Examines reliability, availability and risk analysis, and reviews probability and statistics essential to understanding reliability methods. This text discusses important reliability aspects both of components and complex systems, and includes pedagogical and reference features and solved problems.

Offering systematic analysis of complex metabolic pathways and ways of employing recombinant DNA techniques to alter cell behaviour and growth patterns, this work presents the basic theory and practical applications of metabolic engineering (ME). It covers ME as a distinct subfield of genetic engineering and demonstrates means of enabling cells to produce valuable proteins and polypeptides.

Features papers delivered to a 1988 meeting of food technologists in Dallas, and a few chapters, which survey the instruments and methodologies available for the instrumental analysis of chemical, physical, and microbiological aspects of food, especially in quality assurance and control.

Offers an historical perspective of the past 25 years of computers in libraries, profileing currently available processing systems according to their size and platform. The short- and long-term future of information technology in libraries.;College or university bookstores may order five or more copies at a special student price which is available from Marcel Dekker upon request.

Fills a gap between the existing studies of proteins, which tend to be highly technical and geared toward the practicing protein chemist, and biochemistry textbooks, which focus on general principles. Scientists cover a dozen topics by presenting fundamental principles, an overview, and the practica

Considers a new generation of sensors for use in industrial processes, which measure the chemical environment directly by means of a biological agent mainly enzymes so far. Various specialists from Europe, the US, and Japan identify the device's place in their disciplines; review the principles of m

Contributors from European and US universities and corporations review recent developments in the integration of downstream processing and bioconversion, describing their experience with many separation technologies, including some still in the experimental stage. The topics include the construction

Details the state of yeast strain development and handling, highlighting advances in yeast selection for academic research, industry, and recombinant DNA technology.

Offers coverage of the development of protein purification processes for large-scale commercial operations, and addresses process development, scale-up, applications and mathematical descriptions. Technologies currently used at the commercial scale are covered in depth.