The Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell: Molecular and Biological Responses to the Extracellular Matrix (Biology of Extracellular Matrix)

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In the last several years, the development of reagents that recognize smooth muscle-specific proteins has enabled researchers to identify smooth muscle cells (SMC) in tissue undergoing both differentiation and repair. These developments have led to increased research on SMC. The latest volume in the Biology of the Extracellular Matrix Series takes a current and all-encompassing look at this growing area of research. Devoted entirely to the subject of SMC, the book covers a diversity of topics-from SMC architecture and contractility to differentiation and gene expression in development. It also examines the proliferation and replication of SMC and its role in pharmacology and vascular disease. A must for cell, developmental, and molecular biologists, this book also will appeal to cardiologists, pathologists, and biomedical researchers interested in smooth muscle cells.

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* Presents a molecular, genetic, and developmental perspective of the vas smooth muscle cell
* Overview sections highlight key points of chapters, including the clinical relevance of the research and expectations for future study
* Appeals to both the basic biologist and to the biomedical researcher of vascular disease

The Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell : Molecular and Biological Responses to the Extracellular Matrix (Biology of Extracellular Matrix)

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The Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell : Molecular and Biological Responses to the Extracellular Matrix (Biology of Extracellular Matrix)
Stephen M. Schwartz
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Epoxy Resins.......2000-03-30

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Epoxy Adhesive Formulations (Chemical Engineering)

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Epoxy Adhesive Formulations (Chemical Engineering)
Edward M. Petrie
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Unmodified, epoxy resins cause certain problems for both the adhesive formulator and end-user. They are often rigid and brittle; hence, impact resistance and peel strength are poor. For decades, Chemist have been vigorously working to minimize these major shortcomings. Based on a popular course sponsored by the Society of Plastics Engineers and written by an authority in the field, this comprehensive text presents a variety of methods to accomplish what up to now has been a formidable task. Beginning with epoxy chemistry, moving on to fillers, filler treatments, and surfactants, and ending with current and future development in formulating Epoxy Adhesives, this rigorous text addressed the problem of improving flexibility, durability and strength by adding chemical groups to the epoxy structure either via the base resin or the curing agent or by adding separate flexibilizing resins to the formulation to create an epoxy-hybrid adhesive.

Epoxy Resin Chemistry (ACS symposium series)

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Epoxy Resin Chemistry (ACS symposium series)

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Handbook of Epoxy Resins
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Epoxy Resins, Curing Agents, Compounds, and Modifiers, Second Edition: An Industrial Guide

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Ernest W. Flick
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The second edition of this popular industrial guide describes over 2800 currently available epoxy resins, curing agents, compounds, and modifiers, based on information supplied by 71 manufacturers or distributors of these products. Epoxy resins have experienced tremendous growth since their introduction in the 1950's. Future growth will be in new markets in the specialty performance areas and high-technology applications. Each raw material or product is described, as available, with typical assay or checkpoint figures and a brief summary of important features or applications. Additional sections useful to the reader are the Suppliers' Addresses and a Trade Name Index.

Epoxy Resin Chemistry II (Acs Symposium Series)

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Plastics for Jewelry: How to Combine Acrylic, Epoxy, and Polyester Resins with Pewter, Silver, Metal Powders, Wood and Fiberglass to Make Cast, "Enameled," Inlayed, Plique-a-Jour & Laminated Jewelry

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Plastics for Jewelry: How to Combine Acrylic, Epoxy, and Polyester Resins with Pewter, Silver, Metal Powders, Wood and Fiberglass to Make Cast, "Enameled," Inlayed, Plique-a-Jour & Laminated Jewelry
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Advances in Polymer Science: Luminescence

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Advances in Polymer Science: Luminescence
H. J. Cantow
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Advances in Polymer Science: Specialty Polymers

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The seven papers of this volume present a glimpse into current research on soft tissue mechanics as well as some future directions. The seven papers concern tissues within the cardiovascular system: three focus on arteries, three on the heart, and one on biaxial testing of planar tissues such as heart valves. Given that cardiovascular disease continues to be the leading cause of death in the developed world, the importance of such research is clear. There are notable common features of the seven papers. First, most of the proposed constitutive relations are motivated directly by data on the underlying microstructure, and especially the orientations of a structurally important protein (collagen) that forms as undulated cross-linked fibers. Another feature of most of the papers is the consideration of the fact that both arteries and the heart contain muscle and that there is a need to quantify the so-called active (contractile) response in addition to the passive (non-contractile) response. Such relations must not only be structurally motivated, they must ultimately include the kinetics of calcium transport in the muscle. Constitutive relations for active behavior are discussed in the majority of the papers. The growth and remodeling of cardiovascular tissues is another common feature of the papers. Over the last twenty years, separate advances in biochemistry, cell biology, genetic engineering, and biomechanics have focused attention on the ubiquitous role of growth and remodeling of tissues. This volume should be of interest to cardiovascular researchers in particular, and to bioengineers and biomechanics soft tissue researchers in general.

