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The development of new photochemical tools, some synthesized by
chemists and some provided by nature, is rapidly changing the way
neurobiological research is performed in the modern laboratory. In
"Photosensitive Molecules for Controlling Biological Function,"
expert researchers in the field examine the most cutting-edge tools
currently available. Divided into three sections, this detailed
compendium features techniques involving natural photosensitive
proteins, caged neurotransmitters, and small molecule photoswitches
that bestow light sensitivity on ion channels and receptors.
Written for the "Neuromethods" series, this volume features the
type of meticulous description and implementation advice that is
crucial for getting optimal results in the lab.
Authoritative and practical, "Photosensitive Molecules for
Controlling Biological Function" provides an unbiased comparison of
the various photochemical tools currently available for controlling
neuronal activity in order to aid scientists in the vital goal of
choosing the right tools for the right job.
This fully updated edition provides a series of methods for how
best to assess functions of histone deacetylases and
acetyltransferases. The disease-relevance of dysregulated protein
deacetylation by overexpressed or aberrantly activated histone
deacetylases has spurred an intense search for novel and improved
inhibitors of these enzymes, as reflected in this collection.
Expert contributors explore the generation and evaluation of novel
histone deacetylase inhibitors and new and improved techniques to
assess acetylation-dependent molecular mechanisms in vitro and in
vivo. Written for the highly successful Methods in Molecular
Biology series, chapters include introductions to their respective
topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step
and readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on
troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and
up-to-date, HDAC/HAT Function Assessment and Inhibitor Development:
Methods and Protocols, Second Edition serves as an ideal guide for
researchers seeking to further elucidate this vital area of study.
Leaders in schools, universities, and other organizations are
constantly bombarded with ethical dilemmas. They are challenged
with diverse student needs; contradictory approaches presented by
faculty and staff; rules and regulations that conflict with desired
outcomes, and more. To deal with these challenges, this book
advocates an inquiry method to respond to those diverse interests,
needs, and values in conflict in educational and other
organizational settings. The method the authors present seeks to
harness democratic practices for engaging in ethical deliberation
and conflict resolution. This book provides the foundation for
understanding ethical language as well as probing the tensions in
problem solving and ethical decision-making. It provides stories
and examples that enable readers to understand terms like
deontology, utilitarianism, religious attitudes, eco-feminism, and
social justice leadership. Readers are encouraged to test that
understanding by using an inquiry method for examining cases set in
schools, universities, and other settings to encourage creative
thinking and ethical leadership.
This detailed collection covers how the biological functions of
histone deacetylases (HDACs) and histone acetyltransferases (HATs)
can be detected in various experimental settings, both in vivo and
in vitro. The book also covers the generation and specificity of
deacetylase inhibitors and how such agents can be used to test
experimental hypotheses. Written for the popular Methods in
Molecular Biology series, chapters include introductions to their
respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents,
step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, as well as
tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Comprehensive
and practical, HDAC/HAT Function Assessment and Inhibitor
Development: Methods and Protocols serves as an ideal guide to this
vital area of study.
School leaders are constantly challenged by diverse students and
conflicting interests between faculty and staff. They are often
called upon to make sense of ethical quagmires, where rules might
conflict with desired outcomes or personal values clash with
professional obligations. Negotiating these dilemmas can be
challenging, but democratic ethics can offer an effective process
to work through them. Drawing from the writings of John Dewey,
Leading Through the Quagmire advocates his notion that democracy is
an appropriate response to the multitude of conflicting interests,
needs, and values in educational settings. Moreover, Enomoto and
Kramer propose an inquiry method to harness democratic ethics for
engaging in fair deliberation and conflict resolution. This book
provides the foundation for understanding tensions, as well as the
methods and applications to navigate through them. Stories and
examples are provided to enable readers to understand such terms as
utilitarianism, ethical tensions, religious attitudes, and
eco-feminism in meaningful ways.
Throughout the English-speaking world, and in the many other
countries where analytic philosophy is studied, Hillel Steiner is
esteemed as one of the foremost contemporary political
philosophers. This volume is designed as a festschrift for Steiner
and as an important collection of philosophical essays in its own
right. The editors have assembled a roster of highly distinguished
international contributors, all of whom are eager to pay tribute to
Steiner by focusing on topics on which he himself has concentrated.
