect of Reservoir Boundaries on Well Responses, Multiple Well Testing, and Application to Gas Reservoirs.

Plant biotechnology offers important opportunities for agriculture, horticulture, and the pharmaceutical and food industry. This work discusses the production of transgenic plants resistant to biotic and abiotic stress, the use of transgenic plants as bioreactors, and the use of plant genomics for genetic improvement and gene cloning.

Brassica crop species and their allies are important sources of edible roots, stems, leaves, buds and inflorescences, as well as of edible or industrial oils, condiments and forage. This book combines and presents both the basic and applied biological aspects of the Brassica species.

The field of statistical physics has undergone a spectacular development in years. This book covers topics that include DNA migration, wetting, chemical waves, granular media, molecular motors, biological pattern formation and motion, as well as practical problems such as heart diagnosis, internet traffic jamming, oil recovery and econophysics.

This comprehensive reference covers advancements in two types of CCC machines: the high speed CCCs without rotary seals and with coiled spools and centrifugal partition chromatographs (CPC) with rotary seals and interconnected channels.

The geometry of power exponents includes the Newton polyhedron, normal cones of its faces, power and logarithmic transformations. This work demonstrates the efficiency of the calculus with regard to several complicated problems from Robotics, Celestial Mechanics, Hydrodynamics and Thermodynamics.

Proposes that usage-based charging schemes are essential to generate the incentives necessary for efficient operation of multiservice networks. The development of network technology is enabling sophisticated new services and applications which demand new charging models. The same technology provides the means to operate the right charging schemes.

Presents a checklist for EU sustainable landscape management, which is intended to serve both as an analytical tool of reference as well as a design tool for local, regional and European policy making on sustainable developments. This work includes organic agriculture to find out how organic agriculture contributes to the rural landscape.

Deals with quantum coherence and decoherence.

Since the sense of vision plays a primary role in animal biology, the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying vision have a high degree of sensitivity and versatility. The aims of visual transduction research are to determine which molecules participate, and understand how they act to produce the electrical responses of photoreceptor cells.

Data fusion is a rapidly developing technology which involves the combination of information supplied by several NDT (Non-Destructive Test) sensors to provide a more complete understandable picture of structural integrity. This text provides an introduction to data fusion processes.

For the past 3.8 billion years, the geochemistry of the Earth's surface - its atmosphere, waters and exposed crust - has been determined by the presence of biota. This book traces the origin and impact of life on the geochemistry of the Earth's surface, with special emphasis on the human impact on global biogeochemical cycles.