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This volume, containing the proceedings of the 14th biannual ISAC meeting presents a departure from the traditional focus on arterial chemoreceptors and their functions, in the expansion to include...
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution : 2000
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Bringing together biochemical, genetic, molecular biology, and clinical approaches to the study of fatty acid oxidation, this text includes late-1990s research from most of the major groups working...
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution : 2000
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The intersection of neurolinguistics and neuropsychology lies at the core of the cognitive neurosciences. Advances in our understanding of how language and other cognitive abilities relate to each...
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution : 2000
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This book describes all human leukemia-lymphoma cell lines that have been established and that grow continuously under standardised in vitro conditions. These lines are derived from cells belonging...
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution : 2000
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Continuing with the research presented in the first volume in this series, Wireless Technologies Research LLC (WTR) sets out to answer the following questions: is there a public health problem posed...
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution : 2000
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The term `bioethics' was coined in 1971, just as interest in the medical humanities claimed a prominent place in medical education. Out of this interest, a substantial area of research and...
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution : 2000
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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...
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution : 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...
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution : 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...
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution : 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...
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution : 1999
Format(s) : PDF
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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...
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution : 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...
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution : 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...
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution : 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...
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution : 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...
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution : 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...
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution : 1999
Format(s) : PDF
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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...
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution : 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....
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution : 1999
Format(s) : PDF
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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...
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution : 1999
Format(s) : PDF
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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...
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Parution : 1999
Format(s) : PDF
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