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New Frontiers in Respiratory Control

XIth Annual Oxford Conference on Modeling and Control of Breathing

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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010

Breathing is performed by the rhythmic contraction of respiratory muscles. It ma- tains homeostasis of the organism by taking in the oxygen necessary to live and work and by controlling the level of CO within the organism. At first glance, breathing 2 seems simple; however, it is produced by a complex...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011

Early Adulthood in a Family Context, based on the 18th annual National Symposium on Family Issues, emphasizes the importance of both the family of origin and new and highly variable types of family formation experiences that occur in early adulthood. This volume showcases new theoretical, methodological,...
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by John P. Sloan
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012

This second edition continues its mission of improving practical, clinical knowledge among physicians and others caring for elderly people, while providing updated information on several major areas in the field. Reflecting current practice trends, a new chapter on home care has been added as well...
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The Rise of Fetal and Neonatal Physiology

Basic Science to Clinical Care

by Lawrence D. Longo
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018

This second edition offers an expanded and updated history of the field of fetal and neonatal development, allowing readers to gain a comprehensive understanding of the biological aspects that contribute to the wellbeing or pathophysiology of newborns. In this concluding opus of a long and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2009

Muscle disease represents an important health threat to the general population. There is essentially no cure. Gene therapy holds great promise to correct the genetic defects and eventually achieve full recovery in these diseases. Significant progresses have been made in the field of muscle gene therapy...
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Lupus Erythematosus

Clinical Evaluation and Treatment

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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012

Often considered the prototypic autoimmune disease, Lupus is characterized by protean manifestations and affects a wide range of organ systems. Despite widespread availability of anti nuclear antibody testing and other technological diagnostic advances, the diagnosis of lupus can be elusive, difficult,...
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by Liviu Nicolaescu
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011

This self-contained treatment of Morse theory focuses on applications and is intended for a graduate course on differential or algebraic topology, and will also be of interest to researchers. This is the first textbook to include topics such as Morse-Smale flows, Floer homology, min-max theory, moment...
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Global Health Diplomacy

Concepts, Issues, Actors, Instruments, Fora and Cases

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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012

The world’s problems are indeed world problems: social and environmental crises, global trade and politics, and major epidemics are making public health a pressing global concern. From this constantly changing scenario, global health diplomacy has evolved, at the intersection of public health, international...
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by Richard Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011

Where were the amino acids, the molecules of life, created: perhaps in a lightning storm in the early Earth, or perhaps elsewhere in the cosmos? This book argues that at least some of them must have been produced in the cosmos, and that the fact that the Earthly amino acids have a specific handedness...
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by Marcel J.M. Pelgrom
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012

This textbook is appropriate for use in graduate-level curricula in analog to digital conversion, as well as for practicing engineers in need of a state-of-the-art reference on data converters.  It discusses various analog-to-digital conversion principles, including sampling, quantization, reference...
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Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany

A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases

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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2010

In recent years, scholars have emphasized the need for more holistic subsistence analyses, and collaborative publications towards this endeavor have become more numerous in the literature. However, there are relatively few attempts to qualitatively integrate zooarchaeological (animal) and paleoethnobotanical...
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by Daniel Borcard, Francois Gillet, Pierre Legendre
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011

Numerical Ecology with R provides a long-awaited bridge between a textbook in Numerical Ecology and the implementation of this discipline in the R language. After short theoretical overviews, the authors accompany the users through the exploration of the methods by means of applied and extensively...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Bilateral Communication Between the Endocrine and Immune Systems, Volume 7 in the Springer-Verlag Endocrinology and Metabolism Series, offers the most current information and recent advances in the area of communication and regulation between the Immune and Endocrine Systems. Immune-Endocrine Interactions...
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Internet Gambling

Current Research Findings and Implications

by Sally Gainsbury
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012

Internet gambling is one of the fastest growing forms of gambling. Global Internet gambling expenditure is predicted to reach US$33.6 billion in 2011. This is higher than worldwide movie box office revenues and represents 9% of the international gambling market. The rapid increase in expenditure of...
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