Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Biotechnology in many respects shapes our life and affects our means of production and the creation of jobs. This series intends to provide readers with the knowledge, by reviewing specific topics in biotechnology in each issue.

Describes the universe from a local (bottom-up or synthetical) point of view, and covers the whole spectrum, from the recursive to the arithmetical sets. This book presents a detailed picture of the computable sets from the perspective of theoretical computer science. It is suitable for those interested in complexity and computability theory.

Shows how supramolecular complexity of cell organization can dramatically alter the functions of individual macromolecules within a cell. This book explains the emergence of new functions which appear as a consequence of supramolecular complexity in terms of physical chemistry. It puts emphasis on dynamic physical studies of biological events.

At the heart of Apple's hugely popular iLife software suite - iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, GarageBand, and iTunes - is QuickTime, the powerful media engine that drives elegant applications for managing movies, images, and audio files. This guide is suitable for developers using popular RAD tools such a Visual Basic .NET, C#, and Visual Basic 6.

Covers topics relating reactive atmospheric chemistry, pathways for material transport within the atmosphere, and exchanges with the land, biota, oceans, and solid earth. This book focuses on species of relevance to global climate and global chemical budgets, as well as on the application of geochemical methods.

Covers the uses of zinc oxide within the fields of materials science and engineering. This work covers topics such as: advances in bulk, thin film and nanowire growth of ZnO; the characterization of the resulting material; improvements in device processing modules; the role of impurities and defects on materials properties; and more.

Looks at porosities in various forms of carbon, and the modern-day materials which use activated carbons - including fibres, clothes, felts and monoliths. This book explores the use of activated carbon in its granular and powder forms to facilitate usage in liquid and gaseous media. It is useful for material scientists, chemists and engineers.

"Advances in Accounting" was founded to provide a forum for discourse among and between academic and practising accountants on issues of significance to the future of the discipline. This volume focuses on the "value added" by accounting information and audit services.

This text reflects the growing diversity of perspectives, methods and insights currently used in social stratification research. Topics include: real and symbolic boundaries of social stratification; who benefits from rapidly changing markets; and immigration, marginalization and exclusion.

Contains papers presented at the 1996 Center for International Education and Research in Accounting Conference. The theme of transitional and developing economies struggling with the introduction and implementation of international accounting standards is evident throughout the papers.

This encyclopaedia was compiled to add to the literature and understanding of historic events leading up to the recent efforts of a regional peace process and to the projected evolution of a Middle East/North Africa economic community.

Shows the changes in the transportation arena. This title presents a diverse view of transportation economics, in a field that is forever changing as regulations change, economic growth continues, and our econometric and modeling methods become increasingly refined.

Outlines the techniques required to undertake a detailed analysis of the cash flow dynamics of the business from both a historical and forward looking perspective. This book explains how to: determine appropriate cash flow figures from pro forma financial statements; and interpret detailed cash flow forecasts.

There has been a major growth in research on how memory is used in everyday life. This volume aims to represent a reaction to traditional laboratory-bound studies of the first half of the century which sought to identify the fundamental principles of learning and memory through the use of materials and methods totally divorced from the real world.

Employs the analytic techniques based on the solution of the Neumann Problem as the main tool. This book emphasises on results where these methods are particularly important.

Stimulus class formation has been studied independently by two groups of researchers. One group has come out of a learning theory approach, while the second has developed out of a behavior analytic tradition. This book is aimed at further establishing the ties between these two research areas.

A collection that initiates explorations of the human mind via the technologies the mind produces. It covers such topics as: using technology to empower the cognitively impaired; the ethics versus aesthetics of technology; and, the externalisation of emotive and affective life and its special dialectic ('mirror') effects.

Contains contributors who work on sensory-motor aging and presents a large range of affiliations and backgrounds including psychology, neurobiology, cognitive sciences, kinesiology, neuropsychology, neuropharmacology, motor performance, physical therapy, exercise science, and human development.

Aims to give an integrative approach of time sense and to focus the analysis on temporal factors in the processing of movement, trying to link temporal perception studies in the final common pathway, that is motion. This work also seeks to give some clues of human brain integrative processes at higher levels.

Contains papers presented at a workshop that was organized to develop a coherent view of the results accomplished in the field of intelligent and adaptive user interfaces, and organize basic ideas which might lead to a more general methodology for adaptivity in order to overcome the problem of specialized, non-generalizable solutions.

This volume contains selected and edited papers from the 7th European Conference on Eye Movements held in Durham on August 31-September 3, 1993.

Electrochemical reactions make significant contributions to organic synthesis either in the laboratory or on an industrial scale. This book presents a logical development of reactions and mechanisms in organic electrochemistry. It is also a reference guide to the literature.

A biosensor is a device that has a biological sensing element either intimately connected to or integrated within a transducer. Biosensors represent a trend in the diagnostics industry. This work talks about the principles and applications of biosensors and discusses ways that can be used to fabricate biosensors for a variety of applications.

Deals with fundamental perceptual processes resulting from the simple localization of an object in space or from the temporal determination of an event within a series of events. This book includes two sections that are devoted to the perception of unimodal spatial and temporal events.

This is a compilation of the best of "Jim Blinn's Corner". Jim Blinn shares useful graphics tip and tricks.

Includes chapters that describe the interlingua texts used in knowledge-based machine translation, the grammar formalism embodied in the system, the grammars and lexicons and their roles in the translation process, the process of source language analysis, and the generator, which produces target language sentences.

Shows IT professionals how to overcome the social crisis that has resulted from the use of information technology. This work also shows managers how to take charge of key aspects of their IT operations and follow an ethically, and legally correct path to success. It includes instructions on how to accomplish objectives of privacy and security.

Volume 14 of a series which aims to provide details of advances in stratification research from various, international, points of view.

Provides information on taking the necessary measures to improve EMC performance and therefore the chance of achieving compliance. This book shows how to achieve EMC compliance early on in the design process; provides the knowledge to trace system EMC performance problems; and, follows best design practices.