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The purpose of the Frontiers of Shrimp Research symposium was to assess the status of shrimp research in these areas and to further foster the scientific collaboration vital for significant research advances. Based on this symposium, this book is intended for advanced undergraduate/graduate students, mariculturists and research workers.

Featuring the advances on chemistry, structure and functional properties of "novel proteins and polysaccharides", and placing an emphasis on fundamental structure-function relationships, this book is useful to those working in product development and fundamental food research.

Presents a discussion of the culture of striped bass and other Morone spp. This title includes chapters on reproduction, nutrition, environmental requirements, transportation, economics and fish processing. It features a chapter on water quality that considers the impact water quality has on the production success of Morone.

A dictionary that covers the practice of pharmacology and allied sciences with emphasis on the development, regulation and use of human medicine. It provides definitions of terms in pharmacology, both basic and clinical. It offers information on the medicine development and official regulations.

Aims to provide a comprehensive overview of hemispheric differences in sensory and perceptual processing. This book deals directly with the intra- and inter-hemispheric processing of spatial and temporal frequencies in the visual modality.

Discusses theoretical considerations behind the block copolymer self-assembly in solution and in the melt. This book provides case studies of self-assembly in different classes of block copolymers and in different environments. It presents experimental tools, ranging from static to dynamic and offers sampling of applications of block copolymers.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR) is widely regarded as having evolved into a subscience. This book focuses on the developments in the field of high resolution NMR, with a view to applications on the structure elucidation of organic molecules of moderate molecular weight. It is suitable for chemists and application NMR scientists.

Provides information on adverse drug interactions. This book is divided in 2 parts: Part 1 comments on drug interactions and their mechanisms, on a pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic level, while Part 2 consists of drug interaction tables, divided and subdivided into categories of disorders, and the drugs used in the treatment of these disorders.

Describes some fundamentally important topics covering subjects from thermodynamics to molecular weight and its distribution effects. This book shows the mathematical derivation of each equation. It also gives some original references for further reading.

Covers the fundamental theoretical aspects, a range of applications to economics, several chapters on applications to political science and individual chapters on applications to disciplines as diverse as evolutionary biology, computer science, law, psychology and ethics. This title covers topics including strategic ('Nash') equilibrium.

Surveying the developments in Game Theory and its applications to many and varied fields, in particular to economics, this title covers: communication and correlated equilibria, coalitional games and coalition structures, utility and subjective probability, common knowledge, bargaining, zero-sum games, differential games, and cost allocation.

Part of the "Handbook of Surface Science" series, this volume deals with aspects of the electronic structure of surfaces as investigated by means of the experimental and theoretical methods of physics. The importance of understanding surface phenomena stems from the fact that for many physical and chemical phenomena.

Covers such topics as anaesthetics, cannulation and injection techniques, and surgery. This book is useful to fisheries scientists, aquaculturists, and animal biochemists, physiologists and endocrinologists; it will provide researchers and students with a pertinent information source from theoretical and experimental angles.

Provides an introduction into the method of inverse spectra - a powerful method successfully employed in various branches of topology. This book includes surveys (including proofs of several statements) of the Hilbert cube and Hilbert space manifold theories. It also presents the developments of the Menger and Nobeling manifold theories.

This text indicates those variables which in general may need a better control. Examples illustrate the impact that those variables may have on various characteristics. A series of representative studies are presented so that insight can be obtained about the effects of these parameters.

Polymeric materials have a profound presence in chemical, pharmaceutical, biomedical, manufacturing, infrastructure, electronic, optical and information technologies. This book provides a comprehensive coverage of thermodynamic and thermal behaviours of various polymeric materials as well as methodologies of thermal analysis and calorimetry.

Surveys the research on Agent-based Computational Economics, the computational study of economic processes modeled as dynamic systems of interacting agents. This book covers such topics as: learning; empirical validation; network economics; social dynamics; financial markets; innovation and technological change; market design; and more.

Covers both basic and applied sciences in a rather specified area of pulp and paper manufacture. This book also covers the basic science of lignocellulose enzymology and plant genetics in many other contexts, and reviews the application of biotechnology in process and product development.

Of the plant species, woody plants produce the most abundant biomass resources, playing important roles in the suppression of carbon dioxide increase and supplying huge energy and resources. These work discusses the results of research for global resource and energy, biomass production and environmental problems from the aspect of woody science.

Biotechnology is in many respects shaping our life and affecting our means of production and the creation of jobs. This book reviews specific topics in biotechnology.

Considers the main physicochemical aspects of foam and foam films such as preparation, structure, and properties, giving an emphasis on foam stability. This book reveals the quantitative approach in treating foams that is based on foam film behaviour and the techniques for controlling the foam liquid content.

Offers empirical research and investigation of pure theories of investment in the sports and lotto markets. With overviews of scholarship on the industry side of racetrack and other betting markets to betting exchanges and market efficiencies, this work considers a variety of sports in countries around the world.

Reviews the area of telomerase research with a focus at the molecular and cellular levels. This volume is suitable for graduate students and postdocs in the telomerase field and for established investigators in other fields who are beginning to study telomerase in their particular research program.

Catastrophes under anesthesia have focused attention on the interaction between drugs, including prescribed and non-prescribed medications, including interactions with vitamins, herbal preparations, traditional remedies, and food supplements. This book summarizes the adverse effects of a large range of drugs used in anesthesia.

Focuses on the purpose of the conference to discuss the results of developments and prospect in science and technology of the field. This book covers the key issues and materials related to the conference such as: molecular assemblies in solutions; fine particles and colloidal dispersions; supramolecular organized films; and more.

Presents an account of the information related to adverse drug reactions and interactions from the clinician's point of view. This work describes reports of adverse drug effects, setting them into context in terms of clinical relevance and importance, and cross-referring to previous reports where necessary.

The conference on Functional Analysis and Its Applications took place in Lviv, Ukraine and was dedicated to Polish mathematician Stefan Banach. This book contains scientific contributions of the conference participants, mostly in the areas of functional analysis, general topology, operator theory and related topics.

Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is an adaptive form of cell death that plays a critical role in turnover of mitotic cells and various tissues in the adult, including epithelial cells, fibroblasts and various endocrine cells. This book details the molecular, biochemical and cellular mechanisms of apoptosis.

Includes chapters which provide the reader with insight into the inter-relationships of the function of different organelles in the sequences of events that lead to cellular dysfunction and degeneration in the aging human population.

Explains well test analysis and the use of advanced interpretation models. This book contains chapters such as: Principles of Transient Testing, Analysis Methods, Wellbore Conditions, Effect of Reservoir Heterogeneities on Well Responses, Effect of Reservoir Boundaries on Well Responses, Multiple Well Testing, and Application to Gas Reservoirs.