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Cisplatin: Chemistry and Biochemistry of a Leading Anticancer Drug

John Wiley & Sons, 1999

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...

Physical-Layer Security: From Information Theory to Security Engineering

Cambridge University Press, 2011

This book is the result of more than five years of intensive research in collaboration with a large number of people. Since the beginning, our goal has been to understand at a deeper level how information-theoretic security ideas can help build more secure networks and communication systems. Back in 2008, the actual planwas to...

Three Dialogues on Knowledge

John Wiley & Sons, 1991

The Socratic, or dialog, form is central to the history of philosophy and has been the discipline's canonical genre ever since. Paul Feyerabend's Three Dialogues on Knowledge resurrects the form to provide an astonishingly flexible and invigorating analysis of epistemological, ethical and metaphysical problems. He uses literary...

Topics In Probability

World Scientific Publishing, 2011

In this monograph we treat some topics that have been of some importance and interest in probability theory. These include, in particular, analytic characteristic functions, the moment problem, infinitely divisible and self-decomposable distributions.

Recent research in probability has been concerned with applications such...

Superconductivity

World Scientific Publishing, 2004

What is superconductivity? How was it discovered? What are the properties of superconductors, how are they applied now, and how are they likely to become widely used in the near future? These are just some of the questions which this important book sets out to answer. Starting with the discovery of superconductivity over ninety years ago, the...

COX-2 Blockade in Cancer Prevention and Therapy (Cancer Drug Discovery and Development)

Humana Press, 2003

The revelation that aspirin and aspirin-like compounds have notable antineoplastic properties has revolutionized cancer research. COX-2 Blockade in Cancer Prevention and Therapy chronicles the evidence and presents exciting new opportunities for the use of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) blockade in the prevention and treatment of cancer. The text...

Introduction to Integral Calculus: Systematic Studies with Engineering Applications for Beginners

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

In general, there is a perception that Calculus is an extremely difficult subject, probably because the required number of good teachers and good books are not available. We know that books cannot replace teachers, but we are of the opinion that, good books can definitely reduce dependence on teachers, and students can gain more...

The Poison Paradox: Chemicals As Friends and Foes

Oxford University Press, 2005

To appreciate the dangers and the risks from chemicals of all kinds it is necessary to understand how, when and why they are toxic. This falls within the field of toxicology and is what this book is all about.

I was encouraged to write the book by Dr John Emsley, who is well known for his popular science books on...

Support of the Acutely Failing Liver, 2nd Edition (Tissue Engineering Intelligence Unit)

Landes Bioscience, 2000

Severe liver dysfunction results in massive physiologic derangement and high mortality. A concerted multidisciplinary effort is needed to support patients with severe acute liver failure (SALF) and treat them appropriately. This requires mobilization of significant resources. There is a need to put in place clinical teams to provide...

Operative Neuromodulation: Volume 1: Functional Neuroprosthetic Surgery. An Introduction (Acta Neurochirurgica Supplement)

Springer, 2007

This is the first part in a two-volume work on neuromodulation. It describes techniques and procedures applied in internal contact with non-neural tissues surrounding the nervous system (dura or cerebrospinal fluid), as in the case of epidural stimulation for pain or intrathecal drug application for the treatment of spasticity and pain. In...

Signal Processing, Perceptual Coding and Watermarking of Digital Audio: Advanced Technologies and Models (Premier Reference Source)

IGI Global, 2011

The availability of increased computational power and the proliferation of the Internet have facilitated the production and distribution of unauthorized copies of multimedia information. As a result, the problem of copyright protection has attracted the interest of the worldwide scientific and business communities. The most...

Satellite Technology: Principles and Applications

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Offering readers a concise and yet comprehensive reference, Satellite Technology provides a unique coverage of both the principles and applications in this wide field. This book covers the technological and application aspects of satellites in one volume, ensuring not only extensive coverage of communications-related applications of...

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