ISBN,URL,TITLE,AUTHORS,EDITION,VOLUME,PAGES,IMPRINT,BINDING,DESCRIPTION,PUBDATE,USD,Euro,REVIEW,TOC,SUBJECT,BOOK SERIES,SUPER AREA "0-444-51144-X","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/044451144X"",""Hyperlink"")","Handbook of Magnetic Materials : Volume 14","Buschow, K.H.J.;Buschow, K.H. J.","","Volume 14 ","420","North-Holland","HC","Hardbound. Magnetoelectronics is a novel and rapidly developing field. This new field is frequently referred to as spin-electronics or spintronics. It includes spin-utilizing devices that need neither a magnetic field nor magnetic materials. In semiconductor devices, the spin of the carriers has only played a very modest role so far because well established semiconductor devices are non-magnetic and show only negligible effects of spin. Nanoscale thin films and multilayers, nanocrystalline magnetic materials, granular films, and amorphous alloys have attracted much attention in the last few decades, in the field of basic research as well as in the broader field of materials science. Such heterogeneous materials display uncommon magnetic properties that virtually do no occur in bulk materials. This is true, in particular with respect to surface (interface) magnetic anisotropy and surface (interface) magnetostrictive strains and giant magnetoresistance. The","01-AUG-02","200.00 ","200.00 ","...these volumes will be the most comprehensive work to date on the subject of ferromagnetism ... wherever the experimentalists are playing, they will find these volumes a must...,(Physics Today )","1. III-V Ferromagnetic Semiconductors (F. Matsukara, H. Ohno, T. Dietl). 2. Magnetoelasticity in nanoscale heterogeneous materials (H.H. Duc, P.E. Brommer). 3. Magnetic and superconducting properties of rare earth borocarbides of the type RNi2B2C (K.H. Mueller, G. Fuchs, S.L. Drechsler). 4. Spontaneous magnetoelastic effects in gadolinium compounds (A. Lindbaum, M. Rotter).","Magnetic Properties and Materials","Handbook on Magnetic Materials","Physics and Astronomy" "0-444-51054-0","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0444510540"",""Hyperlink"")","Progress in Medicinal Chemistry : Volume 40","King, F.D.;Oxford, A.W.;Ellis, G.P.;Luscombe, D.K.;Reitz, A.B.;Dax, S.L.;King, F.D.;Oxford, A.W.","","Volume 40 ","154","Elsevier","HC","Hardbound. This volume features: • Comprehensive accounts of the biological rationale, design and clinical potential of new drug molecules. • Valuable summaries of structure-activity relationships in topical areas of medicinal chemistry. • Extensive references to the biology, medicinal chemistry and clinical aspects of each topic. ","01-NOV-02","115.00 ","115.00 ","...may the Progress in Medicinal Chemistry series continue its invaluable service...,(Chemistry and Industry);,... a valuable source of reference,(British Medical Journal);,These volumes should be on the shelves of all specialist libraries which claim to cater for chemists, biologists, doctors and pharmacists and should be available to everyone interested in the contemporary controversy about drugs, drug firms and the community.,(Pharmaceutical Journal);,...the consistently high standards for this series have been maintained in the present volume. This volume should certainly take its place next to the previous volumes in this series in libraries devoted to medicinal chemistry and drug research...,(Journal of Medicinal Chemistry)","Preface. List of Contributors. 1. The discovery and development of atorvastatin, a potent novel hypolipidemic agent (B.D. Roth). 2. Discovery of CEP-1347/KT-7515, an inhibitor of the JNK/SAPK pathway for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases (M.S. Saporito, R.L. Hudkins, A.C. Maroney). 3. Discovery of second generation quinazolinone non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors of HIV-1 (J.W. Corbett, J.D. Rodgers). 4. Molecular modeling of Opioid Receptor-Ligand Complexes (I. McFadyen, T. Metzger, G. Subramanian, G. Poda, E. Jorvig, D.M. Ferguson). Subject Index. Author Index (Vols 1-39). Subject Index (Vols 1-39). ","Pharmaceutical Science","Progress in Medicinal Chemistry","Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical Science and Toxicology" "0-08-044085-1","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0080440851"",""Hyperlink"")","Stability of Nonlinear Shells","Shilkrut, D.;Riks, E.",""," ","496","Elsevier","HC","Hardbound. Stability of NonLinear Shells is a compilation of the author's work on analyzing the behaviour of spherical caps and related shell structures under various (axisymmetric) load systems. Differing from other texts on shells of revolution, it is one of the first attempts to deal with effects of multi-parameter load systems. This extension leads to the discovery of some new, hitherto unknown phenomena exhibited by these structures. In addition, the book presents a novel way to characterize properties of solutions of the governing equations for spherical caps - a classification anchored in a theory called reciprocal systems. The author has introduced a deformation map, a projection of multi-dimensional solutions to two-dimensional graphs, to enable analysts to gain insight into the physical meaning of the results obtained. Numerous examples illustrate the concepts introduced. This book also comes to grips with many misconceptions exis","01-MAR-02","150.00 ","150.00 ","","Chapter headings. Prefaces. In Memoriam. A Personal Note from the Scientific Editor. From the Rector of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Introduction by the author. Basic Equations of Geometrically Nonlinear Shells. Axisymmetric thermoelastic deformation of shells of revolution. Basic equations for circular plates and spherical caps. Axisymmetric thermoelastic deformation of shallow shells of revolution. Nonsymmetric shallow homogeneous isotropic caps of revolution of constant thickness. Qualitative Investigations of Geometrically Nonlinear Shells. Some important properties of shallow spherical caps and circular plates subjected to transverse loads. Reciprocal systems of shallow shells. Properties of reciprocal systems: shallow shells. Nonreciprocal shallow systems. A class of reciprocal systems based on spherical caps subjected to nonsymmetric loading. Some general remarks concerning the properties of reciprocal systems. Reduction of some thermoelastic problems of shallow shells to equivalent elastic problems. Some general properties of elastic, geometrically nonlinear, axisymmetrically deformed shallow caps of revolution. Reciprocal systems of non shallow shells. About the compatibility equations. Nonregular isometric transformations of surfaces and nonregular solutions of the theory of geometrically nonlinear shells. Numerical Investigations of Axisymmetrically Loaded Geometrically Nonlinear Shallow Spherical Caps and Circular Plates (A Survey). Introduction and short survey of numerical methods. Deformation of circular plates under transverse loading. Buckling and postbuckling behavior of circular plates under compression or under a combination of compression and bending. Clamped spherical cap subjected to uniform external pressure. Clamped spherical caps under concentrated loads at the apex, axisymmetric line loads, and miscellaneous case. Caps with a movable clamped edge subjected to different types of loading. The hinged cap in pure bending. Axisymmetric deformation states and the phenomena of bifurcation in compression and tension. Deformation of hinged spherical caps under various types of loading. A comparison of the behavior of hinged and clamped caps: Returning to the role of membrane stresses in the buckling process. Shallow spherical caps with flanges. A model for imperfect support conditions. Spherical Caps Subjected to Multi-Parameter Loading. The Deformation Map. Influence of the Loading Path on the Cap's Behavior. Thermo-Elastic Deformations. Axisymmetric deformation of hinged spherical caps under a two-parameter load system (q and M). Nonsymmetric bifurcation phenomena in the case of a two-parameter loading. The deformation map - The analysis tool for systems under multi-parameter external loads. Three-parametric loading systems and the manifestation of chaos-like phenomena in statics. The influence of the loading procedure in the case of a multi-parameter load system. Multi-parametric thermo-elastic problems: Their analogy with pure elastic problems and some additional numerical results. Some Special Problems and the Behavior of Deep Caps. Deformation of circular plates on elastic foundation. A model of crack formation and delamination in layered composites. Stability phenomena in a spherical cap loaded by means of a rigid plate with unilateral contact between them. Bifurcation phenomena in a truncated spherical cap in tension. Deformation and stability of deep spherical caps. Axisymmetric deformation of deep hemispheric shells. The Stability of Equilibrium States of Geometrically Nonlinear Shells. Some remarks on the stability of equilibrium states of shells and geometrically nonlinear conservative structures in general. Formulation of the stability criterion as a test for the axisymmetric equilibrium states of spherical caps. Investigating stability of equilibrium states of shallow spherical shells by the method of small oscillations. Alternative tests for stability for shallow caps of revolution in the subspace of axisymmetric deformations. Total potential energy of equilibrium states and a physical explanation of snap-through process. Stability of axisymmetric equilibrium states of non-shallow spherical caps subjected to one-parametric systems of loading. Comparison of reported numerical results and data of other authors about eigenfrequencies of nonlinear shells. Concluding remarks on the stability of single parametric loading systems. References. Index ","Mechanical Engineering","Studies in Applied Mechanics","Engineering, Energy and Technology" "00-804406-06","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0080440606"",""Hyperlink"")","Multi-Wavelength Observations of Coronal Structure and Dynamics","Martens, P.;Cauffman, D.",""," ","560","Pergamon","HC","Hardbound. These are the Proceedings of the Yohkoh 10th Anniversary Meeting, a COSPAR Colloquium held in Kona, Hawaii, USA, on January 20-24, 2002. The title of the meeting was Multi-Wavelength Observations of Coronal Structure and Dynamics. In these proceedings the many and varied advances of the dynamics solar atmosphere in the past ten years of observations by Yohkoh have been reviewed.","01-OCT-02","220.00 ","220.00 ","","Preface. Ten Years of Yohkoh and its Current Status: A Brief Summary (T. Kosugi, L.W. Acton). Section 1. Quiet Sun and Solar Wind Section 2. Active Region and Bright Point Studies Section 3. Education and Public Outreach Section 4. Sigmoidality and Helicity Section 5. Reconnection in Flares Section 6. MHD Simulations of Emergence and Eruptions Section 7. Fine Structure in Flares Section 8. Preflare Phenomena Section 9. Flare Plasma Dynamics Section 10. Coronal Mass Ejections Section 11. Solar Cycle Studies Section 12. High Energy Emission in Flares Section 13. Analysis Tools Section 14. Future Observing. List of Acronyms. List of Participants. Index of Authors. ","Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Science (General)","COSPAR Colloquia Series","Physics and Astronomy" "0-444-51056-7","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0444510567"",""Hyperlink"")","Free Electron Lasers 2001","Genz, H.;Brunken, M.;Richter, A.",""," ","500","North-Holland","HC","Hardbound. The 23rd International Free Electron Laser Conference and the 8th FEL Users Workshop were held on August 20-24, 2001 at the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt (TUD) in Germany. This conference has been one in a series of FEL Conferences administered by an International Executive Committee. It was organized by the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the TUD in which in 1996 the first Free Electron Laser in Germany went into operation with the superconducting Darmstadt electron linear accelerator (S-DALINAC) as a driver. ","01-MAY-02","100.00 ","100.00 ","","Preface. Committees. Sponsors. FEL Prize. Conference photos. Part I. Section I. FEL Prize and First Lasings Section II. SASE FELs Section III. Linac and High Power FELs Section IV. Storage Ring FELs Section V. Long Wavelengths FELs Section VI. Accelerator Technology and Components Section VII. Photon Beam Diagnostics Section VIII. New Developments and Proposals Section IX. FEL Theory Section X. Applications Part II. Section XI. SASE FELs Section XII. Linac and High Power FELs Section XIII. Long Wavelength FELs Section XIV. Accelerator Technology and Components Section XV. Photon Beam Diagnostics Section XVI. New Developments and Proposals Section XVII. FEL Theory Section XVIII. Applications ","Instrumentation and Techniques in Experimental Physics","","Physics and Astronomy" "0-444-51048-6","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0444510486"",""Hyperlink"")","Gene Expression at the Beginning of Animal Development","DePamphilis, M.L.",""," ","296","Elsevier","HC","Hardbound. The beginning of life may be a miracle to some, and a mystery to others, but it is certainly one of the most exciting and perhaps controversial fields of scientific investigation in the 21st century. Among the metazoa, life begins when an egg is fertilized by a sperm. The sperm provides a genetic blueprint from the father and perhaps some critical proteins. The egg provides a genetic blueprint from the mother together with a large reservoir of mRNAs and proteins that are required for DNA replication, cell division and the onset of zygotic gene expression. All of the thousands of genes in these two mature gametes are transcriptionally silent and remain so until fertilization. This work focuses on three biological systems, providing the reader with a clear understanding of the current state of affairs, and the ability to identify common principles as well as critical differences that are responsible for beginning the process of animal develo","01-AUG-02","105.00 ","105.00 ","","Gene expression during mouse spermatogenesis (K. Steger). Mouse egg zona pellucida, vitelline envelope, and related extracellular glycoproteins (L. Jovine, E.S. Litscher, P.M. Wassarman). Activation of zygotic gene expression in the mouse (M.L. DePamphilis, K.J. Kaneko, A. Vassilev). Early embryonic gene transcription in xenopus (G.J.C. Veenstra). Regulation of the cell cycle during oogenesis and early embryogenesis in drosophila (G. Bosco, T.L. Orr-Weaver). Transcriptional control of anterior-posterior patterning in the drosophila embryo (A. Nasiadka, B.H. Dietrich, H.M. Krause). Embryonic stem cell development (C. Stewart). Genomic imprinting (K.L. Arney, S. Erhardt, M.A. Surani). ","Developmental Biology","Advances in Developmental Biology and Biochemistry","Life Sciences" "0-444-50988-7","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0444509887"",""Hyperlink"")","Current Trends in Clinical Medicine","Vargas Arenas, R.E.;Oletta, J.F.;Velasco, M.",""," ","252","Excerpta Medica","HC","Hardbound. These proceedings describe new and changing concepts in Internal Medicine, particularly in areas such as Cardiology, Endocrinology, Nephrology, Central Nervous System and Hypertension. New advances in the treatment of Hypertension and in the diagnosis of different Central Nervous System diseases have been made in the last years, and these proceedings feature: new aspects in the treatment of arterial hypertension. new aspects of certain kidney diseases. diagnosis of neuroophthalmological diseases. The physicians dedicated to several specialties of Internal Medicine will find this volume useful in their medical practice. ","01-JUL-02","100.00 ","100.00 ","","Preface. Acknowledgements. Introductory remarks. Presidential symposium. Medicine of the XXI century. The human genome project and its importance in clinical medicine (A.B. Falcón de Vargas). Prevention and health for the 21stI century (J.F. Oletta). Cardiovasular surgery in perspective (A. Bello). Clinical focus and patient management in the XXI century within the context of the advances in medicine (C.A. Moros-Ghersi). Arterial hypertension. Renal changes in secondary hypertension. A review (J.A. Pinto, I. Daboín). Renovascular and renal parenchymal arterial hypertension: clinical considerations (R.E. Vargas-Arenas). Experiences and controversies related to the endovascular treatment of renovascular hypertension (F. Tortoledo, L. Izaguirre, M.A. Tortoledo). Hypertension in the elderly: evidence-based management (L. Guevara-Matheus). Functional aspects of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and angiotensin II receptor AT1 blockers in arterial hypertension (F. Contreras et al.). Dopamine, hypertension and obesity (F. Contreras et al.). Use of calcium antagonists in hypertension (R. Hernández Hernández et al.). Endocrinology. Clinical-cytological study of thyroid nodule (J.Ayala-Landa, E.G. Pérez). Insulinemia: relation with obesity and high blood pressure (V.R. Omaira et al.). Genetics. Genetics aspects of cardiovascular diseases (A.B. Falcón de Vargas). Hematology. Disseminated intravascular coagulation (M. Prieto). Blunted hemodynamic and hormonal responses to tilt-test in patients with sickle-cell disease (E. Romero-Vecchione et al.). Immunology. Endothelial cells and acute rejection in organ transplantation: a review with emphasis on adhesion molecules (P. Clesca). Original papers. Ischemic-microvascular ocular motor nerves palsies: a 7-year experience of the neuro-ophthalmology Unit, Caracas Vargas Hospital (M. Ramella, R. Muci-Mendoza). Glomerular lesions in Venezuelan mestizos with human immunodeficiency virus infection (R.E. Vargas-Arenas et al.). Zincuria and zincemia in postmenopausal osteoporosis (F. Contreras et al.). Index of authors. Keyword index. ","Medicine, General and Internal","International Congress Series","Medicine" "0-444-51122-9","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0444511229"",""Hyperlink"")","Neutron, X-rays and Light. Scattering Methods Applied to Soft Condensed Matter","Lindner, P.;Zemb, Th.",""," ","548","North-Holland","HC","Hardbound. Scattering experiments,using X-ray, light and neutron sources (in historical order) are key techniques for studying structure and dynamics in systems containing colliods, polymers, surfactants and biological macromolecules, summarized here as soft condensed matter. The education in this field in Europe is very heterogeneous and frequently inadequate, which severely limits an efficient use of these methods, especially at large-scale facilities. The series of ""Bombannes"" schools and the completely revised and updated second edition of the lecture notes are devoted to a practical approach to current methodology of static and dynamic techiques. Basic information on data interpretation, on the complementarity of the different types of radiation, as well as information on recent applications and developments is presented. The aim is to avoid over - as well as under-exploitation of data. ","01-AUG-02","185.00 ","185.00 ","","Part I. Using general principles 1. Introduction to scattering experiments (P.N. Pusey) 2. Scattering experiments: Experimental aspects, initial data reduction and absolute calibration (P. Lindner) 3. General theorems in small-angle scattering (O. Spalla) 4. The inverse scattering problem in small angle scattering (O. Glatter) 5. Fourier transformation and deconvolution (O. Glatter) Part II. Methods 6. Instrumentation for small-angle x-ray and neutron scattering and instrumental smearing effects (J.S. Pederson) 7. Contrast and contrast variaion in neutron, x-ray and light scatering (P. Schurtenberger) 8. Static light scattering of large systems (O. Glatter) 9. Dynamic light scattering (P.N. Pusey) 10.Inelastic neutron scattering: Dynamics of polymers (R. Zorn) Part III. Revealing microstructures of soft condensed matter 11. Static properties of polymers (P. Schurtenberger) 12. Surfactant micelles and bilayers: Shapes and interactions (G. Porte) 13. Scattering by microemulsions (Th. Zemb) 14. Interacting colloidal suspensions (R. Klein) 15. Monte Carlo simulation techniques applied in the analysis of small-angle scattering data from colloids and polymer system (J.S. Pederson) 16. Modelling of small-angle scattering data from colloids and polymer systems (J.S. Pedersen) Part IV. Special Applications 17. Scattering experiments under external constraints: SANS and Shear flow (P. Lindner) 18. Using synchrotron radiation to study structure development in polymer processing (A.J.Ryan) 19. Biological applications of small-angle neutron scattering (R.P. May) 20. Light scattering in turbid suspensions, a tutorial (J. Ricka) 21. Use of scattering methods in chemical