Biomechanics of Soft Tissue in Cardiovascular Systems

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Biomechanics of Soft Tissue in Cardiovascular Systems
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The book is written by leading experts in the field presenting an up-to-date view of the subject matter in a didactically sound manner. It presents a review of the current knowledge of the behaviour of soft tissues in the cardiovascular system under mechanical loads, and the importance of constitutive laws in understanding the underlying mechanics is highlighted. Cells are also described together with arteries, tendons and ligaments, heart, and other biological tissues of current research interest in biomechanics. This includes experimental, continuum mechanical and computational perspectives, with the emphasis on nonlinear behaviour, and the simulation of mechanical procedures such as balloon angioplasty.

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the maimed

Masterful, dark and disturbing ...

This is an excellent new American translation

An Expressionist Novel, At Last

The Maimed
Hermann Ungar
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Story of the Eye

ASIN: 8086264130

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Set in Prague, The Maimed relates the story of a highly neurotic, socially inept bank clerk who is eventually forced to have sexual relations with his widowed landlady. At the same time he must witness the steady physical and mental deterioration of his lifelong friend who is suffering from an unnamed disease. Part psychological farce, Ungar tells a dark, ironic tale of chaos overtaking onesssssssss meticulously ordered life. Having died young, Ungar wrote only two novels, in addition to a handful of plays and short stories; this is the first time his work has appeared in English.

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the maimed.......2007-09-28

This is one of the most tense/intense books that I have ever read. To me it was a page turner with an overwhelming sense of dread that seemed to hang over it.

Masterful, dark and disturbing ..........2007-05-28

Franz Polzer, a pitiable, wretched man, lives out his ordinary days in solitude and poverty ... the mundane tasks carving out his time and his life. Tortured by sick and demented hallucinations of his father and aunt, Polzer suffers an immense self-loathing as well as a loathing of women and children. He also suffers endless nights in cold sweat, paralyzed by the death grip of imaginary thieves and murderers, only to suffer the hours of his days in ceaseless toil, a slave, mercilessly at the beck and call of his obsessive compulsive disorder - everything must be counted and counted again ... and again.

Yes, Herr Polzer is a sad soul, desperately trying to live his life the way he wishes. But an easy mark, even his paranoia and compulsive behavior cannot save him from the evil of others, who wish nothing more than to take advantage of any situation that might come along. And where one feels empathy for Polzer, there is nothing to feel but revulsion for the other characters in the story ... even his crippled childhood friend, whose mind has been devoured by leprosy.

This is a masterful piece of work. As we read the confessions of Polzer's twisted mind, Unger leaves more than enough to the imagination, and yet, without telling every gory detail, he still manages to set your flesh crawling. Polzer's entire identity is in turmoil throughout most of the book: his abusive childhood, his own sexual ambiguity, and his religious prejudices and superstitions fill every terror filled thought in his mind. I couldn't put this book down. In twenty-four hours, I read it cover to cover, on the edge of my seat. And even after finishing, the story continues to claw at my mind.

And kudos to the translator for finding it appropriate to include the final chapter, which was omitted in the original version. It in no way ruined the intentional ambiguous ending that the author desired. It only made me wonder more.

This is an excellent new American translation.......2003-01-10

This is an excellent new translation of an important text. German is a hard language, so if the original is not accessible to you, don't grab the first British translation off the shelf--I enjoyed this fresh and highly readable translation (considering this is Expressionim) in American English. It's a good paperback version for use in undergraduate and high school world literature courses, I think, as well.

An Expressionist Novel, At Last.......2002-07-29

Most of us, somewhere along the line, have heard the term "Expressionism" applied to paintings, particularly those of certain artists working in Central-Europe during the period 1910-1930. There was even something of a rediscovery and subsequent vogue, a few years back, in the work of such artists as Munch, Klimt, Schiele, Kokoshka, Kandinsky, et. al. Aside from painting, though less notably, the Expressionist label also encompasses the works of certain composers, playwrights and poets of the period. As a long time fan of Expressionist art, I'd often wondered where were all the great Expressionist novelists and short story writers of that time and, if there had been any, why was I not finding their work on library and book store shelves?

