Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Francesco Pietra's study focuses on representative examples of biodiversity and natural products that exhibit diversity drawn from the literature and the author's own observations.

Provides accounting professionals an understanding of UK accounting standards and demonstrates how they are used in practice. This title includes: summaries outlining the principles behind UK accounting standards; and examples and extracts from company accounts. It has examples to illustrate how accounting standards work in practice.

Provides examples of MMS based catalysts of many types such as acid-base solids, supported metals and supported oxides, mixed oxides, anchored complexes and clusters, grafted organic functional groups and others. Examples of all these developments are documented in the proceedings including some proposals.

Describes suspension mechanics, stability and computational rheology. This book deals with the kinematics of continuous media and the balance laws of mechanics, including the existence of the stress tensor and extensions of the laws of vector analysis to domains bounded by fractal curves or surfaces.

Any area where a molecular system is the center of attention can be studied using Density Functional Theory (DFT). This book describes the status of Density Functional Theory (DFT), which has evolved as the main technique for the study of matter at the atomistic level.

Takes as a starting point, John Dewey's article, The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology, in which Dewey was calling for, in short, the utilisation of systems theories within psychology, theories of behaviour that capture its nature as a vastly-complex dynamic coordination of nested coordinations.

Presents an account of the importance of reference materials for the quality control of environmental analysis. This book describes in detail the procedures followed by BCR to prepare environmental reference materials, including aspects related to sampling, stabilization, homogenization, and homogeneity and stability testing.

It has become common to have income distribution variables playing a pivotal role in economic models. The interest in the relationship between growth and distribution is a good example of this. This handbook provides a multi-faceted view for a deep understanding of most issues in the field of distribution.

Focuses on gas phase structural parameters. This book covers the two most common techniques for obtaining gas phase structural parameters: microwave spectroscopy and the electron diffraction technique. It provides a review on molecular structure determinations from spectroscopic data using scaled moments of inertia.

Covers such topics as asymmetric synthesis initiated by metal catalysts, and asymmetric reduction and epoxidation of alkenes.

In the world of micrometer to nanometer scale, many natural and industrial processes include attachment of colloid particles to fluid interfaces and their confinement in liquid films. The book describes such processes, their consecutive stages, and the underlying physico-chemical mechanisms.

Provides studies in catalyst deactivation that play a major role in the identification of the real catalytic system, the structure and texture of the solid, often in a metastable state, as it is operated in the industrial reactor. These studies allow the identification of the experimental conditions which preserve this active and selective state.

Serving as a reference on so-called designer drugs, this work provides a directory of 104 designer drugs. Divided into two parts, it describes aspects of designer drug manufacture, abuse trends, sources of information and terminology. It classifies the drugs into ten main categories according to their chemical structure and pharmacological action.

Dealing with various topics at the intersection between education and language, this work provides a description of various topics of interest to language educators and those concerned with making and implementing policy in language education. It covers fundamental topics such as: the social context, society, and national.

Intends to describe those perceptual and cognitive components which contribute to skilled motor performance in sports, microsurgery, video games, and speech. This volume is suitable for kinesiologists, sport psychologists, physical educators, and cognitive psychologists who are interested in a different perspective on the nature of motor skills.

The papers in this volume consider a general area of study known as network routeing: how we can best route material or people from one place to another. The underlying problems are conceptually simple, yet mathematically complex.

Contains terms used in forest science, management and conservation, comprising forest ecology, forest entomology and pathology, forest fire management, forest geomatics, forest meteorology and hydrology, forest soils and geomorphology, forest surveys and mensuration, genetics and tree improvement, harvesting and forest operations, and more.

Provides information on chromatography-mass spectrometry methods, helping readers to understand the analytical basis, technical characteristics and possibilities to evaluate pesticides in food by gas chromatography and liquid chromatography mass spectrometry. This book also provides a compilation of the sample treatment and clean-up procedures.

This text explores basic elements of engineering design for structural integrity. It analyzes design problems as sophisticated systems made up of simpler constituents and develops an approach that allows the student to tackle unfamiliar design scenarios and to consider failure points at each stage.

Tackles the electronic aspect of the design of a security system, and also examines the human factor in such systems. This book deals with methods of reducing false alarms, allowing the police to concentrate on real breeches of security, and thus ultimately to reduce crime. It contains 40 photographs and 25 line diagrams, an index, and more.

Covering various aspects of aircraft, both fixed wing and rotary craft, this pocket book provides access to useful aeronautical engineering data and sources of information for further information.

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.

Includes articles about advancements in the development of accounting and its related disciplines from an international perspective. This title examines how these developments affect the financial reporting and disclosure practices, taxation, management accounting practices, and auditing of multinational corporations.

Aimed at academics and professional engineers, this book aims to re-establish the basis of the science of aerodynamics. It provides the aeronautical community with an insight into the historical development of aerodynamics.

Introduces the concepts of temperature and its measurement to engineers, physicists and chemists of all disciplines. This book describes a range of techniques and devices available for temperature measurement and provides guidance for the selection of a particular method for a given application. It also includes worked examples of real situations.