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The Neurobiology of C. elegans, Volume 69 (International Review of Neurobiology)
Manufacturer: Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0123668700 |
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The Neurobiology of C. elegans assembles together a series of chapters describing the progress researchers have made toward solving some of the major problems in neurobiology with the use of this powerful model organism. The first chapter is an introduction to the anatomy of the C. elegans nervous system. This chapter provides a useful introduction to this system and will help the reader who is less familiar with this system understand the chapters that follow. The next two chapters on learning, conditioning and memory and neuronal specification and differentiation, summarize the current state of the C. elegans field in these two major areas of neurobiology. The remaining chapters describe studies in C. elegans that have provided particularly exciting insights into neurobiology.
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Neurobiology of Epilepsy and Aging, Volume 81 (International Review of Neurobiology.) (International Review of Neurobiology)
Manufacturer: Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0123740185 |
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This volume in the International Review of Neurobiology series addresses the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and treatment of epilepsy in elderly patients. Demographically, the elderly comprise both the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population and the adult age group with the highest incidence of epilepsy, yet there are relatively few publications devoted to this clinical subgroup. The intersection of these two complex processesepilepsy and advancing agewill have an increasing impact on medical and community care. The etiology, prognosis, and differential diagnosis of epilepsy can all be affected by the normal aging process and by the frequent comorbidities encountered in an elderly population. Chapters in this book review the effects of aging on brain function and on drug metabolism and interactions, covering the gamut of research from animal models of aging and epilepsy to clinical trials and outcomes. Topics also include the dangers of misdiagnosing status epilepticus, the special issues encountered in recruiting and retaining elderly clinical trial participants, and the use of antiepileptic drugs in the elderly. In both the clinic and the research laboratory, a better understanding of how epilepsy may differ between younger and older patients will be valuable in determining the best possible care for geriatric patients with epilepsy.
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Integrating the Neurobiology of Schizophrenia, Volume 78 (International Review of Neurobiology) (International Review of Neurobiology)
Manufacturer: Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0123737370 |
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This book examines the role that dopamine plays in schizophrenia, examining its role in not only the symptoms of the disease but also in its treatment. It also reviews all neurotransmitters that have been implicated in schizophrenia, exploring the genetic data, clinical data implicating the transmitter, and the preclinical data exploring how a transmitter may interact with dopamine and contribute to the dopaminergic phenotype observed in the illness. This book will serve as an educational tool for instructors, a guide for clinicians, and be of interest to researchers. It is a good reference for researchers specialized in one particular area and interested in learning about other areas of pathology in schizophrenia and how they may all feed into each other. The book concludes with an overall integrative model assembling as many of these elements as possible.
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The Cerebellum and Cognition, Volume 41: The Cerebellum and Cognition (International Review of Neurobiology)
Manufacturer: Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0123668417 |
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The Cerebellum and Cognition pulls together a preeminent group of authors. The cerebellum has been previously considered as a highly complex structure involved only with motor control. The cerebellum is essential to nonmotor functions, and recent research has revealed new medically important roles of the cerebellum and cognitive processes.
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Gaba in Autism and Related Disorders, Volume 71 (International Review of Neurobiology)
Manufacturer: Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0123668727 |
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Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) was discovered in the brain in 1950 by Eugene Roberts. GABA is now considered one of the most important neurotransmitters and developmental signals. Knowledge on the complexity of GABA function is increasing exponentially. This volume covers basic research on GABA in the developing brain as it may relate to onset of autism and related developmental disorders. The evidence that dysfunction of GABA and related molecules is associated with autism is limited but expanding and seems to converge. Pertinent data are reviewed in this book and new research avenues in the basic and clinical arenas are described. The topics are of imminent interest to basic and clinical researchers as well as interested clinicians.
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Catatonia in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Volume 72 (International Review of Neurobiology)
Dirk Marcel Dhossche Manufacturer: Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0123668735 |
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The study of catatonia in Autism Spectrum Disorders is a novel and controversial topic. Catatonia is a motor disorder characterized by stereotypy, rigidity, mutism, and posturing. These motor signs are also characteristic of autism. The interest in the relation between autism and catatonia stems from clinical observations that autistic and catatonic symptoms overlap, that some people with autism develop full-blown catatonia, and that anti-catatonic treatments bring relief in some of those patients.
