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Dictionary of Mass Spectrometry
Mallet Anthony
The past decade has seen huge advances in the types and applications of mass spectrometry in all areas of science. With this growth has come a bewildering array of names, technical terms and abbreviations, making it a challenge to keep...
Fossils at a Glance
Milsom Clare
Fossils provide a powerful tool for the study of the nearly 4-billion-year history of life, and its role in the evolution of Earth systems. They also provide important data for evolutionary studies, and contribute to our understanding of the...
Lead-Nickel Electrochemical Batteries
Genies Sylvie
The lead-acid accumulator was introduced in the middle of the 19th Century, the diverse variants of nickel accumulators between the beginning and the end of the 20th Century. Although old, these technologies are always very present on numerous...
Physics at the Terascale
Brock Ian
Written by authors working at the forefront of research, this accessible treatment presents the current status of the field of collider-based particle physics at the highest energies available, as well as recent results and experimental...
Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information
Fayngold Moses
Alongside a thorough definition of basic concepts and their interrelations, backed by numerous examples, this textbook features a rare discussion of quantum mechanics and information theory combined in one text. It deals with important topics...
Essentials of Computational Electromagnetics
Song Wei
Essentials of Computational Electromagnetics provides an in-depth introduction of the three main full-wave numerical methods in computational electromagnetics (CEM); namely, the method of moment (MoM), the finite element method (FEM), and the...
Fractional Order Motion Controls
Luo Ying
Covering fractional order theory, simulation and experiments, this book explains how fractional order modelling and fractional order controller design compares favourably with traditional velocity and position control systems. The authors...
Advanced Structural Ceramics
Basu Bikramjit
This book covers the area of advanced ceramic composites broadly, providing important introductory chapters to fundamentals, processing, and applications of advanced ceramic composites. Within each section, specific topics covered highlight the...
What is Morphology?
Aronoff Mark
What is Morphology? is a concise and critical introduction to the central ideas of morphology, which has been revised and expanded to include additional material on morphological productivity and the mental lexicon, experimental and...
Motion Control Systems
Sabanovic Asif
Motion Control Systems is concerned with design methods that support the never-ending requirements for faster and more accurate control of mechanical motion. The book presents material that is fundamental, yet at the same time discusses the...
Atomic Absorption Spectrometry
Sperling Michael
The thoroughly revised new edition of this best-seller, presents the wide use of AAS in numerous fields of application. The comparison between the different AAS techniques enables the reader to find the best solution for his analytical problem....
Principles of Tribology
Wen Shizhu
Professors Wen and Huang present current developments in tribology research along with tribology fundamentals and applications, including lubrication theory, lubrication design, friction mechanism, wear mechanism, friction control, and their...
Genomics. Essential Methods
Elaswarapu Ramnath
Genomics research has made significant advances in recent years. In this book, a team of internationally-renowned researchers share the most up-to-date information in a field that has in recent years switched emphasis from gene identification to...
Capitalism and Conservation
Brockington Dan
Through a series of case studies from around the world, Capitalism and Conservation presents a critique of conservation’s role as a central driver of global capitalism. Features innovative new research on case studies on the connections between...
Vowels and Consonants
Disner Sandra Ferrari
This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics has been fully updated for its third edition, and now includes an accompanying website with sound files, and expanded coverage of topics such as speech technology. Describes how languages use...
Air Quality Management
Taherzadeh Shahram
Designed to accompany the new Open University course in Environmental Monitoring and Protection, this is one of four new titles which will equip the reader with the tools to undertake Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs). Used in planning,...
Landscapes of Capital
Papson Stephen
Every era has its dominant representations. Just as landscape painters of previous centuries captured and expressed new modes of perceiving history, corporate advertisers now devise the imagined landscapes of global capitalism. Advertising...
Operational Weather Forecasting
Dorling Steve
This book offers a complete primer, covering the end-to-end process of forecast production, and bringing together a description of all the relevant aspects together in a single volume; with plenty of explanation of some of the more complex...
