Master Control Genes in Development and Evolution: The Homeobox Story (The Terry Lectures Series)

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In this fascinating book, a world-renowned developmental biologist describes in vivid detail the landmark discovery of the homeobox, a characteristic DNA segment found in the genes of all higher organisms, from the fruit fly to humans. Walter J. Gehring offers exciting new insights into how genes control development as well as an engaging description of the art of scientific investigation.

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This is an excellent and a most valuable book on Homeobox.......1999-06-05

I can say that I am the only one reader who is worriest to read this book.Oh my God,I got this book in the library first at the begining of 1999.In a week,including day and night,I read this lovest book from first page to the last page for my much hungry.And then,the second time to read it for its deep meaning and interesting history of homeobox gene.I think this book is too short to satisfy the reader like me for waiting it so long time.I hope Dr.Walter J.gehring publish another book on the homeobox gene in the future.Please let him know there is a reader waiting for his new book.This strange reader is a Mongolian( a minority in China) and he is even dreaming to become his student or a volunteer in his lab.I can promise htat this book is the most important one for the developmental genetics and the molecular genetics.Please read it as soon as possible.

I have been waiting this book for a long time-A homeobox fun.......1998-11-05

One of the most famous scientists on the homeobox genes research on the world:Dr.Gwhring will give us a excellent book on the homeobox genes which will be the second one.I think publishers should publish more and more books like this,because this kind of books are too limit to be used.I am researching how to use this homeobox genes to the improvment of farm animals such as Mongolia sheep and the other animals.THe multivertebrae sheep among the Mongolia sheep is resulted from the mutation of Homeobox genes and this multivertebrae animal can produce more meat than the normal one on the same age and on the same envirenment.The multivtebrae sheep's vertebrae number is more than that of normal animal by one to two for thoracic or lumber,so can produce more ribs and meat and less fat.The book on the homeobox genes will be help us research the priciple of the genetics on this animal and undstand how the genes work on the vertebral animals and how the evolusion processeed.I believe that this book will be wellcome by all the develpmental genetic workers on the world and produce much more homoebox funs like me.

Good luck to this book and good luck to the homeobox genes.

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Master Control Genes in Development and Evolution: The Homeobox Story (The Terry Lectures Series)
Walter J. Gehring
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Geoenvironmental Engineering covers the application of basic geological and hydrological science, including soil and rock mechanics and groundwater hydrology, to any number of different environmental problems.
* Includes end-of-chapter summaries, design examples and worked-out numerical problems, and problem questions.
* Offers thorough coverage of the role of geotechnical engineering in a wide variety of environmental issues.
* Addresses such issues as remediation of in-situ hazardous waste, the monitoring and control of groundwater pollution, and the creation and management of landfills and other above-ground and in-situ waste containment systems.

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TAILINGS & MINE WASTE 98

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Nuclear Waste Stalemate: Political and Scientific Controversies

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Nuclear Waste Stalemate: Political and Scientific Controversies
Robert Vandenbosch , and Susanne E Vandenbosch
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Acceptance Criteria for Disposal of Radioactive Wastes in Shallow Ground and Rock Cavities/Isp710 (Safety Series)

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Acceptance Criteria for Disposal of Radioactive Wastes in Shallow Ground and Rock Cavities/Isp710 (Safety Series)

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Advances in Porous Media, Volume 2 (Advances in Porous Media)

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Advances in Porous Media, Volume 2 (Advances in Porous Media)

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This is the second volume in the series Advances in Porous Media. The objective of the series is to provide a forum for publications on developments in this fast-growing interdisciplinary area, with special emphasis on the frontiers of knowledge and on a unified approach by scientists from such diverse fields as civil, mechanical, agricultural, environmental, chemical, ceramic, mining and petroleum engineering, geohydrology, soil physics, powder metallurgy and mathematics. Since the processes in porous media occur in such varied areas groundwater hydraulics, petroleum reservoir engineering, soil physics, soil and rock mechanics, industrial filtration, water purification, wastewater treatment, soil drainage and irrigation, geothermal energy production, filtration in packed beds, powder compaction, metallurgy, ceramics, biomechanics and underground coal conversion, the intended audience includes scientists, engineers and practitioners in these disciplines.

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The authors discuss all key aspects of the design of barrier systems, including leachate collection, natural barriers such as clayey aquitards, clay liners, geomembrane and composite liners and so on. They have integrated the engineering and hydrogeological considerations and the design of waste disposal facilities to provide a sound base from which engineers can work. There is also a comprehensive view of modelling as related to practical landfill design, and key studies give examples of actual field performance.

Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Processes of Fractured Media (Developments in Geotechnical Engineering)

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Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Processes of Fractured Media (Developments in Geotechnical Engineering)

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ASIN: 0444825452

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This work brings together the results, information and data that emerged from an international cooperative project, DECOVALEX, 1992-1995. This project was concerned with the mathematical and experimental studies of coupled thermo(T) -hydro(H) -mechanical(M) processes in fractured media related to radioactive waste disposal.

The book presents, for the first time, the systematic formulation of mathematical models of the coupled T-H-M processes of fractured media, their validation against theoretical bench-mark tests, and experimental studies at both laboratory and field scales. It also presents, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis of continuum, and discrete approaches to the study of the problems of (as well as a complete description of), the computer codes applied to the studies.

The first two chapters provide a conceptual introduction to the coupled T-H-M processes in fractured media and the DECOVALEX project. The next seven chapters give a state-of-the-art survey of the constitutive models of rock fractures and formulation of coupled T-H-M phenomena with continuum and discontinuum approaches, and associated numerical methods. A study on the three generic Bench-Mark Test problems and six Test Case problems of laboratory and field experiments are reported in chapters 10 to 18. Chapter 19 contains lessons learned during the project.

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Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. Report of the Committee on Biomedical Isotopes, Division of Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine. Studies the production and availability of isotopes, and the education and training of those who handle the flow from the source to laboratories and bedsides.

Advances in Electromagnetic Fields in Living Systems

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Advances in Electromagnetic Fields in Living Systems

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Volume 2 in this series offers research into two specific regions of the electromagnetic spectrum: extremely low frequency fields and radiofrequency radiation, with particular emphasis on the latter. The investigations explore:

melatonin synthesis and exposure to extremely low frequency (ELF) fields
ELF fields and cancer
computational bioelectromagnetics
health effects, including the carcinogenic potential of radiofrequency radiation
radiofrequency radiation as an energy source for arrhythmia, and
practical applications of the radiofrequency exposure standard.

Biomedical Uses of Radiation (2-Volume Set)

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Biomedical Uses of Radiation (2-Volume Set)

Manufacturer: Wiley-VCH
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The types of radiation routinely used for medical diagnosis and treatment ranges from different kinds of electromagnetic radiation (radio, infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray) to ultrasound. Keeping pace with all the different methods, their specific advantages and their hidden dangers is almost impossible.

Written by experienced experts mainly from the US, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview over the principles, advantages and potential risks of all radiation-based methods commonly used. Volume A describes the acting mechanisms for different types of radiation, volume B focuses on their clinical applications, the information collected by each method and their potential risks.

An indispensable reference work for (radiation) physicians, biophysicists and medical engineers.

Radiation Effects on Polymers for Biological Use (Advances in Polymer Science)

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Radiation Effects on Polymers for Biological Use (Advances in Polymer Science)

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ASIN: 3540440208

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Biomaterials repair, reinforce or replace damaged functional parts of the (human) body. All mechanical and biological interactions between an implant and the body occur across the interface, which has to correspond as nearly as possible to its particular function. Much of the progress in adapting polymer materials for use in a biological environment has been obtained through irradiation techniques. For this reason the most recent developments in four key areas are reviewed in this special volume: (1) the analysis of the topology and the elemental composition of a functional surface, (2) the chemical modification of the surface which results in highly pure, sterile and versatile surfaces, (3) the sterilisation of implantable devices via ionising radiation and its possible effects on the structural mechanical properties of polymers, and (4) the radiation effects on living cells and tissues which are of particular importance for radiation protection and radiotherapy.

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Biomedical Use of Radiation

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Proceedings of laser-inflicted eye injuries: Epidemiology, prevention, and treatment : 29-30 January 1996, San Jose, California (Progress in biomedical optics)

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Proceedings of laser-inflicted eye injuries: Epidemiology, prevention, and treatment : 29-30 January 1996, San Jose, California (Progress in biomedical optics)

Manufacturer: SPIE
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A Tragic Comedy or a Comic Tragedy?

Office Pleasantries, Christian Zealotry - "this job fits like a bad hairpiece"

A Sci-Fi Comedy in the New Economy. Combines Office Space with Fight Club

Memoirs of a Virus Programmer
Pete Flies
Manufacturer: StoneGarden.net Publishing
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ASIN: 0976542684

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A high-tech satire, Memoirs of a Virus Programmer is the Candide of this century. Johnny Pepper dedicates his memoirs to his former girlfriend, Katya, to explain what drove him to become a virus programmer. As a software engineer at the illustrious Beamer Corporation, he begins his career with a naive disposition, assuming life will be nearly perfect. Eager to escape childhood poverty and to experience comfort, he forges his way into the office world with a blind and maddening optimism. The real world singes him time and again as he finds his world view impossible.