industr - SAXS an SANS from fibers and films (J. Rieger) Subject Index ","Superconductivity","North-Holland Delta Series","Physics and Astronomy" "1-85617-388-7","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/1856173887"",""Hyperlink"")","Handbook of Infra-red Technologies","Henini, M.;Razeghi, M.",""," ","","Elsevier Advanced Technology","HC","Hardbound. The use of lasers which emit infra-red radiation and sophisticated detectors of IR radiation is increasing dramatically: they are being used for long-distance fibre-optic communications and remote environmental monitoring and sensing. Thus they are of interest to the telecommunications industry and the military in particular. This book has been designed to bring together what is known on these devices, using an international group of contributors. ","01-NOV-02","191.00 ","191.00 ","","Chapter 1 - MCT Chapter 2 - Comparison of MCT, QWIP, InSb with Microbolometer Chapter 3 - PolySiGe Microbolometers Chapter 4 - Type II Detectors Chapter 5 - Silicon Infra-red Focal Plane Arrays Chapter 6 - New Sb-based Materials for Infra-red Photon Detectors Chapter 7 - InAs/ GaSb for VLWIR: Recent Advances and Future Trends Chapter 8 - HgCdTe 2D Arrays Chapter 9 - Status of HgCdTe-MBE Technology Chapter 10 - Quantum well infra-red Photodetector R&D Chapter 11 - Si/SiGe IR Detectors Chapter 12 - Fundamentals of Spin-filtering in Ferromagnetic Metals with Application to Spin Sensors ","Infrared Physics","","Physics and Astronomy" "1-85617-395-X","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/185617395X"",""Hyperlink"")","Hydroblasting and Coating of Steel Structures","Momber, A.;Deacon, D.H.",""," ","350","Elsevier Advanced Technology","HC","Hardbound. This book systematically and critically reviews the state of current hydroblasting technology and its applications. The book is essentially practical in nature and is written by two experts in the field.","01-MAR-03","191.00 ","191.00 ","","Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - Basics of Hydroblasting Pressure Ranges General Applications 2.3 Properties and Structure of High-Speed Water Jets 2.4 Basic Parameter Influence on the Coating Removal 2.5 Coating Removal Process Models Chapter 3 - Hydroblasting Equipment 3.1 High-Pressure Waterjet Machines 3.2 Pressure Generator 3.3 High-Pressure Hoses and Armatures 3.4 Hydroblasting Tools 3.5 Nozzle Carriers 3.6 High-Pressure Waterjet Nozzles 3.7 On-Line Vacuuming and Suction Devices 3.8 Water Treatment Devices Chapter 4 - Steel Surface Preparation by Hydroblasting 4.1 General Performance and Site Organization 4.2 Efficiency of Hydroblasting Processes 4.3 Cost Aspects 4.4 Problems of Disposal 4.5 Health Features of Hydroblasting 4.6 Selected Site-Reports Chapter 5 - Surface Quality Aspects 5.1 Definition of What Includes the Term Surface Quality 5.2 Adhering Paint 5.3 Impurities (oil, grease, marine growth) 5.4 Pull-Off Strength 5.5 Flash Rust 5.6 Moisture 5.7 Salt Level (Osmotic blistering) 5.8 Presence of Other Elements 5.9 Embedded Abrasive Particle Chapter 6 - Hydroblasting Standards 6.1 Systematics of Standards Published so far (visual, written, flash rust consideration etc) 6.2 Hempel 6.3 International Paint 6.4 US Navy 6.5 NACE/SSPC 6.6 STG 2222 Hamburg 6.7 Jotun (Flash Rust Standard) Chapter 7 - Surface-Tolerant Coating systems 7.1 General Philosophy (How do they work?) 7.2 Structure and Properties 7.3 On-Site Application Reports References Appendix ","Fluids Engineering","","Engineering, Energy and Technology" "1-85617-387-9","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/1856173879"",""Hyperlink"")","High-temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Fundamentals, Design and Applications","Singhal, S.C.;Kendall, K.",""," ","","Elsevier Advanced Technology","HC","Hardbound. The growing interest in fuel cells as a sustainable source of energy is pulling with it the need for new books which provide comprehensive and practical information on specific types of fuel cell and their application. This landmark volume on solid oxide fuel cells contains contributions from experts of international repute, and provides a single source of the latest knowledge on this topic.","01-NOV-02","206.00 ","206.00 ","","Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - History of SOFCs Chapter 3 - Thermodynamics Chapter 4 - Electrolyte Chapter 5 - Cathode Chapter 6 - Anode Chapter 7 - Interconnect (ceramic, metallic) Chapter 8 - Electrode Polarizations Chapter 9 - Fuels and Fuel Processing Chapter 10 - Cell and Stack Designs Chapter 11 - Cell and Stack Modelling Chapter 12 - Cell and Stack Testing Chapter 13 - Applications and Demonstrations ","Hydrogen Energy and Fuel Cells","","Engineering, Energy and Technology" "1-85617-391-7","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/1856173917"",""Hyperlink"")","Troubleshooting Centrifugal Pumps and their Systems","Palgrave, R.",""," ","","Elsevier Advanced Technology","HC","Hardbound. Pumps are fine until they malfunction or break down. When that happens, the first priority is to get the pump functioning again and to keep 'down time' to a minimum. Many problems can be diagnosed and rectified using a combination of knowledge and experience, the latter coming over time. This book, written by a very experienced engineer, guides the reader through diagnostic pathways leading to logical explanations for the malfunctions and their correction.","01-NOV-02","151.00 ","151.00 ","","Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - Centrifugal Pump Basics How Centrifugal Pumps Work Performance Curves Combined Impellers For: • More Flow • More Pressure Cavitation And Npsh Chapter 3 - Pipe System Basics Frictional Head Systems Combined Friction And Static Head Systems Mainly Static Head Systems Interaction Between Pump And System; Equilibrium Flow Pipe-Work Design Rules Chapter 4 - Generalised Operating Flowchart Chapter 5 - ""Does The Pump Need To Start Yet?"" Decisions And Options Chapter 6 - ""Are Conditions Satisfactory For Start-Up?"" A Mechanical Concerns • Pipe Loads • Preparation • Warm-Up • Set Up B Hydraulic Issues • A1-Liquid Issues • A2-Piping Problems • A3-Priming And Venting Chapter 7 - ""Start Pump""! Starting Solo Pumps • Speed Torque Curves Starting Multiple Pumps: • Parallel Operation • Series Operation Chapter 8 - Has Pumped Started Satisfactorily? Site Testing Low Flow Problems High Flow Problems Chapter 9 - Does The Pump Continue To Operate Well? Performance Decay Problems Vibration Bearings Abrasive Solids Chapter 10 - Does Pump Need To Stop Yet? Decisions And Options Chapter 11 - Stop Pump! Surge And Water Hammer Chapter 12 - Has Pump Stopped Correctly? Turbining Chapter 13 - Pump Selection Guidelines Appendices ","Fluids Engineering","","Engineering, Energy and Technology" "1-85617-389-5","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/1856173895"",""Hyperlink"")","Membranes for Industrial Wastewater Recovery and Re-use","Judd, S.",""," ","256","Elsevier Advanced Technology","HC","Hardbound. There is increasing political and environmental pressure on industry to clean up the water which it uses in many processes, and to re-use this water where possible. This cleaning is done using specially-developed industrial membranes and this book covers the types and design of membranes, how they work and in which industries they are used. Special attention is paid to the textile, food/ beverage, pharmaceutical, oil and pulp and paper industries where such membranes are in regular use.","01-FEB-03","138.00 ","138.00 ","","Chapter 1 - Introduction Drivers for and barriers to industrial wastewater recycling Membrane market penetration and costs Chapter 2 - Membrane Technology Membranes: structure, materials and process types Process: definitions, performance, generic design equations, specific aspects Recent Developments: NF,MF Design Examples: RO array, submerged UF/MF Chapter 3 - Industrial Waters Textile Food and beverage Pharmaceutical Power generation Pulp and paper Chapter 4 - Commercial Systems Bespoke systems Design packages Pinch analysis: Commercial products Chapter 5 - Case Studies Microprocessor wastewater Dyewaste Municipal wastewater recovery for the power industry Food processing wastewater: Livestock washwater Electrical transformer fabrication Cooling tower water recovery Zero-liquid discharge power plant ","Membranes and Separation Technology","","Chemistry and Chemical Engineering" "07623-08966","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0762308966"",""Hyperlink"")","Marine Resources: Property Rights, Economics and Environment","Falque, M.;De Alessi, M.;Lamotte, H.",""," ","414","Jai","HC","Hardbound. More than 70% of the planet Earth is covered by oceans where property rights are poorly defined and enforced. Since ocean resources are fully exploited (because of new technologies and population growth), convential regulatory methods (command and control) have failed to prevent pervasive overexploitation and conflicts. Some places are more or less considered as dumping sites and/or overexploited. The ancient and numerous regulations have generally failed to address growing pressures on fish and other ecological resources. Of course the idea of ""fencing the oceans"" may appear improbable but for ages private, often common property, institutions have succeeded in regulating fishing activities. Today ""Individual Transferable Quotas"" may pave the way for rationalizing uses, conserving natural resources and reducing conflicts, or maybe not. As for the two previous International Conferences (1996, 1998) dealing with ""Property Rights, Economic","01-JUL-02","95.00 ","95.00 ","","Part I. Legal and Regulatory Issues. Introduction (M. Falque). Property rights and seabirds (A. Charlez). Fertilization of the open ocean: effects of private property rights, economics and the environment (M. Markels, Jr.). Fisheries, property rights and regulation of fisheries in Ancient Rome: Nihil Noui Sub Mari (Y. Peurièe). Existing law: a help or a hindrance? A case study of marine ranching (H. Pickering). European and French sea fisheries legislation in search of individual transferable quotas (J.-L. Prat). Property rights and fisheries in OECD countries (C.-C. Schmidt). Property rights and marine pollution (P. Simon). The evolution of the UK Fisheries management: an overview (G. Valatin). Part II: Economics. Introduction (H. Lamotte). Property rights and marine resources: theoretical foundations and applications (J.-P. Centi). Equity and management instruments in fisheries (J. Catanzano, S. Cunningham). Overcoming the ""new tragedy of the commons"": a commercial framework is inevitable (R. Edwards, M. Smallridge). Modeling individual transferable quotas for renewable resources (L.-P. Mahé, C. Ropars). Managing renewable resources: theoretical and empirical issues for the case of fishing resources (S. Mairesse, V. David). Economic, institutional and social conditions for efficient property rights (H. Rey-Valette). Beyond regulatory solutions: controlling overfishing with access controls (J.-P. Troadec). Do private property rights lead to the sustainable development and management of marine resource? An analysis (C. Vanderstricht). Part III: Institutions. Introduction (M. Falque). Implementation and future of marine property rights (R. Beattie). Saving Canada's fisheries: why we should move from government regulation to systems of self-managed ownership (E. Brubaker). Fisheries policy of Russia in 1998-1999 (V.V. Chevtchenko). Remapping the waters: the significance of sea tenure-based protected areas (J. Cordell). Private property rights, markets and regulation in the 21st Century (M. De Alessi). When ideas conspire with circumstances: introducing individual transferable quotas in Iceland's fisheries (H.H. Gissurarson). Co-management and crisis in fisheries science and management (B.J. McCay). Privatization of marine resources in European Union countries: an overview of national situations (C. Nordmann). Artificial reef immersions in the Languedoc-Roussillon coastal zone (B. Pary). General report and final remarks (H. Lamotte). ","Law and Economics (General)","International Review of Comparative Public Policy","Economics, Business and Management" "0-444-50951-8","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0444509518"",""Hyperlink"")","Recent Advances in Nucleosides: Chemistry and Chemotherapy","Chu, C.K.",""," ","544","Elsevier","HC","Hardbound. The book covers up-to-date information on nucleosides and antiviral chemotherapy contributed by the world experts in the field of nucleoside. This book is the result of a meeting honoring Dr. Jack J. Fox, who was one of the pioneers in nucleoside chemistry and chemotherapy. This book consists of 15 excellent chapters in the area, which include topics from recent synthetic methodologies, nucleoside kinase implicated in chemotherapy and drug design, excellent reviews on antiviral agents, nucleoside metabolism/mode of action in parasites, new compounds under clinical and pre-clinical trials, IMPDH inhibitors to review on nucleoside prodrugs. ","01-AUG-02","150.00 ","150.00 ","","1. Mission oriented research: An experience in Dr. Jack Fox's laboratory (K. Watanabe). 2. Development of new radical reactions with a vinylsilyl group and their application to the synthesis of branched-chain sugar nucleosides (S. Shuto et al.). 3. Synthesis of purine acyclonucleosides via ribofuranose-ring cleavage of purine nucleosides by diisobutylaluminum hydride (Y. Monguchi et al.). 4. The chemistry of nucleoside and dinucleotide inhibitors of inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH) (K. Pankiewicz, B.M. Goldstein). 5. Nucleoside prodrugs (J.S. Cooperwood et al.). 6. Antiviral Isonucleosides: discovery, chemistry and chemical biology (V. Nair). 7. Synthesis and biological activity of isopolar acyclic nucleotide analogs (A. Holy). 8. Synthesis of pyranose nucleosides and related nucleosides with a six-membered carbohydrate mimic (P. Herdewijn). 9. 5'-Norcarbanucleosides in L-like configurations (S. Schneller et al.). 10. Tricyclic nucleosides revisited (K.L. Seley). 11. Unusual analogues of nucleosides: chemistry and biological activity (J. Zemlicka). 12. Lithiation-based silylation and stannylation for nucleoside synthesis (H. Kumamoto et al.). 13. Purine metabolism in parasites: potential targets for chemotherapy (M. el Kouni). 14. Antiviral &bgr;-L-nucleosides specific for hepatits B virus infection (D.N. Standring et al.). 15. Antiviral activity of nucleoside analogues: the BVDU connection (E. DeClercq). 16. The role of the cellular deoxynucleoside kinases in activation of nucleoside analogs used in chemotherapy (S. Eriksson et al.). 17. Cellular transport of nucleotide analogs (T. Cihlar et al.). 18. 5-Aza-7-deazapurines: synthesis and properties of nucleosides and oligonucleotides (F. Seela, H. Rosemeyer). ","Virology","","Life Sciences" "0-444-50626-8","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0444506268"",""Hyperlink"")","Human Papilloma Viruses","McCance, D.J.",""," ","200","Elsevier","HC","Hardbound. Human papillomaviruses cause epithelial cancers, most commonly of the genital tract. This book describes in detail the pathogenesis at the molecular level of the papillomaviruses involved in genital malignancies, in particular cervical cancer, and gives details of the replicative cycle, the control of transcription, the properties of the early proteins E6, E7 and E5, which are involved in modulating the biology of the infected cell, the keratinocyte, resulting in cell cycle disregulation. The virus replicates in stratified epithelial and it has to overcome a number of obstacles for successful replication. Firstly, it only replicates in terminally differentiating cells in the upper part of the epithelium. Secondly, it has to stimulate the cell into S-phase so it can advantage of the host cell's replicative machinery for the propagation of it's own genome. These mutually exclusive events take place in the same cell, which indicates that papill","01-NOV-02","95.00 ","95.00 ","","Preface. Clinical Aspects and Epidemiology of HPV Infections (C.M. Wheeler). Regulation of Human Papillomavirus Gene Expression in the Vegetative Life Cycle (L. del Mar Pena, L.A. Laimins). Human Papillomavirus DNA Replication (Jen-Sing Liu, T. Melendy). Human Papillomavirus E6 Protein Interactions (M. Thomas, D. Pim, L. Banks). The Biology of E7 (D.J. McCance). Biology of the E4 Protein (S. Roberts). The E5 Protein of Papillomaviruses (A. Venuti, M. Saveria Campo). Human Papillomaviruses Immunology and Vaccine Development (R. Rose). Summary - What we need to learn (D.J. McCance). List of Addresses. ","Virology","Perspectives in Medical Virology","Life Sciences" "0-08-044029-0","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0080440290"",""Hyperlink"")","Extractive Metallurgy of Copper, 4th Edition","Davenport, W.G.L.;King, M.;Schlesinger, M.;Biswas , A.K.",""," ","452","Pergamon","HC","Hardbound. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated since the 3rd edition published in 1994. It contains an even greater depth of industrial information, focussing on how copper metal is extracted from ore and scrap, and how this extraction could be made more efficient. Modern high intensity smelting processes are presented in detail, specifically flash, Contop, Isasmelt, Noranda, Teniente and direct-to-blister smelting. Considerable attention is paid to the control of SO2 emissions and manufacture of H2SO4. Recent developments in electrorefining, particularly stainless steel cathode technology are examined. Leaching, solvent extraction and electrowinning are evaluated together with their impact upon optimizing mineral resource utilization. The book demonstrates how recycling of copper and copper alloy scrap is an important source of copper and copper alloys. Copper quality control is also discussed and ","01-JUL-02","120.00 ","120.00 ",""," Selected Papers. Overview. Extracting copper from copper-iron-sulfide ores. Hydrometallurgical extraction of copper. Melting and casting cathode copper. Recycle of copper and copper-alloy scrap. Production and Use. Locations of copper deposits. Location of extraction plants. Copper minerals and 'cut-off' grades. Price of copper. Concentrating Copper Ores. Concentration flowsheet. Crushing and grinding (comminution). Flotation feed particle size. Froth flotation. Specific flotation procedures for Cu ores. Flotation cells. Matte Smelting Fundamentals. Why smelting?. Matte and slag. Reactions during matte smelting. The smelting process: general considerations. Smelting products: matte, slag and offgas. Flash Smelting - Outokumpu Process. Outokumpu flash furnace. Peripheral equipment. Furnace operation. Control. impurity behavior. Future trends. Inco Flash Smelting. Furnace details. Auxiliary equipment. operation. Control strategy. Cu-in-slag and molten converter slag recycle. Inco vs. outokumpu flash smelting. Noranda and Teniente Smelting. Noranda process. Reaction mechanisms. Operation and control. Production rate enhancement. Impurity distribution. Teniente future. Ausmelt/Isasmelt Matte Smelting. Feed materials. The isasmelt furnace and lance. Smelting mechanisms. Startup and shutdown. Current installations. Other coppermaking uses of ausmelt/isasmelt technology. Batch Converting Of Cu Matte. Chemistry. Industrial peirce-smith converting operations. Oxygen enrichment of peirce-smith converter blast. Maximizing converter productivity. Recent developments in converting - shrouded blast injection. Alternatives to peirce-smith converting. Continuous Converting. Common features of continuous converting. Downward lance mitsubishi continuous converting. Solid matte outokumpu flash converting. Submerged-tuyere noranda continuous converting. % Cu-in-slag. Copper Loss In Slag. Copper in slags. Decreasing copper in slag I: minimizing slag generation. Decreasing copper in slag II: minimizing Cu concentration in slag. Decreasing copper in slag III: pyrometallurgical slag settling/reduction. Decreasing copper in slag IV: slag minerals processing. Direct-To-Copper Flash Smelting. The ideal direct-to-copper process. Industrial single furnace direct-to-copper smelting. Chemistry. Industrial details. Mitsubishi Continuous Smelting/Converting. The Mitsubishi Process. Smelting Furnace Details. Electric Slag Cleaning Furnace Details. Converting Furnace Details. Capture And Fixation Of Sulfur. Offgases from smelting and converting processes. Sulfuric acid manufacture. Smelter offgas treatment. Gas drying. Acid plant chemical reactions. Fire Refining And Casting Of Anodes: Sulfur And Oxygen Removal. Electrolytic Refining. Industrial methods of fire refining. Chemistry of fire refining. Choice of hydrocarbon for deoxidation. Casting anodes. Continuous anode casting. Electrolytic Refining. Behavior of anode impurities during electrorefining. Industrial electrorefining. Cathodes. Electrolyte. Cells and electrical connections. Hydrometallurgical Copper Extraction: Introduction and Leaching. Heap leaching. Industrial heap leaching. Steady-state leaching. Leaching of chalcopyrite concentrates. Other leaching processes. Solvent Extraction Transfer Of Cu from Leach Solution to Electrolyte.The solvent extraction process. Chemistry. Extractants. Industrial solvent extraction plants. Quantitative design of series circuit. Electrowinning. Electrowinning reactions. Electrowinning tankhouse practice. Maximizing copper purity. Maximizing current efficiency. Collection and Processing of Recycled Copper. The materials cycle. Secondary copper grades and definitions. Scrap processing and beneficiation. Summary. Chemical Metallurgy of Copper Recycling.The secondary copper smelter. Scrap processing in primary copper smelters. Summary. Suggested reading. Melting and Casting. Product grades and quality. Melting technology. Casting machines. Summary. Costs Of Copper Production. Overall investment costs: mine through refinery. Overall direct operating costs: mine through refinery. Total production costs, selling prices, profitability. Concentrating costs. Smelting costs. ","Process Chemistry and Technology","","Chemistry and Chemical Engineering" "0-444-51147-4","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0444511474"",""Hyperlink"")","Sensing, Signaling and Cell Adaptation","Storey, K.B.;Storey, J.M.",""," ","346","Elsevier","HC","Hardbound. In this volume of Cell and Molecular Responses to Stress articles provide up-to-date information on key areas of signal sensing (sensing of pain, heat, cold, light, infrared radiation), molecules involved in the intracellular transmission of these signals, metabolic responses to stress including changes in gene expression and production of specialized proteins that aid cell responses to factors including interrupted blood supply (ischemia), oxygen limitation (hypoxia/anoxia), freezing and dehydration, amino acid limitation, radiation and processing drugs. There are chapters which also provide insights into new technologies (such as cDNA arrays), analysis of metabolic control theory (a key method for analysing stress effects on cells), and examine how enzymes evolve in the face of stress. ","01-AUG-02","179.00 ","179.00 ","","1. Ischemic tolerance in the brain (M. Bell et al.). 