Each portable pocket resource and quick refresher in the brand new Instant Workups series helps you develop and refine your diagnostic skills. Practical and easy-to-use, each title includes the most commonly encountered medical conditions in a specialty. Clear workup plans for each condition are presented, giving you quick and focused guidance. Topics are organized alphabetically and cover the signs, symptoms, and abnormal lab readings for all conditions. Replace information taken from memory or multiple references with one concise, indispensable book so you can make accurate diagnoses in less time! Covers the most commonly encountered pediatric conditions to provide you with a practical and useful manual for daily practice. Reflects how a patient actually presents with an organization by presenting sign, symptom, or lab abnormality. Includes a brief background discussion on each topic, followed by lists of important related materials (such as medications that may contribute to each condition) and laboratory and/or radiographic tests to be ordered. Describes each diagnostic test so you can refresh or familiarize yourself with the purpose of the test. Provides a sound framework for building a workup with algorithms for each topic.

To understand the functions of proteins at a molecular level, it is often necessary to determine their three-dimensional structure. A protein may undergo reversible structural changes in performing its biological function. This book presents current research in the study of protein structure. Topics discussed include enzyme immobilisation; structural characteristics of fibrous and globular proteins; mathematical modelling of helical protein structures; three approaches for classifying protein tertiary structures and spectral and fluorescence analysis of protein structure.

Since its beginning more than fifteen years ago, the Texas Master Naturalist program has been hugely successful, training more than 9,600 volunteers who have given almost 2.8 million hours to nature education throughout the state. Hundreds of new volunteers are trained every year, and the Texas Master Naturalist Statewide Curriculum serves as the basis of instruction for trainees who complete a certification course taught under the auspices of more than forty program chapters. The curriculum contains twenty-four units of instruction that range from geology to ornithology to wetland ecology and have been written by the state's top scientists and experts. Available as well to educators, interpreters, and others who may not yet be able to commit to the Texas Master Naturalist program, the curriculum offers an authoritative source of information for anyone seeking to learn more about the natural world in Texas.