Cutting-edge articles review our current understanding of lipid microdomain signaling mechanisms and their physiological and pathological importance. The book describes the role of lipid rafts in learning, memory, and cancer, presents the emerging evidence that lipid rafts play critical roles in signaling pathways and the regulation of...

• Build a robust and scalable data access layer using NHibernate's features and practical wisdom
• Use patterns such as specification and query object to make data access layer maintainable and...

Chapters in part one focus on types of polymers, including temperature-, pH-, photo-, and enzyme-responsive polymers....

With the arrival of SAP Simple Finance, SAP is integrating its newest technologies into age-old business operations and you need to keep up. See what SAP Simple Finance can do, what it offers your organization, and where to begin with this introduction to this feather-light finance solution that packs a punch. Take a look at the applications...

• Gain comprehensive information on scaling Node.js both vertically and horizontally in the cloud and across virtual machines
• Learn how to use Gulp, Mocha, Chai, PhantomJS, Git,...

• Detect and solve performance, indexing, and fuzzy matches problems and more in an effective way
• Tune PostgreSQL databases and remove bottlenecks...

• Learn fundamental message/queue design patterns
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Your software needs to leverage multiple cores, handle thousands of users and terabytes of data, and continue working in the face of both hardware and software failure. Concurrency and parallelism are the keys, and Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks equips you for this new world. See how emerging technologies such as actors and...

Forty-three of the leading experts in this burgeoning field have assembled to produce an exciting review of the many advances to date. The volume reviews the creation of computer models of neural function, of cognition, memory, and vision. The results and future directions explored here will have an important bearing on research into brain...

Recent scientific studies have brought significant advances in the understanding of basic mental functions such as memory, dreams, identification, repression, which constitute the basis of the psychoanalytical theory. This book focuses on the possibility of interactions between psychoanalysis and neuroscience: emotions and the right...

The introvert is a personality type that draws energy from the outside inward. According to standard personality testing assessments, most people are introverts and no group is more introverted than technical professionals. Introverts are congenitally programmed to recoil from the prospect of public speaking with fear and loathing, yet making...