Water Use Efficiency in Plant Biology (Biological Sciences)

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Water Use Efficiency in Plant Biology is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of water use efficiency at the molecular, cellular, whole plant, and community levels to present the treatment with a biological focus. This area of biology is of direct relevance to agricultural economics in a changing environment. Water Use Efficiency in Plant Biology outlines the definitions applicable to water use efficiency, the fundamental physiology and biochemistry governing the efficiency of carbon versus water loss, the environmental regulation of this process, and the detailed physiological basis by which the plant exerts control over such efficiency. This is a crucial resource for researchers and professionals working in plant physiology, developmental biology, biochemistry, cell biology, and molecular biology.

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This authoritative and comprehensive volume presents the essence of catalytic chemistry, describing the structure of catalysts, the technology in which they are used and the chemical transformations that occur during reaction.
Heterogeneous catalytic oxidation is a key technique used in the large-scale production of organic chemicals. This text uses catalytic oxidation to explain the principles of heterogeneous catalysis and includes descriptions of how reactants and products interact on the molecular scale with the active sites on the surface of these materials.
Following an introduction to the principles and chemistry of catalytic oxidation, Professor Hodnett uses detailed case studies which represent and illustrate the fundamentals and technology for specific aspects of heterogeneous catalytic oxidation including:
* Propene Oxidation to Acrolein
* n-Butane Oxidation to Maleic Anhydride
* Epoxidation over Silver Catalysts
* Fundamentals and Technologies of the Catalytic Destruction of Volatile Organic Compounds
* Ammoxidation for the Insertion of Nitrogen into Organic Structures
* Oxidative Insertion of Chlorine into Ethylene and Catalytic Combustion of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons
* Liquid Phase Oxidations with Particular Emphasis on the Use of Hydrogen Peroxide as an Oxidizing Agent

Handbook of Heterogeneous Catalytic Hydrogenation for Organic Synthesis

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Handbook of Heterogeneous Catalytic Hydrogenation for Organic Synthesis
Shigeo Nishimura
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The most comprehensive reference in the field, Handbook of Heterogeneous Catalytic Hydrogenation for Organic Synthesis provides synthetic chemists and chemical engineers in fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals with detailed experimental guidelines for heterogeneous catalytic hydrogenation. Organized by functional groups for ready reference and featuring detailed examples of hundreds of reactions, this handbook covers hydrogenations of alkenes, alkynes, aldehydes and ketones, nitriles, imines, nitro and nitroso compounds, carboxylic acids and esters, and aromatic and heterocyclic compounds. In addition, coverage includes the preparation of amines by reductive alkylation and the hydrogenolysis of a variety of compounds. Examples of hydrogenation of functional groups and reaction pathways are illustrated with numerous equations and schemes.

Practitioners will appreciate the plenitude of experimental details given for most of the reactions selected, including amounts of reagents and catalysts, reaction temperatures, hydrogen pressures, and reaction times. They will also find helpful the more than one hundred tables included throughout the book detailing the effects of key factors governing rate and selectivity, such as compound structure, the nature of catalysts and supports, and the nature of solvents. Researchers will benefit from the introductory chapters covering an array of hydrogenation catalysts, including nickel, cobalt, copper, iron, platinum group metals, rhenium, and other oxide and sulfide catalysts, as well as reactors and reaction conditions.

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Good book, bit expensive..........2006-09-07

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This book is a little bit pricey. That being said it is a must for those of us doing hydrogenations/reductions. The choice of catalyst/solvent/temperature is extremely important. The book provides very good summaries and references if you need more details.
Overall I am very happy with this book, it's one of the few good review books out there.
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Brian

Characterization of Catalytic Materials (Materials Characterization : Surfaces, Interfaces, Thinfilms)

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Characterization of Catalytic Materials (Materials Characterization : Surfaces, Interfaces, Thinfilms)
Israel E. Wachs
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Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions Involving Molecular Oxygen (Studies in surface science and catalysis)

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Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions Involving Molecular Oxygen (Studies in surface science and catalysis)
G.I. Golodets
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Heterogeneous Catalytic Science
R. D. Srivastava
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Kinetics of Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions (Physical Chemistry (Princeton, N.J.).)

