Monographs and series

Current monographs, which include detailed coverage of specific biochemical techniques, will be referred to when the techniques are discussed in this book. There are also series published on a regular basis in which experimental techniques are described in detail, for example  

Methods in Enzymology, Academic Press, currently volume 345 (selected volumes are available in CD format, as is the cumulative index for volumes 1-244). Methods in Molecular Biology, Humana Press. 

Practical Approach Series, Oxford University Press (formerly IRL Press at OUP) 

The latter series now has more than 90 titles in the molecular and cellular biosciences, including recent titles on Protein Purification, Molecular Biology, DNA-Protein Interactions, Protein-Ligand Interactions, Bioinformatics, Functional Genomics, and DNA Microarrays). 

Collections of methods are also published in loose-leaf form in ring binders which can be updated with quarterly supplements  

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Libraries. The library of a pharmaceutical company represents an educational benefit as well an indispensable tool. The attractions of a corporate library are not limited to its physical holdings, but also embrace the knowledge of its staff and the scope of its services. Large pharmaceutical companies maintain good collections that combine many valuable features of university science and public libraries. They keep as many as 10,000 books that include chemistry texts, monographs, and series. Even popular corporate histories like Barry Werth s 1994 The Billion Dollar Molecule appear on the shelves. 

The Editors are keenly aware that the literature of Biochemistry is already very large, in fact so widespread that it is increasingly difficult to assemble the most pertinent material in a given area. Beyond the ordinary textbook the subject matter of the rapidly expanding knowlec of biochemistry is spread among innumerable journals, monographs, and series of reviews. The Editors believe that there is a real place for an advanced treatise in biochemistry which assembles the principal areas of the subject in a single set of books. 

A series of monographs and correlation tables exist for the interpretation of vibrational spectra [52-55]. However, the relationship of frequency characteristics and structural features is rather complicated and the number of known correlations between IR spectra and structures is very large. In many cases, it is almost impossible to analyze a molecular structure without the aid of computational techniques. Existing approaches are mainly based on the interpretation of vibrational spectra by mathematical models, rule sets, and decision trees or fuzzy logic approaches. 

This volume ends with part 7 of the ongoing series on the literature of heterocyclic chemistry, by Professor L. I. Belen kii and Drs. N. D. Kruchkovskaya and V. N. Gramenitskaya, all of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. It is a sequel to six earlier parts published in Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry, which started in 1966 in Volume 7 of Advances, and have also appeared in Volumes 25, 44, 55, 71, and 73. The present part covers monographs and reviews published during the three-year period, 1997-1999. 

A.K. Ardell, Mechanisms of Phase Transformations in Crystalline Solids, Inst. Metals, Monograph and Report Series, No. 33, 1969, p. 111. 

The indication from interatomic distances that less than 4 bonding electrons per atom are operating in white tin has been recognized by W. Hume-Rothery, The Structure of Metals and Alloys/ The Institute of Metals Monograph and Report Series No. 1, p. 26... 

Monographs and reviews (mainly published after 1970) pertaining to individual sections of the book are quoted at the end of each section. Many reviews have appeared in monographic series, namely ... 

Blundell TL, Johnson LN (1976) Protein crystallography. In Horecker B, Kaplan NO, Marmur J, Scheraga HA (eds) Molecular biology. International Series of Monographs and Textbooks. Academic Press... 

The series Microtechnology and MEMS comprises text books, monographs, and state-of-the-art reports in the very active field of microsystems and microtechnology. Written by leading physicists and engineers, the books describe the basic science, device design, and applications. They will appeal to researchers, engineers, and advanced students. 

Detailed and rigorous study of the most important problems is done mainly in subsequent articles in the second part of this book, and in a series of monographs and papers (see the bibliography at the end of this volume). However, this does not diminish the significance of the monograph included here, which presents the main aspects in the clearest and most concise form. 

Current and future volumes in the Series include both single-authored and multi-authored research monographs and reference level works as well as edited collections of themed reviews and articles. They all contain comprehensive bibliographies. 

In spite of the apparent obviousness of the beat effect in optical radiation at pulsed excitation, it was only registered and studied comparatively recently. At the beginning of the 1960s Aleksandrov [3] and, independently, Dodd and coworkers [119] discovered beats in atomic emission. It may be pointed out that this, and the related phenomenon of beat resonance, was predicted by Podgoretskii [313], as well as by Dodd and Series [118]. The phenomenon was treated on the basis of well-known fundamental concepts on coherent superposition of states, and was named accordingly quantum beats. These ideas are amply expounded in reviews and monographs [4, 5, 6, 71, 96, 120, 146, 182, 188, 343, 348, 388]. 

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