Duplex Stainless Steels
Degallaix-Moreuil Suzanne
Duplex Stainless Steels (DSSs) are chromium-nickel-molybdenum-iron alloys that are usually in proportions optimized for equalizing the volume fractions of austenite and ferrite. Due to their ferritic-austenitic microstructure, they possess a...
Protein Engineering Handbook
Lutz Stefan
This introduction collects 17 innovative approaches to engineer novel and improved proteins for diverse applications in biotechnology, chemistry, bioanalytics and medicine. As such, key developments covered in this reference and handbook include...
Catalytic Cascade Reactions
Wang Wei
Demonstrates the advantages of catalytic cascade reactions for synthesizing natural products and pharmaceuticals Riding the wave of green chemistry, catalytic cascade reactions have become one of the most active research areas in organic...
Modern Electroplating
Schlesinger Mordechay
The definitive resource for electroplating, now completely up to date With advances in information-age technologies, the field of electroplating has seen dramatic growth in the decade since the previous edition of Modern Electroplating was...
Quantum Oscillators
Henri-Rousseau Olivier
An invaluable reference for an overall but simple approach to the complexity of quantum mechanics viewed through quantum oscillators Quantum oscillators play a fundamental role in many areas of physics; for instance, in chemical physics with...
Environmental Geomechanics
Schrefler Bernard
This book covers a range of topics that are of increasing importance in engineering practice: natural hazards, pollution, and environmental protection through good practice. The first half of the book deals with natural risk factors, of both...
Atom Chips
Reichel Jakob
This stimulating discussion of a rapidly developing field is divided into two parts. The first features tutorials in textbook style providing self-contained introductions to the various areas relevant to atom chip research. Part II contains...
Webcam
Sinanan Jolynna
The use of webcam, especially through Skype, has recently become established as one more standard media technology, but so far there has been no attempt to assess its fundamental nature and consequences. Yet webcam has profound implications for...
Atomabsorptionsspektrometrie
Sperling Michael
Der breite Einsatz der Atomabsorptionsspektrometrie wird in dem grundlegend neubearbeiteten Standardwerk anhand zahlreicher Anwendungsgebiete dargestellt. Die Beschreibung der unterschiedlichen AAS-Techniken im Vergleich ermoglicht dem Anwender,...
System Identification. A Frequency Domain Approach
Schoukens Johan
System identification is a general term used to describe mathematical tools and algorithms that build dynamical models from measured data. Used for prediction, control, physical interpretation, and the designing of any electrical systems, they...
The Handbook of English Pronunciation
Reed Marnie
The Handbook of English Pronunciation presents a comprehensive exploration of English pronunciation with essential topics for applied linguistics researchers and teachers, including language acquisition, varieties of English, historical...
The Expert Witness in Construction
Horne Robert
The role of the expert witness has long been important in the resolution of construction disputes. The specialist opinion brought by the expert can aid understanding and interpretation of the facts of the dispute, and may be influential in...
Exploring Immunology. Concepts and Evidence
MacPherson Gordon
This concise introductory textbook uses carefully chosen examples from clinical and experimental observations to provide an insight into the principles underlying the immune system. As a result, it encourages readers to ask critical questions in...
The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics
Conde-Silvestre Juan Camilo
Written by an international team of leading scholars, this groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and diffusion, and paves the way for future research in this rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field. Features 35...
Bioactive Heterocyclic Compound Classes. Agrochemicals
Dinges J?rgen
The chemistry of heterocycles is an important branch of organic chemistry. This is due to the fact that a large number of natural products, e. g. hormones, antibiotics, vitamins, etc. are composed of heterocyclic structures. Often, these...
Bioactive Heterocyclic Compound Classes. Pharmaceuticals
Dinges J?rgen
The chemistry of heterocycles is an important branch of organic chemistry. This is due to the fact that a large number of natural products, e. g. hormones, antibiotics, vitamins, etc. are composed of heterocyclic structures. Often, these...
Laser, Licht und Leben. Techniken in der Medizin
Popp J?rgen
Der Mensch hat gelernt, Licht zu kontrollieren, in dem er beobachtete, wie Materie und Licht in der naturlichen Welt sich gegenseitig beeinflussen und verandern. Die neue Disziplin der Biophotonik setzt Licht als vielseitiges Werkzeug ein, um...