2. Regulation of gene expression by hypoxia in lung alveolar epithelial cells (C. Clerici et al.). 3. A profile of the metabolic responses to anoxia in marine invertebrates (K. Larade, K.B. Storey). 4. The role of adenosine in tissue protection during ischemia-reperfusion (G.W. Sullivan, J.M. Linden). 5. NF-&kgr;B Function in Inflammation, Cellular Stress and Disease (N.R. Chapman et al.). 6. MAPping stress survival in yeasts: from the cell surface to the nucleus (A. Ngocky Nguyen, K. Shiozaki). 7. Calcium signaling mediated by cyclic ADP-ribose and NAADP (Hon Cheung Lee). 8. The cellular and molecular basis of the detection of pain (J.K. Bonnington et al.). 9. Acquired freezing tolerance in higher plants: the sensing and molecular responses to low nonfreezing temperatures (Zhanguo Xin). 10. Sensing and responses to low temperature in cyanobacteria (D.A. Los, N. Murata). 11. Dehydrins (J. Svensson et al.). 12. Dual role of membranes in heat stress: as thermosensors they modulate the expression of stress genes and, by interacting with stress proteins, re-organize their own lipid order and functionality (L. Vigh, B. Maresca). 13. Cellular adaptation to amino acid availability: mechanisms involved in the regulation of gene expression and protein metabolism (S. Mordier et al.). 14. Amino acid-dependent signal transduction (P.F. Dubbelhuis, A.J. Meijer). 15. Signal transduction pathways involved in the regulation of drug metabolizing enzymes (V. Hebbar, A.-N. Tony Kong). 16. Biological action of infrared radiation (L. Laurent-Applegate, S. Roques). 17. Energy sensing and photostasis in photoautotrophs (N.P.A. Huner et al.). 18. The uncoupling proteins family: from thermogenesis to the regulation of ROS (M.-C. Alves-Guerra et al.). 19. Regulation of proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis of brown adipocytes: Signal transduction pathways involved (A. Porras, M. Benito). 20. Control analysis of metabolic depression. (R. Keira Curtis, T. Bishop, M. Brand). 21. Evolution of physiological adaptation (D.L. Crawford). 22. Dynamic use of cDNA arrays: heterologous probing for gene discovery and exploration of animal adaptations in stressful environments (S.F. Eddy, K.B. Storey). ","Physiology","Cell and Molecular Response to Stress","Life Sciences" "0-08-044122-X","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/008044122X"",""Hyperlink"")","Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management","Bonano, E.J.;Camp, A.L.;Majors, M.J.;Thompson, R.A.",""," ","2180","Elsevier","HC","Hardbound. These two volumes and their accompanying CD-ROM contain the papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM 6). The PSAM meetings are the leading forums for the technical presentation of probabilistic risk and safety assessment and management methods and techniques applied to complex systems. These Proceedings provide a collection of the most up-to-date technical summaries on the application of risk and safety assessment management in 18 different technical disciplines. PSAM6 also included six plenary presentations in topics such as: combating terrorism; risk assessment for aerospace systems; environmental issues in developing countries; risk assessment in transportation systems; sustainable development; and risk assessment in science and technology initiatives. It bought together world-recognized experts to discuss these topics along with emerging areas of ","01-SEP-02","190.00 ","190.00 ","","Volume 1. Selected papers. Insights from PSA Level 1.. Probabilistic safety assessment of the French PWR 900 MWe series results and insights (F. Corenwinder et al.). The role of PSA in the design improvement program of Korean standard nuclear power plant (H-S. Kang et al.). The level-1 probabilistic safety assessment application of TR-2 (B. Alpay et al.). The role of probabilistic risk assessment in the periodic safety re-assessment of Koeberg nuclear power plant, South Africa (H.M. Kussman, G.A. Clapisson). Structures and Construction I. Risk assessment of coastal concrete structures (C.Q. Li, W. Lawanwisut). An application of bayesian theory to update the strength of concrete structures (J.M. Padilla et al.). Risk assessment methodology for DAMS (RAM-DSM)(R.V. Matalucci). Safety Assesment in Air Traffic Control. A theoretical framework for the safety verification of air traffic control by air traffic controllers based on extended vector annotated logic program (K. Nakamatsu et al.). Wake vortex safety evaluation of single runway approaches under different weather and operational conditions(G.B. van Baren et al.). Influence of average relative along-track speed on a longitudinal collision risk model (S. Nagaoka). Use of Simulator Data in HRA. The step complexity measure for emergency operating procedures - measure validation through comparing with simulation data (J. Park et al.). Assessing NPP emergency operation with simulators. ANACONDAS: a method for qualitative analysis of crew's activity(G. Filippi, G. Saliou) Bohunice simulator data collection project (I. Cillík, J. Procháska). Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis for Nuclear Waste Systems. Safety assessment of a spent nuclear fuel repository: sensitivity analyses for prioritisation of research (A. Hedin). Numerical confidence in the results of performance assessment for a high-level radioactive waste repository (D.W. Esh et al.). Mean-based sensitivity or uncertainty importance measures for identifying influential parameters(S. Mohanty, Y-T. Wu). Computer-Based Safety Management Applications. Web-based systems that facilitate graded application of fully integrated risk management (D. McCormack et al.). FITS (Fittings Inventory Tracking System) on the fast track (B. Martinez, R. Perini). A web-based system to identify corporate-wide compliance obligations (C.D. Ferrata). A siting approach for nuclear waste disposal using GIS (G. Sheng, I. Almási). Volume 2. Selected papers. Risk and Safety Assessment in Transportation Systems III. Barrier removal study in a railway simulation (F. Vanderhaegen et al.). Safety features and certification procedure of the nowcasting wind alert system for high-speed trains (U. Steininger et al.). An overview of risk issues in compressed natural gas buses (S. Chamberlain et al.). A Study to project the rate of non-crash vehicle fires (J.C. Lin). Reactor Shutdown PSA. Simplification techniques used in LP&SD PSA by COOPRA member countries (J.I. Calvo et al.). (COOPRA) Research program perspectives on low power and shutdown initiating event risk (E. Lois et al.). Second generation shutdown safety monitor modeling (J.A. Julius, J. Grobbelaar). Probabilistic safety analysis for a modern 1300-MWE pressurized water reactor under low-power and shut-down conditions (D. Müller-Ecker et al.). Risk Management in Power Generation. Quantitative approach to optimize safety activities (Y. Koyama et al.). Risk related topics in strategic electric sector assessment under sustainability conditions: A romanian case study (SESAMS-RO)(S. Connors et al.). Application of a multicriteria decision aiding (MCDA) approach in sustainable electricity generation policies assessment: A swiss case study (P.-A. Haldi, T.S. Vlachantonis). Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis Methods. Estimating uncertainties when there is little knowledge (A.S. Benjamin, J.R. Red-Horse). Assessing structural model uncertainty in performance assessments (S.T. Ghosh, G.E. Apostolakis). Extending the applicability range of DSD (P. Wang et al.). A sensitivity study on the factor of the PSA for digital equipment (H.G. Kang, T. Sung). Standards and Regulations. Lessons from quantitative risk assessments in the netherlands: national and international perspectives (M. Maharik, J.K. Vrijling). Operation modes of SRS specified using advanced FTA (Y. Tanabe et al.). IEEE recommended practice for conducting human reliability analysis (B.P. Hallbert et al.). ","Reliability Engineering / Safety","","Engineering, Energy and Technology" "0-08-044120-3","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0080441203"",""Hyperlink"")","Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management","Bonano, E.J.;Camp, A.L.;Majors, M.J.;Thompson, R.A.",""," ","","Elsevier","CD","CD-ROM. These two volumes and their accompanying CD-ROM contain the papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM 6). The PSAM meetings are the leading forums for the technical presentation of probabilistic risk and safety assessment and management methods and techniques applied to complex systems. These Proceedings provide a collection of the most up-to-date technical summaries on the application of risk and safety assessment management in 18 different technical disciplines. PSAM6 also included six plenary presentations in topics such as: combating terrorism; risk assessment for aerospace systems; environmental issues in developing countries; risk assessment in transportation systems; sustainable development; and risk assessment in science and technology initiatives. It bought together world-recognized experts to discuss these topics along with emerging areas of ","01-SEP-02","65.00 ","65.00 ","","Volume 1. Selected papers. Insights from PSA Level 1.. Probabilistic safety assessment of the French PWR 900 MWe series results and insights (F. Corenwinder et al.). The role of PSA in the design improvement program of Korean standard nuclear power plant (H-S. Kang et al.). The level-1 probabilistic safety assessment application of TR-2 (B. Alpay et al.). The role of probabilistic risk assessment in the periodic safety re-assessment of Koeberg nuclear power plant, South Africa (H.M. Kussman, G.A. Clapisson). Structures and Construction I. Risk assessment of coastal concrete structures (C.Q. Li, W. Lawanwisut). An application of bayesian theory to update the strength of concrete structures (J.M. Padilla et al.). Risk assessment methodology for DAMS (RAM-DSM)(R.V. Matalucci). Safety Assesment in Air Traffic Control. A theoretical framework for the safety verification of air traffic control by air traffic controllers based on extended vector annotated logic program (K. Nakamatsu et al.). Wake vortex safety evaluation of single runway approaches under different weather and operational conditions(G.B. van Baren et al.). Influence of average relative along-track speed on a longitudinal collision risk model (S. Nagaoka). Use of Simulator Data in HRA. The step complexity measure for emergency operating procedures - measure validation through comparing with simulation data (J. Park et al.). Assessing NPP emergency operation with simulators. ANACONDAS: a method for qualitative analysis of crew's activity(G. Filippi, G. Saliou) Bohunice simulator data collection project (I. Cillík, J. Procháska). Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis for Nuclear Waste Systems. Safety assessment of a spent nuclear fuel repository: sensitivity analyses for prioritisation of research (A. Hedin). Numerical confidence in the results of performance assessment for a high-level radioactive waste repository (D.W. Esh et al.). Mean-based sensitivity or uncertainty importance measures for identifying influential parameters(S. Mohanty, Y-T. Wu). Computer-Based Safety Management Applications. Web-based systems that facilitate graded application of fully integrated risk management (D. McCormack et al.). FITS (Fittings Inventory Tracking System) on the fast track (B. Martinez, R. Perini). A web-based system to identify corporate-wide compliance obligations (C.D. Ferrata). A siting approach for nuclear waste disposal using GIS (G. Sheng, I. Almási). Volume 2. Selected papers. Risk and Safety Assessment in Transportation Systems III. Barrier removal study in a railway simulation (F. Vanderhaegen et al.). Safety features and certification procedure of the nowcasting wind alert system for high-speed trains (U. Steininger et al.). An overview of risk issues in compressed natural gas buses (S. Chamberlain et al.). A Study to project the rate of non-crash vehicle fires (J.C. Lin). Reactor Shutdown PSA. Simplification techniques used in LP&SD PSA by COOPRA member countries (J.I. Calvo et al.). (COOPRA) Research program perspectives on low power and shutdown initiating event risk (E. Lois et al.). Second generation shutdown safety monitor modeling (J.A. Julius, J. Grobbelaar). Probabilistic safety analysis for a modern 1300-MWE pressurized water reactor under low-power and shut-down conditions (D. Müller-Ecker et al.). Risk Management in Power Generation. Quantitative approach to optimize safety activities (Y. Koyama et al.). Risk related topics in strategic electric sector assessment under sustainability conditions: A romanian case study (SESAMS-RO)(S. Connors et al.). Application of a multicriteria decision aiding (MCDA) approach in sustainable electricity generation policies assessment: A swiss case study (P.-A. Haldi, T.S. Vlachantonis). Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis Methods. Estimating uncertainties when there is little knowledge (A.S. Benjamin, J.R. Red-Horse). Assessing structural model uncertainty in performance assessments (S.T. Ghosh, G.E. Apostolakis). Extending the applicability range of DSD (P. Wang et al.). A sensitivity study on the factor of the PSA for digital equipment (H.G. Kang, T. Sung). Standards and Regulations. Lessons from quantitative risk assessments in the netherlands: national and international perspectives (M. Maharik, J.K. Vrijling). Operation modes of SRS specified using advanced FTA (Y. Tanabe et al.). IEEE recommended practice for conducting human reliability analysis (B.P. Hallbert et al.). ","Reliability Engineering / Safety","","Engineering, Energy and Technology" "0-08-044121-1","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0080441211"",""Hyperlink"")","Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management","Bonano, E.J.;Camp, A.L.;Majors, M.J.;Thompson, R.A.",""," ","","Elsevier","Other","Set. These two volumes and their accompanying CD-ROM contain the papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM 6). The PSAM meetings are the leading forums for the technical presentation of probabilistic risk and safety assessment and management methods and techniques applied to complex systems. These Proceedings provide a collection of the most up-to-date technical summaries on the application of risk and safety assessment management in 18 different technical disciplines. PSAM6 also included six plenary presentations in topics such as: combating terrorism; risk assessment for aerospace systems; environmental issues in developing countries; risk assessment in transportation systems; sustainable development; and risk assessment in science and technology initiatives. It bought together world-recognized experts to discuss these topics along with emerging areas of ","01-SEP-02","224.50 ","224.50 ","","Volume 1. Selected papers. Insights from PSA Level 1.. Probabilistic safety assessment of the French PWR 900 MWe series results and insights (F. Corenwinder et al.). The role of PSA in the design improvement program of Korean standard nuclear power plant (H-S. Kang et al.). The level-1 probabilistic safety assessment application of TR-2 (B. Alpay et al.). The role of probabilistic risk assessment in the periodic safety re-assessment of Koeberg nuclear power plant, South Africa (H.M. Kussman, G.A. Clapisson). Structures and Construction I. Risk assessment of coastal concrete structures (C.Q. Li, W. Lawanwisut). An application of bayesian theory to update the strength of concrete structures (J.M. Padilla et al.). Risk assessment methodology for DAMS (RAM-DSM)(R.V. Matalucci). Safety Assesment in Air Traffic Control. A theoretical framework for the safety verification of air traffic control by air traffic controllers based on extended vector annotated logic program (K. Nakamatsu et al.). Wake vortex safety evaluation of single runway approaches under different weather and operational conditions(G.B. van Baren et al.). Influence of average relative along-track speed on a longitudinal collision risk model (S. Nagaoka). Use of Simulator Data in HRA. The step complexity measure for emergency operating procedures - measure validation through comparing with simulation data (J. Park et al.). Assessing NPP emergency operation with simulators. ANACONDAS: a method for qualitative analysis of crew's activity(G. Filippi, G. Saliou) Bohunice simulator data collection project (I. Cillík, J. Procháska). Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis for Nuclear Waste Systems. Safety assessment of a spent nuclear fuel repository: sensitivity analyses for prioritisation of research (A. Hedin). Numerical confidence in the results of performance assessment for a high-level radioactive waste repository (D.W. Esh et al.). Mean-based sensitivity or uncertainty importance measures for identifying influential parameters(S. Mohanty, Y-T. Wu). Computer-Based Safety Management Applications. Web-based systems that facilitate graded application of fully integrated risk management (D. McCormack et al.). FITS (Fittings Inventory Tracking System) on the fast track (B. Martinez, R. Perini). A web-based system to identify corporate-wide compliance obligations (C.D. Ferrata). A siting approach for nuclear waste disposal using GIS (G. Sheng, I. Almási). Volume 2. Selected papers. Risk and Safety Assessment in Transportation Systems III. Barrier removal study in a railway simulation (F. Vanderhaegen et al.). Safety features and certification procedure of the nowcasting wind alert system for high-speed trains (U. Steininger et al.). An overview of risk issues in compressed natural gas buses (S. Chamberlain et al.). A Study to project the rate of non-crash vehicle fires (J.C. Lin). Reactor Shutdown PSA. Simplification techniques used in LP&SD PSA by COOPRA member countries (J.I. Calvo et al.). (COOPRA) Research program perspectives on low power and shutdown initiating event risk (E. Lois et al.). Second generation shutdown safety monitor modeling (J.A. Julius, J. Grobbelaar). Probabilistic safety analysis for a modern 1300-MWE pressurized water reactor under low-power and shut-down conditions (D. Müller-Ecker et al.). Risk Management in Power Generation. Quantitative approach to optimize safety activities (Y. Koyama et al.). Risk related topics in strategic electric sector assessment under sustainability conditions: A romanian case study (SESAMS-RO)(S. Connors et al.). Application of a multicriteria decision aiding (MCDA) approach in sustainable electricity generation policies assessment: A swiss case study (P.