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Research on metal-containing liquid crystals is a rapidly expanding, multidisciplinary field with new materials continually being synthesized and nove…

Nanophotonicsis a comprehensive introduction to the emerging area concerned with controlling and shaping optical fields at a subwavelength scale. Phot…

This book deals with the diagnosis, prognosis and repair issues associated with concrete buildings. Since the patenting and subsequent large-scale man…

With the growth of high-speed telecommunications and wireless technology, it is becoming increasingly important for engineers to understand radio freq…

Focusing on basic aspects of future reusable space transportation systems and covering overall design, aerodynamics, thermodynamics, flight dynamics, …

The need for light-weight materials, especially in the automobile industry, created renewed interest in innovative applications of magnesium materials…

The principle of tomography is to explore the structure and composition of objects non-destructively along spatial and temporal dimensions, using pene…

Modelling and predicting how porous media deform when subjected to external actions and physical phenomena, including the effect of saturating fluids,…

The scaling of semiconductor devices from sub-micron to nanometer dimensions is driving the need for understanding the design of electrostatic dischar…

This book deals with these parametric methods, first discussing those based on time series models, Capon’s method and its variants, and then estimator…

The only book to provide a complete survey – from the crystallographic fundamentals right up to recent high-tech applications in aerospace technology.…

The commercial importance of wine continues to increase across the globe, with the availability of many new wines, encompassing a remarkable and excit…

Expectations of a technological revolution are associated with nanotechnology, and indeed the generation, modification and utilization of objects with…

This volume is the first in a series of three books addressing Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) physics, devices, circuits and design across the full ran…

Focusing on the physical layer, Networking Fundamentals provides essential information on networking technologies that are used in both wired and wire…

This volume is part of the Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceeding (CESP) series. This series contains a collection of papers dealing with issues i…

The Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system is a preventative food safety management system, that can be applied throughout the food…

Emphasizing the most recent developments this book addresses both the basic and applied aspects of adhesion. The authors present the latest results on…

With LOGO! a wide range of control tasks can be implemented easily and flexibly – from applications in building and installation technology to tasks i…

The First International Conference on Polyolefin Characterization (ICPC) held in Houston, Texas, in October 2006, was organized to fill the important …

Written by an international team of editors and contributors from renowned universities and institutes, this book addresses the latest research in the…

Human illness attributed to foodborne pathogenic microorganisms has been prominent in the mass media in recent years. The Practical Food Microbiology …

Adsorption promises to play an integral role in several future energy and environmental technologies, including hydrogen storage, CO removal for fuel …

Practical, concise and complete reference for the basics of modern antenna design Antennas: from Theory to Practice discusses the basics of modern ant…

SEAFOOD Ecolabelling Principles and Practice Edited by Trevor Ward and Bruce Phillips In recent years there have been some major developments and a gr…

Offering a sound technological overview, while also including the fundamental aspects, this book provides the knowledge needed to master the highly ch…

Phytochemicals are components acting individually, additively or synergistically, usually as a component of whole food, that have the characteristics …

This indispensable collection of seminal papers on ferroelectricity provides an overview over almost a hundred years of basic and applied research. Co…

Save time & resources with this comprehensive guide to automation configuration for the value-added IP services of the future. As the Internet becomes…

As the world's demand for food from aquatic environments continues to increase, the importance of performing aquaculture in an environmentally respons…

The prebiotic concept works on the basis that many potentially health-promoting microorganisms are already present in humans. Prebiotics are non-diges…

RapidIO – The Embedded System Interconnect brings together one essential volume on RapidIO interconnect technology, providing a major reference work f…

Almost all the semiconductors of practical interest are the group-IV, III-V and II-VI semiconductors and the range of technical applications of such s…

Since the first edition of this book, 17 years ago, aquaculture has consolidated its position as an important means of producing food and as a contrib…

An authoritative examination of the present and potential impact of nanoscale science and technology on modern life Because truly transformative techn…

Tribology is emerging from the realm of steam engines and crank-case lubricants and becoming key to vital new technologies such as nanotechnology and …

The goal of this book is to provide engineers and researchers the tools necessary for modelling, experimenting, and simulating these microflows as a p…

A key component of risk reduction is reducing the potential consequences that could result from toxic or flammable releases. The science of vapor clou…

Bivalve Molluscs is an extremely comprehensive book covering all major aspects of this important class of invertebrates. As well as being an important…

From fundamentals to advanced experiments and applications, this book explains how holography works. It guides students from simple optics to advanced…

Addressing product liability concerns and laws both in the U.S. and internationally, this book helps manufacturers and engineers develop and implement…

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) failure mechanisms continue to impact semiconductor components and systems as technologies scale from micro- to nano-ele…

Written by reliability data experts, the book gives plant managers and supervisors the guidance they need to collect, and use with confidence, process…

It is now clear that data based on the studies of fish eggs and larvae make a number of unique contributions to fishery science that are crucial for a…