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CRC handbook of chemistry and physics, a ready-reference book of chemical and physical data, 88th ed.
A previous edition is endorsed by inclusion in Resources for College Libraries. The newest edition contains five new tables, on ionic liquids, solubility of organic compounds in pressurized hot water, solubility of hydrocarbons in seawater, nutrient values of foods, and properties of organic semiconductors. Seven tables have been expanded and updated, including those on critical temperature and pressure of fluids, enthalpy of vaporization of inorganic and organic compounds, thermodynamic properties of air, bond dissociation energies, and the properties of fundamental particles. The appendix of math tables and list of internet resources have also been updated. With its impressive collection of tables, this is an invaluable reference for anyone in the field, whether student or professional. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Design engineering; a manual for enhanced creativity.
Natural talent helps, but it is only part of the entire experience of design engineering. Flying in the face of the concept that a good design engineer is born, not made, this gives professionals and students ways to hone their skills in both practical and abstract ways based on a theory of transformation processes and tangible products with a coordinated theory of design processes. It includes a range of samples and examples form practical engineering, provides a general model of engineering design procedure, and describes a procedure for designing technical processes and systems and formalizes into a procedural model. The result proves that innovation, while thought to be an intuitive subject and unteachable, does have a basis in logic and can be learned. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Distributed antenna systems; open architecture for future wireless communications.
Hu, a research at the Shanghai Research Center for Wireless Communications, introduces fundamental concepts, protocols, integration and performance issues, and future directions in distributed antenna systems (DAS). In Part I, contributors from North America, Europe, and Asia cover channel and theoretical issues, enabling readers to understand the capacity of DAS with different structures. Subsequent chapters concentrate on issues related to medium access control (MAC) and protocols for DAS, including distributed signal processing, optimal resource allocation, cooperative MAC protocols, cross-layer design, and distributed organization. Case studies illustrate applications of DAS in areas such as RF system engineering for a CDMA distributed antenna system, a multi-hop virtual cellular network, and DAS for DVB-H networks. The book is useful as a reference for students, telecom service providers, researchers, and engineers in wireless networks and mobile communications. The book is distributed in the US by Taylor & Francis. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Electrochemistry of zirconia gas sensors.
Metal processing, heat treating, glass, pulp, ceramics, automotive, aerospace, power, combustion, petrochemical, chemical, security and other industrial environments are harsh and energy-consuming. Zirconia gas sensors, which provide emission profiles for such gases as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide, oxygen, hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds, are in wide use in these environments, largely because they allow for feedback control systems that result in less pollution and better fuel efficiency at low cost. Bridging the gap between academic and industrial research, practitioner Zhuiykov covers the electrochemistry of solid electrolyte gas sensors, including mathematical modeling with distributed parameters, metrological characteristics of non-nernstian zirconia gas sensors, measurement of gas concentrations in molten metals, manufacturing technologies, errors of measurement and testing. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Encyclopedic dictionary of named processes in chemical technology, 3d ed.
Now an independent consultant and author, UK-based Comyns has had a varied career in academia, government, and industrial research laboratories over some four decades. His resource text provides users with concise descriptions of 3,000-plus processes in chemical technology that are known by special names that are not self-explanatory. The cross-referenced entries include key reference information, detailed explanation of how the process works, derivation of the name, historical background, date of introduction, patent information, worldwide usage, and end product. The second edition contains some 450 new entries reflecting recent trends in the global chemical industry away from petrochemicals and toward biochemical processes, with an emphasis on pollution prevention and waste disposal. Among these new entries are processes newly revealed under the Freedom of Information acts in the U.S. and UK. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Energy conversion.
This work surveys the latest advances in energy conversion from currently available energy sources. The first part of the book summarizes fundamentals of seven types of energy sources: fossil fuels, biomass energy, nuclear, solar, and wind energy resources, and geothermal energy. The second part of the book describes conventional and advanced energy conversion technologies, such as steam power plants, gas turbines, internal combustion engines, combined cycle power plants, and Stirling engines. Storage technologies are also covered. Subsequent chapters cover renewable energy technologies including solar power, photovoltaics, and waste-to-energy combustion. Unconventional energy systems still under development, including nuclear fusion, ocean energy, and direct energy conversion by thermionic methods, are covered as well. Goswami is affiliated with the Clean Energy Research Center at the University of South Florida. Kreith is affiliated with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Energy management and conservation handbook.
