Scopus- now available!

Elsevier's Scopus database is now available on the Science Direct platform. The UW Office of Research coordinated this subscription and it is scheduled to be available through the end of 2012. Continuing access will depend on evaluation and funding.

The access url is http://www.scopus.com

You can also access it as a tab on the SciVerse platform which includes Science Direct. Scopus is an abstract and citation database and a competitor to ISI's Web of Science.

For supporting documentation, take a look at http://www.info.sciverse.com/resource-library/subject/sciverse-scopus

UW develops diet aid designed to work with smartphone

The UW Sensors, Energy, and Automation Lab  and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have developed a device that uses a smartphone to help people watch what they eat and maintain a healthy diet.

Read the announcement in TechFlash here.

USDOT awards $3.5 million for UW-based regional transportation center

The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded a grant of $3.5 million to a multi-university, regional transportation center led by the University of Washington. The newly established Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium, or PacTrans, will focus on safe and sustainable transportation in environments ranging from busy urban centers to remote mountainous terrain.

Read the complete article.

ENGINEERING LIBRARY NEW BOOK LIST for the week of January 23-29, 2012

Engineering Library New Books List

To place a hold on any of these titles, go to the item's record in the Libraries Catalog (catalog.lib.washington.edu) and click on the "Request" button. Or, send the call number of the citation with your name and an identifying number from your Husky/library ID card to the Engineering Library email account (englib@u.washington.edu).
These materials will generally be available for browsing on the new book shelf by Monday morning. If you have any questions, concerns, or want us to order a book for the collection, let us know. Please send email to: englib@u.washington.edu.
University of Washington Engineering Library
(englib@u.washington.edu); (206)543-0740

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ENGINEERING LIBRARY NEW BOOK LIST for the week of January 23-29, 2012

1. Levy, Sidney M.
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS : CASE STUDIES ON INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT /
SIDNEY M. LEVY.
Reston, Va. : ASCE Press, c2011.
HD3885 .L48 2011.

2. Piatek, Michael.
SCALABLE DATA SHARING WITHOUT CENTRALIZED TRUST / MICHAEL PIATEK.
2011.
QA76 Th62177.

3. Shaw, Marianne.
VIEW DEFINITION LANGUAGES FOR BIOMEDICAL RDF ONTOLOGIES / MARIANNE SHAW.
2011.
QA76 Th62227.

4. GRAPH PARTITIONING / EDITED BY CHARLES-EDMOND BICHOT, PATRICK SIARRY.
London : ISTE ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2011.
QA76.165 .G73 2011.
 
5. Lorca, Xavier.
TREE-BASED GRAPH PARTITIONING CONSTRAINT / XAVIER LORCA.
London : ISTE ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2011.
QA76.612 .L67 2011.

6. Khazen, M. (llida Moseevna).
METHODS OF OPTIMAL STATISTICAL DECISIONS, OPTIMAL CONTROL, AND STOCHASTIC
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS / ELLIDA M. KHAZEN.
[LaVergne, TN] : Xlibris Corporation, c2009.
QA279.4 .K429 2009.

7. Bona, Andrej.
WAVEFRONTS AND RAYS AS CHARACTERISTICS AND ASYMPTOTICS / ANDREJ BNA,
MICHAEL A. SLAWINSKI.
Singapore : World Scientific, 2011.
QA377 .B66 2011.

8. Sandoval, Felipe Andres.
EMISSIONS, COST, AND CUSTOMER SERVICE TRADE-OFF ANALYSES IN PICKUP AND DELIVERY
SYSTEMS / FELIPE ANDRES SANDOVAL.
2011.
TA7 Th62208.

9. Schaner, Neil A.
SEASONAL GLACIER MELT CONTRIBUTION TO STREAMFLOW / NEIL A. SCHANER.
2011.
TA7 Th62210.

10. MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION : SYMPOSIUM HELD AUGUST 16-21, 2009, CANCUN, MEXICO /
EDITORS, RAMIRO PREZ CAMPOS, ANTONIO CONTRERAS CUEVAS, RODRIGO A. ESPARZA
MUOZ.
Warrendale, Pa. : Materials Research Society, c2010.
TA401.3 .M38112 2010.

11. Simiu, Emil.
DESIGN OF BUILDINGS FOR WIND : A GUIDE FOR ASCE 7-10 STANDARD USERS AND
DESIGNERS OF SPECIAL STRUCTURES / EMIL SIMIU.
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2011.
TA654.5 .S54 2011.

12. Birman, V. (Victor).
PLATE STRUCTURES / VICTOR BIRMAN.
New York, NY : Springer, c2011.
TA660.P7 B56 2011.
 
13. Singh, Bhawani.
ENGINEERING ROCK MASS CLASSIFICATION : TUNNELING, FOUNDATIONS, AND LANDSLIDES /
BHAWANI SINGH, R.K. GOEL.
Waltham, MA : Butterworth-Heinemann, c2011.
TA705 .S53638 2011.

14. DRINKING WATER TREATMENT : FOCUSING ON APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY
/ CHITTARANJAN RAY, RAVI JAIN, EDITORS.
Dordrecht [Netherlands} ; New York : Springer, c2011.
TD430 .D778 2011.
 
15. Ogg, Anderson.
SCREENING TESTS OF COMPOSITES FOR USE IN TIDAL ENERGY DEVICES / ANDERSON OGG.
2011.
TJ7 Th62159.

16. Pai, Shruti.
CHANGES IN THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF THE PLANTAR SOFT TISSUE WITH DIABETES /
SHRUTI PAI.
2011.
TJ7 Th62164.

17. Seyedali, Mahyo.
ANALYSIS OF TRANS-TIBIAL AMPUTEE MYOELECTRIC PATTERNS AND CO-CONTRACTION LEVELS
DURING GAIT / MAHYO SEYEDALI.
2011.
TJ7 Th62223.

18. MICRO- AND NANOSCALE PHENOMENA IN TRIBOLOGY / EDITED BY YIP-WAH CHUNG.
Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2012.
TJ1075 .M524 2012.

19. TIME-TRIGGERED COMMUNICATION / EDITED BY ROMAN OBERMAISSER.
Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2012.
TK5105.546 .T56 2012.

20. DEVELOPMENTS IN DATA STORAGE : MATERIALS PERSPECTIVE / EDITED BY S.N.
PIRAMANAYAGAM, TOW C. CHONG.
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley ; Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Press, c2012.
TK7895.M4 D497 2012.

21. Slobodov, Ilia.
PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE HIGH POWER HELICON PLASMA THRUSTER WITH
VARYING MAGNETIC NOZZLE CONFIGURATIONS / ILIA SLOBODOV.
2011.
TL507 Th62237.

22. Foster, Amy E.
INTEGRATING WOMEN INTO THE ASTRONAUT CORPS : POLITICS AND LOGISTICS AT NASA,
1972-2004 / AMY E. FOSTER.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011.
TL789.8.U5 F628 2011.

23. Olmstead, Dayne M.
THE STEADY-STATE MODEL FOR THE CHEMICAL VAPOR TRANSPORT GROWTH OF CUGATE UNDER
LINEAR TEMPERATURE-GRADIENT / DAYNE M. OLMSTEAD.
2011.
TN7 Th62161.
 
24. Badiru, Adedeji Bodunde, 1952-
INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS : MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL MODELS AND
TECHNIQUES / ADEDEJI B. BADIRU, OYE IBIDAPO-OBE, BABATUNDE J. AYENI.
Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2012.
TS156.8 .B343 2012.