
By D. Craig Brater M.D. (auth.), Ernst Jucker (eds.)
By D. Craig Brater M.D. (auth.), Ernst Jucker (eds.)
By H. Hippius, P. Hoff, K. Münch (auth.), Professor Dr. Hanns Hippius, Professor Dr. Gerald L. Klerman, Professor Dr. Norbert Matussek (eds.)
By H. E. Huxley (auth.), Haruo Sugi (eds.)
Sliding Filament Mechanism in Muscle Contraction: Fifty Years of study covers the heritage of the sliding filament mechanism in muscle contraction from its discovery in 1954 via H.E. Huxley via and together with modern-day study. Chapters contain issues in dynamic X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, muscle mechanisms, in-vitro motility assay, cardiac as opposed to delicate muscle, motile platforms, and masses extra.
By Joe Norris, Richard D. Sawyer
This booklet explores the price of duoethnography to the research of interdisciplinary perform. Illustrating how dialogic and relational sorts of study support to facilitate deeply emic, own, and positioned understandings of perform, the editors and members advertise own reflexivity and adjustments in perform. schooling, drama, nursing counselling, and artwork in school room, collage, and bigger expert areas are tested through scholars, lecturers, and practitioners utilizing duoethnography to develop into extra acutely aware, dialogic, creative, and relational of their instructing.
By Gianfranco Minati, Eliano Pessa, Mario Abram
Systemics of Emergence: study and improvement is a quantity dedicated to exploring the center theoretical and disciplinary learn difficulties of emergence strategies from which platforms are proven. It specializes in emergence because the key element of any systemic approach. This subject is handled inside of diversified disciplinary ways, indicated by way of the association in sections: 1) functions; 2) Biology and human care; three) Cognitive technology; four) Emergence; five) common structures; 6) studying; 7) administration; eight) Social structures; nine) Systemic strategy and data technology; 10) Theoretical concerns in Systemics. The Editors and contributing authors have produced this quantity to assist, inspire and widen the paintings during this region of basic structures study.
By Ruth Arnon (auth.), Dr. Daphne Kamely, Dr. Ananda M. Chakrabarty, Dr. Steven E. Kornguth (eds.)
Biotechnology is advancing at a fast speed with a variety of functions in medication, undefined, agriculture and environmental remediation. spotting this, executive, business and educational study and improvement make investments ment in biotechnology has elevated speedily. The previous decade has obvious the emergence of functions of this know-how with a dual-use capability. Mili tary functions concentrate on 4 significant components: biomedical know-how, comparable to vaccine improvement and scientific diagnostics; detection of poisons, chemical substances and pathogens; fabric biotechnology; and organic decontamination, in cluding biodegradation and bioremediation. This convention emphasizes the non-medical purposes of biotechnol ogy. the 1st classes concentrate on the synthesis and homes of molecules which may be utilized in detectors. the normal method of detection of chemical and organic brokers depended on the improvement of particular assays or analyses for identified brokers. Advances in molecular biology have made attainable the construction of huge amounts of poisons which have been formerly to be had in minute amounts, and the molecular engineering of poisons and pathogens with particular pharmacologic and physical-chemical homes. as well as the normal techniques to detection of particular recognized compounds, biotechnology now bargains ordinary techniques to detection. Physiological pursuits, often called receptors, are basic goals for plenty of medicines and pollutants. equally, pathogens depend on receptors to achieve entry to cells. those receptors functionality as delicate detectors, producing signs that are transduced and amplified.
By H. Schaller (auth.), Th. Bücher, H. Sies (eds.)
The scope of the 20 th Mosbach Colloquium could be top illustrated via the next notes despatched to the audio system whilst the colloquium used to be equipped. "1) the appliance of inhibitors in mobilephone biology has ended in decisive perception into the supplier of mobile devices. the topic could be handled opposed to a historical past of present features of mobilephone biology. In a few parts of study, a pretty entire photo of the services and cooperative interactions of the devices has already emerged. we'll speak about more often than not those parts. 2) At this colloquium we wish to give a contribution illustrations of the necessary software of inhibitors to organic difficulties. as a result of restricted wisdom, inhibitors are often incorrectly hired. this is applicable either to the making plans of investigations and to the con· clusions drawn ("use of inhibitors through uninhibited workers"). three) Inhibitors themselves are fascinating elements and their mechanisms of motion represent interesting problems." The colloquium has been subdivided into 5 sections. The recognized chemical buildings of the inhibitors mentioned are given in an Appendix. We gratefully have fun with the cooperation of the audio system. To an outstanding volume, they controlled the coordination of contributions to every of the 5 subdivisions. We remorse that no participants from jap Europe have been capable of participate.
By Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development