Category: Science General

By Ana Maria Gonzalez-Angulo, Flavia Morales-Vasquez (auth.), Dihua Yu, Mien-Chie Hung (eds.)

ISBN-10: 0387740376

ISBN-13: 9780387740379

In Breast melanoma Chemosensitivity, a gaggle of global prime specialists evaluation severe points of resistance to systemic treatment in breast melanoma sufferers. starting with a medical evaluation of the matter Breast melanoma Chemosensitivity strikes directly to specialise in the most recent findings of molecular mechanisms of drug resistance. those comprise in-depth discussions on multidrug resistance through P-glycoprotein and the multidrug resistance protein kinfolk, resistance to healing agent-induced apoptosis, phone cycle deregulation, deregulation of DNA fix, lack of tumor suppressor genes, integrin-mediated adhesion, insulin-like development elements, epidermal progress issue, and ErbB2 in modulating breast melanoma reaction to systemic treatment, in particular, definite chemotherapeutic brokers. Breast melanoma Chemosensitivity offers an instance of utilizing novel methods for chemosensitization of breast melanoma cells that provides readers an idea concerning the destiny path in breast melanoma treatment.

By Ron Sanchez (Ed.), Aimé Heene (Ed.)

ISBN-10: 0080456626

ISBN-13: 9780080456621

ISBN-10: 076231169X

ISBN-13: 9780762311699

The competence-based point of view on procedure and administration emerged within the Nineteen Nineties as a brand new method of constructing technique and administration thought and perform. some time past decade, the point of interest on organizational competences - and the assets, features, and approaches that create competences - has supplied a hugely effective "broad church" for concept improvement, study, and perform in either strategic and common administration. Authored via a multidisciplinary workforce of students and practitioners operating in the competence viewpoint, the papers during this quantity give a contribution to constructing a greater theoretical and sensible figuring out of interfirm interactions that considerably have an effect on an organization's competences.The papers current either theoretical advancements and empirical learn in response to quite a few case reports and different learn in various business and geographical contexts. The papers during this quantity enhance 3 issues. half I contains papers that deal with the most important problems with dealing with actions in an organization's competence development and leveraging techniques that span the limits of 2 enterprises. The papers partly II examine the position of networks and strategic alliances in competence development and leveraging procedures. half III offers papers that examine aggressive interactions among corporations of their competence leveraging actions.

By Bart De Decker, Frank Piessens, Jan Smits, Els Van Herreweghen

ISBN-10: 0306469588

ISBN-13: 9780306469589

ISBN-10: 0792375580

ISBN-13: 9780792375586

The extra our society depends upon digital sorts of conversation, the extra the protection of those communique networks is vital for its well-functioning. therefore, study on tools and methods to enhance community safety is intensely vital. issues during this quantity contain the most recent advancements in: protection protocols; safe software program engineering; cellular agent defense; E-commerce safeguard; safety for dispensed computing. ?/LIST? Advances in community and dispensed platforms safety includes the lawsuits of the 1st foreign operating convention on community safeguard (I-NetSec 01), which was once backed through the overseas Federation for info Processing (IFIP), and held in Leuven, Belgium in November 2001. This quantity could be crucial for researchers and practitioners operating during this interesting and fast-evolving box.

By E. Arimondo, P.R. Berman and C.C. Lin (Eds.)

ISBN-10: 0123810213

ISBN-13: 9780123810212

This quantity keeps the culture of the Advances sequence. It comprises contributions from specialists within the box of atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics. The articles comprise a few assessment fabric, yet are meant to supply a entire photo of modern vital advancements in AMO physics. either theoretical and experimental articles are integrated within the quantity. . overseas specialists . entire articles . New advancements

By Clodoveu A.D. Jr. Davis, Antonio M.V.M. Monteiro

ISBN-10: 3540734139

ISBN-13: 9783540734130

ISBN-10: 3540734147

ISBN-13: 9783540734147

The GeoInfo sequence of clinical meetings is an annual discussion board for exploring learn, improvement and leading edge functions in geographic info technological know-how and similar components. This e-book presents a privileged view of what's at the moment occurring within the box of geoinformatics, and a preview of what may be the warmer advancements and examine themes many years from now. also, it comprises contemporary examine effects on spatial databases, spatial ontologies, computational geometry and visualization for geographic details structures, geostatistics and spatial information, spatial research, interoperability, and leading edge purposes of geotechnologies.

