Non-viral Gene Therapy: Gene Design and Delivery

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The development of gene medicine based on the concept of molecular therapy has opened new medical horizons. Among the many techniques in gene medicine, gene design and delivery are especially significant in clinical applications. This book presents state-of-the-art information on non-viral gene-delivery techniques, covering a broad spectrum of disciplines that include chemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, and pharmacokinetics. Major sections introduce molecules for gene delivery and their properties; technologies of controlled gene delivery in vitro and in vivo; therapeutic genes and the status of clinical applications; and the design of genes based on current RNA technology, with revolutionary developments in the world of RNAi shown to be key factors in gene medicine. This groundbreaking work is an invaluable resource for researchers and engineers in genetic engineering, molecular medicine, biochemical engineering, and biotechnology.

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Formal Descriptions of Developing Systems (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)

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A cutting-edge survey of formal methods directed specifically at dealing with the deep mathematical problems engendered by the study of developing systems, in particular dealing with developing phase spaces, changing components, structures and functionalities, and the problem of emergence. Several papers deal with the modelling of particular experimental situations in population biology, economics and plant and muscle developments in addition to purely theoretical approaches. Novel approaches include differential inclusions and viability theory, growth tensors, archetypal dynamics, ensembles with variable structures, and complex system models. The papers represent the work of theoreticians and experimental biologists, psychologists and economists. The areas covered embrace complex systems, the development of artificial life, mathematics, computer science, biology and psychology.

General Chemistry: Theory and Description

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General Chemistry: Theory and Description
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General Chemistry: Theory and Description.
J. Rex. Goates
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This volume is a collection of fourteen papers, written by well-known authors, on aspects of applied mathematics, fluid dynamics, combustion, kinetic theory, condensed matter physics, computational neuroscience, biophysics and closely related areas. There are two uniting themes. First, the papers celebrate the long and durable contributions of Professor Lawrence Sirovich on the occasion of his turning seventy. Second, the threads of nonlinearity weave through all the problems discussed. The papers combine original research with expository style and make a fascinating reading for a diverse readership in applied mathematics and science.

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The biggest collection of writing about Texas yet assembled.

A vast land combining the West, the South, and the Border, small dusty towns and gleaming modern cities, Texas has a history and identity all its own, and a mythology bigger than the Lone Star State itself. In this anthology, Don Graham has rounded up a comprehensive collection of writings that provides an overview of the diversity and excellence of Texas literature and reveals its vital contribution to America's literary landscape: from early accounts of life on the wild frontier told by the likes of Andy Adams and J. Frank Dobie to contemporary fiction by such well-known Texan authors as Larry McMurtry and Sandra Cisneros, as well as recent nonfiction by Molly Ivins, Mary Karr, Robert Caro, and Kinky Friedman. The result is a sometimes rowdy, always artful panorama of fable and truth, humor and pathos—all growing out of the state that continues to stimulate the collective imagination like no other.

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Pretty good survey of Texas literature.......2004-02-12

As someone who has recently been turned on the fascinating history and culture of the Lone Star state, I got my hands on this book shortly after it was published. The anthology's editor thoughtfully divides the pieces into four sections based on the major geographical regions of Texas. There is a wide range of authors represented, from Dobie and McMurtry to Cisneros and Glib. My only problem with Lone Star Literature is that while Don Graham includes works from dozens of authors, he leaves out pieces from, in my opinion, two of the best novelists to ever produce Texas fiction: Cormac McCarthy and James Carlos Blake. It is possible that these two simply did not want to be included, but I don't think the anthology is complete with out them. All in all, Graham has created a great, thick volume of Texas literature that will provide hours of reading entertainment.

Deep in the Heart of Texas.......2004-01-05

This humongous book - 733 pages - is of the un-put-downable kind. Except you can put it down when you absolutely HAVE to and then pick up easily where you left off because it consists of many short pieces, each entire of itself. In fact, it's the kind of book you can dip into. But what will happen, or at least what happened with me, is that you'll think you're going to read a selection or two from, say, the 'West' section and will look up two hours later and realize that your coffee got cold, that the phone had gone unanswered several times or that you're only going to get three hours sleep before you have to be back at work.

The editor of this jewel is Don Graham, who is the J. Frank Dobie Professor of American and English Literature at the Univerity of Texas in Austin, a man who probably knows more about Texas writers than anyone. J. Frank Dobie, of course, was the Texas writer who put Texas history on the map back in the middle years of last century (it still seems funny saying 'last century,' doesn't it?). There's a piece of Dobie's, 'Bogged Shadows,' that is a great place to start; it tells of a yarn-spinner of the quintessential Texas cowboy sort, and is funnier than all getout.

The book primarily consists of 20th-century writing and is divided into logical sections: 'The West,' 'The South,' 'The Border,' and 'Town and City.' Each section is ordered chronologically. For me, the selections from memoirs are the most arresting, but there are also short stories, humor pieces and essays covering everything from pioneer days to the JFK assassination and beyond. There are many well-known writers here--like O. Henry ('Art and the Bronco,' with a funny O. Henry ending), John A. Lomax (from 'Adventures of a Ballad Hunter'), Robert A. Caro (not a Texan, but the honored writer of the multivolume LBJ biography, here represented by 'The Sad Irons,' from Volume I), Larry McMurtry (from 'The Last Picture Show'), Sandra Cisneros ('La Fabulosa: A Texas Operetta'), Katherine Anne Porter ('The Grave'), Molly Ivins ('Texas Women: True Grit and All the Rest'), Donald Barthelme (the hilarious 'I Bought a Little City'), and Kinky Friedman (the equally hilarious 'Social Studies'). And there's much more that I don't have room to list. For instance, there is an excerpt from 'The Wind,' by Dorothy Scarborough that was the basis for Lillian Gish's greatest silent movie of the same name set in the unrelenting harshness of the Panhandle.

The real discoveries, as I've said, are the raw and veristic memoirs. There is 'The Bride,' by Hallie Crawford Stillwell, who tells of being an 18-year-old bride taken by her new husband to live on his godforsaken ranch forty miles from the nearest town. Cowpoke James Emmitt McCauley's 'Headed for the Setting Sun,' gives a gritty yet funny picture of life on the cattle trail. C. C. White's 'No Quittin' Sense,' recalls life as a boy of color in East Texas in the early years of the century.

Most arresting of all is the excerpt from the memoir of Gertrude Beasley, 'My First Thirty Years,' written in the mid-1920s in language that is still shocking today. When the book was published in Paris (France, not Texas) it was banned in England because of its sensational content. Still, it fairly throbs with the reality of growing up in a dirt-poor household, one of eleven children, and the product of a rape. I'll say no more; you really must read this. I, for one, am going to see if I can't find the complete book--it's THAT good.

For someone like I, who grew up in rural Oklahoma (and felt a kinship with Texas partly because half our family were and are Texans) the scenes and situations in this collection were at least vaguely familiar, yet I learned things on every page. For someone with no connection with Texas there will be discoveries that at least partly dispel the notion that Texas is nothing but George W. Bush and Enron. Texas is a real, honest-to-goodness place that fairly vibrates with energy, that is populated with some of the wryest, kindest, orneriest, most independent people on earth.

Heartily recommended.

Scott Morrison

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