-A. Haldi, T.S. Vlachantonis). Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis Methods. Estimating uncertainties when there is little knowledge (A.S. Benjamin, J.R. Red-Horse). Assessing structural model uncertainty in performance assessments (S.T. Ghosh, G.E. Apostolakis). Extending the applicability range of DSD (P. Wang et al.). A sensitivity study on the factor of the PSA for digital equipment (H.G. Kang, T. Sung). Standards and Regulations. Lessons from quantitative risk assessments in the netherlands: national and international perspectives (M. Maharik, J.K. Vrijling). Operation modes of SRS specified using advanced FTA (Y. Tanabe et al.). IEEE recommended practice for conducting human reliability analysis (B.P. Hallbert et al.). ","Reliability Engineering / Safety","","Engineering, Energy and Technology" "0-08-043557-2","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0080435572"",""Hyperlink"")","Control Applications in Post-Harvest and Processing Technology 2001","Seo, Y.;Oshita, S.",""," ","246","Pergamon","TP","Paperback. The IFAC Workshop series on post-harvest and processing technology is widely acknowledged as a showcase for the best work in this important research area. Research into control methods for storage and processes in agricultural and horticultural products is growing at a rapid pace. This workshop series provides a unique view of these areas from the perspective of control engineering. The proceedings of this, the latest IFAC workshop on Control Applications in Post Harvest and Processing Technology held in Tokyo in October 2001, presents updates on all the main technological developments. Topics covered include mathematical modelling, quality evaluation, quality control, crop management, control in post-harvest operations, observation for control, and intelligent techniques. ","01-AUG-02","87.00 ","87.00 ","","Selected Papers. Keynote Papers. Monitoring and control of the internal quality of pears (J. De Baerdemaeker et al.). History of development and the state of fruit sorter in Japan (H. Maeda). Application of elastic theory to high-speed impact sensing of fruits (P. Chen). Automatic potato sorting system in underwater ultrasonic instrumentation (F.M. Huang et al.). Mathematical Modeling. Heat and mass transfer on fruits, potatoes and vegetables under the influence of air flow - measuring and modelling (K. Gottschalk). Analysis and modelling of the relationship between meteorological course and mass of soil wastes in the sugar-beet industry (G. Riva et al.). Modeling of a far infrared vacuum dryer on welsh onion (S. Mongpraneet et al.). Modelling of coupled heat and moisture transfer in grain kernels by modified luikov's equations (M. Neményi) Quality Evaluation. Characterisation of a potato-shaped instrumented tool to predict mechanical damage to potatoes (T. Van Canneyt et al.). Objective method of estimation of post-harvest freshness of eggplant fruits (S.N. Jha, T. Matsuoka). Development of non-destructive detector for abnormal eggs (K. Nakano et al.). Quality Control. Visualization of internal structure of foods by electrical impedance tomography - detection of foreign material contamination and voids (K. Toyoda et al.). Control of product quality variation in climate controlled operations - with applications to storage and transport of agro-materials (G.J.C. Verdijck et al.). Temperature measurement and control during quality drying of apple (I. Seres, I. Farkas) Crop Management. Estimation of plant growth in rice field based on remote sensing (M. Matsuda et al.). Rice storage controlled at temperature below ice point for preserving high quality S. Kawamura et al.). Data fusion for management of outdoor stored grain (L. Sun, Z. Zhu). Risk management of outdoor grain-storage system Z. Zhu, L. Sun). Control in Post-Harvest Operations I. Controlling Fruits Maturity on Producing Dried Japanese Persimmons (S. Hayashi). Optimal control of fruit responses during storage as affected by temperature (T. Morimoto et al.). Control in Post-Harvest Operations II. Response of spinach in controlled pressure conditions during vacuum pre-cooling (L.R. Gutierrez et al.). The preservation of cut carnations by applying a non-polar gas (U. Matsushima et al.). New agglomerated feed or food products based on wheat bran (J. Grochowicz). Observation for Control. Cell viability of Japanese radish cylinders immersed in hypertonic solutions (S. Koide et al.). Cell turgor and elasticity of chicory grown in different temperature conditions (S. Oshita et al.). Fungicidal effect of the mixed atmosphere of ozone and negative ions on fruit rot of european pears (M.I. Al-Haq et al.). Intelligent Techniques. Artificial Intelligence in dairy farming: near infrared approach (R. Tsenkova, K. Toyoda). Image analysis for planting machine of white cabbage (K. Hatou et al.). Neural network model for distributed temperature control ( H. Murase et al.). Control in Post-Harvest Operations III. Measurement of bioelectric potential on surface of some harvested fruits (T. Uchino et al.). The short time infrared ray sterilization of the cereal surface (D. Hamanaka et al.). Estimation of porosities of foodstuffs by acoustic method (T. Nishizu et al.). Study on quality estimation for strawberry using color and NIR image processing (M. Nagata et al.). ","Control Systems","IFAC Proceedings Volumes","Engineering, Energy and Technology" "0-08-043908-X","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/008043908X"",""Hyperlink"")","Intelligent Assembly and Disassembly 2001","Kopacek, P.;Pereira, C.E.;Noe, D.",""," ","144","Pergamon","TP","Paperback. Rapid development observed in modern production systems is firmly connected with the development of new assembly and disassembly systems. One of the oldest forms of industrial production, assembly, and its twin area disassembly, have both enjoyed tremendous modernisation in the era of the Information Revolution. New enabling technologies, including prominent examples such as virtual CAD, Design for Assembly and Disassembly (DFAD), Robotic and Intelligent Assembly and Flexible Assembly (FA) are now becoming commonplace. This volume presents the papers from the 2nd IFAC Workshop on 'Intelligent Assembly and Disassembly - IAD 2001'. The colloquium highlighted the issues of IAD, showed the actual results of the research and development work, set the direction of future development, and analysed the possibility of introducing IAD into production processes. Including 3 invited papers, and 17 technical papers authored by researchers from across th","01-AUG-02","73.00 ","73.00 ","","Selected Papers. Plenary Papers. Intelligent, flexible assembly and disassembly (P. Kopacek, D. Noe). Dynamics and engineering of customized manufacturing in car industry: some issues, experiments and trends(G. Morel et al.). Real time constraints in intelligent control (P. Albertos et al.). Regular Papers. Error classification of self-tapping screw fastenings in automated assembly(B. Lara et al.). Monitoring of threaded fastenings in automated assembly using artificial neural networks (L.D. Seneviratne et al.). Robotized installation of signalling aerial spheres in transmission lines cables (M.C. Montenegro et al.). Integrated distribution and functional scalability for intelligent robot control (G. Richter). Coordinating heuristics for solving the inverse kinematics problem and flexible application of robots in disassembly lines (C. Mitidieri et al.). ","Control Systems","IFAC Proceedings Volumes","Engineering, Energy and Technology" "1-85617-396-8","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/1856173968"",""Hyperlink"")","Silicon Germanium Materials & Devices - A Market & Technology Overview to 2006","Szweda, R.",""," ","300","Elsevier Advanced Technology","TP","Paperback. The first edition of Silicon Germanium Materials & Devices - A Market & Technology Overview to 2006 examines the development of the silicon germanium business over a six-year period 2001 to 2006. It analyses the trends in markets, technologies and industry structure and profiles all the major players. It is specifically aimed at users and manufacturers of substrates, epiwafers, equipment and devices. The analysis includes a competitive assessment of the market of silicon germanium vs. gallium arsenide, indium phosphide vs. other forms of silicon. Silicon Germanium Materials & Devices - A Market & Technology Overview to 2006 is designed to assist with business plans, R&D and manufacturing strategies. It will be an indispensable aid for managers responsible for business development, technology assessment and market research. The report examines the rapid development of silicon germanium from an R&","01-OCT-02","3057.00 ","3057.00 ","","Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.1 Report Structure 1.2 Products 1.3 Markets 1.4 Regions 1.5 Research Background Chapter 2 - Executive Summary 2.1 Summary of Market Forecast Results 2.2 Introduction 2.3 SiGe Epitaxial Materials & Equipment Markets 2.3.1 Introduction 2.3.2 SiGe Source Materials Market 2001-2006 2.3.3 SiGe Substrate Materials Market 2001-2006 2.3.4 SiGe Epitaxial Wafer Materials Market 2001-2006 2.3.5 SiGe Epitaxial Equipment Market 2001-2006 2.4 SiGe Device Market 2.5 SiGe Application Market Forecast 2.6 Key Markets for SiGe Devices by Application Sector 2.6.1 Telecommunications Markets 2.6.2 Consumer Markets 2.6.3 Computer Markets 2.6.4 Industrial Markets for SiGe 2.6.5 Military/Aerospace Markets 2.6.6 Automotive Markets 2.6.7 Other Markets Chapter - 3 Silicon Germanium Materials Markets 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Total Worldwide Market for SiGe Wafer Materials 2001-2006 3.3 Worldwide Market for SiGe Source Materials 2001-2006 3.3.1 Introduction 3.3.2 Industrial Gases for SiGe Device Manufacture 3.3.3 Substrate Materials for SiGe Device Manufacture 3.3.3.1 Introduction 3.3.3.2 Substrate Market by Diameter 3.3.3.3 Production of Substrates for SiGe Device Production 3.3.3.4 The Substrate Supply Business 3.3.3.5 The Impact of Alternative Substrates 3.4 Merchant SiGe Epitaxial Wafer Markets 3.4.1 Introduction 3.4.2 The Worldwide SiGe Epiwafer Marketplace 3.4.3 Market by SiGe Epiwafer Diameter 3.4.4 SiGe Epiwafer Industry Overview 3.4.5 Epiwafer Market Analysis & Forecast 3.4.6 SiGe Epitaxial Wafer Markets by Geographic Region 3.5 Worldwide Market for SiGe Process Equipment 2001-2006 3.5.1 Introduction 3.5.2 SiGe Epitaxy Equipment Marketplace 3.5.3 Second Generation Epitaxy Chapter - 4 Silicon Germanium Device Application Market Overview 4.1 Summary of Forecast Data for the Worldwide Market for Silicon Germanium Devices 4.2 Introduction to the SiGe Device Marketplace 4.3 The Place of SiGe in the Total Semiconductor Device Market 4.4 The Worldwide Market for SiGe Devices 4.4.1 SiGe Device Market by Sub-Type 4.4.2 Market Applications for SiGe Devices 4.4.3 SiGe Device Market by Geographic Region 4.4.4 SiGe Device Market Evolution 4.4.4.1 SiGe Device Market Characteristics 4.5 Telecommunications Markets for SiGe Devices 4.5.1 Market Forecast Summary 4.5.2 Telecommunications SiGe Device Market Overview 4.5.3 SiGe Devices for the Wireless Communications Market 4.5.4 Opportunities for SiGe Devices in the Wireless Communications Market 4.5.5 Second Generation Mobile Telecommunications 4.5.6 CDMA 4.5.7 Third Generation (3G) Handset Markets 4.5.8 Base Stations 4.5.9 LMDS 4.5.10 Microwave Radio Links 4.5.11 Satellite-Based PCS 4.5.12 Airborne Communications 4.5.13 Cordless Systems 4.5.14 Wireless Datacommunications 4.5.15 Wireless LANs 4.5.16 HIPERLAN 4.5.17 Bluetooth 4.5.18 Home RF 4.5.19 MBS 4.5.20 Wireless Local Loop 4.5.21 Fibre Optics 4.5.22 New Developments In Diode Lasers 4.5.23 Fibre-To-The-Kerb 4.5.24 Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing 4.5.25 Plastic Optical Fibre 4.5.26 Free-Space Optics 4.6 Consumer Markets for SiGe Devices 4.6.1 Market Forecast Summary 4.6.2 Introduction to the Consumer Market for SiGe Devices 4.6.3 Data Storage 4.7 Computer Markets for SiGe Devices 4.7.1 Market Forecast Summary 4.7.2 Introduction to the Computer Market for SiGe Devices 4.7.3 CDROM & DVD-Rom 4.7.4 Data Networks 4.8 Industrial Markets for SiGe Devices 4.8.1 Market Summary 4.8.2 Introduction to the Industrial Market for SiGe Devices 4.8.3 Microwave Equipment 4.8.4 Medical Equipment 4.8.5 Portable Equipment 4.8.6 Automated Test Equipment 4.9 Military/Aerospace Markets for SiGe Devices 4.9.1 Market Forecast Summary 4.9.2 Introduction to the Military/Aerospace Market for SiGe Devices 4.9.3 Global Positioning Systems 4.10 Automotive Markets for SiGe Devices 4.10.1 Market Forecast Summary 4.10.2 Introduction to the Automotive Market for SiGe Devices 4.11 Other Markets for SiGe Devices 4.11.1 Market Forecast Summary 4.11.2 Wireless Medical Telemetry Chapter - 5 Company Profiles 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Accent Optical Technologies 5.3 Agere Systems 5.4 Agilent Technologies 5.5 AIXTRON 5.6 Alpha Technologies 5.7 Amberwave Systems 5.8 AMI Semiconductor 5.9 Applied Materials 5.10 ASI 5.11 Atmel 5.12 Austriamicrosystems 5.13 Communicant 5.14 Connexant 5.15 Cypress 5.16 Envara 5.17 Epigress 5.18 Hitachi 5.19 IBM 5.20 Infineon 5.21 Intel 5.22 Intersil 5.23 IQE 5.24 Jazz Semiconductor 5.25 LeCroy 5.26 Matsushita 5.27 Maxim Integrated Products 5.28 MEMC 5.29 Mitsubishi 5.30 Motorola 5.31 Multilink 5.32 NEC 5.33 On Semiconductor 5.34 Philips 5.35 QinetiQ 5.36 RF Micro Devices 5.37 RIBER 5.38 Sharp 5.39 Shin-Etsu 5.40 Sierra Monolithics 5.41 SiGe Semiconductor 5.42 Sirenza Microdevices 5.43 Skyworks 5.44 Sony 5.45 STMicroelectronics 5.46 TChip Semiconductor 5.47 Tektronix 5.48 Texas Instruments 5.49 Thermo VG Semicon 5.50 Toshiba 5.51 TriQuint 5.52 TSMC 5.53 UMC 5.54 Umicore 5.55 Unaxis 5.56 Veeco-Applied Epi 5.57 Voltaix 5.58 Wacker 5.59 Zarlink Chapter - 6 Geographical List of Universities and Selected Industrial Labs Involved in Research 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Australia 6.3 Austria 6.4 Belgium 6.5 Canada 6.6 China 6.7 Denmark 6.8 France 6.9 Finland 6.10 France 6.11 Germany 6.12 Greece 6.13 India 6.14 Ireland 6.15 Israel 6.16 Italy 6.17 Japan 6.18 Korea 6.19 Russian Federation 6.20 Singapore 6.21 Spain 6.22 Sweden 6.23 Switzerland 6.24 Taiwan 6.25 The Netherlands 6.26 UK 6.27 Ukraine 6.28 USA Chapter 7 - Directory of Suppliers 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Directory of Leading Suppliers Chapter - 8 Appendices 8.1 Exchange Rates 8.2 Acronyms 8.3 Mergers & Acquisitions 8.4 Agreements 8.5 Bibliography ","Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials","","Materials Science" "1-85617-398-4","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/1856173984"",""Hyperlink"")","Profile of the International Pump Industry - Market Prospects to 2007","Reidy, R.",""," ","400","Elsevier Advanced Technology","TP","Paperback. This fifth edition of Profile of the International Pump Industry - Market Prospects to 2007 reviews the markets, technological trends, and major manufacturers of industrial pumps. Profile of the International Pump Industry covers both the international pump industry and its associated market, illustrating the structure of the industry, highlighting developments, identifying future trends, and looking at recent mergers and acquisitions. Market estimates and forecasts to 2007, by region and pump type, are presented along with an analysis of the main end-user markets for industrial pumps, and a technology overview. Forty leading international pump manufacturers are profiled and a Top 20 league table of pump manufacturers, ranked by sales of pumps, is given. A directory of pump manufacturing companies and an index of companies by product type are also included. ","01-NOV-02","1215.00 ","1215.00 ","","Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.1 Economic Overview Chapter 2 - International Pump Market 2.1 Industry Overview 2.2 Regional Overview 2.2.1 USA 2.2.2 Japan 2.2.3 Germany 2.2.4 France 2.2.5 UK 2.2.6 Italy 2.2.7 Spain 2.2.8 Belgium/Luxembourg 2.2.9 Netherlands 2.2.10 Austria and Switzerland 2.2.11 Nordic Countries 2.2.12 Rest of Western Europe 2.2.13 Russia 2.2.14 Other Eastern Europe 2.2.15 China 2.2.16 India 2.2.17 South East Asia 2.2.18 Other East Asia 2.2.19 Canada 2.2.20 Brazil 2.2.21 Central and South America 2.2.22 Australia 2.2.23 Rest of World 2.2.24 World Market 2.3 Market Figures and Forecasts 2.3.1 Methodology 2.3.2 Scope of Estimates 2.4 International Pump Market 2.4.1 USA 2.4.2 Japan 2.4.3 Germany 2.4.4 France 2.4.5 UK 2.4.6 Italy 2.4.7 Spain 2.4.8 Belgium/Luxembourg 2.4.9 Netherlands 2.4.10 Austria/Switzerland 2.4.11 Nordic Countries 2.4.12 Other Western Europe 2.4.13 Russia 2.4.14 Other Eastern Europe 2.4.15 China 2.4.16 India 2.4.17 South East Asia 2.4.18 Other East Asia 2.4.19 Canada 2.4.20 Brazil 2.4.21 Central and South America 2.4.22 Australia 2.4.23 Rest of World 2.4.24 World Market Chapter 3 - Market Analysis by End-User Industry 3.1 Coal, Oil and Gas Extraction 3.2 Food and Beverage Processing 3.3 Wood, Paper and Board Production 3.4 Processed Fuels 3.5 Bulk Chemicals and Petrochemicals 3.6 Fine Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals 3.7 Marine 3.8 Power Generation 3.9 Fresh and Wastewater Processing 3.10 Building and Construction Chapter 4 - Major Pump Suppliers 4.1 Top 20 Table 4.2 Profiles of Leading Pump Manufacturers 4.2.1 ABS Pump Group 4.2.2 Alfa Laval Flow 4.2.3 Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited 4.2.4 Colfax Corporation 4.2.5 Crane Co 4.2.6 Dover Corp 4.2.7 DMW Corporation 4.2.8 Ebara Corporation 4.2.9 Flowserve Corporation 4.2.10 Gardner Denver Inc 4.2.11 The Gorman-Rupp Company 4.2.12 Graco Inc 4.2.13 Grundfos A/S 4.2.14 Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation 4.2.15 Hitachi Ltd 4.2.16 Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd 4.2.17 Idex Corporation 4.2.18 ITT Fluid Technology 4.2.19 Johnson Pump International AB 4.2.20 Kirloskar Brothers Limited 4.2.21 KSB Group 4.2.22 Met-Pro Inc 4.2.23 Netzsch Group 4.2.24 Pentair Inc 4.2.25 Precision Castparts Corp 4.2.26 Robbins & Myers Inc 4.2.27 Roper Industries Inc 4.2.28 Schlumberger 4.2.29 Spirax Sarco Engineering plc 4.2.30 SPX Corp 4.2.31 Sterling Fluid Systems bv 4.2.32 Sulzer Pumps Ltd 4.2.33 Metso 4.2.34 Textron Inc 4.2.35 Torishima Pump Mfg Co 4.2.36 Tsurumi Mfg Co Ltd 4.2.37 The Weir Group plc 4.2.38 Wicor Inc 4.2.39 Wilo-Salmson AG 4.2.40 WPIL Limited Chapter 6 - Directory of Pump Companies 5.1 Directory 5.2 Pump Type and Application Listings 5.2.1 Pump and Ancillary Product Types - Listed Numerically 5.2.2 Pump and Ancillary Product Types - Listed Alphabetically 5.2.3 Pump Applications - Listed Numerically 5.2.4 Pump Applications - Listed Aphabetically 5.3 Pump Type/Pump Company Index 5.4 Pump Application/Pump Company Index Chapter 6 - Appendices 6.1 Pump Associations and Related Organisations 6.2 Exchange Rate Table 6.3 Internet Address Book 6.4 Related Publications from Elsevier Advanced Technology ","Engineering (General)","","Engineering, Energy and Technology" "1-85617-394-1","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/1856173941"",""Hyperlink"")","Biometric Industry Report - Forecasts and Analysis to 2006","Lockie, M.",""," ","200","Elsevier Advanced Technology","TP","Paperback. Biometrics - the physiological and/or behavioural characteristics that can be used to verify the identity of an individual - are no longer just being used in high security locations; they are now in use in major, mainstream government and commercial applications. Since September 11, the heightened awareness of security issues is driving forward the adoption of biometrics within numerous application environments. Coupled with a dramatic decrease in the price of such systems and the formulation of comprehensive industry standards, the market looks set for rapid growth over the next 5 years. The second edition of Biometric Industry Report - Forecasts and Analysis to 2006 examines the current use and future growth of biometrics. It analyses the trends in markets, technologies and industry structure and profiles the major players. The report provides key market statistics and forecasts essential for companies to plot their future growth str","01-NOV-02","1368.00 ","1368.00 ","","Chapter 1 - Introduction Executive summary Chapter 2 - Market Structure Overview Chapter 3 - Methodology Chapter 4 - Total Revenue 1998-2006 Revenue analysis Growth rate analysis The impact of September 11 2001 Driver discussion Detractors discussion Chapter 5 - Revenues by Technology 1998-2006 Fingerprint Hand Face Voice Signature Iris Retina Keystroke