CRC Press
Listeria, listeriosis, and food safety, 3d ed.
This third edition of a reference on listeriosis summarizes much of the literature published since 1999 to present a current overview of foodborne listeriosis. This third edition contains two new chapters on risk assessment, regulatory control, and costs of outbreaks, and on data gaps and future directions for research. Coverage encompasses the growth and survival of Listeria in foods, Listeria- related recalls, and contamination rates for dairy, meat, fish, poultry, egg, and vegetable products. The audience for the book includes food scientists, microbiologists, researchers, and public health practitioners. Marth was emeritus professor of food science and bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ryser is affiliated with the National Food Safety and Toxicology Center at Michigan State University. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Living with the earth; concepts in environmental health science, 3d ed.
Moore (Yale School of Public Health) presents a revised text for introductory courses in environmental health and environmental sciences, suitable for both graduate and undergraduate courses, and as a resource for professionals and community activists in the environmental and public health fields. Updated throughout, the third edition includes new chapters on emerging diseases and emergency preparedness; population dynamics, including the new problems of "under-population" in the developed nations; and new developments in the emerging problem of asthma and associated air pollutants; the genetic basis of cancer and the roles of behavior and pollution in cancer risk; and the biology of genetics, mutation and birth defects. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Managing osteoporosis.
This collection of articles addresses the top issues in preventing and treating osteoporosis, covering such topics as desired levels of calcium and vitamin D, new thinking on the influence of potassium and protein as well as fruit and vegetables, risk factors such as genetics and lifestyle, appropriate physical activity and falls, and service delivery in primary and secondary care. Distributed by CRC Press. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Mass transfer and separation processes; principles and applications, 2d ed.
Thoroughly updated to convey a greater sense of scale (with numerous photographs of installations) and to present the math as simply as possible, this edition also includes more information on biomedical and environmental applications as well as newly worked examples and exercises. Basmadijian (late chemical engineering, U. of Toronto) took pains to continue his tradition of providing a lively and accessible text while covering basic rates of mass transfer, modles of mass transport, diffusion through gases and liquids as well as solids, transient diffusion and diffusion with reaction, phase equilibria, staged operations, continuous-contact operations, and simultaneous heat and mass transfer. He included appendices on the D-operator methods and hyperbolic functions and ODES. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Mathematical models and methods for real world systems.
Drawn from materials presented at a symposium of the International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, these articles focus on mathematics for technology, wavelet methods for real-world problems, classical and fractal methods for physical problems and trends in variational methods. Topics include the challenges anticpated in the next ten years, mathematical models for superconductors, wavelet frames and multi-resolution analysis, trends in wavelet applications, advanced data processes of meteorological issues, gradient catastrophe in heat propagation with second sound, acoustic waves in a perturbed layered ocean, chaos as described using MATLAB in the motion of a satellite under the influence of magnetic torque, convex objective functional for elliptic inverse problems, and convergence and the optimal choice of the relation parameter for a class of iterative methods. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Materials processing handbook.
Groza (materials science, University of California-Davis) provides broad coverage of a number of materials processes associated with solid materials including ceramics, polymers, metals, composites, and semiconductors. Contributors from the US, Europe, and Australia examine traditional as well as novel processes are covered, from the nanometer scale to the macroscopic. The goal of the book is to present fundamentals of a particular materials process by emphasizing the relationship between processing, structure, and property. Principles of thermodynamics, phase transformations, mechanisms, and kinetics of energy and mass transport are defined for each process category. Simulation and modeling of materials processes are also covered in each chapter. Fundamentals are illustrated with practical examples, case studies, and applications for each materials process covered. Mechanics and design aspects of processes are deemphasized, and materials processes which have minimal or no associated microstructural change are not covered. The book is for engineers, scientists, and students. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Mechanistic toxicology; the molecular basis of how chemicals disrupt biological targets, 2d ed.
Boelsterli (toxicology, University of Connecticut) examines xenobiotic-induced toxicity with regard to the molecular pathways that underlie these toxic effects. The book forms a conceptual bridge between multiple events at the molecular level and the determinants of toxicity at the physiological and cellular level, and links molecular pathways to more general biomedical contexts. Specific examples of drugs, environmental pollutants, and other chemicals highlight the fundamental mechanisms at different toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic levels. There are boxes with background information on various compounds on every page. Chapter key points are also included. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Microlithography; science and technology, 2d ed.
