Books published by Elsevier Science & Technology

Includes papers originally presented at the 7th annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS'98) held in July of 1998 in Santa Barbara, California. This work includes papers that range from experimental neurobiology, to neuro-ethology, mathematics, physics, and engineering. It focuses on understanding how nervous systems compute.

Offers an overview of recombinant DNA techniques for the behavioral neuroscientist, with illustrative examples of applications. This book covers species such as rodents, Drosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis elegans and Danio rerio. It provides experimental techniques required to characterize the behavioral phenotypes of mutant animals.

A collection of papers that were presented at Symposium A, Fullerenes and Carbon Based Materials at the combined 1997 International Conference on Applied Materials/European Materials Research Society Spring meeting (ICAM'97/E-MRS'97) held in Strasbourg (France) from 16-20 June 1997.

Contains chapter related to Metallization that discusses cluster equipment for IC manufacturing, copper advanced technology, gap filling, mechanical reliability, deposition technology, electroless and electro-plating, copper metallization copper interconnects and patterning of aluminum. This book also covers Process Integration.

Contains the majority of papers presented at Symposium D, 'Group IV heterostructures, physics and devices (Si,Ge,C,a-Sn)', of the Spring Meeting of the European Materials Research Society, held at the Congress Centre, Strasbourg, France, 4-7 June 1996.

The symposium 'UV, Blue and Green Light Emission from Semiconductor Materials' was part of the European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in Strasbourg, 4-7 June, 1996 and it was arranged to bring together specialists in growth, characterization and device fabrication of materials suitable for visible and UV optoelectronic applications.

The European Materials Society decided to hold a Symposium entitled Materials and Processes for Submicron Technologies in June 16-19, 1998, within the yearly E-MRS Spring Meeting in Strasbourg, France. This title presents the articles which represent the 40 papers accepted for this particular E-MRS Meeting (Symposium N).

The Symposium on "Nitrides and related wide band gap materials" at the 1998 Spring Meeting of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) in Strasbourg, France, was the third Symposium of its kind at an E-MRS meeting. This book contains contributions covering the areas such as hetero-epitaxy, bulk growth, structural, electrical, and others.

Reprinted from: Sensors and actuators, v. 74, no. 1-3, 1999.

Contains the papers from the Symposium K Carbon-based Materials for Microelectronics of the European Materials Research Society meeting which was held on 16-19 June 1998, Strasbourg, France.

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

Focuses on 'Driver-Based' budgeting (ie using external and internal non-financial drivers to predict live item expenses). This book shows the benefits that Driver-Based Budgeting brings and as such is a 'tool kit for change'. It uses case studies and examples to ensure understanding, as well as checklists on implementation issues.

Discusses hydrogen bonds and water molecules. This book presents an overview of thermodynamical and structural properties of H-bonds. It is of interest to researchers in the fields of physics, chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology.

Highlights the core research that has led to the field of mesoporous materials. This book provides an overview of the studies which have led to the discovery of mesoporous materials as well as first preparations of mesoporous materials by researchers across the world. It is suitable for researchers working in the field of mesoporous materials.

Containing the Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Scientific Bases for the Preparation of Heterogeneous Catalysts, this title consists of papers summarizing most of the 139 oral communications and posters selected by the international scientific committee, composed of 27 experts in the field of catalyst preparation.

Provides an overview of the nature, manufacture, structure, properties, processing, and applications of commercially available polymers. This book covers a range of topics from both theory and practice. It is useful for both scientists and technologists.

Contains a collection of papers presented at the 9th International Symposium on the Scientific Bases for the Preparation of Heterogeneous Catalysts. The Symposium covered topics such as: key aspects in catalysts preparation, micro and mesoporous supports, supported metal catalysts, structured catalysts, tailored zeolites and catalysis by bases.

Offers a comprehensive report on the processing of relatively inexpensive coal deposits into transportation fluids using Fisher-Tropsch process Technology. In addition to catalysts and process developments, this book contains the history of the Fisher-Tropsch in Germany and Japan based on captured documents by allied forces.

The 31st Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology was held at Trinity and All Saints College in Leeds under the title "Life Cycle Tribology" from 7th September until 10th September 2004. This work includes areas such as: automotive tribology, bearings, bio-degradability and sustainability, bio-tribology, condition monitoring, contact mechanics, and more.

Contains the lectures and peer-reviewed oral and poster contributions presented at the 4th International Symposium on Nanoporous Materials, hosted in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, June, 2005. This volume covers complementary approaches to and advances in the field with pore sizes larger than 1nm, such as periodic mesoporous molecular sieves.

Contains papers presented at APHYS-2003, held in Badajoz (Spain), October 2003, which included the following Plenary Lectures: Nanobiotechnology - Interactions of Cells with Nanofeatured Surfaces and with Nanoparticles; Radiation Protection of Nuclear Workers - Ethical Issues; and Chaotic Data Encryption for Optical Communications.

It is important for all those engaged in business to understand how financial ratios can be used to measure the performance of a business. This book uses a model, the Enterprise Stewardship Model to illustrate the power - and the limitations - of financial ratios and explore the tangible and intangible aspects of creating value in a business.

Provides information on developments in risk management policies and practices. This book offers information on how to develop, implement and use a risk management system. It also covers credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk, investment risk, event risk.

Enable financial professionals to take commercial documents and visualise how they interact with the work of an accountant, explaining why every board of management appears to focus on financial data. This book explains the impact of choices in accounting treatment upon the financial data an entity produces.

A reference to International Accounting Standards. It provides an accelerated route to understanding the key principles of the International Accounting rules and the key skills to ease the transition to IAS. It shows the impact both on preparation and presentation of financial information and the consequences for analysis and interpretation.

Infectious diseases are an ever present threat to humans. This title provides a review of viruses among human populations in the twenty-first century. It includes chapters on SARS, Pandemic Threat of Avian Influenza Viruses, West Nile Virus, Monkeypox Virus, Hantavirus, Nipah Virus and Hendra Virus, Japanese Encephalitis Virus, and more.

Provides an overview of significant concepts in Bioinformatics from biological, mathematical, and computational perspectives. This work discusses the tools utilized for the annotation of fungal genomes and addresses issues related to automated annotation generation in a high throughput biotechnology environment.