Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

As such the book provides the means to approach and solve analytical problems strategically and systematically, without the need for the reader to become a fully-fledged chemometrician. The authors' aim was to write a tutorial book which would be useful to readers at every level in this field.

Heat pipes find many applications, in areas such as electronics cooling, diecasting and injection moulding, heat recovery and energy conservation, de-icing, and manufacturing process temperature control. This book is suitable for researchers worldwide in heat pipe technology.

Based on research funded by the European Commission, this book provides a basis for a unified approach to three-dimensional surface finish assessment. It covers a range of issues related to 3-D micro-topography, with a focus on standardisation, measurement, characterisation and interpretation.

Surveys a range of general aspects of chromosome research on plants. This book deals with cytogenetics of plant materials including legumes, vegetable and oil crops, sugar crops, forage crops, fibre crops, medicinal crops and ornamentals.

Offers assessments of the way time enters wide spectrum of disciplines. This book presents the definition and uses of time that have proved most productive or problematic, and the lessons their subjects can offer for our understanding of time beyond the classroom and laboratory walls.

This first part presents chapters on models of computation, complexity theory, data structures, and efficient computation in many recognized sub-disciplines of Theoretical Computer Science.

A collection of articles drawn from "Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics". It offers a comprehensive overview of the building blocks of syntax including word classes, sentence/clause types, functional categories of the noun and verb, anaphora and pronominalisation, transitivity, topicalisation and work order.

A guide to home and small business installation - extensions, modems and telephone systems. It covers topics ranging from the simple, single extension socket to the Private Automative Branch Exchange (PABX), with the necessary tools, test equipment and materials needed by installers described throughout. It also includes circuit diagrams.

Gives a clear approach to the analytical techniques of debt instrument valuation. Without using complicated mathematical abstractions, this book shows that the fundamentals of fixed income and interest rate derivate analysis can be easily understood when seen as a small number of simple economic concepts.

Includes developments in quantum and classical molecular dynamics, related techniques, and their applications to several fields of science and engineering. This work presents advances in methodologies, introduces quantum methods and lists techniques for classical Molecular Dynamics.

Presents the advances in the theory of convex structures. This volume presents graphs that appear side-by-side with Banach spaces, classical geometry with matroids, and ordered sets with metric spaces. It includes a variety of results ranging for instance from the area of partition calculus to that of continuous selection.

Provides information on explosion and detonation phenomena, including data and experiences related to safety risks. This book talks about the shortcomings of the engineering codes based on a classical plane wave model of the phenomenon, and why these tools must fail. It describes the explosion phenomena in terms of proper assemblages of hot spots.

Deals with several aspects of the dynamics of colloids. This work covers topics that include: diffusion of free particles on the basis of the Langevin equation; the separation of time, length and angular scales; the fundamental Fokker-Planck and Smoluchowski equations derived for interacting particles; and more.

Discusses the evolution and uses for capillary electrochromatography as a fresh dimension to separation science. This book also discusses the new horizons in the separation of non-polar compounds which have been opened as a result of CEC. It provides an overview of the variety of applications of capillary electrochromatography.

Includes papers that provide a contrast of human factors contributions to both old and new economies that make up ASEAN and APEC. This volume highlights the diverse roles human factors can play in advancing the quality of life in developed, developing and third world nations.

Third of a series devoted to "Error Estimators and Adaptivity in Computational Mechanics", this work is concerned with outlining the advances in both these areas. It provides answers to questions such as: What is being used or can be used at present to solve engineering problems? What should be the state of art in the year 2000?

Metals are still the most widely used structural materials in the manufacture of products and structures. Successful manufacturing therefore depends on a detailed knowledge of the processing of the materials involved. This book provides that knowledge, and illustrates this approach with real case studies derived from industry.

Addresses various aspects related to speech and language comprehension and production, both in children and in normal adults. This title presents in a systematic way disorders of speech and language due to developmental and acquired causes, the most common forms of treatment and their degree of efficacy.

Focusing on the developments in electrical drive technology, including very-high-speed power-electronic switches, combined with microcomputer control systems. This textbook offers teaching through worked examples, which are put in context with explanations of theory, revision of equations and discussion of the engineering implications.

Intended for plant operators, electricians, field technicians and engineers, this work provides a practical understanding of the role and workings of power system protection systems. It provides coverage that includes both the fundamentals and the basic fault and design calculations needed to specify, use and maintain power protection systems.

Modal analysis is the processes of determining the inherent dynamic characteristics of any system and using them to formulate a mathematical model of the dynamic behavior of the system. This work provides an overview of the theory of analytical and experimental modal analysis and its applications.

In plants processing flammable materials, stringent measures are taken to exclude sources of ignition. An array of standards surround this topic leading to a conservative approach, which results in more expenditure. Aimed at avoiding this expenditure, this book explains the relevant standards for the accurate assessment of the risks associated.

Intended for those involved in electronic design and safety assessment, this book covers the problems of RF safety management, including the use of measuring instruments and methods, radiation hazards and risks resulting from electromagnetic interference, as well as reviewing safety standards and the implications for RF design.

Both geography and psychology are capable of increasing our scientific knowledge of how human behaviour is interfaced with the physical environment. This text contains contributions from researchers in both fields, identifying the importance of two-way interdisciplinary communication.

Describing the properties of lipid bilayers and examining biomembrane phenomena, this book presents practical methods for the formation and study of lipid bilayers with either aqueous or metal-lipid bilayer interfaces. It intends to treat planar lipid bilayers as a different type of interfacial adsorption phenomena.

Time is both a dimension of behaviour and a ubiquitous controlling variable in the lives of all living things. This book presents the progress in quantitative analysis of timing behaviour. It gives an analysis of the neurobiological substrate of timing behaviour and covers the experimental analysis of interval timing.

Covers cellular interactions, the role they play on myelination and remyelination, how these interactions take place and the molecules involved. This volume focuses on the interactions of neurons with glial cells and their role in brain function. It is devoted to therapeutic approaches to tumours, viral and prion infections.