Handbook of Microemulsion Science and Technology

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Demonstrating methods for overcoming stability issues in paints, wax dispersions, cosmetics, food products, and other industrial applications, this reference probes theoretical and practical issues surrounding microemulsion science and technology. Featuring the work of 51 international experts and containing almost 1000 instructive tables, equations, and illustrations, this book reviews the performance of, and prospects for, experimental methods such as X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), light scattering, small angle neutron scattering, viscosimetry, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to characterize various aspects of the dispersed phase of microemulsions.

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Recombinant proteins and polypeptides continue to be the most important class of biotechnology-derived agents in today's pharmaceutical industry. Over the past few years, our fundamental understanding of how proteins degrade and how stabilizing agents work has made it possible to approach formulation of protein pharmaceuticals from a much more rational point of view.

This book describes the current level of understanding of protein instability and the strategies for stabilizing proteins under a variety of stressful conditions.

Rational Drug Design (The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications)

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ASIN: 0387987533
Release Date: 2007-03-30

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Drug research and discovery are of critical importance in human health care. Computational approaches for drug lead discovery and optimization have proven successful in many recent research programs. These methods have grown in their effectiveness not only because of improved understanding of the basic science - the biological events and molecular interactions that define a target for therapeutic intervention - but also because of advances in algorithms, representations, and mathematical procedures for studying such processes. This volume surveys some of those advances. A broad landscape of high-profile topics in computer-assisted molecular design (CAMD) directed to drug design are included. Subject areas represented in the volume include receptor-based applications such as binding energy approximations, molecular docking, and de novo design; non-receptor-based applications such as molecular similarity; molecular dynamics simulations; solvation and partitioning of a solute between aqueous and nonpolar media; graph theory; non-linear multidimensional optimization, processing of information obtained from simulation studies, global optimization and search strategies, and performance enhancement through parallel computing.

Biological Approaches to Rational Drug Design (Pharmacology and Toxicology)

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Biological Approaches to Rational Drug Design (Pharmacology and Toxicology)
David B. Weiner , and William V. Williams
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ASIN: 0849394228

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Volume I provides a comprehensive account of the mathematical study and self-contained analysis of vibration and damping in systems governed by partial differential equations. It presents partial differential equations techniques for the mathematical study of this subject. A special objective of establishing the stability theory to treat many distributed vibration models containing damping is discussed. The book presents the theory and methods of functional analysis, energy identities, and strongly continuous and holomorphic semigroups. Many mechanical designs provide concrete examples of damping devices. Numerical examples also confirm the strong agreements between the theoretical estimates and numerical computations of damping rates of eigenmodes.

Chemical and Structural Approaches to Rational Drug Design (Handbooks in Pharmacology and Toxicology)

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Chemical and Structural Approaches to Rational Drug Design (Handbooks in Pharmacology and Toxicology)
David B. Weiner , and William V. Williams
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This book is the first to provide both a broad overview of the current methodologies being applied to drug design and in-depth analyses of progress in specific fields. It details state-of-the-art approaches to pharmaceutical development currently used by some of the world's foremost laboratories. The book features contributors from a variety of fields, new techniques, previously unpublished data, and extensive reference lists.

The Estrogen Receptor as a Target for Rational Drug Design (Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit)

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The Estrogen Receptor as a Target for Rational Drug Design (Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit)
Erwin v. Angerer
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This book is about the estrogen receptor as a biochemical target for the design of new agents useful for the therapy and diagnosis of estrogen-related diseases such as carcinomas of the breast, the endometrium, the ovaries and the prostate, osteoporosis, and benign prostate hyperplasia. Some of these drugs have also become valuable tools for investigating the molecular mode of action of estrogens and their antagonists. The book describes the rational design of potent anti-estrogens, estrogen-linked cytostatics and radioisotope-labeled steroids and gives guidelines for further developments.

