Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Presents a range of data and key information in a compact form, covering television reception, satellite and cable television, video recorders, colour camera technology, teletext, sound systems, fault-finding procedures, and more. This work is a useful reference source for a range of engineers, students, sales and installation staff.

The scope of service provided by accountants is influenced by legislation and case law as well as the dictates of a variety of government and private sector agencies. This volume is part of an annual serial that addresses regulatory issues and policy affecting the practice of accountancy.

Contains twelve papers that focus on investment analysis, portfolio theory, and their implementation in portfolio management.

Covers theoretical analyses, reviews, policy analyses and positions and theory-based empirical papers on issues involving various aspects of the human life course.

This text describes the structures and structural relationships of the calcium orthophosphates, including the apatites. Their preparation, crystal growth and dissolution, chemical reactions, IR, Raman and NMR spectra and various physical properties are discussed.

Covers a wide range of theoretical and application studies concerned with the reliability, availability and safety of controlled systems.

Providing theoretical integrations of literatures in the organizational sciences, this book presents an examination and analyses of organizational issues and problems. This book addresses a variety of questions in organizational theory from a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives and theoretical orientations.

This 23rd volume of "Research in Organizational Behavior" presents papers on a variety of topics in the field of organizational behaviour, with the twin goals of consolidating prior research and breaking new theoretical ground.

A manual for security professionals that teaches secret methods counterespionage experts have been using for years to protect business information. It includes the names of the foreign countries that are conducting espionage against American business and helps protect your proprietary business information and reduce liability risk.

A practical guide to the installation and servicing of satellite TV receiving equipment. It provides the background information without weighing it down with excessive theory or mathematics, and covers the practice of installation and servicing with step-by-step guidance. It also includes data tables and numerous diagrams.

Covering a range of information from the simplest scientific information on diamond to its engineering applications, this book introduces readers to each topic at a basic level - taking readers through to the most recent developments in each field.

The second of two volumes which aim to survey convex geometry, its many ramifications and its relations with other areas of mathematics. A second aim is to give a high-level introduction to most branches of convexity and its applications, showing the major ideas, methods and results.

If a solid contains oriented elements in its microsctructure, e.g. fibers, the heterogeneity and asisotropy aspects create situations which form a class of problems worthy of special treatment. This book deals with such treatments with a particular emphasis on application to technological composite materials.

Game Theory has developed greatly, and is an essential tool in much of economic theory. This work covers the fundamental theoretical aspects, a range of applications to economics, chapters on applications to political science, and individual chapters on relations with other disciplines.

Aims to survey some effective approaches to understanding, describing and predicting ways in which solutes and solvents interact and the effects they have upon each other. This volume presents the treatment of solute/solvent interactions which emphasizes a synergism between theory and experiment.

Aims to highlight the vigour, diversity and insight of the various cognitive science perspectives on personality and emotion. This book also aims to emphasise the rigorous scientific basis for research to be found in the integration of experimental psychology with neuroscience, connectionism and the evolutionary psychology.

An introduction to contemporary research in elasticity, this text descibes the two competing mathematical models of three-dimensional elasticity, together with a mathematical analysis of these models. Emphasis is placed on nonlinear aspects.

The 35th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium was convened under the theme of Weathering and Landscape Evolution. This book contains papers and posters presented at the conference and imparts the advances in weathering geomorphology. It tackles the issue of scale linkage in geomorphic studies.

The rare earths play a unique role in science. In contrast, they find widespread use in processes such as steel making, for polishing materials and gasoline cracking catalysts. This work covers the rare earth field in an integrated manner. It offers the researcher and graduate student alike, a coverage of this field.

Consists of six sections which group the papers according to their main topics: Elastic and Anelastic Properties; Rheology; Melt and Glass Properties; Structural and Magnetic Properties; Diffraction and Spectroscopy; and, Pressure Calibration and Generation.

Geobiology is a developing research discipline that opens various perspectives in understanding Earth as a system. The discipline touches various subdisciplines of geology and biology in many ways. This book offers: definition of this scientific discipline and an overview into the broad spectrum of geobiological topics.

Describes how to develop Bayesian thinking, modelling and computation both from philosophical, methodological and application point of view. This book covers a range of topics including objective and subjective Bayesian inferences with a variety of applications in modelling categorical, survival, spatial, spatiotemporal, and more.

Over the past 40 years, increase in our knowledge of human viral hepatitis has been explosive in nature. The undisputed impact of viral hepatitis on the public health resources and national econom of both developed and developing nations is frightening. Will encourage new & innovative approaches to future viral hepatitis research.

Reviews the different anti-HIV agents that are in preclinical or clinical development. This volume reviews NRTIs, NNRTIs and PIs, and also HIV entry/fusion inhibitors as well as integrase inhibitors.

Focuses on cross-fertilisations between stream ciphers and number theory. This work covers known connections between the two areas. It contains over thirty research problems for stimulating interactions between the two areas. It is written by leading researchers in stream ciphers and number theory.

Describes the theory and design both of Air Cushion Vehicles (ACV) and Surface Effect Ships (SES). This work begins by introducing hovercraft types and their development and application throughout the world. It guides the reader on how to perform machinery and systems selection within ACV and SES overall design.