Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Contains sample security policy, planning, and procedural documents drawn from the proven experiences of hundreds of America's successful corporations. This book is intended for them, whose job requires to develop or update security policies, plans, or procedures.

Covers various aspects of financial risk management including an in-depth look at operational risk management, regulation, risk-based capital, and risk adjusted performance measurement. This practical book focuses on practical financial risk management techniques and solutions. It also covers the various roles of the risk management function.

One might reasonably expect that all would have been learned about color as Newton established the fundamentals of color science long ago. This book provides information on the perception, causes, and uses of color. It offers details on the causes, measurement, perception, and reproduction of color.

Examines the theory, and sample application methods for natural resource and energy economics. This title deals with the economics of environmental and renewable resources. It analyzes the economics of energy and minerals and includes chapters on the economics of environmental policy.

Part of the "Advances in Image Communication" series, this volume provides a comprehensive exploration of subband coding. It contributes effectively to the understanding of frequency domain coding techniques. It presents many images from coding experiments, enabling the reader to consider the properties of different coders.

Presents developments in topics such as non-covalent processes in solution, protein engineering and thermophile enzymes, immobilized enzymes, non-conventional media and whole cells.

In the early eighties when the H3 receptor was identified, many thought that an H3 ligand, an agonist or an antagonist, would become available as a therapeutic agent. This has not occurred. This book presents the state of affairs with regards to the medicinal chemistry and pharmacology of the H3 receptor.

This text presents an up-to-date account of the soft-scale insects, "Coccidae", and covers almost the entire spectrum of the knowledge of this insect family. It is divided into three sections, covering: soft scale insects, their natural enemies, and damage and control.

This volume presents research work carried out over a wide front of natural product chemistry.

Covers the development in the field of biotechnology in the form of comprehensive, illustrated reviews. This title reviews such topics as: biotechnology applications in medicine, agriculture, marine biology, industry, bioremediation, and the environment.

Describes the techniques and applications of thermoanalytical and calorimetric methods. This volume covers major areas of inorganic materials and some related general topics, such as catalysis, geochemistry, and the preservation of art. It also provides an appreciation for how thermal methods can be applied to inorganic materials and processes.

Intends to cover developments in the field of biotechnology in the form of comprehensive, illustrated and well-referenced reviews.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) arises from the experience of stressors and trauma. This book combines basic research on stress hormones from gene to behaviour with clinical research demonstrating the progress in understanding via imaging techniques, genetics, vulnerable phenotypes and co-morbidity with other disorders and physical illness.

Provides an introduction to the 'standard model' of particle physics. This text focuses upon the elegant mathematical structures and the foundational concepts of the standard model. It combines an exposition of the philosophical foundations and rigorous mathematical structure of particle physics.

Extensive neurophysiological and neuropsychological evidence show that perception, action, and cognition are closely related in the brain and develop in parallel to one another. This book discusses how action and cognition are related in development.

Presents a collection of the results and ideas in the field of molecular sieve chemistry and technology and identifies different areas of molecular sieve chemistry. This book covers topics including structure, synthesis, characterization, ion exchange, adsorption, diffusion, separations, and natural zeolites.

Records knowledge of the first steps of human occupation of frequently hostile environments and considers the environmental impact of ancient and modern societies. This book covers studies about marine Quaternary environments off West Africa, as well as continental Quaternary environments of tropical and sub-tropical West Africa.

Brings together a group of clinicians and clinical scientists to contribute to a review of the underlying pathogenic mechanisms, methods of clinical assessment, classification and diagnosis of renal disease, combined with an overview of treatment strategies.

Tribology is defined as 'the science and technology of interactive surfaces moving relative each other'. The science of tribology concentrates on contact physics and mechanics of moving interfaces that generally involve energy dissipation. This book deals with the field metal cutting tribology.

Presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Nanophotonics Symposium, July 6-8, 2006, Icho-Kaikan, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. This work includes chapters which are classified into 4 parts; nano bio-spectroscopy, nano bio-dynamics, and others. It bridges the gap between conventional photophysics and photochemistry and nanoscience.

Presents reviews from leading experts in the field of Wnt signaling. Part of the "Advances in Developmental Biology" series, this book covers different levels of signaling, including: ligands, receptors, cytoplasmic and nuclear components of the pathway. It also discusses regulators of the cytoskeleton.

Organized into 4 sections, each looking at the question of outcome prediction in cancer from a different angle. This work describes the clinical problem and some of the predicaments that clinicians face in dealing with cancer. It discusses a number of machine learning methods which have been applied to decision support in cancer.

Provides an overview of the cytoskeleton particularly on the role the cytoskeleton plays in the regulation of cell structure and function. This book presents trends in cytoskeletal research that go beyond the traditional approach of identifying proteins in the cytoskeleton, but actually define how these proteins interact with signaling pathways.

Presents a multidisciplinary perspective of heme-diatomic interactions. This book covers topics in heme protein research: sensors, NO biology, and roles of hemoglobin.

Includes chapters on neural coding in single cells, in small networks, and across the entire cerebral cortex, visual processing from the retina to object recognition, vestibular, and electromagnetic stimuli, pattern generation, voluntary movement and posture, motor learning, decision-making and cognition, and algorithms for pattern recognition.

Calcium is a versatile carrier of signals regulating many aspects of cellular activity such as fertilization to create a new life and programmed cell death to end it. Given that calcium is such a versatile messenger the field of calcium signaling is continuously and rapidly expanding. This book reviews the developments in calcium signaling.

Superlubricity is defined as a sliding regime in which friction or resistance to sliding vanishes. This book addresses some of the most fundamental research issues in overcoming friction. It presents the developments in tribomaterials, coatings, and lubricants providing superlubricity.

Describes advances in understanding (in the framework of RSW and related models) of some fundamental GFD problems, such as existence of the slow manifold, dynamical splitting of fast (inertia-gravity waves) and slow (vortices, Rossby waves) motions, nonlinear geostrophic adjustment and wave emission, the role of nonlinear wave phenomena.