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This text begins with an overview of the cyanobacteria (or blue-green algae for those who are not specialists) then looks at their diversity in the geological record and goes on to describe their...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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2000
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Today we have more control over how we live and how we die than ever before. This has produced many ethical problems. While much about life is biologically determined, much else is determined by the...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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2000
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In the first few years of the 21st century, the human genome will be fully sequenced. This should provide us with the sequence and overall function of all human genes as well as the complete genome...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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2000
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Animal cell technology is a growing discipline of cell biology which aims not only to understand structures, functions and behaviors of differentiated animal cells but also to ascertain their...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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This text takes the reader on a guided tour through the philosophical and physical foundations of protein isolation. Aimed at a student readership, it should also be very useful to life science...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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In this study of the concept of disease and the philosophy of diagnosis, the author proposes 'value-dependent realism' as a way to show how value judgements can be foundational for the practice of...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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The authors recount the use of social network methods, ethnographic direct-observation techniques, and in-depth interviews in their study of a drug-using community in Brooklyn, New York. They provide...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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This volume explores Confucian views regarding the human body, health, virtue, suffering, suicide, euthanasia, 'human drugs', human experimentation, and justice in health care distribution. These...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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Age-comparative studies are particularly relevant to this debate for several reasons: difficulties with language and communication are frequently mentioned by older adults and signal the onset of...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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This text examines the basic constructs of gender, sex, ethnicity, and race. These constructs are routinely used in the analysis of data in a number of fields, including epidemiology, health services...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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Bioinformatics brings computational methods to the analysis and processing of genomic data. This text focuses on the issues of system building and data curation that dominate the day-to-day concerns...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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K. Danner Clouser is one of the most important figures in establishing and shaping the fields of medical ethics, bioethics and the philosophy of education in the second half of the 20th century....
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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This series provides a complete guide to the culture of human cells. It is a detailed manual and reference resource for researchers in every aspect of medicine, biology, technology and immunology...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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Debate regarding organ sales is largely innocent of the history of thought on the matter. This volume seeks to remedy this shortcoming. Positions for or against a market in human organs are nested...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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Because progress in the field of transporters has been extraordinary, this volume focuses on recent advances in our understanding of the structure, function, physiology, and molecular biology of...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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This work presents basic immunological tenets and mechanisms at the cellular and molecular level while employing the toxicology focus on hazard identification, appropriate assays, dose response, and...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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Familiarity with nitric oxide is essential to a modern understanding of pathophysiologic mechanisms of infectious disease. Recent research has established nitric oxide and related reactive nitrogen...
Editeur :
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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Focusing on the theoretical problems associated with molecular diversity as it is being applied in the pharmaceutical industry, this book deals with algorithms that are involved in understanding...
Editeur :
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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This volume addresses the issues surrounding combination drug therapies and the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Each chapter, written by a leading researcher, provides information on the pharmacology,...
Editeur :
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1999
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Self-assembly monolayer (SAM) structures of lipids and macromolecules have been found to play an important role in many industrial and biological phenomena. This book describes two procedures, namely...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution :
1999
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