dynamics Middleware Other Chapter 6 - Revenues by Vertical Market 1998-2006 Law and Order Financial Travel Government Healthcare Telecom Education Leisure Other Chapter 7 - Horizontal Market Findings PAC/Time and attendance PC/Network access Transaction-based security - e-commerce, ATM, POS etc Identification of citizens/voters/immigrants/employees Surveillance Chapter 8 - Company Profiles Chapter 9 - Major Industry Issues Appendices Biometric basics Glossary of terms Address book ","Cognitive Science","","Computer Science" "0-08-043683-8","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0080436838"",""Hyperlink"")","Adaptation and Learning in Control and Signal Processing 2001","Bittanti, S.",""," ","502","Pergamon","TP","Paperback. In control and signal processing, adaptation is a natural tool to cope with real-time changes in the dynamical behaviour of signals and systems. In this area, strongly connected with prediction and identification, there has been an increasing interest in switching and supervising methods. Moreover in recent years, special attention has been paid to the ideas evolving round the theory of statistical learning as a potential tool of improved adaptation. The IFAC workshop on Adaptation and Learning in Control and Signal Processing in 2001 gathered together experts in the field and interested researchers from universities and industry to present a full picture of the area. This proceedings volume presents papers covering the following subjects: Model reference and predictive control; Multiple model control; Adaptive control I/II; Adaptive control and learning; Learning; Adaptive control of nonlinear systems I/II; Supervisory control; Neural n","01-AUG-02","109.00 ","109.00 ","","Selected Papers. Plenary Paper. Nonlinear identification and adaptive control of combustion engines (R. Isermann, N. Müller) Model Reference and Predictive Control. Identification-oriented predictive control (L.C. Kammer, G.A. Dumont). An alternate new gap metric for robustness measure (L. Keviczky, Cs. Bányász). Model reference adaptive control of non-linear multivariable systems using an interactor structure estimation (Y. Mutoh). Robust MRAC of a linear time-varying parabolic system with bounded disturbance (K-J. Yang et al.). Applications to Mechanical and Bio-Mechanical Systems. Identification for the moving objects by using the observed image data (X. Chen, G. Zhai) Identification of a biomechanical system using neural networks (T. Schauer et al.). Decentralized adaptive continuous-time control of coupled drives apparatus (V. Bobál et al.). A simplified model for head-neck segment fast movements in the frontal plane (A. Pedrocchi et al.). Adaptive Control and Learning. A Comparison of optimal iterative learning control schemes (M. Rzewuski et al.). Virtual reference feedback tuning: a new framework for data-based design of PID and linear controllers (A. Lecchini et al.). Efficient linear MIMO adaptive inverse control (G.L. Plett). Norm optimal iterative learning control applied to chain conveyor systems (T. Al-Towaim et al.). Neural Networks for Control. RBFN model adaptation based on orthogonal decomposition (D.L. Yu, J.B. Gomm). Approximating networks for the solution of T-stage stochastic optimal control problems (M. Baglietto et al.). Neural network based min-max predictive control. Application to a heat exchanger (D.R. Ramírez et al.). A design of neural-net based generalized minimum variance controller (Y. Ohnishi et al.). Multiple Model Control. Safe switching in multi-controller implementation (B.D.O. Anderson et al.). Multiple model adaptive estimation for multiuser detection on CDMA communication (M.H. Jaward et al.). Guaranteed closed loop precision in multiple model based control (J. Diez, F. Previdi). Local linear modeling for control of batch processes (D. Bonné, S.B. Jørgensen). Adaptive Control I. An extension of self-tuning GMVC based on state-space approach (A. Yanou et al.). Overparametrization in predictive adaptive control: experimental results and an entropy interpretation (J.M. Lemos). Adaptive control of a two input - two output system (M. Kubalcík, V. Bobál). Adaptive control using controllers of restricted structure (M.J. Grimble, P. Martin). Learning. Applications of statistical-learning methods in systems and control (M. Ariola et al.). A new system identification method based on support vector machines (S. Adachi, T. Ogawa). Non-parametric heavy-tailed density estimation and classification problem (N.M. Markovitch, U.R. Krieger). Torques generation for driving an insect-like robot by evolutionary learning approach (A. Pedrocchi et al.). Adaptation and learning in neural networks multiple models based control of mobile robots (A. D'Amico et al.). PID Design Methods. Self-Tuning two-degree-of-freedom pid compensator based on two-degree-of-freedom generalized minimum variance control (T. Sato et al.). Relay based gain and phase margins iterative PID controller design (G.H.M. de Arruda, P.R. Barros). A design of evolutionary tuning PID controllers (T. Yamamoto et al.). A design of multiloop predictive self-tuning PID controllers (M. Katayama et al.). Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems I. Adaptive control of the power factor precompensator: a comparative study (G. Kaliora, A. Astolfi). Adaptive compensation of nonlinearity in high power amplifier by support vector machine (T. Eda et al.). An heuristic learning modelling strategy for nonlinear systems (G.L. Santosuosso). Adaptive predictive fault tolerant control of super-heated steam temperature in an industrial boiler (R.V. Dionísio et al.). Applications To Power Plants and Software Tools. Realization in MATLAB-SIGLAB environment of a real time estimator of the damping of the electromechanical mode of the alternator-network system(C.L. Brasca, A. Danelli). Adaptive tracking control of nonlinear power converters (E.F. Colet, A.S.I. Zinober). TIDEA: A control system fine tuning software tool applied to a large power station (F. Pretolani et al.). MATLAB-toolbox for CAD of simple self-tuning controllers (V. Bobál et al.). Supervisory Control. Feedback-loop monitoring for controller falsification (T. Agnoloni et al.). Design method for robust supervisor controller (T. Nakajima et al.). Fault detection and isolation applied to the supervision of adaptive control systems: a neural network based scheme (F.V. Barajas, R.A. Ramírez Mendoza) Sliding mode.Sliding mode control with adaptive decrease of chattering (R. Gessing). Sliding mode control for systems with unknown control direction (G. Bartolini et al.). Plenary Paper II.Turbo-learning: A novel application to MIMO wireless communications (S. Haykin, M. Sellathurai). Adaptive Filtering and Estimation.New time-varying LMS and RLS algorithms with application to direction-of-arrival tracking (K. Yanagihara et al.). The accelerating adaptive filtering algorithm (P.E. Jojoa et al.). Adaptive notch filter with global stability (T. Suzuki, K. Hamada). Robust wiener design of adaptation laws with constant gains (M. Sternad et al.). Application to Mechanical Systems.Longitudinal Attitude control of a small aircraft using cascade LCN's (T. Caetano et al.). On-line tuning of one-mass motor drive system by simple adaptive control (T. Sekiai et al.). Direct adaptive predictive control of an automatic gear box (G. Ramond et al.). A road-adaptive LQG control for semi-active suspension systems (H-C. Sohn et al.). Identification Methods I. Parameter identification for a scalar linear system with fractional brownian motion (T.E. Duncan, B. Pasik-Duncan). An iterative subspace identification with observation outliers based on weighted orthogonal decomposition (H. Tanaka, T. Katayama). Identification of linear parameter varying models using kalman filtering (M. Lovera, F. Previdi). A new adaptive identification method of critical point using frequency estimator (M. Saeki, H. Takeuchi). Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems II. One approach to adaptive control of nonlinear processes (P. Dostál et al.). Design of controller for nonlinear systems by the gain scheduling technique (P. Dobra). Adaptive nonlinear H∞ control for processes with bounded variations of parameters - general forms and general relative degree case (Y. Miyasato). Adaptive iterative refinement of an optimal 2DF nonlinear controller (L. Keviczky, Cs. Bányász) Identification Methods II. Remarks on the sample complexity for linear control systems identification (P. Kuusela et al.). The EM algorithm for multivariable dynamic system estimation (B. Ninness, S. Gibson). Neurofuzzy state space modelling and control using kalman filtering state feedback with coloured noise (C.J. Harris, X. Hong). Penalized identification for self-tuning control: an overview (S. Bittanti et al.). Adaptive Control IIOn the design of direct adaptive controllers (F.M. Pait). Adaptive control of technological processes based on dual youla-kucera parametrization (F. Gazdo?, P. Dostál). Transient performance improvement in discrete-time model reference adaptive controllers by filtering estimated parameters (N. Mizuno, Y. Fukui). Adaptive pole assignment control under constraints (A. Królikowski, R. Stawski). ","Control Systems","IFAC Proceedings Volumes","Engineering, Energy and Technology" "1-85617-402-6","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/1856174026"",""Hyperlink"")","Composite and Thermoplastic Corrosion-Resistant Pipes and Vessels: a Survey of the European, Middle Eastern and North American Markets","Scott, D.V.",""," ","","Elsevier Advanced Technology","TP","Paperback. A detailed and comprehensive account of major world markets for corrosion-resistant pipes and vessels.","01-DEC-02","1490.00 ","1490.00 ","","Executive Summary Chapter 1 - Introduction Market developments Company structures and recent movements Methodology Chapter 2 - Raw Materials Chapter 3 - Manufacturing Technologies Chapter 4 - Design Criteria and Standards Chapter 5 - Industrial Application Market volumes product ranges Applications Chapter 6 - Company Profiles Chapter 7 - Certifications and Approvals Chapter 8 - Recent Developments and New Applications Chapter 9 - Directory of Companies and Organisations Chapter 10 - Bibliography and Glossary ","Composites","","Materials Science" "0-444-51174-1","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0444511741"",""Hyperlink"")","Impact of Zeolites and other Porous Materials on the New Technologies at the Beginning of the New Millennium","Aiello, R.;Giordano, G.;Testa, F.",""," ","2076","Elsevier","HC","Hardbound. This title presents the Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Federation of the European Zeolite Associations, and is a collection of contributions from internationally renowned researchers in the field of the Science and Technology of micro and mesoporous materials. The aim of the conference is to create an international forum where researchers from academia as well as from industry can bring and discuss ideas finalized to evaluate the impact of zeolites and other porous materials on the new technologies at the beginning of the new millennium. The scientific contributions, coming from 35 countries (both European and non-European) testify to the great vitality of the zeolite science. ","01-AUG-02","700.00 ","700.00 ","","Selected Papers. Zeolite Synthesis and Characterization. Zeolite characterization with spectroscopic methods (A. Zecchina et al.). Formation of new microporous silica phase in protonated kanemite-TMAOH-water system (F. Kooli et al.). Control of AFI type crystal synthesis with additional gel components (J. Kornatowski et al.). One-step benzene oxidation to phenol. Part I: preparation and characterization of Fe-(Al)MFI type catalysts (G. Giordano et al.). Catalysis. From micro to mesoporous molecular sieves: adapting composition and structure for catalysis(A. Corma, M.T. Navarro). Reformate upgrading to produce enriched BTX using noble metal promoted zeolite catalyst (S.H. Oh et al.). The influence of textural properties of MFI type catalysts on deactivation phenomena during oligomerization of butenes (G. Giordano et al.). Catalytic behavior of Cd-clinoptilolite prepared by introduction of cadmium metal onto cationic sites (G. Onyestyák, D. Kalló). Mesoporous Molecular Sieves. Confinement at nanometer scale: why and how? (F. Di Renzo et al.). Mesoporous silicate as matrix for drug delivery systems of non-steroidal antinflammatory drugs (R. Aiello et al.). Synthesis of ordered mesoporous and microporous aluminas: strategies for tailoring texture and aluminum coordination (V. González-Peña et al.). Modification of silica walls of mesoporous silicate and alumino-silicate by reaction with benzoyl chloride (L. Pasqua et al.). Advanced Materials and Applications. Options for the design of structured molecular sieve materials (J. Sterte et al.). Guanidine catalysts supported on micelle templated silicas. New basic catalysts for organic chemistry (D.J. Macquarrie et al.). Incorporation of zeolites in polyimide matrices(P. Sysel et al.). Preparation of mesoporous materials as a support for the immobilization of lipase (A. Macario et al.). Adsorption, Diffusion, Separation and Permeation. Adsorption and diffusion of linear and dibranched C6 paraffins in a ZSM-5 zeolite (E. Lemaire et al.). A frequency-response study of the kinetics of ammonia sorption in zeolite particles (Gy. Onyestyàk et al.). Adsorption properties of MCM-41 materials for the VOCs abatement (G. Calleja et al.). Characterization of mesoporous solids: pore condensation and sorption hysteresis phenomena in mesoporous molecular sieves (M. Thommes et al.). Natural Zeolites. Ion exchange selectivity of phillipsite (A.F. Gualtieri et al.). Treatment of urban dump leachates with natural zeolite packed bed column (T. Rodriguez et al.). Zeolitized tuffs as pedogenic substrate for soil re-building. Early evolution of zeolite/organic matter proto-horizons (A. Buondonno et al.). Evidence of the relationship occurring between zeolitization and lithification in the yellow facies of Campanian Ignimbrite (southern Italy) (A. Langella et al.). Ion Exchange and Modification. Characterisation of iron containing molecular sieves - the effect of T-element on Fe species (P. Decyk et al.). Modifying the acidic properties of PtZSM-5 and PtY zeolites by appropriately varying reduction methods (A. Tamási et al.). Ion exchange behaviour of two synthetic phillipsite-like phases (C. Colella et al.). Competitive ion exchange of transition metals in low silica zeolites (C. Weidenthaler et al.). Structure Analysis and Modelling. Computational methods for the design of zeolitic materials (M. Elanany et al.). Flexible aluminium coordination of zeolites as function of temperature and water content, an in-situ method to determine aluminium coordinations (J.A. van Bokhoven et al.). Structural characterization of borosilicates synthesized in the presence of ethylenediamine (S. Zanardi et al.). Density functional theory calculations of Henry's constant for N2, O2 and Ar molecules in Ca-A and Ca-LSX zeolites (G. De Luca et al.). ","Chemistry - General","Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis","Chemistry and Chemical Engineering" "0-444-51012-5","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0444510125"",""Hyperlink"")","Greenhouse Gases and Animal Agriculture","Takahashi, J.;Young, B.A.",""," ","372","Elsevier","HC","Hardbound. Reports from interdisciplinary areas including microbiology, biochemistry, animal nutrition, agricultural engineering and economics are integrated in this proceedings. The major theme of this book is environmental preservation by controlling release of undesirable greenhouse gases to realize the sustainable development of animal agriculture. Technology exists for the effective collection of methane generated from anaerobic fermentation of animal effluent and its use as a biomass energy source. Fossil fuel consumption can be reduced and there can be increased use of locally available energy sources. In addition, promoting environmentally-conscious agriculture which does not rely on the chemical fertilizer can be realized by effective use of animal manure and compost products. ","01-SEP-02","125.00 ","125.00 ","","Preface. Part 1. Overview of greenhouse gases and animal agriculture. Sustainable systems of animal agriculture (M. Suzuki). Greenhouse gases and the animal industries (B.A. Young). Greenhouse gases and animal agriculture in Asia (J.B. Liang). Global warming and animal agriculture in Japan (F. Terada). Appropriate effluent management of intensive animal industries (T.A. Streeten). Greenhouse gas emission from livestock in Brazil (M.A. Lima, C. Campanhola). Emission of greenhouse gas from anaerobic pig and dairy cattle wastewater treatment system in Taiwan (J.J. Su et al.). Emissions inventories and their implications for intensive livestock production (K.D. Casey). Perspectives for realizing agricultural production systems with material circulation (S. Hoshiba). Part 2. Measurement and manipulation of rumen methanogenesis. Strategies for mitigating methane emissions from livestock - Australian options and opportunities (R.S. Hegarty). Environmental control of methane production by ruminants (A.R. Moss). Methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide emissions from ruminant livestock production systems (D.E. Johnson et al.). Establishment of profitable dairy farming system on control of methane production in Hokkaido region (S. Kume). Nutritional manipulation of methane emission from ruminants (J. Takahashi). The use of sulfur hexafluoride for measuring methane emissions from farm animals (K.A. Johnson et al.). Nutritional options for abatement of methane emissions from beef and dairy systems in Australia (G.J. McCrabb). Detection of methanogens from the rumen by PCR-based techniques (M. Mitsumori et al.). Inhibition of rumen methanogenesis and its effects on feed intake, digestion, and animal production (C.S. McSweeney, G.J. McCrabb). Reducing ruminal methane production by chemical and biological manipulation (H. Itabashi). Animal and manure-derived methane emissions as affected by dietary fatty acids and manure storage system (M. Kreuzer et al.). Propionate precursors as possible alternative electron acceptors to methane in ruminal fermentation (C.J. Newbold et al.). Evaluating the dietary pre-conditions for a significant methane-suppressing effect of myristic acid in ruminants (A. Machmüller et al.). Effect of a stepwise increase of medium-chain fatty acid supply on ruminal methanogenesis in vitro (C.R. Soliva et al.). Treatment effects on methane emissions from grazing cattle (L.A. Harper et al.). The prediction of methane conversion rate from dietary factors (M. Kurihara et al.). Effect of heat exposure on the methane emission from expiratory gas in sheep fed with high concentrate diets (T. Takahashi et al.). Effects of &bgr; 1-4 galacto-oligosaccharide(GOS) and Candida kefyr on nitrate-induced methaemoglobinemia and methane emission in sheep (C. Sar et al.). Methane emission and nitrogen excretion by goats fed tropical byproducts based pelleted diet (M. Islam et al.). Development of nutritional management for controlling methane emissions from ruminants in Southeast Asia (S. Shioya et al.). In vitro inhibition of microbial methane production by chemicals (N. Mohammed et al.). Effects of lactic acid bacteria, yeasts and galactooligosaccharide supplementation on in vitro rumen methane production (Y. Gamo et al.). Part 3. Bio-energy from agricultural bio-mass. The current status of anaerobic digestion in China (R. Dong et al.). Manure and biowaste digestion in Germany - history, trends, and practical verification (G. Langhans). Large scale manure based biogas plant in Denmark configuration and operational experience (L. Ellegaard). Reuse of fibrous agricultural biomass for energy resources by methane fermentation (A. Oda et al.). Biogas production from unconsumed milk - Reduction of CO2 emission by utilization of unconsumed foodstuff (Y. Kitamura et al.). How the Biogas Plants based on the Manure in E.U. work in practice (H. Soma). Bioenergy supply potential and bioenergy utilization costs (H. Yamamoto et al.). The biogas plant using animal effluent as fuel (Y. Nagamori et al.). Environmental load gas emissions from swine waste treatment (T. Osada, K. Haga). Hydrogen production from biogas through steam reforming followed by water gas shift reaction and purification with selective oxidation reaction (Z.G. Zhang et al.). Part 4. Processing and use of bio-mass for soil rehabilitation. Ammonia emissions from composting of livestock manure (J. Matsuda et al.). Compost processing organic waste for recycling (P. Pittaway). Status and prospects of manure management in Japan-composting approaches (K. Nishizaki). Evaluation of the chamber system for gas measuring from the livestock waste compost (T. Osada, Y. Fukumoto). Methane emission from dairy cow and swine manure slurries stored at 10°C and 15°C (D.I. Massé et al.). Ammonia assimilating microorganisms in animal manure treatment processes (Y. Nakai et al.). Controlled traffic effects on soil injection of organic waste injection (J.N. Tullberg). Factors of soil-machine resistance and soil compaction at the operation of animal effluent application (T. Kishimoto et al.). Fertilizer value of anaerobically co-digested dairy manure and food processing wastes (K. Umetsu et al.). Current situation on cattle wastes and their efficient use for reducing the risk of environmental pollution from dairy farming in Hokkaido, Japan (T. Matsunaka). Soil rehabilitation using livestock and organic wastes (G. Xiao et al.). ","Animal Science","","Agricultural and Biological Sciences" "0-444-50928-3","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0444509283"",""Hyperlink"")","Biology of the Intestine in Growing Animals","Zabielski, R.;Gregory, P.C.;Westrom, B.",""," ","836","Elsevier","HC","Hardbound. This book covers the wide area of developmental physiology of the intestine: changes in the structure and function of the gut during perinatal period and weaning in mammals, role of nutrients (in particular colostrum and milk), neuroendocrine function of the intestine, intestinal motility, secretion and absorption and their neurohormonal regulation, novel knowledge on gut metabolism, and the structural and functional expression of circadian variability in the gut. It also contains unique information on the luminal action of gut regulatory peptides, and the role of the electric current generated by intestinal smooth muscle on gastrointestinal microbial growth. ","01-AUG-02","215.00 ","215.00 ","","Keynotes to the series. Preface. List of Contributors. Part I. Growth and maturation of the intestine. 