Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Techniques of solid state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy are constantly being extended to a more diverse range of materials. This book provides answers to the most common questions about the theory and practice of NMR asked by novices. It is useful for NMR users at various levels of expertise.

A wide-ranging source of information on the life courses of children and youths. Contributions reflect, amongst other things: demographic analyses and projections; dualitative aspects of children's lives; and children and youth in historical and cross-cultural perspective.

Includes 250-300 practical, ready-to-use circuit designs, with schematics and brief explanations of circuit operation. This book also lists the original source for each circuit in an appendix.

Introduces microcontroller theory using the Parallax BASIC Stamp I, II, and IIsx. This book explains the hardware base of the BASIC Stamp microcontroller including internal architecture, the peripheral functions, as well as providing the technical data sheets for each kind of chip. It includes full instructions for using PBASIC programming.

It is vital that all possible measures are taken to maximise the productivity in use, and to minimise the maintenance costs and the downtime, of a plant. This book explains the various organization structures that are needed for doing just that, and the information systems with which those structures may need to be resourced.

The propagation of mechanical disturbances in solids is of interest in many branches of the physical sciences and engineering. This book presents an account of the theory of wave propagation in elastic solids and includes a discussion of formal aspects of elastodynamic theory in 3 dimensions. It discusses the pertinent mathematical techniques.

This series aims to cover the major aspects of numerical analysis. The volume covers the techniques of scientific computing, numerical methods for solids and solution of equations in R.

Constructs the general theory of submanifolds in a multidimensional projective space. This book deals with the topics such as osculating spaces and fundamental forms of different orders, asymptotic and conjugate lines, submanifolds on the Grassmannians, different aspects of the normalization problems for submanifolds, and more.

Aims to present the fundamental theoretical results concerning inference rules in deductive formal systems. This book focuses on admissible or permissible inference rules; the derivability of the admissible inference rules; the structural completeness of logics; and the bases for admissible and valid inference rules.

Includes a number of applications to logic (in particular Godel's theorems) and to computer science, for which Recursion Theory provides the theoretical foundation. This book presents a comprehensive reference for the subject starting from first principles.

Covers the computational dynamics of linear and non-linear engineering systems subject to conservative, as well as non-conservative loads. This volume also covers the methods of linear spectral analysis, such as the Householder, Givens, Wiland, Lanczos, Jacobi, Guyan, Eberlein, alongwith an appraisal of their advantages and disadvantages.

Aimed at providing an overall description of formal photokinetics. This volume attempts to provide a concise treatment of both thermo- and photochemical reactions by means of generalised differential equations, their set-up in matrix notation, and their solution by a formalism using numerical integration.

Concerned with the problems of constructing covering codes and of estimating their parameters, this book provides an account of the theory of covering codes and shows how a number of mathematical and engineering issues are related to covering problems. It is useful for scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and others.

Draws together the knowledge regarding the mechanisms underlying tactile sensation and how they relate to tactile perception. This work also provides comments on the direction of future investigation, relating findings from psychophysical studies of tactile behavior to our growing understanding of the underlying neural mechanisms.

In the study of the computational structure of biological/robotic sensorimotor systems, distributed models have gained center stage. This book addresses this research area providing a set of articulated presentations which include reviews, computational models, simulation studies, psychophysical, and neurophysiological experiments.

This volume focuses on theory and methods within the area of statistics. Topics covered include: a historical perspective; relations and identities; distributed function of statistics; extremes and asymptotics; and resampling methods.

The origin of knowledge about the self is a fundamental problem of psychology. Progress in the study of infant and animal behavior provides insights about the origins of self-knowledge. This book is a collection of theoretical views and research on the self in early infancy, prior to self-identification and emergence of mirror self-recognition.

Introduces a range of combinatorial methods for those who want to apply these methods in the solution of practical and theoretical problems. This book contains exercises on random walks on graphs and their relations to eigenvalues, expansion properties and electrical resistance.

The production of proteins in mammalian cells is an important tool in numerous scientific and commercial areas. This book presents a comprehensive coverage of the technical aspects of gene expression in mammalian cells, written by experienced scientists.

From a detailed analysis of hypercomplex numbers in up to four dimensions, Silviu Olariu presents hypercomplex number properties in five and six dimensions and on to an analysis of polar and planar hypercomplex numbers in n dimensions.

Contains the written versions of lectures delivered since 1997 in the weekly seminar on Applied Mathematics at the College de France in Paris, directed by Jacques-Louis Lions. This book includes texts that deal with various aspects of the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations.

The subject of aluminium and Alzheimer's disease has been plagued with controversy. This book brings together scientists researching aluminium and life and contains their summaries on the known facts about aluminium toxicity in man and offers an opinion on the implications of this knowledge on a link between aluminium and Alzheimer's disease.

Traces the emergence and the economic and legal content of the different income support tools for agricultural producers, collectively termed 'production rights'. This work also looks at the foundations of the specific national conceptions underlying the methods of organising agricultural activity.