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A Tragic Comedy or a Comic Tragedy?.......2006-03-29

A thought-provoking story that has a great deal to say about the modern state of affairs, and miraculously manages to say without the clichés we've all become used to. It's essentially the story of a young man from a poor background, Johnny Pepper, who enters the world of middle-class suburbia with the notion that it will offer him everything he's ever wanted but ultimately finds nothing in his new life can give him a lasting sense of purpose, least of all his tedious occupation as a software debugger. His only source of hope is a girl named Katya, to whom he's addressing his memoirs, and when he loses her, he loses any reason to live. He then decides to crash his software company's system with a virus basically just because he can, and has nothing else to do and has found no vet for his talents.
What really makes this story special to me is the protagonist's motivation and character. He enters the story like a clean sponge waiting to absorb the ideas of whoever is around him. At a Christian party, all it takes is a few Jesus songs to convert him, but he abruptly rejects his new-found religion the minute he meets a girl named Katya who gives him a brief explanation of why he should. Johnny Pepper is like a child who's open to everything and eager to explore his new world.
The tragedy is that his new world turns out to be very lackluster and limited, making him more and more desperate to find a sense of purpose.
He even tries dedicating himself to earning money for an eccentric drifter, but even he won't let him be his friend. It's a very powerful moment in the story because all Johnny really wants is to have an affect on the drifter's life, to mean something to someone, but it turns out the drifter is as trapped in his monotonous routines as Johnny's corporate colleagues.
There are many other powerful scenes. One example is when Johnny's company gives all their employees a message following September 11 saying the best thing they can do for their country is to continue working. It's rather disturbing that a company would expect its workers to look to them for moral guidance in the aftermath of such a tragedy. What's really ironic about this scene, though, is that this is exactly how we have reacted to September 11 as a country. Instead of stopping to ask whether such a tragedy could have been prevented had we done things differently, we've continued with our same old routines as if nothing happened.
I think Johnny Pepper's motive or lack thereof is what really makes the story unique. He doesn't program the virus specifically because of an anti-corporate ideology or out of spite for his superiors. He's basically rebelling for the sake of rebelling because he has nothing else to do with his life. Johnny Pepper's transition from upbeat, dedicated employee to subversive delinquent is brilliantly done through the course of the novel. Even though Johnny Pepper is narrating the story, he never describes the changes in his attitude in too much detail. He seems alienated from himself as well as others; even he doesn't know why he's programming the virus, and never stops to ask himself if he's doing the right thing or not. At this point, we understand why Johnny Pepper's lost his ability to ask such questions because the story has been so successful at conveying his sense of ineffectuality up until now.
To me, Memoirs of a Virus Programmer is more than just a criticism of capitalist society. It says a great deal about human nature in general. I can't help but draw a parallel between Johnny's virus and the attack of September 11. Though the two acts are so far apart in scale of sheer viciousness, both are irrational acts that serve no purpose other than to cause harm. Intriguing...
Overall, this is one of those books that really has something to say and says it all without actually saying it. It's both provocative and funny as hell. I'd recommend it to everyone in the world, especially terrorists. Maybe if they get hooked on programming viruses, they'll stop trying to kill us.

Office Pleasantries, Christian Zealotry - "this job fits like a bad hairpiece".......2006-02-17

From daily life's minutiae, to the highly technical world of the computer programmer as the internet took off and the stock market boomed, Pete Flies' "Memoirs of a Virus Programmer" covers relationships and love, and good-natured though entirely nutty Christian revivalism, as main character Johnny Pepper's youthful ambition turns to depression, alienation, and worse.

Johnny and his manager (whose "brushy moustache bounced over his upper lip like a little floor broom" so that if Johnny "tipped the manager upside down and held is legs like wheelbarrow handles, his moustache might clean anything from linoleum to hardwood") bond over Midwest football rivalries and exchange office pleasantries. When the pleasantries run out, they listen to the overhead lights' whir, a sound like the one "that might be found at the end of the universe, after infinity, in the white space."

