The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics treats a number of
distinct moral questions and finds their answer in the dignity of the person, both as
an agent and as a patient (in the sense of the recipient of action). Characteristically
one’s view of the human being ultimately shapes one’s outlook on...
Numerous miniaturized DNA microarray, DNA chip, Lab on a Chip and biosensor devices
have been developed and commercialized. Such devices are improving theway many important
genomic and proteomic analyses are performed in both research and clinical diagnostic
laboratories. The development of these technologies was enabled by a...
Rabies offers a complete account of one of the oldest known diseases threatening public health today. Unlike most research-oriented descriptions of rabies, this book provides a narrative about the disease and its etiologic agent, encompassing the historical background to recent developments. The emphasis on the basic biology and...
The mechanisms of disease production by infectious agents are presently
the focus of an unprecedented flowering of studies. The field has undoubtedly
received impetus from the considerable advances recently made in the
understanding of the structure, biochemistry, and biology of viruses, bacteria,
fungi, and other parasites....
30 years after its discovery as an antitumor agent, cisplatin represents today one of the most successful drugs in chemotherapy. This book is intended to reminisce this event, to take inventory, and to point out new lines of development in this field. Divided in 6 sections and 22 chapters, the book provides an up-to-date account on topics...
Radiologists have long been interested in imaging and measuring blood fl ow and in
characterising the structure of blood vessels within pathological tissues. In 1927 Egas
Moniz described the technique of cerebral angiography using injection of radio-opaque
contrast agent combined with conventional radiology. His earlier published...
Modern web browsers support a whole range of new HTML5 and CSS3 features that make web development fun. But supporting old browsers can make a web developer's life difficult. With HTML5 Modernizr, you can check for features and deliver a design around them that is not only backward, but also forward compatible.
This book summarizes the keynote and plenary speeches and posters of the “Xth
International Nidovirus Symposium: Toward Control of SARS and Other Nidovirus
Diseases” that was held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 25–30, 2005. The nine
previous meetings of scientists investigating the molecular biology and...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mathematical Methods, Models, and Architectures for Computer Network Security, MMM-ACNS 2010, held in St. Petersburg, Russia in September 2010. The 16 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully...
Ifirst met Billy Pegram when he was shooting fashion in Seattle and I was
the new agent on the block. We developed a synergistic relationship. He
introduced me to clients; I had him shoot the models I represented. I have
now known him for nearly three decades. During this time, we have learned
from each other and...
Synchronization, consensus and flocking are ubiquitous requirements in networked systems. Pinning Control of Complex Networked Systems investigates these requirements by using the pinning control strategy, which aims to control the whole dynamical network with huge numbers of nodes by imposing controllers for only a fraction of...
Get started with Twisted, the event-driven networking framework written in Python. With this introductory guide, you’ll learn the key concepts and design patterns to build event-driven client and server applications for many popular networking protocols. You’ll also learn the tools to build new protocols using...
