Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

This reference work is a practical guide to the selection and design of the components of machines and to their lubrication. It has been revised by experts in this field.

Attempts to bring together a collection of approaches to, and related empirical investigations on, the development of coordination in the first two years of life. This book is intended to scientists and students in, for example, biology, human movement sciences, kinesiology, psychology, pediatrics, physiology, physical education, and robotics.

Historically batch control systems lacked the ability to convert to new products without having to modify the control systems. This work arranges the structures of modern batch management systems to produce flexible schemes suitable for automated batch management, with capability to be reconfigured to use the same plant equipment.

The Health and Safety at Work Act obliges those responsible for hazardous areas, those who work in such areas and those who supply equipment for use in such areas to demonstrate that they have taken all necessary steps to prevent fires and explosions. This book seeks to explain the complexity of standards and codes pertaining to this field.

Aims to encourage integration of the natural and social sciences with the policy and design-making community, and thereby develop a deeper understanding of complex environmental problems. This book also deals both with the state of the science and the level of consensus among scientists on key environmental issues.

A two-part set, which provides reference for metallurgists, material scientists and crystallographers. The first part covers the general theory while the second part is concerned with descriptions of specific types of transformations.

Presents the history of the language sciences, from ancient times through to the twentieth century. For twentieth century, this book contains a section on the various trends, schools, and theoretical framework developed in Europe, North America and Australasia.

Explores three major areas in which thick film technology contributes as a sensor technology, namely: hybrid circuits for signal processing (in combination with either thick-film sensing elements or transducing elements derived from other technologies), creation of architectural structures, and transducing elements derived from thick-film pastes.

Suitable as a teaching supplement for industrial organization, or industrial economics, the microeconomics field that focuses on business behavior and its implications for both market structures and processes, and for related public policies.

Experimental methods in economics respond to circumstances that are not completely dictated by accepted theory or outstanding problems. This book reflects the spirit of adventure that experimentalists share and focuses on experiments in general rather than forcing an organization into traditional categories that do not fit.

Provides a collection of articles from the year 2000. This work includes papers from the following journals: "Computers and Geotechnics Geotextiles", "Geomembranes International Journal of Rock Mechanics", "Mining Sciences Journal of Terramechanics Soil Dynamics", "Earthquake Engineering Tunnelling", and "Underground Space Technology".

A compendium of the representative papers from a group of Elsevier's structural engineering journals, including: "Journal of Constructional Steel Research"; "Thin Walled Structures"; "Engineering Structures"; "Computers and Structures"; "Construction and Building Materials"; and, "Journal of Wind Engineering & Industrial Areodynamics".

Discusses the state of the European electricity generation and supply industry and the options for improvement in the future. This book includes case studies of national electricity regulation from around Europe, and an overview of European Union electricity policy on liberalisation and deregulation.

Covering signal sources, radio propagation and modulation, high speed data systems, LANs and WANs, multiplexing, and the range of telecomms equipment, this book is useful for telecommunications professionals and managers, and students. It includes the developments in technology and standards of this field, and the international regulations.

Part of a series which aims to present work across a broad spectrum of regulation issues, with papers covering a wide range of topics. The volumes review essays of recent books, offering insights into regulation and its processes. A glossary related to securities, law and accounting is included.

Peptidomimetics are compounds which mimic the biological activity of peptides while offering the advantages of increased bioavailability, biostability, and bioselectivity against the natural biological target of the parent peptide. Peptidomimetics embrace much of what is organic chemistry. This volume highlights the developments in this area.

Focuses on developments in the instrumentation for sending voltages and currents. This book covers topics such as: measurements of biocurrents, the increased speed of the components for data taking, and, testing of computers and integrated circuits where the measurement of voltage and current variations on a small geometrical scale is necessary.

Includes papers that were originally presented at the joint meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America and the Mid-Atlantic Plant Molecular Biology Society, in August 2000. This volume covers a wide range of applications from molecular biology to phytochemistry.

One of the most important subjects for any student of engineering to master is the behaviour of materials and structures under load. This work presents a treatment of complex stress and complex strain which leads to a study of the theories of elastic failure and an introduction to the experimental methods of stress and strain analysis.

As a relatively new subdiscipline of economics, health economics has made many contributions to areas of the main discipline, such as insurance economics. This volume provides a survey of the burgeoning literature on the subject of health economics.

Compendium of Hydrogen Energy: Hydrogen Production and Purification, the first text in a four-volume series, focuses on the production of hydrogen. As many experts believe that the hydrogen economy will eventually replace the fossil fuel economy as our primary source of energy, the text provides a timely discussion on this interesting topic. The text details the methods of hydrogen production using fossil fuels, also exploring sustainable extraction methods of hydrogen production from water and hydrogen purification processes.

With increased urbanization and emphasis on human rights, corrections have become the target of a variety of attacks. To combat this backlash, correctional agencies have devised a plan which aimed at professionalization. This book talks about this field. It articulates the principles upon which correctional practices have evolved with time.

A comprehensive introduction to electronic circuits, assuming virtually no knowledge, and keeping the mathematical content to a minimum. The format of the book enables students to work at their own pace. It includes numerous worked examples, and graded exercises with answers.

Handbook of the History of Logic brings to the development of logic the best in modern techniques of historical and interpretative scholarship. Computational logic was born in the twentieth century and evolved in close symbiosis with the advent of the first electronic computers and the growing importance of computer science, informatics and artificial intelligence. With more than ten thousand people working in research and development of logic and logic-related methods, with several dozen international conferences and several times as many workshops addressing the growing richness and diversity of the field, and with the foundational role and importance these methods now assume in mathematics, computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, linguistics, law and many engineering fields where logic-related techniques are used inter alia to state and settle correctness issues, the field has diversified in ways that even the pure logicians working in the early decades of the twentieth century could have hardly anticipated. Logical calculi, which capture an important aspect of human thought, are now amenable to investigation with mathematical rigour and computational support and fertilized the early dreams of mechanised reasoning: ¿Calculemus”. The Dartmouth Conference in 1956 ¿ generally considered as the birthplace of artificial intelligence ¿ raised explicitly the hopes for the new possibilities that the advent of electronic computing machinery offered: logical statements could now be executed on a machine with all the far-reaching consequences that ultimately led to logic programming, deduction systems for mathematics and engineering, logical design and verification of computer software and hardware, deductive databases and software synthesis as well as logical techniques for analysis in the field of mechanical engineering. This volume covers some of the main subareas of computational logic and its applications.

Leads us through the trials and triumphs of scientific life. Offering useful insights into how to get funding, give seminars, and still find time to make that scientific discovery, this book explores the philosophical dimensions of biological breakthroughs: the genome sequencing, the evolution of sensory receptors, and cellular suicide.

Offers a theoretical base and a perspective for the analysis, design, and operation of information systems, particularly their information storage and retrieval (ISAR) component, whether mechanized or manual. This book discusses the principles that apply to the design of various systems and, importantly, to the analysis of existing systems.

Aimed at engineers and technicians who need to have a practical understanding of the essentials of process control, loop tuning and how to optimize the operation of their particular plant or process. This book also enables the reader to identify and apply the essential building blocks in automatic control.