Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Presents research results from the IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Components for Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Vehicles (ICASAV '95) held in Toulouse, France, 25-26 October 1995. This work covers topics that include vehicle dynamics, navigation, localization estimation, driver assistance and energy management.

Explores the field of high-temperature superconductivity. This book discusses basic concepts including experimental techniques and theoretical issues. It presents research results in the measurements, materials synthesis and processing, and characterization of physical properties of high-temperature superconductors.

A guide to developing global e-commerce sites. It focuses on design and engineering of Web forms for global data collection and alignment with widely recognized international standards, XML structures, and XML vocabularies. It describes the globalization problem, identifies common design errors, and introduces effective solutions and techniques.

Covers topics such as the principles of visualization, human perception, and usability evaluation. This work focuses on those tools and techniques required for programming the complex user interface. It also covers advanced programming topics including event handling, interaction with geometric objects, widget tool kits and input syntax.

From a clinical perspective, the discovery of genetic markers of risk in a proportion of familial breast cancer cases has opened up fresh vistas for understanding and ultimately preventing this disease. This title helps to understand the biology of human breast cancer at the molecular level.

One prerequisite for the evolution of multicellular organisms was the invention of mechanisms by which cells could adhere to one another. This title presents commentaries on contemporary topics within the broad field of cell adhesion.

Retinoids have received attention due to their versatility as biological response modifiers. The transduction of retinoid signaling by the mediation of nuclear receptors of the steroid/thyroid receptor superfamily has also been studied. Looking at retinoids, this volume discusses the cloning and defining the characteristics of these receptors.

This volume deals with some of the multiple systems that growth factors and cytokines affect. The role of growth factors and cytokines on foetal development, in the immune and haemopoietic systems, and in the skeletal and reproductive systems are covered. This is the final volume in the treatise.

This series provides a variety of different discussions on topics within the field of growth factors and cytokines in health and disease.

Provides a solution that enterprises can use, described in terms of scope, feasibility and return on investment, architecture, and data structures. This book also provides tools to deal with the increase of devices, and the corresponding complexity of managing those resources and the increase in cost to the firm.

Helps managers work with tech workers and their customers to make a well-substantiated argument for IT service investments. This book presents an overview of the "why" behind technology investment for any organization, and combines this with detailed real-world solutions that maximize BCO efficiency. It provides detailed technical architectures.

Dealing with system problems - from user login failures to server crashes - is a critical part of a system administrator's job. A down system can cost a business thousands of dollars per minute. This book presents the techniques and tools needed to find and fix system problems. It covers specific areas of the Tru64 UNIX operating system.

A resource for new and non-technical users on how to use OpenVMS and customize it to their working environment. This book begins with an introduction to the OpenVMS operating system and its built-in functions, and then provides an explanation of OpenVMS files and directories, use of DCL, and how to edit files using EVE and EDT.

Presents an introduction to the basic concepts of realizability, a field which has passed several successive phases of abstraction. This title includes a bibliography.

A monograph that provides a comprehensive treatment of expansion theorems for regular systems of first order differential equations and n-th order ordinary differential equations. It also provides a comprehensive treatment from abstract foundations to applications in physics and engineering. It focuses on non-self-adjoint problems.

Aimed at researchers who are working in a field of quasicrystals to provide a reference to developments and ideas in the field and also at graduate students, who intend to study quasicrystals, to provide introduction of ideas. This title features comprehensive reviews by experts in the field. It covers introduction of quasicrystals by experts.

Discusses the theoretical aspects of absorbency as well as the structure, properties and performance of materials. This work covers topics which include: scientific principles of absorbency and structure property relationships; material technology including super absorbents, non-woven, natural and synthetic fibres and surfactants; and more.

Provides easy access to terms in areas such as: legal, judicial and court proceedings; law enforcement, police and military training; chemical essentials and chemical precursors; natural, synthetic and designer drugs; banking and money laundering. This book also presents terminology for environmental, medical, psychological and economic matters.

Assembled in honor of Professor Alan Cowey FRS, this volume attempts to embrace his research interests in visual neuroscience. It contains a group of papers dealing with different fundamental aspects of the visual system, including the control and monitoring of eye movements.

In addition to references and reviews, this monograph covers several hundred organic syntheses based upon name reactions of which hundreds feature newer name reactions and the use of modern reagents.