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Physical Sciences Catalog 2007- April 2010

Agriculture 1

Animal Science 7

Biochemistry 7

Biology 9

Chemistry 18

Computer Science 33

Computers and Robotics 37

Earth Science 40

Ecology 42

Electrochemistry 42

Energy 42

Engineering 52

Enviroment 56

Equations 78

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Internet 79

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Material Sciences 79

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Nanotechnology 94

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Public Health 115

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Space Science 116 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. – Physical Sciences Catalog – 2007 – April 2010 1 Agriculture Agriculture others. This new book presents the latest Food Crop Mineral Deficiency and research in the field.

Agriculture Disturbance Stress Mitigation in Agriculture Temperate Climatic Regions by Aquaculture Research Progress Kyoto Protocol, The: Economic Economical & Environmental Takumi K. Nakamura (Editor) Assessments, Implementation Valorization of Agricultural By- 2009. 978-1-60456-247-7. $129.00. 327 pp. Mechanisms, and Policy Case. Products Implications This new book presents the latest research on E Someus (Budapest,Hungary) Christophe P. Vasser aquaculture, which is the cultivation of aquatic 2009. 978-1-60692-243-9. $79.00. 146 pp. 2009. 978-1-60456-983-4. $89.00. 296 pp. organisms. Unlike fishing, aquaculture, also Soft. known as aquafarming, implies the cultivation Case. This book explains how the input feed streams of aquatic populations under controlled This new book is devoted to the The Kyoto are plant and animal origin carboniferous by- conditions. Mariculture refers to aquaculture Protocol which is a significant protocol to the products, such as refuse grain, sawdust, food practiced in marine environments. international Framework Convention on Climate grade animal bone meal, food processing and/or Change with the objective of reducing other agro by-products. The innovative greenhouse gases that cause climate change. Agriculture technology is providing surface modified

Agricultural Conservation: charcoals and minerals for plant availability and Agriculture Converting Grassland to Cropland post processing the chars by integrated Foldases Catalyzing the Formation GAO biotechnological means.

2009. 978-1-60456-630-7. $39.00. 97 pp. and Isomerization of Disulfide Soft. Agriculture Bonds in Proteins The nation’s remaining grassland has several Food Processing: Methods, N. K. Nagradova (A.N.Belozersky important benefits, such as providing land for Techniques, and Trends. Inst./Physico-Chem.Bio., Lomonosov grazing and wildlife habitat for many at-risk Valerie C. Bellinghouse (Editor) Moscow State Univ., Russia) species. However, over the past 3 centuries 2009. 978-1-60692-414-3. $129.00. 660 pp. 2009. 978-1-60692-466-2. $39.00. 83 pp. about half of the grassland has been converted Case. Soft. to other uses, principally cropland. In addition Food processing is the set of methods and One of the rate-limiting steps in the folding to losing important grassland values, such techniques used to transform raw ingredients pathways of many secretory proteins is the conversions may result in increased spending on into food or to transform food into other forms formation of correct disulfide bonds between federal farm programs, such as crop insurance, for consumption by humans or animals either in cysteine residues. In eukaryotes, both disulfide especially in marginal areas. the home or by the food processing industry. bond formation and isomerization which

Food processing typically takes clean, harvested shuffles incorrectly formed disulfides are Agriculture crops or slaughtered and butchered animal catalyzed by protein disulfide isomerase (PDI), Transgenic Plants: New Research products and uses these to produce attractive, whereas in bacteria these two reactions are Oliver T. Chan (Editor) marketable and often long-life food products. catalyzed by separate enzymes. Both in 2009. 978-1-60692-017-6. $98.00. 239 pp. eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells the oxidation Case. Agriculture and isomerization steps proceed exclusively in Transgenic plants possess a gene or genes that Food Protection and Safety extracytoplasmic environments (the lumen of the eukaryotic endoplasmic reticulum and the have been transferred from a different species. Lyman F. Thomasson (Editor) Although DNA of another species can be Gram-negative bacterial periplasmic space). 2009. 978-1-60692-187-6. $89.00. 160 pp. integrated in a plant genome by natural Case. processes, the term "transgenic plants" refers to Agriculture Societal and demographic changes, the plants created in a laboratory using recombinant globalization of the food supply, new threats Perspectives on Cognition and DNA technology. This new book presents the and communication issues require new Action in Sport latest research in this growing field. approachs to food protection and safety. This D. Araujo (Faculty/Human Kinetics, book presents important new information in the Tech.U./Lisbon,PT) and H. Ripoll Agriculture study of food production and safety. (U./Med., Marseille ,France) M. Raab Crop Rotation Yaram U. Berklian Agriculture (DE, Sport U. Cologne, DE) Editors 2009. 978-1-60692-390-0. $79.00. 247 pp. 2009. 978-1-60692-100-5. $79.00. 263 pp. Agricultural Systems: Economics, Case. Case. Technology, and Diversity There has been considerable debate on sport Crop rotation or crop sequencing is the practice Oliver W. Castalonge (Editor) psychology about the status and the function of of growing a series of dissimilar types of crops 2009. 978-1-60692-025-1. $79.00. 220 pp. cognition and action in sport. This debate is in the same space in sequential seasons for very relevant since there was a refinement of the various benefits such as to avoid the build up of Case. different positions, and there were several pathogens and pests that often occurs when one Agricultural systems include the development attempts to integrate apparently contrasting species is continuously cropped. Crop rotation and application of systems methodology, perspectives. also seeks to balance the fertility demands of including system modelling, simulation and various crops to avoid excessive depletion of optimisation; ecoregional analysis of agriculture soil nutrients. and land use; studies on natural resource issues Agriculture related to agriculture; impact and scenario Cover Crops and Crop Yields analyses related to topics such as GMOs, Tomas H. Latos (Editor) multifunctional land use and global change; and Nova Science Publishers, Inc. – Physical Sciences Catalog – 2007 – April 2010 2 2009. 978-1-60692-818-9. $98.00. 334 pp. growing gap between the costs of preserving Jacob K. Levine (Editor) Case. and expanding highway infrastructure and 2009. 978-1-60741-175-8. $89.00. 314 pp. A cover crop is a crop planted in a garden to available highway program funding. This book Case. protect the soil from erosion and to improve the discusses public-private transportation Although the definition of what constitutes low soil by adding organic matter. In agriculture, partnerships around the globe. income varies significantly from one country to crop yield (also known as "agricultural output") the next, it is always below average and people is not only a measure of the yield of cereal per Agriculture who have it score high on the misery index. This unit area of land under cultivation, it is also the Poverty, Urbanity and Social Policy: new book brings together leading researchers seed generation of the plant itself. This book Central and Eastern Europe from around the globe on defining it and reviews the effect of cover crops and how the seeking solutions. latter might lead to the improved soil and Compared environmental quality if crop yields are Jolanta Aldukaite (Univ./College of Agriculture sustained. S.Stockholm,Sweden) Ecological Approaches to Health: 2009. 978-1-60741-100-0. $79.00. 225 pp. Interactions Between Humans and Agriculture Case. Medical Marijuana and Marijuana This book provides the reader with the broad Their Environment Use spectrum of poverty and social policy issues in C. Dumont. (Inst. réadaptation en Central and Eastern Europe, and address the Albert T. Johnson (Editor) déficience physique/Québec Boul. most urgent topics of welfare state research, 2009. 978-1-60692-899-8. $43.00. 105 pp. Hamel, Canada) namely poverty, children and social policy; 2009. 978-1-60741-061-4. $37.00. 132 pp. Soft. gender, social policy and poverty; urban policy, Soft. Twelve states, mostly in the West, have enacted renewal and poverty, and overall challenges to This book discusses and analyzes how laws allowing the use of marijuana for medical social policy reform. ecological models and approaches could purposes, and many thousands of patients are contribute to improve human health. In the first seeking relief from a variety of serious illnesses Agriculture by smoking marijuana or using other herbal section of the book, the evolution of human cannabis preparations. Meanwhile, the federal Ecological Restoration thought will be redrawn, from ancient Drug Enforcement Administration refuses to George H. Pardue and Thomas K. conceptions of the world up to the most recent recognize these state laws and continues to Olvera (Editors) ecological models. investigate and arrest, under federal statute, 2009. 978-1-60741-013-3. $98.00. 251 pp. medical marijuana providers and users in those Case. Agriculture states and elsewhere. This book examines the Human exploitation of stream and land Handbook on Longevity: Genetics, controversy surrounding the use of medical ecosystems has created the need to preserve, Diet and Disease. marijuana. restore and rehabilitate. This book discusses the Jennifer V. Bentely and Mary Ann Keller scientific basis of restoration for ecological Agriculture improvement and some key issues associated (Editors) Child Health and Human with overall projects. 2009. 978-1-60741-075-1. $195.00. 513 pp. Case. Development Yearbook – 2008 Agriculture The word longevity is sometimes used as a Joav Merrick (Medical Director, synonym for "life expectancy" in demography. Ministry of Social Affairs, Jerusalem, New Research on Livestock Science Aging is the accumulation of changes in an ISRAEL) Editor and Dairy Farming. organism or object over time. Aging in humans 2009. 978-1-60692-979-7. $145.00. 653 pp. P. Di Alberto and C. Costa (Editors) refers to a multidimensional process of physical, Case. 2009. 978-1-60456-556-0. $98.00. 240 pp. psychological, and social change. Some The early years in the life of a child are critical Case. dimensions of aging grow and expand over for cognitive, social and emotional Lifestock refers to any animal breed kept by time, while others decline. development. It is therefore important that we humans for commercial purposes. This book make sure that children grow up in an focuses on the effects of certain types of foods, Agriculture environment, where their social, emotional and such as prebiotics, on the physiology and Composting: Processing, Materials educational needs are met. This yearbook performance of animals. and Approaches compiles the work done in 2008 with a broad Agriculture research agenda on a global basis, addressing Series: Waste and Waste questions ranging from policy to practice, and Prevention of School Shootings Management spanning the developmental spectrum from William B. Ellwood (Editor) Joseph C. Pereira & John L. Bolin human genetics, infancy and early childhood, to 2009. 978-1-60692-223-1. $79.00. 133 pp. (Editors) adolescence and adulthood. Soft. 2009. 978-1-60741-438-4. $129.00. 328 pp. Understanding violence after it has occurred is Case. Agriculture difficult enough. Trying to assess a threat and Composting is the aerobic decomposition of Public-Private Transportation keep it from being carried out is even more of a biodegradable organic matter, producing challenge. This book presents a systematic Partnerships Around the World compost. Compost products can be used as a procedure for threat assessment and high quality and hygienically safe fertilizer. George T. Telliford (Editor) intervention. Composting can be divided into home 2009. 978-1-60692-589-8. $69.00. 207 pp. composting and industrial composting. Case. Agriculture Transportation agencies around the world Low Incomes: Social, Health and continue to face fiscal challenges caused by the Educational Impacts Nova Science Publishers, Inc. – Physical Sciences Catalog – 2007 – April 2010 3 Agriculture breeding, grazing land, market gardens, nursery CAP Reform, and Trade Measuring the Economy: GDP and plots, and even woodlands. Liberalization