The Estrogen Receptor As Target for Rational Drug Design (Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit)

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The Estrogen Receptor As Target for Rational Drug Design (Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit)
Erwin, Ph.D. Von Angerer
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Free Energy Calculations in Rational Drug Design

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Free Energy Calculations in Rational Drug Design

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Free energy calculations represent the most accurate computational method available for predicting enzyme inhibitor binding affinities. Advances in computer power in the 1990s enabled the practical application of these calculations in rationale drug design. This book represents the first comprehensive review of this growing area of research and covers the basic theory underlying the method, numerous state of the art strategies designed to improve throughput and dozen examples wherein free energy calculations were used to design and evaluate potential drug candidates.

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Liposomes: Rational Design
Janoff
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ASIN: 0824702255

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This up-to-date reference covers the basics of liposomology, offering insights from over 30 scientists involved in its growth and considering the direction of future developments. Describes the liposome patent portfolio developed over the last 30 years! Outlining the procedures that bring liposome pharmaceuticals from laboratory to clinic, Liposomes · discusses the design of clinical trials · analyzes morphological diversity and functionality in gene delivery · highlights antitumor activities of lipids acting as second messengers · suggests how antibodies to cholesterol can be used therapeutically · explores applications of liposomes with high captured volumes · details the clinical detection of antilipid antibodies · addresses the lyophilization of liposomes · and more! With over 1400 references, tables, drawings, and photographs, Liposomes is suitable for industrial, clinical, and research pharmacists; pharmacologists; research and development scientists in the pharmaceutical, food, cosmetic, veterinary, agricultural, and chemical industries; biochemists; industrial, medicinal, organic, and pharmaceutical chemists; biophysicists; biotechnologists; microbiologists; molecular and cell biologists; and graduate students in these disciplines.

Mitosenes and Related Antitumor Drugs: Rational Design and Cytostatic Agents (Medical Intelligence Unit)

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Mitosenes and Related Antitumor Drugs: Rational Design and Cytostatic Agents (Medical Intelligence Unit)
Marc Maliepaard
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Mitosenes and Related Antitumor Drugs: Rational Design of Cytostatic Agents (Medical intelligence unit)

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Marc Maliepaard
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ASIN: 1570593353

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In this unforgettable narrative, Corti depicts the war from the perspective of the average Italian soldier, capturing its boredom and absurdity along with brief periods of savagery, terror, and death. Painting vivid pictures of the sights, sounds, and smells of war, he shows how these men fought alongside the Allies against the Germans. They fought without hatred, driven by a sense of duty and love for their country and a desire to quickly put an end to a war that was destroying so many lives. Corti superbly relates the wandering of the remnant of Italian officers and men as they sought to reestablish themselves as Italian soldiers. The Last Soldiers of the King tells the story of a proud people forced to endure death, poverty and the virtual destruction of their nation.

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Italy's war to save itself 1943-1945.......2007-08-01

I really enjoyed Corti's book about the Italian retreat from the Russian Front and I wanted to know more of what became of him after it.
Last Soldiers of the King, gave me more of the same and tied up loose ends for me.
Being interested in the history and actions of the Italian Army in WW2, this book sheds light on the Italian contribution to the Allies cause from 1943 on and the whole situation for Italy as a country at that time.
Like his first book, there is not a lot of combat depicted here, but what he does detail, shows the reader what it was like to fight in Italy.
Corti again, does a very good job of showing national differences in military and attitudes of the combatants.
He does play a fair hand to all involved and while the first book had many instances of the German disdain/mistreatmment of the Italians and the hard feelings of Italians towards the Germans, this book does show Cortis respect to the German soldier.
You also get a glimpse of the relationships between the British, Americans and Italians.
To me, the one drawback of this last book are the long passages related to religion.
Corti seems to be a very religious person and occasionally that comes through like a lecture in this book.
But through it all, you can feel what a long hard struggle the battle for Italy was and the post-war strife looming on the horizon.

