Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Deals with the theory and practice of the safe design, installation and operation of industrial electrical equipment. This third edition incorporates revisions that cover the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989, EC Directives on safety matters and many developments in safety legislation and guidance publications.

Compliance with the Low Voltage Directive (LVD) is essential for CE marking. Products cannot leave your firm without it. This book is intended for company directors, engineers, designers and students designing, manufacturing or studying the design of electrical products covered by the Low Voltage Directive.

Takes an environmental perspective that is relevant in the context of public policy debates. This work also includes EU regulations and changes in the UK water industry since privatisation. It also takes an account of the technological developments. It is intended for undergraduate courses in civil engineering and the environmental sciences.

Instrumentation and control, and electrical power engineering are reliant on radio-based communication technology. This book covers the essentials of telemetry and radio communications. It explains the principles of telemetry and radio communications, describes their application, and helps you to debug telemetry and radio communications systems.

High Voltage Technology belongs to the traditional area of Electrical Engineering. This book takes into account the international developments in High Voltage and Measurement technology, making it a useful reference for engineers in the testing field.

Presents an introductory course in reliability for a wide range of engineering qualifications, including City and Guilds 8030 and HNC/Ds. This book focuses on the role of the microprocessor and microcomputer controller, and the use of algorithms for monitoring system performance.

Divided into three main parts, this book includes an introduction, which presents an industrial perspective of control objectives. It discusses column overhead and base arrangements, typical control schemes, and some hardware considerations; and also deals with quantitative design.

Volume four of the all-new Handbook of Neuropsychology addresses the disorders of visual behaviour. This work reviews the neurophysiology of spatial vision, as well as recent work on recognition deficits for faces, objects and words.

Oscilloscopes are essential tools for checking circuit operation and diagnosing faults, and an enormous range of models are available. But which is the right one for a particular application? Which features are essential? This guide to oscilloscopes answers the questions. It explains the science and electronics of how oscilloscopes work.

Industrial use of the brushless servomotor, for instance in robotics is increasing because of their low maintenance needs and capabilities at high transient speeds. This handbook gives the user of brushless servomotors a guide to their use, including a description of main features of the brushless motor drive system.

Presents a collection of tables for the student and practicing engineer. This work includes additional table of Isentropic flow.

Aims to provide a definitive source, reference, and teaching supplement for the field of mathematical economics. This title details on Mathematical Approaches to Microeconomic Theory, including consumer, producer, oligopoly, and duality theory, as well as Mathematical Approaches to Competitive Equilibrium.

This text aims to provide a survey of the state of knowledge in macroeconomics, a broad area that includes the theories and facts of economic growth and economic fluctuations, as well as the consequences of monetary and fiscal policies for general economic condition.

This compilation, drawn from over 500 years of English-language accounting literature, reflects scholarly enquiry. It covers areas such as: rules, practices and standards; professional and academic opinions; and the social and logical foundations of accounting.

Presents the theoretical details of processes such as: vibrational absorption, Raman scattering, vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) and Raman optical activity (VROA). This work includes a comprehensive survey of VCD and VROA applications. It also covers vibrational circular dichroism and vibrational Raman optical activity.

This fifth volume in the series covers a variety of topics in the field of advances in investment and portfolio management.

This volume seeks to produce a cohesive source of information on socialization and the life course. It advances theory and research related to socialization during specific periods of adult life or across adulthood.

As crime rates soar, every householder looks at ways to protect their home and its contents. This guide features steps to guard your home and shows how burglars work, and how to thwart them. Describing the selection and installation of alarm systems, it also tells how to avoid faults, and find them if they occur.

Contains topics that include research based upon self-regulatory activities, case law and litigation, government and quasi-governmental regulation, and the economics of regulation, including modeling.

Suitable for econometricians, this book examines models, estimation theory, data analysis and field applications in econometrics.

Covering developments in coal research, this book features: modern concepts of geotectonics and of organic geochemistry; the problem of pseudohomogeneity of vitrinite; developments of the classification and systematics of coals and coal components; and a survey on magnetic properties - magnetic susceptibility and magnetic resonance.

The development of science, technology and industry in the near future requires new materials and devices, which will differ in many aspects from that of past years. This book contains many instructive examples with detailed analysis and tutorials to evaluate the student's level of understanding. It is aimed at chemistry students and researches.

Divided into two parts, this book is suitable for students in high energy heavy-ion physics. The first part covers the basic principles of these studies including kinematics, and cross sections. The second part features some specific probes of heavy-ion collisions at these energies: high mass thermal dileptons, quarkonium and hadronization.

Provides a comprehensive description of the possibilities in the analysis of gaseous substances. The themes discussed in this book are: the theoretical basis for the methods, a description of the instrumentation and the steps necessary in actual analyses, and an outline of the principal areas in which each method can be employed.

Glaucoma is one of the main causes of blindness throughout the world. It is characterized by death of the retinal ganglion cells, which is associated with loss of the axons making up the optic nerve. This book examines findings regarding glaucoma, including risk factors, diagnosis, clinical monitoring and treatment.