Elsevier Science: 13458 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2007
Drawing on a combination of modern occurrences and likely ancient counterparts, this atlas is a treatise of mat-related sedimentary features that one may expect to see in ancient terrigenous clastic sedimentary successions. By combining modern and ancient examples, the connection is made to likely...
Monitoring of Air Pollutants
Sampling, Sample Preparation and Analytical Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2015
Monitoring of Air Pollutants: Sampling, Sample Preparation and Analytical Techniques provides a comprehensive reference on air pollutant monitoring, addressing experimental approaches to sampling and sample preparation, as well as analytical technologies (instrumental methods) which are applicable...
Security Leader Insights for Effective Management
Lessons and Strategies from Leading Security Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
How do you, as a busy security executive or manager, stay current with evolving issues, familiarize yourself with the successful practices of your peers, and transfer this information to build a knowledgeable, skilled workforce the times now demand? With Security Leader Insights for Effective Management,...
by S.E. Jorgensen, Heinz Loffler, Walter Rast
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2005
Presents readers with an overview of lake management problems and the tools that can be applied to solve probelms. Lake management tools are presented in detail, including environmental technological methods, ecotechnological methods and the application of models to assess the best management strategy.
Computational Methods for the Atmosphere and the Oceans
Special Volume
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
This book provides a survey of the frontiers of research in the numerical modeling and mathematical analysis used in the study of the atmosphere and oceans. The details of the current practices in global atmospheric and ocean models, the assimilation of observational data into such models and the...
Biermann's Handbook of Pulp and Paper
Volume 1: Raw Material and Pulp Making
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Biermann's Handbook of Pulp and Paper: Raw Material and Pulp Making, Third Edition is a comprehensive reference for industry and academia covering the entire gamut of pulping technology. This book provides a thorough introduction to the entire technology of pulp manufacture; features chapters covering...
The Fine Arts, Neurology, and Neuroscience
New Discoveries and Changing Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
This volume on neuroscience, neurology, and the fine arts brings several disciplines together. It presents current thoughts and modern examples about how science, medicine and the arts have interacted in the past and are still converging. This volume specifically explores the history and modern perspective...
by A. Barber
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 1997
Accepted as the standard reference work on modern pneumatic and compressed air engineering, the new edition of this handbook has been completely revised, extended and updated to provide essential up-to-date reference material for engineers, designers, consultants and users of fluid systems.
by Ivan Oliveira, Roberto Sarthour Jr., Tito Bonagamba
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information (QIP) deals with the identification and use of quantum resources for information processing. This includes three main branches of investigation: quantum algorithm design, quantum simulation and
quantum communication, including quantum cryptography. Along...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
• One of very few books available to cover this subject area.
• A practical book with a wealth of detail.
This book covers the major manufacturing processes for polymer matrix composites with an emphasis on continuous fibre-reinforced composites. It covers the major fabrication processes...
by Irwin M. Hutten
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2007
The increasing importance of nonwoven filter media is due in part to their versatility: they are used in the pre-filtration of liquids, protection of membrane filters, gaseous filtration, the automotive industry, air purification, wet filtration and many household uses. Despite this, no comprehensive...
Using Eye Movements as an Experimental Probe of Brain Function
A Symposium in Honor of Jean Büttner-Ennever
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
This volume of Progress in Brain Research is based on the proceedings of a conference, "Using Eye Movements as an Experimental Probe of Brain Function," held at the Charing Cross Hospital Campus of Imperial College London, UK on 5th -6th December, 2007 to honor Professor Jean Büttner-Ennever. With...
Enhancing Performance for Action and Perception
Multisensory integration, Neuroplasticity and Neuroprosthetics, Part II
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
This volume of Progess in Brain Research follows on from the 32nd International Symposium of the Groupe de recherche sur le système nerveux central (GRSNC), May 2010, and aims to provide an overview of the various neural mechanisms that contribute to learning new motor and sensory skills, and to...
by Thomas Steckler, N.H. Kalin, J.M.H.M. Reul
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2005
The Handbook of Stress and the Brain focuses on the impact of stressful events on the functioning of the central nervous system; how stress affects molecular and cellular processes in the brain, and in turn, how these brain processes determine our perception of and reactivity to, stressful challenges...