1. Studying the development of the small intestine: philosophical and anatomical perspectives (J.F. Trahair, P.T. Sangild). 2. Vacuolation in the young (K. Baintner). 3. Maturation of intestinal function: the role of cortisol and birth (P.T. Sangild et al.). 4. Maturation of intestinal digestive and immune systems by food polyamines (O. Peulen et al.). 5. Bioactive compounds in porcine colostrum and milk and their effects on intestinal development in neonatal pigs (R.J. Xu et al.). 6. Role of colostrum and milk components in the development of the intestine structure and function in calves (J.W. Blum et al.). 7. Roles of milk-borne components in the development of pancreatic enzymes during the suckling period (T. Kinouchi, T. Yajima). 8. Allometric growth of the small and large intestine of rats before and after weaning (T. Sakata). Part II. Neuro-endocrine function of the intestine. 9. Innervation of the small intestine (E. Ekblad, F. Sundler). 10. The role of nitric oxide in motility of the developing gastrointestinal tract (M. Ceregrzyn, A. Kuwahara). 11. Gut regulatory peptides and hormones of the small intestine (P. Guilloteau et al.). 12. Luminal release of gut regulatory peptides and amines: waste or physiological message? (A. Kuwahara, M. Fujimiya). 13. The common systems of food recognition in the gut and tongue (T. Fushiki et al.). 14. Role of the intestine in regulation of food intake in growing pigs (P.C. Gregory). 15. Possible role of colostral macromolecules transported from the intestinal lumen in neonatal animals (E. Harada, T. Takeuchi). Part III. Digestion, absorption and the intestine barrier. 16. Production and gene expression of brush border disaccharidases and peptidases during development in pigs and calves (I. Le Huërou-Luron). 17. Dietary influences on pancreatic alpha-amylase expression and secretion in ruminants (K.C. Swanson, D.L. Harmon). 18. Intestinal absorption of nutrients during early development of vertebrates: patterns of appearance and change (R. Buddington). 19. Intestinal absorption of nutrients during early development of vertebrates: adaptive responses to dietary inputs (R. Buddington). 20. Absorption of certain trace elements in different nutritional conditions (M. Gralak). 21. Comparative aspects of gastrointestinal calcium and phosphate absorption in pigs and small ruminants during early postnatal life (B. Schröder et al.). 22. Invasive techniques to study the processes of digestion and absorption of nutrients in pigs (B. Zimmermann, R. Mosenthin). 23. Intestinal barrier function (I. Bjarnason et al.). Part IV. New trends in intestinal research. 24. Gastrointestinal protein and amino acid metabolism in growing animals (D.G. Burrin). 25. Electric fields and currents of the small intestine and their effects on Escherichia coli (E. Grzesiuk, R. Zabielski). 26. Toward the chronobiology and chronomics of the intestine (G. Cornelissen et al.). Index. ","Animal Science","Biology of Growing Animals","Agricultural and Biological Sciences" "0-08-043694-3","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0080436943"",""Hyperlink"")","Context-Dependence in the Analysis of Linguistic Meaning","Kamp, H.;Partee, B.H.",""," ","830","Elsevier","HC","Hardbound. Does context and context-dependence belong to the research agenda of semantics - and, specifically, of formal semantics? Not so long ago many linguists and philosophers would probably have given a negative answer to the question. However, recent developments in formal semantics have indicated that analyzing natural language semantics without a thorough accommodation of context-dependence is next to impossible. The classification of the ways in which context and context-dependence enter semantic analysis, though, is still a matter of much controversy and some of these disputes are ventilated in the present collection. This book is not only a collection of papers addressing context-dependence and methods for dealing with it: it also records comments to the papers and the authors' replies to the comments. In this way, the contributions themselves are contextually dependent. In view of the fact that the contributors to the volume are such key f","01-SEP-02","166.00 ","166.00 ","","Preface. Papers. Empty-domain effects for presuppositional and non-presuppositional determiners (D. Abusch, M. Rooth). From discourse macro-structure to micro-structure and back again: discourse semantics and the focus/background distinction (N. Asher). Fixing the reference situations: German temporal conjunctions (R. Bäuerle). Accommodating topics (D. Beaver). On context and identity (P. Dekker). Are context change potentials functions? (T. Fernando). A minimal theory of adverbial quantification (K. von Fintel). Focus and the boundaries of the language system (E. Hajičová). Focus and/or context: a second look at second occurrence expressions (M. Krifka). Topic, focus, and some aspects of the semantics of discourse (P. Kuboň). Why not Kim Basinger? On the 'Art des Gegebenseins' of a contextually given set (A. Merin). Order-independence and underspecification (R. Muskens). Dynamic semantics with choice functions (J. Peregrin, K. von Heusinger). Topics and the conceptual interface (T. Reinhart). Presupposition of existence and of uniqueness, and allegation (P. Sgall). Tertiumne datur? Possessive pronouns and the bipartition of the lexicon (T. Ede Zimmerman). Comments and Replies. Comments on Tim Fernando: mathematical treatments of contexts (N. Asher). Comments on Manfred Krifka: can pragmatic accounts explain pseudo-secondary occurrences of focus? (N. Asher). Comments on Asher and Krifka: acoustic correlates on 'second occurrence' focus: toward an experimental investigation (C. Bartels). Comments on Beaver's and von Fintel's theories of presupposition accommodation (S. Berman). Comments on Zimmerman: tertium evitari non potest: on Ede Zimmerman's bipartition of the lexicon (M. Bierwisch). Cases, adverbs, situations and events (P. Dekker). Comments on Beaver: presupposition accommodation and quantifier domains (K. von Fintel). Comments on Reinhart: the syntactic roots of discourse cohesion (K. von Fintel). Comments on von Fintel: remarks on von Fintel's contribution (E. Hajičová). Remarks on focus sensitive particles (to Krifka's and von Fintel's papers) (E. Hajičová, P. Sgall). Remarks on DRT and TFA (E. Hajičová, P. Sgall). Comments on Kaplan's 'demonstratives' and Zimmerman's 'tertiumne datur? Possessive pronouns and the bipartition of the lexicon (H. Kamp, A. Roßdeutscher). Comments on Dekker (J. Peregrin). Comments on Krifka (J. Peregrin). A comment on Reinhard Muskens' paper: order independence and underspecification (M. Pinkal). Comments on Krifka's paper (M. Rooth). Topichood and the stage/individual distinction (H. de Swart). Negation: scope and anaphora (H. de Swart). Topic, focus, and presuppostion (H. de Swart). Subjects in perspective: comments on Paul Dekker's 'On context and identity' (T. Ede Zimmerman). Author's Replies. Minimal replies to: Dekker, Hajičová, and Sgall, Berman and de Swart (K. von Fintel). Replies to Rooth, Bartels, Asher and Peregrin (M. Krifka). Replies to: Bierwisch, Kamp and Roßdeutscher and Muskens (T. Ede Zimmerman).","Linguistics","Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface","Social and Behavioral Sciences" "0-08-044024-X","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/008044024X"",""Hyperlink"")","Metal Forming Science and Practice","Lenard, J.G.",""," ","378","Elsevier","HC","Hardbound. This publication has been written to honour the contribution to science and education made by the Distinguished Professor Emeritus Professor Schey on his eightieth birthday. The contributors to his book are among the countless researchers who have read, studied and learned from Professor Schey's work, which includes books, research monographs, invited papers, keynote papers, scientific journals and conferences. The topics include manufacturing, sheet and bulk metal forming and tribology, amongst others. The topics included in this book include: John Schey and value-added manufacturing; Surface finish and friction in cold-metal rolling; Direct observation of interface for tribology in metal forming; An examination of the coefficient of friction; Studies on micro plasto hydrodynamic lubrication in metal forming; Numerical simulation of sheet metal forming; Geometric and mechanics model of sheet forming; Modelling and optimisation of meta","01-NOV-02","195.00 ","195.00 ","","Selected Papers. Recollections (Graduate Students). John Schey and Value-Added Manufacturing (T.A. Brzustowski).Striking Clarity. An Economic Fact. Rich in Ideas. Just One of Many Contributions. Introduction - The Scheme of the Book (J.G. Lenard).The Technical Presentations. Surface Finish and Friction in Cold Metal Rolling (M. Sutcliffe).Unlubricated Rolling. Mixed Lubrication. Micro-Plasto-Hydrodynamic Lubrication (MPHL). Boundary Lubrication. Direct Observation of Interface for Tribology in Metal Forming (A. Azushima).Direct Observation of Interface in Sheet Drawing. Direct Observation of Interface in Flat Tool Drawing. An Examination of the Coefficient of Friction (J.G. Lenard).Fundamental Ideas. Experimental Studies. The Coefficient of Friction in Flat Rolling. The Dependence of the Coefficient of Friction on Process and Material Parameters. Studies on Micro Plasto Hydrodynamic Lubrication in Metal Forming (N. Bay et al.).Experimental Investigation. Mathematical Model of Micro Plasto Hydrostatic and Hydrodynamic Lubrication. Numerical Simulation of Sheet Metal Forming (M.J. Worswick).Introduction to Stamping Simulation - A Deep Drawn Cup. Explicit Dynamic Versus Implicit Formulations. Simulation of Stretch Flange Forming. Modelling Product Performance - Dent Resistance. Geometric and Mechanics Model of Sheet Forming (E.J.L. Duncan).Plane Stress Deformation. Force Per Unit Width, or "Tension". Bending and Unbending Models. Supporting Software. Modelling and Optimization of Metal Forming Processes (Manninen et al.).On Modelling and Optimization. Deep Drawing of Stainless Steel. Continuous Extrusion. Optimizing the Tube Hydroforming Process. The Mathematical Modelling of Hot Rolling of Steel (S. Yue).The Canmet - Mcgill Mathematical Model for Microstructural Evolution of Steels During Hot Rolling. Identification of Rheological and Tribological Parameters (D. Szeliga, M. Pietrzyk).The Inverse Method. Oxide Behaviour in Hot Rolling (M. Krzyzanowski, J.H. Beynon).Factors Influencing Friction, Heat Transfer and Quality of the Product in Hot Rolling. Mathematical Model. Analysis of Oxide Scale Failure at Entry into the Roll Gap. Analysis of Descaling Events. Friction, Lubrication and Surface Response in Wire Drawing (R.N. Wright).The Effect Of Temperature. Process Design Effects. The Drawing of Shapes. The Generation of Fines. Modelling and Control of Temper Rolling and Skin Pass Rolling (O. Wiklund, F. Sandberg).Modelling of the Roll Gap. Modelling of the Roll Force. Process Control. Development Trends. ","Metallurgy","","Materials Science" "0-08-044104-1","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0080441041"",""Hyperlink"")","Fiber Fracture","Elices, M.;Llorca, J.",""," ","400","Elsevier","HC","Hardbound. The idea for this book came out of the EURESCO Conference on High Performance Fibers: Euroconference on Fiber Fracture in 2000. Many of the books that are currently available look at different aspects of fiber processing, properties, or applications, but none are focussed on the fracture behaviour of fibers. This book presents the mechancisms and models of fiber fracture currently available for both natural and synthetic fibers, and it is expected that increasingly there will be cross fertilization between the fields, opening new frontiers in academic research and more competitive products for industry. It covers the following areas of fiber fracture: ceramic fibers; glass fibers; carbon filters; metallic fibers and thin wires; polymeric fibers; and carbon nanotubes. ","01-OCT-02","175.00 ","175.00 ","","Introduction. Fiber fracture: an overview (K.K. Chawla). Models of fibre fracture (M. Elices, J. Llorca). Forms of fracture (J.W.S. Hearle). Ceramic Fibers. Fracture processes in fine silicon carbide fibres (A. Bunsell). Fracture processes in oxide ceramic fibres(M.H. Berger). Fracture characteristics of single crystal and eutectic fibers (A. Sayir, S.C. Farmer). Glass Fibers. Strength of glass fibers (P.K. Gupta). Carbon Fibers. Fracture of carbon fibers (J.G. Lavin). Metallic Fibers. Strength and fracture of metallic filaments (H.U Künzi). Fracture of superfine metallic wires (K. Yoshida). Polymeric Fibers. Fracture of highly-orientated, chain-extended polymer fibres (J.W.S. Hearle). Fracture of synthetic polymeric fibers (Y. Termonia). Fracture of natural polymeric fibers (C. Viney). Fracture of common textile fibres (J.W.S. Hearle). Nanofibers. Atomic transformations, strength, plasticity, and electron transport in strained carbon nanotubes (I. Bernmolc et al.). ","Fracture Mechanics","","Engineering, Energy and Technology" "0-08-044055-X","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/008044055X"",""Hyperlink"")","Adjectives, Number and Interfaces","Bouchard, D.",""," ","460","North-Holland","HC","Hardbound. This study explains why languages vary the way they do in the domain of adjectival modification in French as contrasted with other Indo-European languages (English, Celtic, Walloon, Romanian, Italian). Rejecting previous well known analyses in terms of syntactic movement to various functional heads, the author proposes a model in which external properties of interfaces are the foundations from which the variation is derived. Limiting severely the technical apparatus of syntax, the author argues that the properties of Number at the interfaces are shown to provide a simple and precise solution for longstanding problems of compositionality raised by adjectival modification. There is also a unified analysis of the many other properties involved. The model provides a principled explanation of the variation concerning nominals without determiners (Bare NPs) and determiners without nominals (clitics).","01-OCT-02","94.00 ","94.00 ","","Adjectives, Interfaces, and Explanation. Introduction. Adjectival Modification. Apparent noncompositionality of adjectival modification. Explaining Adjectival Modification. Numerous other properties of adjectival modification. Attempts at technical solutions. Additions to the semantics. Additions to the syntactic units. Additions to the constructions. Inadequacy of technical solutions. Multiple meanings of ADJ-N combinations. Multiple classes of adjectives. Cross-linguistic variation. Understanding the lack of explanation. Explanation in Linguistics: the Role of Interfaces. Variation at the SM interface: a second facet to Saussurean arbitrariness. Variation at the CI interface: another facet of Saussurean arbitrariness. The CI and SM properties of number. Notes. Adjectival Modification in French. A Strictly Compositional Analysis of Adjectival Modification. Basic Phenomena. Clear meaning differences between ADJ-N and N-ADJ combinations. Intensional adjectives. Quantitative adjectives. Evaluative adjectives. ADJs that express concrete properties. ADJs and proper names. The anaphoric use of a prenominal ADJ. The scope of double prenominal ADJ. The scope of double postnominal ADJs. Scopal ambiguity in ADJ-N-ADJ. Sandhi phenomena. The no complement restriction. Factors Favoring pre-N or post-N Placement of ADJs. Semantic factors. Phonological factors. Syntactic factors. Morphological factors. Nongrammatical factors. Conclusion. Notes. Crosslinguistic Variation in Adjectival Modification. The Causes of Variation. A Comparison with English. Why English has mostly prenominal ADJs. The mirror order of French postnominal ADJs and English prenominal ADJs. The old friend problem. Intonation and functional covariation. A Brief Look at Other Languages. Celtic languages. Walloon. Rumanian. Evidence from Codeswitching. Conclusion. Notes. The Omission of N. Expressions Including Partitivity. Classifying ADJs. Lone Determiners. Syntactic Accounts. Chomsky's analysis. Cardinaletti & Starke's Analysis. Why syntactic accounts fail. An affixal account. Determiners, tense, and number. ActAffs as regular affixes. Accounting for the data. Conclusion. Notes. The Omission of DET. Number and the DET. Intensional Determinerless NPS in French. Predicative N. Attributive N. Verbal Expressions. N de N. N à N. Negation and privative elements. Referential Determinerless NPS in French. Contact of the word with the referent. Deictic NPs. Proper names. A single Det and coordinated Ns. Determinerless coordinated Ns. de + prenominal adjective. The Interpretation of Determinerless NPs in English. Determinerless NPs in Italian. Conclusion. Appendix. Notes. Adaptive Grammar. The Broad Picture. Progress in Generative Grammar and Simplicity. Progress in Generative Grammar. Formal Simplicity. Functional simplicity. General simplicity. Nonminimal Residues. Displacement. Locality. A Parsimonious Analysis of Long Distance Dependencies. Long distance dependency is not displacement. Locality. Summary. The Origins of Variation. Variation by Saussurean arbitrariness is motivated. Variation by displacement internal to a language. Facilitating processing. Different types of semantics. Agreement with uninterpretable features. Expletive constructions. Wh in-situ. Displacement: artefact rather than fact. Displacement and Crosslinguistic Variation. Crosslinguistic variation in the basic order. A universal basic order. Crosslinguistic variation by displacement. Free order and functional covariation. Innateness and Learnability. An Adaptive Model of the Faculty of Language. Appendix: Counterarguments to Compositionality? Compositionality and multiple interpretations: meaning versus interpretation. Compositionality and the contextual meaning of if and unless. Notes. References. ","Linguistics","North-Holland Linguistic Series: Linguistic Variations","Social and Behavioral Sciences" "0-7623-0963-6","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0762309636"",""Hyperlink"")","Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Volume 22","Lehmann, J.M.",""," ","408","Jai","HC","Hardbound. ","01-NOV-02","87.00 ","87.00 ","","Editorial board. List of contributors. Introduction. Bringing Marxism back...with Foucault. Foucault's encounter with Marxism (P. Paolucci). Critical Theories of Knowledge: Epistemology and Culture. Afrocentricity and the European hegemony of knowledge: contradictions of place (M.K. Asante). Epistemology, culture and rhetoric: some social implications of human cognition (T.J. Burns, T. LeMoyne). Films and Utopia: the culture industry revisited (J.J. Dowd). Social Structures, Theories and Movements. Cybercritique: a social theory of online agency and