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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....

Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are

Oxford University Press, 2007

It is one of the great mysteries of human nature. Why are some people worriers, and others wanderers? Why are some people so easy-going and laid-back, while others are always looking for a fight?

Written by Daniel Nettle--author of the popular book Happiness--this brief volume takes the reader on an exhilarating tour of...

The Biochemistry of Inorganic Polyphosphates

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

This book is devoted to the current problems of biochemistry of inorganic polyphosphates (PolyPs), linear polymers of orthophosphoric acid, which are important regulatory biopolymers widespread in living organisms. The great progress in the field of PolyP biochemistry over the last 15 to 20 years has contributed much to the...

Clustering-Based Support for Software Architecture Restructuring (Software Engineering Research)

Vieweg and Teubner, 2011

The maintenance of long-living software systems is an essential topic in today’s software engineering practice and research. Software Architecture Restructuring is an important task to adjust these systems to current requirements and to keep them maintainable. Niels Streekmann introduces an approach to Software Architecture...

Deciphering Growth (Research and Perspectives in Endocrine Interactions)

Springer, 2005

An organism’s body size tells us a lot about how it makes a living, suggesting that body size is a key parameter in evolution. We outline three large-scale trends in body size evolution. Bergmann’s Rule is the tendency for warm-blooded species at high latitudes to be larger than their close relatives nearer the equator....

The Encyclopedia Of Addictions And Addictive Behaviors (Facts on File Library of Health and Living)

Facts on File, 2005

Psychiatrists often treat both the causes and the consequences of addictive behaviors. As a psychiatrist, I have treated many people with serious addictive behaviors ranging from cocaine addiction to kleptomania. I have also treated patients who have come to me with a broad range of other psychiatric problems. In addition, some of my patients...

More Time for You: A Powerful System to Organize Your Work and Get Things Done

AMACOM, 2010

The bane of my existence has always been the management (or in my case, the mismanagement) of time. I have struggled with finding time to ‘‘do it all.’’ In high school and college, I was notorious for pulling all-nighters to study or write papers (a habit I have not outgrown). When I started my career, I...

Chinese Nutrition Therapy: Dietetics in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

Thieme Medical Publishers, 2004

Kastner's Chinese Nutrition Therapy is an excellent introduction to Chinese dietetics for both, students and practitioners of Chinese medicine. - I wholeheartedly endorse his book. Nigel Wiseman For millennia, the Chinese have taught that a healthy, appropriate diet is an integral part of maintaining good health and healing myriad disorders,...

Foundation Adobe Edge Animate: for HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript Development

Friends of Ed, 2012

Foundation Adobe Edge Animate is a project-oriented book that will walk you through the features of Edge Animate - Adobe's exciting new motion and interaction tool for web standards development. Edge Animate is an application that allows web designers and developers to make full use of many of the features of CSS3,...

Handbook of Graphs and Networks

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Complex interacting networks are observed in systems from such diverse areas as physics, biology, economics, ecology, and computer science. For example, economic or social interactions often organize themselves in complex network structures. Similar phenomena are observed in traffic flow and in communication networks as the internet. In...

The Rough Guide to Greek Islands 7 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

Rough Guides, 2009

The Rough Guide to Greek Islands is the ultimate travel guide with clear maps and detailed coverage of the Greek Islands’ best attractions. Discover the vibrant Greek Islands from the historic mass of Crete and barely inhabited islets to Athens’ sea-set suburbs and lively nightlife. Our detailed Greek Islands maps help you...

Chance Discoveries in Real World Decision Making: Data-based Interaction of Human intelligence and Artificial Intelligence (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2006

For this book, the editors invited contributions from indispensable research areas relevant to "chance discovery", which has been defined as the discovery of events significant for making a decision, and studied since 2000. The chapters contain contributions to identifying rare or hidden events and explaining their significance. The...

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