Science and Technology

About the Book Found throughout the biosphere, nitrogen plays a key role in such biomolecules as proteins, amino sugars like chitin and peptidogluc...

About the Book AIDS is not caused by HIV. Coal and oil are not fossil fuels. Radiation exposure is good for you. Distributing more guns reduces cri...

About the Book Reviews the new High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard and advancements in adaptive streaming technologies for use in broadban...

About the Book Ausgehend von einem historischen Abriss der Telekommunikation und der Entwicklung des Internet widmet sich der Autor dieses Bandes i...

About the Book The second edition has been updated with all the key developments of the past three years, and includes new and expanded sections on...

About the Book The soil water retention curve, the saturated hydraulic conductivity and the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity function are basic s...

About the Book Focuses on pharmaceutical agents that have advanced to Phase II of clinical testing or that hold significant promise in the field of...

About the Book Contains nearly 300 high-quality images and diagrams that illustrate the state-of-the-art thoracic imaging such as advanced 2-D and ...

About the Book Computers are everywhere around us. We, for example, as air passengers, car drivers, laptop users with Internet connection, cell pho...

About the Book Professor Brian Vincent is a leading light in colloid science both in the UK and internationally. The science Brian has been involve...

About the Book Despite ever increasing research investment, there has been a decline in the number of new drug approvals over the last decade. In o...

About the Book The majority of the poor and hungry people in the world live on small farms and struggle to subsist on too little land with low inpu...

About the Book Discusses three major classes of asthma therapies-bronchodilators, antiinflammatories, and antiallergics-as well as potential new th...

About the Book Two-Volume Set: Neurovirology is an interdisciplinary field representing a melding of virology, clinical neuroscience, molecular pa...

About the Book This book focuses on the exciting recent progress in restorative neurology and neuroscience. The book includes chapters on major neu...

About the Book Comprehensive yet concise textbook of neuroscience for second-year medical students and other students in health professions curricu...

About the Book Dieser Band geh�rt zur renommierten Reihe "Novartis Foundation Series". Er gibt einen �berblick �ber die j�ngsten Erkenntnis...

About the Book This exemplary book gives an up-to-date perspective on the role of metal ions in neurodegeneration.

About the Book Why do we have emotions? What are the bases of social behaviour? What is the relationship between the mind and the brain? How, and w...

About the Book The book deals with the record of important Neoproterozoic to Early Palaeozoic events in southwestern Gondwana, that heralded the Ca...

About the Book In this fourth edition of the classic work on malignant blood cancers, the team of editors and over 100 international leaders in the...

The combination of its unique morphology, physical properties, cost effectiveness and environmental friendliness make natural rubber an appealing c...

About the Book Globally, natural medicine has been considered as an important alternative to modern allopathic medicine. Although natural medicines...

About the Book Natural Killer Cells explains the importance of killer cells and how they are produced. It mentions that the most likely explanation...

About the Book A comprehensive review of the current status and challenges for natural gas and shale gas production, treatment and monetization tec...

About the Book Ein �berblick �ber den aktuellen Stand von Ger�ten, die auf Nanotechnologie basieren und in den Umweltwissenschaften zum Einsa...

About the Book The book places nanotechnology's emergence within a broad historical and contemporary global context while developing and testing an...

About the Book This book is a survey on the theoretical as well as experimental results on nanostructures in biological systems. It shows how a uni...

About the Book Major technology shifts do not happen overnight and rarely are they the result of a single breakthrough discovery. Nowhere is this m...

About the Book Potential applications of nanotechnology in food industry include: encapsulation and delivery of substances in targeted sites, incre...

About the Book This book targets new trends in microwave engineering by downscaling components and devices for industrial purposes such as miniatur...

About the Book Nanotechnology is now being applied to microelectronics packaging, primarily in the applications of nanoparticle nanocomposites, or ...

About the Book Focuses on the synthesis of porous solids and introduces nanocasting from fundamental principles to their use in the synthesis of va...

About the Book In this exciting new title all aspects of nanoalloys are explored, including synthesis, characterisation, theory and simulation, pro...

About the Book This book volume encompasses the recent trends made in the applications of nanoscale tools for diverse constituents of plants and ag...

About the Book Presents recent challenges related to new forms of pollution from industries and discusses adequate state-of-the-art technologies ca...

About the Book A convenient guide of easily accessible information on the mechanisms of myocardial repolarization and related clinical issues. This...

About the Book The purpose of this book is to present a new mechanistic theory of mutation-driven evolution based on recent advances in genomics an...

About the Book Mithilfe dieses Werkes lernen Sie, die Konzepte optischer LANs zu verstehen und die Details der zugeh�rigen Architektur zu durchsc...

About the Book Building on more than a decade of innovative research into multi-source forest inventory (MS-NFI) this book presents full details of...

About the Book This volume focuses on multiscale modelling: crossing the boundaries from atomistic studies of relatively small systems, to tackle l...

About the Book N-body quantum systems: A tutorial.- A tutorial on computational approaches to quantum scattering.- Time-independent wavepacket quan...

About the Book Edited by the organizer of a pioneering, multidisciplinary clinic for lung cancer patients, now emulated at cancer centers worldwide...

About the Book Multimedia services involve processing, transmission and retrieval of multiple forms of information. Multimedia services have gained...

About the Book This book is devoted to the rapidly developing field of oxide thin-films and heterostructures. Oxide materials combined with atomic-...

About the Book An Innovative Approach to Multidimensional Signals and Systems Theory for Image and Video Processing In this volume, Eric Dubois fur...

A number of chronic respiratory diseases including chronic bronchitis, asthma, cystic fibrosis and bronchiectasis are characterized by mucus hypers...