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Analysis and Control of Boolean Networks: A Semi-tensor Product Approach

Springer, 2010

Analysis and Control of Boolean Networks presents a systematic new approach to the investigation of Boolean control networks. The fundamental tool in this approach is a novel matrix product called the semi-tensor product (STP). Using the STP, a logical function can be expressed as a conventional discrete-time linear system. In the light of...

Electronics Explained: The New Systems Approach to Learning Electronics

Newnes, 2010

This book is for those of you who want to learn about electronics and computers but frankly are put off by all the gory details. If you have a short attention span, a nonexistent background in science, math, and technology, and are looking for near-instant gratification of electronics knowledge, this book is for you. Electronics is a complex...

The Woman Who Decided to Die: Challenges and Choices at the Edges of Medicine

Oxford University Press, 2009

Advances in medical technology force us to struggle with new and often gut-wrenching decisions. How do we know when someone is dead and not just in a coma? Should a convicted felon qualify for a new heart? In The Woman Who Decided to Die, novelist and medical ethicist Ronald Munson takes readers to the very edges of medicine, where...

Selenium in Food and Health

Springer, 2006

Selenium is a contradictory nutrient. It has been called the essential poison—too much of it in the diet can be toxic; too little can result in chronic, and sometimes fatal, deficiency. Even health authorities have at times been confused. Although today in the USA, as in most other countries, selenium appears among the trace...

Mortality and Maldevelopment: Part I: congenital cardiovascular malformations (Pt. 1)

Springer, 2007

Despite intense study during the 20th century, at its end the causes of the great majority of congenital malformations were still unknown. Several means had been used to try to remedy this unsatisfactory situation, a major one being the epidemiological approach, that is, by analyzing patterns of occurrence and association....

Immunology and Immunopathogenesis of Malaria (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology)

Springer, 2005

Malaria is still a major global health problem, killing more than one million people every year. Almost all of these deaths are caused by Plasmodium falciparum, one of the four species of malaria parasites infecting humans. This high burden of mortality falls heavily on sub-Saharan Africa, where over 90% of these deaths are...

Tay-Sachs Disease, Volume 44 (Advances in Genetics)

Academic Press, 2001

Tay-Sachs disease is a rare hereditary disease caused by a genetic mutation that leaves the body unable to produce an enzyme necessary for fat metabolism in nerve cells, producing central nervous system degeneration. In infants, it is characterized by progressive mental deterioration, blindness, paralysis, epileptic seizures, and death by age...

Recent Developments in Alcoholism : Alcohol Problems in Adolescents and Young Adults. Epidemiology. Neurobiology. Prevention. Treatment (Recent Developments in Alcoholism)

Springer, 2005

Even after stepping through the doorway into the 21st century, alcoholism remains a major contributor to the excess morbidity and mortality experienced by Americans. No where is this unmet need more dramatic than its impact on adolescents.

In this edition, the authors cover the wide spectrum of epidemiologic,...

Ultimate Journey

Three Rivers Press, 1994

In 1958, a successful businessman named Robert Mornroe began to have experiences that drastically altered his life. Unpredictably, and without his willing it, Monroe found himself leaving his physical body to travel via a "second body" to locales far removed from the physical and spiritual realities of his life. He was...

Visual Prosthesis and Ophthalmic Devices: New Hope in Sight (Ophthalmology Research)

Humana Press, 2007

The history of medicine has been substantially defined by a small number of monumental discoveries. Most of these breakthroughs have emerged from the biological sciences. One of the first great breakthroughs was the recognition by Koch in 1884 that pathogens could be transmitted from one living organism to another to cause disease....

Dictionary of Plant Lore

Academic Press, 2007

Sadly, this book is published posthumously. It results from the author’s interest in plant and tree lore and ethnobotanical studies developed over several decades of research and teaching. Although the author was checking the first print at the time of his death, any inaccuracies or omissions would undoubtedly have been rectified...

Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation

Springer, 2007

Over the past decades the medical care of the patient with cardiovascular disease (CVD) has shown an impressive development, with marked positive consequences for mortality, morbidity, and the quality of life of coronary patients. This improvement has profoundly changed the arena in which cardiac rehabilitation (CR) has been acting...

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