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The Supercontinuum Laser Source
The Ultimate White Light
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
This is the third edition of a well-known classic on ultrafast nonlinear and linear processes responsible for supercontinuum generation. Part I of the book reviews the progress achieved in experimental and theoretical understanding of the field, and goes over the applications developed since the discovery...
by Robert Allen Carlton
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Microscopy plays an integral role in the research and development of new medicines. Pharmaceutical Microscopy describes a wide variety of techniques together with numerous practical applications of importance in drug development. The first section presents general methods and applications with...
HIV/AIDS in South Africa 25 Years On
Psychosocial Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Much has happened since the first appearance of AIDS in 1981: it has been identified, studied, and occasionally denied. The virus has shifted host populations and spread globally. Medicine, the social sciences, and world governments have joined forces to combat and prevent the disease. And South Africa...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
This book contains the refereed contributions from the 42nd annual meeting of ISOTT. The annual meetings of ISOTT bring together scientists from various fields (medicine, physiology, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, etc.) in a unique international forum. ISOTT conferences are...
The Woolly Monkey
Behavior, Ecology, Systematics, and Captive Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Woolly monkeys are large, attractive and widespread primates found throughout many parts of the Amazon basin. It is only in the last twenty-five years or so that long-term studies of woollies in their forest habitat have been successful; they have not generally been successfully kept in captivity....
Nutritional Aspects of Osteoporosis
A Serono Symposia S.A. Publication
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For the third time, specialists from all over the world met to present their most recent scientific results and to update their knowledge in the expand ing field of nutrition and, osteoporosis. Major nutrition-al factors, such as calcium and vitamin D, were reexamined, with special attention on...
Pediatric Development and Neonatology
A Practically Painless Review
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Often, information in review books can raise as many questions as it answers. This interferes with the study process, because the learner must either look up additional information or skip ahead without truly comprehending what he or she has read. As an alternative, Pediatric Development and Neonatology:...
Atlas of Single-Port, Laparoscopic, and Robotic Surgery
A Practical Approach in Gynecology
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Minimally invasive surgery has become the standard treatment for many diseases and conditions. In the last decade, numerous studies have demonstrated that laparoscopic approaches have improved patients’ quality of life if compared with standard open procedures. Atlas of Single-Port, Laparoscopic,...
Anthocyanins
Biosynthesis, Functions, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2008
In recent years there has been an unprecedented expansion of knowledge about anthocyanins pigments. Indeed, the molecular genetic control of anthocyanins biosynthesis is now one of the best understood of all secondary metabolic pathways. There have also been substantial improvements in analytical...
Igniting the Power of Community
The Role of CBOs and NGOs in Global Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Igniting the Power of Community: The Role of CBOs and NGOs in Global Public Health introduces readers to the pursuit and potential of community-based organizations and nongovernmental organizations to transform global public health. At a time of unprecedented challenges, economic crises, social inequalities,...
Newton's Gravity
An Introductory Guide to the Mechanics of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
“Newton’s Gravity” conveys the power of simple mathematics to tell the fundamental truth about nature. Many people, for example, know the tides are caused by the pull of the Moon and to a lesser extent the Sun. But very few can explain exactly how and why that happens. Fewer still can calculate...
by Petros Xanthopoulos, Theodore B. Trafalis, Panos M. Pardalos
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Data uncertainty is a concept closely related with most real life applications that involve data collection and interpretation. Examples can be found in data acquired with biomedical instruments or other experimental techniques. Integration of robust optimization in the existing data mining techniques...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The volume is intended as an introduction to the physical principles governing the main processes that occur in photosynthesis, with emphasis on the light reactions and electron transport chain. A unique feature of the photosynthetic apparatus is the fact that the molecular structures are known in...
Cancer Biology and the Nuclear Envelope
Recent Advances May Elucidate Past Paradoxes
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2014
"Nuclear envelope (NE) defects have been linked to cancer biology since the mid-1800s, but it was not until the last few years that we have begun to understand these historical links and to realize that there are myriad ways that the NE impacts on tumorigenesis. The NE is a complex double membrane...