Biophysics

Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Frontiers in Biomedical Polymers including Polymer Therapeutics: From Laboratory to Clinical Practice, held May 23-27, 1999, in Shiga, Japan.

Proceedings of the XIVth International Symposium on Arterial Chemoreception, held June 24-28, 1999, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Genome research will certainly be one of the most important and exciting sci- tific disciplines of the 21st century.

Self-assembly monolayer (SAM) structures of lipids and macromolecules have been found to play an important role in many industrial and biological phenomena.

This book serves as a comprehensive compilation of contemporary research conducted in the domain of nanosensors.

This cutting-edge reference book compiles standard operating procedures, protocols, and applications of next-generation sequencing (NGS).

The incredible book behind the primetime Channel 4 documentary, Peter: The Human Cyborg'A remarkable account of what it means to be human and what technology can really achieve' Sunday Telegraph'Peter's story is one of the most extraordinary you will ever hear.

From Galileo, who used the hollow stalks of grass to demonstrate the idea that peripherally located construction materials provide most of the resistance to bending forces, to Leonardo da Vinci, whose illustrations of the parachute are alleged to be based on his study of the dandelion's pappus and the maple tree's samara, many of our greatest physicists, mathematicians, and engineers have learned much from studying plants.

Knowledge of the microscopic structure of biological systems is the key to understanding their physiological properties.

This is a presentation of the main ideas and methods of modern nonequilibrium statistical mechanics.

Is there a central scientific theory governing how human physiology interacts with the environment?

Is there a central scientific theory governing how human physiology interacts with the environment?

How universal are our moral obligations?

This book is a practical guide for researchers and advanced graduate students in biology and biophysics who need a quantitative understanding of acoustical systems such as hearing, sound production, and vibration detection in animals at the physiological level.

Historically, science has sought to reduce complex problems to their simplest components, but more recently it has recognized the merit of studying complex phenomena in situ.

Peter Mitchell, winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his chemiosmotic theory, was a highly original scientist who revolutionized our understanding of cellular metabolism and bioenergetics.

High Pressure Effects in Molecular Biophysics and Enzymology is designed to acquaint biochemists, biophysicists, and graduate students with advances in the application of high pressure in connection with spectroscopy as a research tool in the study of biomolecules.

Cryptic Enzymes and Moonlighting Proteins, a new volume in the Foundations and Frontiers in Enzymology series, offers a thorough overview of cryptic enzymes and moonlighting proteins in signaling cascades.

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This book provides the basis for understanding the elastic properties of nucleic acids (DNA, RNA), the methods used to manipulate them (e.

Although invisible to the bare eye, bacterial cells are large enough to make complex decisions.

Small angle solution scattering (SAS) is increasingly being applied to biological problems.

Brownian diffusion is the motion of one or more solute molecules in a sea of very many, much smaller solvent molecules.

Brownian diffusion is the motion of one or more solute molecules in a sea of very many, much smaller solvent molecules.

This book presents a vivid argument for the almost lost idea of a unity of all natural sciences.

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) describes the quantum dynamics of interacting electronic many-body systems formally exactly and in a practical and efficient manner.

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) describes the quantum dynamics of interacting electronic many-body systems formally exactly and in a practical and efficient manner.

This pioneering graduate textbook provides readers with the concepts and practical tools required to understand the maximum entropy principle, and apply it to an understanding of ecological patterns.

Bio-nanocomposites combine the enhanced properties of commercial polymer nanocomposites with the low environmental impact of biodegradable material, making them a topic of great current interest.

This pioneering graduate textbook provides readers with the concepts and practical tools required to understand the maximum entropy principle, and apply it to an understanding of ecological patterns.

Bio-nanocomposites combine the enhanced properties of commercial polymer nanocomposites with the low environmental impact of biodegradable material, making them a topic of great current interest.

Nanoscience is not physics, chemistry, engineering or biology.

Outline of Crystallography for Biologists is intended for researchers and students in the biological sciences who require an insight into the methods of X-ray crystallography without needing to learn all the relevant theory.

This is an agenda-setting and high-profile book that presents an authoritative and cutting-edge analysis of nanoscience and technology.

This is an agenda-setting and high-profile book that presents an authoritative and cutting-edge analysis of nanoscience and technology.

This novel, interdisciplinary text presents biological understanding in terms of general underlying principles, treating energy as the overarching theme and emphasizing the all-pervading influence of energy transformation in every process, both living and non-living.

This text focuses on the practical aspects of crystal structure analysis, and provides the necessary conceptual framework for understanding and applying the technique.

Nanoscience is not physics, chemistry, engineering or biology.

This book is a systematic introduction to a new and exciting field of patterns in granular matter.

Modelling of heterogeneous processes, such as electrochemical reactions, extraction or ion-exchange, usually requires solving the transport problem associated to the process.

The name "e;random walk"e; for a problem of a displacement of a point in a sequence of independent random steps was coined by Karl Pearson in 1905 in a question posed to readers of "e;Nature"e;.

The crystallization of proteins and nucleic acids and/or their complexes has become more highly automated but is still often a trial and error based approach.

The human genome of three billion letters has been sequenced.

The first systematic experiments in neutron scattering were carried out in the late 1940s using fission reactors built for the nuclear power programme.

This book presents new and updated developments in the molecular theory of mixtures and solutions.

Analytical measurements at the single molecule level under ambient conditions have become almost routine in the past few years.

This book provides a comprehensive and unified account of the structure and properties of crystalline binary adducts.

The study of dielectric properties of biological systems and their components is important not only for fundamental scientific knowledge but also for its applications in medicine, biology, and biotechnology.