Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) involve substituting machines capable of performing a variety of tasks for machines dedicated to the performance of specific tasks. This volume contains material in this field, and aims to interest researchers, managers and students concerned with problems related to the field.

Describes multivariate analysis in sensory science and both methods for aggregated and individual sensory profiles are discussed. This title presents processes and results in such a way that they can be understood not only by statisticians but also by experienced sensory panel leaders and users of sensory analysis.

Provides an overview of the Critical Testing Methodolgy and Framework, standard ISO/IEC 9646. This text serves as a guide to the subject, enabling readers to understand existing test documents - especially test suites - and assist readers in producing their own documents.

Provides designers with an in-depth overview on the interdisciplinary methods involved in the design of switching mode power supplies. This book adopts a systemic approach, subdividing the information into functional blocks whose properties and relationships are evaluated and compared with each other.

Provides a multi-faceted overview of the power and effectiveness of computation techniques in engineering electromagnetics. This publication explores advanced topics of research in field computation. Contributions are sourced from international experts, ensuring a specialist perspective.

Presents an understanding of the aging degradation of the major pressurized and boiling water reactor structures and components. This work contains discussions that summarize the aging-related information and are supported with extensive references, including to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) documents.

Vertisols, one of the eleven established soil orders, are clay soils with unusual and interesting properties. They cover more than 350 million hectares of land in the world and in tropical Africa alone there are over 100 million hectares. This book talks about vertisols.

No other book on natural rubber covers such a broad spectrum of subjects as this unique publication. Subjects related to the biology, cultivation and technology of natural rubber are dealt with, along with such important aspects as its history, production and processing, through to its sophisticated engineering applications.

A global review of the mechanisms, incidence and control measures related to the problems of soil compaction in agriculture, forestry and other cropping systems. This volume should be of interest to soil scientists, agricultural engineers and those involved with irrigation, drainage and tillage.

The international conference on parallel computing ParCo97 (Parallel Computing 97) was held in Bonn, Germany from 19 to 22 September 1997. This book contains the proceedings of this conference and gives an overview of the advances with respect to the development of various types of parallel computers and their application to a range of problems.

Different aspects of high-T superconductivity and the work on 'traditional' superconductors have been exposed at the Beijing conference. This title includes the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity - High Temperature Superconductors.

Divided into three parts, this book presents a general view of composites with the accent on metal - and ceramic-matrix composites, looks at the composite microstructures considered to be either optimal or reasonable in resisting a particular loading and links together fabrication, structure and properties chains.

Contains contributions from the invited selected authors who had participated in or observed the explosive development of biochemistry and molecular biology, in order to record their personal recollections of the times and circumstances in which they did their work.

Divided into two parts, this book describes the evolution of mercury cadmium telluride (HgCdTe) imager structures based upon published patents and patent applications. It focuses on the steps of manufacturing and structures of imagers. The first part covers monolithic arrays, and the second part describes hybrid arrays.

Covers topics that include typical CFD areas such as turbulence, Navier-Stokes and Euler solvers, reactive flows, with a good balance between both university and industrial applications. In addition, this book features other applications making extensive use of CFD such as climate modelling and environmental applications.

Covers logical systems known as type-free or self-referential. This book shows that there are theories of self-application, involving both operations and truth which can serve as foundations for property theory and formal semantics.

Focuses on selected chemical aspects of rare-earth materials. This title covers topics that range from a basic treatment of crystalline electric-field effects and chemical interactions in organic solvents, to separation processes, electrochemical behaviors which impact corrosion, oxidation resistance, chemical energy storage and sensor technology.

Deals with the following topics: essential characteristics of superfluid 4He; properties of coherent spin dynamics in superfluid 3He; thermodynamic transitions between superfluid states; properties of phases of 3He adsorbed on graphite; and, the properties of multilayer 3He-4He mixture films.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of research in algorithms, architectures and compilation for parallel systems. This work includes contributions that focus on domains where embedded systems are required, either oriented to application-specific or to programmable realisations.

Discusses the diffusion, transfer and implementation of information and software technology. The first six sections of the text each represent a major area of concern in current technology transfer of information, while the seventh contains summary reports of working sessions.

This volume contains six review articles dealing with topics of current research interest in optics and in related fields. Chapters look at gap solitons, digital halftoning and the spatial reconstructuring of optical images from phase modulated images.

Graphic displays such as charts, graphs, diagrams, and maps play in important role in the design and presentation of instructional materials education. There is also a strong need in scientific, technical and administrative fields to visually present facts, laws, principles etc. This book talks about the comprehension of graphics.

Concentrates on age differences in word and language processing, because these factors relate to reading which is a critical cognitive process used in everyday life. This book attempts to demonstrate the utility of the process-specific approach to cognitive aging.

Brings together a number of studies which examine the ways in which the retention and selectivity of separations in high-performance liquid chromatography are dependent on the chemical structure of the analytes and the properties of the stationary and mobile phases.

Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) is capable of very high resolution separations, requiring only small amounts of samples and reagents. CE can be readily adapted to automatic sample handling and real time data processing. This book covers various aspects of CE ranging from the principles and technical aspects to the important applications.

Based on the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Vision in Vehicles, this work contains papers that consider various types of vehicles (including underground mining vehicles, helicopters, trains and motorcycles), though the majority of papers deal with automobiles and their drivers.

Dry chemistry has been accepted as an important technology in medical laboratories for many years. This book contains a detailed overview of the knowledge in the field of dry chemistry both in the physicians' office laboratories and large medical laboratories. It presents the results from various evaluation studies.