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This fourth volume in the series on biochemistry looks at foundations in modern biochemistry. Topics covered include: the genetic solution; the genetic basis of development; DNA repair; evolution in an RNA world; nitrogen fixation; solute channels; viruses; biochemistry in retrospect and propspect.

Endocrine disease-related genes have been characterized and mutations in these genes have helped explain endocrine disorders. This work talks about the advances in this field. It focuses on aspects of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis including GnRH and GH gene regulation, molecular aspects of insulin, and, insulin-like growth factors and glucagon.

It is clear that electron transfer chemistry is one of the most active areas of chemical study. This title helps scientists who are developing knowledge in this area to describe their research findings. It is suitable for those interested in learning about breakthroughs in this area of chemical research.

This text covers such topics as quantum molecular similarity measures, the similarity of atoms in molecules, and molecular similiarity measures of conformational changes and electron density deformations.

The study of the structure of molecular systems is an enduring area of research. This series is devoted to bringing together articles from leading workers in the field that draw together recent theoretical and experimental results and advances in understanding.

Talks about internals of Real Application Clusters (RAC) operations, cache fusion, fusion recovery processes and the fast reconfiguration of RAC. This book discusses Oracle9i features in a RAC implementation with respect to usage and design considerations, as well as those parameters that are and are not applicable.

Approaches data mining from the perspective of IT professionals using Microsoft data management technologies. This work explains the data mining capabilities in Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 database, Commerce Server, among others. It also details the Microsoft OLE DB for Data Mining standard, and gives readers best practices for using them.

A collection of review articles by experts on structural, synthetic and biological activities, as well as biosynthetic studies relating to bioactive natural products. Papers illustrate the plant kingdom's wide range of natural products and their structural diversity.

This collection is to present the earliest textbooks that grew out of the original development of automatic control, and the many others that followed very soon, in various countries, and in various languages. We set out to collect information on one to four books from each country, including a brief description of the background, history and contents of the book, a picture of the front page, and copies of one to a few "typical" pages. With the latter, we intended to show pages that contain an equation or figure, easily recognizable to anyone familiar with control, embedded in the text written in one of the many languages and, in some cases, in various scripts. The present collection contains 62 entries from 21 countries.

Containing 71 articles, this title provides a review of developments in the field of systems and control. It also provides coverage of the theory and application of systems in specific areas: modelling and simulation, traffic control and biological systems and measurement and software engineering.

The lipids of cellular membranes not only serve roles in controlling structure and fluidity of membrane, but are increasingly recognized for their roles as signalling molecules and modifiers of membrane protein function. This book provides a comprehensive review of specific membrane lipid mediators and their roles in aging and age-related disease.

Presents surveys of the important topics in urban economics. This work contains 6 surveys on locational analysis, 5 surveys of specific urban markets, and 5 surveys of government policy issues.

The secondary aim of this book is to stimulate the development of new and improved standardized stationary phases and columns, in order to improve the reproducibility of separations, as well as the range of applications.

Fish farming has increased in status equal to cattle farming as a source of food for mankind. Reflecting the changes in both quantity of production and technology in Japanese aquaculture, this work includes aquaculture species and discussions on marine ranching and biotechnology.

Covers the research advances in the field of informatics applied to conceptual stages in the generation of artifacts - in particular, buildings. This work addresses the question how far and in what ways creative design can be intelligently automated.

Provides a review of rare earth carbides, emphasizing the thermodynamics, phase diagrams, crystal structures and physical properties. This book deals with the preparation, structure, chemical and physical properties of heavy-metal fluoride glasses. It explores the chemical kinetics of solvent and ligand exchange in aqueous lanthanide solutions.

It has been said more than once in psychology that one person's effect is another person's error term. This book examines what we can learn about general and universal phenomena in cognition and its brain substrates from examining the odd, the rare, the transient, the exceptional and the abnormal.

Presents a comprehensive review of the field of theoretical and applied mechanics.

Suitable for food scientists, medical researchers, analytical and synthetic organic chemists, chefs, and those involved with, and interested in, food and food flavours in general, this title offers a collection of papers covering various aspects of an important group of botanicals which have long been used to improve the flavor of food.

Covers carbodhydrate analysis and structure; carbohydrates in medicine and glycopathology; structure, function, application and protein engineering of carbohydrate active enzymes; oligo- and polysaccharides of industrial interest; and production of carbohydrates containing new materials.

This volume covers topics including: DNA fingerprinting of fish; the cytochromes P450 in fish; the molecular biology of bacterial fish disease; the origins of the diversity and distribution of antifreeze proteins. It provides information from both theoretical and experimental angles.

Presents digital image processing and recognition methods, implementation techniques and advanced applications such as television, remote sensing, biomedicine, traffic, inspection, and robotics. This book describes various approaches (such as digital transforms and neural networks) for solving 2-D and 3-D problems.

Focuses on the interaction between elemental metals and (in)organic ligands in different reaction conditions. This book generalizes the information in the area of direct reactions leading to the coordination and organometallic reactions.

Talks about partial differential equations, ranging from the abstract theory of gradient flows to stochastic representations of non-linear parabolic PDE's. This work considers more concrete probelms relating to specific applications.

Features the proceedings of the 2005 les Houches summer school on Mathematical Statistical Physics which give an overview on this fast developing area of interest to both physicists and mathematicians. This book also presents an introduction to the field of math with many interdisciplinary connections in physics, biology, and computer science.

Demonstrates that many comprehensive environmental studies can successfully be carried out when the computations are correctly organized. This book helps the reader to understand that, while it is important to select fast numerical methods, it is important to develop parallel codes. It investigates the trends related to high levels of pollution.

DNA (sometimes referred to as the molecule of life), is the most interesting and most important of all molecules. This book deals with the electrochemistry of DNA and RNA and to the development of sensors for detecting DNA damage and DNA hybridization. It covers the methods of electrochemical analysis of nucleic acids and proteins.