Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Addresses the chemist and engineer in industrial research and process development, where competitive pressures put a premium on scale-up by large factors to cut development time. This book forges fundamental kinetics into a practical tool by presenting various methods for elucidation of mechanisms and reduction of mathematical complexity.

Discusses the practical use of formalization of low pressure lubrication. This work concentrates on the developments to journal and thrust bearings and includes subjects such as: the dynamic behavior of plain and tilting-pads; and, the positive and negative effects of non-cyclindricity and shape defects resulting from manufacturing or operation.

Explores concepts and techniques used to develop an insight into the early record of biologic diversification and the preservational record of that diversification during the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian transition. This book addresses key issues related to the Cambrian diversification of multicellular animals.

The field of membrane separation technology is in a state of rapid growth and innovation. This book presents the principles and applications of a variety of membrane separation processes from the perspectives of investigators who have made important contributions to their fields.

Deals with the technology of distributed computing. This work covers essential and technically relevant issues in grid computing. It is written by academic and industrial experts who have developed or used grid computing. It includes proposed solutions that have been tested in real life applications.

A collection of eleven articles, which deal with special topics in Multivariate Approximation and Interpolation. The material discussed here has applications in many areas of Applied Mathematics, such as in Computer Aided Geometric Design, in Mathematical Modelling, in Signal and Image Processing and in Machine Learning, to mention a few.

Contains approximately 60,000 entries, constituting the most extensive listing of Russian, English and Latin names of plants, trees, shrubs, fungi, and lichens. This dictionary also includes a large number of botanical and biological terms frequently occurring in Russian botanical literature.

Featuring papers presented at the LB9 conference, held in Potsdam, Germany, in August 2000, this volume is dedicated to the techniques and methodologies for studying interfacial layers. It also demonstrates Electrochemical methods as tools for developing sensors, in particular miniaturised pH or gas sensors.

Includes papers originally presented at the 8th annual Computational Neuroscience meeting (CNS'99) held in July of 1999 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. These papers range across levels of scale from cellular mechanisms to cognitive brain studies. The subjects of the research include different preparations from invertebrates to humans.

Provides a comprehensive set of reviews of literature on the economics of nonmarket voluntary transfers. This book reviews the foundations of the field, with a sequence of chapters that present the hard core of the theoretical and empirical analyses of giving, reciprocity and altruism in economics. It also offers comprehensive and surveys.

Offers knowledge regarding the high pressure processing aspects combined with that about modeling, design and the operation of safe and reliable high pressure plants and equipment. This book includes topics such as high pressure in general, the thermodynamics and kinetics of the fluids involved, and the design of high pressure equipment.

The first symposium on Access in Nanoporous Materials was held in 1995. Since then, impressive progress has been achieved in the area of novel self-assembled mesoporous materials, their synthesis, characterization and applications. This volume contains papers which were delivered at the symposium held in 2000.

In order to provide opportunity for crossfertilization the Federation of European Zeolite Associations (FEZA) decided to organise a conference, where researchers from academia and industry can meet, exchange ideas, show and discuss research efforts and results concerning the development of environmentally friendly processes and technologies.

A guide to liquid chromatography as a tool for isolating and purifying proteins. Both classical and modern methods are presented in detail, with examples involving conventional, medium- and high-pressure techniques. The text avoids history and theory, focusing on more practical aspects.

The rapid development of molecular biology has been mirrored by the rapid development of computer hardware and software. This book covers applications of computational techniques to biological problems. It is suitable for beginning graduate students.

Progressive failure has been a classical problem in the field of geotechnical engineering and has attracted considerable attention in connection with slope stability and foundation problems. The International Symposium on Deformation and Progressive Failure in Geomechanics provided an opportunity for discussing advances in this area.

Includes chapters based on papers presented in the symposium entitled 'Chemical Ecology and Phytochemistry of Forest Ecosystems'. This book includes a collection of papers presented at the 44th Annual meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America. It includes discussions on genomics research in forest health.

Contains articles from experts in diverse areas of biomedical research.

This text presents papers reflecting the wide range of theories and applications of network models. Several chapters model issues in the domains of telecommunications and transportation.

Starts with a detailed description of ICP-MS, including quadruple-based, sector-based and time-of-flight instruments. This work reviews the ICP-MS literature to outline both the strengths and limitations of the technique. It also demonstrates how these limitations can be reduced and/or eliminated by combining various techniques with ICP-MS.

Covers the basic aspects of carbonate minerals and their interaction with aqueous solutions, modern marine carbonate formation and sediments, carbonate diagenesis, the global cycle of carbon and human intervention, and the role of sedimentary carbonates as indicators of stability and changes in the Earth's surface environment.

The oldest use of rare earths in catalysis deals with the structural and chemical stabilization of the zeolites for petroleum cracking applications. This volume includes chapters that are devoted primarily to catalysis. It also discusses the background and role of cerium oxide for post-treatment of exhaust gases for pollution control.

Leads the reader from reaction mechanisms and kinetics to the technology of making furfural by various old and new processes, using conventional raw materials or sulfite waste liquor. This book discusses a wide variety of derivatives, dealing with polytetrahydrofuran, an important building block of stretchable synthetic fibers.

Looks adaptation as a natural tool to cope with real-time changes in the dynamical behaviour of signals and systems. This work presents papers covering the following subjects: Model reference and predictive control; Multiple model control; Adaptive control I/II; Adaptive control and learning; Learning; and more.

Contains the papers presented at the AIA'2001 Workshop on 'Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture', held at the Hotel Eben in Budapest and the Campus of the Szent Istvan University Godollo, Hungary, on 6-8 June 2001.

Periodic control has reached a notable degree of maturity thanks to developments over the years. The IFAC workshop on Periodic Control Systems (PSYCO 2001) was held at the Villa Erba Congress Centre in Cernobbio-Como (Italy), August 27-28 2001, aimed at presenting the full picture of the field.

Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time Control 1998, seventh symposium in a successful series in this field, had a strong wind of change bringing more consideration of the roles of learning, evolution, hybrid systems and so on under many diverse labels and for many different systems and circumstances.

Analyzes the Chinese oil market and the pressure on Beijing to reform policies which constrain China's ability to meet soaring demand and to pay for crucial imports at a time of growing political and economic uncertainties. This work also reminds the reader of the perennial difficulty in meeting widely disparate economic and energy needs.

Contains 172 alphabetically arranged articles describing the modelling and simulation of physical systems. This encyclopedia places emphasis on mathematical models and their various forms. It also discusses other types of models, such as knowledge-based, linguistics-based, graphical and data-based.