Peptide Growth Factors, Part C, Volume 198: Volume 198: Peptide Growth Factors Part C (Methods in Enzymology)

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This volume includes sections dealing with specific growth factors in which new, updated, or alternative procedures are presented for purification, bioassay, radiolabeling and radioreceptor assay, immunoassay, receptor identification, and quantification and includes general techniques for the study of growth factors. For those unfamiliar with a particular area such as the oncogene-growth factor relationship orientation chapters have been included.

Peptide Growth Factors, Part C, Volume 198 : Volume 198: Peptide Growth Factors Part C (Methods in Enzymology)

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Peptide Growth Factors, Part C, Volume 198 : Volume 198: Peptide Growth Factors Part C (Methods in Enzymology)
David Barnes
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Supramolecular chemistry is the outburst topic of the next generation of science. While the majority of biomedical research efforts to date have centered on utilizing well-known polymeric materials, the recent progress in supramolecular chemistry has introduced a fascinating new field of macromolecular architecture. Supramolecular Design for Biological Applications focuses on modulating, altering, and mimicking biological functions with a new family of molecular assemblies. The authors provide innovative ideas and concepts for developing novel biomaterials that could be applied in diagnosis, drug carrier operations, and environmental protection. This reference is comprehensive, presenting principles, applications, recent advances, and future directions. Each chapter includes clear and informative illustrations of molecular architectures. The writing is scientific but allows for easy comprehension of the differences in molecular interactions, dimensions, and supramolecular architecture. Supramolecular Design for Biological Applications will advance the understanding of supramolecular-structured biomaterials and associated issues regarding biological functions. By explaining recent trends and molecular interactions, this book will enable you to initiate new research for nano-scale science and technology in the 21st century.

Polyurethanes in Biomedical Applications

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Polyurethanes in Biomedical Applications
Nina M.K. Lamba , Kimberly A. Woodhouse , and Stuart L. Cooper
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Polyurethanes in Biomedical Applications studies the use of polyurethanes in implanted medical devices. This analysis describes the concepts of polymer science, the manufacture of polyurethanes, and the biological responses to implant polyurethanes, reflecting the developments in biomaterials science and the interdisciplinary nature of bioengineering.

Biomedical and Dental Applications of Polymers (Polymer Science Technology : Volume 14)

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Biomedical Applications of Polymers (Polymer Science and Technology)

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Biomedical Applications of Synthetic Biodegradable Polymers

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This is a state-of-the-art, inclusive volume exploring several families of biodegradable polymers having biomedical applications. Contributing authors are active in their disciplines and therefore provide up-to-the-minute, factual data derived from hands-on experience and cutting-edge technology. Authors were selected on the basis of their contributions in the field of biomedical materials research, with special emphasis on the skeletal system. The factual details contained in this text will be an invaluable resource to bioengineering and polymer chemistry students, to clinicians and researchers involved in tissue regeneration, and to the biotechnology industry exploring methods for drug delivery and tissue engineering.

Biomedical Applications Polymer Blends (Advances in Polymer Science)

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Biomedical Applications Polymer Blends (Advances in Polymer Science)
D. Klee , Geoffrey C. Eastmond , and J. E. McGrath
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Biomedical Polymers
International Conference on Biomedical Polymers: Molecular Design to Clinical Applications (1991 : Jerusalem) , and Daniel Cohn
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Paperback. This volume contains selected edited papers from an international conference on biomedical polymers which took place in Jerusalem in June 1991. The meeting brought together experts in both basic biomaterials science and applied biomedical research from thirteen countries. The work is organized in four sections. The first, Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering, focuses on the design of synthetic polymers for organ transplantation. Section two is dedicated to Biomaterials for Hard Tissue Applications, with papers dealing with diverse aspects of the use of both durable and biodegradable polymers in orthopaedic surgery. Section three is concerned with Biomaterials for Soft Tissue, Blood and Cardiovascular Applications. This section focuses largely on tailoring the implant surface aiming at optimizing the polymer – blood interactions. The final section of the volume is concerned with Biomaterials for Drug Delivery

Biopolymers for Medical and Pharmaceutical Applications: Humic Substances, Polyisoprenoids, Polyesters, and Polysaccharides

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Biopolymers remain a hot topic, with major medical and pharmaceutical industries turning to natural materials and their unique properties with regard to biodegradability and resorbability. This two-volume handbook compiles a selection of important substances successfully being used in medicine and pharmacy with articles taken directly from the Biopolymers series.

