Elsevier Science imprint: 999 books
Molecular Beam Epitaxy
From Research to Mass Production
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
This multi-contributor handbook discusses Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE), an epitaxial deposition technique which involves laying down layers of materials with atomic thicknesses on to substrates. It summarizes MBE research and application in epitaxial growth with close discussion and a ‘how to’...
The Corresponding-States Principle and its Practice
Thermodynamic, Transport and Surface Properties of Fluids
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
The corresponding-states principle helps the understanding and calculating of thermodynamic, transport, and surface properties of substances in various states, required by our modern lifestyle. The Corresponding-States Principle and its Practice: Thermodynamic, Transport and Surface Properties of...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
This continuing authoritative series deals with the chemistry, materials science, physics and technology of the rare earth elements in an integrated manner. Each chapter is a comprehensive, up-to-date, critical review of a particular segment of the field. The work offers the researcher and graduate...
by Emil Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
In the fourty-six years that have gone by since the first volume of Progress in Optics was published, optics has become one of the most dynamic fields of science. The volumes in this series which have appeared up to now contain nearly 300 review articles by distinguished research workers, which have...
Real World Drug Discovery
A Chemist's Guide to Biotech and Pharmaceutical Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Drug discovery increasingly requires a common understanding by researchers of the many and diverse factors that go into the making of new medicines. The scientist entering the field will immediately face important issues for which his education may not have prepared him: project teams, patent law,...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
Rice is cultivated throughout the world under submerged conditions. The high water requirements and the heavy pesticide load used in rice paddies worldwide have resulted in contamination of associated surface water, such as streams, ditches, rivers and lakes. The uniform risk assessment approach which...
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
This two-part book provides the most advanced biochemical and histochemical analytical methods on neurotransmitters, neuromodulators, and neuropeptides described by international specialists. The biochemical methods include liquid chromatography/electrochemistry, liquid chromatography/fluorescence...
Biomagnetic Monitoring of Particulate Matter
In the Indo-Burma Hotspot Region
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Air pollution originating from rapid industrialization, urbanization, population growth and economic development has disturbed the urban ecosystems of ecologically sensitive regions like the Indo-Burma hot spot, and they are under severe air pollution stress with limited resources to collect data...
Visibility
The Seeing of Near and Distant Landscape Features
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Visibility: The Seeing of Near and Distant Landscape Features reviews the science of visibility from how to measure it quantitatively to its impacts by one of the foremost experts in the field. Carefully designed pedagogy allows a diversity of readers, from regulators to researchers to use this book...
Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
Transport and Rate Processes in Physical, Chemical and Biological Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Natural phenomena consist of simultaneously occurring transport processes and chemical reactions. These processes may interact with each other and may lead to self-organized structures, fluctuations, instabilities, and evolutionary systems. Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics, Third Edition emphasizes the...
by Carmen Avendano, J. Carlos Menendez
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Medicinal Chemistry of Anticancer Drugs, Second Edition, provides an updated treatment from the point of view of medicinal chemistry and drug design, focusing on the mechanism of action of antitumor drugs from the molecular level, and on the relationship between chemical structure and chemical and...
by Dennis Dieks, Professor, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
The sixteen papers collected in this volume are expanded and revised versions of talks delivered at the Second International Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime, organized by the International Society for the Advanced Study of Spacetime (John Earman, President) at Concordia University (Montreal)...
The Changing Alpine Treeline
The Example of Glacier National Park, MT, USA
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
The alpine treeline ecotone (ATE) is an area of transition high on mountains where closed canopy forests from lower elevations give way to the open alpine tundra and rocky expanses above. Alpine tundra is an island biome and its ecotone with forest is subject to change, and like oceanic islands, alpine...
by Pratima Bajpai, P. Bajpai
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2005
Pulp and paper production has increased globally and will continue to increase in the near future. Approximately 155 millions tons of wood pulp is produced worldwide and about 260 millions is projected for 2010. To cope with the increasing demand, an increase in production and improved environmental...