Attempts to provide some answers to emerging questions in materials chemistry. The text includes chapters on arborals, starburst polymers, molecular fractals, ultralong alkanes and self-assembly of supermolecular species.

This volume explores the area of the integrity objective within IT security. It also examines the relationship between integrity in information systems and the overall internal control systems that are established in organizations to support the corporate governance codes.

Contains the contributions presented at the IUTAM Symposium on Variations of Domains and Free-Boundary Problems in Solid Mechanics, held in Paris, France, 22-25 April, 1997.

Presents a research program for applying maritime archaeology to the conservation of iron-hulled wrecks.

Provides accounts of pollution at four sites - Kola Peninsula, northern Bohemia, upper Vistula Basin, and Katowice. This book examines the use of biomarkers to assess the environmental health of these areas and make recommendations on the future direction of remedial action.

Provides an exposition of the implications and interpretations of the fundamentals of discrete information theory and coding. Focusing on the results of practical applications, this text covers information measures, Shannon's channel capacity/coding theorems, and source and channel coding concepts.

Covers a wide range of studies in the field of Solid State Fermentation (SSF). This work begins with a collection of useful definitions followed by contributions on biomass estimation and the kinetics of fungal growth on solid substrates. It concludes by considering the latest SSF applications.

Cholestatic disorders of infancy and adulthood represent a major group of causes of end-stage chronic liver disease. Since secondary malnutrition plays an important role in inducing multiorgan morbidity in these patients, nutritional and metabolic aspects need better understanding. This book is suitable to various hepatologists and paediatricians.

Examines neurological disorders, their molecular basis and possible treatments. Following a section on biochemical function, probes and imaging, the contributors look at dysfunctions such as neuropathies and myopathies, and discuss pharmacological agents and toxic insults.

Primary sclerosing cholangitis is a chronic disease of the intra- and extrahepatic bile ducts leading to obstructions and dilatations followed by liver cirrhosis and in some cases cholangiocarcinoma. This book is the proceedings of the Falk Workshop held on October 3, 1997, in Freiburg, Germany (Part II of the Liver Week Freiburg 1997).

Aims to elucidate the scientific and philosophical backgrounds that play a role in the debate taking place on the relation between selection and self-organization. This book is intended for biologists, philosophers of science, systems scientists, mathematicians, physicists, sociologists of science.