Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Reflects various developments in economics pertaining to population issues and the family. This book conveys both the progress that has been made by economists in understanding the forces shaping population processes, including the behavior of families, and the many questions, empirical and theoretical.

Reviews problems in the mechanical behaviour of cyclically loaded metallic materials, primarily with regard to the nature of the fatigue process. This book focuses on physical-metallurgical aspects, and provides knowledge on physical metallurgical processes that accompany and affect the fatigue of metallic materials.

Reviews various developments in clinical laboratory science in the 20th century. This book features the graduate student who invented a technology for testing infectious diseases, took it to Africa to screen people for malaria for the first time and which is being used to test for HIV infection world-wide.

Covering important results and current trends and issues across the spectrum of combinatorics, this volume covers finite sets and relations, matroids, symmetric structures, and combinatorial structures in geometry and number theory.

Contains about 50,000 terms covering various fields and subfields of nuclear engineering and technology such as nuclear physics, thermonuclear research, nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel, isotopes, radiation, reliability issues, environmental protection, emergency issues, and others. This book includes terms from the military nuclear field.

The papers presented in this volume are intended to provide readers with advanced knowledge concerning the technologically important subject of inorganic and organic single crystal growth.

Includes papers presented at the 11th annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS 02) held in July 2002 at the Congress Plaza Hotel and Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois, USA. This book contains papers that range from experimental neurobiology, to neuro-ethology, mathematics, physics, and engineering. It focuses on the research described.

Listing the English, German, French and Italian names of amphibians occurring in Europe, North America, Central and Southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand, the Indian Subcontinent, South East Asia, Puerto Rico and the islands of the West Indies, this dictionary covers 5,367 scientific names of orders, families, genera, species and subspecies.

Presents survey and summary of knowledge and expectations regarding the environmental causes of congenital malformations in human beings, from earliest discoveries of the 20th century onwards. This book also presents views and comments on the progress made in understanding human prenatal maldevelopment.

Encouraged by new perspectives in Banach space theory, the editors present this second volume that opens with an introductory essay that explains the basics of the theory. The rest of the chapters focus on specific directions of Banach space theory or its applications.

Contains the Latin, English, and Spanish names for over 7,000 species of the most important plants found mainly in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. This dictionary includes native and naturalized plants as well as plants of economic value. It is organized alphabetically by the scientific Latin genus and species of each plant.

Contains over 30000 abbreviations of terms used in the field of anatomy, bacteriology, biology, chemistry, medicine (human and veterinary), pathology, pharmacology, etcetera, with especially detailed itemization of the chemical elements, hormones, insulins, kidney function tests, pulmonary function tests and serological tests for syphilis.

Suitable for graduate students in mathematics, sciences and engineering and technology, this volume covers advanced computational methods used in the mathematical analysis of chemical events and reactions. It covers both the numerics and modelling aspects.

Focuses on the impact of stressful events on the functioning of the central nervous system; how stress affects molecular and cellular processes in the brain; and, how these brain processes determine our perception of and reactivity to, stressful challenges - acutely and in the long-run. This volume provides an overview of the field of stress.

Focuses on the main directions in the theory of evolutionary partial differential equations. This work aims to present in depth surveys on the important aspects of the present theory.

Probability is a mathematical technique that is relevant to many different areas. This book provides a comprehensive, user-friendly introduction to the subject. Traditional examples of probabilistic theory, such as dice and coins are included together with exercises based on real-life problems.

Hydrostatic pressure is a powerful tool for study of biological systems. As a thermodynamic parameter, hydrostatic pressure has been known to act on biological materials in a similar, but not identical, way to temperature. This book provides coverage of the various aspects of high pressure biochemistry and biophysics of proteins.

Summarizes the advances in understanding the mechanism underlying the selective cell death of dopamine neurons in Parkinson's disease. This book also discusses the relationship of causal factors such as MPTP, L-DOPA and others to the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease to give us overviews on the role of neurotoxins in this degenerative disorder.

The authors of this volume stress the urgency of promoting the development of alternative renewable sources of energy, and argue that these renewable energy sources are the only means for meeting the needs of developing countries.

Provides an introduction covering definition, classification, properties, world reserves, methods of processing from ores, methods of separation both classical and modern, and analytical chemistry of rare earths, including classical and modern methods. This book deals with complexes of rare earth elements with a variety of complexing agents.

Chemokines have been productively studied in the contexts of inflammation, immunity and hematopoietic development. This work provides a database for basic neurobiology highlighting the fundamental aspects of chemokines, and discussing the relations of chemokine science to animal models and human disease.

Focuses on topics such as: Fundamental numerical algorithms; Applications of numerical algorithms; and Emerging technologies. This work covers various aspects in scientific and engineering computations. It includes articles by experts on advanced scientific and engineering computations from different countries.

Contains 4,040 terms with about 1,700 cross-references that are commonly used in the theory and practice of geographical information systems. This dictionary provides the terminology that covers the areas of geoinformatics, geostatistics, computer cartography, geospatial databases, computer graphics, geodesy, photogrammetry, and remote sensing.

Provides a compilation of the research from over 40 key opinion leaders in the field of Hepatitis. This book focuses on the advances in the search for new, more effective therapeutic options and related topics in viral hepatitis. It also provides insight into prevention and treatment options.

Presents research works that cover various fields and reflect the diversity of applications of the EPR/ESR techniques. This work is derived from the The Third Asia-Pacific EPR/ESR Symposium (APES'01), held in Kobe, Japan from October 29 to November 1, 2001.

Reliable methods for measuring OSS in organisms are essential. How much do measures of OSS vary in a group of humans? Does OSS decrease as a result of life-change factors and does it increase with age, disease and stress? Can a non-invasive, reliable, reputable measure of OSS be identified? This book offers information on the studies into OSS.

Biological fixation is exploited in agriculture, as are nitrogen fertilisers. However, the fundamental nature of the reactions involved at the heart of the biological process remain unknown. This book describes what we have learned over the years about biological nitrogen fixation, its chemistry, and how it is applied in agriculture.

The successful reproduction of cultured brood stock is essential to the sustainable aquaculture of aquatic organisms. This book describes advances in the field of finfish reproductive biotechnology. It reviews the progress and assesses the status of biotechnology research that is applicable to the reproduction of finfish species for aquaculture.

Written for the virologist, pharmacologist, chemist and scientists interested in antiviral agents, this work examines the progress in the field of antiviral development. It contains contributions from experts around the world, capturing worldwide practices.

Looks at the beneficial and harmful effects of solar radiation. This book analyses the chemical effects of solar ultraviolet radiation. It offers guidelines on how to use sunscreens in everyday life.