virtual structures (T.W. Luke). Resolving tensions between rationality and traditionalism: race, social class and religion in feminist perspectives (M. Godwyn). The duality of systems: networks as media and outcomes of movement mobilization (J. Livesay). Bridging the African Diaspora in the New Millennium (selected papers from the eponymous conference at the University of Nebraska, February 2001). Re-visioning race: dismantling whiteness (G. Herndon). The psychological and spiritual implications of western Christian missionaries' influence on the African diaspora: special reference to West African countries (J.O. Oyekan). Critical Theory (selected papers from the Conference of the Critical Theory Section, International Sociological Association, University of Cambridge, September 2000). How is society possible? Towards a metacritique of reification (F. Vandenberghe). The form of difference: reimagining critical theory (N. Weiss Hanrahan). Prolegomena to an intercultural critical theory (F. Kurasawa). Pragmatism versus sociological hermeneutics (P. Baert). Subjectivity, culture, autonomy: castadoriadis and social theory (A. Elliott).","Sociology (General)","Current Perspectives in Social Theory","Social and Behavioral Sciences" "0-444-51178-4","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0444511784"",""Hyperlink"")","Scientific Bases for the Preparation of Heterogeneous Catalysts","Gaigneaux*, E.;De Vos**, D.E.;Grange*, P.;Jacobs**, P.A.;Martens**, J.A.;Ruiz*, P.;Poncelet*, G.;;",""," ","1136","Elsevier","HC","Hardbound. It has become a tradition that every four years, the Université Catholique de Louvain and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven jointly organize a symposium devoted to the scientific bases for the preparation of heterogeneous catalysts. These meetings bring together researchers from academia and industry and offer a forum for discussions on the chemistry involved in the preparation of industrial heterogeneous catalysts. This volume containing the Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Scientific Bases for the Preparation of Heterogeneous Catalysts 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, holding an industrial or academia appointment. The contributions focus on the aspects of catalyst preparation. The main topics are: new approaches in catalyst preparation; advanced prepara","01-AUG-02","340.00 ","340.00 ","","Selected papers. Aspects of scale up of catalyst production (K. Johansen). Preparation of nickel-modified ceramic filters by the urea precipitation method for tar removal from biomass gasification gas (D.J. Draelants et al.). Investigation on acidity of zeolites bound with silica and alumina (X. Wu et al.). Hydrocracking catalyst to produce high quality diesel fraction (R. Galiasso Tailleur). Preparation of new solid super-acid catalyst, titanium sulfate supported on zirconia and its acid catalytic properties (J.R. Sohn et al.). Unsupported and supported manganese oxides used in the catalytic combustion of methyl-ethyl-ketone (L.M. Gandia et al.). Single step synthesis of metal catalysts supported on porous carbon with controlled texture (N. Job et al.). Raman studies of the templated synthesis of zeolites (P.P. Knops-Gerrits, M. Cuypers). Control of pore structures of titanias and titania/aluminas using complexing agents (M. Toba et al.). A new insight into molybdate/boehmite interaction (D. Minoux et al.). Catalytic activity of bulk and supported sulfated zirconia (I.J. Dijs et al.). Preparation of new basic mesoporous silica catalysts by ammonia grafting (H. Yoshida et al.). The effect of cerium introduction on vanadium-USY catalysts (C. Ramos Moreira et al.). Influence of preparation procedure on physical and catalytic properties of carbon-supported Pd-Au catalysts (P. Canton et al.). Oxidized diamond as a new catalyst support (T. Suzuki et al.). Design, preparation and testing of effective FeOx/SiO2 catalysts in methane to formaldehyde selective oxidation (F. Arena et al.). ","Catalysis","Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis","Chemistry and Chemical Engineering" "0-08-043984-5","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0080439845"",""Hyperlink"")","Internet Based Control Education 2001","Dormido, S.;Morilla, F.",""," ","248","Pergamon","TP","Paperback. The WWW has revolutionised educational institutions. Control education is an area that has been enhanced through web developments; an initiative to experiment and incorporate web-based technologies led to the birth of Web-Based Simulation (WBS). Control education is typically a domain where Web-Based Simulation successfully shows its potential of how current technology can support the sharing of information amongst large dispersed groups. This book is based around the proceedings of an IFAC meeting specifically devoted to Internet Based Control Education. It provided a forum for discussions around issues such as: remote labs, virtual labs, teleoperation, centralized internet repository for control education, internet based control systems materials, and virtual reality in control education. This book illuminates the most recent developments and advances in the use of the WWW in control education, and presents many open issues for laborator","01-AUG-02","87.00 ","87.00 ","","Selected Papers. Web Based Educational Environment I. Multiagent system for distance laboratory simulation (C. Romero et al.). Prolern - a project-oriented approach to teaching of control engineering (Chr. Schmid et al.). Development of an electronic reference & consulting tool in standardization, calibration and industrial control (A. Hilario et al.). Collaborative problem solving project in remote diagnosis (S. Ploix, F. Michau). Remote Control Laboratories I. Contribution to the definition of best practices for the implementation of remote experimentation solutions (X. Vilalta et al.). Remote control systems laboratory (P.M.A. Silva et al.). Teleoperation of an inverted pendulum through the world wide web (J. Sánchez et al.). Connection pilot plant to the internet (M. Domínguez et al.). Controller Design. Supporting introductory control courses via internet: demos by MATLAB/SIMULINK/JAVA applets (R. Bars et al.). JCONTROL: A java learning tool for the design of basic controllers (T. Alvarez et al.). An instructor station applied to a distributed process training simulator (M.A. Garcia, R. Alves). Evolutionary development from simulation teachware towards multimedia and automated education (M. Braee et al.). Mobile Robots. On the control of a remote legged robot via internet. A first approach (A. Benali, V. Idasiak). Virtual reality for tele-education experiments with remote mobile robot hardware (M. Pérez, K. Schilling). A multiuser environment for remote experimentation in control education (A. Bischoff, C. Röhrig). Design of a remote laboratory on mobile robots (F. Rodriguez et al.). Matlab Web Server. Remote lab for control applications using MATLAB (R. Puerto et al.). HADOC, an internet based environment for control learning (S. Gentil et al.). WWW-based control training using SciLab (J. Jugo et al.). Remote industrial process control with Matlab web server (J.L. Díez et al.). Web Based Educational Environment I. A versatile and interactive courseware for learning control systems (J.A. Lopez-Orozco et al.). Courseware generator for automatic control learning through internet (E. Gómez et al.). A web-based system for a control engineering tutorial (M.J. Fuente et al.). Teleoperation. Moving eye - teaching mechatronics and telerobotics by the aid of a mobile ball shaped robot (P. Harmo et al.). The innovative educational concepts in autonomous and teleoperated systems (IECAT) project at utah state university (R. Fullmer). Virtual laboratory for robotics and automation (F. Torres et al.). Bilateral control of teleoperators with time-delay: stability analysis (J.M. Azorín et al.). Remote Control Laboratories II. Related: a framework to publish web-based laboratory control systems (R. Pastor et al.). Titere: a new remote physical scenario for computer vision self-learning through internet (J.M. Sebastián et al.). Internet in the development of off-site practicals with industrial processes (C. Ramos et al.). Elasnet: a new remote physical scenario for photo-elasticity self-learning through internet (J.M. Sebastián et al.). ","Control Systems","IFAC Proceedings Volumes","Engineering, Energy and Technology" "0-444-51164-4","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0444511644"",""Hyperlink"")","Ultrasound for Characterizing Colloids","Dukhin, A.S.;Goetz, P.J.",""," ","384","Elsevier","HC","Hardbound. Two key words define the scope of this book: 'ultrasound' and 'colloids'. Historically, there has been little real communication between disciples of these two fields. Although there is a large body of literature devoted to ultrasound phenomenon in colloids, there is little recognition that such phenomena may be of real importance for both the development, and application, of Colloid Science. From the other side, colloid scientists have not embraced acoustics as an important tool for characterizing colloids. The lack of any serious dialogue between these scientific fields is the biggest motivation behind this book. For colloidal systems, ultrasound provides information on three important areas of particle characterization: Particle sizing, Rheology, and Electrokinetics. This book primarily targets scientists who consider colloids as their major object of interest. As such we emphasize those aspects of acoustics that are important for ","01-OCT-02","200.00 ","200.00 ","","Selected Papers. Introduction. Historical overview. Advantages of ultrasound over traditional characterization techniques. Fundamentals of Interface and Colloid Science. Real and model dispersions. Parameters of the model dispersion medium. Parameters of the model dispersed phase. Parameters of the model interfacial layer. Interactions in colloid and interface science. Traditional particle sizing. Fundamentals of Acoustics in Liquids. Longitudinal waves and the wave equation. Acoustics and its relation to rheology. Acoustic impedance. Propagation through phase boundaries - reflection. Propagation in porous media. Chemical composition influence. Acoustic Theory for Particulates. Extinction=absorption + scattering. Superposition approach. Acoustic theory for a dilute system. Ultrasound absorption in concentrates. Ultrasound scattering. Input parameters. Electroacoustic Theory. The theory of Ion Vibration Potential (IVP). The low frequency electroacoustic limit - Smoluchowski limit (SDEL). The O'Brien theory. The colloid vibration current in concentrated systems. Qualitative analysis. Experimental Verification of the Acoustic and Electroacoustic Theories. Viscous losses. Thermal losses. Structural losses. Scattering losses. Electroacoustic phenomena. Acoustic and Electroacoustic Measurement Techniques. Historical perspective. Difference between measurement and analysis. Measurement of attenuation and sound speed using interferometry. Measurement of attenuation and sound speed using the transmission technique. Precision, accuracy, and dynamic range for transmission measurements. Analysis of attenuation and sound speed to yield desired outputs. Measurement of electroacoustic properties. Zeta potential calculation from the analysis of CVI. Measurement of acoustic impedance. Applications of Acoustics for Characterizing Particulate Systems. Characterization of aggregation and flocculation. Stability of emulsions and microemulsions. Particle sizing in mixed colloids with several dispersed phases. Chemical-mechanical polishing. Large particle resolution. Titration using electroacoustics. Colloids with high ionic strength - electroacoustic background. Effect of air bubbles. Table of applications. ","Surfaces-Interfaces-Colloids","Studies in Interface Science","Chemistry and Chemical Engineering" "0-08-043700-1","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0080437001"",""Hyperlink"")","New Technologies For Computer Control 2001","Verbruiggen, H.;Chan, C.W.;Vingerhoeds, R.A.",""," ","594","Pergamon","TP","Paperback. Computers allow us to perform many tasks now with levels of reliability and accuracy that have never before been possible. Control engineering is benefiting from new technologies, such as networking of computers, ever-increasing computer power, mechatronics and intelligent sensors for improving the reliability and safety of control systems, which will have profound implications for all application areas of engineering. Implementing sophisticated control algorithms and structures are within easy reach, and researchers are now working on a road-map for computer control in the 21st century. The first IFAC Conference on New Technologies for Computer Control was a multi-track conference organised by the IFAC Coordinating Committee on Computer Control, together with its five technical committees: Distributed Computer Control Systems, Real-Time Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time Control, Algorithms and Architectur","01-SEP-02","136.00 ","136.00 ","","Plenary Papers. Design of computer controlled combustion engines (R. Isermann, N. Müller). CORBA and control systems research (R. San). Evolutionary computing: opportunities for control (P.J. Flemming, R.C. Purshouse). Temporally consistent delivery of time-sensitive information: solutions and challenges (K. Ramaritham). Distributed and Networked Systems. Design and performance evaluation of DCS using DCOM, CORBA and Tspace (W.J. Kang et al.). A real-time network manager for distributed imprecise computation (H. Kobayashi et al.). Distributed client/server network control using web-based technologies (J.B. Liu, I.V. Motov). SOAP message structure for web-based distributed control systems (C.H. Lee et al.). Fault Detection and Diagnosis. Multi-agent systems for model-based fault diagnosis (X. Ren et al.). Intelligent fault diagnosis based on neurofuzzy networks for nonlinear dynamic systems (Y. Wang et al.). Layered-integrated ANN diagnosis models and applications in remote diagnosis systems (H-S. Li et al.). Fault detection and isolation of systems with slowly time-varying faults using the optimal parity test (H. Jin et al.). Advanced Modelling and Control Design. Multiobjective optimisation approach to robust controller design (I. Griffin et al.). Blending local models within a velocity-based multiple model network (S.C. McLoone et al.). H2 optimal computer control: polynomial toolbox (V. Kucera). The response surface methodology for real-time distributed simulation (P. Stewart, P.J. Flemming). Safety Critical Real Time Systems. Adaptive concurrence control in safety critical real-time systems (H.F. Wedde et al.). Devising a fault tolerant real-time program using program verification (G. Tsai, W.A. Halang). A fault tolerant and jitter free dual ring fieldbus system with GPS based time synchronisation (T. Erdner et al.). Application of the HAZAPS methodology to the safe design of computer-controlled pipeless plants (F. Mushtaq, P.W.H. Chung). Algorithms. Use of surrogate pulse-response matrix for the UDCL (S.H. Lam). Gate level implementation of high speed controllers and filters (R. Kasper, T. Reinemann). Tracking variable periodic signals with variable sampling rate - frequency domain approach (Z. Cao, G. Ledwich). Fast computation of time-frequency distributions using a parallel DSP-based system for signal analysis (F. Garcia-Nocetti et al.). Intelligent Control With Industrial Applications (Special Session). An intelligent position and quality detection system in IC production (Q. Qi et al.). Reinforcement adaptive fuzzy control for a class of nonlinear uncertain systems (Y.H. Kim et al.). Neuro-fuzzy inverse dynamics control for flexible-link space robots (F.C. Sun et al.). A fuzzy dynamic uncertainty compensator for industrial robots (W. Chen et al.). Applications I. Lift controllers by evolutionary algorithms (A. Rosa et al.). Predictive function control based on multi-model for pH plant (Z-H. Zhang, S-Q. Wang). Global path planning and dynamic eluding obstacles in soccer game (P. Tang, Y.M. Yang). Performance of Control Software. Towards self-organising time-sensitive control systems's software (L. Motus, M. Meriste). The hardware/software divide for high-performance embedded controllers (R. Goodall, S. Jones). Monitoring a program's performance using object oriented concepts (Y-S. Kim, K-S. Lee). Industrial Applications. Data and event management in a maritime terminal of containers (J.L. Poza et al.). A recursive multi-block PLS algorithm for monitoring industrial processes (X. Wang et al.). Design and simulation of heterogeneous control systems using Ptolemy II (J. Eker et al.). Real Time Software Engineering. Real-time transactions need their constituting tasks (H.F. Wedde et al.). A heuristic allocation method for multiprocessor systems (S. Wang, W.A. Halang). EDROOM. Automatic C++ code generator for real time systems modelled with room (O.R. Polo et al.). Using linux and ada in the development of distributed computer control systems (A. Alonso et al.). Scheduling and Communications. The control action interval with shared resources (P. Balbastre et al.). Reconfigurable distributed control considering communication time delay effects (H. Benítez-Pérez, F. García-Nocetti). Stability of on-line compensated real-time scheduled control tasks (P. Martí et al.). Quasi timed-petri-nets and its applications in field communications system (M.R. Fei et al.). Neural Network Applications in Nonlinear Modelling and Control of Biomedical Processes (Special Session). ANN-based tools lead to improved feedforward coagulation control policy (C.S. Cox et al.). Real-Time Systems. Distributed wireless control using bluetooth (J. Eker et al.). Uplink power control in bluetooth transceiver (S.Y. Shin et al.). An approach for power plant CCS modeling and optimization (P.K. Li et al.). A new processor architecture for real-time systems (M. Uchiyama et al.). Mechanical Applications. A swingup control of an inverted pendulum with cart position control (Y. Otani et al.). Advanced Monitoring and Diagnostics. Application of PCA for detecting and diagnosing abnormal process behaviour (U. Kruger, D.J. Sandoz). Fuzzy genetic modelling of air-conditioning system for fault diagnosis (C.Y. Kung, H.N. Lam). A model reduction method for monitoring large-scale processes (U. Kruger et al.). Fault diagnosis based on qualitative bond graph and genetic algorithms (C.H. Lo et al.). Fuzzy Control. Fuzzy inverse reasoning control of a MIMO plant (D.T. Pham, D. Li). Design of fuzzy-logic-control system based on gaussian-basis-function neural network (L. Li et al). Fuzzy sliding mode load frequency control of multiarea interconnected power systems (X.P. Meng et al.). Self-tuning fuzzy control of MIMO system and its application (C.L. Liu et al.). Robotics. Sensor fusion based intelligent motion control for nonholonomic wheeled moblie roots (G. Yasuda, H. Takai). Path planning for redundant manipulators with load distributon consideration (S. Tahmasian, M.J. Sadigh). Implementation of a neuro-fuzzy sensor based robot navigator (W.Y. Wong et al.). Fuzzy and Neural. A self-organising neurofuzzy system and its application to quality prediction for hydrocracking processing (L. Jia et al.). Self-organising radial-base-function-network based internal model control system (L. Jia et al.). A fuzzy controller to overcome EA accomodation (Q.M. Zhu et al.). Applications II. Novel design method for the ball mill pulverising system based on fuzzy reasoning and auto-tuning PID control (X.F. Li et al.). A self-tuning PID controller based on expert system (J. Xing et al.). Fuzzy logic in simulation of lookheed L1011 aircraft three-rate model (I Astrov, E Rüstern). Real time environmental monitoring centre (I. Hamburg et al.). High Integrity Programmable Electronic Sysytems. How to support real-time traffic of urgent aperiodic message using FF (Z. Wang et al.). Static task allocation in real-time distributed computer control systems (J.C.B. Leite et al.). A new method to build the FF schedule time list (Y. Zhou et al.) A CORBA-based architecture for strategic process control (R. Sanz et al.). Safety of Computer Control Systems (Special Session). Programming languages for use in safety related applications (J. Zalewski, W.A. Halang). Enhancing integrity of embedded systems (M. Colnaric). A prgrammable logic controller for safety related applications (M. Sniezek). A fast and fail safe comparator of binary data with tenary result and status output (J. von-Stackelberg). Novel Construction and Learning Techniques. Optimal construction of local model networks using genetic algorithm (S.K. Sharma et al.). A new estimation method for radial basis function-based models (H. Peng et al). Completely supervised training algorithms for B-spline neural networks and neuro-fuzzy systems (A.E. Ruano et al.). New learning algorithm of neuro-fuzzy-network (Z.L. Wang et al.). ","Control Systems","IFAC Proceedings Volumes","Engineering, Energy and Technology" "0-444-51135-0","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0444511350"",""Hyperlink"")","Calcium Homeostasis and Signaling in Aging","Mattson, M.P.",""," ","204","Elsevier","HC","Hardbound. This volume of Advances in Cell Aging and Gerontology reviews the mechanisms that regulate cellular calcium homeostasis in various tissues throughout the body and how these systems change during aging. Normal functions of calcium in regulating various physiological processes are considered and the evidence supporting roles for perturbed calcium regulation in the pathogenesis of several prominent age-related disorders are detailed. The cross-disciplinary approach used to organize this book should provide readers interested in a specific area of calcium regulation with a broader perspective and a framework for which to shape future studies in their laboratories. ","01-AUG-02","95.00 ","95.00 ","","Preface. 