A little investigating suggested there really weren't that many literary types writing prose fiction clearly fitting the Expressionist mold. Those who undoubtedly were oriented that way, the poets and playwrights, actually published quite a lot in Europe during the second two decades of the last century. What the most famous prose writers of the time were producing, on the other hand, were a lot of highly cultivated and cerebral or quasi-mystical works (Thomas Mann and Robert Musil come to mind) rather than the wildly spontaneous and emotion driven works we associate with Expressionism. Kafka hovers somewhere around the periphery, more a surrealist than anything else though, in reality, representing a stylistic mode all his own.

How exciting, then, to come across a novel, newly (and expertly) translated into English, by one of those few fiction writers who clearly advanced the Expressionist program.

Hermann Ungar's novel, The Maimed, written in 1921/22, first appeared in print in its entirety in 1923. The author, born in 1893 to a well-off Jewish family in the small Moravian town of Boskovice, obtained a law degree in 1918 and thereafter took up acting and writing for the theater. His first published work, a short story collection (Boys and Murderers) appeared in 1920 and caused a minor sensation garnering praise from the likes of Thomas Mann and the director Berthold Viertel. Ungar himself initially had serious reservations about going ahead with publication of The Maimed in 1922, fearing a scandal, and his publisher's reluctance to risk obscenity charges led to its being withdrawn until a second publisher brought it out, uneventfully, the following year. Ungar's subsequent literary career was brief and not especially noteworthy: some journalistic reportage and a second novel, The Class (1927). In 1929 he died of acute appendicitis at the age of thirty-six.

The Maimed is a disturbing book. It's a raw and jarring depiction of childhood trauma, poverty, sexual depravity, neurotic obsession and violence. Originally begun as a first person narrative, Ungar switched to the third person so as to minimize the chance of being identified with his protagonist, Franz Polzer, a severely repressed and neurotic survivor of child abuse who as an adult is as much a victim of internal demons as outside forces. Following the compulsively ordered Franz slowly losing his grip on his world as the circumstances and events of his life increasingly fly out of control, the story and its language become correspondingly fractured and unreal ratcheting up the tension as things move along. The Expressionists were really the first great portrayers of 20th century angst and this is most definitely the kind of thing Ungar serves up here. Lurid? Yes, but in a most artfully controlled and psychologically penetrating fashion. Indeed, the book is rife with detailed explorations of the subterranean recesses of Franz's subconscious and Freudian implications abound.

It's fascinating to examine the parallels between this kind of writing and the Expressionist paintings we're familiar with, especially the tortured images of Egon Schiele or the wry caricatures of George Grosz. Like both of those artists, Ungar's canvas is very much urban and underclass. He indulges a taste for the grotesque in the form of Franz's best friend Karl, a disease-riddled, multiple amputee who wallows in mocking self pity and he teeters on the edge of vulgarity in his unflattering descriptions of the bovine qualities of the sexual predator, Klara, Franz's landlady. Virtually any page of the book might serve as subject matter for the imaginations of a whole host of Expressionist painters and as the destructive elements of the story multiply, Ungar progressively and fittingly distorts his verbal palette.

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Franz Polzer is a man who is dominated by irrational fears; even a friendly smile seems to conceal a hidden menace. He keeps the world at bay by organising his life according to the meticulous routine of his work as a bank clerk. He even rejects promotion because it brings the unknown that will threaten to upset his ordered existence.But this precarious order is disturbed by the sexual demands of his landlady. Once the first breach has occurred, he is dragged inexorably down into an abyss of degradation which ends in a grisly murder. The horror of Polzer's fall is emphasised by the matter of fact sobriety of Ungar's narrative style.

Fatal Distractions: 87 Of the Very Best Ways to Get Beaten, Eaten, Maimed, and Mauled on Your Pc/Book and Cd-Rom

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Fun, fun fun!

