Understanding the molecular interactions responsible for chiral recognition is of primary importance in life chemistry. This volume describes the structural and energetic aspects of these interactions. Topics discussed include optical spectroscopy in jet-cooled conditions in neutral chiral molecules and complexes, and mass spectrometry approaches to chiral recognition in ionic complexes. These include the study of the stability of supramolecular chiral host-guest adducts, the study of chiral catalysts and chiral selectors, the use of small DNA sequences as auxiliaries for discriminating the enantiomers of amino-acids, and the probe of the chirality of a single amino acid within a peptide chain.
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Physical Chemistry
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Systems Biology
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A comprehensive collection of seminal pieces on environmental criminology, this work focuses on the role that the immediate environment plays in the occurrence of a crime. Legendary contributors demonstrate that a careful analysis of environmental factors is key to understanding the causes of crime, solving crimes, and helping to predict and prevent them. Topics covered include routine activity theory, the geometric theory of crime, the rational choice theory, and the pattern theory of crime. The book also explores concepts related to crime prevention. This volume is invaluable as a textbook and as a professional reference.
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One of the most advanced and popular numerical computer models used in the field of soil physics, the HYDRUS series is used for the analysis of water flow and solute transport in variably saturated porous media. Co-authored by the software’s creator, Dr. Jirka Simunek, this volume demonstrates two-and three- dimensional simulations and computer animations of numerical models using the software. Classroom-tested at the University of Georgia, this volume includes numerous examples and homework problems. It provides students with access to the base HYDRUS program as well as the Rosetta Database, which contains large volumes of information on the hydraulic properties of soils.
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Rather than presenting a lot of information about the field, Concepts in Cereal Chemistry stimulates critical thinking by emphasizing the important concepts related to the science. Written by distinguished researcher and teacher Dr. Finlay MacRitchie, this compact and reader-friendly book focuses mainly on cereal chemistry, but also incorporates relevant theory from the basic sciences, such as physics and genetics. This well-organized resource provides students and researchers in both academia and industry with the information they need to tackle problems likely to arise in cereal research.
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Translating fundamental principles into day-to-day engineering concepts, this reference provides the tools to accurately measure process efficiency and sustainability in the power and chemical industries. It helps engineers recognize why losses occur and how they can be reduced utilizing familiar thermodynamic principles. It also compares the present industrial society with an emerging metabolic society in which mass production and consumption are in closer harmony with the natural environment. The book uses classic thermodynamic principles for clear understanding, analysis, and optimization of workflows, environmental resources, and driving forces in the chemical and power industries.
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Industrial Chemistry
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A delineation of the basics of sensory analysis and how it applies to shelf-life studies, this book includes discussions of experimental design aspects, survival analysis methodology, and its extensions. It provides detailed instructions and software functions for performing SSL estimations, accompanied by data sets and the R Statistical Package functions that are available for download. The author presents the cut-off point methodology used to estimate SSL when the survival analysis methods get complicated. He includes a chapter on accelerated storage covering kinetics, calculations of prediction confidence intervals and potential pitfalls.
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Food Packaging
Food Microbiology
Product Development
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Helping readers avoid common mistakes and build better models, this is one of the first books to apply the popular patterns perspective to database systems and the data models that are used to design state-of-the-art, efficient database systems. Best-selling author and database expert Dr. Michael Blaha provides detailed data model patterns as a basis for expertly building data models. Since most commercial software is built around a database, he focuses on databases rather than programming. He emphasizes how database representation sets the path for the software, determines its flexibility, affects its quality, and influences whether the software succeeds or fails.
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Algorithms & Complexity
Data Preparation & Mining
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While still early in its development, cognitive radio is a highly promising communications paradigm that can effectively address the spectrum insufficiency problem. This book provides comprehensive technical and regulatory guidance across cognitive radio, cognitive wireless networks, and dynamic spectrum access. A one-stop reference written by those pioneering the field, it examines concepts, techniques, protocols, regulations, and standards, as well as recent progress and system implementations. It covers routing, Medium Access Control (MAC), cooperation schemes, resource management, mobility, and game theory approach.
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Telecommunications
Communications System Design
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An essential resource for anyone serious about detectors and electronics in the healthcare sector, this book addresses the state-of-the-art in the design of semiconductor detectors and integrated circuits in the context of medical imaging using ionizing radiation. It includes new, exciting opportunities in X-ray detection, Computer Tomography (CT), bone dosimetry, and nuclear medicine applications such as PET and SPECT. In addition to medical imaging, the book explores other applications of semiconductor radiation detection systems in areas related to security, such as luggage scanning, dirty bomb detection, and border control.
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Biomedical Engineering
Circuits & Devices
Electronics
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The second edition of a bestseller, this book critically examines the successes and failures of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) during the course of the past decade. The new subtitle reflects this edition’s focus on meta-principles critical to moving ahead and successfully building ITS infrastructures that take advantage of smart/green technologies. The book identifies challenging problems that must be addressed in order to bring real quality of life improvements and positively impact our environmental and civil infrastructure systems.
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Intelligent Systems
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