Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Aims to provide a definitive source, reference, and teaching supplement for the field of mathematical economics. This title deals with Mathematical Methods in Economics, including reviews of the concepts and techniques that have been useful for the mathematical development of economic theory.

Discussing differential geometry, this work looks at Riemannian geometry, Lorentzian geometry, Finsler geometry, symplectic geometry, contact geometry, complex geometry, Lagrange geometry and the geometry of foliations. It also includes a bibliography.

There is an ever increasing need for modelling complex processes reliably. This book discusses a technique for formulating process models in process technology: stochastic process modelling. It demonstrates how stochastic modelling may be implemented by describing example cases. It also shows how a stochastic model may be formulated for a case.

Brings together a number of interrelated areas of low temperature physics. This volume also presents the study of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism for defect formation following quench cooling of superfluid 3He and its relation to quantum field theory. It also describes the properties of heavy fermion materials.

An introduction to the Wigner optics, which bridges between ray and wave optics, offering the optical phase space as the ambiance and the Wigner function based technique as the mathematical machinery to accommodate between the two opposite extremes of light representation.

There have been developments in techniques for producing multilayered structures of different materials, often with thicknesses as small as only a few atomic layers. This book describes research on the excitations of these materials, with emphasis on how the material properties are coupled to photons to produce mixed waves called polaritons.

Devoted to various constructions of sets which are nonmeasurable with respect to invariant measures. This work begins by explaining the classical Vitali theorem stating the existence of subsets of the real line which are not measurable in the Lebesgue sense.

Offers insights into concepts such as predictability, irreversibility, adaptability, creativity and multi-choice behavior. This book is suitable for specialists in the philosophy of science.

Aims to break down cross-disciplinary barriers, by bringing together people working in a wide variety of disciplines where visual representations and interpretations are exploited. This book provides a forum for wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary contributions on visual representations and interpretations.

Presents a comprehensive overview of discrete optimization. This book covers topics like neighborhood search techniques, lift and project for mixed 0-1 programming, pseudo-Boolean optimization, scheduling and assignment problems, production planning, location, bin packing, cutting planes, vehicle routing, and applications to graph theory.

Silicon (Si) plays a significant role in the resistance of plants to multiple stresses including biotic and abiotic stresses. Silicon is also the only element that does not damage plants when accumulated in excess. This book introduces the achievements of Si research, in relation to soils, fertilizers and plant nutrition.

The solute transport problem in porous media saturated with water had been used as a natural setting to discuss the approaches based on stochastic dynamics. This book presents the ideas and computational solutions pertaining to stochastic flow of contaminant transport in the saturated porous media such as that we find in underground aquifers.

This is a review of clinical adverse effects on the human immune system that may occur following drug treatments and chemcical exposures. Current and prospective models and assays that can be used to predict these adverse effects in animal toxicity studies or in human beings are described.

Presenting advances in atomic spectroscopy, this volume focuses on the application of atomic spectroscopy particularly ICPMS, with an emphasis in the area of clinical and biological sample techniques such as double focusing and field-flow fractionation ICP-MS. It contains chapters with the theme of speciation.

Featuring the proceedings of the international conference of the Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2002, this volume provides information about numerical simulations of flows using parallel computers. It also includes papers on flow-simulations using the Earth-Simulator, as well as a tutorial article on numerical optimization.

Intended for people involved in the study of (static) optimization problems (in finite-dimensional spaces). This book contains material, from basic tools of convex analysis to optimality conditions for smooth optimization problems, for non smooth optimization problems and for vector optimization problems.

A comprehensive database on physical properties of pure ionic liquids (ILs). It includes various pure ILs and their known physicochemical properties through June 2008. It contains nearly 50 tables that include typical data, experimental and modelling or simulation comparison, and model parameters, enhancing the application of ILs.

Covers a range of granite-related topics and focuses on three general themes: tectonics and source regions, petrologic processes, and fractionated granites and pegmatites. This work includes topics ranging from mineralogy, petrology, and geochemistry to tectonics and crustal evolution.

Explains the technical details of operational amplifier circuits. This book addresses the topics on three levels: operational overview, numerical analysis, and design procedures. It also presents troubleshooting techniques that rely on the application of fundamental electronics principles.

There has been a common perception that computational complexity is a theory of 'bad news' because its typical results assert that various real-world and innocent-looking tasks are infeasible. This book takes a quantitative analysis of some of the major results in complexity that regard either classes of problems or individual concrete problems.

This sixth volume of the "handbook" discusses numerical methods for solids and numerical methods for fluids.

Features different aspects of the analysis of contaminants and residues in food, and highlights some concerns facing this field. This work offers an overview on food safety, the objectives and importance of determining contaminants and residues in food, and the problems and challenges associated to these analyses.

Describes how one can fully integrate plasmonic nanostructures into dielectric, semiconductor, and molecular photonic devices, for guiding photons across the nano-micro interface and for detecting molecules with unsurpassed sensitivity. This book also covers nanophotonics and nanoplasmonics, and metamaterials and negative-index materials.

Offers a brief description of methods of synthesis, activity and implementation of different drug types. This book features chapters that begin with brief definition and description of a particular group of drugs, propose their classification, and explain model of their action, followed by a description of methods for their synthesis.

Part of the "Handbook of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases" series, this volume represents a medical collaboration focusing on female aspects of rheumatic diseases. It covers practical points, ranging from which anti-rheumatic medications are safe in pregnancy to how to counsel women with scleroderma contemplating pregnancy.

Discusses various topics on simple protein model lattices, supramolecular protein edifices, multienzyme and gene networks. This book covers the physical and mathematical approach of biological phenomena; offers the mathematical background required to understand the text; and provides definitions and mathematical expressions of various concepts.