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Magnetoencephalography, Volume 68 (International Review of Neurobiology)
Manufacturer: Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0123668697 |
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Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is the only neuroimaging method that provides high spatial and temporal information of human brain activation. In addition, MEG is completely non-invasive and allows recordings with minimal preparation time. This makes it suitable to investigate even fetuses in utero. This volume in the International Review of Neurobiology series addresses the most relevant research areas and shows how MEG could be used for investigations over the whole life span in humans.
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DNA Arrays in Neurobiology, Volume 60 (International Review of Neurobiology)
Manufacturer: Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0123668611 |
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DNA array technology is a technique for studying gene expression by comparing samples of different genes. The result is an enormous amount of data that must be carefully analyzed in order for it to be useful and meaningful. This book examines both data analysis and techniques for ensuring optimal experimental conditions. The array approach has applications in a number of model systems, including development, learning and drug abuse. In addition, the technique has applications in a number of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, and neurological cancers.
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The Fly Neuromuscular Junction: Structure and Function, Volume 75: Second Edition (International Review of Neurobiology) (International Review of Neurobiology)
Manufacturer: Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0123736137 |
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The Drosophila larval neuromuscular junction (NMJ) has become one of the most powerful model systems to ask key neurobiological questions. This synapse is unparalleled by its accessibility, its simplicity, and the ability to manipulate genes important for synapse development and function. Its synapses have properties shared by many organisms including humans. The vast majority of genes that when mutated cause congenital disorders of the nervous system in humans, are present in the fruit fly genome, and fly models of human disorders are available. Thus, this preparation is a powerful tool to understand the normal function of these genes.
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Auditory Spectral Processing, Volume 70 (International Review of Neurobiology)
Manuel S. Malmierca , and Dexter R. F. Irvine Manufacturer: Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0123668719 |
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All natural auditory signals, including human speech and animal communication signals, are spectrally and temporally complex, that is, they contain multiple frequencies and their frequency composition, or spectrum, varies over time. The ability of hearers to identify and localize these signals depends on analysis of their spectral composition. For the overwhelming majority of human listeners spoken language is the major means of social communication, and this communication therefore depends on spectral analysis. Spectral analysis begins in the cochlea, but is then elaborated at various stages along the auditory pathways in the brain that lead from the cochlea to the cerebral cortex. The broad purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive account of the way in which spectral information is processed in the brain and the way in which this information is used by listeners to identify and localize sounds.
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Second Quantization-based Methods in Quantum Chemistry
Poul Jorgensen , and Jack Simons Manufacturer: Academic Press Inc.,U.S. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0123902207 |
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A Stability Technique for Evolution Partial Differential Equations: A Dynamical Systems Approach (Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications)
Victor A. Galaktionov , and Juan Luis Vasquez Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Boston ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0817641467 |
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This book introduces a new, state-of-the-art method for the study of the asymptotic behavior of solutions to evolution partial differential equations; much of the text is dedicated to the application of this method to a wide class of nonlinear diffusion equations. The underlying theory hinges on a new stability result, formulated in the abstract setting of infinite-dimensional dynamical systems, which states that under certain hypotheses, the omega-limit set of a perturbed dynamical system is stable under arbitrary asymptotically small perturbations.
The Stability Theorem is examined in detail in the first chapter, followed by a review of basic results and methods---many original to the authors---for the solution of nonlinear diffusion equations. Further chapters provide a self-contained analysis of specific equations, with carefully-constructed theorems, proofs, and references. In addition to the derivation of interesting limiting behaviors, the book features a variety of estimation techniques for solutions of semi- and quasilinear parabolic equations.
Written by established mathematicians at the forefront of the field, this work is a blend of delicate analysis and broad application, appropriate for graduate students and researchers in physics and mathematics who have basic knowledge of PDEs, ordinary differential equations, functional analysis, and some prior acquaintance with evolution equations. It is ideal for a course or seminar in evolution equations and asymptotics, and the book's comprehensive index and bibliography will make it useful as a reference volume as well.
