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A Text for Students and Engineers on Rock Excavation and Related Topics
A. Roberts
Elsevier Science
Applied Geotechnology deals with rock excavation and related topics such as the stability of soil and rock slopes, earthquakes, and earthquake engineering. Some basic ideas and fundamentals that are applicable to specific aspects of geotechnical engineering are described. Blasting technology …
Norman W. Bray
Elsevier Science
This serial was established under the editorship of Dr. Norman R. Ellis in 1966. As a result of his editorial effort and the contributions of many authors, the serial is now recognized as the area's best source of reviews of …
Michael Locke
Elsevier Science
The Emergence of Order in Developing Systems is a collection of papers presented at the 27th Symposium of the Society for Developmental Biology, held in Ithaca, New York in June 1968. Contributors focus on the emergence of orderly patterns during …
William B. Jakoby
Elsevier Science
Metabolic Basis of Detoxication: Metabolism of Functional Groups considers the possible fates of the relatively circumscribed number of functional groups that xenobiotics bear. An understanding of the possible reactions, and the chemical and biological factors influencing them, will contribute to …
Roshan Shishoo
Elsevier Science
Automotive textiles represent one of the most valuable international markets for technical textiles. Textile advances in the automotive industry provides an in-depth review of the design and development of automotive textiles and the recent advances made in technical textiles for …

View book details for Sensory Functions

Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Physiological Sciences, Budapest, 1980
E. Grastyán, P. Molnár
Elsevier Science
Advances in Physiological Sciences, Volume 16: Sensory Functions contains the proceedings of the symposia of the 28th International Congress of Physiology, held in Budapest in July 1980. The book presents scientific papers discussing a wide range of topics on sensory …
S. A. Knight
Elsevier Science
Electrical and Electronic Principles, 2, Second Edition covers the syllabus requirements of BTEC Unit U86/329, including the principles of control systems and elements of data transmission. The book first tackles series and parallel circuits, electrical networks, and capacitors and capacitance. …

View book details for Safety Culture

An Innovative Leadership Approach
James Roughton, Nathan Crutchfield
Elsevier Science
Current safety and risk management guidelines necessitate that organizations develop and formally manage their understanding and knowledge of the standards and protocols of risk management. The impact of communication and human performance on the identification and control of hazards and …
Ken Sorenson
Elsevier Science
Safe and Secure Transport and Storage of Radioactive Materials reviews best practice and emerging techniques in this area. The transport of radioactive materials is an essential operation in the nuclear industry, without which the generation of nuclear power would not …
P.C. Wailes
Elsevier Science
Organometallic Chemistry of Titanium, Zirconium, and Hafnium covers the chemistry of organic complexes of titanium, zirconium, and hafnium having metal-to-carbon linkage. This book is organized into eight chapters that consider the significant developments in delineating the chemistry of these metal …

View book details for Methods for Oxidation of Organic Compounds V1

Alcohols, Alcohol Derivatives, Alky Halides, Nitroalkanes, Alkyl Azides, Carbonyl Compounds Hydroxyarenes and Aminoarenes
Alan Haines
Elsevier Science
Methods for the Oxidation of Organic Compounds: Alkanes, Alkenes, Alkynes, and Arenes is an account of the different methods used for the controlled oxidation of alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, and arenes. Most of the oxidative techniques considered are illustrated with detailed …
A. T. Todd
Elsevier Science
Good Living: A Philosophy of Health presents a critical review of the meaning of life and living. It discusses the anatomy and dynamics of digestion. It addresses the different parts that make up the ingestion of food. Some of the …

View book details for Principles of Spaceflight Propulsion

International Series of Monographs in Aeronautics and Astronautics
E. M. Goodger
Elsevier Science
Division III. Propulsion Systems Including Fuels, Volume 6: Principles of Spaceflight Propulsion provides an introduction to the fundamentals of the processes of energy release and conversion. This book presents the developments of space technology by providing a general view of …

View book details for Evaluating Children's Interactive Products

Principles and Practices for Interaction Designers
Panos Markopoulos, Janet C Read, Stuart MacFarlane, Johanna Hoysniemi
Elsevier Science
Evaluating Children's Interactive Products directly addresses the need to ensure that interactive products designed for children whether toys, games, educational products, or websites are safe, effective, and entertaining. It presents an essential background in child development and child psychology, particularly …
Donald Greenspan, V. Lakshmikantham, C P Tsokos
Elsevier Science
Arithmetic Applied Mathematics deals with concepts of arithmetic applied mathematics and uses a computer, rather than a continuum, approach to the deterministic theories of particle mechanics. Models of classical physical phenomena are formulated from both Newtonian and special relativistic mechanics …
Pierfausto Seneci
Elsevier Science
This book is a neurochemistry-based companion for Protein Misfolding and Neurodegenerative Diseases: Molecular Targets, an Elsevier title by the same author publishing in December 2014. While the first book focuses on biology and molecular targets, this companion book describes how …
Scott Boorman, Paul R. Levitt
Elsevier Science
The Genetics of Altruism covers the primary findings on social evolution, social trait, and altruism from a population genetics standpoint to establish a system of genetic boxes. It presents an evolutionary question with two faces: Why are there so many …

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Curriculum Issues in Arts Education
Malcolm Ross
Elsevier Science
The Arts and Personal Growth focuses on the influence of arts education to personal growth, including the development of curriculum that puts the study of the arts at the core and learning of the arts in different time frames and …
Spyros G Tzafestas
Elsevier Science
Introduction to Mobile Robot Control provides a complete and concise study of modeling, control, and navigation methods for wheeled non-holonomic and omnidirectional mobile robots and manipulators. The book begins with a study of mobile robot drives and corresponding kinematic and …
J. Hindmarsh
Elsevier Science
A self-contained, comprehensive and unified treatment of electrical machines, including consideration of their control characteristics in both conventional and semiconductor switched circuits. This new edition has been expanded and updated to include material which reflects current thinking and practice. All …
Ramazan Gençay, Faruk Selçuk, Brandon J. Whitcher
Elsevier Science
An Introduction to Wavelets and Other Filtering Methods in Finance and Economics presents a unified view of filtering techniques with a special focus on wavelet analysis in finance and economics. It emphasizes the methods and explanations of the theory that …
William Prokasy
Elsevier Science
Electrodermal Activity in Psychological Research summarizes the methodological problems involved in the application of electrodermal activity as a dependent variable to basic psychophysiological research. The approach of this nine-chapter book is generally from the molecular to the molar in sequence …
V. V. Ovchinnikov
Elsevier Science
Britain Observed: A Russian's View focuses on the understanding of the customs, identity, political and social structure, and societal relations of the British. The book first underscores some of the misperceptions of the British of Russia, the author's country. The …

View book details for Biochemical Factors Concerned in the Functional Activity of the Nervous System

First International Meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry, Strasbourg, 1967
D. Richter
Elsevier Science
Biochemical Factors Concerned in the Functional Activity of the Nervous System presents the biological aspects concerned in the functional activity of the nervous system. This book covers several interesting topics concerning the central nervous system, including phospholipids, RNA synthesis, nerve …
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