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Human Growth
Volume 3 Neurobiology and Nutrition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Growth, as we conceive it, is the study of change in an organism not yet mature. Differential growth creates form: external form through growth rates which vary from one part of the body to another and one tissue to another; and internal form through the series of time-entrained events which build...
Drug Dependence and Alcoholism
Volume 1 Biomedical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The 1978 National Drug Abuse Conference held in Seattle marked the beginning of the second decade of these conferences and their predecessor National Methadone Conferences. They began as small conferences devoted to understanding the problems and promises in herent in methadone maintenance treatment...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Until recently digital processing of biomedical images was conducted solely in the research laboratories of the universities and industry. However, with the advent of computerized tomography in 1972 and the computerized white blood cell differential count in 1974, enormous changes have suddenly occurred....
by Mars G. Fontana, Roger W. Staehle
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This series was organized to provide a forum for review papers in the area of corrosion. The aim of these reviews is to bring certain areas of corrosion science and technology into a sharp focus. The volumes of this series are published approximately on a yearly basis and each contains three to five...
Palaeozoic Fishes
2nd ed;
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
I have revised Moy-Thomas's widely used book on Palaeozoic fishes in an attempt to incorporate some of the considerable advances that have been made in this field over the last 30 years, which have in some respects made the first edition seriously out-of-date. The book is now inevitably longer, but...
Optical Mineralogy
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is the successor to A practical introduction to optical mineralogy, which was written in the early 1980s, and published by George Allen & Unwin in 1985. Our intention, once again, is to introduce the student of geology to the microscopic examination of minerals, by both transmitted and...
Systems Science
Addressing Global Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As we approach the end of the 20th century we can look back upon the achievements that have been made in a variety of human endeavours with pride. Enormous strides have been made to improve the quality of life of millions of people through the application of the scientific discoveries made during...
by J. Dux
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
xii a second edition might be in order, and readily agreed. Although the basic principles remain the same, discussions with analysts, laboratory supervisors, and managers indicated many areas where improve ments could be made. For example, new chapters have been added on sampling and quality assurance;...
Anodic Protection
Theory and Practice in the Prevention of Corrosion
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The objectives of this book are to give technical information about anodic pro tection, explain how economic analyses are made to determine whether or not it should be used, and describe some of the applications and equipment. Lim itations of the technique will be pointed out. Technological changes...
by Gary Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Apple Macintosh Encyclopedia provides easily accessible, brief and understandable information on the topics that you are most likely to have questions about. We have carefully digested the manuals, books, magazine articles, and other information sources for the Macintosh. These, combined with...
Air Pollution Modeling
Theories, Computational Methods and Available Software
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Finishing this book is giving me a mixture of relief, satisfaction and frus tration. Relief, for the completion of a project that has taken too many of my evenings and weekends and that, in the last several months, has become almost an obsession. Satisfaction, for the optimistic feeling that this...
Computer Graphics
Techniques and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Biological Abstracts / BIOSIS
The First Fifty Years. The Evolution of a Major Science Information Service
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A fiftieth birthday is a good one to celebrate-old enough to be ex perienced and mature, but not so old as to be an antique. And if the fifty years have spanned as much change in scientific affairs as has occurred during the lifetime of Biological Abstracts it is surely time for a stocktaking. The...
by Nicholas Mrosovsky
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Mammalian hibernation is commonly thought of as something completely out of the ordinary, a "unique and unorthodox state." The present book takes the opposite view. It argues that the physiological achievements of hibernators do not deEend on special mechanisms but on special use of ordinary...