Authors:G.W. Gribble, Thomas L. Gilchrist,
Publisher: Pergamo
Keywords: volume, heterocyclic, current, chapters, topics, preceded, review, chemistry, critical, progress, literature
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 2001-10-30
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0080440053
ISBN-13: 9780080440057

This volume of Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry(PHC) is the thirteenth annual review of the literature, covering the work published on important heterocyclic ring systems during 2000. In this volume there are two specialized reviews. The first, by H. Ila, H. Junjappa and P.K. Mohanta, covers their work on annulation using ?-oxoketene dithioacetals, a synthetic method that provides useful routes to an impressively wide range of fused heterocycles. The second, by R. N. Warrener, is on the synthesis of fused 7-azanorbornanes. The 7-azanorbornane structural unit is incorporated into a series of

Authors:W.G.L. Davenport, M. King, M. Schlesinger, A.K.
Publisher: Pergamo
Keywords: copper, metallurgy, extractive
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 2002-10-03
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0080440290
ISBN-13: 9780080440293

This new edition has been extensively revised and updated since the 3rd edition published in 1994. It contains an even greater depth of industrial information, focussing on how copper metal is extracted from ore and scrap, and how this extraction could be made more efficient. Modern high intensity smelting processes are presented in detail, specifically flash, Contop, Isasmelt, Noranda, Teniente and direct-to-blister smelting. Considerable attention is paid to the control of SO2 emissions and manufacture of H2SO4. Recent developments in electrorefining, particularly stainless steel cathode tec

Author: C. Guedes Soare
Publisher: Pergamo
Keywords: reliability, safety, advances
Number of Pages: 2860
Published: 1997-07-03
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0080428355
ISBN-13: 9780080428352

These three volumes comprise the papers presented at the ESREL ’97 International Conference on Safety and Reliability held in Lisbon, Portugal, 17-20 June 1997. The purpose of the annual ESREL conferences is to provide a forum for the presentation of technical and scientific papers covering both methods and applications of safety and reliability to a wide range of industrial sectors and technical disciplines and, in so doing, to enhance cross-fertilization between them.A broad view is taken of safety and reliability which includes probabilistically-based methods, or, more generally, meth

Author: M.M. Poulto
Publisher: Pergamo
Keywords: geophysical, exploration, handbook, seismic, processing, data, neural, networks, computational
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2001-06-27
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0080439861
ISBN-13: 9780080439860

This book was primarily written for an audience that has heard about neural networks or has had some experience with the algorithms, but would like to gain a deeper understanding of the fundamental material. For those that already have a solid grasp of how to create a neural network application, this work can provide a wide range of examples of nuances in network design, data set design, testing strategy, and error analysis.Computational, rather than artificial, modifiers are used for neural networks in this book to make a distinction between networks that are implemented in hardware and those

Authors:F.B. Poletto, F. Miranda,
Publisher: Pergamo
Keywords: seismic, exploration, handbook, geophysical, bit, drill, drilling, volume, fundamentals
Number of Pages: 546
Published: 2004-07-14
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 0080439284
ISBN-13: 9780080439280

The purpose of this book is to give a theoretical and practical introduction to seismic-while-drilling by using the drill-bit noise. This recent technology offers important products for geophysical control of drilling. It involves aspects typical of borehole seismics and of the drilling control surveying, hitherto the sole domain of mudlogging.For aspects related to the drill-bit source performance and borehole acoustics, the book attempts to provide a connection between experts working in geophysics and in drilling.There are different ways of thinking related to basic knowledge, operational p

Author: Thomas L. Gilchrist
Publisher: Pergamo
Keywords: volume, comprehensive, organic, group, transformations, functional, heteroatoms, carbon, three, four, attached, synthesis
Number of Pages: 952
Published: 2003-04-04
List price: $956.00
ISBN-10: 0080427049
ISBN-13: 9780080427041

A vast range of different functional groups is potentially available from the attachment of three or four heteroatoms to carbon. Some of these are abundantly represented in the literature, others are rare, and many have yet to be described. The aim of this volume is to describe the synthesis of examples of known functional groups and to highlight those that are little known or unknown. All possible combinations of heteroatoms have been surveyed, with the exception of complexes in which carbon atoms are bonded only to transition elements. The material is organised in four parts: tetracoordinate

Authors:J.A. Saunders, B.F. Matthews, John Romeo,
Publisher: Pergamo
Keywords: recent, advances, phytochemistry, volume, techniques, phytochemicals, molecular, regulation
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2001-08-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0080439772
ISBN-13: 9780080439778

The papers assembled in this volume were originally presented at the joint meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America and the Mid-Atlantic Plant Molecular Biology Society, in August 2000. The symposium from which these chapters were prepared was entitled "Regulation of Phytochemicals by Molecular Techniques" and was organised by James Saunders and Ben Matthews. This joint meeting was timely because of recent landmark advances in molecular biology and genomics as well as the renewed interest in phytochemistry as a rich source of nutraceuticals, drugs, and alternatives to synthetic ag