Written for engineers, planners and energy managers, this introduces basic methods for designing and sizing cost-effective systems and determining the efficacy of energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. The 13 articles include data professionals can use not only to size up projects but to convince other decision-makers, because topics include the outlook for US energy consumption and prices, economics methods, including risk assessment and economic evaluation methods, energy audits for buildings. Topics specific to systems include electrical energy management in buildings, major appliances and space conditioning, heat pumps, electrical motors, energy storage and control systems for heating, ventilating and air conditioning. Survey articles cover industrial conditioning efficiency and general energy management and demand-side management methods. The contributors provide step by step procedures when needed and illustrations, without being intrusive, serve to explain concepts well. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Environmental degradation and transformation of organic chemicals.
Offering an updated and expanded version of a previous work, Organic Chemicals: An Environmental Perspective, Neilson and Allard, both affiliated with IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, examine a wide range of compounds as well as abiotic and microbiological reactions mediated by microorganisms, emphasizing the pathways used and the broad classes of enzymes involved. The authors begin by reviewing abiotic and biotic reactions and looking at the significance of a range of environmental determinants. They then introduce experimental procedures for establishing the structure of metabolites using isotopes and physical methods. They detail the biochemical reactions involved in the biodegradation of major aliphatic, carbocyclic aromatic, and heterocyclic compounds. The book concludes with material on bioremediation. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Expert witnessing and scientific testimony; surviving in the courtroom.
The author distills his own experiences as a paid expert witness on industrial hygiene in order to give advice to others in the same position within the American legal system. He discusses legal issues of negligence, rules of evidence and codes of civil procedure, the body of scientific literature, the role the expert witness, legal language, courtroom procedure, professional liability, and expert fee practices. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Finite element analysis of composite materials.
In this text for a course in advanced mechanics of composite materials, Barbero (mechanical and aerospace engineering, West Virginia University) explains the theoretical and practical knowledge needed to perform detailed analysis of composite materials using finite element analysis software. He covers all of the major aspects of advanced analysis, including three-dimensional effects, viscoelasticity, edge effects, elastic instability, damage, and delamination. He also outlines the solution of boundary value problems using commercial finite element analysis software. About 50 complete examples are included, demonstrating how to formulate and execute finite element analysis and how to interpret the results in engineering terms. Source code for each example is available for download online. The examples primarily use ANSYS, but some use MATLAB. The chapter on buckling uses BM13, available free on the book's web site. It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the basic mechanics of composites as covered in introductory level textbooks. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Foot and ankle motion analysis; clinical treatment and technology.
Harris, director of the Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Engineering Center at Marquette University, surveys clinical applications and technological developments in adult and pediatric foot and ankle motion analysis. The goals of the book are to identify clinical needs that can be served by current and emerging technologies, educate readers about recent and anticipated technical advances, and document achievements within the technical and clinical communities. Foot and ankle modeling concepts are described, encompassing seminal developments as well as modern applications and more novel approaches. Technical advances related to mechanical paradigms, imaging, kinetics, robotics and simulation, and triplanar force sensing are covered. Sources of support for future research and development are addressed in the final section of the book. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Food mycology; a multifaceted approach to fungi and food.
Scandinavian contributors offer an overview of the different aspects of mycology research in this resource for students and professionals in biology, food science, and other fields. Chapters are in sections on fungi and living crops, the fungal spore in food mycology, fungi and mycotoxins, fungi as hyperproducers, the ecology, growth, and detection of fungal spoilage, and fungi as food. Some of the areas covered include heat-resistant ascospores, cross-talk between host and fungus in postharvest situations, filamentous fungi as cell factories for metabolite production, and transport phenomena in fungal colonization on a food matrix. B&w and color photos are included. Dijksterhuis and Samson are both affiliated with the CBS Fungal Biodiversity Center in The Netherlands. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Food plant economics. (CD-ROM included)
Applying the proven success of process engineering economics to the food industry, this book/CD-ROM package considers the design and economic analysis of food ingredients, food manufacturing, and food preservation plants. Early chapters give background material on research technology, the structure of the food system in the US and EU, and principles of food plant design. Later chapters apply concepts of capital cost, operating cost, and cash flow to estimations of plant profitability. These chapters explain data and models for estimating capital investment and operating costs, in application areas of specific types of food preservation and manufacturing plants, including tomato paste, orange juice concentrate, bread, and wine. Because the economic analysis of food plants requires the evaluation of quantitative data, the accompanying CD-ROM includes prepared Excel spreadsheets for applying data on the cost of equipment, material and energy balances, and plant operating costs. Reference appendices provide calculations, tables, and a glossary. Author information is not given. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Free and moving boundries; analysis, simulation, and control.
Twenty-four papers from the International Federation of Processing 7.2 conference held December 2004 in Houston apply optimal control theory to distributed physical systems through boundary control theory. The mathematicians extend a distributed Lagrange multiplier-based fictitious domain method with operator splitting to simulate particulate flows in filled rotating cylinder, solve A Riemann problem for the unsteady transonic small disturbance equation, and model liquid-gas free surface flows. Other topics include electromagnetic 3D reconstruction by level set with zero capacity connecting sets, differential Riccati equations for the Bolza problem, the Stokes basis for 3D incompressible flow fields, and array antenna optimization. No index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Functional informatics in drug discovery.
