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Today, in the era of the statins (cholesterol lowering drugs),
there is no longer any doubt about the value of lowering blood
cholesterol levels. This book chronicles the controversy that
swirled around the 'lipid hypothesis' of atherosclerosis for so
many years. In fact, 'the lower the better' is the position of many
clinicians. However, getting to this point has been a long uphill
battle marked by heated debate and sometimes violent disagreement.
The history of this controversy is told here for its own sake and
because remembering it may help us avoid similar mistakes in the
future.
The theory of Memory Evolutive Systems represents a mathematical
model for natural open self-organizing systems, such as biological,
sociological or neural systems. In these systems, the dynamics are
modulated by the cooperative and/or competitive interactions
between the global system and a net of internal Centers of
Regulation (CR) wich a differential access to a central
heirarchical Memory.
Combustion under sufficiently fuel-lean conditions can have the
desirable attributes of high efficiency and low emissions, this
being particularly important in light of recent and rapid increases
in the cost of fossil fuels and concerns over the links between
combustion and global climate change. Lean Combustion is an
eminently authoritative, reference work on the latest advances in
lean combustion technology and systems. It will offer engineers
working on combustion equipment and systems both the fundamentals
and the latest developments in more efficient fuel usage and in
much-sought-after reductions of undesirable emissions, while still
achieving desired power output and performance. This volume brings
together research and design of lean combustion systems across the
technology spectrum in order to explore the state-of-the-art in
lean combustion and its role in meeting current and future demands
on combustion systems.
In its third edition, this praised book demonstrates how the living
systems modeling of aquatic ecosystems for ecological, biological
and physiological research, and ecosystem restoration can produce
answers to very complex ecological questions. This book further
offers an understanding developed in 25 years of living ecosystem
modeling and discusses how this knowledge has produced methods of
efficiently solving many environmental problems. Public education
through this methodology is the additional key to the broader
ecosystem understanding necessary to allow human society to pass
through the next evolutionary bottleneck of our species. Living
systems modeling as a wide spectrum educational tool can provide a
primary vehicle for that essential step.
This book provides comprehensive coverage of mobile data networking
and mobile communications under a single cover for diverse
audiences including managers, practicing engineers, and students
who need to understand this industry. In the last two decades, many
books have been written on the subject of wireless communications
and networking. However, mobile data networking and mobile
communications were not fully addressed in a unified fashion. This
book fills that gap in the literature and is written to provide
essentials of wireless communications and wireless networking,
including Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN), Wireless Local
Area Networks (WLAN), and Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWAN).
This volume provides a comprehensive understanding of HIV/AIDS and neuro-AIDS, including a history of the disease, and an explanation of many of the conditions that can arise in afflicted patients, including opportunistic infections, central nervous system tumors, spinal cord disorders, myopathies and progressive encephalopathy, amongst others. Clinicians will gain a greater understanding of the complex mechanisms of the disease. Beginning with a basic introduction to HIV infections and Neuro-AIDS, practitioners will find useful data on advances in molecular biology, neuroepidemiology, neuroimaging, neuropathology, neuropharmacology, as well as information on the development of therapeutic strategies appropriate for the disorder, including groundbreaking retroviral therapies. In addition, the socioeconomic and political constraints that
hinder treatment and disease management in developing parts of the
world are presented.
Knowledge of plant names can give insight into largely forgotten
beliefs. For example, the common red poppy is known as "Blind Man"
due to an old superstitious belief that if the poppy were put to
the eyes it would cause blindness. Many plant names derived from
superstition, folk lore, or primal beliefs. Other names are purely
descriptive and can serve to explain the meaning of the botanical
name. For example, Beauty-Berry is the name given to the American
shrub that belongs to the genus Callicarpa. Callicarpa is Greek for
beautiful fruit. Still other names come from literary sources
providing rich detail of the transmission of words through the
ages.
Network routing can be broadly categorized into Internet routing,
PSTN routing, and telecommunication transport network routing. This
book systematically considers these routing paradigms, as well as
their interoperability. The authors discuss how algorithms,
protocols, analysis, and operational deployment impact these
approaches. A unique feature of the book is consideration of both
macro-state and micro-state in routing; that is, how routing is
accomplished at the level of networks and how routers or switches
are designed to enable efficient routing.
In the early days of the Web a need was recognized for a language
to display 3D objects through a browser. An HTML-like language,
VRML, was proposed in 1994 and became the standard for describing
interactive 3D objects and worlds on the Web. 3D Web courses were
started, several best-selling books were published, and VRML
continues to be used today. However VRML, because it was based on
HTML, is a stodgy language that is not easy to incorporate with
other applications and has been difficult to add features to.
