Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

The seven reviews articles presented in this volume cover a broad range of subjects, including active optics in large telescopes, variational methods in nonlinear fibre optics, canonical quantum description of light propagation in dielectric media, quantum mechanics in phase space and more.

The elucidation during the latter half of the 20th century of the mechanisms by which information flows from nucleic acids to proteins has completely changed the face of biological research. This volume discusses several representative diseases which emphasize the status of glycopathology.

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) spans aspects of geophysical science, technology, and a wide range of scientific and engineering applications. This book features a review of GPR theory and applications by leaders in the field. It is suitable for both experienced practitioners and novices.

A guide to evaluating the business aspects of various possible technical solutions. It provides a methodology for decision making and implementation of upgrades and migrations. It avoids marketing hype and the 'technical herding' instinct. It offers a tool to optimize technology changes for both staff and customers.

Joint endoprosthetics - the science of implanting artificial joints into the human body - has been around since the 1960's. This book presents the biophysics and effect of wear, friction and lubrication on artificial joints. It is suitable for specialists in orthopedy, biophysics, immunology and engineers engaged in developing artificial joints.

Summarises work done and experience gained in the area of tribology in electrical environments. This book looks at behaviour and response characteristics of rolling-element, and hydrodynamic journal and thrust bearings working under the influence of electrical current.

Presents a statistical approach that helps in the understanding of the designing of unit processes. This book covers the subject of mineral processing on the basis of unit processes that are subsequently developed and integrated to form a complete strategy for mineral beneficiation.

Discusses the theory necessary to help providing solutions to difficult problems in the construction of intelligent systems. This work covers topics that include representation of imperfect knowledge, fundamental issues in uncertainty, reasoning, information retrieval, learning and mining, as well as various applications.

There is rapid growth of the research and application area known as Lab-on-a-Chip. This book describes this technology that has revolutionized the world of chemical and biochemical analysis and synthesis. It contains a collection of papers on microtechnology, microfluidics, analytical methods and applications.

Presents essays on the past, present and future of the chemical and process industries, along with a commentary. This book explores the implications for business and academic institutions, and for the professionals working in them. It discusses a variety of views about business and technology and describes the impact of developing technologies.

A comprehensive manual embracing essentially the classical and modern areas of chemical kinetics. It provides details of modern applications in chemistry, technology and biochemistry. It covers fundamentals and developments in homogeneous catalysis and its modeling from a chemical kinetics perspective.

Relation algebras are algebras arising from the study of binary relations. They form a part of the field of algebraic logic, and have applications in proof theory, modal logic, and computer science. This text uses combinatorial games to study the fundamental notion of representations of relation algebras.

Describes the biomass resource and its delivery. This book also presents a range of conversion technologies both commercially available and under development, and explores the technical, environmental and socio-economic barriers and benefits of using biomass in both developed and developing countries.

Details SQL:1999's object facilities, including structured user-defined types, typed tables, user-defined routines, and routine invocation. Serving as a guide to this standard's practical application, this title focuses on the issues that matter to programmers who are connecting applications to databases.

Includes papers that represent the proceedings from the 29th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology, 'Tribological Research and Design for Engineering Systems' which was held in September 2002. This volume also documents the discussions generated over 150 written questions and responses.

This volume provides a comprehensive update on basic glutamate research, from a clinical perspective.

Provides an insight to the evolutionary and comparative aspects of nitric oxide - nitric oxide synthase system as a central regulator of invertebrate and vertebrate homeostasis. This work reviews a variety of important signalling and modulatory roles played by nitric oxide at molecular, cell, organ and organ system levels.

Turbulence has been a great mystery in natural science and technology for more than 500 years since the time of Leonardo da Vinci. Quantum turbulence is comprised of quantized vortices, realized in superfluid helium and quantum gases of cold atoms. This title presents seven review articles on the developments in quantum turbulence.

A survey of the important original material reported in the literature on heterocyclic chemistry in 1996. It reviews the synthesis of oxazoles from diazocarbonyl compounds and the heterocyclic chemistry associated with the herbicide glyphosate.

The field of 'On-Line Fault Detection and Supervision in the Chemical Process Industries' is relatively young. The goals of the first workshop in Delaware were to discuss various methodologies necessary for solving industrial problems in fault diagnosis/supervision and to encourage interactions between academia and industry.

Features the papers presented at 2nd IFAC Workshop "New Trends in Design of Control Systems" that was organized by the Slovak Society of Cybernetics and Informatics on 7-10 September 1997. It covers areas such as linear and nonlinear control system design; large scale systems and decentralized control; intelligent controllers, and more.

Contains the proceedings of the IFAC Workshop on Singular Solutions and Perturbations in Control Systems (SSPCS-97) held at Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia on 7-11 July 1997.

Advantages of distributed computer control systems include the possibility of composing large systems out of pre-tested components with minimal integration effort. The IFAC Workshop series on Distributed Computer Control Systems (DCCS) focuses on design requirements and fundamental principles encountered in such systems.

Contains the papers presented at the 5th IFAC Symposium on Automated Systems Based on Human Skill, held in Berlin, Germany, 26-28 September 1995. This symposium brought together researchers, developers and users of complex human-machine systems.