Download or read book Biological Concepts and Techniques in Toxicology written by Jim E. Riviere and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-03-06 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting the latest advances in molecular biology, mathematical modeling, quantitative risk assessment, and biopharmaceutical development, this reference presents how current scientific applications and methods impact and revolutionize mainstream toxicological research. Presenting findings from disciplines that will impact the future of toxicol

Download or read book Onychomycosis written by Robert Baran and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-07-29 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid advances have been made in the development of therapies for onychomycosis, and there is therefore an increasing need for accurate diagnosis and selection of appropriate treatment. This text, written by a team of authors with expert knowledge in nail disease and fungal infection, discusses clinical presentation, diagnosis, laboratory procedures, the assessment of results and identification of possible infection, and concludes with an overview of available treatments.

Download or read book Otosclerosis and Stapes Surgery written by Wolfgang Arnold and published by Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Otosclerosis is a disorder causing a hardening of the middle ear bones which leads to a progressive hearing loss. Internationally renowned experts met in Saas Fee (Switzerland) in 2004 to discuss otosclerosis and stapes surgery, and they have subsequently

Download or read book Mediterranean Climate Variability written by P. Lionello and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-08-22 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-authored book provides an updated description of climate variability in the Mediterranean basin, focusing on decadal and centennial time scales and on the results available on the impact of future emission scenarios at regional scale. The authors describs both local physical processes responsible for these variability - such as changes in the surface properties and land use- and globalprocesses - such as changes in the large scale atmospheric circulation associated to global warming, NAO, tropical monsoon and ENSO. Regional climate change issues are also addressed. Mediterranean Climate Variability aims to review the research on this region and to provide at the same time both an introduction and a reference for researchers. It covers topics typical of Climatology, Climate history, Meteorology, Oceanography, Environmental Science but the information here provided would also be useful for research in agriculture, social and economic studies. It is addressed to scientists and students interested in the Mediterranean climate and environment. Some topics have interesting connections to nearby regions: Northern Atlantic, West Africa, central and Eastern Europe. Each chapter will contain a summary meant to provide information to policy makers, researchers from other fields, and in general to a wide audience without a technical expertise on climate. * Provides an updated analysis of the Mediterranean climate features and guidelines for future research * Considers both oceanographic and atmospheric aspects * Analyzes the Mediterranean climate in a global perspective

Download or read book Handbook of Adolescent Development written by Sandy Jackson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Adolescent Development fills a gap in the literature on adolescent development and behaviour: all of the authors of the various chapters were invited to include as many findings on European adolescents as possible. Through this specific emphasis, the handbook provides a complement to other reviews of the literature that are mostly based on North American samples. The contributors are all eminent researchers in the field and the individual chapters cover their specific areas of expertise. Theories of adolescence, along with emotional, physical and cognitive issues, are explored. Topics covered include families, peer relations, school and leisure time, as well as problem areas such as depression, drug consumption and delinquency. Handbook of Adolescent Development also incorporates a comprehensive review of the literature in the area and considers avenues for future research. This multidisciplinary text will be of interest to those studying and researching in the fields of developmental psychology, sociology, demography, epidemiology and criminology.

Download or read book The Politics of Post Industrial Welfare States written by Klaus Armingeon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study assesses the welfare state to ask key questions and draw new conclusions about its place in modern society. It shows how the welfare states that we have inherited from the early post-war years had one main objective: to protect the income of the male breadwinner. Today, however, massive social change, in particular the shift from industrial to post-industrial societies and economies, have resulted in new demands being put on welfare states. These demands originate from situations that are typical of the new family and labour market structures that have become widespread in western countries since the 1970s and 1980s, characterised by the clear prevalence of service employment and by the massive entry of women in the labour market. Against this background, this book: * presents a precise and clear definition of 'new social risks'. A concept being increasingly used in welfare state literature. * focuses on the groups that are mostly exposed to new social risks (women, the young, the low-skilled) in order to study their political behaviour. * assesses policymaking processes that can lead to successful adaptation. It covers key areas such as child care, care for elderly people, adapting pensions to atypical career patterns, active labour market policies, and policy making at the EU level. This book will be of great interest for all students and scholars of politics, sociology and the welfare state in particular.

Download or read book Institutions in Perspective written by Rudolf Richter and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2006 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudolf Richter is one of the leading pioneers in the field of the New Institutional Economics in Germany. The articles in this Festschrift were written by renowned scholars from Germany and other countries. In addition to general perspectives on the New Institutional Economics, the Festschrift also contains articles on the theory of the firm, economic contract theory, on pricing and competition, macroeconomics and monetary economics and on various aspects of law and economics.

Download or read book Philo s Flaccus written by Philo (of Alexandria.) and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new English translation of and philological-historical commentary on Philo's In Flaccum, the only document extant that deals with the anti-Jewish pogrom in Alexandria in 38 CE.

Download or read book Operations Research Proceedings 2006 written by Karl-Heinz Waldmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-11 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a selection of papers referring to lectures presented at the symposium Operations Research 2006 held at the University of Karlsruhe. The symposium presented the state of the art in Operations Research and related areas in Economics, Mathematics, and Computer Science and demonstrated the broad applicability of its core themes, placing particular emphasis on Basel II, one of the most topical challenges of Operations Research.

Download or read book Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis written by Benoit Rihoux and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-20 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis aims to provide a decisive push to the further development and application of innovative and specific comparative methods for the improvement of policy analysis. To take on this challenge, this volume brings together methodologists and specialists from a broad range of social scientific disciplines and policy fields. The work further develops methods for systematic comparative cases analysis in a small-N research design, with a key emphasis laid on policy-oriented applications. Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis is clearly both a social scientific and policy-driven endeavor; on the one hand, the book engages in an effort to further improve social scientific methods, but on the other hand this effort also intends to provide useful, applied tools for policy analysts and the "policy community" alike. Though quite a variety of methods and techniques are touched upon in this volume, its focus is mainly laid on two recently developed research methods/techniques which enable researchers to systematically compare a limited number of cases; Qualitative Comparative Analysis(QCA) and Fuzzy-Sets (FS).

Download or read book Transcultural Wars from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century written by Hans-Henning Kortüm and published by De Gruyter Akademie Forschung. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the conference "Transcultural Wars from the Middle Ages to the 21st century" held March 31-April 2, 2004 in Regensburg.

Download or read book Structural Syntactic and Statistical Pattern Recognition written by Dit-Yan Yeung and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-08-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition, SSPR 2006 and the 6th International Workshop on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition, SPR 2006, held in Hong Kong, August 2006 alongside the Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2006. 38 revised full papers and 61 revised poster papers are included, together with 4 invited papers covering image analysis, character recognition, bayesian networks, graph-based methods and more.

Download or read book Near Earth Objects Our Celestial Neighbors IAU S236 written by International Astronomical Union. Symposium and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-24 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IAU S236 concentrates on specific techniques of observation and modeling Near Earth Objects (NEOs).

Download or read book Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention MICCAI 2005 written by James Duncan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 981 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Drug Hypersensitivity written by Werner J. Pichler and published by Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaches the phenomenon of drug hypersensitivity in a comprehensive manner. Besides epidemiological aspects, it addresses the immunological mechanisms underlying these complicated reactions which go far beyond the IgE-mediated drug allergies also considered in this book. The book also covers clinical manifestations and new diagnostic methods, and introduces some recetly established animal models. Many topics are treated from multiple perspectives, and the 33 chapters are thoroughly cross-referenced.