F.H. Fuller & J.C. Beghin (Center for NIPAs Agriculture Kemal Sahin (Editor) Agricultural & Rural Development Land Use Policy 2009. 978-1-60741-199-4. $43.00. 186 pp. (CARD) Editors Alexander C. Denman and Oliver M. Soft. 2008. 978-1-60021-966-5. $79.00. 145 pp. Penrod How fast is the economy growing? Is it Case. 2009. 978-1-60741-435-3. $129.00. 282 pp. speeding up or slowing down? How does the This book provides an in-depth look at Europe’s Case. trade deficit affect economic growth? What’s changing agricultural and food markets, Land use is the human modification of natural happening to the pattern of spending on goods focusing on the impacts of recent policy environment or wilderness into built and services in the economy? To answer these reforms, enlargement of the European Union environment such as fields, pastures, and types of questions about the economy, (EU), and trade liberalization. settlements. More recent significant effects of economists and policymakers turn to the land use include urban sprawl, soil erosion, soil national income and product accounts (NIPAs) Agriculture produced by the Bureau of Economic Analysis degradation, salinization, and desertification. (BEA). Land use and land management practices have a Pesticide Research Trends major impact on natural resources including Albert B. Tennefy (Editor) Agriculture water, soil, nutrients, plants and animals. 2008. 978-1-60456-200-2. $129.00. 424 pp.

Food Processing and Engineering Case. Agriculture A pesticide is a substance or mixture of Topics Corn Crop Production: Growth, substances used for preventing, controlling, or Maria Elena Sosa-Morales and Jorge F. Fertilization and Yield lessening the damage caused by a pest. Pests Velez-Ruiz (Universidad de las include insects, plant pathogens, weeds, Series: Agriculture Issues and Americas, Cholula, Pue., Mexico) mollusks, birds, mammals, fish, nematodes 2009. 978-1-60741-788-0. $89.00. 362 pp. Policies (roundworms) and microbes that compete with humans for food, destroy property, spread or are Case. Arn T. Danforth (Editor) a vector for disease or cause a nuisance. This This book offers a combination of theoretical 2009. 978-1-60741-955-6. $145.00. 389 pp. new book presents the latest research in the support, practical examples, process Case. field. applications, and recent findings on diverse Sustainable production of a corn field crop as aspects of food science and engineering, such as grain corn for feed, food and biofuels, as well as rheology, heat transfer, evaporation, osmotic sweet corn for fresh market or processing, and Agriculture dehydration, air drying, ultrasound and deep-fat as silage for high energy sources, requires Perspectives on International frying. Topics upon selected fluids, powders, scientific management of nutrients along with Agricultural Trade and several other crop management practices such as cheese, concentrated foods, and frozen dough Development are also included. proper plant population density, timely seeding and harvesting, soil water, weeds and pests Dragan Miljkovic (North Dakota State Agriculture control. University) Editor

Agricultural Conservation 2008. 978-1-60021-967-2. $69.00. 122 pp. Agriculture Case. Anthony G. Hargis (Editor) Agricultural trade and development is a 2009. 978-1-60692-273-6. $69.00. 194 pp. Phosphate Solubilising Microbes for Crop Improvement backbone of international trade. It includes Case. agricultural trade patterns, commercial policy, Because farmers and ranchers own and manage Series: Agriculture Issues and international institutions such as WTO, Tariff about 940 million acres, or about half of the Policies and non-tariff barriers in international trade, continental United States' land area, they are M. Saghir Khan & A. Zaidi (Aligarh exchange rates, biotechnology and trade, among the most important stewards of our soil, Muslim Univ., Ultar Pradesh, India) agricultural labor mobility, land reform, water, and wildlife habitat. One of the programs environment and the areas and issues spanning discussed in this book is The Environmental (Editors) these areas. This book presents new and Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), which 2009. 978-1-60876-112-8. $89.00. 471 pp. important research in the field. provides assistance to farmers and ranchers to Case. take new actions aimed at addressing identified This book provides a comprehensive source of Agriculture conservation problems. information on strategies and concepts of microbial technology, especially phosphate- Grazed Pastures and Surface Water Agriculture solubilising microbes for the improvement of Quality Agricultural Wastes crops in different agro-ecosystems. The book R.W. McDowell, D. J. Houlbrooke, R. Geoffrey S. Ashworth and Pablo presents the biological importance of W. Muirhead (Invermay Agric. Azevedo (Editors) phosphorus and strategies adopted for isolation Cntr,Mosgiel,N. Z.); K. Muller (Ruakura and screening of PSM (s), mechanisms of P 2009. 978-1-60741-305-9. $129.00. 320 pp. Rsch Cntr, N.Z.); M. Shepherd Case. solubilization, mechanisms of plant growth promotion, and method for the development of (Gleadth.Rsch Cntr,Mansfield,UK) S. P. Agricultural waste, which includes both natural microphos. (organic) and non-natural wastes, is a general Cuttle (Eds.)

term used to describe waste produced on a farm 2008. 978-1-60456-025-1. $89.00. 248 pp. through various farming activities. These Agriculture Case. activities can include but are not limited to dairy European Agriculture: This book covers the subject of grasslands used farming, horticulture, seed growing, livestock Enlargement, Structural Change, for grazing livestock. Grasslands can be split into improved and unimproved pastures (also a Nova Science Publishers, Inc. – Physical Sciences Catalog – 2007 – April 2010 4 sub-set of rangelands). Land used for livestock Because of the Nature of front-end funding of information is increasing while agricultural industries occupy 70% agricultural land and growing crops, cyclical weather patterns and the labor is becoming scarcer and more expensive; about 40% of total land and produce 40% of national security aspects of agriculture, finance and that tropical produce engineering agricultural gross domestic product. Increasing and credit have become a critical component of technology must be thoroughly understood. populations and incomes, coupled with a change agriculture. This new book presents important in diets and urbanisation in the developing analysis dealing with issues critical to Agriculture world, is enhancing demand for pasture-based maintaining the vigorous agricultural industry in U.S. Agricultural Trade: Trends, products. America. Composition, Direction, and Policy Agriculture Agriculture Charles E. Hanrahan (Editor) The North American Beef Industry Crop Protection Research Advances 2008. 978-1-60456-463-1. $45.00. 79 pp. Soft. in Transition: New Consumer Earl N. Burton and Peter V. Williams Most U.S. agricultural imports are high-value Demands and Supply Chain (Editors) products. For some imports (grains, meats, Responses 2008. 978-1-60456-040-4. $150.00. 329 pp. horticultural products), similar products are A. M. Brocklebank (Canadian Case. produced in the United States; production of Most crop protection deals with the other categories of imports (bananas, coffee, Cattlemen's Assoc.,Can); J. E. Hobbs development and promotion of socially and cocoa) is very limited. Among the fastest- and W. A. Kerr (U. Saskatchewan, Can.) environmentally acceptable technologies to growing markets for U.S. agricultural exports 2008. 978-1-60456-121-0. $79.00. 190 pp. reduce crop losses from pests. Crop protection are Canada and Mexico, both partners with the Case. also deals with protecting crops from weeds, United States in NAFTA. The United States is This book provides an in-depth analysis of the insects and diseases primarily to increase yield. the dominant supplier of foreign food aid, factors providing the impetus for change in the The use of crop protection products secures followed by the EU, Canada, and Australia. U.S. North American beef industry and how the yields, reduces crop losses and helps provide a and other major food aid donors provide industry is responding to the challenges. The sufficient and sustainable supply of healthy and commodities for emergency relief or beef industry story provides lessons for other safe food at affordable prices. Ultimately, crop development assistance. agri-food industries attempting to respond to protection tries to increase global food demand. rapidly evolving food markets. It also deals with efforts to assure food quality Agriculture

and safety. This new book presents the latest Agriculture in the U.S. Free Trade Agriculture research from around the globe. Agreements: Trade with Current Animal Agriculture Research and Prospective Partners, Impact Progress Agriculture and Issues Karl B. Tolenhoff (Editor) Agricultural Water Management Remy Jurenas (Editor) 2008. 978-1-60456-058-9. $75.00. 142 pp. Research Trends 2008. 978-1-60456-418-1. $45.00. 98 pp. Case. Magnus L. Sørensen (Editor) This new book deals with the eradication of 2008. 978-1-60456-159-3. $150.00. 316 pp. Soft. diseases that pose a risk the health of animals, Case. Most of the U.S. agricultural export gains under FTAs have occurred with Canada and Mexico, wildlife and humans. It includes developing a Agricultural water management includes many the top two U.S. agricultural trading partners. safe and wholesome food supply and the best topics: farm-level and regional water Though U.S. sales to overseas markets were practices in environmental stewardship, animal management, irrigation, drainage, and salinity expected to increase anyway because of health and well-being. management of cultivated areas, collection and population growth and income gains, analyses storage of rainfall in relation to soil properties suggest that the FTAs recently put into effect or and vegetation; the role of groundwater and Agriculture concluded since 2004 could boost U.S. surface water in nutrient cycling, exploitation Perspectives on Sustainable agricultural exports by an additional 2.0% to and protection of water resources, control of 2.7%. Large gains are also projected under the Technology flooding, erosion, and desertification. This new potential FTA with South Korea. M. Rafiqul Islam (Dalhousie Univ., book presents leading-edge research from