This volume covers all aspects of technology integration and information flow in a biopharmaceutical enterprise and the technologies used at different stages of drug development. The eight chapters compiled by Ilyin, who works in bioinformatics at a pharmaceutical company, cover intelligent automation, neurally inspired algorithms as computational tools, using pharmacodynamic biomarkers to accelerate early clinical drug development, CNS drug discovery and development, and the clinical success of antibody therapeutics in oncology. Others discuss relating target sequence to biological function, the use of protein microarrays for molecular network analysis and signal-pathway profiling, and laser-microdissection-based transcriptomics using microarrays. Contributors, who are from the US and Australia, work in academia, information technology, and the pharmaceutical industry. The book is aimed at scientists is any discipline, managers, and investors. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Fungal pathogenesis in plants and crops; molecular biology and host defense mechanisms, 2d ed.
This reference describes the molecular biology of fungal pathogenesis, with descriptions of the full cycle of fungal infection processes. New to the second edition are chapters on cell death signaling in disease susceptibility and resistance and the role of disease resistance genes in signal perception and emission. Reflecting new findings since the first edition was published in 1997, descriptions of 12 new PR protein groups have been added. Oomycetes are included in the discussion of fungal pathogenesis. Vidhyasekaran is former director of Center for Plant Protection Studies, Tamil Nadu Agricultural U., Coimbatore, India. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Functional plant ecology, 2d ed.
Forty-nine international academics and researchers contribute 23 chapters investigating plant structure and behavior across the ecological spectrum. The text is intended for a broad audience from plant ecologists to students, and follows a bottom-up approach, from the more specific, detailed studies focusing on plant organs to the broadest ecosystem approaches. It provides a full understanding of how plants have successfully evolved in multiple ecosystems; focuses on new approaches to questions about photosynthesis, functional ecology and phylogeny; and covers plant responses to pollution and plant performance at different scales. For the second edition, the text has been extensively revised and updated; however, specific changes to the text are not stated. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Geriatric nutrition.
The 35 chapters in this volume address elements important to nutrition in older people, including normal, pathological, and optimal nutrition. Thomas (internal medicine and geriatric medicine, Saint Louis U.) and Morley (gerontology, Saint Louis U., and Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center at the St. Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center) compile chapters by medical experts from the US, Europe, Australia, and Lebanon who discuss epidemiology, molecular theories of aging, disease prevention, obesity, immunity, energy balance, and nutritional requirements. They also cover water metabolism, vitamin disorders, trace elements, clinical assessments, and recommendations for specific diseases, including dementia and depression. The management of undernutrition in nursing homes and assisted living environments is considered, as well as multicultural and ethical issues. The book is meant for family, nutritional educators, dietitians, gerontologists, and geriatricians. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Handbook of dynamic system modeling.
Sixty international academics and researchers contribute 37 chapters demonstrating the wide variety of modeling methods available for dynamic systems. Included are pseudocode, diagrams, and methods for representing, simulating, and analyzing models. Coverage includes an introductory overview of general issues, representations, and philosophy of dynamic models; modeling methodologies defined as approaches to the modeling process; executing models on a computer once models have been designed; multiobject and system issues of scale, heterogeneity, and composition; specific model types characterized by specific visual or text-based grammars; application domains; and case studies using two well-known commercial packages that support dynamic model construction, simulation, and analysis. The text is suitable as a reference guide, or in the classroom as a primary text or secondary reference, for those in mathematics, computer science, science and engineering disciplines. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Handbook of food preservation, 2d ed.
Substantially expanded from the first edition to 44 chapters (from 25) and organized by preservation methods, this practical and thorough reference will be essential to specialists in the field as well as to students of food science and technology. New technological methods are described, including hurdle technology, ultrasound, and microwave, as well as the traditional methods such as freezing, canning, and pasteurization. Packaging is also discussed, in a section on indirect approaches to food preservation enhancement. The volume is well illustrated with a variety of practical visual aids, including photos of equipment, tables, and diagrams. The contributors provide a fully international viewpoint; they are specialists in academic, state, and private settings in Canada, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. Several are with Rahman's institution, the Sultan Zaboos U., in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Handbook of nanoscience, engineering, and technology, 2d ed.
Goddard (California Institute of Technology) presents a survey of the current state of the field of nanoscience, focusing on the most promising technologies and fastest-growing developments. Overview chapters summarize the latest concepts and research in the field, and discuss the National Nanotechnology Initiative. The rest of the book is organized into sections on molecular and nanoelectronics, molecular electronics devices, manipulation and assembly, and functional structures. This second edition reflects growth in the field since the first edition was published in 2003, and contains new chapters on textiles, nanomanufacturing, spintronics, molecular electronics, aspects of bionanotechnology, and nanoparticles for drug delivery. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Handbook of nutrition and food, 2d ed.
