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The 18th Symposium of the International Association for Vehicle System Dynamics was held at Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan. The symposium was hosted by KAIT as one of the memorial events of the 40th anniversary of KAIT. Though overwhelming numbers of high quality papers were applied in response to the call for papers for the presentation at the symposium, the Scientific Committee accepted 89 papers for the oral presentation and 38 for the poster presentation. Finally, 82 papers were presented at the oral sessions and 29 papers at the poster sessions in the symposium. There were five States-of-the-Arts papers presented at the plenary sessions in the symposium.

Part of a series on the flora of tropical East Africa, this work considers Proteaceae. It should be a useful reference for all concerned with the identification and utilization of plants in eastern Africa.

This volume focuses on the family Euphorbiaceae. They are well defined tribe which includes ten other small genera of tropical and sub-tropical regions. Euphorbia are annual, biennial or perennial herbs, shrubs or trees, sometimes succulent and unarmed or spiny, with a milky usually caustic latex.

Focuses on the relationships and interactions between palaeobiogeography, biogeography, dispersal, vicariance, migrations and evolution of organisms in the South East Asia - Australasian region. This book describes the links between geological evolution and biological migrations and evolution in the region.

This collection of papers covers a wide range of relevant issues and aspects of slope stability engineering from both practical and scientific points of view.

This book provides an accessible taxonomic base for acanthaceae; rubiaceae; and sapindaceae of Sri Lankan vegetation. It forms a significant part of the vascular flora of the island.

Visitors to these islands in search of sun and sea are often surprised by theglorious wild flowers, abundant particularly in the spring and late autumn

This text covers all of the Malawi orchids, both epiphytic and terrestrial.

This text includes a description of 104 species with 195 photographs. It also contains a checklist of Nigerian orchids.

Providing a guide to the cultivation of both the terrestrial and epihytic orchid species growing in South Africa, this volume includes numerous hints, illustrations and photographs to help simplify the process.

A translation and fully updated version of the French title "Controles de qualit en construction routi re", 1987. This book presents the total panorama of the methods and means available to the various interveners.

Translation of the Russian edition of 1988 on peculiarities of the Arabian-Nubian Shield in the Precambrian, prerift magmatism in the Red Sea Rift zone, evolution of the crust in rift forming zones.

A translation of "Evolutsiya Rudonosnykh Struktur Dokembriya". It includes coverage of: historical aspects of Precambrian tectonics and metallogeny; Archaean supracrustal belts; Proterozoic mobile belts; and regions of protoactivization.

Proceedings of the Third Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and environmental Impacts of Karst, October 1989. Treats groundwater quality and pollution, engineering geology, and planning.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Micromechanics of Granular Media, Clermont-Ferrand, September, 1989.

Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium held in 1989.

Covers crustal evolution and terrestrial plate tectonics operation from the early Archean to the present day, development of ideas pertaining to accumulations of tectonic models and more.

Describes the history of soil chemistry, its application in agriculture, chemical properties and composition of the principal types of soil, important chemical processes and chemical equilibrium in soils, and fundamental laws of ion-exchange capacity.

Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on [title] held in Fairbanks, Alaska, July 1989.