Some of the contributors engage directly with Steiner's work,
whereas others focus not directly on his writings but instead
grapple with issues that have figured prominently therein. Each
essay seeks to advance the debates in which Steiner himself has so
notably participated. The study concludes with a response by
Steiner himself.
Throughout the English-speaking world, and in the many other
countries where analytic philosophy is studied, Hillel Steiner is
esteemed as one of the foremost contemporary political
philosophers. This volume is designed as a festschrift for Steiner
and as an important collection of philosophical essays in its own
right. The editors have assembled a roster of highly distinguished
international contributors, all of whom are eager to pay tribute to
Steiner by focusing on topics on which he himself has concentrated.
Some of the contributors engage directly with Steiner's work,
whereas others focus not directly on his writings but instead
grapple with issues that have figured prominently therein. Each
essay seeks to advance the debates in which Steiner himself has so
notably participated. The study concludes with a response by
Steiner himself.
School leaders are constantly challenged by diverse students and
conflicting interests between faculty and staff. They are often
called upon to make sense of ethical quagmires, where rules might
conflict with desired outcomes or personal values clash with
professional obligations. Negotiating these dilemmas can be
challenging, but democratic ethics can offer an effective process
to work through them. Drawing from the writings of John Dewey,
Leading Through the Quagmire advocates his notion that democracy is
an appropriate response to the multitude of conflicting interests,
needs, and values in educational settings. Moreover, Enomoto and
Kramer propose an inquiry method to harness democratic ethics for
engaging in fair deliberation and conflict resolution. This book
provides the foundation for understanding tensions, as well as the
methods and applications to navigate through them. Stories and
examples are provided to enable readers to understand such terms as
utilitarianism, ethical tensions, religious attitudes, and
eco-feminism in meaningful ways.
How are law and morality connected, how do they interact, and in
what ways are they distinct? In Part I of this book, Matthew Kramer
argues that moral principles can enter into the law of any
jurisdiction. He contends that legal officials can invoke moral
principles as laws for resolving disputes, and that they can also
invoke them as threshold tests which ordinary laws must satisfy. In
opposition to many other theorists, Kramer argues that these
functions of moral principles are consistent with all the essential
characteristics of any legal system. Part II reaffirms the legal
positivist argument that law and morality are separable, arguing
against the position of natural-law theory, which portrays legal
requirements as a species of moral requirements. Kramer contends
that even though the existence of a legal system in any sizeable
society is essential for the realization of fundamental moral
values, law is not inherently moral either in its effects or in its
motivational underpinnings. In the final part, Kramer contests the
widespread view that people whose conduct is meticulously careful
cannot be held morally responsible for harmful effects of their
actions. Through this argument, he reveals that fault-independent
liability is present even more prominently in morality than in the
law. Through a variety of arguments, Where Law and Morality Meet
highlights both some surprising affinities and some striking
divergences between morality and law.
John Locke's attempt to justify private property is one of the central elements in his political philosophy. Matthew Kramer's new book explores in depth the Lockean theory of property, along with many other aspects of Locke's political thought. Drawing on the techniques of analytic philosophy, Kramer offers some rigorous and extensive techniques of Locke's arguments. While subsequently investigating the consequences of the shortcomings in Locke's reasoning, Kramer maintains that our understanding of Locke's political vision must change considerably. Kramer's book will be of interest to political philosophers, legal philosophers, and intellectual historians.
This detailed collection covers how the biological functions of
histone deacetylases (HDACs) and histone acetyltransferases (HATs)
can be detected in various experimental settings, both in vivo and
in vitro. The book also covers the generation and specificity of
deacetylase inhibitors and how such agents can be used to test
experimental hypotheses. Written for the popular Methods in
Molecular Biology series, chapters include introductions to their
respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents,
step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, as well as
tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Comprehensive
and practical, HDAC/HAT Function Assessment and Inhibitor
Development: Methods and Protocols serves as an ideal guide to this
vital area of study.
