Elsevier Science imprint: 999 books
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Release Date: May 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2007
The present volume is the first in a series of two books dedicated to the paleoceanography of the Late Cenozoic ocean. The need for an updated synthesis on paleoceanographic science is urgent, owing to the huge and very diversified progress made in this domain during the last decade. In addition,...
Compendium of Trace Metals and Marine Biota
Volume 1: Plants and Invertebrates
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Each book has two main goals
Determine baseline concentrations of metals and metalloids in tissues of representative field populations of estuarine coastal, and open ocean organisms (Book 1:algae and macrophytes, protists, sponges, coelenterates, molluscs, crustaceans, insects, chaetognaths,...
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Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Polymers are important and attractive biomaterials for researchers and clinical applications due to the ease of tailoring their chemical, physical and biological properties for target devices. Due to this versatility they are rapidly replacing other classes of biomaterials such as ceramics or metals....
Evolution of the Primate Brain
From Neuron to Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
This volume of Progress in Brain Research provides a synthetic source of information about state-of-the-art research that has important implications for the evolution of the brain and cognition in primates, including humans. This topic requires input from a variety of fields that are developing at...
Wave Fields in Real Media
Wave Propagation in Anisotropic, Anelastic, Porous and Electromagnetic Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Authored by the internationally renowned José M. Carcione, Wave Fields in Real Media: Wave Propagation in Anisotropic, Anelastic, Porous and Electromagnetic Media examines the differences between an ideal and a real description of wave propagation, starting with the introduction of relevant stress-strain...
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Release Date: August 19, 2011
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Release Date: August 19, 2011
This book presents work that has been conducted as part of the research project "Discourse on ethical questions of biomedicine" of the interdisciplinary Working Group Bioethics and Science Communication at the Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC)in Berlin-Buch, Germany. This...
The Indian Ocean Nodule Field
Geology and Resource Potential
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2007
The book includes a synthesis of research findings on the structure and evolution of the Central Indian Ocean Basin and its ferromanganese deposits, in particular, on the exploration campaign since 1980s. A comprehensive mixture of recent studies along with classical theories starting from the 1960s...
by Michael F. L'Annunziata
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2007
Radioactivity: Introduction and History provides an introduction to radioactivity from natural and artificial sources on earth and radiation of cosmic origins. This book answers many questions for the student, teacher, and practitioner as to the origins, properties, detection and measurement, and...
Silicon Carbide Biotechnology
A Biocompatible Semiconductor for Advanced Biomedical Devices and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Silicon Carbide (SiC) is a wide-band-gap semiconductor biocompatible material that has the potential to advance advanced biomedical applications. SiC devices offer higher power densities and lower energy losses, enabling lighter, more compact and higher efficiency products for biocompatible and long-term...
by Pratima Bajpai
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Pulp and paper production has increased globally and will continue to increase in the near future. Approximately 155 million tons of wood pulp is produced worldwide and about 260 million is projected for 2010. To cope with the increasing demand, an increase in production and improved environmental...
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Release Date: July 22, 1998
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Release Date: July 22, 1998
The development of liposomes as a drug delivery system has fluctuated since its introduction in the late 1960's by A.D. Bangham. While academic research of liposomes as a model membrane system has always flourished, as the exponential growth of papers can testify, the application of these findings...
Wave Fields in Real Media
Wave Propagation in Anisotropic, Anelastic, Porous and Electromagnetic Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Wave Fields in Real Media examines the differences between an ideal and a real description of wave propagation, where ideal means an elastic (lossless), isotropic and single-phase medium, and real means an anelastic, anisotropic and multi-phase medium. The analysis starts by introducing the relevant...
by Eckart Hasselbrink, Bengt I. Lundqvist
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2008
This volume of the Handbook of Surface Science covers all aspects of the dynamics of surface processes. Two dozen world leading experts in this field address the subjects of energy exchange in gas atoms, surface collisions, the rules governing dissociative adsorption on surfaces, the formation of...
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Release Date: December 15, 2007
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Release Date: December 15, 2007
Volume 17 of the Handbook on the Properties of Magnetic Materials, as the preceding volumes, has a dual purpose. As a textbook it is intended to be of assistance to those who wish to be introduced to a given topic in the field of magnetism without the need to read the vast amount of literature published....