Books from Elsevier Science Limited

  • Complex Systems: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School 2006
    By Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Marc Mezard, J. Dalibard

    The present book is the written version of the lectures given during the Les Houches summer school session on "Complex Systems", devoted to these emerging interdisciplinary fields.

  • Thought Suppression
    By Eric Rassin

    This experimental finding was followed by a substantial number of replications. This book provides an up-to-date overview of the thought suppression literature.

  • Making Rational Decisions: Manage Information Certificate S/NVQ Level 4
    By Cathy Lake, Gareth Lewis, IMOLP

    Objectives - by the end of this workbook you should be able to: · Establish systems and relationships to provide information · Determine information requirements, and develop questioning skills to find out information · Establish systems ...

  • Atmospheric Oxidation and Antioxidants
    By Gerald Scott

    3 J.A. Blair and A.J. Pearson , Tetrahedron Lett . , 3 ( 1973 ) 203–204 . 4 J.A. Blair and A.J. Pearson , J. Chem . Soc . Perkin II , ( 1974 ) 80-88 . 5 J.A. Blair and A.J. Pearson , J. Chem . Soc . Perkin II , ( 1974 ) 1786–1787 .

  • Development of the Hypertensive Phenotype: Basic and Clinical Studies
    By Richard McCarty, David A. Blizard, Robert L. Chevalier

    Liu D , Diorio J , Tannenbaum B , Caldji C , Francis D , Freedman A , Sharma S , Pearson D , Plotsky PM , Meaney MJ . Maternal care , hippocampal glucocorticoid receptors , and hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal responses to stress .

  • Sedimentary Basins and Petroleum Geology of the Middle East
    By A. S. Alsharhan, A. E. M. Nairn

    This book reviews the tectonic and geological history of the Middle East and the regional hydrocarbon potential on a country by country basis in the context of current ideas developed through seismic and sequence stratigraphy and ...

  • Water Resources Perspectives: Evaluation, Management and Policy
    By A. S. Alsharhan, Warren W. Wood

    This book covers water resources and management and provides a new vision of water resources management, water conservation and legislations, water law, and modern techniques of water resources investigation.

  • Occupational Safety and Accident Prevention: Behavioral Strategies and Methods
    By Graf Carl Hoyos, Bernhard Zimolong

    Such decisions have proved to be an influential factor with respect to the success of safety work ( Cohen , 1977 ; Smith , H.H. Cohen , A. Cohen & Cleveland , 1978 ; Dawson et al . , 1982 ) . As have already noted , this discussion can ...

  • Experimental Design: A Chemometric Approach
    By Stephen L. Morgan, Stanley N. Deming

    Experimental Design: A Chemometric Approach

  • The Three-body Problem
    By Christian Marchal

    ... le Professeur Nguyen Xuan Vinh de l'Université du Michigan , le Professeur Victor Szebehely de l'Université du Texas , Mesdames R.M. Burke et Rina Diemen , et Messieurs A. van der Avoird et A.J. Oxley d'Elsevier Science Publishers ...

  • X-ray Microanalysis in the Electron Microscope
    By John A. Chandler

    applied to cells and tissues , T . Hall , P . Echlin and R . Kaufmann , eds ( Academic Press , London ) . ... Stumpf , W . E . and L . J . Roth ( 1965 ) , Frozen sectioning below – 60°C with a refrigerated microtome , Cryobiology 1 ...

  • Activated Carbon
    By Harry Marsh, F. Rodríguez-Reinoso

    In this book, special attention is paid to porosities in all forms of carbon, and to the modern-day materials which use activated carbons - including fibres, clothes, felts and monoliths.

  • Drilling and Drilling Fluids
    By George V. Chilingar, Paul Vorabutr

    CONTRIBUTORS D. ACOSTA J.H. ALLEN F.R. BAGSHAW IMCO Services , P.O. Box 22605 , Houston , TX 77027 , U.S.A. Sii Smith Tool , Division of Smith International , Inc. , P.O. Box C - 19511 , Irvine , CA 92713 , U.S.A. Kelco Division , Merck ...

  • Underground Sound: Application of Seismic Waves
    By J. E. White, James Edward White

    Underground Sound: Application of Seismic Waves

  • Petroleum Related Rock Mechanics
    By Erling Fjaer

    Not only does this text give an introduction to applications of rock mechanics within the petroleum industry, it has a strong focus on basics, drilling, production and reservoir engineering.

  • Clay in Engineering Geology
    By J.E. Gillott

    Specimen preparation in materials science . in : Practical Methods in Electron Microscopy , V.l , B.E.P. Beeston , R.W. Horne and Roy Markham , North Holland , 444 pp . Greene , R.S.B. , Murphy , P.J. , Posner , A.M. , and Quirk ...

  • Strata Mechanics: Proceedings of the Symposium on Strata Mechanics Held in Newcastle Upon Tyne, 5-7 April 1982
    By Symposium on strata mechanics$, Tyne and Wear)

    R.J. Powell, S.T. Johnson. 241 ROOM AND PILLAR AND SHORTWALL WORKINGS Size and shape effect in pillar design. Y. Tsur-Lavie, S.A. Denekamp 245 Design of high extraction panels in a deep potash mine. R.F. Cook. 249 A numerical procedure ...

  • Wildlife Toxicity Assessments for Chemicals of Military Concern
    By Mark Williams, Gunda Reddy, Michael Quinn

    Wildlife Toxicity Assessments for Chemicals of Military Concern is a compendium of chemical-specific toxicity information with discussions on the rationale and development of Wildlife Toxicity Reference Values (TRVs) intended for use on ...

  • Optical, Electric, and Magnetic Properties of Molecules: A Review of the Work of A.D. Buckingham
    By Amyand David Buckingham

    This book celebrates the career and scientific accomplishments of Professor David Buckingham, who is due to retire from his Chair at Cambridge University in 1997.

  • Processing and Utilization of High-sulfur Coals IV: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Processing and Utilization of High-Sulfur Coals,...
    By Patrick R. Dugan, David R. Quigley, Yosry A. Attia

    ... P. R. Dugan and C. J. Stevens 515 Precombustion Removal of Ash and Sulfur from Coal J. R. Hattoon, D. Schwartz, H. Deen, C. Goff, W. X. Balcavage and R. H. Davis 533 The Use of Water Soluble Coal Products to Examine Microbial Coal ...