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Presents an understanding of the aging degradation of the major pressurized and boiling water reactor structures and components. This work contains discussions that summarize the aging-related information and are supported with extensive references, including to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) documents.

Vertisols, one of the eleven established soil orders, are clay soils with unusual and interesting properties. They cover more than 350 million hectares of land in the world and in tropical Africa alone there are over 100 million hectares. This book talks about vertisols.

No other book on natural rubber covers such a broad spectrum of subjects as this unique publication. Subjects related to the biology, cultivation and technology of natural rubber are dealt with, along with such important aspects as its history, production and processing, through to its sophisticated engineering applications.

A global review of the mechanisms, incidence and control measures related to the problems of soil compaction in agriculture, forestry and other cropping systems. This volume should be of interest to soil scientists, agricultural engineers and those involved with irrigation, drainage and tillage.

The international conference on parallel computing ParCo97 (Parallel Computing 97) was held in Bonn, Germany from 19 to 22 September 1997. This book contains the proceedings of this conference and gives an overview of the advances with respect to the development of various types of parallel computers and their application to a range of problems.

Different aspects of high-T superconductivity and the work on 'traditional' superconductors have been exposed at the Beijing conference. This title includes the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity - High Temperature Superconductors.

Divided into three parts, this book presents a general view of composites with the accent on metal - and ceramic-matrix composites, looks at the composite microstructures considered to be either optimal or reasonable in resisting a particular loading and links together fabrication, structure and properties chains.

Contains contributions from the invited selected authors who had participated in or observed the explosive development of biochemistry and molecular biology, in order to record their personal recollections of the times and circumstances in which they did their work.

Divided into two parts, this book describes the evolution of mercury cadmium telluride (HgCdTe) imager structures based upon published patents and patent applications. It focuses on the steps of manufacturing and structures of imagers. The first part covers monolithic arrays, and the second part describes hybrid arrays.

Covers topics that include typical CFD areas such as turbulence, Navier-Stokes and Euler solvers, reactive flows, with a good balance between both university and industrial applications. In addition, this book features other applications making extensive use of CFD such as climate modelling and environmental applications.

Covers logical systems known as type-free or self-referential. This book shows that there are theories of self-application, involving both operations and truth which can serve as foundations for property theory and formal semantics.

Focuses on selected chemical aspects of rare-earth materials. This title covers topics that range from a basic treatment of crystalline electric-field effects and chemical interactions in organic solvents, to separation processes, electrochemical behaviors which impact corrosion, oxidation resistance, chemical energy storage and sensor technology.

Deals with the following topics: essential characteristics of superfluid 4He; properties of coherent spin dynamics in superfluid 3He; thermodynamic transitions between superfluid states; properties of phases of 3He adsorbed on graphite; and, the properties of multilayer 3He-4He mixture films.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of research in algorithms, architectures and compilation for parallel systems. This work includes contributions that focus on domains where embedded systems are required, either oriented to application-specific or to programmable realisations.

Discusses the diffusion, transfer and implementation of information and software technology. The first six sections of the text each represent a major area of concern in current technology transfer of information, while the seventh contains summary reports of working sessions.

This volume contains six review articles dealing with topics of current research interest in optics and in related fields. Chapters look at gap solitons, digital halftoning and the spatial reconstructuring of optical images from phase modulated images.

Graphic displays such as charts, graphs, diagrams, and maps play in important role in the design and presentation of instructional materials education. There is also a strong need in scientific, technical and administrative fields to visually present facts, laws, principles etc. This book talks about the comprehension of graphics.

Concentrates on age differences in word and language processing, because these factors relate to reading which is a critical cognitive process used in everyday life. This book attempts to demonstrate the utility of the process-specific approach to cognitive aging.

Brings together a number of studies which examine the ways in which the retention and selectivity of separations in high-performance liquid chromatography are dependent on the chemical structure of the analytes and the properties of the stationary and mobile phases.

Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) is capable of very high resolution separations, requiring only small amounts of samples and reagents. CE can be readily adapted to automatic sample handling and real time data processing. This book covers various aspects of CE ranging from the principles and technical aspects to the important applications.

Based on the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Vision in Vehicles, this work contains papers that consider various types of vehicles (including underground mining vehicles, helicopters, trains and motorcycles), though the majority of papers deal with automobiles and their drivers.

Dry chemistry has been accepted as an important technology in medical laboratories for many years. This book contains a detailed overview of the knowledge in the field of dry chemistry both in the physicians' office laboratories and large medical laboratories. It presents the results from various evaluation studies.

Free radical species are generally short-lived due to their high reactivity and thus direct measurement and identification are often impossible. This title assembles and assesses the relevant and reliable experimental approaches used towards the measurement of radicals and radical-mediated damage in chemical systems, in cells and in tissues.

Covers modern advances in the determination of glycoprotein structure and in the biosynthesis of mammalian, bacterial, yeast, plant and insect glycoproteins. This book also features two chapters on functional aspects (glycoprotein hormones and collagens). It is useful for glycobiologist researchers, and scientists working in the life sciences.

Contains eight review-type contributions by leading scientists in the field of synthetic metals. This work highlights the state-of-the-art of the field and assesses the prospects for future research.

Presents a collection of articles reflecting research in visual perception, specifically concentrating on neural correlates of perception. This book covers topics from receptive field analyses to shape perception and eye movements. It features a variety of methodological approaches, including single-neuron recordings, psychophysics, and more.

Provides the various branches of economics with handbooks which are reference sources. This title presents self-contained survey of the state of the topic under examination. It summarizes the discussions in journals, and elucidate developments. It is suitable for use by professional researchers, and advanced graduate students.

Intended for scientists planning experiments in medical and behavioral research, this handbook and dictionary is also recommended as a textbook for students of Experimental Design or accompanying courses in Statistics. It provides short explanations for many terms related to experimental design.