Rapid Application Development overview

It is amazing to observe the continuing rapid technological development in multishce CT and its new clinical applications. This volume again offers a comprehensive overview of all recent new experimental and clinical research in this field, but it also includes new chapters on dynamic volume CT with 320 detector rows and on flat detector CT. Numerous new and excellent illustrations help to push this book into an even higher scientific orbit. 

In line with the policy of Advances to provide periodic coverage of major developments in physical methodology for the study of carbohydrates, A. Dell (London) here surveys the use of fast-atom-bombardment mass spectrometry in application to carbohydrates. This technique has achieved rapid prominence as the soft ionization technique of choice for structural investigation of complex carbohydrate sequences in biological samples. The author s extensive personal involvement in this field makes her chapter a critical, state-of-the-art overview for the specialist, as well as a valuable primer for the reader unfamiliar with this technique. 

This conversational and somewhat subjective overview of computational approaches in zeolite chemistry has illustrated that the field is very diverse, and expanding rapidly. Modeling and simulation at the atomistic or electronic structural level clearly contribute at various levels to practical zeolite research and development programs. Characterization and zeolite physical and chemical property prediction are the most prominent application domains at present. 

Due to their remarkable intrinsic properties, ceramic membranes have enjoyed rapid development over the two last decades. In order to update the previous overview on ceramic membrane processing, this chapter is devoted to the new approaches in their design and applications. This description is preceded by background information for better understanding of current research in the ceramic membrane area. 

The NATO Advanced Study Institute Flow and Transport Processes in Complex Obstructed Geometries from cities and vegetative canopies to engineering problems was held in Kyiv, Ukraine in the period of May 4- 15, 2004. This book based on the papers presented there provides an overview of this new area in fluid mechanics and its applications that have developed over the past three decades. The subject, whose origins lie both in theory and in practice, is now rapidly developing in many directions. 

In this section we introduce the basic principles of ABPP and provide an overview of its broad applicability and utility for many challenging biological questions. At the beginning we introduce concepts of probe and tag design, which were the basis for rapid developments in inhibitor discovery, imaging, and in vivo studies... 

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