Discusses the requirements for establishing, maintaining and revitalizing an efficient engineering documentation control system for use by technical and manufacturing personnel in private industry. The book stresses simplicity and common sense in the development and implementation of all control practices, procedures and forms. A list of effective interchangeability rules, a glossary of essential engineering documentation terms and an extensive bibliography of key literature sources are provided.;This work is intended for mechanical, computer, design, manufacturing and civil engineers;...

Integrates fundamental techniques from algebraic geometry, localization theory and ring theory, and demonstrates how each topic is enhanced by interaction with others, providing new results within a common framework. Technical conclusions are presented and illustrated with concrete examples.

Presents rheological data on a number of polymers, making use of the master curve approach to determine unified curves for each generic type of polymer. The text offers a step-by-step procedure for developing a speadsheet computer program to obtain accurate thermoplastic rheograms at any tempertature without using sophisticated rheometres. It includes possible correlations of melt flow index with various parameters involved in polymer manufacture, product fabrication and property evaluation.

"Based on the American Chemical Society's Second Symposium on Advances in Hydrotreating Catalysts, held in Washington, D.C. Offers comprehensive coverage of the most recent progress in catalysis by transition metal sulfides for the creation of more environmentally safe catalysts and processes. Written by over 70 acclaimed experts from various fields."

Written as a companion to Transformer and Inductor Design Handbook (second ed), this work compiles the specifications of over 12,000 industrially available cores and brings them in line with standard units of measurement, simplifying the selection of core configurations for the design of magnetic components.

This second edition of the popular Soil Sampling, Preparation, and Analysis provides a hands-on guide to the methods most commonly used in modern soil laboratories around the world, illustrating the methods with actual results. Divided into three sections, the book covers principles of soil sampling and sources of errors and variability of results, common procedures for extraction and analysis in soil plant testing, and instrumentation. The author added three new chapters on soil and plant test methods, electron microscopy, and nuclear magnetic resonance. He has extensively revised, updated,...

Discussing recent advances in cellular and molecular regulation of stress tolerance, this third edition reviews new research in stress signal perception, cellular mechanisms, and genetic manipulation of stress tolerance for each individual stress. It also examines environmental stresses limiting plant productivity in agriculture, horticulture, and forestry.

< P> In the rhizosphere, exudates from plants and microorganisms as well as stable soil organic matter influence processes that can control plant growth, microbial infections, and nutrient uptake. As the chemistry and biochemistry of these substances becomes more and more clear, their study promises to shed light on the complex interactions between plant and soil microflora. Maintaining the interdisciplinary approach of the first edition, The Rhizosphere: Biochemistry and Organic Substances at the Soil-Plant Interface, Second Edition summarizes information on soil science, agronomy,...

Following in the footsteps of the successful first edition, Functional Plant Ecology continues to offer the latest findings and research breakthroughs in plant ecology. Extensively revised and updated, this book investigates plant structure and behavior across the ecological spectrum. It features new chapters on molecular ecology as well as the ecology and evolution of plant crowns. A concluding chapter addresses new approaches to generalization in functional plant ecology, including the species-sampling problem, plant ecology strategy schemes and phylogeny. With approximately 3000 literature...

From the molecular basis of host defense mechanisms and molecular events leading to the suppression of defense mechanisms by fungal pathogens to fungal infection processes, this work covers various aspects of molecular plant pathology. It includes initial contact, penetration and subsequent evasion of post-penetration defense mechanisms. It documents and illustrates up-to-date experimental results and hypotheses.