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Covers analytical and policy issues arising from the collapse of the paradigm of development based on import-substituting-industrialization in most developing countries; and the demise of centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. This title is suitable for researchers and advanced graduate students.

Examines models, estimation theory, data analysis and field applications in econometrics. This work is suitable for professional use by economists, econometricians, statisticians, and in advanced graduate econometrics courses.

Published on a twice yearly basis to bring updates in medicinal chemistry, this title presents research in the field of drug discovery.

Unsteady-state operations of catalytic reactors provide plentiful opportunities for research and commercial realization of efficient heterogeneous catalytic processes. Forced unsteady state conditions generate unique distributions of process parameters and catalyst states often unattainable with traditional, steady-state operation. The unsteady-states can be created by periodic changes in input flow parameters, such as changes in inlet temperature and composition, catalyst circulation through reaction and regeneration zones, or periodic flow reversals through fixed catalyst bed. This can result in increased productivity, selectivity, capital savings and operating cost reduction (higher energy efficiency). Efficient environmental technologies for treatment of toxic emissions, acid rain and greenhouse gas emissions can also be developed using the unsteady-state concept. The Proceedings communicate recent progress in these areas of research and promote future development. The aims are to establish relations between academia, industry, engineers and scientists from all over the world, to stimulate new catalytic technologies as well as fundamental research, and to create new concepts for the development of effective catalytic systems. It presents the most up-to-date research in catalysis.

Exploring the transition from the foraging societies of the Late Paleolithic to the emergence of settled farming societies and the emergent pastoralism of the middle Neolithic, this work strives to help answer the diverse and numerous questions of this critical transitional period.

Provides an overview to modern trace fossil research and covers the essential aspects of modern ichnology. This book presents a review of the state of ichnology at the beginning of the 21st Century and summarizes the basic concepts and methods of modern trace fossil research.

The Juneau Icefield Research Project (JIRP) was formed to find a prototype area to study Alaska's coastal glaciers and trends in climatic change. This work documents the study of the Juneau Icefield Research Project with a year-by-year account covering activities, personnel, logistics and research.

Glaciotectonism is an important component of modern glacial theory. This book uses maps of glaciotectonic structures and landforms (for North America and central Europe) for a better understanding of the role of glaciotectonism as a key component of glacial theory. It provides a comprehensive review and description of glaciotectonic phenomena.

Based on lectures given in the First Russian School-Seminar on electromagnetic soundings of the Earth held in Moscow on 15th November, 2003, this book provides scientists and technologists with the achievements in theory, techniques and practical applications of the methods of electromagnetic sounding.

Introduces the principles of electrochemistry with an emphasis on materials science. This book is organized around the main topic areas comprising electrolytes, electrodes, development of the potential differences in combining electrolytes with electrodes, the electrochemical double layer, mass transport, and charge transfer.

Part of the "Progress in Brain Research" series this volume examines the emerging role of the hypothalamus as a crucial link between the sensing of nutrients and the control of insulin sensitivity, glucose uptake, and glucose production. It also shows the important interplay between the immune system and energy metabolism.

A selection of oral and poster communications presented during the 5th International Mesostructured Materials Symposium (5th IMMS2006). This work contains papers that cover a range of topics that include synthesis, structure determination, characterisation, modelling, and application in catalysis, adsorption, biochemistry and material sciences.

Compiles studies addressing the pollution issues associated with Arabian Gulf grouped in four categories: monitoring and characterizing oil spills, modeling the fate of pollutants and oil slicks in marine water, environmental effects of oil pollution on the ecosystem components, and combating, prevention and treatment of oil pollution.

Provides a set of reviews of literature on the economics of nonmarket voluntary transfers. This work contain chapters that present the hard core of the theoretical and empirical analyses of giving, reciprocity and altruism in economics, and more. It also considers aspects of society where nonmarket voluntary transfers are significant.

Provides a description of investigational tools. This book covers both biopolymers and synthetic polymers. It uses temperature-concentration phase diagrams abundantly for describing the systems. It describes systems from the nano to the microscopic level, including mechanical properties.

Develops key theoretical models for nucleation. This book intends to enable the reader, when faced with a phenomenon in which nucleation appears to play a role, to determine whether nucleation is indeed important and to develop a quantitative and predictive description of the nucleation behavior.

Scattering experiments, using X-ray, light and neutron sources, are techniques for studying structure and dynamics in systems containing colloids, polymers, surfactants and biological macromolecules. This book presents information on data interpretation, on the complementarity of different types of radiation, and the applications and developments.

Contains reviews of topics in computational chemistry as applied to chemical disciplines. This book covers topics including quantum chemistry, molecular mechanics, force fields, chemical education, and applications in academic and industrial settings.

Discusses technologies such as high-pressure, common-rail, gasoline injection systems and swirl-atomizing gasoline fuel injections. This book reviews the critical area of GDI fuel injector deposits and the associated effect on spray geometry and engine performance degradation.

Focuses on the equity risk premium puzzle, a term coined by Mehra and Prescott in 1985 which encompasses a number of empirical regularities in the prices of capital assets that are at odds with the predictions of standard economic theory.

Microdialysis is one of the most important in vivo sampling methods in physiology and pharmacology. It is used to determine the chemical components of the fluid in the extracellular space of tissues. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the technology and its applications, including application in pathology and drug development.

Reviews the characterization of air quality as it pertains to emission sources and their environmental effect. This book offers the needed concepts and methods in conducting the studies to establish cause and effect relationships under ambient conditions, which is valuable to industrialized nations, and to the policy makers in developing nations.

This is the third volume in a series on membrane protein transfer. Membrane protein transport underlies the topological disposition of many proteins within cells and it is this disposition that allows for the co-ordination of the central cellular processes, such as metabolism.

This is the second volume in a series on membrane protein transfer. Membrane protein transport underlies the topological disposition of many proteins within cells and it is this disposition that allows for the co-ordination of the central cellular processes, such as metabolism.

Part of the "Advances in Structural Biology" series, this fourth volume includes diverse topics of importance relevant to the theme of the series.

The second volume in a series which aims to focus on advances in computational biology. This volume discusses such topics as: statistical analysis of protein sequences; progress in large-scale sequence analysis; and the architecture of loops in proteins.

This is the first volume in a series on membrane protein transfer. Membrane protein transport underlies the topological disposition of many proteins within cells and it is this disposition that allows for the co-ordination of the central cellular processes, such as metabolism.

Presents a synopsis of the knowledge on the structure, organisation, and function of cellular organelles with an emphasis on the examination of important but unsolved problems, and the directions in which molecular and cell biology are moving. This volume includes chapters on the subject of organelles, and organelle disorders.

It should not come as too much of a surprise that biological membranes are considerably more complex than lipid bilayers. This has been made clear by the fluid-mosaic model which considers the cell membrane as a two-dimensional solution of a mosaic of integral membrane proteins and glycoproteins firmly embedded in a fluid lipid bilayer matrix.

Deals with aspects of the cytoskeleton in different cell types and also describes examples of changes in the cytoskeleton which occur during various pathological states. This work looks at studies that bring the area of cytoskeleton research into the domain of medical science.