Biorelated Polymers and Gels: Controlled Release and Applications in Biomedical Engineering (Series in Polymers, Interfaces, and Biomaterials)

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Biorelated Polymers and Gels: Controlled Release and Applications in Biomedical Engineering (Series in Polymers, Interfaces, and Biomaterials)
Teruo Okano
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This book is intended to bring basic researchers, biomedical engineers, and industrial scientists up-to-date with new developments in polymers and gels. It describes the physics and chemistry underlying polymer gel phase transitions, polymer structural changes used to control biointerfactual behavior, and intelligent polymer materials which are stimuli-responsive. Biorelated Polymers and Gels provides a resource-rich discussion of the applications and potentialfor these technologies.

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Debunked!: ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience
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Debunked!: ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience
Georges Charpak , and Henri Broch
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Can you walk over red-hot charcoal without burning your feet? Appear to stop the beating of your heart? Bend spoons using the power of your mind? In Debunked! Nobel Prize winner Georges Charpak and physics professor Henri Broch team up to show you the tricks of the trade and sleight of hand that keep astrologers, TV psychics, and spoon benders in business.

Using only the simplest of science, the authors explore the effectiveness of horoscopes -- the blander the better -- and why, with a television audience in the millions, any strange, unlikely prediction is almost certain to come true. If such insider information does not impress your colleagues, why not pierce your tongue with a skewer or demonstrate your eerie powers by using telepathy and the telephone to get a distant friend to intuit the number and suit of a card picked at random. Charpak and Broch show you how.

Not merely an expose of magic tricks, this book demonstrates how pseudoscientists use science, statistics, and psychology to bamboozle an audience -- sometimes for fun, sometimes for profit. During the most scientifically advanced period in human history, belief in the paranormal and the supernatural is alarmingly common. Entertaining and enlightening, Debunked! is the antidote, vigorously asserting the virtues of doubt, skepticism, curiosity, and scientific knowledge. This lucid translation makes the arguments clear, understandable, and a pleasure to read.

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What about the human factor.......2005-11-30

Georges Charpak, the 1992 Nobel Prize winner in physics, and Henri Broch, winner of the Distinguished Skeptic Award from The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), have together written a book about the art of being a skeptic.

It's not the first book in the genre, but it's a quite pleasant read, even though it's not by far the best book ever written about the specific topic. Objectively and thoroughly (and once in a while quite funny), the authors discuss different topics and phenomena that for the Believers are truly paranormal, but the skeptic are nothing but lies, illusions, fakes, or simply very normal matters that through a messed up media are given the impression to be more remarkably than they really are.

They willingly admit that they, despite their great knowledge and long experience, do not have all the answers. But, they are indeed hardcore skeptics; and rationally explain things such as astrology, telepathy, spoon bending, levitation, et cetera.

Which is all nice and dandy, but, something is still wrong with the book. Once in a while it's just plain boring with endless mathematical formulas and calculations, and certain topics are thoroughly described while others are more or less only mentioned briefly. The largest problem is, however, how the authors completely forget one factor: namely the human.

Many people relying on, for instance, astrology, live perfectly happy lives doing so. But the authors appear to be completely ignorant to that. Instead, they mercilessly ridicule every single one who believe in matters that established science cannot or will not rationally explain, and at the end of the book they start talking about terrible nightmare scenarios which are certain to happen if more and more people start believing in irrational and unscientific ideas. The end of the world is near (the authors seem to think), unless mankind starts acting like devoted skeptics, and the only religion worth believing is Science.

This more or less fanatical propaganda for critical thinking and the excellence of science destroys what could instead have been a great book.

What about the human factor.......2005-11-22

explains mechanics, not people.......2005-06-13

Nobel prizewinners can be excused for being self-satisfied, but that doesn't help the style or substance of this book.

Some parts are undeniably thought-provoking. On astrology, let's start with the fact that the earth makes one complete circuit of the sun in one year: right? Wrong. Oh. At that point I had to go back a few pages and start again. We choose the length of the year so that seasons don't drift round the calendar. Useful reference points are the equinoxes, when the earth's axis is perpendicular to the plane in which it rotates the sun. But that axis also swivels very slowly, so this year's equinox doesn't occur at exactly the same point on the orbit as did last year's. That means that the constellations _do_ gradually drift through the calendar. So their pattern at the birth of someone in, say, August in classical times is different to that of someone born in August this year. The authors do admit, however, that a minority of astrologers take this into account. And the feasible idea that season of birth could be associated with character traits is not addressed.

Other sections explain, in a tiresomely arch style, how to play pseudo-paranormal tricks on your friends. And others show, at some length, that apparently extraordinary events - - eg light bulbs blowing at the command of a TV psychic - - are really to be expected when you take into account the number of people involved. One of the better chapters is a case study of a French stone sarcophagus which seems to spontaneously fill with water. The most interesting aspect is perhaps not the explanation itself, but subsequent TV programs' persistent denial that one has been found.

The text would've benefited from better editing and translation. For example, when describing Conan Doyle's interest in the paranormal, it's a waste of time including the well-worn joke about Sherlock Holmes camping. And sentences like 'It was so good!' don't work in English.

