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  • Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 21
    • Gordon Gribble + 1 more
    • English
    Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry (PHC) is an annual review series commissioned by the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry (ISHC). Volumes in the series contain both highlights of the previous year’s literature on heterocyclic chemistry and articles on emerging topics of particular interest to heterocyclic chemists. The chapters in Volume 21 constitute a systematic survey of the important original material reported in the literature of heterocyclic chemistry in 2008. Additional articles in this volume review "Biocatalytic approaches to chiral heterocycles" and "Ring-expanded (‘fat’) purines and their nucleoside/nucleotid... analogues as broad-spectrum therapeutics." As with previous volumes in the series, Volume 21 apprises academic/industrial chemists and advanced students of developments in heterocyclic chemistry in a convenient format.

  • Seismology and Structure of the Earth

    Treatise on Geophysics
    • 1st Edition
    • Barbara Romanowicz + 1 more
    • English
    Treatise on Geophysics: Seismology and Structure of the Earth, Volume 1, provides a comprehensive review of the state of knowledge on the Earths structure and earthquakes. It addresses various aspects of structural seismology and its applications to other fields of Earth sciences. The book is organized into four parts. The first part principally covers theoretical developments and seismic data analysis techniques from the end of the nineteenth century until the present, with the main emphasis on the development of instrumentation and its deployment. The second part reviews the status of knowledge on the structure of the Earths shallow layers, starting with a global review of the Earth's crustal structure. The third part focuses on the Earth's deep structure, divided into its main units: the upper mantle, the transition zone and upper-mantle discontinuities, the D region at the base of the mantle, and the Earth's core. The fourth part comprises two chapters which discuss constraints on Earth structure from fields other than seismology: mineral physics and geodynamics.

  • Treatise on Geophysics, Volume 8

    Core Dynamics
    • 1st Edition
    • Peter L. Olson
    • English
    Treaties on Geophysics: Core Dynamics, Volume 8, provides a comprehensive review of the current state of understanding of core dynamics. The book begins by analyzing a subject of long-standing and on-going controversy: the gross energetics of the core. It then explains the important elements of dynamo theory; actual fluid motions in the core; the basic physical principles involved in thermochemical convection in the core and the basic equations governing the convection; and turbulence and the small-scale dynamics of the core. This is followed by discussions of the state of knowledge on rotation-induced core flows; the use of first-principles numerical models of self-sustaining fluid dynamos; and the behavior of polarity reversals in numerical dynamo models. The remaining chapters cover the various roles the inner core plays in core dynamics and the geodynamo; experiments that have shaped knowledge about the flows in the core that produce the geodynamo and govern its evolution; and ways the mantle can affect core dynamics, and corresponding ways the core can affect the mantle.

  • Treatise on Geophysics, Volume 6

    Crust and Lithosphere Dynamics
    • 1st Edition
    • Anthony B Watts
    • English
    Treatise on Geophysics: Crust and Lithosphere Dynamics, Volume 6, provides a comprehensive review of the state of knowledge on crust and lithosphere dynamics, which is defined as the study of how the outermost layers of the Earth respond to loads that are emplaced on, within, and below it and its implications for plate mechanics and mantle flow. The book begins with a chapter on plate kinematics, which shows how new observations and methodologies have improved the resolution of relative and absolute plate motions. This is followed by studies of plate mechanics, focusing on the long-term rheology of the plates and response of the plates to both relatively short-term and long-term loads. The book also includes chapters that examine the evidence from surface heat flow, borehole breakouts, and magma models for the thermal and mechanical structure of the lithosphere; the deformation of the lithosphere in extensional and compressional settings. The final two chapters deal with the structural styles of faulting in the shallow brittle part of the lithosphere, the brittle-ductile transition, and the shear zone in the ductile part of the lithosphere; and how developments in plate mechanics have impacted our understanding of geological processes.

  • Treatise on Geophysics, Volume 10

    Planets and Moons
    • 1st Edition
    • Tilman Spohn
    • English
    Planets and Moons covers topics relating to the physics of the major planetary bodies in the solar system, starting with an introductory description of the solar system and collection of pertinent data, continuing with a discussion of the early history of the planets, and finishing with articles about planet dynamics, thermal evolution of planets and satellites, and descriptions of their magnetic fields and the processes that generate them. In addition to providing a review on the solid planets and the satellites, this volume addresses the interactions of solid surfaces and atmospheres as well as the roles of water and ice in shaping the surfaces of planetary bodies.

  • Treatise on Geophysics, Volume 5

    Geomagnetism
    • 1st Edition
    • Masaru Kono
    • English
    Treatise on Geophysics: Geomagnetism, Volume 5, provides an overview of the most important aspects of geomagnetism. The book begins by tracing the history of the study of geomagnetism. It then reviews global models of the Earth's magnetic field; the main sources of external magnetic field contributions; and the instruments and practices used to observe and measure the full range of features of the geomagnetic field. It discusses the origins of current knowledge of the secular variation of the Earth's magnetic field; crustal magnetism; geomagnetic excursions; the study of geophysical electromagnetic induction; the magnetization process; and the status of recent magnetic field data and their applications. The remaining chapters cover the geometry of the geomagnetic field and its temporal variability as recorded in volcanic and sedimentary rocks over the past few million years; the ocean crust as a recorder of geomagnetic field variations; and the theoretical basis for paleointensity experiments in igneous and sedimentary environments. The final chapter explains the concept of true polar wander (TPW), defined as shifts in the geographic location of Earth's daily rotation axis and/or by fluctuations in the spin rate (length of day anomalies).

  • 10th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering - PSE2009

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 27
    • Rita Maria de Brito Alves + 2 more
    • English
    This book contains the proceedings of the 10e of a series of international symposia on process systems engineering (PSE) initiated in 1982. The special focus of PSE09 is how PSE methods can support sustainable resource systems and emerging technologies in the areas of green engineering.

  • Motor Unit Number Estimation and Quantitative EMG

    Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on MUNE and QEMG, Snowbird, Utah, USA, 18-20 August 2006
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 60
    • M. B. Bromberg
    • English

  • Motor Unit Number Estimation and Quantitative EMG

    Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on MUNE and QEMG, Snowbird, Utah, USA, 18-20 August 2006
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 60
    • M. B. Bromberg
    • English

  • Interpretación fácil de la bioestadística

    La conexión entre la evidencia y las decisiones médicas
    • 1st Edition
    • Gail F. Dawson
    • Spanish
    Se trata de un libro muy práctico que proporciona los conceptos clave necesarios para comprender la bioestadística y, lo que es más importante, su aplicación en el contexto clínico. Sus explicaciones se centran más en los conceptos que en las fórmulas y proporciona las herramientas necesarias para que el clínico pueda aplicarlos en su contexto real. Didácticamente, la obra presenta cuadros de texto y preguntas con autoevaluación al final de cada capítulo. Su objetivo no es convertir al lector en un profesional de la bioestadística sino facilitar las herramientas necesarias para interpretar correctamente la literatura científica con lo cual se pueda llevar a cabo la medicina basada en la evidencia.

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