Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Provides a review on the molecular and cellular basis of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). This book summarizes the knowledge related to the major aspects contributing to cardiovascular disfunction in the elderly as well as potential ways of maintaining or improving human cardiovascular healthspan.

A dictionary that covers chemistry. It includes a number of terms specifically relating to biochemistry, providing a link between organic chemistry, physiology, genetics and medicine. It is useful for research workers, scientists, students, translators and technical editors.

There is a critical, bidirectional relationship between sleep and cognition, yet the literature in this area is scattered. This issue of Progress in Brain Research provides a starting point for researchers and practitioners entering the field, and build a platform for further research and discovery.

Contains proceedings from the Fourth Tokyo Conference on Advanced Catalytic Science and Technology, Tokyo, July 14-19, 2002. This work contains a selection of works, which present the research in catalysis. It provides reports on the advances in processes and methods, and contributes to our understanding of catalysis.

Includes chapters that explore the theory and finer points of logical effort method and detail its specialized applications. This book offers coverage of specialized areas of application for logical effort: skewed or unbalanced gates, other circuit families, wide structures such as decoders, and irregularly forking circuits.

Focuses on the sedimentary processes operating within the various modern and ancient deep-sea environments. This title includes chapters that track the way of sedimentary particles from continental erosion or production in the marine realm, to transport into the deep sea, to final deposition on the sea floor.

Reviews the variety of animal models of PD available (from drosophila to rodents to non-human primate species) and their specific contributions to PD research. This title covers functional neuroimaging studies that explore different pathophysiological questions and evaluate treatment outcome in PD patients.

Provides critical reviews of important topics in computational chemistry as applied to various chemical disciplines. This title covers such topics as: quantum chemistry, molecular mechanics, force fields, chemical education, and applications in academic and industrial settings.

Covers the developments in health economics, from medical spending growth to the demand for health care, the markets for pharmaceutical products, the medical workforce, and equity in health and health care. This book presents coherent summaries of major subjects and methodologies, marking important advances and revisions.

Failure of electronic packaging: Effects of temperature, moisture and mechanical driving forces provides a thorough review of this important field of research.

Explosive growth in the discipline of cancer genetics is so rapid that any attempt to review this subject becomes rapidly outdated and continuous revisions are warranted. The identification of over 50 oncogenes has led to a better understanding of the physiological process. Here, the contributors provide accounts of their fields of expertise.

The tools of molecular biology have revolutionised our understanding of gene structure and function and changed the teaching of genetics in a fundamental way. This book aims to provide an account of the new science of molecular genetics. It places considerable emphasis on major technical advances, expounding numerous ideas and phenomena.

Featuring a discussion of basic concepts, this book presents the findings equally relevant to basic research and a modern understanding of metabolic bone disease. It also provides insights into the intimate inter-relation of experimental findings and clinical understanding.

Represents contributions from around the world on inorganic, organic, and bioorganic chemistry. This book covers topics such as: pioneering work in self-assembled structures organized by the use of transition metals; details of studies of self-assembled structures formed from various biomolecules; and more.

Both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells depend strongly on the function of ion pumps present in their membranes. This book focuses on various aspects of ion pump structure, mechanism, and regulation using the ion-transporting ATPases as examples.

Provides material rich in synonyms in each of the three languages, English, German and Portuguese. This work encompasses some of the most important technical fields related to industrial activity, such as: Petrochemical industry; Textile Industry; Leather Industry; Engineering Materials; Cleaners Industry; Machinebuilding Industry; among others.

Examines the definition, study and use of the wavelet transform in communications for two-dimensional (2-D) digital signals. This title introduces biorthogonal bases of compactly supported wavelets: this generalization of orthonormal wavelet theory allows the use of linear phase filters.

A translating dictionary no definitions or pronunciations of 5,000 terms concerning veterinary medicine in general; infectious, parasitic, and non-infectious diseases; and the anatomy and physiology of domestic animals. The main listing is alphabetical in English, with French, Spanish, German and La

Covers subjects, such as vegetables, fruits, arboriculture, floriculture, mushrooms, crop science, plant breeding, botany and soil science. This dictionary also includes tropical and subtropical horticulture, herbs and spices, landscaping, arable farming and grasses. It also focuses on market planning, economics, education, and labour management.

The economic importance of Tortricidae in agriculture and forestry is great: crops and forests in the temperate climatic zones suffer considerable loss due to this lepidopterous family. This volume covers the entire spectrum from taxonomy, morphology and physiology to chemical and biological control.

A guide to the field of regional economics, and for related fields such as geography, transportation economics, regional science and physical planning.

The essays collected in this volume present a broad survey of the state of the art in logistics systems research, showing that logistics remains an active, vibrant subject of inquiry. This volume focuses mainly on the key developments in the last decade.

Focuses on the explanation of international transactions in goods, services, and assets, and on the main domestic effects of those transactions. This title deals with the 'real side' of international economics. It also deals with microeconomic issues and methods.

Computational Geometry is an area that provides solutions to geometric problems which arise in applications including Geographic Information Systems, Robotics and Computer Graphics. This Handbook provides an overview of key concepts and results in Computational Geometry. It serves as a reference and study guide to the field.

Nitric oxide, 'Molecule of the Year' in 1995, is one of the most widely studied molecules in brain research. This title elucidates the implications of this gas in a variety of brain processes.

A dictionary that attempts to provide a comprehensive coverage of biological terms. It is intended for teachers and students of biology and other natural sciences, environmental sciences and medicine.