The dominant mode of argument is the rhetorical question, eg 'How can such stupid things influence anyone of even average education?', after a quote from L Ron Hubbard. The fact is that they _do_ influence such people, but the authors lack either the imagination or inclination to try to find out why.

'Multinationals' are blamed for promoting the occult as a new kind of mass opiate, but none are named: the only specific example in this section is public TV. The authors don't seem to have noticed that business spends billions on orthodox scientific R&D, while 'New Age' ideas are spread by enthusiastic amateurs operating by grass roots networks, fly posting, and cramped stores in low rent neighbourhoods. If the authors are really as concerned as they profess about democracy, they should try to answer their own questions as to why so many curious people don't find answers in science.

Debunked!.......2005-05-26

It's a good account of scientific explanation of those physical properties of matter that look paranormal to layman. Unexpected behaviors from a human, animal or even metal creates awe and false beliefs in paranormal activities. Nature is full of such phenomenon and I believe 99% of it is still hidden. I liked reading this book from scientific and a common man's point of view. At some points it may seem a little bit random but that is because it's hard to organize scientific explanation of paranormal for average layman. It's concise and yet adequately comprehensive fullfiling its purpose.

Chaotic!.......2004-08-23

For perhaps 2 decades, at the University of Nice, Prof. Broch has taught a course analyzing the claims of pseudoscience. He has also published a number of books on the topic; this is the only one ever to be translated into English. It may be the last. I assume this particular specimen was chosen because the co-author is Nobel prizewinning physicist Georges Charpak, but it was difficult for me to detect Charpak's contributions.

The bad news is that the book looks as if it were assembled by Prof. Broch sitting down and pulling material pretty much at random from the presentations in his courses. The text is never lucid and sometimes lapses into outright incoherence; I found portions to be completely unreadable.

I would recommend skipping the prologue altogether. Chapter 1 begins with Astrology and the Forer Effect; most of the discussion makes sense but illustrations and tables often don't. I would, for example, like to see someone make any sense of the table on page 12, particularly in view of the instructions to select "one box at random from each of the four columns numbered 2 to 4." Of course the columns are not numbered, but if you reread the instructions you'll see that could hardly matter! The whole book is like this. The chapter suddenly veers from astrology to a "telephone psychic" mindreading trick. Then suddenly there are very brief discussions of antiquated levitation illusions, sitting on broken glass shards and beds of nails, a 500-year-old version of "skewer through tongue," firewalking, and one of Broch's classroom demonstrations with nitinol wire. Throughout, when books are mentioned, the reference is almost always to a French-language edition, even when the book was first published in English; can you say, "no editing?"

Chapter 2 begins with a discussion of various "paradoxes" of probability, and it is probably the best-written and most lucid portion of the book. The chapter then veers off into "the man in the moon" illusion, the human tendency to see patterns in randomness.

Chapter 3 touches on dowsing, and then comes the now-expected swerve into a disconnected topic, in this case the "mysterious" presence of water in a sarcophagus at Arles-sur-Tech in the Pyrenees. In the aftermath of the fairly non-coherent discussion, about all I came away with was that French TV "documentary" producers and writers are just as uninterested in fact as British and U.S. TV "documentary" producers and writers. Then there's another swerve into the pseudoscience of obtaining water in large quantities by "condensation" from the air. Then there is yet another swerve, into public fears of radioactivity. I suspect this is the only portion of the text Charpak had much input into, but it does not read any more lucidly than the rest of the book. The basic point of the discussion, to the extent I could make any sense of it, is that activists and the public irrationally worry about "artifical" and highly localized sources of radiation while seemingly being totally ignorant of natural sources spread over the entire globe which provide doses 100 or 1,000 times those of the "artifical" sources.

Chapter 4 seems to deal with the penetration of occult beliefs into French academia. But maybe not. As in the other chapters, the focus, if any, is fuzzy at best. Chapter 5 turns on the apparently subtle fact that being tolerant of others' beliefs is good, but being tolerant of obvious factual errors is bad. The book ends with a brief appendix on calculating probabilities.

I am sure that Prof. Broch teaches an excellent course and indeed I wish I could sit in on it. But this particular book is going to find few if any readers in the English-speaking world.

