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Active neuroscientists survey NSCs as potential tools for central nervous system and spinal cord repair by explaining their clinically significant fundamental properties, manipulations, and potential therapeutic paradigms. Their discussion of the fundamental biology of NSCs illustrates the signaling pathways that regulate stem cell division...

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'Essential Law for Marketers' offers clear and concise explanations of the laws that impact on the practice of marketing, advertising, sponsorship, design and public relations, providing expert guidance on crucial issues for the busy practitioner.

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The most immediately obvious feature of .NET is the runtime, which Microsoft calls the common language runtime. The concept of a runtime is not new to Microsoft technologies—Visual Basic applications have always carried around the baggage of the Visual Basic runtime, and Microsoft’s foray into Java brought about the...