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Addresses various aspects related to speech and language comprehension and production, both in children and in normal adults. This title presents in a systematic way disorders of speech and language due to developmental and acquired causes, the most common forms of treatment and their degree of efficacy.

Focusing on the developments in electrical drive technology, including very-high-speed power-electronic switches, combined with microcomputer control systems. This textbook offers teaching through worked examples, which are put in context with explanations of theory, revision of equations and discussion of the engineering implications.

Intended for plant operators, electricians, field technicians and engineers, this work provides a practical understanding of the role and workings of power system protection systems. It provides coverage that includes both the fundamentals and the basic fault and design calculations needed to specify, use and maintain power protection systems.

Modal analysis is the processes of determining the inherent dynamic characteristics of any system and using them to formulate a mathematical model of the dynamic behavior of the system. This work provides an overview of the theory of analytical and experimental modal analysis and its applications.

In plants processing flammable materials, stringent measures are taken to exclude sources of ignition. An array of standards surround this topic leading to a conservative approach, which results in more expenditure. Aimed at avoiding this expenditure, this book explains the relevant standards for the accurate assessment of the risks associated.

Intended for those involved in electronic design and safety assessment, this book covers the problems of RF safety management, including the use of measuring instruments and methods, radiation hazards and risks resulting from electromagnetic interference, as well as reviewing safety standards and the implications for RF design.

Both geography and psychology are capable of increasing our scientific knowledge of how human behaviour is interfaced with the physical environment. This text contains contributions from researchers in both fields, identifying the importance of two-way interdisciplinary communication.

Describing the properties of lipid bilayers and examining biomembrane phenomena, this book presents practical methods for the formation and study of lipid bilayers with either aqueous or metal-lipid bilayer interfaces. It intends to treat planar lipid bilayers as a different type of interfacial adsorption phenomena.

Time is both a dimension of behaviour and a ubiquitous controlling variable in the lives of all living things. This book presents the progress in quantitative analysis of timing behaviour. It gives an analysis of the neurobiological substrate of timing behaviour and covers the experimental analysis of interval timing.

Covers cellular interactions, the role they play on myelination and remyelination, how these interactions take place and the molecules involved. This volume focuses on the interactions of neurons with glial cells and their role in brain function. It is devoted to therapeutic approaches to tumours, viral and prion infections.

A collection of some of the invited talks presented at the international meeting held at the Max Planck Institut fuer Physik Komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany during August 6-30, 2001, on the developing field of nanoscale science in science and bio-electronics.

Summarises the understanding of the Nervous, Endocrine and Immune systems with emphasis on shared mediators and receptors and functional interaction. This work contains basic information, theoretical considerations and clinical chapters. It also presents clinically relevant subjects such as: inflammation, asthma, and allergy.

Part of the "Handbook of Analytical Separations" series, this volume gives an overview about methods to analyse drugs in biological fluids. It covers the general aspects important for conducting therapeutic drug monitoring or pharmacokinetics studies. It discusses areas where therapeutic drug monitoring is used frequently.

Provides a comprehensive source of information on the analytical chemistry of nicotine and related alkaloids. This book describes the chemistry and analytical methods for measurement of nicotine. It presents the history, pharmacology and toxicology of nicotine, the biosynthesis of nicotine and other alkaloids in the tobacco plant.

III-V Nitrides have potential usage in high power, high temperature, high frequency and optical devices resistant to radiation damage. This book provides a number of optoelectronic applications of III-V nitrides and covers the process from growth to devices and applications. It is useful for those working in the semiconductors or microelectronics.

A hydrocode refers to a computer program used for the study of the dynamic response of materials and structures to impulse, and impact. This work introduces the novice to the fundamentals of this highly technical and complicated study. It brings together literature, from journals, government and corporate reports, and conference proceedings.

Covers the aspects of marine radioactivity which have been the focus of scientific study. This title covers the suite of natural radioisotopes which have been present in the oceans since their formation and quantitatively dominate the inventory of radioactivity in the oceans.

These Proceedings contain the papers presented at the 3rd IFAC International Workshop on Time Delay Systems, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 8 - 10 December 2001.

Includes proceedings which contain the papers presented at the IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control, held at Princeton University, USA in March 2000. The workshop featured presentations and discussions of theoretical and practical developments in Lagrangian and Hamiltonian approaches to nonlinear control.

The PID controller is a key component of industrial control. PID control has become one of the most important ways for the scientific specialist in control and the users of industrial control to work together. Digital Control 2000: Past, Present and Future of PID Control workshop was useful for learning about control history.

Covers the achievements in the field of Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry, called CALPHAD (acronym for Computer CALculation of PHAse Diagrams). This title combines discussions of the underlying physical principles of the CALPHAD method with descriptions of their application to real complex multi-component materials.

Provides an overview of the practical use of biological markers in marine animals to evaluate the health effects of environmental contamination in marine ecosystems. This book presents the results obtained during the development and application of biological markers as indicators of exposure/effect to toxic chemicals in marine environments.

Fluorine has quite unique properties. It is so reactive that it forms fluorides with all elements except with the lightest noble gases helium, neon and argon. This book summarizes the progresses in inorganic fluorine chemistry. It focuses on the features in inorganic fluorine chemistry and its industrial applications.

A compilation of concise definitions of the characteristic vocabulary commonly encountered and used by herpetologists when discussing, reading, or writing about reptiles and amphibians. This dictionary is intended for keepers, curators, breeders, researchers, teachers or students and also for those who have an interest in these animals.

Presents error and complexity in error-free, parallel, and probabilistic methods. This book discusses deterministic and probabilistic methods with error and complexity. It points out the scope and limitation of mathematical error-bounds. It is suitable for those in the fields of computational mathematics, and applied mathematics.

Part of a series that deals with the biochemical responses of fish to different environmental/ecological factors. This book captures vital issues affecting the responses of fish to the chemical surroundings of their environment. It includes chapters detailed on a cellular level. It also introduces a discussion of pharmaceutical effects on fish.

Focuses on the impact of stressful events on the functioning of the central nervous system and how stress affects molecular and cellular processes in the brain. Written for the scientific audience, this handbook comprehensively reviews key principles and facts to provide a clear overview of the interdisciplinary field of stress.

Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field that strives to understand the functioning of neural systems at levels ranging from biomolecules and cells to behaviour and higher brain functions (perception, memory, cognition). This book encompasses an array of approaches stemming from theoretical physics, computer science, and applied mathematics.

Presents the lecture notes of the Les Houches Summer School on Quantum entanglement and information processing. This book aims to establish connections between the communities of quantum optics and of quantum electronic devices working in the area of quantum computing. It is useful for graduate students with a basic knowledge of quantum mechanics.