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Aimed at all those concerned with making castings in any of the commonly used alloys, by any of the usual moulding methods, this handbook covers all specifications and typical applications. Sand moulding materials, including green and chemically bonded sands, are also included.

Instrumentation and control systems are reliant on data communications. This work offers a treatment of industrial data communication systems. Commencing with a discussion of the popular RS-232, RS-422 and RS-485 standards, it moves on to industrial protocols, industrial networks and the communication requirements for the 'smart' instrumentation.

Power amplifiers and their performance lie at the heart of audio engineering. Linking analog electronics, acoustics, heat and music technology; high-end hi-fi and professional PA and recording studio use; theory, modelling and real-world practice; design and repair; this comprehensive guide acts as a reference for those in the industry.

Containing the proceedings of the 11th Weurman Flavour Research Symposium, this book describes the research advances related to the flavour of foods and beverages. It highlights the modern approaches to flavor production using biotechnology, enzymes and gene-technology.

Covers the developments in our understanding of oxide surfaces. This book includes fundamental theory and experimental studies of the geometrical, vibrational and electronic structure of such surfaces, but with an emphasis on the chemical properties and associated reactivity.

The contributions that comprise this volume are concerned with the structural, compositional, electronic and chemical properties of the surfaces of solids in which the surface layers, at least, are alloyed.

Interprets Henry Sidgwick's statement to mean that psychology is relevant for ethics or that psychological knowledge contributes to the construction of an ethical reality. This work analyzes and demonstrates why exposition on the relevance of psychology for ethical reality is necessary and germane.

A textbook on macroeconomic knowledge and analysis.

This handbook serves as a source, reference, and teaching supplement for industrial organization (or industrial economics), the broad field within microeconomics that focuses on business behavior and its implications both for market structures and processes, and for public policies towards them. Comprehensive and up-to-date surveys are provided of recent developments and the state of knowledge in the major areas of research in this field as of the latter part of the 1980's, written at a level suitable for use by non-specialist economists and students on advanced graduate courses. Each chapter can be read independently, although they are organized into sections.

Presents a fresh approach to catchments that encompasses the physical and biogeochemical interactions which control the hydrology and biogeochemistry of the system. This book focuses on case studies in isotope hydrology and isotope geochemistry that explore the applications of isotope techniques for investigating modern environmental problems.

As such the book provides the means to approach and solve analytical problems strategically and systematically, without the need for the reader to become a fully-fledged chemometrician. The authors' aim was to write a tutorial book which would be useful to readers at every level in this field.

Heat pipes find many applications, in areas such as electronics cooling, diecasting and injection moulding, heat recovery and energy conservation, de-icing, and manufacturing process temperature control. This book is suitable for researchers worldwide in heat pipe technology.

Based on research funded by the European Commission, this book provides a basis for a unified approach to three-dimensional surface finish assessment. It covers a range of issues related to 3-D micro-topography, with a focus on standardisation, measurement, characterisation and interpretation.

Surveys a range of general aspects of chromosome research on plants. This book deals with cytogenetics of plant materials including legumes, vegetable and oil crops, sugar crops, forage crops, fibre crops, medicinal crops and ornamentals.

Offers assessments of the way time enters wide spectrum of disciplines. This book presents the definition and uses of time that have proved most productive or problematic, and the lessons their subjects can offer for our understanding of time beyond the classroom and laboratory walls.

This first part presents chapters on models of computation, complexity theory, data structures, and efficient computation in many recognized sub-disciplines of Theoretical Computer Science.

A collection of articles drawn from "Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics". It offers a comprehensive overview of the building blocks of syntax including word classes, sentence/clause types, functional categories of the noun and verb, anaphora and pronominalisation, transitivity, topicalisation and work order.

Analyzes various aspects of bond and money markets. This book describes rate swaps, money markets, financial market mathematics, interest-rate futures and technical analysis. It is suitable for bond salespersons, traders, corporate financiers and graduate trainees, as well as risk managers, operations professionals and business analysts.

A guide to home and small business installation - extensions, modems and telephone systems. It covers topics ranging from the simple, single extension socket to the Private Automative Branch Exchange (PABX), with the necessary tools, test equipment and materials needed by installers described throughout. It also includes circuit diagrams.

Gives a clear approach to the analytical techniques of debt instrument valuation. Without using complicated mathematical abstractions, this book shows that the fundamentals of fixed income and interest rate derivate analysis can be easily understood when seen as a small number of simple economic concepts.

Includes developments in quantum and classical molecular dynamics, related techniques, and their applications to several fields of science and engineering. This work presents advances in methodologies, introduces quantum methods and lists techniques for classical Molecular Dynamics.

Presents the advances in the theory of convex structures. This volume presents graphs that appear side-by-side with Banach spaces, classical geometry with matroids, and ordered sets with metric spaces. It includes a variety of results ranging for instance from the area of partition calculus to that of continuous selection.

Provides information on explosion and detonation phenomena, including data and experiences related to safety risks. This book talks about the shortcomings of the engineering codes based on a classical plane wave model of the phenomenon, and why these tools must fail. It describes the explosion phenomena in terms of proper assemblages of hot spots.

Deals with several aspects of the dynamics of colloids. This work covers topics that include: diffusion of free particles on the basis of the Langevin equation; the separation of time, length and angular scales; the fundamental Fokker-Planck and Smoluchowski equations derived for interacting particles; and more.

Discusses the evolution and uses for capillary electrochromatography as a fresh dimension to separation science. This book also discusses the new horizons in the separation of non-polar compounds which have been opened as a result of CEC. It provides an overview of the variety of applications of capillary electrochromatography.

Includes papers that provide a contrast of human factors contributions to both old and new economies that make up ASEAN and APEC. This volume highlights the diverse roles human factors can play in advancing the quality of life in developed, developing and third world nations.

Third of a series devoted to "Error Estimators and Adaptivity in Computational Mechanics", this work is concerned with outlining the advances in both these areas. It provides answers to questions such as: What is being used or can be used at present to solve engineering problems? What should be the state of art in the year 2000?

Metals are still the most widely used structural materials in the manufacture of products and structures. Successful manufacturing therefore depends on a detailed knowledge of the processing of the materials involved. This book provides that knowledge, and illustrates this approach with real case studies derived from industry.