Leaders in schools, universities, and other organizations are
constantly bombarded with ethical dilemmas. They are challenged
with diverse student needs; contradictory approaches presented by
faculty and staff; rules and regulations that conflict with desired
outcomes, and more. To deal with these challenges, this book
advocates an inquiry method to respond to those diverse interests,
needs, and values in conflict in educational and other
organizational settings. The method the authors present seeks to
harness democratic practices for engaging in ethical deliberation
and conflict resolution. This book provides the foundation for
understanding ethical language as well as probing the tensions in
problem solving and ethical decision-making. It provides stories
and examples that enable readers to understand terms like
deontology, utilitarianism, religious attitudes, eco-feminism, and
social justice leadership. Readers are encouraged to test that
understanding by using an inquiry method for examining cases set in
schools, universities, and other settings to encourage creative
thinking and ethical leadership.
Critical Care Neurology, Part II: Neurology of Critical Illness
focuses on the care specialists and general neurologists that
consult in the ICU and their work with patients in acute,
life-threatening situations who are dealing with neurologic or
neurosurgical crises emanating from either a preexisting neurologic
syndrome or from a new neurologic complication appearing as a
result of another medical or surgical critical illness. These two
separate clinical situations form the pillars of neurocritical
care, hence these practices are addressed via two separate, but
closely related, HCN volumes. Chapters in both focus on
pathophysiology and management, and are tailored for both general
neurologists and active neurocritical specialists, with a specific
focus on management over diagnostics. Part I addresses the
principles of neurocritical care and the management of various
neurologic diseases. Part II addresses the interplay between
neurologic complications and the surgical, medical, cardiac, and
trauma of critical illnesses that most typically present in the
ICU.
Critical Care Neurology, Part I: Neurocritical Care focuses on the
care specialists and general neurologists that consult in the ICU
and their work with patients in acute, life-threatening situations
who are dealing with neurologic or neurosurgical crises emanating
from either a preexisting neurologic syndrome or from a new
neurologic complication appearing as a result of another medical or
surgical critical illness. These two separate clinical situations
form the pillars of neurocritical care, hence these practices are
addressed via two separate, but closely related, HCN volumes.
Chapters in both focus on pathophysiology and management, and are
tailored for both general neurologists and active neurocritical
specialists, with a specific focus on management over diagnostics.
Part I addresses the principles of neurocritical care and the
management of various neurologic diseases. Part II addresses the
interplay between neurologic complications and the surgical,
medical, cardiac, and trauma of critical illnesses that most
typically present in the ICU.
The development of new photochemical tools, some synthesized by
chemists and some provided by nature, is rapidly changing the way
neurobiological research is performed in the modern laboratory. In
Photosensitive Molecules for Controlling Biological Function,
expert researchers in the field examine the most cutting-edge tools
currently available. Divided into three sections, this detailed
compendium features techniques involving natural photosensitive
proteins, caged neurotransmitters, and small molecule photoswitches
that bestow light sensitivity on ion channels and receptors.
Written for the Neuromethods series, this volume features the type
of meticulous description and implementation advice that is crucial
for getting optimal results in the lab. Authoritative and
practical, Photosensitive Molecules for Controlling Biological
Function provides an unbiased comparison of the various
photochemical tools currently available for controlling neuronal
activity in order to aid scientists in the vital goal of choosing
the right tools for the right job.
Nautilus Book Awards — Silver Award Winner 2010 had been a very
good year for Bruce H. Kramer. But what began as a floppy foot and
leg weakness led to a shattering diagnosis: he had amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis. ALS is a cruel, unrelenting neurodegenerative
disease in which the body’s muscles slowly weaken, including
those used to move, swallow, talk, and ultimately breathe. There is
no cure: ALS is a death sentence. When death is a constant
companion, sitting too closely beside you at the dinner table,
coloring your thoughts and feelings and words, your outlook on life
is utterly transformed. The perspective and insights offered in We
Know How This Ends reveal this daily reality and inspire a way
forward for anyone who has suffered major loss and for anyone who
surely will. Rather than wallowing in sadness and bitterness, anger
and denial, Kramer accepted the crushing diagnosis. The educator
and musician recognized that if he wanted a meaningful life, then
embracing his imminent death was his only viable option. His
decision was the foundation for profound, personal reflection and
growth, even as his body weakened, and inspired him to share the
lessons he was learning from ALS about how to live as fully as
possible, even in the midst of devastating grief. At the time
Kramer was diagnosed, broadcast journalist Cathy Wurzer was
struggling with her own losses, especially her father’s slow
descent into the bewildering world of dementia. Mutual friends put
this unlikely pair—journalist and educator—together, and the
serendipitous result has been a series of remarkable broadcast
conversations, a deep friendship, and now this book. Written with
wisdom, genuine humor, and down-to-earth observations, We Know How
This Ends is far more than a memoir. It is a dignified, courageous,
and unflinching look at how acceptance of loss and inevitable death
can lead us all to a more meaningful and fulfilling life.