Mathematische Modellbildung und Simulation. Eine Einf?hrung f?r Wissenschaftler, Ingenieure und ?konomen
G?nther Marco
Diese fur Studierende ebenso wie fur Wissenschaftler, Ingenieure und Praktiker geeignete Einfuhrung in mathematische Modellbildung und Simulation setzt nur einfache Grundkenntnisse in Analysis und linearer Algebra voraus – alle weiteren Konzepte...
The Retinoids. Biology, Biochemistry, and Disease
Niederreither Karen
The Retinoids: Biology, Biochemistry, and Disease provides an overview and synthesis of the retinoid molecules, from basic biology to mechanisms of diseases and therapy. Divided into five sections, the book covers retinoic acid signaling from...
Non-Transformational Syntax. Formal and Explicit Models of Grammar
Borsley Robert
This authoritative introduction explores the four main non-transformational syntactic frameworks: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, and Simpler Syntax. It also considers a range of issues that...
Protein NMR Spectroscopy. Practical Techniques and Applications
Lian Lu-Yun
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, a physical phenomenon based upon the magnetic properties of certain atomic nuclei, has found a wide range of applications in life sciences over recent decades. The dramatic advances in NMR...
Strategic Organizational Communication. In a Global Economy
Poole Marshall Scott
Surveying a wide variety of disciplines, this fully-revised 7th edition offers a sophisticated and engaging treatment of the rapidly expanding field of organizational communication Places organizations and organizational communication within a...
Modern Techniques for Pathogen Detection
Popp J?rgen
This outstanding overview sets a new standard for a methods book on pathogen detection. The first chapter provides an outline of currently used routine methods, including their background, strengths and weaknesses, as well as comparing them to...
Optical Imaging and Metrology. Advanced Technologies
Reingand Nadya
A comprehensive review of the state of the art and advances in the field, while also outlining the future potential and development trends of optical imaging and optical metrology, an area of fast growth with numerous applications in...
Blood Science. Principles and Pathology
Blann Andrew
Blood Science is a relatively new discipline which merges biochemistry, haematology, immunology, transfusion science and genetics. This bringing together of traditional disciplines requires a corresponding change in education and training for...
Searching Skills Toolkit. Finding the Evidence
Pearce-Smith Nicola
Searching Skills Toolkit is an expert guide to help you find the clinical evidence you need more easily and effectively. Clearly presented with useful tips and advice, flow charts, diagrams and real-life clinical scenarios, it shows the best...
Isotopic Analysis. Fundamentals and Applications Using ICP-MS
Degryse Patrick
Edited by two very well-known and respected scientists in the field, this excellent practical guide is the first to cover the fundamentals and a wide range of applications, as well as showing readers how to efficiently use this increasingly...
Geothermal Energy Systems. Exploration, Development, and Utilization
Ledru Patrick
Presenting boundary conditions for the economic and environmental utilization of geothermal technology, this is the first book to provide basic knowledge on the topic in such detail. The editor is the coordinator of the European Geothermic...
Synergetic Agents. From Multi-Robot Systems to Molecular Robotics
Levi Paul
This book addresses both multi robot systems and miniaturization to the nanoscale from a unifying point of view, but without leaving aside typical particularities of either. The unifying aspect is based on the concept of information minimization...
Bioinspired Catalysis. Metal-Sulfur Complexes
Schollhammer Philippe
This book provides an overview of bioinspired metal-sulfur catalysis by covering structures, activities and model complexes of enzymes exhibiting metal sulphur moieties in their active center.
The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism
Li Ping
The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism presents a comprehensive introduction to the foundations of bilingualism, covering language processing, language acquisition, cognition and the bilingual brain. This thorough introduction to the...
Body Area Communications. Channel Modeling, Communication Systems, and EMC
Wang Qiong
Providing an introduction to the fundamentals of body area communications, this book covers the key topics of channel modeling, modulation and demodulation, and performance evaluation A systematic introduction to body area networks (BAN), this...