Halifax, Canada) around the world. 2008. 978-1-60456-069-5. $75.00. 199 pp. Agriculture Case. Agriculture Potential Challenges to U.S. Farm Nature thrives on diversity and flexibility, Tropical Fruit in Developing Subsidies in the WTO gaining strength from heterogeneity, whereas Countries: Quality of Production Randy Schneph & Jasper Womach the quest for homogeneity seems to motivate (Editors) much of modern engineering. Nature is non- B. Jarimopas (Kasetsart Univ.); P. 2008. 978-1-60456-420-4. $75.00. 115 pp. linear and inherently promotes multiplicity of Sirisomboon (King Mongkut's Inst. of Case. solutions. This new and important book presents Tech. Thailand); R. Sothornwit and A. recent research on true sustainability and This book provides background regarding the Terdwongw (Editors) vulnerability of U.S. agricultural support technology development from around the globe. 2008. 978-1-60456-239-2. $45.00. 108 pp. programs to potential WTO dispute settlement Soft. challenges. It does not predict which WTO Agriculture There are three current realities which are members might challenge U.S. commodity Agricultural Finance and Credit addressed in this book. They are as follows: that subsidies, nor will the likelihood that such Jonathan M. Bishoff (Editor) there is a high incidence of post-harvest loss and challenges be brought. Instead, this book 2008. 978-1-60456-072-5. $45.00. 118 pp. a corresponding magnitude of shortage in reviews the general criteria for successfully Soft. research and development work on tropical challenging a farm subsidy program, and then fresh produce; that the global flow of uses available data and published economic Nova Science Publishers, Inc. – Physical Sciences Catalog – 2007 – April 2010 5 analyses to weigh U.S. farm programs against share of use is declining. Irrigated cropland area Jim Monke, Geoffrey S. Becker, Ralph these criteria. has expanded over 40 percent since 1969, while M. Chite, et al (Editors) water application rates have declined about 20 2008. 978-1-60456-817-2. $45.00. 156 pp. percent. This new book presents leading-edge Agriculture Soft. research from around the world on this topic. Progress in Food Chemistry This book is a guide to one of the regular

Ernst N. Koeffer (Editor) appropriations bills that Congress considers Agriculture 2008. 978-1-60456-303-0. $115.00. 246 pp. each year. It is designed to supplement the Case. The Farm Bill and its Far-Ranging information provided by the House and Senate Food chemistry is the study of chemical Impact Appropriations Subcommittees on Agriculture. processes and interactions of all biological and GAO It summarizes the status of the bill, its scope, major issues, funding levels, and related non-biological components of foods. The 2008. 978-1-60456-631-4. $75.00. 281 pp. congressional activity. biological substances include such items as Case. meat, poultry, lettuce, beer, and milk as The farm bill governs federal farm and food examples. It is similar to biochemistry in its policy and is renewed about every five years. Agriculture main components such as carbohydrates, lipids, The 110th Congress is seeking to revise the The USDA 2007 Farm Bill Proposal and protein, but it also includes areas such as current farm bill (P.L. 107-171), which covers a Jasper Womach, Geoffrey S. Becker and water, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, food wide range of programs including commodity Ralph M. Chite (Editors) additives, flavors, and colors. This new book price and income support, agricultural presents the latest selected research from around 2008. 978-1-60456-813-4. $45.00. 110 pp. conservation, farm credit, research, rural Soft. the world. development, and foreign and domestic food On January 31, 2007, the Secretary of programs, among others. Agriculture publicly released a set of Agriculture recommendations for a 2007 farm bill. The Food Safety and Nutrition Agriculture proposal is comprehensive and follows largely Janice R. Miller and Patricia E. Bonete Food Science and Technology: New the outline of the current 2002 farm bill. This (Editors) Research book contains a brief description of current 2008. 978-1-60456-335-1. $75.00. 136 pp. Lorenzo V. Greco and Marco N. Bruno policy on each topic, a short explanation of the Case. Administration’s proposals, and then questions (Editors) of a policy, program, and/or budgetary nature. Food safety is a scientific discipline describing 2008. 978-1-60456-715-1. $150.00. 496 pp. the handling, preparation, and storage of food in Case. ways that prevent foodborne illness. This Agriculture Food scientists and food technologists study the includes a number of routines that should be physical, microbiological, and chemical makeup Agricultural Development and followed to avoid potentially severe health of food. Depending on their area of Trade Liberalisation: Implications hazards. This book presents important analyses specialization, food scientists may develop ways of the issues. for a Small Island State to process, preserve, package, or store food, R.Mahadevan , J. Asafu-Adjaye according to industry and government (Sch./Econom. .Univ./Qnslnd, Aust.) Agriculture specifications and regulations. This book Canning Technology: Principles, provides leading edge research in this field. 2008. 978-1-60456-916-2. $99.00. 210 pp. Applications and Recent Advances Case. Agriculture This book brings empirical analysis to bear on E. O. Afoakwa (Cntr /Food Quality, the policy debate on the economic and SIPBS, U. Strathclyde, UK and Dept. Quality Parameters in Canned environmental impacts of agricultural trade Nutrition & Food Sci.,U. Ghana) (Ed) Seafoods liberalisation on a small developing country, 2008. 978-1-60456-653-6. $29.00. 93 pp. Ana G. Cabado and Juan M. Vieites represented by the island of Fiji. The book Soft. (Microbiology and Biotoxins Area, focuses on the sugar industry to discuss the broad topic of agricultural reform. It should Canned foods are a significant component of the ANFACO-CECOPESCA, Campus Univ. diet of most people in both developed and appeal to a wide readership including Vigo, Spain) Editors developing countries, offering a wider choice of policymakers, policy analysts, researchers in nutritious, good quality foods in a convenient 2008. 978-1-60456-774-8. $87.00. 181 pp. industry and the public sector, as well as form all year. During canning, both desirable Case. postgraduate students in various fields such as and undesirable changes occur in nutritional and This new book covers the basic principles in agriculture and natural resources, international sensory properties of foods, resulting from heat canned seafood: principles of thermal trade, and economic modeling. treatment employed for the destruction of processing, resistance of microorganisms, microorganisms to achieve the desired canned seafood microbiology and laboratory Agriculture commercial sterility. practice, as well as spoilage and defects in National Animal Identification canned foods. Moreover, physicochemical System Agriculture parameters in canned seafood, genetic test in order to determine the authenticity of canned GAO Agricultural Irrigation Research species and current legal regulations are 2008. 978-1-60692-046-6. $45.00. 111 pp. Progress evaluated in the book. Soft. Daniel Alonso and Hugo J. Iglesias In response to concerns about animal disease (Editors) Agriculture outbreaks, the U.S. Department of Agriculture 2008. 978-1-60456-579-9. $150.00. 206 pp. Agriculture and Related Agencies (USDA) announced in December 2003 that it Case. would implement a nationwide program—later Appropriations named the National Animal Identification Irrigated agriculture remains the dominant use System (NAIS)—to help producers and animal of freshwater in the United States, although its Nova Science Publishers, Inc. – Physical Sciences Catalog – 2007 – April 2010 6 health officials respond quickly and effectively presents a comprehensive review of various Agriculture to animal disease events in the United States. In stability analysis methods and their application Drivers and Restraints for conducting its work, the authors reviewed in plant breeding for selection of stable and high USDA documents; interviewed agency, performing genotypes. Economically Efficient Farm industry, and state officials; and consulted 32 Production animal identification (ID) experts. This is an Agriculture H. Hansson (Swedish U./Agricultural edited and excerpted edition. America's Family Farms Sci.Sweden) K. Larsén (Leibniz

