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"Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics " merges two long-running
serials--"Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics" and
"Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy."
"Light and Skin Interactions" immerses you in one of the most fascinating application areas of computer graphics: appearance simulation. The book first illuminates the fundamental biophysical processes that affect skin appearance, and reviews seminal related works aimed at applications in life and health sciences. It then examines four exemplary modeling approaches as well as definitive algorithms that can be used to generate realistic images depicting skin appearance. An accompanying companion site also includes complete code and data sources for the BioSpec model, which is considered to be the most comprehensive first principles model in the field. Despite its wide scope of simulation approaches, the book s content is presented in a concise manner, focusing on relevant practical aspects. What s more, these approaches can be successfully applied to a wide range of additional materials, such as eye tissue, hair, and water. Allows you to understand and predict the qualitative and
quantitative behavior of complex natural systems.A general
background on tissue optics clarifies several confusing conceptual
issues, saving you valuable time in the early stages of
researchIncludes complete code and data sources for the BioSpec
model
Taking into account toxicity levels at normal consumption levels,
intake per kg bodyweight and other acknowledged considerations,
each chapter in this book will be based on one or more proven
examples. It is intended to provide specific examples and potential
improvements to the safety of the world's food supply, while also
increasing the amount of food available to those in undernourished
countries. This book is designed to to provide science-based tools
for improving legislation and regulation.
Autodesk(r) Inventor(r) Simulation is an essential element in the Autodesk Digital Prototyping workflow that enables engineers, designers and manufacturers to transition from traditional design and physical prototyping methods to the innovative use of 3D modeling for evaluating form, fit and function. This allows virtual exploration and testing of objects, components and products before they are made, saving critical development time and cost. Autodesk Inventor Simulation provides the dynamic tools required to revolutionize the product design process, but these tools are complex to learn and use to their full potential. Up and Running with Autodesk(r) Inventor(r) Simulation 2011 is
dedicated to the requirements of Inventor users who need to quickly
learn or refresh their skills and apply the dynamic simulation,
stress analysis, frame analysis, and optimization capabilities of
Inventor Simulation 2011. Providing clear guidance and
all-important real-world tutorials, the step-by-step,
heavily-illustrated approach of this book will help designers,
engineers, and manufacturers of all skill levels become Simulation
experts.
"Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics " merges two long-running
serials--"Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics" and
"Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy."
Since its inception in 1945, this serial has provided
criticalarticles written by research specialists that integrate
industrial, analytical, and technological aspects of biochemistry,
organic chemistry, and instrumentation methodology in the study of
carbohydrates.
This edited textbook will be appropriate for use in advanced
undergraduate and graduate level courses and will serve as a
comprehensive and timely introduction to the field of adolescent
development, providing students with a strong foundation for
understanding the biological, cognitive and psychosocial
transitions occurring during adolescence. While certain normative
biological and cognitive processes are relevant for all youth,
development varies dramatically based on a youth's position in
society. The volume will focus on contextual factors such as
culture, racial identity, socioeconomic position and sociopolitical
and historical events, highlighting the impact such factors have on
the physiological and psychological processes and treating them as
key elements in understanding development during this life stage.
The authors will cover the major theoretical positions (both
historical and contemporary) about adolescence as well as the
relevant research and application. Additionally, modern phenomena -
the ever-increasing influence of pop culture (i.e. Hip Hop), mass
media and technology (i.e., the internet, gaming) and the evolution
of family, education and the church - will be explored in depth.
Each chapter will be written by a known expert in the field.
FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays) can be found in applications
such as smart phones, mp3 players, medical imaging devices, and for
aerospace and defense technology. FPGAs consist of logic blocks and
programmable interconnects. This allows an engineer to start with a
blank slate and program the FPGA for a specific task, for instance,
digital signal processing, or a specific device, for example, a
software-defined radio. Due to the short time to market and ability
to reprogram to fix bugs without having to respin FPGAs are in
increasingly high demand.
This streamlined "essential" version of the Molecular Pathology
(2009) textbook extracts key information, illustrations and
photographs from the main textbook in the same number and
organization of chapters. It is aimed at teaching students in
courses where the full textbook is not needed, but the concepts
included are desirable (such as graduate students in allied health
programs or undergraduates). It is also aimed at students who are
enrolled in courses that primarily use a traditional pathology
textbook, but need the complementary concepts of molecular
pathology (such as medical students). Further, the textbook will be
valuable for pathology residents and other postdoctoral fellows who
desire to advance their understanding of molecular mechanisms of
disease beyond what they learned in medical/graduate school. "
Treatise on Geophysics: Mineral Physics, Volume 2, provides a comprehensive review of the current state of understanding of mineral physics. Each chapter demonstrates the significant progress that has been made in the understanding of the physics and chemistry of minerals, and also highlights a number of issues which are still outstanding or that need further work to resolve current contradictions. The book first reviews the current status of our understanding of the nature of the deep Earth. These include the seismic properties of rocks and minerals; problems of the lower mantle and the core-mantle boundary; and the state of knowledge on mantle chemistry and the nature and evolution of the core. The discussions then turn to the theory underlying high-pressure, high-temperature physics, and the major experimental methods being developed to probe this parameter space. The remaining chapters explain the specific techniques for measuring elastic and acoustic properties, electronic and magnetic properties, and rheological properties; the nature and origin of anisotropy in the Earth; the properties of melt; and the magnetic and electrical properties of mantle phases.
