Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Geomorphological Fieldwork addresses a topic that always remains popular within the geosciences and environmental science. More specifically, the volume conveys a growing legacy of field-based learning for young geomorphologists that can be used as a student book for field-based university courses and postgraduate research requiring fieldwork or field schools. The editors have much experience of field-based learning within geomorphology and extend this to physical geography. The topics covered are relevant to basic geomorphology as well as applied approaches in environmental and cultural geomorphology. The book integrates a physical-human approach to geography, but focuses on physical geography and geomorphology from an integrated field-based geoscience perspective.

The corresponding-states principle helps the understanding and calculating of thermodynamic, transport, and surface properties of substances in various states, required by our lifestyle. This book describes the origins and applications of the principle from a universal point of view with comparisons to experimental data where possible.

Milestone Moments in Getting your PhD is a guide for research students completing higher degrees with a focus on the importance of language and terminology of the theoretical and practical requirements of a given research program. The book responds to a lack of preparedness among many entrants into higher-degrees in contemporary higher education. The need among non-traditional entrants into higher-degrees for a strong background in core academic principles is made pressing due to the lack of preparation many students undergo prior to enrolment. This book might be consulted by research students as they proceed through the various milestones that may form part of a higher-degree.

Innovative technologies are changing the way research is performed, preserved, and communicated. Managing Scientific Information and Research Data explores how these technologies are used and provides detailed analysis of the approaches and tools developed to manage scientific information and data. Following an introduction, the book is then divided into 15 chapters discussing the changes in scientific communication; new models of publishing and peer review; ethics in scientific communication; preservation of data; discovery tools; discipline-specific practices of researchers for gathering and using scientific information; academic social networks; bibliographic management tools; information literacy and the information needs of students and researchers; the involvement of academic libraries in eScience and the new opportunities it presents to librarians; and interviews with experts in scientific information and publishing.

Creep refers to the slow, permanent deformation of materials under external loads, or stresses. This book is suitable for experts in the field of strength of metals, alloys and ceramics. It explains creep behavior at the atomic or "dislocation defect" level.

Summarizes the main integration strategies found in analytical instrumentation or laboratories, giving a panorama of analytical chemistry. This book aims to highlight the different integration solutions, used in analytical chemistry. It is useful for graduates and researchers in industry and academy.

Suitable for clinicians and researchers, this reference summarizes clinical features and management of many neurological manifestations of sleep disorders. It also offers the research, information, and laboratory techniques on topics such as sleep-wake-dependent genes, the role of sleep duration in mortality and morbidity, and more.

The 4th International Conference on Low Cycle Fatigue and Elasto-Plastic Behaviour of Materials was held from 7-11 September 1998 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. This book includes papers that were presented at the conference; and also contains a subject index, a material index and an author index.

Deals with the fifth in the successful IFAC series of meetings entitled System, Structure and Control. Previous meetings were held in Praha (1982 and 1992), Nantes (1995) and Bucharest (1997).

A two volume set that contains the proceedings of the 5th IFAC DYCOPS Symposium that took place in Corfu, Greece between June 8-10, 1998.

Integration of technologies and functions requires deep interdisciplinary expertise and technical breadth for successful implementation. Large scale systems theory can play a central role in this effort and it is a strongly held belief that this approach will continue to be of major importance in the future.

Held from 3-5 September 1997 in Nantes, France, this was the fifth of the IFAC series of triennial Symposia on Robot Control. The papers covered a range of topics relevant to the field of robot control, including modelling and identification, force and compliance control, robot control techniques, vision control, grasp control, and more.

IMS'97, the fourth in the series of IFAC Workshops on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, was held in Seoul, Korea, on July 21-23, 1997. This Workshop focused on the issue 'intelligent manufacturing,' especially, with two intriguing keynote speeches, a special invited session on the worldwide IMS Project and two tutorial programs.

The air distribution in occupied spaces is a major issue of public concern. It is widely recognized that the quality of air and the nature of airflow can affect the health of occupants and the energy consumed in buildings and transport vehicles.

Contains the proceedings of the 9th IFAC symposium on Information Control in Manufacturing which took place in Nancy and Metz, France, between 24-26 June, 1998. This INCOM'98 program had six main themes which focused on the role of information for automating manufacturing operations.

Containing 4 plenary papers and 38 technical papers, this volume contributes to the literature on the important subject of man-machine systems. It includes topics such as human performance skills, knowledge engineering and expert systems, training procedures, human performance and mental load models, and human-machine interfaces.

The selected papers in this volume cover intelligent control techniques, actuators, sensors, image processing, computer vision, software and communications. Papers also included relate to applications and include robotics, power and process control, manufacturing, aerospace and traffic control.

Talks about the symposium Low Cost Automation, 1992, whose main aim was to bring together end-users and control system specialists to evaluate the possibilities for improvement of techniques, design procedures, components and instruments to encourage low cost automation. The technical sessions dealt with topics from process automation.

Containing 29 papers, this volume contributes to the literature published on the safety of computer systems. The papers cover all aspects - specification, development, analysis, verification, validation of hardware and software, as well as the problems involved in the reliability, availability and security of systems.

Provides a general overview of developments and research into types of systems and their uses in the agricultural and horticultural industry. This title contains both theoretical models and applied examples for greenhouse systems, harvesting technology and plant factory systems.

Shows how to design and experiment with data converters, both analog-to-digital and digital to analog. This book covers design problems which start with guidelines for selecting all components on a trial-value basis, assuming a specific design goal and set of conditions. It is intended for working engineers.

Contains four detailed accounts of the close interface between synthetic chemistry, structure-activity relationships, biochemistry and pharmacology. This work includes a comprehensive survey of the immunophilin area focussing on neuroregenerative applications in the central nervous system.