Inst./Agric. Develop. Cnt & Europe) and Agriculture Series: Agriculture Issues & Policies Efren J. Tamayo (Editor) B. Öhlmér (Swedish U./Agric.Sweden) No-Till Farming: Effects on Soil, 2010. 978-1-60741-751-4. $79.00. 191 pp. 2010. 978-1-60876-171-5. $43.00. 110 pp. Pros and Cons and Potential Case. Case. Series: Agriculture Issues and This book explores America's family farms Several studies in agricultural economics have Policies today. Farmers face many challenges like shown that farm production is normally inefficient in comparison to the best practice Earl T. Nardali (Editor) making daily decisions on when to plow, till, farming. This implies that more food could be 2010. 978-1-60741-402-5. $145.00. 230 pp. plant, fertilize, and harvest, or management decisions involving their sizable assets, produced with the existing inputs, or that the Case. numerous employees, a multitude of rules and existing production could be made less costly. Today, farmers are expected to produce food in regulations and a market place that changes This book summarizes and discusses literature ever greater quantities. This is becoming more every day. Every family owned business has to that has investigated reasons for inefficient difficult to do in view of declining soil quality, deal with transitions, but it seems to be reaching production, and thus how agricultural which can be caused by soil tillage. It is crisis proportions in agriculture. production could become more successful. becoming well known that no-till is an effective Based on this, the book discusses what aspects technique to reduce the degradation of soil. Agriculture need more research in the future to understand With this way of farming, crop residues or other what drives and restraints efficient farm organic amenities are retained on the soil Agriculture Research and production. surface and sowing/fertilizing is done with Technology minimal soil disturbance. This new and Series: Agriculture Issues & Policies Agriculture important book gathers the latest research from around the globe in this field of study. Kristian Bundgaard & Luke Isaksen Soil Phenols (Editors) Series: Agriculture Issues &Policies Agriculture 2010. 978-1-60741-850-4. $195.00. 496 pp. A. Muscolo & M. Sidari, (Dept./Agricul. Role of Agriculture in Carbon Case. & Forest Systems Mng't, U. This book presents the latest research from Capture and Climate Change around the world in the field of agriculture. “Mediterranea” Reggio Calabria, Italy) Series: Climate Change and its Agricultural fungicides, for example, are Editors Causes, Effects and Prediction considered with particular reference to mode of 2010. 978-1-60876-264-4. $69.00. 219 pp. Arvid Bjurstrom (Editor) action and selectivity. Other chapters in this Case. book present an analysis of the specific Phenolic compounds are known to be released 2010. 978-1-60741-445-2. $43.00. 80 pp. functions that are involved in land application into the soil by root exudates and litter inputs Soft. systems for organic fertilizers and a review of thus alterations in foliar and root chemistry have The agriculture sector is a source of greenhouse available and emerging technologies in light of important implications for plant-litter-soil gas (GHG) emissions, which many scientists this analysis. interactions and ecosystem function. The agree are contributing to observed climate general pathways of phenol biosynthesis are change. Agriculture is also a "sink" for known, but the regulation and controlling sequestering carbon, which might offset GHG Agriculture Essential Oils: Art, Agriculture, factors determining the quality and quantity of emissions by capturing and storing carbon in phenols in plant tissue remain active and agricultural soils. Emissions from agricultural Science, Industry and controversial areas of research. Much of the activities account for 6%-8% of all GHG Entrepreneurship: A Focus on the controversy arises because regulating factors at emissions in the United States. This book several levels, ranging from intrinsic species- highlights the effects that agriculture has on Asia-Pacific Region M. Hunter (Univ. 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Russia);P. Tomaski (Agricu. U., processes in solids. Research areas include: Deposition of amorphous silica (SiO2) and Poland)& E. Bertoft (U. of Wuppertal, bonding in solids, crystal chemistry, crystal calcium oxalate (CaOx) on the calandria tubes growth mechanisms, diffusion epitaxy, high- of juice evaporators cause serious processing Germany) (Editors) pressure processes, magnetic properties of problems in Australian cane sugar mills. The 2007. 978-1-60021-227-7. $170.00. 325 pp. materials, optical characterization of materials, removal of these deposits by mechanical and Case. order-disorder, phase equilibria and chemical means is a time-consuming and costly The history of starches and investigations of transformation mechanisms, reactions at experience. 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Ins.,Russia);S. K. Rakovsky (Bulgarian Electrochemistry is the branch of chemistry that Chemistry Acad. Sc.,Bulg.)&D. A. Schiraldi (Case deals with the chemical action of electricity and Western Reserve U.USA) Eds. New Topics in Catalysis Research the production of electricity by chemical 2007. 978-1-60021-094-5. $145.00. 331 pp. David K. McReynolds (Editor) reactions. In a world short of energy sources yet long on energy use, electrochemistry is a critical Case. 2007. 978-1-60021-286-4. $135.00. 239 pp. component of the mix necessary to keep the This book includes reviews on the ozone Case. world economies growing. Electrochemistry is influence on natural and synthetic rubbers, The chemical or biological process whereby the involved with such important applications as interactions between microorganisms and presence of an external compound, a catalyst, batteries, fuel cells, corrosion studies, hydrogen polymers, chitosan (natural polysaccharide) serves as an agent to cause a chemical reaction energy conversion, bioelectricity. Research on oxidation, nano-phases and kinetic model of to occur or to improve reaction performance electrolytes, cells, and electrodes is within the chain reactions of polypropylene with without altering the external compound. Catalysis is a very important process from an scope of this old but extremely dynamic field. Nova Science Publishers, Inc. – Physical Sciences Catalog – 2007 – April 2010 24 Chemistry 2007. 978-1-60021-453-0. $145.00. 320 pp. 2007. 978-1-60021-539-1. $145.00. 93 pp. Recent Developments in Polymer Case. Case. Apoptosis is the regulated form of cell death. It The calculation of traditional fluorine- Research is a complex process defined by a set of containing (F2, OF2, N2F4, ClO3F, ClF5, ClF3) Anthony V. Hopper (Editor) characteristic morphological and biochemical and oxygen-containing (OF2, O2, H2O2, N2O4, 2007. 978-1-60021-346-5. $145.00. 267 pp. features that involves the active participation of HNO3, ClO3F) oxidizers of differential fuels Case. affected cells in a self-destruction cascade. This has been performed by the different classical Polymers are substances containing a large programmed cell death plays a critical role in semi-empirical quantum-chemical methods number of structural units joined by the same physiological functions such as cell deletion (CNDO, CNDO/2, MNDO, AM1, PM3) and type of linkage. These substances often form during embryonic development, balancing cell АB-INITIO in the many principal basis-sets into a chain-like structure. Starch, cellulose, and number in continuously renewing tissues and optimizing the all geometric parameters. It is rubber all possess polymeric properties. Today, immune system development. shown, the high correlative dependencies the polymer industry has grown to be larger than between the burn parameters of the differential the aluminum, copper and steel industries Chemistry fuels (H2, N2H4, H2N2(CH3)2, CH2, AlH3, combined. Polymers already have a range of Monomer and Polymer Research B5H9, BeH2) and calculated values of applications that far exceeds that of any other quantum-chemical parameters of the fluorine- class of material available to man. Current Frontiers containing (oxygencontaining) oxidizers exist in applications extend from adhesives, coatings, Alberto D'Amore (SUN, Italy) & the form of Ip is specific impulseis specific∞of foams, and packaging materials to textile and Gennady Zaikov (N.M. Emanuel Ins.of pressure, P1 is specific traction in atmosphere, industrial fibers, elastomers, and structural Bioch.Physics, Russia) (Editors) Pi traction in vacuum, depending on qFmin is plastics. 2007. 978-1-60021-435-6. $145.00. 158 pp. minimum electronic charge on fluorine atom Case. (qOmin is the minimum electronic charge on Chemistry This book is mainly dedicated to the processes oxygen atom).

Reactions & Properties Of of ozonolysis, destruction and stabilization of Chemistry Monomers And Polymers polymers, reactions and structure formation of polymers in fractal spaces, hydrosilylation Solid State Chemistry Research Alberto D'Amore, SUN, Italy and reactions, antiadhesive coatings, synergism and Trends G.Zaikov, Russian Acad.of Sciences, antagonism in processes of polymers Ronald W. Buckley (Editor) Russia (Editors) phototransformation and light stabilization, 2007. 978-1-60021-567-4. $145.00. 246 pp. 2007. 978-1-60021-415-8. $145.00. 232 pp. selective oxidation, carbocations reactions and Case. Case. polymer analogous reactions. The new book on solid state chemistry presents This book is mainly dedicated to the processes studies of chemical, structural, thermodynamic, of ozonolysis, destruction and stabilization of Chemistry electronic, magnetic, and optical properties and polymers, reactions and structure formation of Polymers & Composites: Synthesis, processes in solids. Research areas include: polymers in fractal spaces, hydrosilylation Properties, & Applications bonding in solids, crystal chemistry, crystal reactions, antiadhesive coatings, synergism and growth mechanisms, diffusion epitaxy, high- antagonism in processes of polymers (Polymer Yearbook Series, Volume pressure processes, magnetic properties of phototransformation and light stabilization, 21) materials, optical characterization of materials, selective oxidation, carbocations reactions and R. A. Pethrick, G. E. Zaikov and D. order-disorder, phase equilibria and polymer analogous reactions. Horak (N.M. Emanuel Inst. of Biochem. transformation mechanisms, reactions at

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Its main purpose is elucidation within 2007. 978-1-60021-895-8. $145.00. 261 pp. fascinating fluorinated compounds, firmly modern solid state chemistry of the influence to Case. established their place amidst the technological the relationship between the crystal structure of The book presents important information about achievements of the 20th Century. a substance and its macroscopic properties. creation of models of solvent influence on

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Weakening of compounds (R-M) that contain a covalent bond Chemistry of a, B - Unsaturated iron due to oxidation of the iron atoms is a well- between carbon and metal. They are prepared known example of electrochemistry (a branch of Trifluoromethyl Ketones either by direct reaction of the metal with an chemistry that studies the reactions that take V. G. Nenajdenko, S. V. Druzhinin and organic compound or by replacement of a metal place when an ionic and electronic conductor from another organometallic substance. E. S. Balenkova (Dept. of Chem., interfere) corrosion. Moscow State Univ., Moscow)(Editors) 2007. 978-1-60021-913-9. $145.00. 149 pp. Chemistry Chemistry Polymer Degradation and Stability Case. Conformation of Macromolecules: This book addresses the fact of the Thermodynamic & Kinetic Demo Research Developments trifluoromethyl group, due to its unique Y. G. Medvedevskikh (Ins.Phy.- Leo B. 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These allows to avoid undesirable metabolic Conformation is statistical property of the changes may be undesirable, such as changes transformations. macromolecules consisting of a number of N during use, or desirable, as in biodegradation or structural units, links, position of which in a deliberately lowering the molecular weight of a Chemistry space one relatively to other is not inflexibly polymer. Such changes occur primarily because Chemistry as Music of the effect of these factors on the chemical fixed by chemical bonds and assumes the Lin Shu Liu (US Dept of Agri., Moscow, possible random configurations. The number of composition of the polymer. Russia) and G. E. Zaikov (Russian Acad. possible configurations at N >> 1 is so great that permits to use the statistical methods at their Chemistry of Scien., Moscow, Russia)(Editors) analysis. That is why the conformation is a Electroanalytical Chemistry 2007. 978-1-60021-894-1. $145.00. 195 pp. Case. Research Developments Nova Science Publishers, Inc. – Physical Sciences Catalog – 2007 – April 2010 27 This volume has the title, “Chemistry as Chemical physics and physical chemistry are Chemistry Music”, which is so, because chemistry and closely related fields of study. Together they are Modern Tendencies in Organic and music, both can be good or bad, joyful or distinguished from other disciplines by the sorrowful, fast and slow. Not everybody can incredible range of problems addressed by their Bioorganic Chemistry: Today and play as well as Nikolo Paganini, Ferenz List, or practitioners. An effective physical chemist or Tomorrow Sergei Rakhmaninov, and similarly, not chemical physicist is a "jack-of-all-trades," able A. Mikitaev (Karpov Phys.- everyone can accomplish complicated organic to apply the principles and techniques of the Chem.Inst.,Rus.),M. Kh. Ligidov and inorganic syntheses. 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Series: Polymer Science and Chemistry Technology Non-Ionic Surfactants Series: Chemistry Liudvikas Segewicz & Marijus Chemical Engineering Methods and Recent Advances in Research on Petrowsky Technology Biodegradable Polymers and 2010. 978-1-60692-928-5. $145.00. 387 pp. Pierce L. Wendt & Demario S. Hoysted Sustainable Composites. Vol. 2 Case. (Editors) A. Jimenez (Dept. of Analytical Double hydrophilic block copolymers (DHBCs) 2010. 978-1-60741-434-6. $129.00. 340 pp. constitute a novel class of water-soluble Chem.,Nut. & Food Sci.Univ./Alicante, Case. macromolecules with potential utilization in a Non-ionic surfactants are chemically potent Spain) G. E. Zaikov (N.M. Emanuel Inst. wide range of applications. In this book, the molecular species that are becoming of Biochem. Phy.,Russian Academy of current developments in the field of double increasingly important as an excipient Sci., Russia) Eds. hydrophilic block copolymers are discussed. In component used in the formulation and delivery 2008. 978-1-60692-094-7. $155.00. 240 pp. particular, synthetic strategies leading to the of drugs and vaccines. This new book gathers Case. preparation of DHBCs are described. Moreover, the latest research from around the globe in this The use of conventional polymeric packaging their aqueous solution behavior is examined in field. materials obtained from non-renewable sources respect to their ability to self assemblage, due to represents an important environmental impact changes in the solution temperature, and/or pH, Chemistry as well as due to complexation. and waste generation after their use. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Biopolymers are naturally occurring polymers that are found in all living organisms and they Chemistry Pollution, Health Effects and fulfil all the environmental concerns (renewable Handbook of Computational Chemistry raw materials and relatively good Chemistry Research Series: Polymer Science and biodegradability). As a result their use will have Technology a less negative effect on our environment Charles T. Collett and Christopher D. compared to petroleum based materials, but they Robson Pierre A. Haines & Milton D. show some limitations in terms of performance 2010. 978-1-60741-047-8. $195.00. 521 pp. Hendrickson (Editors) (thermal resistance, barrier and mechanical Case. 2010. 978-1-60741-462-9. $145.00. 375 pp. properties) as well as associated costs. This book presents ways in which computers Case. can be used to solve chemical problems. One Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are approach develops synoptic algebraic scaling chemical compounds that consist of fused laws to use in place of the case-by-case aromatic rings and do not contain heteroatoms numerical integrations prescribed by traditional or carry substituents. PAHs are one of the most Nova Science Publishers, Inc. – Physical Sciences Catalog – 2007 – April 2010 31 widespread organic pollutants. Their occurrence Boron is a naturally-occurring element. It is the ferroelectric phase transitions, (viii) lattice is largely a result of anthropogenic and natural typically combined with other substances to dynamics in А3В6 and A3B3C62 crystals and emissions such as fossil fuel-burning, motor form borates, including boric acid, salts of their solid solutions, (ix) elastic properties and vehicle, waste incinerator, oil refining, coke and borates, and boron oxide. Borates are considered (x) recently discovered relaxor behavior, asphalt production, and aluminum production. safer to human health and the environment than nanodomains and quantum dots in doped and This book examines recent developments in the other flame retardants (like PBDEs and PCBs) irradiated crystals. Physical properties of some field. and wood preservaties (like arsenic). This new related low-dimensional compounds are also and important book gathers the latest research discussed. Chemistry from around the globe in the study of borates Handbook on Mass Spectrometry: with a focus on such topics as: boron-based Chemistry wood preservatives and their uses, molecular Radiation defects in Ion Implanted Instrumentation, Data and Analysis, aspects of boron treatment technologies, and Applications alkaline earth borates, borate toxicity and effect and/or High-energy Irradiated J. K. Lang (Editor) on drug stability and others. MOS Structures 2010. 978-1-60741-580-0. $195.00. 543 pp. S. Kaschieva (Inst./Solid State Physics, Case. Chemistry Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical Organometallic Compounds: Bulgaria) S. N. Dmitriev (Joint Inst. for technique for the determination of the elemental Preparation, Structure and Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia) composition of a sample or molecule. It is also 2010. 978-1-60876-188-3. $89.00. 205 pp. used for elucidating the chemical structures of Properties Case. molecules, such as peptides and other chemical Series: Materials Science and The main purpose of this book is to present compounds. MS instruments consist of three Technologies some results in the field of generation and modules: an ion source, which splits the sample H. F. Chin (Editor) annealing of radiation defects in MOS structures molecules into ions; a mass analyzer, which 2010. 978-1-60741-917-4. $195.00. 535 pp. received by the authors in their joined work sorts the ions by their masses by applying Case. during the last years. Most of the present results electromagnetic fields; and a detector, which Organometallic chemistry is the study of are a product of the collaboration between measures the value of an indicator quantity and chemical compounds containing bonds between Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Joint Institute thus provides data for calculating the carbon and a metal. Since many compounds of Nuclear Research and Russian Academy of abundances of each ion present. without such bonds are chemically similar, an Sciences. Radiation defects produced by ion

