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Includes ready-to-use circuit designs, with schematics and explanations of circuit operation. This book lists the original source for each circuit in an appendix.

Focuses on 'Driver-Based' budgeting (ie using external and internal non-financial drivers to predict live item expenses). This book shows the benefits that Driver-Based Budgeting brings and as such is a 'tool kit for change'. It uses case studies and examples to ensure understanding, as well as checklists on implementation issues.

Discusses hydrogen bonds and water molecules. This book presents an overview of thermodynamical and structural properties of H-bonds. It is of interest to researchers in the fields of physics, chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology.

Highlights the core research that has led to the field of mesoporous materials. This book provides an overview of the studies which have led to the discovery of mesoporous materials as well as first preparations of mesoporous materials by researchers across the world. It is suitable for researchers working in the field of mesoporous materials.

Containing the Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Scientific Bases for the Preparation of Heterogeneous Catalysts, this title consists of papers summarizing most of the 139 oral communications and posters selected by the international scientific committee, composed of 27 experts in the field of catalyst preparation.

Provides an overview of the nature, manufacture, structure, properties, processing, and applications of commercially available polymers. This book covers a range of topics from both theory and practice. It is useful for both scientists and technologists.

Contains a collection of papers presented at the 9th International Symposium on the Scientific Bases for the Preparation of Heterogeneous Catalysts. The Symposium covered topics such as: key aspects in catalysts preparation, micro and mesoporous supports, supported metal catalysts, structured catalysts, tailored zeolites and catalysis by bases.

Offers a comprehensive report on the processing of relatively inexpensive coal deposits into transportation fluids using Fisher-Tropsch process Technology. In addition to catalysts and process developments, this book contains the history of the Fisher-Tropsch in Germany and Japan based on captured documents by allied forces.

The 31st Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology was held at Trinity and All Saints College in Leeds under the title "Life Cycle Tribology" from 7th September until 10th September 2004. This work includes areas such as: automotive tribology, bearings, bio-degradability and sustainability, bio-tribology, condition monitoring, contact mechanics, and more.

Contains the lectures and peer-reviewed oral and poster contributions presented at the 4th International Symposium on Nanoporous Materials, hosted in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, June, 2005. This volume covers complementary approaches to and advances in the field with pore sizes larger than 1nm, such as periodic mesoporous molecular sieves.

Contains papers presented at APHYS-2003, held in Badajoz (Spain), October 2003, which included the following Plenary Lectures: Nanobiotechnology - Interactions of Cells with Nanofeatured Surfaces and with Nanoparticles; Radiation Protection of Nuclear Workers - Ethical Issues; and Chaotic Data Encryption for Optical Communications.

It is important for all those engaged in business to understand how financial ratios can be used to measure the performance of a business. This book uses a model, the Enterprise Stewardship Model to illustrate the power - and the limitations - of financial ratios and explore the tangible and intangible aspects of creating value in a business.

Provides information on developments in risk management policies and practices. This book offers information on how to develop, implement and use a risk management system. It also covers credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk, investment risk, event risk.

Enable financial professionals to take commercial documents and visualise how they interact with the work of an accountant, explaining why every board of management appears to focus on financial data. This book explains the impact of choices in accounting treatment upon the financial data an entity produces.

A reference to International Accounting Standards. It provides an accelerated route to understanding the key principles of the International Accounting rules and the key skills to ease the transition to IAS. It shows the impact both on preparation and presentation of financial information and the consequences for analysis and interpretation.

Infectious diseases are an ever present threat to humans. This title provides a review of viruses among human populations in the twenty-first century. It includes chapters on SARS, Pandemic Threat of Avian Influenza Viruses, West Nile Virus, Monkeypox Virus, Hantavirus, Nipah Virus and Hendra Virus, Japanese Encephalitis Virus, and more.

Provides an overview of significant concepts in Bioinformatics from biological, mathematical, and computational perspectives. This work discusses the tools utilized for the annotation of fungal genomes and addresses issues related to automated annotation generation in a high throughput biotechnology environment.

A follow-up to "Analytical Pyrolysis of Natural Organic Polymers", this book focuses on practical applications of analytical pyrolysis in synthetic organic polymer identification and characterization. It is suitable for both researchers and chemists working in analytical chemistry or in synthetic polymers.

Contains papers of 25 scientists working at the cutting edge of metabolic regulation. This volume focuses on various aspects of signal transduction with an emphasis on nuclear expression. It also includes Special Symposium Lecture.

Summarizes the advances in 3-D object recognition using examples of 3-D systems developed by leading researchers in the field. This work describes a complete object recognition system, and covers biological vision, sensing, and early processing. It is also of interest to those involved in implementing model-based object recognition systems.

Emphasizes the information regarding midbrain and extrastriate mechanisms underlying vision and visually-guided behavior. This book places these data into the larger context of how interrelated components of the visual system function to produce coherent visual experiences and behavior.

Topology has been one of the most influential fields of research in modern mathematics. Although its origins may be traced back several hundred years, Poincare gave topology wings in a classic series of articles. Also covering the earlier history, this volume is mainly concerned with the more recent history of topology, from Poincare onwards.

Contains papers of both oral and poster presentations of the symposium that was held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 26-29 November 1995. This volume covers developments in the field of immobilization. It describes applications in the field of medicine, fermentation technology, food technology and environmental technology.

Covers areas of salmonid research that include nutrition, smolt and stress physiology, genetics and biotechnology. This book aims to provide a useful synthesis of the biology and culture of salmonid fishes. It is of interest to students, researchers, fisheries biologists and managers as well as practising aquaculturists.

Silicon devices are subject to undesired electrical phenomena called "instabilities". This volume addresses the problem of instabilities, devoting five chapters to the problems of radiation-matter and radiation-device interactions. It aims to aid circuit manufacturers and circuit users.

Introduces readers to the practical applications of modern liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) in a range of drug metabolism studies. This book provides a comprehensive description of different forms of metabolites, with detailed discussion on the range of methodologies used to identify them.

Explores two complementary topics, namely: the coding algorithms made to compress the data rate of digital moving-picture sequences (video-telephony, television [TV] and high-definition television [HDTV]) and the transmission on Asynchronous Transfer Mode [ATM] networks (packet-switching transmission media).

A collection of essays on the role of theory in shaping the practice of medicine across disciplinary boundaries. This volume includes selected papers from the 10th North American Forest Soils Conference. It is a spin-off from Elsevier's highly regarded journal, "Forest Ecology and Management".