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A compendium of the representative papers from a group of Elsevier's structural engineering journals, including: "Journal of Constructional Steel Research"; "Thin Walled Structures"; "Engineering Structures"; "Computers and Structures"; "Construction and Building Materials"; and, "Journal of Wind Engineering & Industrial Areodynamics".

Discusses the state of the European electricity generation and supply industry and the options for improvement in the future. This book includes case studies of national electricity regulation from around Europe, and an overview of European Union electricity policy on liberalisation and deregulation.

Covering signal sources, radio propagation and modulation, high speed data systems, LANs and WANs, multiplexing, and the range of telecomms equipment, this book is useful for telecommunications professionals and managers, and students. It includes the developments in technology and standards of this field, and the international regulations.

Part of a series which aims to present work across a broad spectrum of regulation issues, with papers covering a wide range of topics. The volumes review essays of recent books, offering insights into regulation and its processes. A glossary related to securities, law and accounting is included.

Peptidomimetics are compounds which mimic the biological activity of peptides while offering the advantages of increased bioavailability, biostability, and bioselectivity against the natural biological target of the parent peptide. Peptidomimetics embrace much of what is organic chemistry. This volume highlights the developments in this area.

Focuses on developments in the instrumentation for sending voltages and currents. This book covers topics such as: measurements of biocurrents, the increased speed of the components for data taking, and, testing of computers and integrated circuits where the measurement of voltage and current variations on a small geometrical scale is necessary.

Includes papers that were originally presented at the joint meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America and the Mid-Atlantic Plant Molecular Biology Society, in August 2000. This volume covers a wide range of applications from molecular biology to phytochemistry.

One of the most important subjects for any student of engineering to master is the behaviour of materials and structures under load. This work presents a treatment of complex stress and complex strain which leads to a study of the theories of elastic failure and an introduction to the experimental methods of stress and strain analysis.

As a relatively new subdiscipline of economics, health economics has made many contributions to areas of the main discipline, such as insurance economics. This volume provides a survey of the burgeoning literature on the subject of health economics.

Compendium of Hydrogen Energy: Hydrogen Production and Purification, the first text in a four-volume series, focuses on the production of hydrogen. As many experts believe that the hydrogen economy will eventually replace the fossil fuel economy as our primary source of energy, the text provides a timely discussion on this interesting topic. The text details the methods of hydrogen production using fossil fuels, also exploring sustainable extraction methods of hydrogen production from water and hydrogen purification processes.

With increased urbanization and emphasis on human rights, corrections have become the target of a variety of attacks. To combat this backlash, correctional agencies have devised a plan which aimed at professionalization. This book talks about this field. It articulates the principles upon which correctional practices have evolved with time.

A comprehensive introduction to electronic circuits, assuming virtually no knowledge, and keeping the mathematical content to a minimum. The format of the book enables students to work at their own pace. It includes numerous worked examples, and graded exercises with answers.

Handbook of the History of Logic brings to the development of logic the best in modern techniques of historical and interpretative scholarship. Computational logic was born in the twentieth century and evolved in close symbiosis with the advent of the first electronic computers and the growing importance of computer science, informatics and artificial intelligence. With more than ten thousand people working in research and development of logic and logic-related methods, with several dozen international conferences and several times as many workshops addressing the growing richness and diversity of the field, and with the foundational role and importance these methods now assume in mathematics, computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, linguistics, law and many engineering fields where logic-related techniques are used inter alia to state and settle correctness issues, the field has diversified in ways that even the pure logicians working in the early decades of the twentieth century could have hardly anticipated. Logical calculi, which capture an important aspect of human thought, are now amenable to investigation with mathematical rigour and computational support and fertilized the early dreams of mechanised reasoning: ¿Calculemus”. The Dartmouth Conference in 1956 ¿ generally considered as the birthplace of artificial intelligence ¿ raised explicitly the hopes for the new possibilities that the advent of electronic computing machinery offered: logical statements could now be executed on a machine with all the far-reaching consequences that ultimately led to logic programming, deduction systems for mathematics and engineering, logical design and verification of computer software and hardware, deductive databases and software synthesis as well as logical techniques for analysis in the field of mechanical engineering. This volume covers some of the main subareas of computational logic and its applications.

Leads us through the trials and triumphs of scientific life. Offering useful insights into how to get funding, give seminars, and still find time to make that scientific discovery, this book explores the philosophical dimensions of biological breakthroughs: the genome sequencing, the evolution of sensory receptors, and cellular suicide.

Offers a theoretical base and a perspective for the analysis, design, and operation of information systems, particularly their information storage and retrieval (ISAR) component, whether mechanized or manual. This book discusses the principles that apply to the design of various systems and, importantly, to the analysis of existing systems.

Aimed at engineers and technicians who need to have a practical understanding of the essentials of process control, loop tuning and how to optimize the operation of their particular plant or process. This book also enables the reader to identify and apply the essential building blocks in automatic control.

Presents a range of data and key information in a compact form, covering television reception, satellite and cable television, video recorders, colour camera technology, teletext, sound systems, fault-finding procedures, and more. This work is a useful reference source for a range of engineers, students, sales and installation staff.

The scope of service provided by accountants is influenced by legislation and case law as well as the dictates of a variety of government and private sector agencies. This volume is part of an annual serial that addresses regulatory issues and policy affecting the practice of accountancy.

Contains twelve papers that focus on investment analysis, portfolio theory, and their implementation in portfolio management.

Covers theoretical analyses, reviews, policy analyses and positions and theory-based empirical papers on issues involving various aspects of the human life course.

This text describes the structures and structural relationships of the calcium orthophosphates, including the apatites. Their preparation, crystal growth and dissolution, chemical reactions, IR, Raman and NMR spectra and various physical properties are discussed.

Covers a wide range of theoretical and application studies concerned with the reliability, availability and safety of controlled systems.

Providing theoretical integrations of literatures in the organizational sciences, this book presents an examination and analyses of organizational issues and problems. This book addresses a variety of questions in organizational theory from a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives and theoretical orientations.

This 23rd volume of "Research in Organizational Behavior" presents papers on a variety of topics in the field of organizational behaviour, with the twin goals of consolidating prior research and breaking new theoretical ground.

A manual for security professionals that teaches secret methods counterespionage experts have been using for years to protect business information. It includes the names of the foreign countries that are conducting espionage against American business and helps protect your proprietary business information and reduce liability risk.

A practical guide to the installation and servicing of satellite TV receiving equipment. It provides the background information without weighing it down with excessive theory or mathematics, and covers the practice of installation and servicing with step-by-step guidance. It also includes data tables and numerous diagrams.