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This book is a comprehensive review of the genera of Rubiaceae, a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs, found in tropical East Africa. It presents information on their character, occurrence, habitat, phenotypic variations and distribution of the species under these genera.

Fundamentals of vortex intake flow; Results theoretical & experimental work; Prediction of critical submergence; Modeling of vortices & swirling flows; Design; Intake structures; Pump sumps; Vortex-flow intakes. This volume forms an essential reference work for anyone involved in intakes, either as a practising design engineer or research worker. Water Power & Dam Constr., July 1988.The book is essential reading for postgraduate students & researchers alike and a very valuable aid to design engineers. Hydrol.Sc.Jrl., 33(3), 1988.

The purpose of this book is to present the state of knowledge concerning nutrition and point out directions for future work for the Echinodermata, an ancient group which shows great diversity in form and function, and whose feeding activities can have great environmental impact.

This volume provides an overview of the results of an extended test campaign performed on soil displacement screw piles at Limelett in Belgium in the period 2000-2002, where test piles have been installed to a very dense sand layer.

This volume is an outcome of the 12th international conference of the international bryozoology association in Dublin. It consists of 85 oral and 16 poster presentations which cover all aspects of bryozoological research.

Papers based on training course lectures at different annual meetings of the International Geological Correlation Program (IGCP), held during the five-year period 1993-1997, examine desert margins and their temporal changes in the last 135,000 years.

This text includes coverage of the following topics: hydrodynamic principles of the study of groundwater movement; physical principles of study of groundwater movement; and hydrodynamic principles of groundwater flow on the hydro geological systems.

Considers the history of the world of crustacea. Topics covered include the beginning of Portugese carcinology; the development of brachyuran crab tascononry in the Neotropics (1535-1937); reflections on crab research in North America since 1758; and carcinology in classical Japanese works.

The 18th Symposium of the International Association for Vehicle System Dynamics was held at Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan. The symposium was hosted by KAIT as one of the memorial events of the 40th anniversary of KAIT. Though overwhelming numbers of high quality papers were applied in response to the call for papers for the presentation at the symposium, the Scientific Committee accepted 89 papers for the oral presentation and 38 for the poster presentation. Finally, 82 papers were presented at the oral sessions and 29 papers at the poster sessions in the symposium. There were five States-of-the-Arts papers presented at the plenary sessions in the symposium.

Focuses on the relationships and interactions between palaeobiogeography, biogeography, dispersal, vicariance, migrations and evolution of organisms in the South East Asia - Australasian region. This book describes the links between geological evolution and biological migrations and evolution in the region.

This book provides an accessible taxonomic base for acanthaceae; rubiaceae; and sapindaceae of Sri Lankan vegetation. It forms a significant part of the vascular flora of the island.

Visitors to these islands in search of sun and sea are often surprised by theglorious wild flowers, abundant particularly in the spring and late autumn

This book contains papers, presented at the sixth International Conference on numerical methods in geomechanics held in Innsbruck in 1988, on various topics including ice mechanics, rock hydraulics, modeling of joints and infinite domains, soil structure interaction, and earth structures.

This book is based on the papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics in Innsbruck from 11¿15 April 1988. It presents a derivation of an analytical method in due consideration of mechanical interaction between groundwater and surrounding ground.

This book brings together in one place as much factual data as possible relating to the engineering geology of the Sydney Region, A huge amount of information resides in the files of various consulting and government organizations from the innumerable site investigations and construction projects in Sydney

Addresses all aspects of pavement construction from choice of material to in-situ behaviours of finished structures, enabling practitioners and policy makers to use and source materials effectively.

These proceedings address engineering issues related to vibratory pile driving and deep soil compaction. Also included are keynote lectures and the documentation of an international vibratory class-A prediction event.

The proceedings contain five invited lectures and 99 papers relevant to landslide occurrence and problems from Europe, Asia, America, Africa and Australia and New Zealand.

The extremes of constitutive and centrifuge modelling are explored here, with a range of lectures addressing specific areas of these two types of modelling.

A summmary of work carried out in the field of experimental rock mechanics. The title looks at triaxial testing, types of brittle fracture and the geophysical and geological implications of two types of fracture amongst other topics.

Geosphere-biosphere interaction of certain elements and compounds is a major factor in global environmental change. This guide to the role of geographical monitoring in ecosystem modelling contains papers presented at the International Geographical Union Seminar on monitoring geosystems.

As mining operations increase in scale and mines go progressively deeper, the geotechnical input into mine design is of importance. This book covers topics in geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring, including coverage of groundwater.

This English translation of "Istoricheskaya Geotektonika" covers such topics as: middle and late archaean; formation of mature continental crust; origin of mobile belts against the background of development of plate tectonics; and general features.

This is a collection of conference papers on small hydro renewable energy, covering such topics as: resource assessment and planning; design and construction; and plant and equipment.

"Echinoderm Studies" is a biennial series in which comprehensive surveys of selected topics are presented. A guiding principle of the series is to cover all aspects of echinoderm biology so as to promote a better comprehension of this group of animals.

This book focuses on the problems of the Quaternary in South America and Antarctic Peninsula, with a strong emphasis in the paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic approach. It is based on contributions presented at the South American Regional Meeting held in Neuquen, Argentina.

This study offers guidelines for pedestrian and bicycle traffic in African cities. The text is based on the combination of studies and test findings obtained in pilot projects carried out in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Eldoret and Morogoro.

The third international workshop on applications of computational mechanics in geotechnical engineering discussed the area of computational mechanics applied to geotechnical problems.

Twenty-six papers form a summary of research on glacial history, paleoclimatology, biogeography, and ecosystem disequilibrium. Focus is on detailed chrono-stratigraphic, glacial geologic, and vertebrate paleontologic problems.