In recent decades, applications of microlithographic technology have led to advances in the development of semiconductor integrated circuits and microelectromechanical systems. This work is presented by Suzuki (project manager, Next Generation Lithography Tool Development, Nikon Corporation) and Smith (director, Center for Nanolithography Research, Rochester Institute of Technology) as both introduction to the science and technology of microlithography and as reference for more experienced readers seeking a wider knowledge and deeper understanding of the field. It covers system overview of optical steppers and scanners, optical lithography modeling, optics for photolithography, excimer laser for advanced microlithography, alignment and overlay, electron beam lithography systems, x-ray lithography, extreme ultraviolet lithography, and imprint lithography. It also offers coverage of resists and processing — in chapters discussing the chemistry of photoresist materials, resist processing, multiplayer resist technology, dry etching of photoresists — as well as treatment of critical dimensional metrology for integrated-circuit technology and electron beam nanolithography. The new edition has been updated in accord with advances in the field since the original 1998 edition. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Nano and molecular electronics handbook.
When solid-state microelectonics development hits a wall, other paths will get more attention; but this volume brings together 26 contributions from researchers (primarily, but not exclusively US- based) who are already thinking ahead. Their investigations involve the profound differences that molecular electronics involves at every level of research and application. Contributions are arranged in sections dealing with the device- and system-level, nanoscaled electronics, biomolecular electronics and processing, and device-level modeling and simulation. Editor Lyshevski (U.S. Air Force Research Laboratories and Naval Warfare Centers) is a prolific author and an expert in the synthesis, design, application, verification, and implementation of aerospace, electronic, electromechanical, and naval systems. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Neural plasticity and memory; from genes to brain imaging.
In the 1950s, Rosenzweig (one of the contributors) by chance found that an enriched environment could positively affect rats' neurons; this finding radically altered views of brain plasticity and offered hope for therapy. This collection of 15 chapters by international neuroscientists, edited by Bermúdez-Rattoni (U. Nacional Autónoma de México), constitutes an up-to-date review of study of the neurobiology of memory. The opening chapter overviews 150 years of research on memory consolidation, with an emphasis on the conceptual and methodological challenges in studying the phenomenon at the cellular and systems levels. Subsequent chapters present experimental data on how specific mechanisms involved in learning, stress, emotionally-arousing experience, diseases, aging, and sex differences influence memory formation, re-consolidation, and impairment. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Nutrition in public health; principles, policies, and practice.
The purpose of Spark (Hunter College) in writing this book was to provide public health professionals with an overview of the field of public health nutrition, with a focus on the US government's role in determining nutrition policy and practice. She covers the principles of the field in chapters discussing the population of the United States, nutritional epidemiology, food and nutrition surveys for monitoring public health, programs to reduce disparities in the prevalence of diet-related chronic disease, weight control challenges and solutions, and special populations issues. She then discusses food and nutrition politics, policy, and legislation in the United States and the federal government's food and nutrition guidance systems. Finally, she addresses the practice of public health nutrition in five chapters that present the tools for conducting a food and nutrition assessment of a community, designing and carrying out a social marketing campaign, writing grant proposals, and creating programs to promote food security and ensure the safety of the food supply. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Obesity; epidemiology, pathophysiology, and prevention.
Eighty-three international academics and researchers contribute 41 chapters to a text for practicing medical professionals, clinical nutritionists, dietitians, and researchers addressing the many issues relevant to obesity. Coverage includes an introductory overview of the epidemiology of obesity and the global burden obesity presents for the new millennium; the pathophysiology of obesity; obesity and degenerative diseases, including metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and cancer; new concepts in obesity drug development; the safety of obesity drugs; natural, nutritional, and physical approaches to weight management; the complicated problem of childhood obesity, including metabolic acidosis, and an intervention strategy; and the use of baratric surgery to help in weight management and reversing metabolic disorders. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Official (ISC)2 guide to the SSCP CBK.
Designed to help those who are serious about certification and about the very nasty people who want nothing less than to stop the world of digital information, this comprehensive taxonomy of information security topics brings the seven domains of this system down to the practical as well as the theoretical level, beginning with developing a common language and understanding the concepts. The volume covers access controls, security operations and administration, analysis and monitoring, risk, response, recovery, cryptography, networks and telecommunications and malicious code, each with references, useful web sites and sample questions and answers. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Optimal control applied to biological models.
The chapters introduce the mathematical aspects of optical control theory, and the laboratory exercises demonstrate its application to biological models such as bacteria, cancer, bear populations, and invasive plant species. The textbook is for a one-semester advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate course. Students are assumed to have a basic knowledge of multi-variate calculus, simple ordinary differential equations, and mathematical models and how they are used. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Optical spectroscopy of lanthanides; magnetic and hyperfine interactions.
