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Covering a range of information from the simplest scientific information on diamond to its engineering applications, this book introduces readers to each topic at a basic level - taking readers through to the most recent developments in each field.

The second of two volumes which aim to survey convex geometry, its many ramifications and its relations with other areas of mathematics. A second aim is to give a high-level introduction to most branches of convexity and its applications, showing the major ideas, methods and results.

If a solid contains oriented elements in its microsctructure, e.g. fibers, the heterogeneity and asisotropy aspects create situations which form a class of problems worthy of special treatment. This book deals with such treatments with a particular emphasis on application to technological composite materials.

Game Theory has developed greatly, and is an essential tool in much of economic theory. This work covers the fundamental theoretical aspects, a range of applications to economics, chapters on applications to political science, and individual chapters on relations with other disciplines.

Aims to survey some effective approaches to understanding, describing and predicting ways in which solutes and solvents interact and the effects they have upon each other. This volume presents the treatment of solute/solvent interactions which emphasizes a synergism between theory and experiment.

Aims to highlight the vigour, diversity and insight of the various cognitive science perspectives on personality and emotion. This book also aims to emphasise the rigorous scientific basis for research to be found in the integration of experimental psychology with neuroscience, connectionism and the evolutionary psychology.

An introduction to contemporary research in elasticity, this text descibes the two competing mathematical models of three-dimensional elasticity, together with a mathematical analysis of these models. Emphasis is placed on nonlinear aspects.

The 35th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium was convened under the theme of Weathering and Landscape Evolution. This book contains papers and posters presented at the conference and imparts the advances in weathering geomorphology. It tackles the issue of scale linkage in geomorphic studies.

The rare earths play a unique role in science. In contrast, they find widespread use in processes such as steel making, for polishing materials and gasoline cracking catalysts. This work covers the rare earth field in an integrated manner. It offers the researcher and graduate student alike, a coverage of this field.

Consists of six sections which group the papers according to their main topics: Elastic and Anelastic Properties; Rheology; Melt and Glass Properties; Structural and Magnetic Properties; Diffraction and Spectroscopy; and, Pressure Calibration and Generation.

Geobiology is a developing research discipline that opens various perspectives in understanding Earth as a system. The discipline touches various subdisciplines of geology and biology in many ways. This book offers: definition of this scientific discipline and an overview into the broad spectrum of geobiological topics.

Describes how to develop Bayesian thinking, modelling and computation both from philosophical, methodological and application point of view. This book covers a range of topics including objective and subjective Bayesian inferences with a variety of applications in modelling categorical, survival, spatial, spatiotemporal, and more.

Over the past 40 years, increase in our knowledge of human viral hepatitis has been explosive in nature. The undisputed impact of viral hepatitis on the public health resources and national econom of both developed and developing nations is frightening. Will encourage new & innovative approaches to future viral hepatitis research.

Reviews the different anti-HIV agents that are in preclinical or clinical development. This volume reviews NRTIs, NNRTIs and PIs, and also HIV entry/fusion inhibitors as well as integrase inhibitors.

Focuses on cross-fertilisations between stream ciphers and number theory. This work covers known connections between the two areas. It contains over thirty research problems for stimulating interactions between the two areas. It is written by leading researchers in stream ciphers and number theory.

Describes the theory and design both of Air Cushion Vehicles (ACV) and Surface Effect Ships (SES). This work begins by introducing hovercraft types and their development and application throughout the world. It guides the reader on how to perform machinery and systems selection within ACV and SES overall design.

Francesco Pietra's study focuses on representative examples of biodiversity and natural products that exhibit diversity drawn from the literature and the author's own observations.

Provides accounting professionals an understanding of UK accounting standards and demonstrates how they are used in practice. This title includes: summaries outlining the principles behind UK accounting standards; and examples and extracts from company accounts. It has examples to illustrate how accounting standards work in practice.

Provides examples of MMS based catalysts of many types such as acid-base solids, supported metals and supported oxides, mixed oxides, anchored complexes and clusters, grafted organic functional groups and others. Examples of all these developments are documented in the proceedings including some proposals.

Describes suspension mechanics, stability and computational rheology. This book deals with the kinematics of continuous media and the balance laws of mechanics, including the existence of the stress tensor and extensions of the laws of vector analysis to domains bounded by fractal curves or surfaces.

Any area where a molecular system is the center of attention can be studied using Density Functional Theory (DFT). This book describes the status of Density Functional Theory (DFT), which has evolved as the main technique for the study of matter at the atomistic level.

Takes as a starting point, John Dewey's article, The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology, in which Dewey was calling for, in short, the utilisation of systems theories within psychology, theories of behaviour that capture its nature as a vastly-complex dynamic coordination of nested coordinations.

Presents an account of the importance of reference materials for the quality control of environmental analysis. This book describes in detail the procedures followed by BCR to prepare environmental reference materials, including aspects related to sampling, stabilization, homogenization, and homogeneity and stability testing.

It has become common to have income distribution variables playing a pivotal role in economic models. The interest in the relationship between growth and distribution is a good example of this. This handbook provides a multi-faceted view for a deep understanding of most issues in the field of distribution.

Focuses on gas phase structural parameters. This book covers the two most common techniques for obtaining gas phase structural parameters: microwave spectroscopy and the electron diffraction technique. It provides a review on molecular structure determinations from spectroscopic data using scaled moments of inertia.

Covers such topics as asymmetric synthesis initiated by metal catalysts, and asymmetric reduction and epoxidation of alkenes.

In the world of micrometer to nanometer scale, many natural and industrial processes include attachment of colloid particles to fluid interfaces and their confinement in liquid films. The book describes such processes, their consecutive stages, and the underlying physico-chemical mechanisms.

Provides studies in catalyst deactivation that play a major role in the identification of the real catalytic system, the structure and texture of the solid, often in a metastable state, as it is operated in the industrial reactor. These studies allow the identification of the experimental conditions which preserve this active and selective state.

Serving as a reference on so-called designer drugs, this work provides a directory of 104 designer drugs. Divided into two parts, it describes aspects of designer drug manufacture, abuse trends, sources of information and terminology. It classifies the drugs into ten main categories according to their chemical structure and pharmacological action.