Nautilus Book Awards - Silver Award Winner 2010 had been a very
good year for Bruce H. Kramer. But what began as a floppy foot and
leg weakness led to a shattering diagnosis: he had amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis. ALS is a cruel, unrelenting neurodegenerative
disease in which the body's muscles slowly weaken, including those
used to move, swallow, talk, and ultimately breathe. There is no
cure: ALS is a death sentence. When death is a constant companion,
sitting too closely beside you at the dinner table, coloring your
thoughts and feelings and words, your outlook on life is utterly
transformed. The perspective and insights offered in We Know How
This Ends reveal this daily reality and inspire a way forward for
anyone who has suffered major loss and for anyone who surely will.
Rather than wallowing in sadness and bitterness, anger and denial,
Kramer accepted the crushing diagnosis. The educator and musician
recognized that if he wanted a meaningful life, then embracing his
imminent death was his only viable option. His decision was the
foundation for profound, personal reflection and growth, even as
his body weakened, and inspired him to share the lessons he was
learning from ALS about how to live as fully as possible, even in
the midst of devastating grief. At the time Kramer was diagnosed,
broadcast journalist Cathy Wurzer was struggling with her own
losses, especially her father's slow descent into the bewildering
world of dementia. Mutual friends put this unlikely pair-journalist
and educator-together, and the serendipitous result has been a
series of remarkable broadcast conversations, a deep friendship,
and now this book. Written with wisdom, genuine humor, and
down-to-earth observations, We Know How This Ends is far more than
a memoir. It is a dignified, courageous, and unflinching look at
how acceptance of loss and inevitable death can lead us all to a
more meaningful and fulfilling life.
During the past several decades, political philosophers have
frequently clashed with one another over the question whether
governments are morally required to remain neutral among reasonable
conceptions of excellence and human flourishing. Whereas the
numerous followers of John Rawls (and kindred philosophers such as
Ronald Dworkin) have maintained that a requirement of neutrality is
indeed incumbent on every system of governance, other philosophers
- often designated as 'perfectionists' - have argued against the
existence of such a requirement. Liberalism with Excellence enters
these debates not by plighting itself unequivocally to one side or
the other, but instead by reconceiving each of the sides and thus
by redirecting the debates that have occurred between them. On the
one hand, the book rejects the requirement of neutrality by
contending that certain subsidies for the promotion of excellence
in sundry areas of human endeavour can be proper and vital uses of
resources by governments. Advocating such departures from the
constraint of neutrality, the book presents a version of liberalism
that can rightly be classified as 'perfectionist'. On the other
hand, the species of perfectionism espoused in Liberalism with
Excellence diverges markedly from the theories that have usually
been so classified. Indeed, much of the book assails various
aspects of those theories. What is more, the aspirational
perfectionism elaborated in the closing chapters of the volume is
reconcilable in most key respects with a suitably amplified version
of Rawlsianism. Hence, by reconceiving both the perfectionist side
and the neutralist side of the prevailing disputation, Liberalism
with Excellence combines and transforms their respective insights.
An ecological assessment of natural resource conditions in and
adjacent to Redwood National and State Parks, Whiskeytown National
Recreation Area, and Oregon Caves National Monument was conducted
with the following objectives: 1) provide an initial, science-based
evaluation of resource condition status of the Parks and include
the associated data used for the evaluation; 2) provide a report
that allows Park superintendents and managers to meet Government
Performance Results Act and Office of Management and Budget
reporting requirements; and 3) develop a reproducible framework for
the assessment that can be used at other park units.
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