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Provides information on a variety of topics including: rat genetics and genomics, spontaneous and induced disease; technology for housing and husbandry; occupational health, and experimental models. This book is of interest to veterinary and medical students, graduate students, post-docs, and researchers who utilize animals in biomedical research.

Contains contributions from some of the experts in the field of atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics. This title includes articles that contain some review material, but are intended to provide a comprehensive picture of important developments in AMO physics.

Contains comprehensive reviews of various aspects of insect physiology. Suitable for invertebrate physiologists and neurobiologists, entomologists, zoologists and insect biochemists, this title focuses on insect integument and colour, contributing to the revival of insect integrative biology. It discusses the physiological diversity in insects.

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is an analytical tool used by chemists and physicists to study the structure and dynamics of molecules. This book provides updates on the developments in NMR spectroscopy. It includes review articles and highlights the increasing importance of NMR spectroscopy as a technique for structural determination.

Successful characterization of polymer systems is one of the most important objectives of experimental research of polymers. This book describes the principle of the respective method, as well as the procedures of experiments with examples of actual applications. It addresses techniques such as light scattering, neutron scattering, and others.

Semiconductor nanostructures are attracting a great deal of interest as the most promising device with which to implement quantum information processing and quantum computing. This book surveys the status of nanofabrication techniques, near field spectroscopy and microscopy to assist the fabricated nanostructures.

Details experimental evidence for the phenomenon of horizontal gene transfer and discusses further evidence provided by the completion of genomic sequences from Archea, Bacteria, and Eucarya members. This book is useful for microbiologists, geneticists, biochemists, evolutionary biologists, infectious disease specialists, and others.

Part of the "Methods in Microbiology" series, this volume provides an overview of the methods used for the isolation, cultivation and handling of a variety of extremophiles, both at the stage of their isolation from natural samples and in pure culture. It also contains protocols specific for work with extremophiles.

"Artificial Vision" is a rapidly growing discipline, aiming to build computational models of the visual functionalities in humans, as well as machines that emulate them. This book brings together review articles, and covers topics including image processing, computational geometry, optics, pattern recognition, and computer science.

Includes a brief introduction which leads up to its discovery and includes an overview of new trends in obesity management. This book lists the pharmacological profile of the drug, given by experts involved in monitoring the effects of the drug on the brain neurotransmitters, as well as detailing the results of the various clinical trials.

Educates readers in how drugs are used as weapons in committing sexual assaults. This book looks at the history of these crimes over the years and includes an in-depth discussion of the drugs and drug classes in use. It is designed for those involved in the investigation of these crimes including forensic scientists, lawyers, and others.

Includes medical studies on parasites of major influence, such as Plasmodium falciparum and Trypanosomes. This series also contains reviews of more traditional areas, such as zoology, taxonomy, and life history, which shape thinking and applications.

Several vistas have opened up with the advent of computing, modelling and molecular approaches helping to increase the understanding of the ecology of basidiomycetes. This book covers a variety of these advances that discusses the aspects of saprotrophic basidiomycete ecology.

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is an analytical tool used by chemists and physicists to study the structure and dynamics of molecules. This title provides developments in NMR spectroscopy. It includes comprehensive review articles. It highlights the increasing importance of NMR spectroscopy as a technique for structural determination.

NMR spectroscopy is used in various branches of science where precise structural determination is required and where the nature of interactions and reactions in solution is being studied. This work looks at the developments in NMR spectroscopy. It also highlights the importance of NMR spectroscopy as a technique for structural determination.

Presents developments in organic synthesis and provides insight and offers several perspectives to problem-solving. This book provides a forum for investigators to discuss their approach to the science and art of organic.

Offers reviews on the biology of the glass sponge and reviews protein metabolism in marine animals. This book includes over 90 images.

Looks at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, and syndromes of mental retardation. This volume offers chapters on theory and research, social cognition and social competence in children with Down Syndrome, the Flynn Effect and the role of IQ, remaining open to quantitative, and qualitative and mixed-method designs.

The subject for the eighth SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals Research Symposia, highlighting this developing area of scientific investigation. Focusing on several of the fundamental strategies for exploring RNA and its functions, the book emphasizes the interplay between biology, chemistry, genomics, and molecular biology.

Control systems design methodologies have long suffered the traditional and myopic dichotomy between time and frequency domain approaches. This book is aimed at bridging the two approaches, and covers the basic facts of robust control and theory. It also enables the use the relevant techniques in real-life applications.

Develops an analysis of the air entrainment processes in free-surface flows. This book covers information on the air-water flow field: air bubble distributions, air-water velocity profiles, air bubble sizes and bubble-turbulence interactions. It presents useful information for design engineers and research-and-development scientists.

Contains reviews on invertebrate zooplankton growth rates and movements on marine fish and decapod crustaceans. This work covers a range of topics which is suitable to postgraduates and researchers in marine biology, ecology, zoology, oceanography. It is also supplemented by thematic volumes on such topics as the Biology of Calanoid Copepods.

Examines familiar objects like integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, complex conjugation and polynomials. This title shows how most of the concepts within an abstract algebra course are actually tools used to solve difficult, but well-known problems. It builds on relatively familiar material (Integers and polynomials).

One of the most popular areas in entomology is pharmacology. This title includes articles covering sodium channels, spider toxins and their potential for insect control, insect transformation for use in control, and amino acid and neurotransmitter transporters.

Offers IT industry analysts, China watchers, policy makers and advisors, IT researchers, and investors, an overview on how China should get to be a leader on the IT industry. This volume includes features such as: establishes key measurements for the development of China's IT industry; and sets forth the priorities for government and industry I.

Explores the aspects of the Natural Killer [NK] Cell, placing it at the center of damage/danger recognition and the response to stress. This book details NK cell biology, the role of NK cells in regulating immunity through interactions with other cells and tissues, the participation of NK cells in disease and special topics in NK biology.

A work in introductory statistics, which provides an explanation of intuition and ideas behind the statistical methods. It includes a supplement which shows students how to come to the answers shown in the back of the text. It includes solutions to all of the odd numbered exercises.

Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, often cited as 5-HT) is one of the major excitatory neurotransmitter, and the serotonergic system is one of the best studied and understood transmitter systems. This handbook offers a comprehensive overview over the many facets of behavioural serotonin research.