Methods in Pulmonary Research

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"Methods in Pulmonary Research" presents a comprehensive review of methods used to study physiology and the cell biology of the lung. The book covers the entire range of techniques from those that require cell cultures to those using in vivo experimental models. Up-to-date techniques such as intravital microscopy are presented. Yet standard methods such as classical short circuit techniques used to study tracheal transport are fully covered. This book will be extremely useful for all who work in pulmonary research, yet need a practical guide to incorporate other established methods into their research programs. Thus the book will prove to be a valuable resource for cell biologists who wish to use organs in their research programs as well biological scientists who are moving their research programs into more cell related phenomena.

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Global Climate Change and Tropical Ecosystems (Advances in Soil Science)

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Tropical ecosystems - the regions between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn - play an important role in global processes, economic issues, and political concerns. In their natural state, tropical ecosystems support a large quantity of above- and below-ground biomass, and constitute a major part of the terrestrial carbon pool. Conversion of the natural ecosystem to agriculture and forestry ecosystems disturbs this ecological balance.
Global Climate Change and Tropical Ecosystems presents data on carbon pool fluxes from case studies in 12 countries in tropical regions. The chapters cover:

Characteristics of tropical ecosystems

Soil and biotic carbon pools

Impacts of land use and soil management

Slash-and-burn practices

Crop residue and fertility management
This volume adds to the understanding of pedospheric processes in tropical ecosystems and how to better use soils as a sink for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. With Global Climate Change and Tropical Ecosystems you will understand the link between soil productivity, environmental quality and the global carbon cycle, not only in these ecologically sensitive regions but worldwide.

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The Investment Sourcebook: The Complete Guide to Finding and Understanding Investment Information

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In this remarkable resource, market experts Shim and Siegel encapsulate the investment climate and lead investors to the best investment news publications and sources, computer software, and service providers. And not only do the authors tell you where to get the information, but they analyze and explain it in a simple and concise way.

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Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (HAISA 2009) 2009

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Biotechnology in Surgery (Updates in Surgery)

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The 20th century has finished, the century when surgery took huge steps forward thanks to progress in technology. Now we have entered the "century of biotechnologies", which will not only generate progress in surgery, but also lead to a real "cultural revolution" that will completely change approaches to solving different problems in medicine. The aim of this book is to bring surgeons closer to biotechnologies and to overcome the cultural gap dividing them from these new approaches. Biotechnologies are already proposed and used at different levels in surgical practice: in diagnostic technique, enabling practitioners to identify diseases at an early stage and follow their molecular modification over time; and in tissue engineering, where the use of "smart scaffolds" offers a possible answer to increasing demand for biocompatible tissues and organs in transplantation surgery. This volume focuses on the emerging field of stem cells, analyzing both their role as possible players in originating and perpetuating cancer – "cancer stem cells" – and, conversely, their extraordinary therapeutical potential. An additional section is dedicated to the evaluation and application of derived molecular factors that can enhance the physiological processes that are fundamentally important in surgery, such as hemostasis and wound healing. Surgeons have always been technologists, in the sense that since surgery began they have always needed technology, beginning with a scalpel and surgical instruments. They have always cooperated with technologists. However, in the new century, the first one of the millennium, a rapid increase in knowledge that is outside the realm of the surgeon’s traditional technological training is imposing itself – hence the aim of this book. It is now urgent to encourage surgeons to embrace this knowledge (biotechnology) with confidence. By its very nature, biotechnology is completely different from the technologies used so far, because it escapes the senses of sight and touch, which up to now have been the essence of the surgeon’s work. The cellular and molecular dimensions of biotechnologies are still far removed from most of the recent advances in modern surgical techniques. A common language between surgeons and biotechnologists will create further, revolutionary, progress in surgical sciences in the twenty-first century.

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The Book of Jobs

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The Book of Jobs is a valuable guide and handbook for first-time job seekers, job veterans looking for a new start and those who find it difficult getting a job application together. More than that, it provides proven strategies, guidelines and tips on how to get a job, keep your job and be happy in your job. There is even a section on knowing when to change jobs and how to move on. Its humorous and cheerful style is a great pick-me-up for anyone suffering from the job blues.

