Metallobiochemistry, Part B: Metallothionein and Related Molecules, Volume 205: Volume 205: Metallobiochemistry Part B (Methods in Enzymology)

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This book provides up-to-date, state-of-the-art methods for the purification of metallothionein and related proteins, for the study of metal binding, for the quantitation of metallothionein, and for the study of the physical and biological properties of metallothionein. New views of the structure and function of metallothionein are also included in some chapters.

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Topological indices are now regularly applied in the investigation of chemical problems in science, medicine, and industry. This tutorial focuses on the role played by topological indices in the description of molecular species, paying special attention to the famous Wiener index and the favored connectivity indices. Also included is a record of the proceedings of the Harry Wiener Memorial Conference on the Role of Topology in Chemistry, held at the University of Georgia in March 2001.

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Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) originated in statistical physics, but has spilled over into various application areas, leading to a corresponding variety of techniques and methods. That variety stimulates new ideas and developments from many different places, and there is much to be gained from cross-fertilization. This book presents five expository essays by leaders in the field, drawing from perspectives in physics, statistics and genetics, and showing how different aspects of MCMC come to the fore in different contexts. The essays derive from tutorial lectures at an interdisciplinary program at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Singapore, which exploited the exciting ways in which MCMC spreads across different disciplines.

Markov Point Processes and Their Applications

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Markov Point Processes and Their Applications
M. N. M. Van Lieshout
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These days, an increasing amount of information can be obtained in graphical forms, such as weather maps, soil samples, locations of nests in a breeding colony, microscopical slices, satellite images, radar or medical scans and X-ray techniques. "High level" image analysis is concerned with the global interpretation of images, attempting to reduce it to a compact description of the salient features of the scene.

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Stochastic differential equations play an increasingly important role in modeling the dynamics of a large variety of systems in the natural sciences, and in technological applications. This book is aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers in mathematics, physics, the natural sciences, and engineering. It presents a new constructive approach to the quantitative description of solutions to systems of stochastic differential equations evolving on well-separated timescales. The method, which combines techniques from stochastic analysis and singular perturbation theory, allows the domains of concentration for typical sample paths to be determined, and provides precise estimates on the transition probabilities between these domains.

In addition to the detailed presentation of the set-up and mathematical results, applications to problems in physics, biology, and climatology are discussed. The emphasis lies on noise-induced phenomena such as stochastic resonance, hysteresis, excitability, and the reduction of bifurcation delay.

Current Topics in Nonstationary Analysis: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Nonstationary Random Processes and Their Applications : San Diego, Ca June 11-12, 1995

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Current Topics in Nonstationary Analysis: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Nonstationary Random Processes and Their Applications : San Diego, Ca June 11-12, 1995
Workshop on Nonstationary Random Processes and Their Applications 1995
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Nonstationarity is another name for intermittency, a phenomenon which affects many physical processes. Data collected in many R&D programs frequently exhibit nonstationary features, and problems inherent in the analysis of such data are profound. The premier objective of these proceedings is to consolidate recent developments in nonstationary analysis. A second objective is to delineate open problems. A by-product will hopefully be a bridging of the gap between related governmental needs, and the present-day research capabilities of both academics and non-academics alike.

Asymptotic Methods for the Fokker-Planck Equation and the Exit Problem in Applications (Springer Series in Synergetics)

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Asymptotic Methods for the Fokker-Planck Equation and the Exit Problem in Applications (Springer Series in Synergetics)
Johan Grasman , and Onno A., van Herwaarden
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Asymptotic methods are of great importance for practical applications, especially in dealing with boundary value problems for small stochastic perturbations. This book deals with nonlinear dynamical systems perturbed by noise. It addresses problems in which noise leads to qualitative changes, escape from the attraction domain, or extinction in population dynamics. The most likely exit point and expected escape time are determined with singular perturbation methods for the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation. The authors indicate how their techniques relate to the Itô calculus applied to the Langevin equation. The book will be useful to researchers and graduate students.

Gibbs Random Fields: Cluster Expansions (Mathematics and its Applications)

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Gibbs Random Fields: Cluster Expansions (Mathematics and its Applications)
V.A. Malyshev , and R.A. Minlos
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Ideas and Methods in Mathematical Analysis, Stochastics, and Applications: In Memory of Raphael Høegh-Krohn (1938-1988)

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Ideas and Methods in Mathematical Analysis, Stochastics, and Applications: In Memory of Raphael Høegh-Krohn (1938-1988)

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These volumes contain a collection of essays by many of the closest co-workers of Raphael Hoegh-Krohn (1938-1988), one of the outstanding mathematical physicists of our age. The contributions vary in style, purpose, and content--some are surveys that summarize and clarify a subject area, others are new and adventurous expeditions into unknown territory. The topics cover most aspects of modern mathematical physics with special emphasis on methods from operator theory and stochastic analysis. Volume 1 contains papers on mathematical analysis (both linear and nonlinear), stochastics, and applications. Volume 2 discusses mathematical problems in quantum and statistical physics.

Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures III (Mathematics and Its Applications)

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Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures III (Mathematics and Its Applications)

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Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures IV (Mathematics and Its Applications)

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Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures IV (Mathematics and Its Applications)

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ASIN: 0792325036

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This volume contains a selection of the lectures given at the Fourth International Workshop on Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures in Valparaíso, Chile, in December 1991. The contents are divided into two parts. Part I includes papers dealing with statistical mechanics, mathematical aspects of dynamical systems and stochastic effects in nonequilibrium systems. Part II is devoted mainly to instabilities and self-organization in extended nonequilibrium systems. The study of partial differential equations by numerical and analytic methods plays a great role here. The most recent developments in this fascinating and rapidly growing area are discussed. For mathematicians, physicists and engineers interested in dynamical systems, statistical mechanics, and nonequilibrium systems.

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In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a
black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging
from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about
other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the
antinuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring
childhood injury and her daughter’s healing words.

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A must read for Empowered women!.......2006-08-27

This book helped me gain my voice. I love it so much -- I have two copies of it and I would still not be willing to loan one out. Alice Walker is a powerful visual writer and a Gift to the Womanist Academy!

The Loss of Black Creativity Due To Slavery.......2005-12-01

In her essay concerning post-Reconstruction African-American women, Alice Walker seeks to put a human face on what Americans may otherwise only remember as an unfortunate scar on our glorious history. She asks, "Who were the Saints? These crazy, loony, pitiful women?" And in answering herself, she replies in repetition, "our mothers and grandmothers." These are the human faces to which she has attributed all that is contemporary Black America.

"Moving to music not yet written," Walker's image of the former female slave is one, not necessarily of a battered laborer, nor of a heifer being kept only because of her ability to breed valuable livestock, but rather as an artist ahead of her time. These women made beauty while amidst horrible conditions. These women were not merely ex-slaves, but they were "Poets, Novelists, Essayists, and Short-Story Writers" whose potential was never met, and dreams were never realized. For this reason, Walker attempts to embolden and even mobilize African-American women with the responsibility of realizing the potential of black creativity denied their ancestors.

Walker asks, "Do you have a genius of a great-great-grandmother who died under some ignorant and depraved white overseers lash?" What an amazing question to ask. How many geniuses and artists were slain by the horror of slavery? Americans spend a lot of time and energy thinking about the economic, political, and social restrictions slavery imposed on African Americans, but I have never even heard elusions to the loss of black creativity due to slavery. I too have given more thought to the socioeconomic inequality within black America than I've ever given to the stifling of their creative ability. Perhaps, we should give this idea more thought, for it was the efforts of these "poets" in everyday life that transported black women to where they are today, and have arguably elevated the intellect, creativity, and soul of an entire nation.

Thought provoking; this is an essential read for anyone interested in understanding the effects of slavery, especially those effects that go beyond our typical understanding of oppression.

The Idealogy behind Womanism.......2005-09-17

This is a good book for anyone doing Post-Colonial literature. It gives a precise view of what the woman stands for, her aspirations, flexibility and resilience in the world of patriarchy. Alice walker gives her definition for the term 'Womanism' in crisp and confident tones and it is indeed a boost for women writers within the post-colonial world trying to find a place for themselves on the literary scene and in creating a new canon.

Touching Essays by a brilliant writer........2003-06-20

When I finished this book I knew I was going to miss the things it said to me. Alice Walker wrote brilliantly about her own struggles, her passion for other people to discover Zora Neale Hurston, the civil rights movement, and her work as a black feminist. So many subjects are touched in this book that jumps back and forth through 20+ years. Walker is inspritational to all woman. As a writer she shows one the strength to succeed not in business but loving yourself as well as working to achieve equal rights for everyone no matter the sex or the color. Her essays are moving written like a painting. Her words are beautiful and inspire. The few poems that she used in this collection are the best i have ever seen. She is honest about her experiences in hopes that we all might learn from her and take to a cause. We are the makers of our future. I would read this book again and it establishes to me that Alice Walker is a gifted writer who has become one of my favorites.

Alice is very moorish.......2001-09-17

First I read The Colour Purple and thought that Alice
was an older woman. Then I read The Temple of My Familiar and began to wonder. In Search of Our Mother's Gardens illuminates the writer. I have gone in search of many of the books to which she refers in her essays.

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens : Womanist Prose

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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens : Womanist Prose
Alice Walker
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens Womanist Prose (Collection of Non-Fiction Never published in HB Before only in Magazines)

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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens Womanist Prose (Collection of Non-Fiction Never published in HB Before only in Magazines)
Alice Walker
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
Alice Walker
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

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