1. Calcium and Evolutionary Aspects of Aging (M.P. Mattson). 2. Calcium Homeostasis and Signaling in Aging (T. Fujita). 3. Cellular Calcium Dynamics (K. Furukawa et al.). 4. Impact of Aging on Calcium Channels and Pumps (M. Yamaguchi). 5. Calcium Homeostasis and Learning Deficits in Aging (J. Disterhoft, W.W. Wu). 6. Calcium and the Pathogenesis of Neurodegenerative Disorders (M. Mattson, C. Gilman). 7. Altered T-Lymphocyte Calcium Signaling and Age-Related Disease (G.F. Weber). 8. Calcium Dysregulation, Insulin Release and the Pathogenesis of Diabetes (P. Bergsten). 9. Calcium Homeostasis and Skeletal Muscle Alterations in Aging (O. Delbono). 10. Genetic and Dietary Factors in Age-Related Bone Loss (S. Ferrari). Contributor Addresses. ","Geriatrics and Gerontology","Advances in Cell Aging and Gerontology","Life Sciences" "0-08-044194-7","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0080441947"",""Hyperlink"")","Dust in the Solar System and Other Planetary Systems","Green, S.F.;Williams, I.;McDonnell, T.;McBride, N.",""," ","428","Pergamon","HC","Hardbound. Since the last joint IAU and COSPAR Colloquium in Gainesville in 1995, there have been dramatic changes in the field resulting from in-situ space experiments, Earth orbiting satellites and ground based observations. The brightest comet since the early years of the twentieth century, comet Hale-Bopp, appeared, giving an invaluable opportunity to see in action one great source of interplanetary dust. Similarly, the Leonid meteor shower has been at its most active since 1966, producing spectacular displays of meteors and allowing for an array of observational techniques, not available in 1966 to be used, while theory has also been refined to a level where very accurate predictions of the timing of meteor storms has become possible. Prior to the meeting a total eclipse of the Sun in South West England and North Europe was observed, traditionally a good opportunity to observe the Zodiacal cloud. The knowledge of the Near-Earth Asteroid population ha","01-NOV-02","200.00 ","200.00 ","","I. Meteors and meteoroid streams. II. Observations of the zodiacal light. III. Interplanetary dust. IV. Dust in the outer solar systems and other planetary systems. V. Cometary dust. VI. Laboratory Studies. VII. The near-Earth environment. VIII. Evidence from meteorites. Index. Author Index. Keyword Index. ","Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Science (General)","COSPAR Colloquia Series","Physics and Astronomy" "0-7623-0906-7","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0762309067"",""Hyperlink"")","Doing a Doctorate in Educational Ethnography","Walford, G.",""," ","226","Jai","HC","Hardbound. Doing a doctorate in education is always a challenging and difficult process. Doing a doctorate in education that is based upon ethnographic research is even more so. This book draws together a series of semi-autobiographical reflexive accounts of the process of doing a doctorate using educational ethnography. The individual studies include research into school effectiveness, the experiences of Asian teenagers, sexual cultures in the primary school, mature students on Access courses, primary school management, the experiences of children with special educational needs, teachers' work intensification, the family and school experiences of Year 9 students and a Youth Training programme within English professional football. The range of topics shows how import ethnographic work has become in education. Most of the contributors are still at the early stage of their academic careers. Their writings have not yet attained 'classic' status - alt","01-NOV-02","90.00 ","90.00 ","","Preface (G. Walford). Introduction: the doctoral experience (G. Walford). On the doctoral endeavour (G. Bhatti). Close encounters of the third kind: researching children's sexual cultures in the primary school (E. Renold). Learning on the job: micropolitics and identity work in teacher/doctoral student research (S. Benjamin). Jet-setting postgrad - ethnographic research in two countries (F. Vogt). It's a white knuckle ride: reflections from the PhD experience (L. Pugsley ). Method in the messiness: experiencing the ethnographic PhD process (G. Troman). Pressures, problems and the PhD process: tales from the 'training ground' (A. Parker). The novice researcher: expectation meets reality (K. Johannesen Brock). Alone in a crowd or going native? A doctoral student's experience (G. O'Toole). The influences of personal biography on the doctoral research process (C. Hudson). Researching the ineffable - that which cannot be expressed in words (J. Lilly). Notes on contributors.","Education (General)","Studies in Educational Ethnography","Social and Behavioral Sciences" "0-7623-0957-1","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0762309571"",""Hyperlink"")","Social Inequalities, Health and Health Care Delivery","Kronenfeld, J.J.",""," ","224","Jai","HC","Hardbound. This book deals with an issue of great importance in both the US health care system and health care systems across the world. Research on social inequalities has a very long tradition in sociological research, and discussion of the impact of social inequalities on health and health care delivery has long been one of the more important topics covered by medical sociologists. The research presented in this volume varies in its coverage and its approach to issues of social inequality in health and health care delivery. This volume includes both theoretical and quantitative papers, and deals with complex understandings of macro system issues, the impact of the patient and individual factors on health and health care and the impact of the provider and interaction between providers and patients. The first section focuses on macro system issues and includes both more theoretical approaches to the topic and quantitative approaches. The second secti","01-NOV-02","86.00 ","86.00 ","","List of contributors. Introduction (J.J. Kronenfeld). Macro-System Issues in Social Inequality and Health Care. Explaining health related inequalitities with a social capital model (J.W.Grimm, Z.W. Brewster). Inequalities created in the bio-medicine as the body business (B. Hanson). Unforeseen policy effects on the safety net: Medicaid, private hospital closures and the use of the local VAMCs (B.D. Gifford et al.). A critical realist perspective on class relations and health inequalities (G. Scambler et al.). Patient Characteristics, Social Inequality and Health and Health Care Services. Social Inequalities, psychological well-being, and health: longitudinal evidence from a US national study (N.F. Marks, Heejjeong Choi). Health lifestyles and social class in the Deep South (M.C. Snead, W.C. Cokerham). Mid-life health of African-American women: cumulative disadvantage as a predictor of early senescence (Y.J. Coombs). Consumer direction in home and community-based long-term eldercare services (M. Signatur, L. Hollis-Sawyer). Providers and Issues of Social Inequality and Health Care Delivery. Organizational supports for and barriers to part-time work arrangements for professionals: the case of radiology (C.E. Bird et al.). Race and evaluation of health care providers: theoretical and methodological issues (J. Malat). Poverty and health disparities: lessons and solutions for health care providers (M. Wilken, B. Furlong). Physician office access for the uninsured: an observational study (M. Penner et al.). ","Sociology of Health","Research in the Sociology of Health Care","Social and Behavioral Sciences" "0-7623-0835-4","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0762308354"",""Hyperlink"")","The Future of Market Transition","Leicht, K.T.",""," ","268","Jai","HC","Hardbound. This special issue of Research in Social Stratification and Mobility seeks to bring together scholars from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, different nations, and different empirical research traditions to shed light on the implications of market transitions for individual life chances, state economic policy, and social stratification systems. Scholarship focusing on single nations as well as cross-national research are featured, as are research contributions that compare state socialist/former state socialist political economies with conditions elsewhere in the world. This issue features contributions from Victor Nee, Michael Burawoy, Lisa Keister, Ivan Szelenyi, Anthony Obershall, Douglas Guthrie, and others.","01-NOV-02","85.00 ","85.00 ","","Introduction (K.T. Leicht). Market Transition and Lessons for Social Science. Postsocialist inequalities: the causes of continuity and discontinuity (V. Nee, Yang Cao). An outline of the social history of socialism or an auto-critique of an auto-critique (I. Szelenyi). What happened to the working class? Errors of an unrepentant Marxist (M. Burawoy). Insights into the Transformation of Organizations and Market Institutions. Birth of a market economy: Hungarian agriculture after socialism (A. Obershall, Z. Hanto). Party power, markets, and private power: Chinese Communist Party persistence in China's listed companies (S. Opper et al.). The transformation of labor relations in China's emerging market economy (D. Guthrie). Corporate labor policies and practices during China's transition: an exploration of implications for social stratification (L. Keister). Analyses of Occupational Attainment and Gender Inequality. Occupational attainment in Eastern Europe under socialism (R. Sin-Kwok Wong). Occupational sex segregation in state socialist and market economies: levels, patterns, and change in East and West Germany, 1980s and 1998 (R.A. Rosenfeld, H. Trappe). Intercity variation in gender inequalities in China: analysis of a 1995 national survey (Xiaoling Shu, Yanjie Bian). Theoretical and Empirical Explications of Market Transition Theory. From cadre managers to private entrepreneurs: entry into family business in rural China (Litao Zhao). Institutional transformation and returns to education in urban China: an empirical assessment (Wei Zhao, Xueguang Zhou). Marketization and income distribution in urban China, 1988 and 1995 (Yanjie Bian, Ahanxin Zhang).","Sociology (General)","Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","Social and Behavioral Sciences" "0-7623-0883-4","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0762308834"",""Hyperlink"")","Political Power and Social Theory, Volume 15","Davis, D.E.",""," ","302","Jai","HC","Hardbound. Volume 15 offers a series of critical articles and commentaries by some of the leading historically-oriented social scientists writing in American academia today. Collectively, the articles examine issues ranging from the relations between classes, power, and history to the role of states and culture in mediating those dynamics, with special attention paid to race, gender, citizenship, and civil society in the formation of these structures and processes. The countries or regions under study include the United States, Brazil, Chile, China, Mexico, Samoa, and Southwest Africa. In keeping with the journal's commitment to inter-disciplinary as well as historical inquiry, our nine contributors come from a variety of disciplines (sociology, political science, anthropology, and history), all drawing on debates and themes that cross-cut the social sciences. The significance of the inter-disciplinary perspective is seen not only in the range of cases, l","01-DEC-02","86.00 ","86.00 ","","List of contributors. Editorial board. Editorial statement. Editor's introduction (D.E. Davis). Forms of State Embeddedness. Synergizing civil society: state-civil society regimes in Porto Alegre, Brazil (G. Baiocchi). Regime change and the transformation of state-capital relations in Chile. (P. Barrett). The state as subject (J. Rubin). The Political Cultures of Power. Precoloniality and colonial subjecting: ethnographic discourse and native policy in German overseas imperialism, 1780s-1914 (G. Steinmetz). Sexuality and biopower in Chile and Latin America (K.A. Rosemblatt). Scholarly Controversy: Race and Class in American History. Unraveling the relation of race and class in American politics (A. Reed, Jr.). Class, race, and capitalism (E. Meiksins Wood). On the 'confluence of race and class' in America (M. Zeitlin). The ""paradoxes"" of misplaced concreteness: thinking through the state (S. Gregory). Rejoinder. (A. Reed, Jr). List of reviewers.","Political Theory and Method (General)","Political Power and Social Theory","Social and Behavioral Sciences" "0-7623-0958-X","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/076230958X"",""Hyperlink"")","Mirrors and Prisms: Interrogating Accounting","Lehman, C.R.",""," ","262","Jai","HC","Hardbound. Advances in Public Interest Accounting is a research publication with two major aims. First, to provide a forum for researchers concerned with critically appraising and significantly transforming conventional accounting theory, practice, teaching and research. Second, to increase the social self-awareness of accounting practitioners, educators, and researchers, encouraging them to assume a greater responsibility for the profession's social role.","01-NOV-02","86.00 ","86.00 ","","Gender, ethnicity and demographic factors influencing promotions to managers for auditors: an empirical analysis (A. Anandarajan et al.). Captured within masculine accounting: accountability of non-profit organisations (N. Buckmaster). Performance evaluation relating to MAS decisions: rater age, ratee sex and level of performance (J. Chung). The view from inside: employee perceptions of the large professional services firms (K.L. Hooks, P.B. Thomas). An analysis of accounting for business combinations from decision usefulness and accountability perspectives (G. Joseph). The effect of FAS 106 on chief executive compensation (L. Kren, B.A. Leauby). A new look at auditors' reactions toward substance versus form in financial reporting (S.C. Martens, J.E. McEnroe). Auditors' compliance with employment eligibility verification form I-9 of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (F. Okcabol).","Accounting","Advances in Public Interest Accounting","Economics, Business and Management" "07623-09652","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0762309652"",""Hyperlink"")","Research in Finance, Volume 19","Chen, A.H.",""," ","464","Elsevier","HC","Hardbound. Since its first appearance in 1979, Research in Finance has been publishing papers that cover important and interesting issues in finance and economics. The topics found in the series span a wide range; previous volumes have included papers on corporate financial management policy, asset pricing and investment management, corporate control and governance, bank regulations and management, and the analysis of financial derivatives and their applications in risk management and in venture capital investment. These papers, among others, have made significant contributions to the literature. In this volume, Bajaj, Vijh and Westerfield present evidence showing that ownership structure affects a firm's agency costs of cash flow, which, in turn, influences the market's reaction to changes in the firm's dividend policy. McNabb and Martin examine the relationship between managerial entrenchment and the effectiveness of internal governance mechanis","01-SEP-02","95.00 ","95.00 ","","CONTENTS OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE, AGENCY COSTS AND DIVIDEND POLICY Mukesh Bajaj, Anand M. Vijh and Randolph W. Westerfield MANAGERIAL ENTRENCHMENT AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERNAL GOVERNANCE MECHANISMS Mark M. McNabb and John D. Martin AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN CEO COMPENSATION AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: A RELATIVE EXCESS VALUE RATIO APPROACH Joohun Kang, Khondkar E. Karim and Robert W. Rutledge THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SYSTEMATIC RISK AND UNDERPRICING OF THE IPO MARKET Mohamad A. Almisher, Stephen G. Buell and Richard J. Kish HIDDEN COST REDUCTIONS IN BANK MERGERS: ACCOUNTING FOR MORE PRODUCTIVE BANKS Simon H. Kwan and James A. Wilcox THE LIKELIHOOD AND EXTENT OF BANKS' INVOLVEMENT WITH INTEREST RATE DERIVATIVES AS END USERS Jeffery W. Gunther and Thomas F. Siems THE DETERMINANTS OF DERIVATIVE USE BY U.S. AND FOREIGN BANKS Yih-Wen Shyu and Alan Reichert THE IMPACT OF RETGULATORY CHANGES ON BANKS' RISKS AND RETURNS IN TAIWAN Hsien-yu Yin, Soushan Wu and Ding-yuan Chen THE MARKET VALUE AND DYNAMIC INTEREST RATE RISK OF SWAPS Andrew H. Chen and Mohammed M. Chaudhury THE ANALYSIS OF DURATION AND IMMUNIZATION STRATEGY UNDER THE HJM TERM STRUCTURE FRAMEWORK Chuang-Chang Chang and Jui-Chen Ho THE LEAD-LAG RELATION BETWEEN SPOT AND OPTION MARKETS AND IMPLIED VOLATILITY IN OPTION PRICES Phelim P. Boyle, Soku Byoun and Hun Y. Park SYNDICATION AMONG VENTURE CAPITALISTS - WHEN AND WITH WHOM Amit Bubna","Financial Economics (General)","Research in Finance","Economics, Business and Management" "07623-09717","=HYPERLINK(""http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0762309717"",""Hyperlink"")","The Economics of the Internet and E-Commerce","Baye, M.R.",""," ","328","Jai","HC","Hardbound. The Internet has revolutionized the way consumers and firms interact in the marketplace, and it has dramatically changed the information enjoyed by market participants at various points in the value chain. This timely volume on the Internet and e-commerce provides academics and practitioners with cutting-edge research on the ""glue"" that holds the new economy together. The first six chapters of The Economics of the Internet and E-Commerce examine four broad issues: the role of the Internet in fostering competition, its impact on price dispersion and on business-to-business transactions, and the importance of reputation and trust in the new economy. The last four chapters examine the impact of the Internet on the organization of firms, the efficiency of auctions in the Internet age, how consumers choose websites and acquire product information, and the growing problem of congestion on the Internet. We are especially proud of the in","01-NOV-02","85.00 ","85.00 ","","Contents THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNET ON HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL COMPETITION: MARKET EFFICIENCY AND VALUE CHAIN RECONFIGURATION Anita Elberse, Partick Barwise and Kathy Hammond PRICE COMPETITION BETWEEN PURE PLAY VS. BRICKS-AND-CLICKS E-TRAILERS: ANALYTICAL MODEL AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS Xing Pan, Venkatesh Shankar and Brian T. Ratchford PRICE DISPERSION THEN AND NOW: EVIDENCE FROM RETAIL AND E-TAIL MARKETS Patrick Scholten and S. Adam Smith BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS E-COMMERCE: VALUE CREATION, VALUE CAPTURE AND VALUTATION Luis Garicano and Steven N. Kaplan TRUST AMONG STRANGERS IN INTERNET TRANSACTIONS: EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF EBAY'S REPUTATION SYSTEM Paul Resnick and Richard Zeckhauser TRANSACTION INNOVATION AND THE ROLE OF THE FIRM Daniel F. Spulber COMBINATORIAL AUCTIONS IN THE INFORMATION AGE: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY John Morgan ANALYZING WEBSITE CHOICE USING CLICKSTREAM DATA Avi Goldfarb CONSUMER ACQUISITION OF PRODUCT INFORMATION AND SUBSEQUENT PURCHASE CHANNEL DECISIONS Michael R. Ward and Michelle Morganosky AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE INTERNET QoS CHANNELS Dale O. Stahl, Rui Dai and Andrew B. Whinston ","Microeconomics (General)","Advances in Applied Microeconomics","Economics, Business and Management"