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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
The volume dwells on the major issues of mechanical stress influencing the ion channels and intracellular signaling pathways. This book is a unique collection of reviews outlining current knowledge and future developments in this rapidly growing field. In our opinion the book presents not only the...
Fundamentals of Robot Technology
An Introduction to Industrial Robots, Teleoperators and Robot Vehicles
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Methods of contro1151 Mechanical master-slave telemanipulators 151 Powered telemanipulators 152 Servo control of unilateral telemanipulators 152 Bilateral servo manipulators 155 Special characteristics of teleoperators 158 Design criteria for teleoperators 159 Vehicles and transporters 160 Applications...
by C. S. Elton
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
n this book I have tried to bring together ideas from three different Istreams of thought with which I have been closely concerned during the last thirty years or so. The first is faunal history, usually regarded as a purely academic subject, but to some of whose events can be traced a number of the...
Manufacturing Technology in the Electronics Industry
An introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The sequence of events which led to the writing of this book started at a seminar on Manufacturing Technology in the Electronics Industry given by the Institution of Production Engineers in 1987. The seminar identified that the field of manufacturing engineering for the electronics industry was effectively...
by C. C. Rider
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Isoenzymes were 'discovered' 20 years ago and were at first regarded as interesting but rare occurrences. Since then a wealth of information on enzyme heterogeneity has accrued and it now seems likely that at least half of all enzymes exist as isoenzymes. This is important in many areas of biological...
by O. W. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
In his preface to early editions of this book, the late Dr. A. D. Imms said that he intended it to be an elementary account of entomology as a branch of general biology. He had especiaHy in mind the needs of university students of zoology and agriculture, as weH as those intending later to specialize...
High Performance Polymers: Their Origin and Development
Proceedings of the Symposium on the History of High Performance Polymers at the American Chemical Society Meeting held in New York, April 15–18, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
According to Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe's (1740-1832) Mineralogy and Geology, "The history of science is science." A sesquicentennial later, one may state that the history of high performance polymers is the science of these important engineering polymers. Many of the inventors of these...
Basic Statistics
For medical and social science students
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For many years now I have been required to give a series of elementary lectures on statistics to medical students about to undertake a postgraduate course in psychiatry. The declared aim of the course, for which very limited time was available, was to provide the students with some initial understanding...
by B. Everitt
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Optimization techniques are used to find the values of a set of parameters which maximize or minimize some objective function of interest. Such methods have become of great importance in statistics for estimation, model fitting, etc. This text attempts to give a brief introduction to optimization...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Taxonomy is an ever-changing, controversial and exCitmg field of biology. It has not remained motionless since the days of its founding fathers in the last century, but, just as with other fields of endeavour, it continues to advance in leaps and bounds, both in procedure and in philosophy. These...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2007
Remote Sensing image analysis is mostly done using only spectral information on a pixel by pixel basis. Information captured in neighbouring cells, or information about patterns surrounding the pixel of interest often provides useful supplementary information. This book presents a wide range of innovative...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book has passed through a number of editions each involving some modifications while retaining the general character of the first. The most substantial changes occurred in the fifth (1983), but that is now out-of-date. Mycology has not been immune from the rapid evolution of biology in the past...
by Isaac Arnon
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Agricultural research was probably the first and is the most widespread form of organised research in the world, and one in which both the most developed and underdeveloped countries are engaged. Whilst most forms of research activity, such as in the field of medicine, have world wide application,...
Plant-Plant Allelopathic Interactions
Phenolic Acids, Cover Crops and Weed Emergence
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
In an effort to implement conservation measures farmers have used a variety of production methods, including the use of reduced or zero tillage and cover crops. One benefit of these production methods has been early season weed control. The literature suggests that a variety of mechanisms may be involved,...