Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Offers assessments of multidecadal changes in resources and environments of the Large Marine Ecosystems of the North Atlantic. This book examines the forces driving the changes and actions aimed at turning the corner from declining trends in biomass yields, toward recovery of depleted species populations and improvements in ecosystem integrity.

Describes human hereditary ion channel diseases of voltage- and ligand-gated ion channels covering the diverse fields of medicine myology, neurology, cardiology, and nephrology requiring an interdisciplinary readership. This book focuses on parallels in pathogenetic mechanisms of disease for specialized readers in entities outside of their fields.

Contains the proceedings from the Eleventh Wear of Materials conference held in San Diego in April 1997. This book presents a review of the conference history including personal recollections from past Chairmen.

Magnetic and superconducting materials pervade every avenue of the technological world from microelectronics and mass-data storage to medicine and heavy engineering. This encyclopedia draws together advances in the discovery of new materials and improvements of existing materials, in the elucidation of an understanding of their phenomenology.

Designed to help security departments develop security forces from the personnel screening and selection process to ensuring that proper, cost-efficient training is conducted. This work advocates performance related training similar to that in a military environment. It describes performance-oriented drills, and analyzes hypothetical situations.

Includes a coverage of architecture, design, theory, issues, challenges, and recommended policies for IM security. This title addresses IM security for day-to-day operations and management of IM-capable networks in today's corporate environment.

A reference guide on different aspects of Web Services. Suitable for IT and senior management, it focuses on business needs, value propositions, ROI, solutions and actual examples of implementations. It is illustrated with technical diagrams, includes many subtitles, and contains many bullet lists and tables to facilitate productive skimming.

Optics has become one of the dynamic fields of science. This volume includes metamaterials, polarization techniques, linear baisotropic mediums, ultrafast optical pulses, quantum imaging, point-spread funcions, and discrete wigner functions.

Summarizes the methods used for pesticide risk assessment in rice paddies, the limitations and problems encountered. This book also examines the various agronomic, pesticide application and risk assessment approaches used in different rice cultivated zones in Asia, America and Europe and is an useful reference for those working in this area.

Demonstrates the scope of cycloaddition reactions, including the Diels-Alder reaction, the ene reaction, 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions and [2+2] cycloadditions in organic synthesis. This book illustrates the ways in which they can be employed in the synthesis of carbocyclic and heterocyclic compounds, including a variety of natural products.

Quantitative Structure Property Relationships (QSPR) have developed into a major method of chemical research in many scientific disciplines. This series aims to provide reviews covering various aspects of the field.

The MSP430 microcontroller family offers ultra-low power mixed signal, 16-bit architecture that is perfect for wireless low-power industrial and portable medical applications. This book begins with an overview of embedded systems and microcontrollers followed by a comprehensive look at the MSP430.

Helps cleaning operatives, designers of equipment, metal finishers, industrial chemists and decontaminators understand the value and demands required within the industrial cleaning process and an environment of continuing change. This work also covers various aspects of modern cleaning technologies.

Describes the principles of systems, examples of applications, and evaluates the advantages and deficiencies of each. This book provides comprehensive analysis and review of the underlying principles by optical biosensors. It is suitable for scientists and engineers, students and researcher at various levels in the field.

Evaluates the role of Steroids in autoimmune rheumatic diseases from the basic mechanisms to clinical involvements and focuses on the importance of steroidal hormones in the pathogenesis and therapeutical management of the autoimmune rheumatic diseases. This book discusses the perturbations of the HPA axis as source of altered steroidal synthesis.

Modern biology portrays living systems, from the amoeba to the human organism, as mechanical toys shaped by the brute logic of natural selection. This book challenges the dogmas that frame our understanding of living systems and presents an alternative that avoids the pitfalls of non-scientific perspectives such as Vitalism and Creationism.

Water in the proximity of a surface (interfacial water) is abundant on the earth. It is involved in various physical and chemical processes and crucial for biological function. This book provides review of experimental and simulation studies of water in various confining environments, such as hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces, and porous media.

There exists a wide range of metastable states in polymers on different length scales where their metastability is critically determined by the phase size and dimensionality. This title is written by a leading scholar and industry expert. It includes material encouraging innovation and future research.

Provides an overview of the developments in sedimentology of tsunami-induced and tsunami-affected deposits, namely tsunamiites. This book points out various problems that need additional investigation, as well as providing insight into the direction of tsunamiite researches. It explains characteristics of tsunami wave and tsunami currents.

Viruses are the agent responsible for perhaps up to one million cases of cancer worldwide each year - their study has provided clues to the causes and development of the most common human cancers. This volume discusses viruses directly associated with common human malignancies.

Dedicated to propagation of linear plane, spherical and cylindrical acoustic waves in different media. This book contains chapters that include principles of geometric acoustic in plane wave approximation. It deals with dynamic properties of wave fields. It contains several examples related to shadow zones and caustics.

C-glycoside chemistry has been one of the main topics in carbohydrate chemistry, because of the synthetic challenges posed, and because C-glycosides have the potential to serve as carbohydrate analogues resistant to metabolic processes. This book provides a broad coverage of the various synthetic methods for the preparation of C-glycosides.

Documents the integration of aging into the mainstream of psychology. This book presents overviews of key issues and research findings on mainstream topics. It offers information on such topics as: the seven sins of memory, categorizing the common breakdowns of memory in everyday life, and the special breakdown of sins that increase with aging.

Offers advice to help organizations improve their security and reduce possible risks of malicious code attacks. This book provides a comprehensive list of threats, an explanation of what they are and how they wreak havoc with systems, as well as a set of rules-to-live-by along with a system to develop procedures and implement security training.

International tax policy is bound to accelerate as the world becomes increasingly flat and better connected. This book describes the evolving role of International Taxation in a globalizing information economy. It also presents theoretical models that act as the basis for successful international tax competition.

The physical security of IT, network, and telecommunications assets is equally as important as cyber security. This book shows organizations how to design and implement physical security plans. It provides practical advice to help organizations to improve physical security for IT, network, and telecommunications assets.

Gives new VMS system managers a jumpstart in managing this powerful and reliable operating system. This work describes the essentials of what an OpenVMS System Manager will have to manage. It defines areas of OpenVMS System Management and describes why each is important and how it fits into the larger management task.

Shows developers how to create Windows applications using Visual Fortran software. This book details development methods and techniques for creating Fortran applications for Windows, the platform upon which developers can use Compaq Visual Fortran to create applications.

Wave energy, and other renewable energy resources is expected to provide a small but significant proportion of energy requirements without adding to pollution and global warming. This book considers alternative application methods, explains the concepts behind wave energy conversion and investigates wave power activities across the globe.