Biophysics

With contributions from a team of leading experts, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of recent achievements in our scientific understanding of evolution.

Steering clear of quantum mechanics and product operators, "e;Pocket Guide to Biomolecular NMR"e; uses intuitive, concrete analogies to explain the theory required to understand NMR studies on the structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules.

Physics, mathematics and chemistry all play a vital role in understanding the true nature and functioning of biological membranes, key elements of living processes.

Unlike most natural colours that are based on pigment absorption, the striking iridescent and intense colouration of many butterflies, birds or beetles stems from the interaction of light with periodic sub-micrometer surface or volume patterns, so called "e;photonic structures"e;.

Modern Crystallography provides an encyclopedic exposition of the field in four volumes written by Russian scientists.

Incorporating recent dramatic advances, this textbook presents a fresh and timely introduction to modern biophysical methods.

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics Isaac Newton, 1647-1727 The approach quoted above has been adopted and practiced by many teachers of chemistry.

Microdosimetry and Its Applications is an advanced textbook presenting the fundamental concepts and numerical aspects of the absorption of energy by matter exposed to ionizing radiation.

This book is intendedas a textbook fora radiationphysicscourseinacademic medical physics graduate programs as well as a reference book for candidates preparingforcerti?

Spectroscopic methods have opened up a new horizon in our knowledge of solid-state materials.

It is well known that the biochemical processes of life on Earth are maintained by the external solar radiation and can be reduced to the synthesis and decomposition of organic matter.

One of the great intellectual challenges for the next few decades is the question of brain organization.

Structural requirements constrain the evolution of biological entities at all levels, from macromolecules to their networks, right up to populations of biological organisms.

Psychoacoustics - Facts and Models offers a unique, comprehensive summary of information describing the processing of sound by the human hearing system.

This book provides ample coverage of theoretical and experimental state-of-the-art work as well as new trends and directions in biometrics.

The student edition of Modern Optical Spectroscopy includes a new set of exercises for each chapter.

How can our societies be stabilized in a crisis?

"e;Physics of the Human Body"e; comprehensively addresses the physical and engineering aspects of human physiology by using and building on first-year college physics and mathematics.

This book is intended as a textbook for a course in radiation physics in a- demic medical physics graduate programs.

Incorporating recent dramatic advances, this textbook presents a fresh and timely introduction to modern biophysical methods.

Das Verständnis der Entfaltung von Proteinen ist trotz ausführlicher Experimente noch immer nicht vollständig möglich.

Das Verständnis der Entfaltung von Proteinen ist trotz ausführlicher Experimente noch immer nicht vollständig möglich.

This thesis presents a novel coarse-grained model of DNA, in which bases are represented as rigid nucleotides.

The second, revised edition of this book was suggested by the impressive sales of the first edition.

Over the past ten years, carbon dioxide laser surgery has made impressive strides and is now applied to every field of surgery without exception.

This book provides an overview of single-cellisolation, separation, injection,lysis and dynamics analysis as well as a study of their heterogeneity usingdifferent miniaturized devices.

We are living in an ever more complex world, an epoch where human actions can accordingly acquire far-reaching potentialities.

This volume contains papers presented at the Tenth International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena held at Del Coronado, California, from May 28 to June 1, 1996.

Brain Dynamics serves to introduce graduate students and nonspecialists from various backgrounds to the field of mathematical and computational neurosciences.

The widespread interest this book has found among professors, scientists and stu- dents working in a variety of fields has made a new edition necessary.

The development of a proper description of the living world today stands as one of the most significant challenges to physics.

Synchronization processes are of great interest and importance in biology, medicine and physics.

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Twenty-Five Years of Springer Series in Synergetics The year 2002 marks the 25th anniversary of the Springer Series in S- ergetics.

The analysis of neurophysiological brain function is a highly interdisciplinary field of research.

The motivating idea of the first Topical Meeting on Picosecond Phenomena, which took place at Hilton Head Island in 1978, was to bring together scien- tists and engineers in a congenial setting who were developing picosecond lasers with those who were applying them to problems in chemistry, physics, electronics, and biology.

In this monograph, a statistical description of natural phenomena is used to develop an information processing system capable of modeling non-linear relationships between sensory data.

Computational Neurosciences is a burgeoning field of research where only the combined effort of neuroscientists, biologists, psychologists, physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers and other specialists, e.

This book features tutorial-like chapters on ultrafast intense laser science by world-leading scientists who are active in the rapidly developing interdisciplinary research field.

Generally, spontaneous pattern formation phenomena are random and repetitive, whereas elaborate devices are the deterministic product of human design.

This volume describes and discusses recent advances in angiogenesis research.

This book deals with the theory and the applications of a new time domain, termed natural time domain, that has been forwarded by the authors almost a decade ago (P.

Coordination represents one of the most striking, most taken for granted, but least understood features of living things.

It is increasingly being recognized that the experimental and theoretical study of the complex system brain requires the cooperation of many disciplines, in- cluding biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, linguistics, and others.

One of the major challenges in tissue engineering is the translation of biological knowledge on complex cell and tissue behavior into a predictive and robust engineering process.