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Cell Immortalization (Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 3540656189 |
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This book describes the most outstanding theoretical hypotheses aiming at explaining the infinite proliferative potential of a cell population, what is now known under the term cell immortalization. It elucidates the phenomenon from an evolutionary point of view, and describes the cell systems used and the experiments performed at the cellular and molecular levels to determine the mechanisms responsible for this cell property. It also appraises how the mortal and immortal phenotypes reflect characteristics of the respective organism, and stresses how this goes beyond the proposal that its opposite, the mortal phenotype, is a mechanism to protect the organism against cancer.
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Generation of Antibodies by Cell and Gene Immortalization (Year in Immunology, Vol 7)
C. Terhorst , and F. Malavasi Manufacturer: S. Karger Publishers (USA) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 3805557140 |
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CellFactors' key human cell immortalization patent upheld after third-party challenge.: An article from: BIOTECH Patent News
Manufacturer: Biotech Patent News ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00082UZJ6 Release Date: 2005-08-01 |
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This digital document is an article from BIOTECH Patent News, published by Biotech Patent News on June 1, 2004. The length of the article is 595 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.
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CellFactors' key human cell immortalization patent upheld after third-party challenge.: An article from: BIOTECH Patent News
Manufacturer: Biotech Patent News ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00082NENU Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from BIOTECH Patent News, published by Biotech Patent News on May 1, 2004. The length of the article is 591 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.
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Further studies with a cell immortalization assay to investigate the mutation signature of aristolochic acid in human p53 sequences [An article from: Mut.Res.-Genetic ... Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis]
N. Feldmeyer , H.H. Schmeiser , K.R. Muehlbauer , and Bel Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000PC0RWY |
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This digital document is a journal article from Mut.Res.-Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Vitro's cell immortalization patent allowed.(Brief Article): An article from: BIOTECH Patent News
Manufacturer: Biotech Patent News ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00096XPXE Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from BIOTECH Patent News, published by Biotech Patent News on June 1, 2002. The length of the article is 539 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.
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Urbanization: An Introduction to Urban Geography (2nd Edition)
Paul L. Knox , and Linda M. McCarthy Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0131424505 |
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A mixed bag.......2005-09-23
Unimpressive.......2004-09-15
Post Modern Mania.......2003-03-07
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Third World Cities 2nd Edition (Routledge Introductions to Development.)
Drakakis-Smith Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0415198828 |
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Third World Cities is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of a classic text which examines urbanisation in developing areas. Using case studies of cities drawn from around the world, David Smith confronts three main questions: Is there still a Third World, does it have a common urban form and what is the relationship between urbanisation and sustainability? This text provides an invaulable introduction to the issues and processes of the city in the Third World.
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Cities and Consumption (Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City)
Mark Jayne Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0415327342 |
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Cities and Consumption investigates the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption: how are cities moulded by consumption, how is consumption molded by cities? Consumption stands at the intersection of different spheres of everyday life: between the public and the private, the political and the personal, the individual and the social. Consumption is considered to be a means and motor of social change; as an active ingredient in the construction of space and place; and in constructing subjectivity and social selfhood. Consumption is thus understood as having multiple roles as a political, economic and cultural touchstone, and it is in the morphology of cities that its expression is most explicit.
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An Introduction to Urban Historical Geography
Harold Carter Manufacturer: Edward Arnold ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0713163860 |
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More Urban, Less Poor: An Introduction to Urban Development and Management
Göran Tannerfeldt , and Per Ljung Manufacturer: Earthscan Publications Ltd. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1844073815 |
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The world is undergoing massive urbanization: now topping three billion of the world’s six billion people and projected to increase to four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within twenty-five years. The impacts and development challenges posed by historic shift are of equal magnitude and include growing slums; lack of access to adequate water, sanitation and utilities; challenges to transport, employment, education; and dramatic effects on human well being and the environment.
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Cities & Nature (Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City)
Li Benton-Short Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0415355893 |
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Cities and Nature illustrates how the city is part of the environment, and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. The city has been treated in most geographical writings as a primarily social phenomena, and at the same time, many environmental scientists have tended to ignore the urban. This book aims to reconnect natural science and social science through the examination of the urban environment.
The book is a comprehensive and accessible text organized around three central themes: 1) urban environment in historical context; 2) issues in urban-nature relations and; 3) realigning urban-nature relations. The growing environmental impact associated with increasing urbanization has shaped much urban public policy. The environmental dynamic of recent urban trends includes the impact of giant urban regions and megacities; postindustrial cities and brownfields, urban sprawl, new industrial spaces and shantytowns. Environmental disasters, and issues relating to pollution and garbage - as both a technical and social issue - for both large and small cities are also discussed. The possibilities of a green city, the environmental experience of cities through and across space, and the differences between cities in developed and developing economies are explored. The final section considers race, class and environmental justice and unpacks the popular notion of urban sustainability.
Cities and Nature clearly illustrates the physical and social elements of the urban environment. The book includes further reading and boxed case studies from cities around the world including Bangkok, Chicago, Cubatao, Dacca, Delhi, Los Angeles, London, New Orleans, Paris, Rome and Toronto. This book is essential reading for students and researchers in Geography, Environmental Studies, Urban Studies and Planning
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Urbanization: An Introduction to Urban Geography
Paul L. Knox Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OIY874 |
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A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime (Scientific American Library)
John Archibald Wheeler Manufacturer: W H Freeman & Co (Scientific American Library) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0716750163 |
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Able to "see" spacetime.......2004-01-10
The book is intended as an introduction to general relativity, without much tensor formalism, but it does not neglect the geometrical underpinnings. It presents a very nice way to get at the physics, with creative and light-hearted diagrams.