Meanwhile, applications for interactive 3D graphics have been
exploding in areas such as medicine, science, industry, and
entertainment. There is a strong need for a set of modern Web-based
technologies, applied within a standard extensible framework, to
enable a new generation of modeling & simulation applications
to emerge, develop, and interoperate. X3D is the next generation
open standard for 3D on the web. It is the result of several years
of development by the Web 3D Consortium's X3D Task Group. Instead
of a large monolithic specification (like VRML), which requires
full adoption for compliance, X3D is a component-based architecture
that can support applications ranging from a simple non-interactive
animation to the latest streaming or rendering applications. X3D
replaces VRML, but also provides compatibility with existing VRML
content and browsers. Don Brutzman organized the first symposium on
VRML and is playing a similar role with X3D; he is a founding
member of the consortium. Len Daly is a professional member of the
consortium and both Len and Don have been involved with the
development of the standard from the start.
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is an analytical tool used by
chemists and physicists to study the structure and dynamics of
molecules. In recent years, no other technique has grown to such
importance as NMR spectroscopy. It is used in all branches of
science where precise structural determination is required and
where the nature of interactions and reactions in solution is being
studied. Annual Reports on NMR has established itself as a premier
means for the specialist and nonspecialist alike to become familiar
with new techniques and applications of NMR spectroscopy.
QoS, short for "quality of service," is one of the most important
goals a network designer or administrator will have. Ensuring that
the network runs at optimal precision with data remaining accurate,
traveling fast, and to the correct user are the main objectives of
QoS. The various media that fly across the network including voice,
video, and data have different idiosyncrasies that try the
dimensions of the network. This malleable network architecture
poses an always moving potential problem for the network
professional.
This book examines the role that dopamine plays in schizophrenia,
examining its role in not only the symptoms of the disease but also
in its treatment. It also reviews all neurotransmitters that have
been implicated in schizophrenia, exploring the genetic data,
clinical data implicating the transmitter, and the preclinical data
exploring how a transmitter may interact with dopamine and
contribute to the dopaminergic phenotype observed in the illness.
This book will serve as an educational tool for instructors, a
guide for clinicians, and be of interest to researchers. It is a
good reference for researchers specialized in one particular area
and interested in learning about other areas of pathology in
schizophrenia and how they may all feed into each other. The book
concludes with an overall integrative model assembling as many of
these elements as possible.
While the highly technical measurement techniques and methodologies
of Value at Risk have attracted huge interest, much less attention
has been focused on how Value at Risk and the risk-adjusted
performance measures such as RAROC or economic profit/EVA . can be
effectively used to improve a bank s decision making processes.
Academic books are typically concerned primarily with measurement
techniques, and devote only a small section to describing the
applications, usually without discussing the problems that changing
organizational processes in banks may have on business units
behaviour. Practitioners books are often based on a single
experience, presenting the approach that has been pursued by a
single bank, but often do not adequately evaluate that approach. In
actual practice, the choice of how to use Value at Risk and
risk-adjusted performance measures has no single optimal solution,
but requires effective decision making that can identify the
solution that is consistent with the bank s style of management and
coordination mechanisms, and often with characteristics of
individual business units as well. In this book, Francesco Saita of
Bocconi University argues that even though risk measurement
techniques have greatly improved in recent years for market, credit
and now also operational risk, capital management and capital
allocation decisions are far from becoming purely technical and
mechanical. On one hand, decisions about capital management must
consider handling different capital constraints (e.g. regulatory
vs. economic capital ) and face remarkable difficulties in
providing a measure of aggregated ] Value at Risk (i.e. a measure
that considers the overall value at risk of the bank after
diversification across risk types). On the other hand, the aim of
using capital more efficiently through capital allocation cannot be
achieved only through a sort of centralized asset allocation
process, but rather by designing a Value at Risk limit system and a
risk-adjusted performance measurement system that are designed to
provide the right incentives to individual business units. This
connection between sophisticated and cutting edge risk measurement
techniques and practical bank decision making about capital
management and capital allocation make this book unique and provide
readers with a depth of academic and theoretical expertise combined
with practical and real-world understanding of bank structure,
organizational constraints, and decisionmaking processes.
Dislocations are lines of irregularity in the structure of a solid
analogous to the bumps in a badly laid carpet. Like these bumps
they can be easily moved, and they provide the most important
mechanism by which the solid can be deformed. They also have a
strong influence on crystal growth and on the electronic properties
of semiconductors.
This book gives a practical introduction to model-based testing,
showing how to write models for testing purposes and how to use
model-based testing tools to generate test suites. It is aimed at
testers and software developers who wish to use model-based
testing, rather than at tool-developers or academics.
Indispensable for food, chemical, mechanical, and packaging
engineers, "Handbook of Farm, Dairy, and Food Machinery" covers in
one comprehensive volume fundamental food engineering principles in
the design of food industry machinery. The handbook provides broad,
yet technically detailed coverage of food safety, regulations,
product processing systems, packaging, facilities, waste
management, and machinery design topics in a "farm to the fork"
organization.
