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The revolutionary progress made in this fascinating field of sexual reproduction inspired this generously illustrated volume. It includes 21 chapters written by experts, covering all aspects of the embryology of angiosperms, ranging from development, isolation, and structure of gametes to endosperm and seed development.

A survey into oil history, its market dynamics and price evolution, is essential for a deeper understanding of modern industry and world economy, as world development depends on oil supplies, prices, and its political accessibility.

It is thirty years since the technique of high-yield preparation of isolated hepatocytes, by collagenase perfusion of the liver, was published. This applies particularly to hepatocyte culture techniques, cryopreservation, and even to preparation of hepatocyte suspensions, where it is now feasible to use purified enzymes.

The National Botanical Research Institute came into being as the 13th among a chain of National Laboratories established during April, 1953 under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research by the Govt.

Provides a mechanistic look at key aspects of the inflammatory response seen in critical illness. This book emphasizes key cells and mediators involved in the innate inflammatory response and the pathways employed to combat infection or respond to injury. It includes the discussion of how the inflammatory response down regulates itself.

The assessment of individual differences has generated shockwaves affecting sociology, education, and a number of other behavioral sciences as well as the fields of management and organizational behavior.

Drugs usually have no natural affinity for the cells, tissues and organs where therapeutic effects are needed, which frequently results in low efficiency and unwanted side effects.

This book offers a global presentation of issues under study for improving science education research in the context of the knowledge-based society at a European and international level.

Provides coverage of an organism of major importance to basic biological research and aquacultural operations around the world. This book is useful for graduate students in a variety of disciplines, new researchers wanting or starting to use Artemia or other closely related organisms, and established investigators studying this organism.

Decision-Oriented Educational Research considers a form of educational research that is designed to be directly relevant to the current information requirements of those who are shaping educational policy or managing edu cational systems.

In many electronic systems, such as telecommunication or measurement systems, oscillations play an essential role in the information processing. Oscillators and Oscillator Systems: Classification, Analysis and Synthesis takes a systematic approach to the design of high-performance oscillators and oscillator systems.

Included are chapters by many of today's leading bioinformatics practitioners, describing most of the current paradigms of system building and curation, including both their strengths and weaknesses.

This is an up-to-date treatment of the analysis and design of CMOS integrated digital logic circuits. The self-contained book covers all of the important digital circuit design styles found in modern CMOS chips, emphasizing solving design problems using the various logic styles available in CMOS.

This volume has been composed as an appreciation of Martin L. At least one contributor to each paper in this volume has been touched by Marty in some way; Throughout his scholarly work, Martha Taylor Sarno notes, Marty never loses the human perspective, e. Many of the people whom Marty has influenced have been able to contribute to this volume.

Finance is a coherent branch of applied economics that is designed to understand financial markets in order to give advice for practical financial decisions.

Der vorliegende Band enthalt Husserls einzige weitgehend vollstandig erhaltene Vorlesung aus seiner Hallenser Zeit, die er 1896 unter dem Titel "Logik' gehalten und im Hinblick auf eine Veroffentlichung teilweise bearbeitet hat.

The authors of this volume were challenged to apply their considerable theoretical wherewithal to this state of affairs. A pressing issue in suicide science is the topic of clinical interventions, and clinical approaches more generally.

Disentangles the various sub-theories of the viral hypothesis, and lays the groundwork for more focused explorations of the mechanisms by which viruses may cause serious mental illness. This book is a useful resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, neurobiologists, and their students.

Codesign for Real-Time Video Applications describes a modern design approach for embedded systems. The design approach is illustrated by the design of a video compression system. A complete top-down design flow is presented and the design tools for each of the design steps are explained.

Patients have personal strategies in solving the problems concerning their illness. This book explores the problematic triangle between doctors, patients and the illness, using illustrations from internal medicine, nephrology, cardiology, oncology and neurology.

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Symposium on Blood Transfusion, Groningen 1983, organized by the Red Cross Blood Bank Groningen-Drenthe

It is important for anyone who is involved in clinical research: clinicians, pharmacists, biochemists, statisticians, nurses, sponsors, etc., and anyone who is involved in applying results of research to patients, i.e.

This book contains a selected number of papers which were fIrst presented at the VIllth World Congress of Comparative Education in Prague, July 8--14, 1992.

This edited collection describes recent progress on lazy learning, a branch of machine learning concerning algorithms that defer the processing of their inputs, reply to information requests by combining stored data, and typically discard constructed replies.

The main content of general equilibrium analysis is to study existence, (local) uniqueness and efficiency of equilibria. This title provides basic tools of differential topology to study systems of nonlinear equations, and to apply them to the analysis of general equilibrium models with complete and incomplete markets.

This book makes a compelling case for better international equity indicators in education. the application of theories of justice to educational equity, the trade-off between effectiveness and equity, heterogeneous versus homogeneous classrooms, and the influence of parental education.

Reviews: Methods and Technology in Fish Biology and Fisheries published by Kluwer Academic Publishers is a book series dedicated to the publication of information on advanced, forward-looking methodologies, technologies, or perspectives in fish and fisheries.

Life Cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool for environmental decision-support in relation to products from the cradle to the grave. Until now, more emphasis has been put on the inclusion quantitative models and databases and on the design of guidebooks for applying LCA than on the integrative aspect of combining these models and data.

This text contains a translation and interpretation of Emmanuel Levinas' philosophy, deemed to be one of the most original of modern times, opening other perspectives of understanding and application.

The book provides an in-depth description of cross-border project financing as a technique for financing capital-intensive projects, as well as an overview of certain financing and derivative instruments currently available in the global financial markets.