I'm not so sure that Wheeler's own poems, which introduce many of the chapters, are a great success, but I admire and salute him for including them. Even his poetry helps to open additional doors to understanding general relativity.
A book that is truly beautiful.
Awesome: from an MSEE.......2002-08-25
Unfortunately when a key subject left me rather clueless, (Boundary of a Boundary) I spent quite a few frustrated hours being uncertain on whether or not to continue reading without the support of the material on those pages. As it turned out, the subject became clearer once I read on and returned again. I never did grasp it as completely as the rest of the book.
The book contains the most enlightening description of transverse wave propagation I've ever seen. It also helps solidify one's understanding of interval and relativity.
Not a book to be read overnight.
The author's mind has no boundary...........2002-02-04
The first chapter is an overview of the history behind the subject, via the work of people who contributed to our current understanding of gravity. And then, with a masterfull use of diagrams he gives the reader a taste of the simplicity of the equivalence principle and the need to tack on an additional dimension (time) to the 3-dimensional space of everyday experience. The Pound-Rebka experiment is discussed as one that illustrates the idea of the spacetime interval, and the role of time dilation is discussed via the possibility of practical space travel. And such enthusiasm in his dialog: "the universe will grow ever more exciting", he says, and looking at the developments now taking place in today's science, he is indeed correct.
Chapter 4 gives a fascinating overview of what the author calls the boomerang, which illustrates the action of curvature on nearby test masses. This thought experiment involves the motion of a spacecraft through an imaginary tunnel through the Earth. The author analyzes the motion from the standpoint of Newtonian physics and general relativity. Curvature as the "grammar of gravity" is the topic of the next chapter, with illustrations of the paths of ants on spaces of zero, positive, and negative curvature. A very intuitive treatment of parallel transport around a closed path on a curved surface is given. The tides are discussed as a natural manifestation of the gravitational influence of the Moon on Earth.
Must difficult for a layman to understand is how spacetime acts on masive objects, but the author explains it brilliantly in the next chapter, taught via the concept of "momenergy". This entity is a 4-vector, and the author uses it to show how its creation in a spacetime region can be written as the sum of 8 terms, reflecting the fact that the "boundary" of a four-dimensional block in spacetime consists of eight three-dimensional cubes. That the contents of these cubes sum to zero is the famous "boundary of a boundary is zero", which is discussed in the next chapter. This chapter is one of the best explanations ever given (at this level) of the physics behind spacetime curvature and massive objects. The actual mathematical quantification of curvature is detailed in chapters 8 and 9, using elementary mathematics. The author discusses nicely the famous Scharwzschild geometry.
Concepts of a more concrete nature are discussed in chapter 10, wherein the author discusses the famous Pound-Rebka experiment and planetary motion. This is followed by a discussion of the elusive gravitational waves in chapter 11. Again with a clever use of illustrations, the author explains the transverse property of gravitational waves, and compares gravitational waves with electromagnetic waves. The role of the quadrupole moment in the creation of gravitational waves is brought out briliantly by the author. He discusses briefly various attempts to detect gravitational waves.
Black holes are the topic of chapter 12, wherein the famous Penrose process for extracting energy from a black hole is discussed, and the "no-hair" theorem for black holes. A neat symbolic representation of the Bekenstein number of a black hole is given. The role of the Hawking process, connection quantum processes with the physics of black holes is briefly discussed. The author ends the book with a look at the expansion of the universe, the missing mass problem, and another very interesting topic that has gained much attention recently: the concept of gravitomagnetism. This is a "weak-field" prediction of general relativity, and predicts that the rotation of the Earth should influence the motion of orbiting satellites. This topic is currently bringing together ideas such as the quantum Zeno effect, Mach's principle, and the notorious "frame dragging" effect in general relativity. Experiments do measure it are currently in play and in the proposal stage, namely the LAGEOS and LAGEOS II experiments, which measure the gravitomagnetic orbital perturbation, which is known as the Lense-Thirring effect.
A stunner of a book.......1999-12-13
Wheeler is able to pull off a major accomplishment: He explains Einstein's General Relativity in a clear, straightforward manner, with a minimum of math. It's "conventional wisdom" that General Relativity is seriously serious stuff, the domain of hardcore Physics geeks. That doesn't faze Wheeler. He leads the reader along, gleefully pointing out the scenery, making it all look quite simple and understandable. And then all of a sudden, when you least expect it, you find he's derived and presented Einstein's field equations with only a teensy-tiny bit of algebra! Even if you know this stuff already, his presentation makes you think about it with a new perspective.
And did I mention the illustrations? They are really exceptional.
If you have any interest or dealings with GR, ya gotta have this book!
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The Complete Wandering Ghosts
Manufacturer: Wildside Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1592240399 Release Date: 2004-09-09 |
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For the first time, complete as the author intended them, here are all eight of F. Marion Crawford's supernatural pieces, including the rare story "The King's Messenger," as well as such classics as "The Upper Berth" (considered by many to be the finest ghost story ever written) and many more. Also features a new introduction written especially for this volume by horror scholar Lee Weinstein.Download Description
For the first time, complete as the author intended them, here are all eight of F. Marion Crawford's supernatural pieces, including the rare story "The King's Messenger," as well as such classics as "The Upper Berth" (considered by many to be the finest ghost story ever written) and many more. Also features a new introduction written especially for this volume by horror scholar Lee Weinstein.Customer Reviews:
A pleasing mixture of gothic and nautical horror.......2004-11-11
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The Complete Wandering Ghosts
F. Marion Crawford Manufacturer: NY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MUGWA0 |
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