By R. K. Poole

ISBN-10: 0120277379

ISBN-13: 9780120277377

Compliment for the Serial"This sequence has constantly awarded a well-balanced account if growth in microbial physiology...Invaluable for educating purposes."- AMERICAN SCIENTISTAdvances in Microbial body structure used to be first released in 1967, and below the pioneering editorship of Professor Tony Rose, with the collaboration at numerous instances of John Wilkinson, Gareth Morris and Dave Tempest, the sequence has develop into immensely profitable and influential. The editors have continually striven to interpret microbial body structure within the broadest attainable context and feature by no means constrained the contents to "traditional" perspectives of complete mobile physiology.Robert Poole was once appointed because the new editor following the premature dying of Tony Rose. less than Professor Poole's editorship, Advances in Microbial body structure keeps to submit topical and critical reports, and to interpret body structure as generally as some time past via together with all fabric that contributes to the certainty of ways microorganisms and their part elements paintings. This is still the true problem of microbial body structure.

By Robert V. Kail

ISBN-10: 0120097338

ISBN-13: 9780120097333

The Advances in baby habit and improvement sequence has a hard-earned acceptance for publishing seminal articles that flow proven courses of developmental scholarship ahead in inventive new instructions. in line with this acceptance, the articles in quantity 33 of the sequence supply ground-breaking paintings on themes as various as kid's problem-solving recommendations, intentionality, mathematical reasoning, and socialization inside of and past university settings. even though the sizeable subject matters fluctuate, what unites the contributions are their uniformly excessive point of scholarship, creativity, theoretical sophistication, and a spotlight to developmental procedures. the amount is hence beneficial not just to students with pursuits within the really good themes lined within the articles, but additionally to an individual attracted to studying approximately developmental mechanisms, and hence to an individual drawn to selling developmental results in either cognitive and social domain names. Lynn S. Liben, exclusive Professor of Psychology, Pennsylvania kingdom college, USAAdvances in baby improvement and behaviour is designed to supply scholarly technical articles and hypothesis. In those severe reports, fresh advances within the box are summarized and built-in, complexities are uncovered, and clean viewpoints are provided. members are inspired to criticize, combine, and stimulate, yet continually inside a framework of excessive scholarship. those studies can be beneficial not just to the professional within the quarter but in addition to the final reader.

By K. Hillner

ISBN-10: 044450639X

ISBN-13: 9780444506399

The pre-eminent nineteenth century British ethicist, Henry Sidgwick as soon as acknowledged: "All very important moral notions also are mental, other than maybe the basic antitheses of 'good' and 'bad' and 'wrong', with which psychology, because it treats of what's and never of what must be, isn't at once involved" (quoted in T.N. Tice and T.P. Slavens, 1983). Sidgwick's assertion might be interpreted to intend that psychology is proper for ethics or that mental wisdom contributes to the development of a moral fact. This interpretation serves because the uncomplicated impetus to this booklet, yet Sidgwick's assertion is usually analyzed intimately to illustrate why a present exposition at the relevance of psychology for moral truth is critical and germane.

By J.H.S. Blaxter (ed.), A.J. Southward (ed.)

ISBN-10: 0120261251

ISBN-13: 9780120261253

Quantity 25 of this authoritative overview sequence maintains the excessive general set by way of the editors long ago. Marine biologists in every single place have come to worth and revel in the big variety of thought-provoking papers written via invited experts.In this quantity are stories of 4 animal teams which span the full variety of the marine meals chain. The function of parasites in ecology is a turning out to be curiosity and the parasites of zooplankton are defined intimately for the 1st time. facets of thegastropods, cephalopods and fish lifestyles also are tested intimately.

By Ellen Wiegandt

ISBN-10: 140206747X

ISBN-13: 9781402067471

This publication addresses the most important demanding situations in assuring globally sustainable water use. sarcastically, water assets were pointed out either as too considerable, generating significant failures, and more and more prone to shortages. Addressing either one of those points calls for consciousness to actual hydrological methods in addition to human actions that have an effect on water provide and insist. Mountains areas are the resources of many nice water structures and sometimes have lengthy traditions of potent water administration and hence offer specified insights into normal difficulties of water use, together with upstream-downstream and transboundry relatives in addition to traditional danger administration. This quantity will deal with serious modern and international matters in the course of the lens of worldwide switch techniques and with a spotlight on mountain areas to convey state-of-the-art technological know-how from a number of disciplines to envision very important environmental and coverage questions on the topic of water assets.