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The Zambezi river basin is the fourth largest river basin in Africa and drains a total of some 1350.000 squarekm. The basin drains eight countries: Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia

Part of a biennial series in which surveys of selected topics are presented, this volume discusses: velatida and spinulosida; adhesion in echinoderms; biological activities and biological role of triterpene glycosides from holothuroids

This book addresses the critical science and technology issues in the development and application of poled polymers, with an emphasis on the stabilization of poled polymers and their special applications to second

Deals with a new and promising field developed during the last two decades on the boundary between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. This book presents general information on catalysis for a wide range

The New Trends in Electrochemical Technology series reports on recent advances made in the development of electrochemical technologies as applied to microelectronics, information and other high-tech industries, as well as to heavy

"Statistical Thermodynamics and Properties of Matter" is written with the advanced undergraduate and graduate student in mind. Its aim is to familiarize the student with the approach that a physicist would take,

This text aims to provide an introduction to the subject of quantum field theory without the complication of introducing its application areas such as elementary particle physics or statistical physics at the

Transition metal carbonyl clusters are molecules containing three or more metal atoms connected by direct metal-metal bonds to give a three dimensional polyhedral geometry. They continue to be an area of great

Since the early 1950s, a handful of investigators around the world have studied the infrared sensory organs of snakes. But despite progress in uncovering the morphological, physiological, and behavioral functions of these

An exploration of fundamental as well as practical aspects of supercritical fluid chromatography and extraction. It addresses topics such as: packed columns in SFC; detection in SFC; supercritical fluid chromatography/mass spectroscopy; and

Addressing the techno-socio-economic challenges involved in the protection, conservation, recycling and equitable utilization of water as an economic good, this text explores the linkages and dynamics of interactions involving water, and includes

These are the proceedings from the International Workshop on Penicillium and Aspergillus. The theme was the systematics of these fungi. The taxonomy has developed from morphological concepts, and these papers consider the

This part completes the review of the largest and economically richest order of fishes, Perciformes, begun in Part 3. It includes 12 suborders with keys and brief descriptions to 230 species, and

This text is a reference work for botanists studying the flora of South Asia. As commander of Malabar, van Reed was responsible for compiling the Hortus Malabaricus, a major publication of the

This atlas is an explanatory overview of Kenya's 1065 species, useful both to the birdwatcher as a means of finding birds and interpreting the significance of field observations, and to the ornithologist

Environmental degradation in Latin America has become one of the most pressing issues on the international agenda. The volume began to crescendo when space shuttle astronauts photographed five thousand fires on a

Most environmental studies are based upon data collected at fine spatial scales plots, sediments, cores, etc.. Furthermore, temporal scales of these studies have been relatively short days, weeks, months and few studies

This book takes the standard methods as the starting point, and then describes a wide range of relatively new approaches and procedures designed to deal with more complicated data and experiments -

The first palaeoecology book to focus on evolutionary palaeoecology, in both marine and terrestrial environments. Discusses reconstruction of the past ecological world at population, community and biogeographic levels. A well-illustrated and substantial