"Readingsfrom the Treatise onGeochemistry" offers an
interdisciplinary reference for scientists, researchers and upper
undergraduate and graduate levelgeochemistry students that ismore
affordable than the full Treatise. For professionals, this volume
will provide anoverview of the field as a whole. For students, it
will provide morein-depth introductory content thanis found
inbroad-based geochemistry textbooks. Articleswere selected from
chapters across all volumes of the full Treatise, and include: The
Origin and Earliest History of the Earth, Compositional Evolution
of the Mantle, Evolution of Sedimentary Rocks, Soil Formation,
Geochemistry of Groundwater, Geologic History of Seawater,
Hydrothermal Processes, and Biogeochemistry of Primary Production
in the Sea.
A single volume of 31 articles, Mechanisms of Hormone Actions on
Behavior is an authoritative selection of relevant chapters from
the Hormones Brain and Behavior 2e MRW, the most comprehensive
source of neuroendocrinological information assembled to date (AP
June 2009).
Modern embedded systems require high performance, low cost and low power consumption. Such systems typically consist of a heterogeneous collection of processors, specialized memory subsystems, and partially programmable or fixed-function components. This heterogeneity, coupled with issues such as hardware/software partitioning, mapping, scheduling, etc., leads to a large number of design possibilities, making performance debugging and validation of such systems a difficult problem. Embedded systems are used to control safety critical
applications such as flight control, automotive electronics and
healthcare monitoring. Clearly, developing reliable
software/systems for such applications is of utmost importance.
This book describes a host of debugging and verification methods
which can help to achieve this goal.
Concise but comprehensive, "Structural Elements for Architects and Builders" is primarilyfocused onthe design and analysis of structural elements: columns, beams, tension members and their connections. The material is organized into a single, self-sufficient volume, including all necessary data for the preliminary design and analysis of these structural elements in wood, steel, and reinforced concrete. Every chapter contains insights developed by the author and
generally not found elsewhere. Additionally, the Appendices
included at the end of the text contain numerous tables and graphs,
based on material contained in industry publications, but
reorganized and formatted especially for this text to improve
clarity and simplicity, without sacrificing
comprehensiveness.
"Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry "provides timely and
critical reviews of important topics in medicinal chemistry
together with an emphasis on emerging topics in the biological
sciences, which are expected to provide the basis for entirely new
future therapies.
Published since 1959, "International Review of Neurobiology" is a well-known series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists. Led by an internationally renowned editorial board, this important serial publishes both eclectic volumes made up of timely reviews and thematic volumes that focus on recent progress in a specific area of neurobiology research. With recent advancements in new knowledge, it has become evident that psychostimulants and related drugs of abuse are influencing our central nervous system (CNS) remarkably and could alter their function for a longtime. This volume is the first to focus on substance abuse induced brain pathology in the widest sense as it covers alterations in neuronal, glial and endothelial cell functions under the influence of acute or chronic usage of substance abuse.
This broad-ranging book equips programmers and designers with a thorough grounding in the techniques used to create truly network-enabled computer graphics and games. Written for graphics/game/VE developers and students, it assumes no prior knowledge of networking. The text offers a broad view of what types of different architectural patterns can be found in current systems, and readers will learn the tradeoffs in achieving system requirements on the Internet. The book explains the foundations of networked graphics, then
explores real systems in depth, and finally considers standards and
extensions. Numerous case studies and examples with working code
are featured throughout the text, covering groundbreaking academic
research and military simulation systems, as well as
industry-leading game designs.
Since the publication of the first edition, the U.S. Surgeon General released the first-ever report on bone health and osteoporosis in October 2004. This report focuses even more attention on the devastating impact osteoporosis has on millions of lives. According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, 2 million American men have osteoporosis, and another 12 million are at risk for this disease. Yet despite the large number of men affected, the lack of awareness by doctors and their patients puts men at a higher risk that the condition may go undiagnosed and untreated. It is estimated that one-fifth to one-third of all hip fractures occur in men. This second edition brings on board John Bilezikian and Dirk
Vanderschueren as editors with Eric Orwoll. The table of contents
is more than doubling with 58 planned chapters. The format is
larger - 8.5 x 11. This editionof Osteoporosis in Menbrings
together even more eminent investigators and clinicians to
interpret developments in this growing field, and describe
state-of-the-art research as well as practical approaches to
diagnosis, prevention and therapy. Describes state-of-the-art research as well as practical approaches to diagnosis, prevention and therapy. There is no book on the market that covers osteoporosis in men as comprehensively as this book. "
Published since 1959, "International Review of Neurobiology" is a well-known series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists. Led by an internationally renowned editorial board, this important serial publishes both eclectic volumes made up of timely reviews and thematic volumes that focus on recent progress in a specific area of neurobiology research. This volume is a collection of articles covering "Novel Approaches to Studying Basal Ganglia and Related Neuropsychiatric Disorders. "Topics covered include molecular profiling of direct and indirect striatal medium spiny neurons, the role of epigenetics in development and function of basal ganglia and transgenic animal models for Parkinson's disease.
