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Contains the Proceedings of the 25th International Free Electron Laser Conference and the 10th Free Electron Laser Users Workshop, which were held on September 8-12, 2003 in Tsukuba, Ibaraki in Japan.

Contains terms covering all fields of biology, from cytology and molecular biology to genetics and behavior, with special reference to zoology. Focussing on applied fields too, this dictionary will be useful to translators and scientists dealing with various fields of fundamental and applied biology.

Analyzes the commonly used molecular markers systems, and elaborates the development of biochemical genetics, which provides a model system that established the relationship between genes and enzymes. This book is useful for those crossing disciplinary boundaries into the field of biotechnology, genomics and bioinformatics of fungi.

Deals with intermetallic compounds. This book presents an overview of ternary systems containing rare earths, transition metals and indium. It also sorts out relationships between superconductivity and magnetism.

Presents an introduction to the physical processes of cohesive sediment in the marine environment. This book focuses on highly dynamic systems, such as estuaries and coastal seas. Processes on the continental shelf are also discussed and attention is given to the effects of chemistry, biology and gas.

Deals with push moraines on Spitsbergen. Push moraines are ridges or mounds of stratified glacial drift that are generated by glacial movement. Spitsbergen is an island in the Norwegian Sea, approximately 350 miles north of mainland Norway near the Norht Pole.

Covers primary topics in Precambrian geology. This book addresses celestial origins of Earth and succeeding extraterrestrial impact events. It includes such topics as evolution and models for Earth's hydrosphere and atmosphere; and, evolution of life and its influence on Precambrian ocean chemistry and chemical sedimentation.

Gives an overview of the English, German, French and Italian names of reptiles. This title provides the basic table that contains the scientific names of families, genera, species and some sub-species with their identified names, which are given in the singular for species and sub-specis and in the plural for other terms.

Gives an introduction for engineers and researchers wishing to obtain a fundamental knowledge of the edge in technology research. This book also acts as an essential reference for the "gurus" wishing to keep abreast of the directions and challenges in microelectronic technology development and future trends.

Contains the Proceedings of the 24th International Free Electron Laser Conference and the 9th Free Electron Laser Users Workshop, which were held on September 9-13, 2002 at Argonne National Laboratory.

Reflects various developments in economics pertaining to population issues and the family. This book conveys both the progress that has been made by economists in understanding the forces shaping population processes, including the behavior of families, and the many questions, empirical and theoretical.

Reviews problems in the mechanical behaviour of cyclically loaded metallic materials, primarily with regard to the nature of the fatigue process. This book focuses on physical-metallurgical aspects, and provides knowledge on physical metallurgical processes that accompany and affect the fatigue of metallic materials.

Reviews various developments in clinical laboratory science in the 20th century. This book features the graduate student who invented a technology for testing infectious diseases, took it to Africa to screen people for malaria for the first time and which is being used to test for HIV infection world-wide.

Covering important results and current trends and issues across the spectrum of combinatorics, this volume covers finite sets and relations, matroids, symmetric structures, and combinatorial structures in geometry and number theory.

Contains about 50,000 terms covering various fields and subfields of nuclear engineering and technology such as nuclear physics, thermonuclear research, nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel, isotopes, radiation, reliability issues, environmental protection, emergency issues, and others. This book includes terms from the military nuclear field.

The papers presented in this volume are intended to provide readers with advanced knowledge concerning the technologically important subject of inorganic and organic single crystal growth.

Includes papers presented at the 11th annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS 02) held in July 2002 at the Congress Plaza Hotel and Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois, USA. This book contains papers that range from experimental neurobiology, to neuro-ethology, mathematics, physics, and engineering. It focuses on the research described.

Listing the English, German, French and Italian names of amphibians occurring in Europe, North America, Central and Southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand, the Indian Subcontinent, South East Asia, Puerto Rico and the islands of the West Indies, this dictionary covers 5,367 scientific names of orders, families, genera, species and subspecies.

Presents survey and summary of knowledge and expectations regarding the environmental causes of congenital malformations in human beings, from earliest discoveries of the 20th century onwards. This book also presents views and comments on the progress made in understanding human prenatal maldevelopment.

Encouraged by new perspectives in Banach space theory, the editors present this second volume that opens with an introductory essay that explains the basics of the theory. The rest of the chapters focus on specific directions of Banach space theory or its applications.

Contains the Latin, English, and Spanish names for over 7,000 species of the most important plants found mainly in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. This dictionary includes native and naturalized plants as well as plants of economic value. It is organized alphabetically by the scientific Latin genus and species of each plant.

Contains over 30000 abbreviations of terms used in the field of anatomy, bacteriology, biology, chemistry, medicine (human and veterinary), pathology, pharmacology, etcetera, with especially detailed itemization of the chemical elements, hormones, insulins, kidney function tests, pulmonary function tests and serological tests for syphilis.

Suitable for graduate students in mathematics, sciences and engineering and technology, this volume covers advanced computational methods used in the mathematical analysis of chemical events and reactions. It covers both the numerics and modelling aspects.

Focuses on the impact of stressful events on the functioning of the central nervous system; how stress affects molecular and cellular processes in the brain; and, how these brain processes determine our perception of and reactivity to, stressful challenges - acutely and in the long-run. This volume provides an overview of the field of stress.

Focuses on the main directions in the theory of evolutionary partial differential equations. This work aims to present in depth surveys on the important aspects of the present theory.

Probability is a mathematical technique that is relevant to many different areas. This book provides a comprehensive, user-friendly introduction to the subject. Traditional examples of probabilistic theory, such as dice and coins are included together with exercises based on real-life problems.

Hydrostatic pressure is a powerful tool for study of biological systems. As a thermodynamic parameter, hydrostatic pressure has been known to act on biological materials in a similar, but not identical, way to temperature. This book provides coverage of the various aspects of high pressure biochemistry and biophysics of proteins.

Summarizes the advances in understanding the mechanism underlying the selective cell death of dopamine neurons in Parkinson's disease. This book also discusses the relationship of causal factors such as MPTP, L-DOPA and others to the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease to give us overviews on the role of neurotoxins in this degenerative disorder.

The authors of this volume stress the urgency of promoting the development of alternative renewable sources of energy, and argue that these renewable energy sources are the only means for meeting the needs of developing countries.

Provides an introduction covering definition, classification, properties, world reserves, methods of processing from ores, methods of separation both classical and modern, and analytical chemistry of rare earths, including classical and modern methods. This book deals with complexes of rare earth elements with a variety of complexing agents.