This book presents an overview of the physics of radiation
detection and its applications. It covers the origins and
properties of different kinds of ionizing radiation, their
detection and measurement, and the procedures used to protect
people and the environment from their potentially harmful effects.
It details the experimental techniques and instrumentation used in
different detection systems in a very practical way without
sacrificing the physics content. It provides useful formulae and
explains methodologies to solve problems related to radiation
measurements. With abundance of worked-out examples and
end-of-chapter problems, this book enables the reader to understand
the underlying physical principles and their applications. Detailed
discussions on different detection media, such as gases, liquids,
liquefied gases, semiconductors, and scintillators make this book
an excellent source of information for students as well as
professionals working in related fields. Chapters on statistics,
data analysis techniques, software for data analysis, and data
acquisition systems provide the reader with necessary skills to
design and build practical systems and perform data analysis.
An integrative introduction to the theories and themes in research
on creativity, this book is both a reference work and text for
courses in this burgeoning area of research. The book begins with a
discussion of the theories of creativity (Person, Product, Process,
Place), the general question of whether creativity is influenced by
nature or nurture, what research has indicated of the personality
and style of creative individuals from a personality analysis
standpoint, how social context affects creativity, and then
coverage of issues like gender differences, whether creativity can
be enhanced, if creativity is related to poor mental or physical
health, etc.
Currently, few drugs are available for the effective treatment of
neurodegenerative diseases and neurodevelopmental disorders. Recent
advances in neuroscience research offer hope that future strategies
for treating these brain disorders will include neurogenesis and
neuroenhancement as therapeutic endpoints. This volume reviews
cutting-edge findings related to the pharmacological aspects of
neurogenesis and neuroprotection. A broad range of topics are
covered from basic lab bench research to drug discovery efforts and
important clinical issues. This collection of reviews is a perfect
way to become acquainted with these exciting new fields in the
space of a single volume. Chapters are written with a general
audience in mind, but with enough high-level discussion to appeal
to specialists and experts as well. The authors have done an
excellent job of challenging current paradigms and pushing the
boundaries of exploration in keeping with the pioneering spirit
that gave rise to these emerging areas of research. Consequently,
this will be an indispensable resource for many years to come.
Microirrigation has become the fastest growing segment of the
irrigation industry worldwide and has the potential to increase the
quality of food supply through improved water fertilizer
efficiency. This book is meant to update the text "Trickle
Irrigation, Design, Operation and Management." This text offers the
most current understanding of the management criteria needed to
obtain maximum water and fertilization efficiency.
This book and CD-ROM compile the most widely applicable methods for solving and approximating differential equations. The CD-ROM provides convenient access to these methods through electronic search capabilities, andtogether the book and CD-ROM contain numerous examples showing the methods use. Topics include ordinary differential equations, symplectic integration of differential equations, and the use of wavelets when numerically solving differential equations. * For nearly every technique, the book and CD-ROM provide:
The first edition of Sound and Structural Vibration was written in
the early 1980s. Since then, two major developments have taken
place in the field of vibroacoustics. Powerful computational
methods and procedures for the numerical analysis of structural
vibration, acoustical fields and acoustical interactions between
fluids and structures have been developed and these are now
universally employed by researchers, consultants and industrial
organisations. Advances in signal processing systems and
algorithms, in transducers, and in structural materials and forms
of construction, have facilitated the development of practical
means of applying active and adaptive control systems to structures
for the purposes of reducing or modifying structural vibration and
the associated sound radiation and transmission.
This thematic issue devoted to 'Template Effects and Molecular
Organization' is based on a special symposium recently organized by
the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia. The authors
contributed oral presentations and are experts in their fields.
With Psycholinguistics in its fifth decade of existence, the second
edition of the Handbook of Psycholinguistics represents a
comprehensive survey of psycholinguistic theory, research and
methodology, with special emphasis on the very best empirical
research conducted in the past decade. Thirty leading experts have
been brought together to present the reader with both broad and
detailed current issues in Language Production, Comprehension and
Development. The handbook is an indispensible single-source guide for
professional researchers, graduate students, advanced
undergraduates, university and college teachers, and other
professionals in the fields of psycholinguistics, language
comprehension, reading, neuropsychology of language, linguistics,
language development, and computational modeling of language. It
will also be a general reference for those in neighboring fields
such as cognitive and developmental psychology and education.
Ian Sinclair's Practical Electronics Handbook combines a wealth
useful day-to-day electronics information, concise explanations and
practical guidance in this essential companion to anyone involved
in electronics design and construction. The compact collection of
key data, fundamental principles and circuit design basics provides
an ideal reference for a wide range of students, enthusiasts,
technicians and practitioners of electronics who have progressed
beyond the basics. |
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