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Cancer Precursors: Epidemiology, Detection, and Prevention

Springer, 2002

Dramatic advances in our understanding of cancer causation have come from epidemiologic and laboratory research, particularly over the past two decades. These developments have included a broadening interest in the critical events that take place during the early stages of the dynamic multistep process leading to invasive...

UML 2 and the Unified Process: Practical Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (2nd Edition)

Addison Wesley, 2005

"This book manages to convey the practical use of UML 2 in clear and understandable terms with many examples and guidelines. Even for people not working with the Unified Process, the book is still of great use. UML 2 and the Unified Process, Second Edition is a must-read for every UML 2 beginner and a helpful guide and...

Pancreatic Cancer: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Medicine)

Humana Press, 2004

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Annually approximately 30,000 Americans are diagnosed with the disease and most will die from it within five years. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is unique because of its late onset in age, high mortality, small tumor samples...

Ocular Angiogenesis: Diseases, Mechanisms, and Therapeutics (Ophthalmology Research)

Humana Press, 2006

Angiogenesis is of fundamental importance in development, health, and disease. The study of angiogenesis in the eye, in particular, has increased exponentially in the last decade because retinal and choroidal neovascularization play an important role in the major blinding diseases of the industrialized world and represent an...

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...

Science and Technology in Medicine: An Illustrated Account Based on Ninety-Nine Landmark Publications from Five Centuries

Springer, 2006

The history and evolution of the fields of science and medicine are symbiotically linked and thus are mutually dependent. Discoveries in one domain have allowed for progress in the other, and it is nearly impossible to study one area in isolation. The influence of science and technologic discoveries on medicine has profoundly impacted the way...

New Trends of Surgery for Cerebral Stroke and its Perioperative Management (Acta Neurochirurgica Supplement)

Springer, 2005

In July 2004 specialists in neurosurgery, neuroradiology, neurology and neurointensive care discussed recent trends at the 2nd Swiss Japanese Joint Conference on Cerebral Stroke Surgery, held in Zurich, Switzerland. New concepts were worked out during the conference and are published in this volume. The book starts with the topic intracranial...

The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation

O'Reilly, 2012

Online communities provide a wide range of opportunities for supporting a cause, marketing a product or service, or building open source software. The Art of Community helps you recruit members, motivate them, and manage them as active participants. Author Jono Bacon offers experiences and observations from his 14-year effort...

Machine Learning and Data Mining

Woodhead Publishing, 2007

The book describes the basics of machine learning principles and algorithms that are used in data mining and is intended for students of computer science, researchers who need to adapt various algorithms for particular data mining tasks, and for education of sophisticated users of machine learning and data mining tools.

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Essentials of Apoptosis: A Guide for Basic and Clinical Research

Humana Press, 2003

Life and death are topics that no one takes lightly. In the cell, death by apoptosis is just as fundamental as proliferation for the maintenance of normal tissue homeostasis. Too much or too little apoptosis can lead to developmental abnormality, degenerative diseases, or cancers. Although apoptosis, or programmed cell death (PCD),...

Tips and Techniques in Laparoscopic Surgery

Springer, 2004

The purpose of this work is a descriptive demonstration of laparoscopic techniques approached in a very practical way. Every intervention, summarized in six stages, is carefully illustrated with an operating cliché and a plan that shows the progress of the phases of the intervention.

The 17 operating...

Nutrigenomics (Oxidative Stress and Disease)

CRC Press, 2005

Nutrition research commenced more than 200 years ago in the dawn of the chemical revolution. The “golden age of nutrition” began in the early 1910s and continued into the 1940s when nutritional sciences focused primarily on diseases associated with single nutrient deficiencies. This led to the formulation of the...

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