Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Covers various topics with 3 chapters dealing with a range of lanthanide magnetic materials, and three chapters concerning equiatomic ternary ytterbium intermetallic compounds, rare-earth polysulfides, and lanthanide organic complexes. Two chapters of this book include information on the actinides and the comparative lanthanide/actinide behaviors.

New vocabulary is constantly being introduced into fast moving medico-scientific disciplines, such as genomics, clinical trials, medico-legal, health economics and pharmacovigilance. This dictionary contains more than 28,000 main entries and many subentries: medical terms used outside the medical community, including colloquial usage; and more.

Collects the important advances in the areas of hydride chemistry research, including chemical reactivity, instrumental investigation, theory, and applications in the areas of catalysis, biochemistry and materials science. This book also illustrates the relevance of metal-hydrogen bonds in biochemistry and materials science.

Includes 61 selected papers from 106 presented at the second International Conference on Machine Automation (ICMA2000). This book offers information on: Human Interface & Communication; Human Support Technology; Actuator & Control; Vision & Sensing; Robotics and Design; and, Manufacturing System.

Since objects occlude themselves and each other, the information available for seeing objects is fragmentary. This book addresses the problem of how the human visual system organizes inputs that are fragmented in space and time into coherent, stable perceptual units - objects.

Offering a collection of articles on the three major gene families, this work ranges from enzymology to molecular biology to physiological implications. The three gene families are related in that the enzymes catalyse the NAD(P) dependent oxidation or reduction of carbonyl containing substrates.

Contains terms covering the following fields and subfields: Plants and Ecosystems: Species, Cenoses; Animals: Species; Domestic Animals: General, Dogs, Horses, Cattle and Poultry; and Hunting and Fishing: Game Names, Arms, Trapping, Methods. This dictionary includes 5,594 terms, both scientific and common, in English, French, German and Russian.

Deals with the properties and functions of clock-like processes in insects. This book covers circadian rhythmicity, and annual responses such as over-wintering diapause, seasonal morphs and cold hardiness. It is suitable for active researchers in the field as well as newcomers and scientists working in many other areas of modern biology.

The articles that comprise this volume address a range of topics that concern mathematical fluid dynamics including: the Boltzman equation, collisional kinetic theory, viscous heat conducting compressible fluids and dynamic flows in liquids and vapours.

Devoted to chemical tests that are widely used in environmental, industrial, clinical, forensic, medical and other areas, this volume presents methods that allow simple, rapid and cost-effective analysis by both trained and untrained personnel.

Collects mathematical state-of-the-art surveys in the field of dynamical systems. This volume contains 18 surveys which are grouped into those emphasizing finite-dimensional methods, numerics, topological methods, and partial differential equations.

In order to make use of a diverse range of developments in the field, this volume addresses the need to review the different lines of researches and developments in stochastic processes. It presents a consolidated and comprehensive account for the benefit of students, researchers, and others.

Concerned with reviewing and unifying new ideas in the different lines of research and developments in stochastic processes of applied flavour, this volume consists of various topics in stochastic processes. Including manufacturing systems, random graphs and reliability.

Offers information on organobismuth chemistry. This title book focuses on the academic aspects of the field. It also focuses on the methods of synthesis, molecular structure, and chemical behaviours of organobismuth compounds. It includes some knowledge of spectroscopy and other physical properties.

Presents fundamental information on preparing polished sections of ceramics and ceramic composites including the main steps of sampling, sectioning, mounting and impregnation, and mechanical grinding, lapping and polishing. This book discusses microstructural imaging in the optical microscope (OM) and the use of the scanning electron microscope.

To use materials effectively, their composition, physical and mechanical characteristics, and microstructure must be accurately determined. This book covers a range of characterization techniques necessary to achieve this. It presents coverage of traditional methods and includes 500 illustrations, cross-referencing, and an index.

Among the most important and exciting steps forward in geo-engineering is the development of coupled numerical models. The articles within this volume were originally presented at the inaugural GeoProc conference held in Stockholm and contain high quality information including a number of practical and wide ranging applications in this field.

Contains an account of the advances made in the dilute nitrides, providing a starting point for workers entering the field. This work covers the growth and processing, experimental characterization, theoretical understanding, and device design and fabrication of this class of semiconductor alloys.

Contains papers divided into three general sections: algorithms, models, and applications. This book contains papers that are theoretical in nature or contain different techniques that relate to Defense Transportation System processes. It deals with group theoretic 'tabu' search techniques and shortest path sailing distance algorithms.

Part of the Elsevier series in Electromagnetism, this volume presents the treatment of the Fast Multipole Method and its applications to the solution of the Helmholtz equation in three dimensions. It presents a review of the basic theory of expansions of the Helmholtz equation solutions. It is suitable for engineers, physicists and mathematicians.

Inverse problems can be found in many areas of engineering mechanics, and have many successful applications. This collection of proceedings provides a state of the art review of research on inverse problems in engineering mechanics.

Considers the definition of Carbon Alloys. This book presents the results of the Carbon Alloys projects and describes typical Carbon Alloys and their uses. It discusses techniques for their characterization and illustrates potential applications and future developments for Carbon Alloy science. It contains over thirty chapters on these studies.

Provides a guide through the research and technology presenting the ESD protection development methodology. This book is based on a combination of process, device and circuit stimulation, and addresses the optimization of the industry critical issue, reduced development cycles.

Provides a forum for presenting and discussing developments in the area of turbulence modelling and measurements, with emphasis on engineering-related problems. This work contains papers that were presented at the 5th International Symposium on Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements in September 2002.

Presents the mechanisms and models of fiber fracture available for both natural and synthetic fibers. This work covers the following areas of fiber fracture: ceramic fibers; glass fibers; carbon filters; metallic fibers and thin wires; polymeric fibers; and carbon nanotubes.

Presents the Proceedings of the Yohkoh 10th Anniversary Meeting, a COSPAR Colloquium held in Kona, Hawaii, USA, on January 20-24, 2002. The title of the meeting was Multi-Wavelength Observations of Coronal Structure and Dynamics.

Contains the papers presented at the third International Symposium on 'Electrochemical Microsystem Technologies', held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, on 11-15 September 2000.

Comprises 40 case studies describing the analysis of real engineering failures. This book includes failure mechanisms that cover overload, creep, brittle fracture, fatigue, environmental attack, environmentally assisted cracking and bearing failures. It is suitable for professionals and students in most branches of engineering.

This volume examines the synthesis, spectroscopic properties, reactivity and catalytic applications of all phosphorus-carbon heterocycles. The most significant phosphorus heterocycles incorporating other heteroatoms, such as heterophospholes and heterophosphinines, are also covered.