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Kinetics of Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions (Physical Chemistry (Princeton, N.J.).)
Michel Boudart , and G. Djega-Mariadassou
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Laboratory Studies of Heterogeneous Catalytic Processes (Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis, Vol 42)

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Laboratory Studies of Heterogeneous Catalytic Processes (Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis, Vol 42)
Erhard G. Christoffel
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Oscillating Heterogeneous Catalytic Systems

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Oscillating Heterogeneous Catalytic Systems
Marina M. Slin'Ko , and Nils I. Jaeger
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Theoretical study of structure and catalytic properties of heterogeneous catalysts: (Dissertation)

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Theoretical study of structure and catalytic properties of heterogeneous catalysts: (Dissertation)
Piti Treesukol
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This volume contains contributions to the First Kazakh-German Advanced Research Workshop on Computational Science and High Performance Computing presented in September 2005 at Almaty, Kazakhstan. The contributions show the potential of bringing together theoretical mathematical modelling and powerful high performance computing systems.

Common High Performance Computing Software Support Initiative (CHSSI) computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)-6 Project. ARL Block-Structured Gridding Zonal Navier-Stokes Flow (ZNSFLOW) Solver Soft

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Common High Performance Computing Software Support Initiative (CHSSI) computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)-6 Project. ARL Block-Structured Gridding Zonal Navier-Stokes Flow (ZNSFLOW) Solver Soft

Manufacturer: Storming Media
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This is a ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A106573. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This report presents an overview of the software developed under the common high performance computing software support initiative (CHSSI), computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-6 project. Under the project, a zonal Navier- Stokes flow solver tested and validated via years of productive research at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory was rewritten for scalable parallel performance on both shared memory and distributed memory high performance computers. At the same time, a graphical user interface (GUI) was developed to help the user set up the problem, provide real-time visualization, and execute the solver. The GUI is not just an input interface but provides an environment for the systematic, coherent execution of the solver, thus making it a more useful, quicker and easier application tool for engineers. Also part of the CHSSI project is a demonstration of the developed software on complex applications of interest to the Department of Defense (DoD). Results from computations of 10 brilliant antitank (BAT) submunitions simultaneously ejecting from a single Army tactical missile and a guided multiple launch rocket system missile are discussed. Experimental data were available for comparison with the BAT computations. The CFD computations and the experimental data show good agreement and serve as validation for the accuracy of the solver. The software has been written with large memory requirements and scalability in mind.

Computational Science - ICCS 2002: International Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 21-24, 2002. Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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Computational Science - ICCS 2002: International Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 21-24, 2002. Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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The three-volume set, LNCS 2329, LNCS 2330, and LNCS 2331, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2002, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in April 2002.The three volumes present more than 350 reviewed contributed and invited papers and span the whole range of computational science, from foundational issues in computer science and mathematics to advanced applications in virtually all application fields making use of computational techniques. These proceedings give a unique account of recent results in the field.

Computational Science and High Performance Computing II: The 2nd Russian-German Advanced Research Workshop, Stuttgart, Germany, March 14 to 16, 2005 (Notes ... and Multidisciplinary Design (NNFM))

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HPC comes in all Walks of Life

Computational Science and High Performance Computing II: The 2nd Russian-German Advanced Research Workshop, Stuttgart, Germany, March 14 to 16, 2005 (Notes ... and Multidisciplinary Design (NNFM))

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ASIN: 3540317678

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This volume contains 27 contributions to the Second Russian-German Advanced Research Workshop on Computational Science and High Performance Computing presented in March 2005 at Stuttgart, Germany. The workshop was organized jointly by the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) and the Russian Institute for Computational Technologies (ICT SB RAS) The contributions range from computer science, mathematics and high performance computing to applications in mechanical and aerospace engineering. They show a wealth of theoretical work and simulation experience with a potential of bringing together theoretical mathematical modelling and usage of high performance computing systems presenting the state of the art of computational technologies.

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HPC comes in all Walks of Life.......2007-08-29

The computational Aspects of General Relativity, by J. Frauendiener, is one of many rather interesting papers one would find in this book. This book covers the 2nd Russian-German Advanced Research Workshop which took place in March of 2005. The papers that were presented cover the applications of High Performance Computing (HPC) in research areas such as Fluid Mechanics and computational Physics. As one would expect, the underlying pattern of the types of problems faced by these area are the same as any other, mainly they must be parallelizable, but the effort taken by various researchers to essentially breakup a given problem is truly remarkable.

Particle methods in powder technology, by B. Henrich, et. al., is another paper which the authors use the HPC methods to simulate compaction, sintering and filling of a dispersed powder. The simulation, as one would expect, uses a molecular dynamics method which in turn follows Newton's equations of motions for simulating the time evolution of particles. As one would expect, the sheer number of simulations that must take place is simply staggering, and an HPC is required to get the job done is a reasonable amount of time.

