Chemistry

Forest damage, forest decline, forest dieback - not related to biotic agents - is occurring in the Atlantic and Pacific regions.

Atomic Spectra and Radiative Transitions covers the systematics of atomic spectra, continuous spectrum radiation, and the excitation of atoms.

This volume is the final outcome of a conference designed to wrap up IOCP Project 157 ("e; Early Organic Evolution and Mineral and Energy Resources "e;) after a decade of prolific activity.

Volumes five and six of Bioorganic Marine Chemistry differ from their predecessors in two respects - they deal exclusively with laboratory synthesis of marine natural products and they represent the effort of a single author and his associates.

Volumes five and six of Bioorganic Marine Chemistry differ from their predecessors in two respects - they deal exclusively with labor- atory synthesis of marine natural products and they represent the effort of a single author and his associates.

The amount of molecular information is too vast to be acquired without the use of computer-bases systems.

The range at which a weapon has been fired is an important measurement for the reconstruction of firearms offenses (murder, suicide, accident).

This book is written to introduce a new approach to stereochemical problems and to combinatorial enumerations in chemistry.

Presented here is an account of industrial and general air pollution problems in view of air quality management, community and industrial health aspects, emission inventorying, emission and air quality measurement techniques, dispersion phenomena and control technologies.

The nitrate content of drinking water is rising at an alarming rate in several regions of NATO countries and elsewhere in the world.

Der zehnte Band des bewährten und erfolgreichen Laborhandbuches für Analytiker stellt aktuelle Methoden der chemischen, klinisch-chemischen und Umweltanalytik praxisnah dar.

Our understanding of catalytic reactions exists at various levels which are mainly defined from detailed knowledge of reaction mechanism.

The subject of acid deposition remains one of the most urgent of our contemporary environmental problems.

Protein-protein interactions are involved in muscle contraction and signal transduction.

This book is based on lectures presented at an international workshop on geometric modeling held at Hewlett Packard GmbH in Boblingen, FRG, in June 1990.

The contribution of computer simulation studies to our understanding of the prop- erties of a wide range of condensed matter systems is now weIl established.

In this book "e;surface science"e; is understood in a broadsense, taken to include two-dimensional structures such asthin films and superlattices.

"e;Exotic Atoms in Condensed Matter"e; reviews the state of theart in this field, from meson factories to the basicinteractions of muons in condensed matter.

Our aim in this book is to present and enlarge upon those aspects of parallel computing that are needed by practitioners of computational science.

The study of intermolecular forces began over one hundred years ago in 1873 with the famous thesis of van der Waals.

Lattice defects of organic molecular crystals affect their optical or electrical properties by changing the local energy structure.

Progress in biological and biochemical research is based mainly on a better understanding of life processes on a molecular level.

Applied genetic research, genetic toxicology and mutation research investigate the mutagenicity and cancerogenicity of chemicals and other agents.

In the mid-1980s the European Journal of Biochemistry set out to publish review articles.

Die heutige Computergraphik in ihren vielfältigen Anwendungen zeigt eine Tendenz zu Farbe und Bewegung.

This volume contains extended abstracts of the 10 plenary lectures, 27 invited symposium lectures and ap- proximately 300 contributed papers that were presented at the 25th Congress Ampere.

The dramatic development of chromatographic techniques, specially high per- formance or high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) has made possible the easy analysis of organic compounds, including drugs and drug components, for last two decades.

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Earth scientists, who have worked together for 6 years in the priority pro- gram "e;Hydrogeochemical Processes in the Hydrological Cycle Within the Unsaturated and Saturated Zones"e;, have summarized the results of their research in this volume.

The contents of this volume derive loosely from an EMBO worksh9P held at EMBL (Heidelberg) towards the end of 1989.

In 1931 Vrey, Brickwedde, and Murphy discovered the hydrogen isotope deuterium.

In recent years, there has been a major expansion of high pressure research providing unique information about systems of interest to a wide range of scientific disciplines.

Adaptive systems are widely encountered in many applications ranging through adaptive filtering and more generally adaptive signal processing, systems identification and adaptive control, to pattern recognition and machine intelligence: adaptation is now recognised as keystone of "e;intelligence"e; within computerised systems.

Almost two centuries ago proteins were recognized as the primary materials (proteios = primary) oflife, but the significance and wide role of peptides (from pepsis = digestion) in practically all life pro- cesses has only become apparent in the last few decades.

1989 was by any standards an extraordinary year: the year in which the Cold War ended.

Die Datenmengen, die bei der Modellierung, der Simulation und der Überwachung von Umweltprozessen anfallen, sind heute schon so groß, daß sie nur noch mit Supercomputersystemen in verantwortbaren Zeiten sinnvoll bearbeitet werden können.

"e;The problems involved in separating complex macromolecules require under- standing not only the chromatographic process but also the physicochemical behavior of the solutes.

This volume contains review articles written by the invited speakers at the ninth International Summer Institute in Surface Science (ISISS 1989), held at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in August of 1989.

Throughout the twentieth century, interest in sport has evidenced a major increase worldwide and a new field of sports medicine has emerged.

Chemistry is the science of substances (today we would say molecules) and their transformations.

The use of antibiotics in the treatment by antibacterial and antifungal chemo- therapy, has become standard practice since the end of World War Two and has had an enormous impact on healthcare throughout the world.

The new field of applied genetic research, genetic toxicology and mutation research investigates the muta- genicity and cancerogenicity of chemicals and other agents.

The new field of applied genetic research, genetic toxicology and mutation research investigates the mutagenicity and cancerogenicity of chemicals and other agents.

A lively demonstration of the great vitality and the multidisciplinary character of cluster research and of the usefulness of synthesizing its various aspects was given at this symposium.

"e;Highly recommended for all academic library chemistry collections; biochemistry and medical collections may also want to consider.