Divided into four parts, this treasure trove of gems contains all you need to know about job hunting and job satisfaction. Useful features include:

• Insider which are statements, quotes and pointers from people in the respective industries and corporate business
• Nuggets which highlight practical pointers about a particular topic
• Hot Rules which are strict rules that must be observed and adhered to no matter what
• Samples and examples of letters, resumes, objectives and so on
• Case studies which offer precious insights into the topic of discussion

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Neural Information Processing: Research and Development (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing)

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This monograph presents a careful collection of recent research and developments in the field of neural information processing. This includes investigations in the functioning and engineering of biological neural networks and applications of artificial neural networks for solving real-world problems. The book is organized in three parts, architectures, learning algorithms and applications, with a variety of different examples and case studies from different fields such as the visual system, object detection, financial time series prediction, the auditory cortex, and robot manipulator control.

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Drosophila Protocols

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This laborator manual describes 37 procedures likely to used before 2010 for molecular, biochemical and cellular studies on Drosophilia. The methods included permit investigation of chromosomes, cell biology, molecular biology, genomes, biochemistry and development.

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Filter Design for Signal Processing Using MATLAB and Mathematica

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A complete up-to-date reference for advanced analog and digital IIR filter design rooted in elliptic functions. Revolutionary in approach, this book opens up completely new vistas in basic analog and digital IIR filter design--regardless of the technology. By introducing exceptionally elegant and creative mathematical stratagems (e.g., accurate replacement of Jacobi elliptic functions by functions comprising polynomials, square roots, and logarithms), optimization routines carried out with symbolic analysis by Mathematica, and the advance filter design software of MATLAB, it shows readers how to design many types of filters that cannot be designed using conventional techniques. The filter design algorithms can be directly programed in any language or environment such as Visual BASIC, Visual C, Maple, DERIVE, or MathCAD. Signals; Systems; Transforms; Classical Analog Filter Design; Advanced Analog Filter Design Case Studies; Advanced Analog Filter Design Algorithms; Multi-criteria Optimization of Analog Filter Designs; Classical Digital Filter Design; Advanced Digital Filter Design Case Studies; Advanced Digital Filter Design Algorithms; Multi-criteria Optimization of Digital Filter Designs; Elliptic Functions; Elliptic Rational Function.

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Spatial Database Transfer Standards 2: Characteristics for Assessing Standards and Full Descriptions of the National and International Standards in ... Data (International Cartographic Association)

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This book represents five and a half years of work by the ICA Commission on Standards for the Transfer of Spatial Data during the 1991- 95 ICA cycle. The effort began with the Commission working to develop a set of scientific characteristics by which every kind of spatial data transfer standard could be understood and assessed. This implies that every facet of the transfer process must be understood so that the scientific characteristics could be most efficiently specified. The members of the Commission spent hours looking at their own standard and many others, to ascertain how to specify most effectively the characteristic or subcharacteristic in question. The result is a set of internationally agreed scientific characteristics with 13 broad primary level classes of characteristics, 85 secondary characteristics, and about 220 tertiary characteristics that recognizes almost every possible capability that a spatial data transfer standard might have.
It is recognized that no one standard possesses all of these characteristics, but contains a subset of these characteristics. However, these characteristics have been specified in such a way to facilitate understanding of individual standards, and use by interested parties of making comparisons for their own purposes. Although individual applications of a standard may be for different purposes, this set of characteristics provides a uniform measure by which the various standards may be assessed.
The book presents an Introduction and four general chapters that describe the spatial data transfer standards activities happening in Europe, North America, Asia/Pacific, and the ISO community. This provides the context so the reader can more easily understand the scientific and technical framework from which a particular standard has come. The third section is a complete listing of all of the three levels of characteristics and their meaning by the inclusion of a set of definitions for terms used in the book. The fourth section, and by far the largest, contains 22 chapters that assess each of the major national and international spatial data transfer standards in the world in terms of all three levels of characteristics. Each assessment has been done by a Commission member who has been an active participant in the development of the standard being assessed in the native language of that standard. A cross-table chart is also provided.

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