Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Introduces a probabilistic and energy-based critical excitation approach to overcome several problems in the scientific and rational modelling of ground motions. This title includes comprehensive review of critical excitation methods. It also includes verification by comprehensive recorded ground motions.

Part of the series "Ecosystem of the World", this book presents an account of the history and distribution of the conifers. This book describes conifers forests in Asia, Europe, North and South America covering boreal, temperate, tropical as well as mountainous regions.

Explains in detail how to write Bluetooth applications using the Java APIs to exploit the power of both technologies. This book is suitable for Java programmers interested in Bluetooth wireless technology and business managers interested in its potential for creating fresh business opportunities.

Helps you develop portable skills that allow you to tune a variety of database systems on a multitude of hardware and operating systems. This work covers the entire system environment: hardware, operating system, transactions, and others. It also describes performance-monitoring techniques that enables you to recognize and troubleshoot problems.

Focuses on database administrators and programmers as the foundation of multimedia database applications. This book details the features in Oracle's multimedia technology including those of the Oracle10gR2 Database and the Oracle9i Application Server.

Provides an examination of the tasks involved in planning, designing and deploying SharePoint in your enterprise. This book examines SharePoint from the user's perspective, the administrator's perspective, and the application developer's perspective and looks at how to maximize your investment by integrating SharePoint features with Office 2003.

Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server is the server component that provides electronic messaging in major corporate environments. It has had 2 updates since its release in 2003, SP1 and SP2. This covers these along with critical changes in Widows 2003 Server such as the scalability features of the Active Directory and the server and storage technologies.

Points out similarities and differences between Unix and VMS, contains a management-friendly explanation of VMS' suitability for 24x7 operation, and explains web concepts like authentication and access control models. It also discusses specific tasks, such as how to port CGI programs from other operating systems.

The understanding of how people make decisions is of central interest to experts working in fields such as psychology, economics, movement science, cognitive neuroscience, neuroinformatics, robotics, and sport science. This title investigates the implications of how our brain directs our movements on decision making.

Links findings on the structural development of the human brain, the expression of genes in behavioural and cognitive phenotypes, environmental effects on brain development, and developmental processes in perception, action, attention, cognitive control, social cognition, and language.

Describes and discusses the numerical methods which are successfully being used for analysing ecological data, using a clear and comprehensive approach. This book on quantitative analysis of multivariate ecological data relates ecological questions to methods of statistical analysis, with a description of complex numerical methods.

Provides a comprehensive and fully illustrated introduction to microelectronic systems principles using the best-selling PIC16 range. This third edition enables readers to understand PIC products and related programming tools, and develop relevant design skills in order to successfully create new projects.

Part of the "Encyclopedia of Environmental Control Technology" series, this volume draws on contributors from around the world who are engaged in finding ways to solve the problems of waste and devising new strategies for recycling.

Illustrates the variety of topics covered by rare earth science. This volume features three chapters presenting the description of solid state compounds: skutterudites, rare earth-antimony systems, and rare earth-manganese perovskites. It also contains reviews dealing with solid state properties.

Membrane techniques provide a broad science and technology base. Covering materials from highly respected researchers, this refereed book is useful to scientists and engineers involved in a variety of activities, as well as, students and faculty members.

Unimolecular reactions are in principle the simplest chemical reactions, because they only involve one molecule. This book offers a review of the modern view of the statistical theories, as embodied in the various forms of RRKM theory. It deals with the fully quantum mechanical view of reactive states as resonances.

Presents guidelines for research based on important discoveries made in the field of bioactive natural products. This book describes the chemistry of bioactive natural products. It is useful for researchers and engineers working in natural product, and medicinal chemistry.