Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

A collection of papers which were presented at the 2001 International Conference on Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP 2001) held at Ise Shima, Mie, on November 14-16, 2001. It covers the following areas such as advanced MOS gate stack, integration technologies, advancd channel engineering including shallow junction, SiGe and hetero-structure.

Devoted to the fundamental aspects of relativistic electronic structure theory and its applications. This work opens with a section on the Chemistry of the Superheavy Elements and contains chapters dealing with Accurate Relativistic Fock-Space Calculations for Many-Electron Atoms, Accurate Relativistic Calculations Including QED, and others.

Provides a picture of the use of applied mathematics as a tool for improving the accuracy of agricultural research. This is a manual of procedures for the mathematical modeling of agricultural systems and for the design and analyses of experimental data and experimental tests.

Focuses on defense mechanisms as theoretical constructs and the possibilities of their empirical registration by different methods, and the application of these constructs in different fields of psychology with special regard to concurrent and predictive validity. This book explains the theoretical basis of the construct of defense mechanisms.

Divided into four sections, this book covers the foundation of time-to-contact in section one. Section two covers different behavioral approaches to time-to-contact estimation, section three focuses on time-to-contact as perception and strategy, and section four covers time-to-contact and action regulation.

Covers the ecological significance of the interactions among clay minerals, organic matter and soil biota. This book offers a view on basic aspects of mineral weathering reactions and, effects of soil colloids on microorganisms and immobilization and activity of enzymes, and metabolic processes, growth and ecology of microbes.

Presents surveys describing developments in most of the primary subfields of General Topology and its applications to Algebra and Analysis.

The key for understanding critical processes of the marine carbon cycle is the knowledge of the seawater carbonate chemistry, including equilibrium and nonequilibrium properties and stable isotope fractionation. This book features the equilibrium properties of the carbonate system and nonequilibrium properties of the seawater carbonate chemistry.

Suitable for vacuum engineers, scientists and technicians, this practical textbook introduces the reader to the fundamentals of the subject material of pumping technology. It features equations and rules of thumb to memorize, which are drawn on in designing, operating and trouble-shooting different vacuum systems.

Suitable for vacuum engineers, scientists and technicians, this practical textbook introduces the reader to the fundamentals of the subject material of pumping technology. It features equations and rules of thumb to memorize, which are drawn on in designing, operating and trouble-shooting different vacuum systems.

This text provides an overview of the literature on bilingual sentence processing from a psycholinguistic and linguistic perspective. Research focuses on both the visual and spoken modalities, including specific areas of research interest.

Presents target stand structures for aimed forest functions in relation to stand development stages, and ecological and silvicultural methods to lead and maintain them. This volume discusses ecological and silvicultural strategies, both on stand and landscape levels, and from local to international levels in temperate and boreal forest zones.

Together with the other volumes, Greek, Indian and Arabic Logic, this title is suitable for everyone with a curiosity about logic's long development, especially researchers, graduate and senior undergraduate students in logic in all its forms, argumentation theory, AI and computer science, cognitive psychology and neuroscience, and linguistics.

The papers in this book deals with fundamental questions concerning the problem of mental representation. It includes issues such as: the relation between mental representation and public, non-mental representation; misrepresentation; mental representations in intelligent action; and, the relation between representation and consciousness.

Just as our transport systems become more and more important to our economic and social well-being, so they become more and more crowded and more at risk from congestion, disruption, and collapse. This work is useful not only for psychologists but to all transport professionals interested in the application of psychology to traffic.

The search for high gas turbine efficiency has produced many variations on the simple "open circuit" plant, involving the use of heat exchangers, reheating and intercooling, water and steam injection, cogeneration and combined cycle plants. This book describes the thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles. It is useful for students and engineers.

Talks about the theory, data, and applied implications of choice-based models of substance use and addiction. Focussing on theories of addiction, this book discusses the theories of addiction developed in the area of economic science/behavioural economics. It aims to popularise these ideas among addiction researchers, academics and practitioners.

A collection of the papers presented at the International Seminar on Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems toward Zero Release of Radioactive Wastes, which was held in Japan in November 2000.

Acoustic logging is a multidisciplinary technology involving basic theory, instrumentation, and data processing/interpretation methodologies. This book features documentation of the discipline, including the theory, methods, and applications.

Transport phenomena in porous media is a field which attracts intensive research activity. This book covers a wide range of the engineering and technological applications, including both stable and unstable flows, heat and mass transfer, porosity, and turbulence. It emphasises the fundamentals and applications of research in porous media.

Provides coverage of structural chemistry of glasses for students and professionals involved in physical chemistry aspects of glass research. Starting with the background and importance of glasses, this book follows on with methods of preparation, structural and bonding theories, and criteria for glass formation including fresh approaches.

Celebrating two triumphs in modern psychology, this text looks at the successful development and application of a solid measure of general intelligence, and the personal courage and skills of the man who made this possible - Arthur R. Jensen from Berkeley University.

Presents a report which captures the spirit of the work in progress in boundary-layer heat transfer research and also identifies potential difficulties and areas for further study. This work also provides material on convective heat and mass transfer, as well as a fresh look at basic methods in heat transfer.

Intended for engineers and designers concerned with centrifugal pumps and turbines, this title includes statistical information derived from 20,000 pumps and 700 turbines with capacities of 5gpm to 50,00,000gpm.

The fundamentals of microwave and wireless communications technology are critical to the telecommunications and data acquisitions fields. This book offers a device-based approach to the study of microwave and wireless communications. It also contains student objectives, numerous questions and problems, and end-of-chapter summaries.