During the past decade, dramatic advances have been made in computer technology. These advances are primarily as a result of the tremendous progress in semiconductor technology, paced by planar processing and LSI. Great strides have also been made in mass storage media, such as: magnetic recording, bubble domains, charge-coupled devices, beam-addressed storage, and optical storage. The mini- and microcomputer revolution has led to a major broadening of the computer industry's horizons and applications. Many writers have speculated on further progress in the coming years; other have discussed...

A glance through the Table of Contents will demonstrate the many categories comprising the fields of Speech Communication and Theatre. The thesis and dissertation titles which have been categorized appeared between the years 1973 and 1978. For those titles which could readily have been placed into more than one category, we did our best to pick the category which seemed to represent the main thrust of the work. We have also provided cross references for all such titles. As addi- tional aids to the student, we have provided subject and school indexes. Although we have tried to produce an...

Microelectronic packaging protects and supports electronic devices and circuits and provides connections to the other parts of the system. The protection function avoids mechanical, electrical, chemical, contamination, and photo-optical damage, degeneration, and causes of malfunction. Hybrid microelectronic circuits and subsystem packages support the substrates; the substrate contains the circuit elements, (semiconductor devices or IC chips, deposited or chip resistors and capacitors, and attached inductors), as well as deposited and bonded interconnection wires. The connections to other...

The Hospitalized Child: Psychosocial Issues is a comprehensive, abstracted bibliography focusing on the behavioral and developmental consequences of short-term, long-term or recurrent hospitalization during childhood and adolescence. The emphasis of this volume is on the psychosocial issues related to the hospital experience/environ- ment, rather than on adaptation to or coping with particular disease states or terminal illness. Publications are included which identify potential problems of hospitalization, coping mechanisms of patients, parents, and staff, and possible solutions. For...

The purpose of this bibliography is to list all of the known literature on acoustic emission in a single volume. The bibliography is intended to serve as a reference to the literature for those interested in the acoustic emission phenomenon, for those engaged in materials research, and for those interested in applying acoustic emission as a nonde- structive testing method. It provides an invaluable reference to source materiaf for both undergraduate and graduate students interested in the subjects of acoustic emission, microseismic activity, and nondestructive testing. In addition, it...

The continuous and ever expanding development of high-temperature tech nology involves the use of high -temperature refractory materials and one of the most important classes of these is the oxides, i.e., compounds of elements with oxygen. Oxides are the oldest refractory compounds known in technology and this is connected with their high chemical stability and abundance in nature. In addition to the use of oxides as raw materials for metallurgical processes, the refractoriness, chemical stability, and magnetic and other technically important properties of oxides have been put to use since...

This book contains th Proceedings of the World Conference of the International Nuclear Target Development Society held in Boston, October 1-3, 1979. Approximately seventy participants and registrants from the following countries attended this Conference: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, United Kingdom, German Federal Republic, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, and the United States. The Conference was sponsored by the New England Nuclear Corporation. Conference Chairman in residence was Jozef Jaklovsky who was assisted by the invited Co-Chairman D. Riel of the State...

This reference book sets out to provide a useful glossary to writers, reviewers and citizens interested in the EIS process. Over the last decade, environmental impact statements have devel- oped a rich, but sometimes confusing vocabulary. The purpose of this book is to help people understand and communicate more effec- tively by presenting, analyzing and comparing terminology used by various EIS organizations. This book is not a technical glossary or the standard glossary, but rather the first complete effort to assemble and examine the translation of complex technical EIS lan- guage into a...

The present volume represents the result of two years of work originally begun as a fifteen-member student project under my supervision at NASA - Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif- ornia. As a means of acquainting team members with previous research related to our NASA experiments with long-term isolation and confine- ment effects upon nonhuman primate behavior a weekly meeting was arranged for students to orally present abstracts of various articles they had read. As the number of references increased we decided to expand our efforts through several computer searches of the...

The rapid expansion of research activity in all disciplines of science and technology and the concomitant growth in the number of scientific publications have caused a con- siderable strain on library budgets. Even well-endowed libraries find it too expensive to collect all scientific journals. Research workers therefore often find it difficult to discover the extent and nature of work done on a particular molecule. Moreover, liter- ature searches, even in a well-equipped li- brary, take a great deal of time and effort. In recent years the need for a comprehensive bibliography of the...