alternative may be compounds containing implantation or another high energy irradiation Chemistry metal-element bonds of a largely covalent (in particular, gamma or MeV electrons) are Encyclopedia of Polymer character. This new and important book gathers reviewed in the book. Special attention is paid Composites: Properties, the latest research from around the globe in the to the characteristics of dually treated MOS Performance and Applications study of this dynamic field and focuses on structures. Investigations into effects of related topics such as: organometallic secondary irradiation of pre-implanted MOS Series: Polymer Science and compounds in therapy, toxicology of organotins structures are carried out. Technology in marine organisms, photophysics of group IV M. Lechkov & S. Prandzheva (Editors) metallocenes and others. Chemistry

2010. 978-1-60741-717-0. $295.00. 1277 pp. Chemistry Applied Electrochemistry Case. Physical Properties of the Low- Series: Chemistry Research and In the last several years, polymer composites have been used heavily in the construction Dimensional A3B6 and A3B3C62 Applications sector, such as to repair or design buildings and Compounds Vijay G. Singh (Editor) bridges, strengthen structures and as stand-alone A. M. Panich ( Ben-Gurion Univ./the 2010. 978-1-60876-208-8. $195.00. 556 pp. components. About 30% of all polymers Negev, Israel; R. M. Sardarly Case. produced each year are used in the civil This new and important book gathers the latest (Inst./Radiation Problems, Nn'tl engineering and building industries. Some research from around the globe in the study in topics examined in this book include the Acad./Sci./Azerbaijan) the dynamic field of electrochemistry and durability of the base components of FRP (fiber- 2010. 978-1-60876-120-3. $98.00. 299 pp. highlights such topics as: electrochemical reinforced polymer), specifically designed for Case. applications of modified electrodes in civil engineering industry. The most common The authors present the first monograph on wastewater treatment, corrosion and protection environmental agents, mostly responsible for the electronic properties, lattice dynamics and phase of magnesium and its alloys as a biomaterial, deterioration of the materials performance are transitions in TlX and TlMX2 (M = Ga, In; X = electrochemical hydrogen storage, analysis of also discussed. Se, S, Te) compounds. These chalcogenides electrochemical reactor performance and others. belong to a family of the low-dimensional А3В6 Chemistry and A3B3C62 semiconductors possessing chain Chemistry Handbook on Borates: Chemistry, or layered structure. We review (i) crystal structure of the compounds, (ii) their transport Handbook of Photocatalysts: Production and Applications properties under ambient conditions, (iii) Preparation, Structure and Series: Materials Science and experimental studies of the electronic structure, Applications Technologies (iv) band structure calculations, (v) transport Series: Materials Science and M. P. Chung (Editor) properties, semiconductor-metal phase transitions and band structure under high Technologies 2010. 978-1-60741-822-1. $195.00. 506 pp. pressure, (vi) ferroelectric/structural phase Geri K. Castello (Editor) Case. transitions at ambient pressure, soft modes and 2010. 978-1-60876-210-1. $195.00. 582 pp. incommensurate states, (vii) electronic nature of Case. Nova Science Publishers, Inc. – Physical Sciences Catalog – 2007 – April 2010 32 Photocatalysis is the acceleration of a the biological aspects of this intriguing family In addition, the activity of Ni, Fe, and Co photoreaction in the presence of a catalyst. In of proteins that are important for consideration catalysts in microsteps of chain initiation (O2 catalysed photolysis, light is absorbed by an of the "proteiomics of HSPs." This book also activation), and propagation (Cat + RO2•→) in adsorbed substrate. In photogenerated catalysis reviews current research on protein folding in the radical chain process of ethylbenzene the photocatalytic activity (PCA) depends on the the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and the oxidation is assessed by original method offered ability of the catalyst to create electron–hole functions of ER-resident molecular chaperones by authors. pairs, which generate free radicals able to in protein folding in the ER. Other chapters in undergo secondary reactions. This new and this book explore the role of protists as Chemistry important book gathers the latest research from promising objects for the study of adaptive Cellulose: Structure and Properties, around the globe in the study of photocatalysis mechanisms at the biochemical and the and highlights such topics as: water and molecular level, the different trends in the Derivatives and Industrial Uses wastewater treatment by heterogeneous evolution of molecular adaptations to adverse Series: Biotechnology in Agriculture, photocatalysis, bactericial and antiviral effects environmental conditions, and a review of the Industry and Medicine of photocatalysts, and others. molecular mechanisms of bicyclol in the Arnaud Lejeune & Thibaut Deprez protection against liver damage. 2010. 978-1-60876-388-7. $145.00. 546 pp.

