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Surveys the various advances in computer architecture and design and the technologies used to manufacture and test them. This book includes a section on memory and storage as well as chapters on semiconductor memory circuits and nonvolatile memory technologies and applications.

Anemias resulting from nutritional factors constitute the largest nutrition health problem affecting populations in both developed and developing nations. This title examines these anemias. It discusses intervention strategies, namely fortification, food-based strategies, and control of helminth infection in the prevention of nutritional anemia.

The amino acid tryptophan has been considered to play a role in cancer development and the aging process. This nutrient has been associated with eosinophila myalgia syndrome - a human disease that attacks the muscular system. This book presents a comprehensive view of how L-tryptophan acts and discusses its pivotal role in protein metabolism.

Explores several subtypes of muscarinic receptors that modulate smooth muscle activity. This book contains topics such as a classification of muscarinic receptors, biochemical responses that occur in smooth muscle, and the role of muscarinic receptors in the function of gastrointestinal and genitourinary smooth muscle.

Offering an overview of reliability principles, this book describes the steps essential to ensuring high reliability and minimum downtime. It examines heat management issues, grounding systems, and system tests and measurement. It also explores disaster planning and provides guidelines for keeping a facility running during a disaster.

Presents an analyses of technologies, as well as explanations of molecular technology as it pertains to agriculture. This book reviews the advances in genome analysis, including DNA amplification (DAF and RAPD) markers, RFLPs, and microsatellites. It includes chapters that focus on special elements of genome analysis.

Presents readers with an overview of topics in plant molecular biology. This book addresses biochemical as well as genetic analyses, in addition to morphological and evolutionary considerations. It emphasizes plant-microbe interactions, especially legume root nodule symbiosis. It is of interest to geneticists, botanists, and molecular biologists.

Combines the developments in applications of mass spectrometry techniques to forensic analyses. This title ducusses such techniques as: capillary-GC/MS; thermospray-LC/MS; tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS); pyrolysis-GC/MS; and, isotope ratio mass spectrometry.

Presents definitions of classical and modern surface treatments, addressing mechanisms of formation, microstructure, and properties of surface layers. This title discusses the range of surface engineering techniques and describes various surface treatments. It outlines the fundamentals of surface engineering.

Discusses issues related to the life cycle, group-specific nutritional concerns of athletes, and the particular sport of the athlete. This book addresses the physically and medically disabled athlete, athletes addicted to alcohol, tobacco, or marijuana, and those with eating disorders.

Demonstrates how professional forensic engineers apply basic concepts and principles from engineering and scientific disciplines to analyze fires and explosions. This book presents an introduction to the multidisciplinary subject of fire and explosion analysis and its legal ramifications.

Supports the rational use of specific nutrients for specific healing conditions. This work provides guidelines for nutritional programs applied to specific conditions for practical application.

A presentation of the concepts, techniques and procedures needed to find creative solutions to wideband circuit design problems. Basic theory and comprehensive circuit analysis methods are detailed and then extended to applicational topics such as filters, equalizers and microwave components.

Offers an overview of the methodologies being applied to drug design and in-depth analyses of progress in specific fields. This book details various approaches to pharmaceutical development.

This reference covers important issues in pesticide formulation including the regulation of inert ingredients and packaging technology and trends.

Features a history of reliability indices, guidelines for using the IEEE 2.5 Beta methodology, a treatment of storm hardening, and a section on overhead to underground conversion. This book contains a chapter on aging infrastructure, with a discussion on how to effectively manage equipment when it nears the end of its useful life.

Furnishes the basic theory needed for actively controlling the behavior of engineering systems. This text examines the advance of materials technology and the advent of powerful, reliable microprocessors. It includes the design and control of discrete parameter adaptive structure, and an introduction to distributed parameter adaptive structures.

A library of computer programs written in C language, that allows readers to solve numerical problems in areas of linear algebra, ordinary and partial differential equations, optimization, parameter estimation, and special functions of mathematical physics. It suitable for computer scientists, engineers, and applied mathematicians.

Offers a mathematical background, theoretical perspective, and review of spectral data processing methods. This book discusses methods of complex spectral profile separation into bands, factor analysis methods, methods of quantitative analysis in molecular spectroscopy and reflectance spectroscopy, and data processing methods.

Describes the findings regarding protein misfolding in the context of it being a marker, and perhaps a cause, in neurodegenerative diseases. This book covers the diverse biochemical targets/markers for each disease, the limited success of drug therapies, and the research that could lead to potentially more promising treatments.

This work discusses existing and potential threats to computer systems and networks, and outlines the basic actions that are generally taken to protect them. Topics covered include: security models; authentication issues; access control; intrusion detection and damage control.

Knowledge regarding avian cellular immunity has expanded rapidly over the years. It is a well-established fact that cell-mediated immunity plays a major role in the defense against neoplastic and non-neoplastic diseases in chickens. This book compiles the information on various aspects of avian cellular immunity.

Surveys developments in basic research in the chemistry and physics of polyamic acids and polyimides. This book discusses topics including catalytical imidization, chemical reactions at thermal treatment, quantum-chemical study of synthesis and structure, properties of isolated molecules, and supermolecular and crystalline structures.

Presents an analysis of various ironmaking processes, supplementing the conventional blast furnace method. This book discusses various processes for producing solid and liquid iron, including features such as process outline, techno-economics, and process fundamentals. It is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students in metallurgy.

Presents the review of the effects of whole-body exposure to low doses of ionizing radiation in animals. This book discusses such topics as our radiation environment, radiation hormesis in cancer mortality, growth and development, reproduction and mutation, immunity, and cancer. It is suitable for radiobiologists and health-conscious individuals.

Describes the history, and epidemiology in both man and animals, and clinical features of this zoonosis. This book reveals information pertaining to the basic science aspects of the interaction of Coxiella burnetii, the etiologic agent of Q (Query) fever, with the host and the immune response of the host to this pathogen.

Addresses the challenges of designing macromolecules that deliver therapeutic agents that function safely and in concert with living organisms. This book discusses classes of polymers and polymeric vehicles, including particulates, such as latexes, coacervates, ion-exchange resins, and liposomes, as well as non-particulate vehicles.

Reviews and analyzes the rigorous scientific, regulatory, and clinical testing and evaluation applied to the widely used food additive aspartame. This book describes the nuts and bolts of food additive safety evaluation in humans, including an insightful historical perspective of the development of good clinical practice guidelines.

Presents a review of psychrotrophic bacteria and other pathogens and their role in causing food spoilage in refrigerated and frozen foods. This book focuses on the growth, survival and activity of these organisms, especially in meat and poultry products. It describes metabolic products of bacterial growth in foods as indicators of spoilage.

Offers a discussion of sampling theory, emphasizing the interaction between sampling theory and other branches of mathematical analysis, including the theory of boundary-value problems, frames, wavelets, multiresolution analysis, special functions, and functional analysis. This book traces the history and development of the theory.