Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Free radical species are generally short-lived due to their high reactivity and thus direct measurement and identification are often impossible. This title assembles and assesses the relevant and reliable experimental approaches used towards the measurement of radicals and radical-mediated damage in chemical systems, in cells and in tissues.

Covers modern advances in the determination of glycoprotein structure and in the biosynthesis of mammalian, bacterial, yeast, plant and insect glycoproteins. This book also features two chapters on functional aspects (glycoprotein hormones and collagens). It is useful for glycobiologist researchers, and scientists working in the life sciences.

Contains eight review-type contributions by leading scientists in the field of synthetic metals. This work highlights the state-of-the-art of the field and assesses the prospects for future research.

Presents a collection of articles reflecting research in visual perception, specifically concentrating on neural correlates of perception. This book covers topics from receptive field analyses to shape perception and eye movements. It features a variety of methodological approaches, including single-neuron recordings, psychophysics, and more.

Provides the various branches of economics with handbooks which are reference sources. This title presents self-contained survey of the state of the topic under examination. It summarizes the discussions in journals, and elucidate developments. It is suitable for use by professional researchers, and advanced graduate students.

Intended for scientists planning experiments in medical and behavioral research, this handbook and dictionary is also recommended as a textbook for students of Experimental Design or accompanying courses in Statistics. It provides short explanations for many terms related to experimental design.

Interpolation was the first technique for obtaining an approximation of a function. Extrapolation is used in numerical analysis to improve the accuracy of a process depending of a parameter or to accelerate the convergence of a sequence. This book focuses on the two closely related subjects: interpolation and extrapolation.

Deals with developments in bioseparation engineering and the environmental engineering which includes waste water treatment and bioremediation. This book covers many disciplines such as chemical engineering, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, and microbiology.

The disturbance of soils, like other phenomena of environmental pollution has become a subject of extensive concern and has led to a vast amount of literature in the field of enzymology. This book offers a comprehensive review of the enzymological literature on three great categories of disturbed soils, including their remediation.

Part of the series "Vibrational Spectra and Structure", this book presents quantum mechanical computations for suitably selected molecules that have been utilized to explain the origins of some structure bonding interrelationships and silicates and to evaluate their force constants.

The 24th Leeds-Lyon Symposium was held in London from 4th-6th September 1997, where it was hosted by the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. This book contains 60 papers presented in this symposium and covers topics such as lubricants, wear, friction reduction, hydrodynamics, elastohydrodynamic lubrication, and others.

In spite of the maturing of the subject of molybdenum disulphide lubrication, it is clear that there are still many aspects in which disagreements persist. This book attempts to analyse the various aspects of this technology about which there are disagreements or controversy, and come to a firm conclusion about some of the mechanisms involved.

Reducing environmental hazard and human impact on different ecosystems, with special emphasis on rural landscapes is the main topic of different environmental policies. This book covers the bioindication approach of rural landscapes and man managed ecosystems including both urbanised and industrialised ones.

The International Conference on Mechanical Design and Production has over the years established itself as an excellent forum for the exchange of ideas in these established fields. This book offers a sample that represents the quality and breadth of both the work and the conference.

Presents a review of the research topics, empirical findings, and methods that comprise modern labor economics. This work focuses on classic topics of labor supply and demand, the size and nature of the elasticities between the two, and their impact on the wage structure.

Contains the proceedings from Parallel CFD 2005 covering the aspects of the theory and applications of parallel computational fluid dynamics from the traditional to the contemporary issues. This is a report on research in an area which is rapidly changing. It is important to those interested in solving fluid dynamics problems.

Intended for graduate students in functional analysis, numerical analysis, and ill-posed and inverse problems, this book presents a general method for solving operator equations, especially non-linear and ill-posed. It also contains a development of a general method, the dynamical systems method, and DSM for solving operator equations.

The 7th International Symposium on the Characterization of Porous Solids (COPS-VII) was held in the Congress Centre in Aix-en-Provence between the 25th-28th May 2005. This symposium covers results of fundamental and applied research on the characterization of porous solids.

Covers the proceedings of the 4th Asia-Pacific Chemical Reaction Engineering Symposium (APCRE'05), held at Gyeongju, Korea between June 12 and June 15, 2005, with a theme of 'New Opportunities of Chemical Reaction Engineering in Asia-Pacific Region'. This book presents an overview of various developments in chemical reaction engineering.

Spans a wide range of topics of interest to the drug discovery community. This book touches upon the following: the Herg ion channel; fluorescence-based high throughput assay; aprepitant and neurokinin receptors; muscarinic receptor targets; gene activation pathways; malaria and antimalarial drugs; and, HIV virus mutation and new therapeutics.

A reference work of civil aviation terminology and its usage in various contexts. This work contains terms and expressions relating to air traffic control, air navigation, flight operations, aviation meteorology, radio communications, air transport, economics of civil aviation, airports, aerodynamics, and aviation engines.

Emphasizing the aspects of ion-exchange membranes, this book provides an overview of ion-exchange membrane separation processes covering the fundamentals as well as developments of the different products and processes and their applications. It is intended for plant managers, process engineers, research scientists and graduate students.

Discusses the process of economic reforms in developing countries by reducing state involvement in the economy through privatization, opening up the economy to foreign trade. This book includes such topics as econometric and other empirical modeling tools for development analysis and the role of technology in the development process.

Surface activity is present in living systems; for example in body fluid or cell soup and are crucial to living matter and its organization. This work proposes a liquid membrane hypothesis of drug action for surface-active drugs. It also gives an account of the hypothesis and contains details of the application of surface activity in therapeutics.

Contains terms covering Vitamin Technology; Origin of vitamins; Fat-soluble and Water-soluble vitamins; Vitamins as antioxidants; Structural analysis; Antibiotics and their action; Biochemistry; and more. This dictionary is suitable for pharmacologists, pharmaceutists and medical doctors. It includes definitions in several prominent languages.

Provides approaches for improving and sustaining socioeconomic benefits from LMEs. This book offers set of guidelines for possible interrelationship management programs. It addresses taxing issues and problems pertaining to the marine ecosystems. It provides a matrix of the interdependence of economic, social, cultural and governance elements.

Gallium Nitride and its alloys with InN and AlN, have emerged as important semiconductor materials. The 4 day symposium held in Strasbourg (France) from 16-20 June 1997, provided a forum for active nitride researchers covering the developments in all areas of nitride semiconductors. This work talks about this symposium.