Chemistry Case. Chromatography: Types, Chemistry Cellulose is the most widely spread organic Techniques and Methods Heterocyclic Compounds: Synthesis, polymer found in nature, since it constitutes the Series: Chemical Engineering Properties and Applications main component of the membrane of plant cell. Series: Chemistry Research and This book provides a synthesis of the old Methods and Technology knowledge and the development of different Toma J. Quintin (Editor) Applications studies which contribute to the understanding of 2010. 978-1-60876-316-0. $145.00. 571 pp. Kristian Nylund & Peder Johansson the structure of cellulose allomorphs. This book Case. (Editors) reviews the development of biochemical Chromatography is the collective term for a set 2010. 978-1-60876-368-9. $145.00. 401 pp. conversion of biomass materials into cellulosic of laboratory techniques for the separation of Case. ethanol, including previous achievements, mixtures. It involves passing a mixture Heterocyclic compounds are organic current status, and future work. The various dissolved in a "mobile phase" through a compounds containing at least one atom of aspects of natural and accelerated ageing of stationary phase, which separates the analyte to carbon, and at least one element other than cellulose are also presented and discussed. be measured from other molecules in the carbon, such as sulfur, oxygen or nitrogen Other chapters in this book explore the basic mixture and allows it to be isolated. The within a ring structure. These structures may principles of cellulose oxidation chemistry with purpose of preparative chromatography is to comprise either simple aromatic rings or non- a focus on different products of the reactions. separate the components of a mixture for further aromatic rings. Some examples are pyridine use (and is thus a form of purification). 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Chem., National Acad./Sci.) chromatography for the determination of also information about conversion of mycotoxins in foods, chromatography in the adamantyl-1 and adamantyl-2 imidazole and (Eds.) research of phenolic secondary metabolites, and benzimidazole derivatives is given. 2010. 978-1-60876-635-2. $43.00. 138 pp. others. Case. Chemistry This book is based on results of a series of experimental investigations it was proved that Chemistry Selective Catalytic Hydrocarbons Handbook of Molecular the nature of medium has an essential influence Oxidation: New Perspectives both on the rate and the chemical mechanism of Chaperones: Roles, Structures and L. Matienko, L. Mosolova & G. Zaikov homolutical reactions. This influence can be Mechanisms (Emanuel Inst./Biochem.Physic, Russian quantitatively connected with the physical– Series: Cell Biology Research Acad./Sciences, Moscow, Russia) chemical characteristics of medium based on the Progress principle of linearity of free energies with the (Editors) use of multiparametric equations. Piero Durante & Leandro Colucci 2010. 978-1-60876-385-6. $145.00. 166 pp. (Editors) Case. Chemistry The different methods for enhancing the 2010. 978-1-60876-366-5. $245.00. 587 pp. Dzhemilev Reaction in Organic and Case. catalytic activity of transition metal complexes Molecular chaperones are a ubiquitous class of in hydrocarbon (particularly, alkylarene) Organometallic Synthesis proteins that play important roles in protein oxidations with dioxygen are briefly discussed. 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Giacomo Spadoni (Editor) affects every American. That’s why it is Nova Science Publishers, Inc. – Physical Sciences Catalog – 2007 – April 2010 44 important that the Energy Committee’s first Energy consequently bringing these types of operations hearing of the 110th Congress focused on the Nutrition Education and Change under federal regulation. global oil situation and its implications for U.S. Beatra F. Realine (Editor) economic and national security interests. As a Energy 2009. 978-1-60692-983-4. $37.00. 86 pp. nation, we now depend on oil imports to meet Geometric Properties and Problems sixty percent of our oil needs. Even modest Soft. disruptions in the world supply can result in Nutrition education, in a public health context, of Thick Knots price spikes at the pump, as we have seen in is intended to influence large segments of the Y. Diao & C. Ernst (Dept./Math. & recent years. general population where they live, work and Statistics, Univ. .N.C at Charlotte, play. Educators face many challenges as they Dept./Math., W. Kentucky Univ., Energy seek to engage people with varying degrees of interest and motivation in activities designed to Bowling Green, KY) (Editor) Fuel Prices: Rhyme or Reason? change their eating habits. The intervention 2009. 978-1-60741-070-6. $37.00. 89 pp. William P. Vestus (Editor) literature offers numerous examples of modest Soft. 2009. 978-1-60692-842-4. $37.00. 108 pp. take-up rates and high levels of attrition. Such In geometric knot theory, a central issue is to Soft. conditions argue for pursuing educational study the various geometric properties of knots The high price of gasoline has been and initiatives that are relatively brief and non- when the knots have certain thickness. This continues to be a driving factor in consideration burdensome. setting makes a knot more like one that is tied of energy policy proposals. Despite passage of with a uniform physical rope. These problems the massive Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT Energy are mostly motivated by the recent applications of knot theory in fields such as biology and 2005, P.L. 109-58), and the Energy Handbook of Interferometers; Independence and Security Act of 2007 (H.R. 6, polymer chemistry. P.L. 110-140), numerous other proposed Research, Technology and initiatives remain under active consideration in Applications Energy the 110th Congress. David Halsey and William Raynor Energy Prices: Supply, Demand or 2009. 978-1-60741-050-8. $195.00. 875 pp. Speculation? Energy Case. Series: Energy Policies, Politics and Wind Power: Technology, In order to cope with the unceasing bandwidth Prices Economics and Policies demand fueled by the massive use of the Internet, this book includes a review of the two John T. Perry (Editor) Cedrick N. Osphey (Editor) main types of switching devices, namely the 2009. 978-1-60741-374-5. $43.00. 150 pp. 2009. 978-1-60692-323-8. $69.00. 416 pp. SOA-assisted Sagnac switch(TOAD) and the Soft. Case. Ultrafast Nonlinear Interferometer. Application A lucid answer to the question of what causes Rising energy prices and concern over of Laser interferometry technique for energy prices to often widely fluctuate is hard to greenhouse gas emissions have focused investigation of acoustic wave fields is find. Is it supply, demand, speculation, congressional attention on energy alternatives, considered as well. manipulation, fear, price gauging by energy including wind power. Although wind power distributors or refiners or some hideous currently provides only a small fraction of U.S. Energy combination of all the above? This book energy needs, it is growing more rapidly than Pregnancy Protein Research provides basic information to try to solve this any other electricity source. Wind energy riddle. already plays a significant role in several Marie Oleary and John Arnett (Editors) European nations, and countries like China and 2009. 978-1-60692-396-2. $98.00. 190 pp. Energy India are rapidly expanding their capacity both Case. to manufacture wind turbines and to integrate Protein is necessary during the development of Power Systems Applications of wind power into their electricity grids. all new cells. During pregnancy, a females need Graph Theory for protein increases significantly. This book Jizhong Zhu (Chongqing University, Energy reviews the biochemistry, physiology and P.R. China) Oncology Social Work Practice in clinical usefulness of placental proteins, 2009. 978-1-60741-364-6. $79.00. 330 pp. specifically from the point of view of their Case. the Care of Breast and Ovarian ability to discriminate women at risk of There are several books on the applications of Cancer Survivors preeclampsia. graph theory, but none of them are related to

Cindy Davis (College/Social Work, power systems applications. This book attempts Univ./Tennesse, Nashville, TN) Energy to cover all applications of graph theory in the 2009. 978-1-60692-594-2. $79.00. 148 pp. Offshore Marine Aquaculture area of power systems. It consists of two parts. Case. Jean T. Nolan (Editor) The first part, containing four Chapters, briefly This book addresses the broad issues of breast 2009. 978-1-60692-117-3. $43.00. 84 pp. introduces the basic concepts of graph theory, and ovarian cancer from a social work Soft. major properties, theorems, and algorithms in perspective, and covers a range of topics, such U. S. aquaculture—the raising of fish and graph theory and network flow programming. as, managed care, minority patients with breast shellfish in captivity—has generally been and ovarian cancer, younger women with breast confined to nearshore coastal waters or in other Energy and ovarian cancer, children and families, water bodies, such as ponds, that fall under state Alcoholic Beverage Consumption evidence based interventions, advocacy, regulation. Recently, there has been an and Health spirituality, technology and internet, increased interest in expanding aquaculture to professional development, and professional offshore waters, which would involve raising Series: Food and Beverage challenges. fish and shellfish in the open ocean, and Consumption and Health

Nova Science Publishers, Inc. – Physical Sciences Catalog – 2007 – April 2010 45 Adam Mazzei & Agostina D'Arco significantly expanding biofuel supply in the Energy (Editors) coming decades, questions remain about the Biomass Gasification: Chemistry, 2009. 978-1-60741-160-4. $106.00. 271 pp. ability of the U.S. biofuel industry to meet rapidly increasing demands. This book outlines Processes and Applications Case. some of the current supply issues facing Series: Renewable Energy: Research, Alcoholic beverages are divided into three biofuels industries, including implications for general classes: beers, wines, and spirits. Such Development and Policies agricultural feedstocks, infrastructure concerns, beverages contain ethanol, a psychoactive drug Jean-Pierre Badeau & Albrecht Levi energy supply for biofuel production, and fuel that has a depressant effect. The relationship price uncertainties. (Editors) between alcohol consumption and health has 2009. 978-1-60741-461-2. $129.00. 488 pp. been the subject of formal scientific research Energy Case. since at least 1926. Moderate alcohol use seems Biomass gasification means incomplete to offer some health benefits, particularly for the Geomorphology and Plate Tectonics combustion of biomass resulting in the heart, but too much alcohol puts a person at risk David M. Ferrari and Antonio R. production of combustible gases consisting of of adverse health consequences. Guiseppi (Editors) carbon monoxide, hydrogen and methane. 2009. 978-1-60741-003-4. $129.00. 412 pp. Amongst the renewable energies, the biomass is Energy Case. the most important energy source. Three types Religion and Psychology The use of cosmogenic nuclides in of biomass are available, one generated during Michael T. Evans & Emma D. Walker geomorphology and earth-surface processes is the processing of wood in timber mills, another also reviewed and uncertainties and limitations is energy plantation and third bio-residues (Editors) generated during the processing of agricultural 2009. 978-1-60741-066-9. $89.00. 352 pp. related to current understanding of the physical properties of cosmogenic nuclides are produce. Case. summarized. In addition, this book studies plate There has been a remarkable amount of popular tectonics in several regions of the world, Energy and professional interest in the relationship including Siberia, Western North America, between spirituality, religion, psychology, and Nuclear Reactors, Nuclear Fusion North Africa, India, and Northwest Australia. health in recent years. This book begins with the and Fusion Engineering importance of a critical methodology when A. Aasen and P. Olsson Energy studying the relationship between religion and 2009. 978-1-60692-508-9. $129.00. 498 pp. psychology. Masculinity: Gender Roles, Case. Characteristics and Coping Nuclear reactors play a key role in 21st Century Energy Zachary D. Buchholz and Samantha K. energy production. This new book provides Renewable Energy Grid Boyce (Editors) critical research in both fission and fusion Integration: The Business of 2009. 978-1-60741-079-9. $129.00. 319 pp. energy production as well as the technology of Case. the reactors. The role of nuclear data in Photovoltaics Accelerator Driven Systems in order to reduce This book presents new research on a great Series: Renewable Energy: Research, the cost for reaching a certain level of safety is variety of challenges and insights into the presented and a detailed discussion of turbulent Development and Policies masculine gender. Standards of masculinity mixing and void drift that includes state-of-the- Marco H. Balderas (Editor) cannot only create stress in themselves for some art models is given. 2009. 978-1-60741-324-0. $89.00. 267 pp. men, but they can also limit a man's ability to

Case. relieve stress. Some men appraise situations Now is the time to plan for the integration of using the schema of what is an acceptable Energy significant quantities of distributed renewable masculine response rather than what is Polymer Electrolyte Membrane energy into the electricity grid. Concerns about objectively the best response. As a result, men Fuel Cells and Electrocatalysts climate change, the adoption of state-level often feel limited to a certain range of Richard Esposito and Antonio Conti renewable portfolio standards and incentives, "approved" responses and coping strategies. 2009. 978-1-60692-773-1. $129.00. 473 pp. and accelerated cost reductions are driving steep Case. growth in U.S. renewable energy technologies. Energy This book describes the converters’ basic This book addresses such concerns and in Disputing Global Warming operating principles and analyzes performance particular, the number of distributed solar for low-voltage, high-power fuel cell photovoltaic (PV) installations, which is Anton Horvath and Boris Molnar applications. Full three-dimensional, multi- growing very rapidly. (Editors) phase, non-isothermal computational fluid 2009. 978-1-60741-235-9. $79.00. 253 pp. Case. dynamics models of planar and novel tubular- Energy shaped air-breathing proton exchange Renewable Fuel Standard Issues Global Warming - just that term evokes many people to nod their heads and fret about an membrane fuel cell are also presented in detail. Series: Renewable Energy: Research, impending climate disaster. In this book, the Research and review of electrocatalysts such as Development and Policies authors address some of the recent media platinum are presented as well.