For this second edition of a professional reference, Berdanier (nutrition and cell biology, emerita, University of Georgia-Athens) adds 12 new chapters and triples the number of referential Web addresses, reflecting developments in nutrition research over the past six years. Part I contains five chapters relating to food, covering food constituents, safety, labeling, computerized nutrient analysis systems, and nutrient data analysis techniques and strategies. Part II focuses on nutrition as a science, covering basic terminology, intermediary metabolism relevant to the use of nutrients, individual micronutrients, and nutrient-nutrient interactions. In addition, there is a chapter listing web addresses for the nutrient needs of non-human species, useful for scientists wishing to make interspecies comparisons. Part III covers nutrient needs throughout the life cycle and under special circumstances, and Part IV looks at nutrition assessment on the large and small scale. Lastly, Part V deals with clinical topics, addressing medical evaluation techniques and looking at nutrition in about 30 different disorders and diseases. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Handbook of nuclear, biological, and chemical agent exposures.
Compared to the majority of diseases, the approach to nuclear, biological, or chemical agent exposures presents different and unique challenges to the clinician. To aid health care professionals in the diagnosis and treatment of these exposures, Leikin (medical toxicology, Glenbrook Hospital, Glenview, Illinois; Rush Medical College and Northwestern U., Chicago) and McFee (State U. of New York Stony Brook; NYCOM, New York Institute of Technology) offer a text that takes a clinical approach and provides valuable information on five key areas: antidotes, biological agents, chemical agents, laboratory analysis, and radiation substances. Each of these five sections of the text contains an alphabetically arranged series of agent monographs, written by 20 contributing academics, practitioners, and researchers from the U.S., Israel, and the UK. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Handbook of real-time and embedded systems.
Lee (University of Pennsylvania) brings together researchers from academia and industry to cover current topics in real-time embedded systems and to offer real-time scheduling and resource management solutions. Material on programming languages and paradigms covers real-time Java and synchronous programming, among other topics. There is also material on operating systems and middleware for real-time and embedded systems, real-time communications and sensor networks, real-time database and data services, and methods and tools. Applications in dynamic QoS management, real-time data services in the automotive industry, and multimedia systems are described. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Handbook of semiconductor manufacturing technology, 2d ed.
New to the second edition of this reference are sections on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) materials and devices, supercritical CO2 in semiconductor cleaning, low-'5f dielectrics, atomic-layer deposition, Damascene copper electroplating, and effects of terrestrial radiation on integrated circuits. The handbook contains 35 chapters, each containing an overview of as many key topics in the industry. The chapters present background, research-and-development issues, and future trends and are written so as to be accessible to the non-specialist as well as the specialists and students in the industry who will be the work's main audience. The range of chapter topics includes dopant diffusion, silicides, rapid thermal processing, atomic layer deposition, yield modeling, yield management, failure analysis, and factory modeling. Four appendices contain physical constants, units conversion, standards, and acronyms. Doering is with Texas Instruments; Nishi is at Stanford U. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Handbook of vitamins, 4th ed.
Zempleni (molecular nutrition, U. of Nebraska at Lincoln), Rucker (nutrition, U. of California at Davis Medical School), McCormick (nutritional biochemistry, Emory U.), and Sutie (emeritus, biochemistry, U. of Wisconsin at Madison) present a clinical reference on vitamins that summarize chemical, physiological, and nutritional relationships for all the recognized vitamins. It includes separate chapters for vitamins A, D, K, E, B6, and B12, as well as for niacin, riboflavin, thiamine, pantothenic acid, biotin, folic acid, choline, and ascorbic acid. It also includes contributions on bioorganic mechanisms important to coenzyme functions, vitamin-dependent modifications of chromatin (epigenetic events and genomic stability), accelerator mass spectrometry in the study of vitamins and mineral metabolism in humans, and dietary reference intakes for vitamins. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Hansen solubility parameters; a user's handbook, 2d ed.
Hansen (retired from the FORCE Institute in Broendby Denmark) describes the techniques he developed that allow correlations and systemic comparisons in the science of polymer solvents. Most commonly used in the coatings industry for the selection of solvents, the techniques assess polymer solubility, swelling, permeation, surface wetting, and the solubility of organic salts. The approach not only quantitatively describes hydrogen bonding and polar bonding in many types of systems, but in fact agrees with and extends the very general Prigogine theory. The second edition adds two chapters on environmental stress cracking, and absorption and diffusion in polymers. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