Research is increasingly showing the effects of family, school, and
culture on the social, emotional and personality development of
children. Much of this research concentrates on grade school and
above, but the most profound effects may occur much earlier, in the
0-3 age range.This volume consists of focused articles from the
authoritative Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood
Development that specifically address this topic andcollates
research in this area in a way that isn't readily available in the
existent literature, covering such areas as adoption, attachment,
birth order, effects of day care, discipline and compliance,
divorce, emotion regulation, family influences, preschool,
routines, separation anxiety, shyness, socialization, effects of
television, etc.This one volume referenceprovides an essential,
affordable reference for researchers, graduate students and
clinicians interested in social psychology and personality, as well
as those involved with cultural psychology and developmental
psychology.
The biological function of clusterin (CLU, also known as ApoJ, SGP2, TRPM2, CLI) has been puzzling researchers since its discovery and characterization in the early 1980s. Approaches such as cloning, expression and functional characterization of the different protein products generated by the CLU gene have now produced a critical mass of information of tremendous biological importance that are teaching us an important lesson in molecular biology of gene expression regulation. This volume brings together the contributions of top researchers in the field, providing an overview and synthesis of the latest thought and findings relating to CLU.
Rajiv Kohli and Kash Mittal have brought together the work of experts from different industry sectors and backgrounds to provide a state-of-the-art survey and best practice guidance for scientists and engineers engaged in surface cleaning or handling the consequences of surface contamination. Topics covered include: A systems analysis approach to contamination control Physical factors that influence the behavior of particle deposition in enclosures An overview of current yield models and description of advanced modelsTypes of strippable coatings, their properties and applications of these coatings for removal of surface contaminants In-depth coverage of ultrasonic cleaning Contamination and cleaning issues at the nanoscaleExperimental results illustrating the impact of model parameters on the removal of particle contamination The expert contributions in this book provide a valuable source of information on the current status and recent developments in surface contamination and cleaning. The book will be of value to industry, government and academic personnel involved in research and development, manufacturing, process and quality control, and procurement specifications across sectors including microelectronics, aerospace, optics, xerography and joining (adhesive bonding). ABOUT THE EDITORS Rajiv Kohli is a leading expert with The Aerospace Corporation in contaminant particle behavior, surface cleaning, and contamination control. At the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, he provides technical support for contamination control related to ground-based and manned spaceflight hardware for the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, and the new Constellation Program that is designed to meet the United States Vision for Space Exploration. Kashmiri Lal "Kash" Mittal was associated with IBM from 1972 to 1994. Currently, he is teaching and consulting in the areas of surface contamination and cleaning, and in adhesion science and technology. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology and is the editor of 98 published books, many of them dealing with surface contamination and cleaning. "Also available" Developments in Surface Contamination and Cleaning, Volume 1:
Fundamentals and Applied Aspects (edited by Rajiv Kohli & K.L.
Mittal). ISBN: 9780815515555. . Provides guidance on best-practice cleaning techniques and the avoidance of surface contamination . Covers contamination and cleaning issues at the nanoscale . Includes an in-depth look at ultrasonic cleaning"
This fully revised 2e provides the only unified synthesis of
available information concerning the mechanisms of higher-order
memory formation. It spans the range from learning theory, to human
and animal behavioral learning models, to cellular physiology and
biochemistry. It is unique in its incorporation of chapters on
memory disorders, tying in these clinically important syndromes
with the basic science of synaptic plasticity and memory
mechanisms. It also covers cutting-edge approaches such as the use
of genetically engineered animals in studies of memory and memory
diseases. Written in an engaging and easily readable style and
extensively illustrated with many new, full-color figures to help
explain key concepts, this book demystifies the complexities of
memory and deepens the reader s understanding.
The distinctive nature of the European pe/vc environment is on
display in Stefano Caselli s presentation of its complete
conceptual framework, from the volatile (its financial side) to the
stable (its legal organization). A Bocconi University professor,
Caselli offers a European perspective on market fundamentals, the
v.c. cycle, and valuation issues, supporting his observations with
recent examples and case studies. Written for investors, his book
achieves many "firsts," such as clarifying many aspects of EU and
UK financial institutions. Complete with finding aids, keywords,
exercises, and an extensive glossary, Private Equity and Venture
Capital in Europe is written not just for Europeans, but for
everybody who needs to know about this growing market.
This unique and much needed textbook will meet the rapidly emerging
needs of programs training pharmacologic scientists seeking careers
in basic research and drug discovery rather than such applied
fields as pharmacy and medicine. While the market is crowded with
many clinical and therapeutic pharmacology textbooks, the field of
pharmacology is booming with the prospects of discovering new
drugs, and virtually no extant textbook meets this need at the
student level. The market is so bereft of such approaches that many
pharmaceutical companies will adopt Hacker, et al. to help train
new drug researchers. |
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