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Analyzes the ecology, evolution, genetics, physiology, and taxonomy of this diverse group of fungi for identification of common biological, biochemical, and genetic features and discovery of potential medical and agricultural applications. This book traces and reconstruct the evolution of various host-endoparasite systems.

Supplying the tools to independently assess and understand complex material on the topic, this text is suitable for advanced heat transfer courses. It discusses numerical analysis in conduction and convection, temperature-dependent thermal conductivity, and conduction through a slab from one fluid to another fluid.

Summarizes key theoretical concepts relating to crystalline matter and instationary heat transfer. This book examines benchscale testing, pastillation, design methods for cooling belts as well as small-scale tests, design methods, and Preger's shortcut for drum flakers.

Provides a sweeping, critical account of the political and economic changes that have transformed China since 1949, challenging conventional analyses.

Discusses general problems related to the structure of overload protection systems in high voltage (HV) electrical installations and introduces a family of fresh devices based on reed switch contacts, solid-state units, hybrid technology, and automatic systems based on these components. The author also discusses applications in power engineering.

A professional guide to choosing the most appropriate materials and adhesives for product development applications from the onset. It covers ferrous and non-ferrous metals, plastics, and adhesives - including steels, cast-iron, aluminum, and titanium, as well as plastics such as PVC, acrylics, and nylons.

Addresses the issue of human visual system (HVS)-based perceptual quantitative quality metrics for digitally coded image and video as well as the issue of perceptual image and video coding. Introducing basic techniques, this text presents standard and popular coding structures, and gives a classification and analysis of various coding artifacts.

Details the broad spectrum of microcomputer technology, including microcomputer history. This title explains and illustrates the use of microcomputers throughout academe, business, government, and society in general; and, assesses the impact of this technology.

Addresses the impact of projected climate change on soil quality, water resources, temperature regime, and growing season duration on net primary productivity of different biomes. This work also addresses the impact of changes in carbon dioxide and ecological environments on agronomic yields and food production in different regions of the world.

Features various developments and trends in computers, software, vendors, and applications. This book contains bibliographies of leading figures in the field such as Samuel Alexander, John von Neumann, and Norbert Wiener.

Outlining proven methods from planning and manufacture to product testing, this work reports on the effective means of producing plastics by the extrusion blow molding process. It supplies data on materials, performance standards and testing methodologies developed in industry with proven reliability and cost effectiveness.

Presents a review of the basic methods for characterizing bioadhesive materials and improving vehicle targeting and uptake. This book discusses chemical bonding, polymer-mucus interactions, and the effect of surface energy in bioadhesion. It is suitable for pharmaceutical scientists, biochemists, and physical, surface, and colloid chemists.

This book describes a comprehensive regression analysis to the conduct of scientific research. It outlines theoretical principals underlying the techniques utilized in regression analysis and illustrates their application on a variety of data sets.

Details results that lead to improvements in existence theorems for the Loewner differential equation in higher dimensions. This work discusses the compactness of the analog of the Caratheodory class in several variables. It presents such topics as linear invariance in the unit disc, Bloch functions and the Bloch constant, and growth.

Discusses di-p-methane rearrangements via radical-cation intermediates, the photo-Fries rearrangement in organized media and of biologically active compounds, electron transfer leading to fragmentation, dimerization, and nucleophilic capture, and the characterization and reactivity of photochemically generated phenylene bis(diradical) species.

Featuring case studies and worked examples that illustrate key concepts, this book contains guidelines for scaleup of laboratory and pilot plant results, methods to derive the correct reaction order, activation energy, or kinetic model from laboratory tests, and theories, correlations, and practical examples for 2- and 3-phase reaction systems.

Presents the fundamental concepts of thermodynamics and applies these to problems dealing with properties of materials, phase transformations, chemical reactions, solutions and surfaces. This work utilizes principles of statistical mechanics to illustrate key concepts from a microscopic perspective, as well as develop equations of kinetic theory.

Focusing on post-harvest vegetable studies, this book covers advances in biochemistry, plant physiology, and molecular physiology to maximize vegetable quality. It reviews the principles of harvest and storage; product quality changes during handling and storage; technologies to improve quality; and, spoilage factors and biocontrol methods.

Focuses on classical approximate solution techniques such as the finite difference method, the method of weighted residuals, and variation methods, culminating in an introduction to the finite element method (FEM). This book describes the approximate solution of ordinary and partial differential equations using the finite difference method.

Presents the research on the flow and structure of complex particulate sustemsions, the adsorption behavior of polymers, and the consolidation behavior and mechanical properties of films. This title highlights advances in polymer functionality, conformation, and chemistry for biological, biomedical, and industrial applications.

Presents practical strategies for the evaluation and analysis of proteins, peptides, and polynucleotides. Offering class-specific applications for the characterization and fractionation of biological macromolecules, this book contains material on organic supports, ion exchange, hydrophobic interaction, and metal interaction chromatography.

Covers the developments in the theory of non-Archimedean pseudo-differential equations and its application to stochastics and mathematical physics. This title offers methods of construction for stochastic processes in the field of p-adic numbers and related structures.

Filled with case studies that demonstrate the use of pollution prevention principles in process design, this work details the legal, organizational, hierarchical, and environmental components of pollution prevention and waste reduction. It illustrates fundamental concepts such as life-cycle planning and analysis, and risk-based pollution control.

A guide to implementing and operating a practical reliability program using experiments. It emphasizes real world solutions to daily problems. It also demonstrates how to combine accelerated testing with design of experiments for immediate improvement.

Promoting scientific support for the plethora of health benefits related to nutrition and medicine, this book delivers an overview of the research findings in disease prevention, therapy, and enhanced body function in the revolutionary field of nutraceutical technology - with highlights from Nutraceutical Conference held in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

A practical guide to industrial safety. It seeks to assist specialists in managing operations in industrial settings, including high-risk personal exposure such as inhalation hazards and direct chemical contact. It covers hazards in the chemical process industries, inhalation hazards in refineries, and indoor air quality management.

Offers a discussion of fundamental characteristics, theories and applications for liquid-liquid colloidal dispersions. This title profiles experimental and traditional measurement techniques in a variety of emulsified systems, including rheology, nuclear magnetic resonance, dielectric spectroscopy, microcalorimetry, and video enhanced microscopy.

Offers a overview of the technologies and products for microbial-based pest control. This book documents the use of genetically altered Bt and transgenic crops, microbial formulations, and synergistic interactions of microbials with synthetic chemicals, as well as the management of Bt foliar applications and Bt genes in transgenic crops.

Addresses the judicial, correctional, and law enforcement components of the criminal justice system, including history, ethics, intervention, and international consequences. Covering trends in crime, delinquency, policing, and civil disorder, this title examines critical variations in the criminal justice systems of countries worldwide.

Examines organic, physical and materials photochemistry. This text reports the first example of a TiO2 sensitization with a fullerene-based donor-acceptor dyad, and covers halophenols, diflusinal photochemistry, hydroxystyrenes, acetylenes, and other related compounds.