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Dynamics of Nonlinear Waves in Dissipative Systems Reduction, Bifurcation and Stability (Pitman Research Notes in Mathematics, 352)
G Dangelmayr , K Kirchgassner , B Fiedler , and Alexander Mielke Manufacturer: Chapman & Hall/CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0582229294 |
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The mathematical description of complex spatiotemporal behaviour observed in dissipative continuous systems is a major challenge for modern research in applied mathematics. While the behaviour of low-dimensional systems, governed by the dynamics of a finite number of modes is well understood, systems with large or unbounded spatial domains show intrinsic infinite-dimensional behaviour --not a priori accessible to the methods of finite dimensionaldynamical systems. The purpose of the four contributions in this book is to present some recent and active lines of research in evolution equations posed in large or unbounded domains. One of the most prominent features of these systems is the propagation of various types of patterns in the form of waves, such as travelling and standing waves and pulses and fronts. Different approaches to studying these kinds of phenomena are discussed in the book. A major theme is the reduction of an original evolution equation in the form of a partial differential equation system to a simpler system of equations, either a system of ordinary differential equation or a canonical system of PDEs. The study of the reduced equations provides insight into the bifurcations from simple to more complicated solutions and their stabilities. .
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Frequency-Domain Methods for Nonlinear Analysis: Theory and Applications (Wold Scientific Series on Nonlinear Sciebcem Series a, Vol 9)
Gennadii Alekseevich Leonov , D. V. Ponomarenko , Vera B. Smirnova , and C. A. Leonov Manufacturer: World Scientific Pub Co Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9810221460 |
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This book deals with the investigation of global attractors of nonlinear dynamical systems. The exposition proceeds from the simplest attractor of a single equilibrium to more complicated ones, i.e. to finite, denumerable and continuum equilibria sets; and further, to cycles, homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits; and finally, to strange attractors consisting of irregular unstable trajectories. On the complicated equilibria sets, the methods of Lyapunov stability theory are transferred. They are combined with stability techniques specially elaborated for such sets. The results are formulated as frequency-domain criteria. The methods connected with the theorems of existence of cycles and homoclinic orbits are developed. The estimates of Hausdorff dimensions of attractors are presented.
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Nonlinear systems: Stability analysis (Benchmark papers in electrical engineering and computer science)
Manufacturer: exclusive distributor Halsted Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0879330864 |
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Practical Stability of Nonlinear Systems
V. Lakshmikantham , S. Leela , and A. A. Martyniuk Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9810203519 |
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Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Systems (Pure and Applied Mathematics)
V. Lakshmikantham Manufacturer: Marcel Dekker ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0824780671 |
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Stability of Dynamical Systems, Volume 5 (Monograph Series on Nonlinear Science and Complexity) (Monograph Series on Nonlinear Science and Complexity)
Xiaoxin Liao , L.Q. Wang , and P. Yu Manufacturer: Elsevier Science ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0444531106 |
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The main purpose of developing stability theory is to examine dynamic responses of a system to disturbances as the time approaches infinity. It has been and still is the object of intense investigations due to its intrinsic interest and its relevance to all practical systems in engineering, finance, natural science and social science. This monograph provides some state-of-the-art expositions of major advances in fundamental stability theories and methods for dynamic systems of ODE and DDE types and in limit cycle, normal form and Hopf bifurcation control of nonlinear dynamic systems.
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Vector Lyapunov Functions and Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Systems (Mathematics and Its Applications)
V. Lakshmikantham , V.M. Matrosov , and S. Sivasundaram Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0792311523 |
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Advanced CFD methodology for fast transients encountered in nonlinear combustion instability problems SBIR phase II final report (restricted circulation) (SuDoc NAS 1.26:191351)
NASA Manufacturer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center National Technical Information Service, distributor ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00010N49S |
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[Analysis and development of finite element methods for the study of nonlinear thermomechanical behavior of structural components] (SuDoc NAS 1.26:195354)
J. Tinsley Oden Manufacturer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Technical Information Service, distributor ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00010SJ02 |
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The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics
John Plotz Manufacturer: University of California Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0520219171 |
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Between 1800 and 1850, political demonstrations and the tumult of a ballooning street life not only brought novel kinds of crowds onto the streets of London, but also fundamentally changed British ideas about public and private space. The Crowd sets out to demonstrate the influence of these new crowds, riots, and demonstrations on the period's literature. John Plotz offers compelling readings of works by Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Carlyle, William Wordsworth, Maria Edgeworth, and Charlotte Bronte, arguing that new "representative" crowds became a potent rival for the representational claims of literary texts themselves. As rivals in representation, these crowds triggered important changes not simply in how these authors depicted crowds, but in their notions of public life and privacy in general.
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The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics. (Reviews of Books).: An article from: Albion
Patrick Brantlinger Manufacturer: North American Conference on British Studies ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008FIKHM Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Albion, published by North American Conference on British Studies on March 22, 2002. The length of the article is 1034 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Books:
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