Having secured a job at which he gets paid a lot for initially doing nothing, Johnny moves with his roommate, Jamie, into an upscale neighborhood (Jamie wants to avoid "the slum," where the bars are, and tattoo parlors, and "`crime in general,' meaning black people"). Jamie tricks Johnny into going to a Christian missionary-like gathering where Johnny, soon drunk and uninterested in being preached to, hoots along with the Christian songs being sung, and then keeps to the kitchen, where the beer is. In the kitchen he meets Katya, and they spend the night laughing and drinking the good-natured-though-silly folks' alcohol. When their good nature runs out, Johnny and Katya are "banished" from the missionary house forever. They leave together, and Johnny falls in love.

It should, but it doesn't last, and Johnny faces an unenviable end.

Flies captures the ordinary concerns that everyone has but almost no one mentions, like the "bathroom culture" at the Beamer Corporation: "We all sat in silence, praying that somebody flushed, or turned on a faucet, or dried his hands - anything to make a noise so we could grab our next piece of toilet paper." When someone accidentally violated this norm, it "disgusted and at the same time elated us all, as if yelling, `At last!'"

Flies' "Memories of a Virus Programmer" is a great read.

A Sci-Fi Comedy in the New Economy. Combines Office Space with Fight Club.......2006-01-11

While Symantec and Norton spend large sums of money every year defusing viruses written by young programmers, and while the media vilifies the criminals as dark anomalies emanating from the technoculture, a subset of fiction and cinema has continued to celebrate the underground and find new ways in expressing the motives of virus writing pariahs.

In 1984, William Gibson's "Neuromancer" began the Cyberpunk genre, a movement that culminated with the Matrix in 1999, and continues on with this hilarious book of a different flavor, Memoirs of a Virus Programmer, that puts satire and psychology in the pit together to examine the motives of a young disgruntled employee and his attempts to spear an elephant-sized company, as the main character, named Johnny Pepper, sets his virus execution to run "one week before the end of the third fiscal quarter, which happened to be the perfect time for a Dow stock to take a dive and rattle Wall Street."

The events leading up to his psychological illness is a walk through modern suburbia, with misfortune striking Johnny Pepper in almost every chapter.

Pepper feels that he has been driven or forced to write a virus to find a way to be creative, making his motive subtly different from the typical attraction to writing viruses. The company's lack of ethics, layoffs, the corporate attitude, and the overcharging of customers for billable hours, all niggle Pepper, along with the pontificating office-mate who continually reads the news out loud. However, it is his own isolation and emotional instability that ultimately allow him to write the virus.

If what you rage against is only an entity on paper, then what is physical violence? A virus is a type of intellectual violence.

It is primarily a book about an era and an archetype, both of which are to date unexplored in fiction and satire. The character begins with absurd optimism, hoping for creativity in his career, but while he runs the gauntlet of modern life - from the suburbs, to the slums, to Christian revivalism, to the desperate housewife next door - his mood degrades into Dostoyevsky's nameless narrator from Notes from the Underground.

He describes the technical pieces of the virus in detail, including the methods used to lift a password off of his office-mate in order to log in as another user. He defends his goal by saying, "for the first time...my inflated title of 'software engineer' was applicable."

The ending of the book does not glorify the criminal act, as Pepper finds himself facing an ethical dilemma beyond his control. He comes of age in a harrowing manner, too late for his own redemption. But, on the other hand, he shows no pity for Symantec or Norton either.

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What would drive someone to create a computer virus? In "Memoirs of a Virus Programmer," the answer is love and madness. A young programmer named Johnny Pepper begins his career with absurd optimism and gradually transforms into an isolated criminal.

The short chapters in "Memoirs of a Virus Programmer" are stuffed with humor. The pace quickens as Pepper struggles against a love-hate relationship with technology. The setting is Minneapolis in the year 2000. Fans of Office Space and Fight Club will be a target audience, and it has been described as "a science fiction comedy."

The naïve Pepper is surrounded by modern character archetypes. From his faceless project manager, to his pontificating cube-mate, to the desperate housewife next door, he stumbles his way through a fictional memoir, making mud of his ideals, and capturing the apoplectic dot-com era and contemporary Christian revival. The tone and pace of the novel is upbeat: "My manager spoke in a genial manner, and as he spoke, his brushy moustache bounced over his upper lip like a little floor broom at work."

Pepper dates a woman named Katya, a former pharmaceutical saleswoman-cum-anarchist who despises corporations. When Katya ends the relationship, Pepper becomes consumed with his programming: "I looked for my viral insertion point. I opened and closed many files as I searched for something perfectly obtuse, a file that no one really understood or cared about any more."

Themes include connected isolation, culture loss, technophilia/phobia, information overload, and lack of community.

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Memoirs of a Virus Programmer
Pete Flies
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