Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Frontiers in Biomedical Polymers including Polymer Therapeutics: From Laboratory to Clinical Practice, held May 23-27, 1999, in Shiga, Japan. This book focuses on the progress and unique discoveries in the interdisciplinary scientific and technological area of biomedical application of polymers. The topics include polymeric materials for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications, as well as polymeric materials in therapeutics.

Biodegradable, polymer-based systems are playing an increasingly pivotal role in tissue engineering replacement and regeneration. This type of biology-driven materials science is slated to be one of the key research areas of the 21st century. The following aspects are crucial: the development of adequate human cell culture to produce the tissues in adequate polymer scaffold materials; the development of culture technology with which human tissues can be grown ex-vivo in 3D polymer matrices; the development of material technology for producing the degradable, 3D matrices, having mechanical properties similar to natural tissue. In addressing these and similar problems, the book contains chapters on biodegradable polymers, polymeric biomaterials, surface modification for controlling cell-material interactions, scaffold design and processing, biomimetic coatings, biocompatibility evaluation, tissue engineering constructs, cell isolation, characterisation and culture, and controlled release of bioactive agents.

Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Frontiers in Biomedical Polymers including Polymer Therapeutics: From Laboratory to Clinical Practice, held May 23-27, 1999, in Shiga, Japan. This book focuses on the progress and unique discoveries in the interdisciplinary scientific and technological area of biomedical application of polymers. The topics include polymeric materials for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications, as well as polymeric materials in therapeutics.

Biodegradable, polymer-based systems are playing an increasingly pivotal role in tissue engineering replacement and regeneration. This type of biology-driven materials science is slated to be one of the key research areas of the 21st century. The following aspects are crucial: the development of adequate human cell culture to produce the tissues in adequate polymer scaffold materials; the development of culture technology with which human tissues can be grown ex-vivo in 3D polymer matrices; the development of material technology for producing the degradable, 3D matrices, having mechanical properties similar to natural tissue. In addressing these and similar problems, the book contains chapters on biodegradable polymers, polymeric biomaterials, surface modification for controlling cell-material interactions, scaffold design and processing, biomimetic coatings, biocompatibility evaluation, tissue engineering constructs, cell isolation, characterisation and culture, and controlled release of bioactive agents.

In May 68 a student protest spread to other universities, to Paris factories and in a few weeks to most of France. A million Parisians marched; ten million workers went out on strike. At the center of the fray was Daniel Cohn-Bendit. "Obsolete Communism" was written in 5 weeks immediately after the state regained control, and no account of May 68 can match its immediacy or urgency.

L'esthetique a une histoire au long cours, que ce volume contribue a restituer. Elle mele les ecrits des philosophes, des artistes et des historiens de l'art. Philosophie appliquee, elle se tient au croisement d'une psychologie de la perception et d'une anthropologie. Les oeuvres d'art sont ses objets exemplaires. Les Lumieres marquent ses commencements, la Kunstwissenschaft scande, de la fin du XIXe siecle aux annees trente, une refondation qui n'en finit pas de se poursuivre. Comme les textes ici rassembles le montrent, l'esthetique ne se limite ni a une reflexion sur le jugement de gout, ni au plaisir d'une reception passive ni a une science du beau. Aussi les critiques d'un bon gout normatif, la crise du grand art, les interrogations sur l'hypothetique universalite du beau ne sauraientelles autoriser que l'on prone un malaise ou un adieu a l'esthetique. Loin qu'il y ait a lui substituer une philosophie ou une theorie de l'art, il s'agit d'assurer a toute philosophie de l'art possible des fondements esthetiques. Etude des formes sensibles et de la maniere dont elles nous affectent, l'esthetique est partie prenante des debats les plus actuels sur les emotions, la fiction, la construction du reel et le langage, elle instaure et continue de deployer des positions dont ce volume de Textes cles d'esthetique vise a faire la cartographie.