The Return of the Italian Soldier-Philosopher.......2007-07-22

"The Last Soldiers of the King" is a continuation of an Italian soldier's memoirs of World War II, which he first related in "Few Returned".

The first work, "Few Returned", was the author's reminiscences of fighting as a young lieutenant in the Italian Army side by side with the Germans against a common foe, the Soviets on the Eastern Front as the Germans and Italians retreated during December 1942 - January 1943. That work was suffused with philosophical musings about the state of man juxtaposed with the state of war, interspersed with misgivings about having Nazis as allies and recollections from his diary about this time in his life.

The second work, "The Last Soldiers of the King", provides additional insight into life as an Italian soldier in World War II after King Victor Emmanuel gave Mussolini his walking papers in July 1943 and, in effect, placed Mussolini under house arrest. (Nazi commando Otto Skorzeny subsequently famously rescued Mussolini and brought him to Germany.) When Italy capitulated to the Allies shortly thereafter the few German forces in Italy became occupation troops as the Germans invaded the northern portion of the country. In the meantime, the Italian Army had essentially disbanded, some joining the Nazis in the north and some fleeing to the south (along with the King, who had left no instructions for the defense of Rome upon his departure).

The new government formed a new army: the "Corpo Italiano di Liberazione" (Italian Liberation Army). Author Eugenio Corti, who had fled south with other Italian Army soldiers, became a member of artillery and anti-aircraft units in the Italian Liberation Army. He infuses his accounts of his experiences in this new army with his Christian faith and the sometimes nettlesome demands that faith put on him, e.g., he struggled, albeit successfully, against the sexual promiscuity, and prostitution, that were the hallmarks of the experiences of other soldiers.

He never seems to lose his faith in God, arguing that belief in God acts as a temporizing force on the conduct and nature of warfare. He also never seems to lose his patriotism or faith in Italy, despairing at the defeatism evident in many of his fellow soldiers and countrymen. (He discovers, much to his dismay, that many, if not most, Italians are not even aware that there are any regular Italian forces fighting the Germans after Italy surrenderd to the Allies in September 1943.)

As a Christian he believes that fascism in any form, including Nazism (which he argues was a misguided racial offshoot of socialism), and communism (which he especially decries as evil) are wrong. He also appears to be conflicted in his feelings toward Jews, on the one hand blaming them for Marxism (and hence communism) and on the other hand stating compassion for them as victims of World War II.

The book is an interesting look at the last two years of World War II in Italy, through the faith-based perspective of an Italian patriot and soldier.

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Do you feel you have lost your ability to cope? Are you dealing with something that makes you feel hopeless? In Finding Peace in Troubled Waters, ten concepts that can be life preservers are offered for those who find themselves struggling to keep from drowning on sorrow or self-pity while being battered by waves of adversity. Whether your struggle is with a life-threatening health problem, a difficult personal relationship, or some other challenge, Art Berg's insights and perspective will help you survive and overcome.

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Deeply Moving Book.......2004-07-23

This book is deeply moving, I have listened to the tapes as well and am of the opinion that Art Berg has much to share with anyone that has ever felt depressed, discouraged, or overwhelmed with life. His ability to connect with the reader and convey feelings and experiences effectively is outstanding, as one is left looking at his own life with pondering reflection.

Life is Good!.......2002-08-08

This is a phenomenal book (actually I have the audio cassettes) that anyone who is ever frustrated with life, depressed, whatever.....should read. While being understanding and compassionate, Mr. Berg also is very pragmatic about what it takes to look upon difficulties in a more productive manner. Great stuff!

Finding Peace in Troubled Waters, 10 Life Preservers for When Your Ship Springs a Leak

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Finding Peace in Troubled Waters, 10 Life Preservers for When Your Ship Springs a Leak

Manufacturer: Deseret Audio Library
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ASIN: B000G1KSY6

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Two audio cassettes

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