Daniel T. Crowe (Editor) coverage of global warming and Hollywood’s Energy 2009. 978-1-60692-289-7. $79.00. 181 pp. involvement in the issue. Recently, advocates of Case. alarmism have grown increasingly desperate to Pyrolysis: Types, Processes, and High petroleum and gasoline prices, concerns try to convince the public that global warming is Industrial Sources and Products the greatest moral issue of our generation. over global climate change, and the desire to Walker S. Donahue & Jack C. Brandt promote domestic rural economies have greatly (Editors) increased interest in biofuels as an alternative to 2009. 978-1-60741-669-2. $145.00. 564 pp. petroleum in the U.S. transportation sector. Case. While recent proposals have set the goal of Nova Science Publishers, Inc. – Physical Sciences Catalog – 2007 – April 2010 46 This book will survey the use of the pyrolysis in Energy available today or under development. Also, these fields and will also examine current Energy Costs, International provides an overview of the energy storage research done in the nanoscience field. technologies which are expected to play an Developments and New Directions important role in the future sustainable energy Energy Series: Energy Science, Engineering systems. The technologies are presented in an GPS-based Optimal FIR Filtering of and Technology easily digestible form. Leszek Kowalczyk & Jakub Piotrowski Clock Models Energy Series: Electrical Engineering (Editors) Radial-Bias-Combustion and Developments 2009. 978-1-60741-700-2. $129.00. 238 pp. Case. Central-Fuel-Rich Swirl Pulverized Yuriy Shmaliy (Guanajuato University, Energy is an essential factor in development, Coal Burners for Wall-Fired Boilers FIMEE, Mexico) (Editor) since it stimulates, and supports economic Zhengqi Li (Sch./Energy Sci.&Engin. 2009. 978-1-60741-835-1. $89.00. 210 pp. growth, and development. Any form of energy Case. can be transformed into another form, but the Harbin Inst./Tech.Harbin China) This book addresses novel results in the field of total energy always remains the same. Several 2009. 978-1-60876-455-6. $47.00. 165 pp. optimal finite impulse response (FIR) estimation different kinds of energy exist to explain all Case. and steering of the local clock time errors using known natural phenomena. Different types of swirl coal burners are the Global Positioning System (GPS) timing presented, along with developments in radial- signals. The studies are motivated by Energy biased combustion and centrally-fuel-rich swirl permanently increased demands for accuracy of Syngas: Production Methods, Post coal combustion technology. In air and in the local timescales in different areas of Treatment and Economics air/particle test facilities, a single-sensor hot- film and anemometers have been used to applications of wire and wireless digital Series: Environmental Science, systems. measure air and air/particle flows in the near- Engineering and Technology burner region of different swirl burners. This Energy Adorjan Kurucz & Izsak Bencik new book shows the experimental results and how the two new burners simultaneously have Bioethanol: Production, Benefits (Editors) 2009. 978-1-60741-841-2. $129.00. 470 pp. the advantages of high combustion efficiency, and Economics Series: Energy Case. flame stability, low NOx emission, and Science, Engineering and This new book gathers the latest research from resistance to slagging and high-temperature Technology around the globe in this dynamic field covering corrosion.

Jason B. Erbaum (Editor) topics such as syngas production from biomass Energy 2009. 978-1-60741-697-5. $135.00. 211 pp. generated gases, recent developments of Case. Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalysts, syngas Corn Straw and Biomass Blends: cleaning technologies, and new syngas The principle fuel used as a petrol substitute for Combustion Characteristics and NO utilizations at different stages of deployment. road transport vehicles is bioethanol. Bioethanol Formation fuel is mainly produced by the sugar Energy Series: Energy Science, Engineering fermentation process, although it can also be Mechanical Vibrations of manufactured by the chemical process of and Technology reacting ethylene with steam. The main sources Discontinuous Systems Z. Li (School/Energy Science & of sugar required to produce ethanol come from J. C. Jauregui-Correa & O. M. Engineering Harbin Inst./Tech., China) fuel or energy crops. These crops are grown Gonzalez Brambila (Circuito (Ed) specifically for energy use and include corn, Aguascalientes, Mexico) (Editors) 2009. 978-1-60876-578-2. $43.00. 117 pp. maize and wheat crops, waste straw, willow and 2009. 978-1-60876-126-5. $89.00. 151 pp. Case. popular trees, sawdust, reed canary grass, cord Case. Current energy consumption of biomass grasses, jerusalem artichoke, myscanthus and The scope of it is the identification of accounts for about 14% of total world energy sorghum plants. discontinuities in the stiffness properties of consumption, second only to coal, oil, and mechanical systems, and how these natural gas, and developing countries account Energy discontinuities affect its behavior. The authors for 75% of the biomass utilization. According to Renewable Energies: Feasibility, seek to find, with a practical perspective, those the statistics from 1998 to 2003, biomass Time and Cost Options parameters that cause nonlinearities, or modify resources in China were equivalent to 700 the stiffness properties. million tons of standard coal, of which about Series: Renewable Energy: Research, half was from straw. Development and Policies Energy John O'M. Bockris (Gainesville, FL) Introduction to Power Generation Energy (Editor) Technologies Hydrogen Energy: Background, 2009. 978-1-60876-006-0. $39.00. 93 pp. Soft. Series: Energy Science, Engineering Significance and Future Inside a decade, the availability of our and Technology Albert O. Backus (Editor) conventional fuels will be doubtful. It is already A. Poullikkas (Electricity 2007. 978-1-59454-733-1. $52.00. 128 pp. late, then, to consider what sources we should Authority/Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus) Soft. develop. The principal requirement in addition (Editor) In a world faced with massive and ever-growing to sufficient availability, at an acceptable cost, is energy demands where the environment is an 2009. 978-1-60876-472-3. $69.00. 196 pp. that use of New Energy no longer involving important factor, an array of new technologies Case. injection of pollutants, in particular CO2 into and or fuels are becoming a necessity, not a This new book provides an insight to the wide the atmosphere. choice. Hydrogen may be one of those range of electricity generating technologies Nova Science Publishers, Inc. – Physical Sciences Catalog – 2007 – April 2010 47 alternatives. Hydrogen can be produced from demand sides, but to have substantial impact, Energy diverse domestic feedstocks using a variety of they must be initiated more than a decade in Progress in Biomass and Bioenergy process technologies. Hydrogen-containing advance of peaking. 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Shulk (Editor) of the wind (which causes waves at sea), and the ranging from energy use to consumer lifestyles. 2007. 978-1-60021-392-2. $80.00. 190 pp. evaporation of water to form rainfall which Case. accumulates in rivers and lakes, are also Energy As the U.S. population increases, the need for powered by the sun. energy sources such as electricity, petroleum Frontiers in Energy Research and industrial processes and the resulting Energy Debra C. Downing (Editor) emissions are growing at an alarming rate. New Developments in Nuclear 2007. 978-1-60021-297-0. $125.00. 183 pp. Emissions that increase the rate of global Case. warming include carbon dioxide, methane, Fusion Research Energy fuels modern society, though it is often nitrous oxide and other greenhouse gases. This Y. Nakamura (Editor) taken for granted. 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These react in the Energy AGM-Gel VRLAB for use in high temperature presence of an electrolyte. Generally, the Energy Efficiency Research operation is under investigation and field trial. reactants flow in and reaction products flow out while the electrolyte remains in the cell. Fuel Advances Energy David M. Bergmann (Editor) cells can operate virtually continuously as long Distribution Optimizing Plan for as the necessary flows are maintained. Fuel cells 2008. 978-1-60021-880-4. $129.00. 259 pp. differ from batteries in that they consume Case. Small-Scale Energy Systems reactants, which must be replenished, while Energy efficiency is increased when an energy S. Obara (Tomakomai Nat'l College of batteries store electrical energy chemically in a conversion device, such as a steam turbine, Tech., Tomakomai, Japan) (Ed) closed system. 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Materials,Imperial Coll.London, UK) and storage; renewable energy; nuclear power; Energy 2007. 978-1-60021-783-8. $105.00. 143 pp. single and combined cycles; miniaturized Case. Solar Cell Research Progress energy conversion and power systems; fuel cells Problems related to immobilisation capacity, Joseph A. Carson (Editor) and advanced batteries; and water management process efficiency and long-term radionuclide 2008. 978-1-60456-030-5. $129.00. 341 pp. and desalination. retention are highlighted. Scientific and Case. technical problems in nuclear waste A solar cell or photovoltaic cell is a device that Energy immobilisation are emphasised in particular converts light energy into electrical energy. Energy Markets long-term wasteform stability and durability. Sometimes the term solar cell is reserved for GAO devices intended specifically to capture energy 2008. 978-1-60456-507-2. $69.00. 89 pp. from sunlight, while the term photovoltaic cell Energy Case. is used when the light source is unspecified. Energy Outlook Until 2030 To better understand how changes in domestic This new book presents the lastest research in and international petroleum products markets Timothy A. Burlingame the field from around the globe. 2007. 978-1-60021-957-3. $105.00. 336 pp. have affected prices, this book evaluates trends Case. Energy in the international trade of petroleum products, This book presents long-term projections of Development in Valve-Regulated refining capacity and intensity of refining energy supply, demand, and prices through Lead-Acid (VRLA) Batteries capacity use internationally and in the United States, international and domestic crude oil and 2030. The projectionsare based on results from P. G. Balakrishnan and J. Rethinam EIA’s National Energy Modeling System petroleum product inventories, and domestic (NEMS). The report begins with an (Central Electrochemical Res. Institute, petroleum supply infrastructure. “Overview”. The next section, “Legislation and India) (Editors) Regulations,” discusses evolving legislation and 2008. 978-1-60456-269-9. $45.00. 118 pp. Energy regulatory issues, including recently enacted Soft. CFD Modeling and Optimization of legislation and regulation, such as the new The VRLAB operates on the principle of Fuel-Cell Systems Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) “internal oxygen cycle” without resorting to the standards for lightduty trucks finalized by the use of catalytic recombination plugs. A detailed P. L. Zervas, A. Tatsis, H. Sarimveis, N. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration analysis of the failure modes of VRLAB and C. Markatos (Nat'l Tech. U. /Athens, (NHTSA) in March 2006. remedial measures adopted by the industry is Sch./Chem. Engin.,Greece),M.K. critically analyzed. Extensive trials of VRLAB Koukou (Techn. Educ. Inst. /Chalkida) have been carried out to prove the utility of (Eds) automotive VRLAB in Australia, Italy, Germany and Japan. A new idea of a hybrid Nova Science Publishers, Inc. – Physical Sciences Catalog – 2007 – April 2010 49 2008. 978-1-60456-592-8. $45.00. 104 pp. Pedro Nehter (Fuel Cells Lab., Faculty A. B. Chhetri and M. Rafiqul Islam Soft. of Mechanical Engineering, Hamburg (Dalhousie University, Canada) Editors Fuel Cells appear currently as being one of the Univ. of Applied Sci., Hamburg, 2008. 978-1-60456-180-7. $89.00. 468 pp. most promising technologies for power Case. generation, due to the combination of benefits Germany) (Editor) 2008. 978-1-60692-011-4. $42.00. 62 pp. This book presents the latest research findings they offer. Fuel-cell systems are in modern technological developments based on environmentally benign, highly efficient, Soft. The commercialization of fuel cells needs synthetic chemicals that are highly toxic to the flexible, durable and easy to maintain. This human environment. Unlike the majority of book examines the fundamental principles of further developments in materials, power density and durability. These key issues are books on appropriate technology, this book does fuel cells operation and the mathematical not stop at questioning fundamnetal issues of formulation of a generic CFD model - including strongly related to the choice of electrochemical, thermodynamic and design current technological development modus transport and electrochemical phenomena are operandi. Instead, it offers simple and practical presented in detail. parameters. This applies in particular to the sensitivity of the solid oxide fuel cell’s solutions identifying the roots of problems currently being faced by the society. Energy (SOFC’s) power density and durability. Achieving high power density has to be Fuel Cell Energy Source for Electric assessed carefully with regard to the cell’s Energy Vehicle Applications voltage, fuel utilization and efficiency. Geothermal Energy Research