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We have all surrendered ourselves to the world that writing creates. Eudora Welty once observed that her mother read the works of Charles Dickens in the same spirit with which she would have eloped with him. Some of us remember our first novel with more pleasurable vividness than our first kiss. Many of us go to on-line chat rooms, looking for love with our keyboard. And most of us have tried to seduce with words-reciting that Shakespeare sonnet or composing that Valentine's Day poem with tremulous hope. All writing seeks to ensnare the reader in its embrace. As Frances Wilson also proves in this engaging, enlightening, and provocative new book, writing can also ensnare the writers themselves. Highlighting the lives and loves of celebrated literary couples, Wilson reveals the depth of their passion for language-their own as well as their partner's. Taking as a point of departure the legendary courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, a courtship conceived on the printed page, Wilson explores how easily, how seductively, literary desire becomes sexual desire and vice versa. "Literary seductions," she writes, are "violent, extreme, and irreversible." Not all reading seduces, not all writing inflames. But when they do, what is written ceases to be merely an arrangement of symbols on a page. The word has been made flesh.Lady Caroline Lamb and Lord Byron, Anas Nin and Henry Miller, Laura Riding and Robert Graves, Osip and Nadzheda Mandelstam, W. B. and Georgie Yeats were all in the grip of a compulsion for writing and reading, enmeshed in words.Miller called his relationship with Nin, a "literary fuck-fest"; for Riding and Graves, it took on the self-destructive (and self-conscious) melodrama of a Russian novel; for the Mandelstams, it was a life-giving (if self-sacrificing) bond in a precarious world; for George and W. B Yeats, it offered sexual stimulus. The couplings of verbs and nouns do more than precede coupling; they comprise it. Literary Seductions is itself a seductive book. The elegant power of Wilson's arguments, the rigor of her research, and the delights of her prose enthrall the reader. Here is intellectual engagement and readerly pleasure rolled into one.AUTHORBIO: Frances Wilson teaches at Reading University in England and writes for The London Review of Books.She is currently working on a biography of the regency courtesan, writer, and blackmailer, Harriette Wilson.

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Two Words.......2004-12-21

If you are a writer, a muse or something in between, this book may fascinate you for more than purely scholarly reasons. It is an unusual approach, and in some ways it could be an especially helpful one. The two words I have are: cautionary tales. The things that we dream of, sometimes they are not such good ideas.
If you like this book, or this topic, there are of course many other books about writers and the weaknesses of flesh and spirit, however you may especially like _What Lips My Lips Have Kissed_ about Edna St. Vincent Millay.

A Groundbreaking study.......2002-03-22

Even though not all readers are seduced and not all writers are compulsive, when a peculiar chemistry occurs between reader and writer, the written word is made flesh and creates strange bedfellows. Frances Wilson has connected the dots and produced a unique and astonishing study of this perhaps unholy alliance.

Beginning with the famous courtship of Elizabeth Barrett by Robert Browning as a kind of contrast/control because of its relative wholesomeness, Wilson goes on to explore the more pathological literary seductions of Anais Nin and Henry Miller, Laura Riding and Robert Graves, Osip and Nadzheda Mandelstam, and W.B. and Georgie Yeats. The Brownings were more normal and sane, according to this author, because they achieved the "...transition from a love of one another's words to a broader love beyond the literary."

But the dynamic of the more pathological literary seductions are different for all. Anais Nin and Henry Miller were possessed by words. "Henry saw the English language as a part of his body" while Anais "...believed words were speaking HER rather than the other way around." They both wrote constantly and compulsively and their sexual involvement with each other was defined by their writing.

Laura Riding, on the other hand, was "la belle dam sans merci." She and Robert Graves together created this mythic persona of Laura and they both fed upon and nurtured it in their writing. They did not "...live to tell the tale so much as tell the tale in order to find a way of living." In other words, they wrote themselves into existence.

For the Russian husband and wife team, Osip and Nadzheda Mandelstam, life was a Gulag Archipelago. Osip was tormented by the poems that he heard as a buzzing in his brain until he wrote them down. But he had to memorize them rather than write them because he was so constantly subject to arrest and imprisonment. So his wife, Nadzheda, contained them within herself, committing them to memory much as Brandbury's characters in *Fahrenheit 451* memorized whole books because the written word had become illegal. Osip and Nadzheda completed one another to such an extent that their separations were torture to both.

W.B. Yeats and his wife, Georgie, also wrote together on an intimate level, but in this case, Georgie received her husband's creative thoughts by automatic writing. She was his conduit; his writing hand was her hand. She wrote constantly and feverishly to such an extent that their authorship was blurred and defined by one another.

In all these latter cases, there was at least one third party in the equation. For Miller and Nin, there was June (Miller's wife). Geoffrey Phibbs and Nancy Graves were present in the Graves-Riding duo. Laura Riding was "...endlessly getting rid of the third party in the way of her relationship, whilst she needed this third party in order to have the relationship in the first place." For the Mandelstams, there was the poetess, Anna Akhnatova, and for W.B. and Georgie Yeats, there was Anne Hyde (who had died in the 17th Century but who appeared in Georgie's automatic writing).

If you're not a reader of literature, you probably won't be reading this review anyway, but if you're an inveterate reader and all of your heroes are writers (not cowboys), this book will absorb and fascinate you with its engaging style, scholarly research and in-depth psychological profiles.

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