Fatal Distractions: 87 Of the Very Best Ways to Get Beaten, Eaten, Maimed, and Mauled on Your Pc/Book and Cd-Rom
David Gerrold
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Fun, fun fun!.......2003-12-17

In so many ways, the best way to measure improvements in computer hardware and software is to examine the progress of computer games. Many computer old-timers, including this reviewer, remember the first text based and crude graphics games. The fighters in those cases all looked something like <-*-> or (=*=). But even that was enough to keep us riveted to the screen for hours, neglecting all body functions until things reached critical mass. And now, the animation is nearly real time and the images approach that of television. Such quality is a tribute to all those people who have worked so hard in what is truly a labor of love.
Every item in this collection of eighty-seven shareware and freeware games is of high caliber and this is quite possibly the cheapest form of entertainment that one can purchase. Even if one month is spent examining each game, it will take 7.25 years before you complete the book. The author has sifted through a large collection of current games and picked out those considered to be the best. Some people get to have all the fun! Of course, there is some consolation in "working hard" to obtain the knowledge needed to write this review. Loading and running the games is easy and some also involve sound.
A definitive collection of high quality games that will leave your backside numb, I give it my wholehearted endorsement. And now, back to work, I may have to write more on this subject later.

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Josiah, the maimed fugitive;: A true tale
Henry Bleby
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Josiah: The Maimed Fugitive
Henry Bleby
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Josiah: The Maimed Fugitive: A true Tale
Bleby, Henry
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just not very good....

an interesting and readable art book

A Good Book but it could have been more

I'm supprised that I loved it!

Hauntingly Disturbing

Killer Art; Art That Has Maimed, Killed or Caused General Destruction
Lynn Powers
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ASIN: 1891643029

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Killer Art: Art That Has Maimed, Killed or Caused General Destruction Through the Centuries is a lavishly illustrated, deliciously offbeat look at dozens of visual and performing artists throughout history whose lives and works have resulted in untold mayhem for themselves, their loved ones, and even innocent bystanders. Most artists strive to create new and often bizarre techniques to make their art different. But in the process, some people get hurt. Fascinating, often shocking, Killer Art offers a surreal but painstakingly researched illustration of the darker side of artists and their sometimes dysfunctional world.

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just not very good...........2001-08-13

The 30 point type instantly let me know that there wasn't much writing going on in this book (it would've made a decent pamplet). Not really any good pictures either. Basically it's just way too fluffy. I'm completely fascinated by the subject but this really only gives you names, dates and locations not much detail and absolutely no analysis. And its choice of storys is really odd. It's a sort of greatest hits that you already know about and obscure stories you don't care about, with everything inbetween left out. Where's Robert Smithson's plane crash or Bas Jan Ader's ill fated attempt to cross the Atlantic in a row boat? As for the serial killer art and motion picture deaths. Those topics properly researched and documented are books on there own, I think they were needed here to make this long enough to be a book. Basically I feel a little ripped off.

an interesting and readable art book.......2000-11-26

This book is a real treasure for anyone is interested in the darker side of art. The book combines pictures, writing, and also many little informational boxes that elaborate on the certain subject. Some of the art in the book is shocking and graphic, so I wouldn't recommend this for any young art appreciaters. The art in the book is wonderful though. Some of the images are haunting and really stick with you even after you have put the book down. This book explores both art thats subject matter is macbre and also art where the media used to create it was of a human origin. This is a really fantastic art book for those who are looking for an atypical book. The writing is interesting and east to read. This would make a wonderful coffee table book to spark conversations--trust me on this one. I recommend it.

A Good Book but it could have been more.......1999-08-13

In general it was a good book. Nice pictures, good layout. But what was lacking in some places was the depth and the connection to Art as a whole. Some bits stroke me as cheap sensationalism. And she certainly made a mistake by including Dr Kevorkian among the serial killers like Hitler, whatever he may be he is not a serial killer like Hitler.

I'm supprised that I loved it!.......1999-05-29

A friend gave me this book and I was a little leery of it at first. I mean "Killer Art"? But I really enjoyed it. It's full of quirky stories of things gone wrong. I really likes the sections on Killer Music and Killer Film. The book is beautifully designed and the photos are alternately shocking and gorgeous. I've put it out on my coffee table. What a great conversation piece! Everyone picks it up and it starts some of the weirdest conversations. I definitely recommend this book.

Hauntingly Disturbing.......1999-05-28

This book is hard to put down and when you do, the images are even harder to put out of your mind. Lynn Powers has put together an intriguing look at art that hurts. The images will stay with you.

Maimed by the Sea-Erosion Along the Coasts of Oregon and Washington-A Documentary

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Maimed by the Sea-Erosion Along the Coasts of Oregon and Washington-A Documentary

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