There are a number of other paper that talk about the applications of HPC in Fluid Dynamics or Mechanics, but I was very interested in H. Brunst, et. al. paper, Parallel applications on large scale systems: getting insights, which the authors talk about the "scalability properties on moderns parallel computer architectures". The authors evaluate BenchIT, which is used for evaluation and presentation of performance data. BenchIT is used to compare difference architectures and programming languages against each other to determine their efficiency and performance numbers. BenchIT can be used for simply estimating what the gain would be if for example one programming language is used over the other given certain scenarios. It is a great tool for ROI (return on investments) calculations.

U. Kuster, et. al. paper, Sustaining performance in future vector processors, is simply fascinating! The authors present current performance numbers from a number of platforms, and tie the performance to the software architecture - which is very much true. Teraflops/sec performance is desired, but the authors argue that with current processor architecture, the only way to achieve such performance numbers one much re-architect the way we tackle the problem from the software architecture perspective. The authors then close the loop with possible improvements to the processor architecture that can aid in making the software design a bit simpler. The goal of this paper is show that software and hardware are more tied together than ever, and in order to "go to the next level", both need to work together instead of dispersed components.

I was very surprised at the quality of the papers that are in this text. As an architect that deals with Grid and HPC systems on daily basis, I found this text very informative and educational.

Computational Science and High Performance Computing: Russian-German Advanced Research Workshop, Novosibirsk, Russia, September 30 to October 2, 2003 (Notes ... and Multidisciplinary Design (NNFM))

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Computational Science and High Performance Computing: Russian-German Advanced Research Workshop, Novosibirsk, Russia, September 30 to October 2, 2003 (Notes ... and Multidisciplinary Design (NNFM))

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ASIN: 3540241205

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This volume contains contributions to the Russian-German Advanced Research Workshop on Computational Science and High Performance Computing as presented in September 2003 at Novosibirsk (Academgorodok), Russia. The workshop was organized jointly by the German High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) and the Russian Institute for Computational Technologies (ICT SB RAS). The contributions range from computer science, mathematics and high performance computing to applications in mechanical and aerospace engineering. They bring together a wealth of theoretical work and simulation experience and thus show the potential of bringing together theoretical mathematical modeling with the usage of powerful high performance computing systems, and present the state of the art of computational technologies.

Frontiers of Computational Science: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Frontiers of Computational Science 2005

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ASIN: 3540463739

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Computational science based on the high-level use of computers has been called the third major method in the field of scientific research, standing alongside the conventional methods of theory and experiment. This books covers the wide-ranging scientific areas of computational science, from basic research fields such as algorithms and soft-computing to diverse applied fields targeting macro, micro, nano, genome and complex systems.

High Performance Computing in Fluid Dynamics (Ercoftac Series)

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High Performance Computing in Fluid Dynamics (Ercoftac Series)

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This book contains the course notes of the Summerschool on High Performance Computing in Fluid Dynamics, held at the Delft University of Technology, June 24-28, 1996. The lectures presented deal to a large extent with algorithmic, programming and implementation issues, as well as experiences gained so far on parallel platforms. Attention is also given to mathematics aspects, notably domain decomposition and scalable algorithms. Topics considered are: basic concepts of parallel computers, parallelization strategies, programming aspects, parallel algorithms, applications in computational fluid dynamics, the present hardware situation and developments to be expected. The book is addressed to students on a graduate level and researchers in industry engaged in scientific computing, who have little or no experience with high performance computing, but who want to learn more, and/or want to port their code to parallel platforms. It is a good starting point for those who want to enter the field of high performance computing, especially if applications in fluid dynamics are envisaged.

High-Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing

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High-Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing

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ASIN: 3540429468

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The book is a state-of-the-art overview on high performance computing (HPC) activities to solve scientific and/or engineering problems on supercomputers. This topic has evolved to a key technology playing an important role in determining, or at least shaping, future research and development activities in many branches of industry. The main topics include the development of advanced numerical methods, parallel computing techniques, grid generation, and visualization. Applications of these techniques are directed to fluid dynamics, turbulence, combustion and porous media related flows, computational structural dynamics, material sciences, chemical engineering, dynamic systems, optimal control, and optimization of electronic circuits. The book includes 44 contributions from renowned international experts in the field of HPC and its applications.

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