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The interfacial behaviour of surfactants and proteins, and their mixtures, is of importance in a wide range of areas. This volume covers the experimental techniques such as FRAP which enable the measurement of molecular mobility in adsorption layers. It is useful for research and university institutes dedicated to interfacial studies.

Divided into ten sections, this book describes the principles and technology of Micro Mechanical Systems. It also provides an introduction to the historical background and the parallels to microelectronics, reviewing the motivation for microsystems, and discussing microphysics and design and the evolution from microcomponents to microsystems.

Aims to assemble developments pertaining to selected food processing technologies. This book covers food processing methods such as: NMR imaging, on-line NMR, on-line sensors, ultrasonics, and more. It is intended for scientists, engineers, and technologists in industries and government laboratories, as well as for faculty and students.

The INTERCOH-2000 conference was concerned with the behaviour and modelling of concentrated benthic suspensions. The edited proceedings in this volume cover sediment, flocculation and settling velocity, high-concentrated mud suspensions, consolidation, erosion, instrumentation and modelling.

This text is divided into five sections dealing with various fundamental issues in current research: attention, information processing and eye movement control; the role of phonology in reading; syntax and discourse processing and computational models and simulations.

Contains a series of papers that were presented during the Sixth IEA International Symposium on 'Human Factors in Organizational Design and Management (ODAM '98)'. They provide information on the developments in human-organization interface technology and help to promote the conceptual understanding of the ergonomic approach to work system design.

Presents reviews of research on alkaloids such as developments in the chemistry and biology of alkaloids from amphibian skins. This title also provides a synopsis and tabulation of the hundreds of alkaloids that have been detected, with an emphasis on occurrence, structure, dietary origins, and biological activity.

Covers topics from the metaphysics and ontology of language, language and mind, truth and meaning, to theories or reference, speech act theory, philosophy of logic and formal semantics. This title provides a collection of articles that can be a reference tool for those interested in the area of philosophy of language.

Syntactic description and theoretical syntax are central concerns in linguistics. This book includes articles on major syntactic theories. It gives a picture of the evolution of linguists' attempts to wrestle with syntax.

Covers the extensions to the memory management subsystem of OpenVMS Alpha to allow the operating system and applications to access 64 bits of address space. This book emphasizes system data structures and their manipulation by paging and swapping routines and related system services.

Geostatistics is a common tool in reservoir characterization. Written from the basics of statistics, this book covers only those topics that are needed for the two goals of the text: to exhibit the diagnostic potential of statistics and to introduce the important features of statistical modelling.

The oceans are vitally important to an understanding of how the Earth works as an integrated system. This volume covers important topics, ranging from the contemporary ocean composition, transport processes in the ocean, paleoclimatology and paleo-oceanography from marine deposits, to the evolution of seawater composition.

A collection of key papers from the journal "Energy Policy", offering a reference point on the role of flexibility mechanisms in the mitigation of climate change. It contains articles concerned with particular aspects of the Kyoto mechanisms or variations on the theme of flexibility.

This book deals in detail with all aspects of hop growing, hop cone handling, drying, storage and processing into hop products and preparations, and with their utilization in the brewing industry.

Psychology is the study of thinking, and cognitive science is the interdisciplinary investigation of mind and intelligence that also includes philosophy, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology. This book illuminates the nature of the theories and explanations used in the investigation of minds.

Covers developments in how forecasts are constructed based on multivariate time-series models, dynamic factor models, nonlinear models and combination methods. This handbook addresses economic forecasting methodology, forecasting models, forecasting with different data structures, and the applications of forecasting methods.

Addresses the need for safe innovation based on practical, explicit structural safety constraints for use in innovative structures of the future where guiding service experience is non-existent. This book demonstrates a practically manageable way to produce safe innovation using composites in environments with no service experience.

Presents a consistent and complete ecosystem theory based on thermodynamic concepts. It exlains the recently developed ecosystem theory based on thermodynamics.

Informs professionals of the potential risks of computer crimes, and serves as a guide to establishing and managing a high-technology crime investigative program. This work explains how to establish a high-technology crime investigations unit and prevention program. It also shows how to become high-technology crime investigator.

The main links with your PC and the outside world are the centronic port, used for connecting the printer, the RS232 port, used for the mouse, and the games port for a joystick. This book explores how these input/output (I/O) ports can be put to use through a range of other interfacing applications.

This volume deals with the economics of agricultural products after they leave the farm. It includes developments in application of dual approaches in household economies, the industrial organization of food marketing, marketing margins between farm and retail prices, and spatial price analysis.

Intended for those who are involved in research and treatment of spinal cord injury, this book contains a compilation of what is known about bladder, cardiovascular, bowel and sexual dysfunction after spinal cord injury, as it relates to the changes within the autonomic nervous system control of these functions.

Part of the "Handbook of Agricultural Economics", volume 1a treats issues in agricultural production, representing the consequences of decades of work deepening and widening the original focus of agricultural economics on farm management.

Part of a two-volume set of reviews devoted to the rare-earth-based high-temperature oxide superconductors (commonly known as hiT superconductors).

Heparin and its derivative are important drugs in clinical practice. This book provides chemists, biochemists, doctors, researchers, students and practitioners with an insight into the chemistry, biology and clinical applications of heparin and heparan sulfate and examines their function in various physiological and pathological conditions.

Includes articles that cover the whole range of knowledge and research in wood science. This encyclopedia discusses topics such as the availability of economics and timber resources, wood products such as plywood and mineral-bonded wood composites, and the major commercial and wood species of the world.

Due to the fundamental two-way interaction between the theoretical and the empirical aspects of monetary economics, together with the relationship of both to matters of public policy, any organization of material spanning the subject is bound to be arbitrary. This work is suitable for graduate economics students on advanced courses.

Covers the study of dislocations. This book discusses the influence of the structure of the core of a dislocation on its mobility. It shows how the various modern techniques of scanning probe microscopy can be used to study dislocations and their interaction with the free surface.

Describes devices and systems that draw power from batteries. This book reviews the basic characteristics of various primary and secondary batteries used in these applications.