Biophysics category: 418 books
by Greg Lever
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
This work establishes linear-scaling density-functional theory (DFT) as a powerful tool for understanding enzyme catalysis, one that can complement quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) and molecular dynamics simulations. The thesis reviews benchmark studies demonstrating techniques capable...
The Enzymes
Molecular Machines Involved in Protein Transport across Cellular Membranes
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
This volume of The Enzymes features high-caliber thematic articles on the topic of molecular machines involved in protein transport across cellular membranes. The book consists of five parts which span the range of membranes including bacterial, endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondrial, chloroplast, and peroxismal.
Bioprocess Engineering
Kinetics, Sustainability, and Reactor Design
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Bioprocess Engineering: Kinetics, Sustainability, and Reactor Design, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive resource on bioprocess kinetics, bioprocess systems, sustainability, and reaction engineering. Author Dr. Shijie Liu reviews the relevant fundamentals of chemical kinetics, batch and continuous...
Wormlike Micelles
Advances in Systems, Characterisation and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Wormlike micelles are elongated flexible self-assembled structures created from the aggregation of amphiphiles and their resulting dynamic networks have gained attention for a number of uses, particularly in the oil industry.
Written by experts, Wormlike Micelles describes the latest developments...
Liquid Crystals in Biotribology
Synovial Joint Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
This book summarizes the theoretical and experimental studies confirming the concept of the liquid-crystalline nature of boundary lubrication in synovial joints. It is shown that cholesteric liquid crystals in the synovial liquid play a significant role in the mechanism of intra-articular friction...
The Application of Biofluid Mechanics
Boundary Effects on Phoretic Motions of Colloidal Spheres
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
"The Application of Biofluid Mechanics: Boundary Effects on Phoretic Motions of Colloidal Spheres" focuses on the phoretic motion behavior of various micron- to nanometer-size particles. The content of this book is divided into two parts: one on the concentration gradient-driven diffusiophoresis...
Proceedings of the 240 Conference
Science's Great Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Based on the '240' Conference held at the University of Chicago in September of 2012, this special volume of The Advances in Chemical Physics series celebrates scientific research contributions and careers of R. Stephen Berry, Stuart A. Rice and Joshua Jortner. In addition to continuing the chemical...
Low Vision
Principles and Applications. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Vision, University of Waterloo, June 25–27, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
An International Symposium on Low Vision was sponsored by the Centre for Sight Enhancement of the School of Optometry, University of Waterloo in June 1986, bringing low vision researchers and clinicians together from a number of countries. The unique feature of the conference is the multi-disciplinary...
by Sergei Noskov, Robert J French
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Na Channels from Phyla to Function, the latest volume in the Current Topics in Membranes series, is targeted toward scientists and researchers in biochemistry and molecular and cellular biology, providing the necessary membrane research to assist them in discovering the current state of a particular...
Dissecting Regulatory Interactions of RNA and Protein
Combining Computation and High-throughput Experiments in Systems Biology
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The work described in this book is an excellent example of interdisciplinary research in systems biology. It shows how concepts and approaches from the field of physics can be efficiently used to answer biological questions and reports on a novel methodology involving creative computer-based analyses...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2009
Published continuously since 1944, the Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology serial has been a continuous, essential resource for protein chemists. Covering reviews of methodology and research in all aspects of protein chemistry, including purification/expression, proteomics, modeling...
by D.B. Roodyn
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1970
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1970
In the face of rapid developments in automated techniques, this book presents an excellent guide to present trends. It provides information on: principles and terminology of enzyme automation; automatic methods illustrated by the Technicon system; semi-automatic methods; interrupted-flow and discrete-sampling...
by Alfred L. Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In MRI Physics for Physicians the author presents the physical principles of magnetic resonance imaging without detailing the more sophisticated mathematics and physics typically used by physicists when explaining such phenomena. This book is mainly intended for radiologists and clinical physicians...
Infrared Imaging
A casebook in clinical medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Medical thermography or infrared thermal imaging is a rapid and non-invasive procedure for mapping skin-temperature distribution of the human body. The natural infrared emission from the skin is captured by the imaging camera, and is displayed as a digital image where abnormal physiological activity...