Biophysics

This book, written by a pioneer in surface physics and thin film research and the inventor of Low Energy Electron Microscopy (LEEM), Spin-Polarized Low Energy Electron Microscopy (SPLEEM) and Spectroscopic Photo Emission and Low Energy Electron Microscopy (SPELEEM), covers these and other techniques for the imaging of surfaces with low energy (slow) electrons.

This authoritative volume examines immunohistochemical methods aimed at investigating the toxicologic pathology of rodent, non-human primate and aquatic animal tissues.

Quorum sensing (QS) describes a chemical communication behavior that is nearly universal among bacteria.

This authoritative volume explores advances in the techniques used to measure percutaneous penetration of drugs and chemicals to assess bioavailability and bioequivalence and discusses how they have been used in clinical and scientific investigations.

The volume is intended as an introduction to the physical principles governing the main processes that occur in photosynthesis, with emphasis on the light reactions and electron transport chain.

This book serves as an introduction to the continuum mechanics and mathematical modeling of complex fluids in living systems.

With chapters on free boundaries, constitutive equations, stochastic dynamics, nonlinear diffusion-consumption, structured populations, and applications of optimal control theory, this volume presents the most significant recent results in the field of mathematical oncology.

Everything you wanted to know about physics, biology, and the world at large becomes straightforward once you understand the life-organizing principle.

This volume contains the scientific papers and abstracts of posters presented at the International Symposium on Molecular Insect Science held in Tucson, Arizona, October 22-27, 1989.

Nearly a decade aga a general review article on the evaluation of optical radia- tion hazards was published in Applied Optics (Sliney and Freasier, 1973).

vi on geometric probability is included, students can be expected to create a few simple programs like those shown, but for other geometries.

In 1968, the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) published Special Publication 298 "e;Quantitative Electron Probe Microanalysis,"e; which contained proceedings of a seminar held on the subject at NBS in the summer of 1967.

During the past few decades, much research has been reported on the formation of insoluble monomolecular films of lipids and biopolymers (synthetic polymers and proteins) on the surface of water or at the oil-water interface.

The predecessor to this book was A Guide to the Laboratory Use of the Squid Loligo pealei published by the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts in 1974.

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The past decade has seen a steady increase in studies oflemur behavior and ecology.

Much of this book was written during a sabbatical visit by J.

The Third International Conference on Synthetic Microstructures in Biological Research (SMIBR) was held in Williamsburg, Virginia, September 9-12, 1991.

Early in 1990 a scientific committee was formed for the purpose of organizing a high-level scientific meeting on Future Directions of Nonlinear Dynamics in Physical and Biological Systems, in honor of Alwyn Scott's 60th birthday (December 25, 1991).

This conference and monograph were the result of many collective efforts.

Elastic and inelastic scattering in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) are important research subjects.

The main objective of this book is to systematically describe the basic principles of the most widely used techniques for the analysis of physical, structural, and compositional properties of solids with a spatial resolution of approxi- mately 1 ~m or less.

This book treats a new, far-from-fully-developed area of molecular biophysics-enzyme physics.

Since the publication in 1979 of Introduction to Analytical Electron Microscopy (ed.

Although there is general agreement that exogenous electric and electromagnetic fields influence and modulate the properties of biological systems.

Nutrients have been recognized as essential for maximum growth, successful reproduction, and infection prevention since the 1940s; since that time, the lion's share of nutrient research has focused on defining their role in these processes.

Fluorescence microscopy images can be easily integrated into current video and computer image processing systems.

'Further establishes the reputation of the series.

A number of factors have come together in the last couple of decades to define the emerging interdisciplinary field of structural molecular biology.

This volume contains the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) and Emil-Warburg-Symposium (EWS) "e;Nonlinear Coherent Structures in Phy- sics and Biology"e; held at the University of Bayreuth from June 1 -4, 1993.

How does the brain code and process incoming information, how does it recog- nize a certain object, how does a certain Gestalt come into our awareness?

This book is the compilation of papers presented at the International Symposium on In Vivo Body Composition Studies, held in Houston, Texas, November 10-12, 1992.

When I first proposed this book, one of the hopes was that it would be the stage upon which would be conducted a quiet, well- reasoned discussion of the various techniques of stereotactic radio- surgery.

Amino acid transport is a part of each of two larger subjects, amino acid metabolism and the biomembrane transport of various .

This text attempts to introduce the molecular biology of cell membranes to students and professionals of diverse backgrounds.

In this introductory text, Dr.

This volume represents the fIrst of a series of proceedings of the EL.

Proteins are still gaining importance in the pharmaceutical world, where they are used to improve our arsenal of therapeutic drugs and vaccines and as diagnostic tools.

The scientific contribution of Mike Bradbury to the study of the blood-brain barrier is considerable and wide-ranging, starting with his M.

This volume describes the current state of our knowledge on the neurobiology of muscle fatigue, with consideration also given to selected integrative cardiorespiratory mechanisms.

The following are the proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Perception held in Pavia, Italy, on September 27-30, 1993, under the auspices of four institutions: the Group of Cybernetic and Biophysics (GNCB)s of the National Research Council (CNR), the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI * IA), the Italian Association of Psychology (AlP), and the Italian Chapter of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).

Signaling through antigen receptor initiates a complex series of events resulting in the activation of genes that regulate the development, proliferation and differentiation of lymphocytes.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has sponsored research and personnel safety standards development for exposure to Radiofrequency Radiation (RFR) for over twenty years.

This book represents the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop of the same name, held at St.

This volume contains the contributions from the speakers at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "e;Structure of the Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center X-ray Crystallography and Optical Spectroscopy with Polarized Light"e; which was held at the "e;Maison d'Hotes"e; of the Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Cadarache in the South of France, 20-25 September, 1987.