P. Thounthong (Dept./Teacher Energy Trends Train./Electr.Eng., King Mongkut’s Inst. CFD Models for Analysis and Herman I. Ueckermann (Editor) / Tech. No. Bangkok,Thail., B.Davat Design of PEM Fuel Cells 2008. 978-1-60021-683-1. $145.00. 221 pp. (Groupe /Recher./Elect./Electro. Case. Mather A.R. Sadiq Al-Baghdadi (Head /Nancy) Geothermal energy is a form of renewable of Mech. & Energy Eng Dept., Higher 2008. 978-1-60456-593-5. $45.00. 124 pp. energy derived from heat deep in the earth’s Soft. Inst. of Mech. Eng, Yefren, Libya) crust. Enormous amounts of thermal energy are This book presents the utilization of a PEM fuel (Editor) continuously generated by the decay of cell as a main power source in a distributed 2008. 978-1-60456-997-1. $79.00. 215 pp. radioactive isotopes of underground rocks and generation system, particularly for future Case. stored in our globe's interior. This heat is as electric vehicle applications. The fuel cell, Fuel cells are growing in importance as sources inexhaustible and renewable as solar energy. known as a high specific energy source at the of sustainable energy and will form part of the This heat is brought to the near-surface by present time, is one of the well-known changing programme of energy resources in the thermal conduction and by intrusion into the alternative sources of electric power generation future. The development of physically earth's crust of molten magma originating from when given consideration for decreasing oil representative models that allow reliable great depth. This new book presents leading- consumption and hazardous CO2 emissions. simulation of the processes under realistic edge research in a field destined for increased conditions is essential to the development and attention throughout the world.

Energy optimization of fuel cells, the introduction of Energy Energy Efficiency and Renewable cheaper materials and fabrication techniques, and the design and development of novel Electric Power: Generation, Energy Legislation architectures. This book is a practical summary Transmission and Efficiency F. Sissine (Energy Policy, Resources, of how to create CFD models, how to Clement M. Lefebvre (Editior) Sci., & Industry Div.), L.J. Cunningham, manipulate them and how to interpret results. 2008. 978-1-60021-979-5. $150.00. 256 pp. M. Gurevitz (Knowledge Services Energy Case. Group) (Eds.) This book presents new and important research 2008. 978-1-60456-723-6. $45.00. 202 pp. Vehicle Fuel Economy on electric power and its generation, Soft. GAO (Editor) transmission and efficiency. The world is This book reviews the status of energy 2008. 978-1-60692-057-2. $45.00. 82 pp. becoming increasingly electrified. 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The energy industry and production major economic components in any country, so all Energy Energy energy and electricity issues hold sway over us Handbook of Exergy, Hydrogen CFD Modeling and Analysis of all. This new book presents leading research on energy from around the world with an emphasis Energy and Hydropower Research Different Novel Designs of Air- on tidal energy, energy efficiciency and solar Series: Energy Science, Engineering Breathing Pem Fuel Cells energy. and Technology Maher A.R. Sadiq Al-Baghdad Gaston Pélissier & Arthur Calvet 2010. 978-1-60876-489-1. $43.00. 251 pp. Energy (Editors) Soft. Worldwide Biomass Potential: 2010. 978-1-60741-715-6. $195.00. 501 pp. Fuel cell system is an advanced power system Technology Characterizations Case. for the future that is sustainable, clean and environmental friendly. Fuel cells are This new book gathers the latest research from R. L. 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The environment consists of the surroundings in of the world.This new book presents the latest This new book presents the latest research on which an organism operates, including air, research in this growing field. ecology, which is the study of the water, land, natural resources, flora, fauna, interrelationships between organisms and their humans and their interrelation. It is this Environment environment, including the biotic and abiotic environment which is both so valuable, on the Environmental Research Advances components. There are at least six kinds of one hand, and so endangered on the other. And Peter A. Clarkson (Editor) ecology: ecosystem, physiological, behavioral, it is people which are by and large ruining the 2007. 978-1-60021-762-3. $145.00. 255 pp. population, and community. environment both for themselves and for all Case. other organisms. 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Dinda (Dept. of Eco. & Int'l Develop., except Antarctica, and in many other areas they research in a cross-section of fields centering on Univ. of Bath, Bath, UK) have replaced the natural vegetation due to the environment. 2008. 978-1-60692-246-0. $79.00. 159 pp. human influence. In temperate latitudes, such as Soft. north-west Europe, grasslands are dominated by This book explores some issues of perennial species, whereas in warmer climates Environment annual species form a greater component of the Acid Rain Research Focus environmental economics arising from development activities. A concept crystallizing vegetation. Lyman G. Roglesfield (Editor) in the development and environmental 2008. 978-1-60456-373-3. $89.00. 183 pp. economics literature is the notion that Environment Case. socioeconomic and environmental measures Causes and Effects of Heavy Metal Acid rain is rain or any other form of follow predictable paths associated with Pollution precipitation which is unusually acidic. 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encourage thinking about what constitutes Environment conservation research to be able to better Environment Industrial Fermentation: Food develop projects that directly support Sulphate-Reducing Bacteria in Processes, Nutrient Sources and conservation. The aim of this book is to support Biological Treatment Wastewaters research that directly benefits conservation by Production Strategies Dorota Wolicka (Institute of reviewing applied research and providing Jürgen Krause and Oswald Fleischer examples in which it has been used for Geochemistry, Mineralogy and (Editors) conservation purposes. Petrology, Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, Poland) Nova Science Publishers, Inc. – Physical Sciences Catalog – 2007 – April 2010 78 2010. 978-1-60876-931-5. $43.00. 70 pp. Luis Leopoldo Silva (Evora University, 2008. 978-1-60456-244-6. $45.00. 122 pp. Soft. Evora, Portugal) Soft. Human activity is strictly linked with the 2010. 978-1-61668-596-6. $43.00. 63 pp. This book discusses numerous problems production of waste, i.e., materials and Soft. occurring in relation to microbiological quality substances that are undesired and cannot be Sprinkler irrigation systems are among the most of lactic acid cheese. Lactic acid cheese used further. On the one hand these substances popular and used irrigation systems in the constitutes the source of various nutritive are natural to the environment, eliminated from world, and the trend is to an increase in their substances, which results in a possibility of further technological process by their use. The evolution to low pressure operating allochthonous micro-flora to grow despite the uselessness (e.g. mining waste), or represent systems, in order to save energy, has increased presence of starter micro-flora. One of the issues new products such as anthropogenic waste, surface runoff problems in recent years. As a discussed herein comprised the results of being the by-product of industrial and result, there is an actual and present need to microbiological research depending on tvarog agricultural activities. This book addresses this continue studying the interaction between these packing system. very important issue and covers the topic of irrigation systems and the soil to prevent surface restriction of emission and removal of runoff and soil erosion. This new book Food Science hazardous gaseous emanations that should be highlights solutions that must be adopted in Food Chemistry Research conducted in places where they are formed. order to address the technical and economic Developments aspects of runoff. Konstantinos N. Papadopoulos (Editor) Environment Livelihoods and Vulnerability in the 2008. 978-1-60456-262-0. $150.00. 311 pp. Equations Case. Arid and Semi-Arid Lands of Food chemistry is the study of chemical Southern Africa Equations processes and interactions of all biological and Charlie M. Shackleton (D. of En. non-biological components of foods. The Qualitative Investigations and Science, R. Un., Grahamst., S.Africa) biological substances include such items as Approximate Methods for 2010. 978-1-60876-940-7. $89.00. 267 pp. meat, poultry, lettuce, beer, and milk as Case. Impulsive Equations examples. It is similar to biochemistry in its main components such as carbohydrates, lipids, The purpose of the book is to provide evidence S. G. Hristova (Dept. of Applied Math. and protein, but it also includes areas such as for policy analysts, decision-makers and & Modeling, Plovdi Univ., Bulgaria) water, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, food researchers of the significant links between the (Editor) additives, flavors, and colors. This discipline health of ecosystems and human well-being, 2009. 978-1-60692-294-1. $129.00. 177 pp. also encompasses how products change under based on a review of literature and case studies Case. certain food processing techniques and ways from the arid and semi-arid lands of southern This new and important book expands the idea either to enhance or to prevent them from Africa. The argument is that a neglect and abuse of the wide specter of the theory of impulsive happening. This new book presents the recent of ecosystem goods and services exacerbates equations to the theoretical and applied research from around the world in this field. poverty, especially for the already vulnerable researchers in mathematics and provides them a and marginalised who typically have inadequate tool and motivation for deeper investigations options or capital to address these negative Food Science and applications of these equations to real world effects. problems. It deals with the theory of impulsive Food Safety, Fresh Produce and

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