The late Wybourne, a pioneer in the spectroscopy of rare earth ions who taught at Nicolaus Copernicus U. in Poland, and Smentek, a professor of chemistry at Vanderbilt U., provide a theoretical description of spectroscopic properties of lanthanides doped in various materials. Smentek adapted Wybourne's lecture notes for about half of the book, which, before his death, they had meant to write together. The lecture format is kept, when possible, and includes MAPLE routines, several derivations of new expressions, and additional problems. The book begins with the basic knowledge of the theories of nuclei and angular momentum, develops through the standard description of the fine and magnetic hyperfine interactions, and their impact on the energy structure of the lanthanide ions, and includes advanced description of f to f electric and magnetic dipole transitions. This includes sensitized luminescence and its application in the detection and treatment of cancer in various tissues. One chapter discusses radial integrals. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Optical waveguides; from theory to applied mechanics.
Anticipating a future in which photonics will play a role in society similar to the one played by electronics in the last century, Calvo (physics, Complutense U. of Madrid, Spain) and Lakshminarayanan (optometry and physics, U. of Waterloo, Canada) introduce the science and technology of light waveguiding-based optical devices. They open with explanation of the theoretical foundations of waveguiding technologies, contained in chapters on propagation characteristics of planar optical waveguides, birefringent optical waveguides, and optically induced nonlinear waveguides. They then introduce the current photonic device and telecommunication technological landscape, covering active optical waveguides, wavelength dispersive planar waveguide devices, silicon waveguides for integrated devices, and enabling fabrication technologies for planar waveguide devices. Finally, biomedical optical waveguides and neutron waveguides are discussed. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Organic field-effect transistors.
The development of organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) has led to applications such as active matrix flat-panel displays, radio frequency identification cards, and a range of sensors. Along with the ability to be deposited on substrates at low temperatures, they perform at levels comparable to that of silicon thin film transistors. This collection of papers on the theories behind the applications and the applications themselves includes material on aspects of charge transport in organic semiconductors from a molecular perspective, charge transport in oligomers, charge transport physics of solution-processed organic field-effect transistors, selection and design of dielectric materials, grazing incidence x-ray diffraction, scanning probe techniques, solution deposition of oligomers and polymers, inkjet printed OTFTs, soft lithography, vacuum evaporated thin films and a range of applications, including those for radio frequency identification tags, organic transistor chemical sensors, flexible and large area e-skins and ORFTs for flat panel displays. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Petroleum refining; technology and economics, 5th ed.
Gary (petroleum refining, emeritus, Colorado School of Mines) presents basic aspects of current petroleum refining technology and economics for ready reference by technical managers, practicing engineers, university faculty members, and graduate or senior students in chemical engineering. He describes physical and chemical properties of petroleum and petroleum products, along with major refining processes. Data for determination of typical product yields, investment, and operating costs for all major refining processes and for supporting processes are given. Case studies and problems are included, and appendices contain basic engineering data and a glossary. This fifth edition takes new environmental aspects of the industry into account, and reflects the use of heavier crude oils and crude oils with higher sulfur and metal content. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Physical properties and data of optical materials.
Two professors at Tokai University chart optical properties from the vacuum ultraviolet region to the infrared region for 102 metal, semiconductor, and ionic crystal materials. Organized alphabetically, each entry summarizes the crystal system, natural production and artificial growth methods, and electrical properties before commenting on transmittance and reflectance spectra, optical constants, the dispersion relation, emissivity, and spectroscopy applications. The electrical engineering reference is partially based on Figures and tables of fundamental physical properties of optical materials published in 1972 by Kyoritu Shuppan Co. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Pleurocarpous mosses; systematics and evolution. (CD-ROM included)
The traditional Linnaean classification of organisms is undergoing a revolution due to the application of molecular data and cladistic analysis (a method of reconstructing evolutionary trees). Newton (Natural History Museum, London, UK) and Tangney (National Museum Wales, Cardiff) trace the volume's origin to a symposium held at Cardiff in 2004, a decade after the publication of the first major attempt to study the relationships of pleurocarpus mosses (those having highly branched, prostate stems) using cladistic methodology. In 19 chapters, international contributors discuss new data on hypotheses about these phylogenetic relationships, the fossil record, and issues relating to species diversity. The accompanying CD-ROM contains data sets and color illustrations. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
