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Nearly 60 papers consider the interconnections between scattering and transport theories and the modeling of nonequilibrium systems generated by electrical discharges, emphasizing the importance of microscopic processes in affecting the bulk properties of plasma. Among the topics are scattering cross-sections involving electrons interacting with atoms and molecules in both ground and excited states (from theoretical and experiments points of view), energy-transfer and reactive processes involving excited molecules colliding with atoms and molecules or metallic surfaces, transport theories for describing the bulk properties of nonequilibrium plasmas, the modeling of complicated systems such as the strong coupling between the Boltzmann equation and excited-state kinetics, and applications such as lasers, ion production, and plasma chemistry. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.