With laboratory animals, especially rabbits, playing such an important role in biomedical research, the humane care of these animals is an ongoing concern. This guide presents basic information and common procedures in detail to provide a quick reference for researchers in a laboratory setting. Now in full color, the second edition of this book illustrates management practices and technical procedures with numerous figures and tables, including new tables on anesthetic agents, methods of euthanasia, recommended needle sizes, injection sites, approximate values for injection, as well as sedative and immobilization agents. The text also offers information on research and veterinary supplies.
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Laboratory Animal Science
Animal Physiology
Toxicology
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Featuring contributions from leading experts, this book presents an excellent overview of the available and emerging approaches used to investigate the neurobiological mechanisms of drug addiction. Discussion includes the behavioral strategies and characteristics of addiction as well as mechanistic approaches to understanding the underlying neurobiology. The authors provide information from mathematical models, model organisms, animal models, and experiments conducted in humans. They deliver a comprehensive introduction to the methodologies of the field for students and beginning researchers and an essential reference source for established investigators.
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Neuroscience
Pharmaceutical Medicine
Neuropsychology
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Bringing the computer into the classroom, this text emphasizes the use of computer software in teaching linear and nonlinear differential equations and systems. Along with discussing fundamental existence, uniqueness, and continuation theorems, it includes numerical case studies that highlight possible pitfalls when computing a numerical solution without first considering the appropriate theory. Requiring no prior knowledge of programming languages, the text shows how to solve various mathematical models, such as population growth, epidemic, and predator-prey models. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the software programs used in the text. A solutions manual is available for qualifying instructors.
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Mathematical Physics
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With many examples and exercises based on major real-world survey data sets, this book provides a practical statistical overview of the analysis of complex sample survey data. It presents many methods and models for survey data analysis, including the linear regression, generalized linear, Cox proportional hazards, and discrete time models. It also explores new developments in advanced statistical techniques, such as multilevel analysis of survey data. The authors show how design characteristics are easily incorporated into the statistical methods and software for survey estimation and inference. Although Stata is used for most examples in the text, other software code is offered on the book’s website.
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Quantitative Methods
Statistics & Computing
Statistics for the Biological Sciences
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This book puts a significant focus on heart disease and the role that fatty acids can play in its prevention and causation. It provides information on special populations, Native Americans, stroke, and cardiac injury as examples of areas where fatty acids play a key role. The book also discusses body composition, diabetic disease, and health promotion, and actions after transformation by oxidation. It includes coverage of fatty acids in health promotion and diseases such as cancer, intestinal microbes, and membrane functions. Finally the actions of omega-3 fatty acids are extensively investigated by global experts.
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Nutraceuticals & Functional Foods
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In the nearly 10 years since the publication of the bestselling first edition, interest in green chemistry and clean processes has increased. Many topics, such as fluorous biphasic catalysis, metal organic frameworks, and process intensification, barely mentioned in the first edition, have become major areas of research. In addition, government funding has ramped up the development of fuel cells and biofuels. Designed as a textbook and a reference, the second edition provides an update from the frontiers of green chemistry. Copiously illustrated with over 800 figures, the book takes a broad, interdisciplinary approach to the subject.
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An introduction to the fundamental aspects of developing modem embedded systems utilizing many cores, this book provides insight into the main problems, limitations, possibilities and future growth. The author begins with coverage of multi-core architecture, application of specific customizable embedded systems, and heterogenous multi-core embedded systems. He then explores multi-core interconnects and NoC, power optimization and reliability issues, and performance tools and benchmarks. The book also covers hardware and software resource management, multithreading, and multi-core programming challenges and includes numerous case studies.
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Computer Engineering
Digital Signal Processing
Microelectronics
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This book combines theoretical concepts, real alloy systems, processing procedures, and examples of real-world applications. It reviews properties common to all metals before discussing specific nonferrous alloy systems, iron-carbon alloys, special steels and low carbon sheet steel, and cast irons. Concluding chapters treat powder metallurgy, corrosion, welding, and magnetic alloys. There are appendices on microstructural analysis, stereographic projection, and the Miller–Bravais system for hexagonal crystals. Physical Metallurgy uses engaging historical and contemporary examples that relate to the applications of concepts in each chapter, ample references, and sample problems throughout.
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Materials Science
Metals & Alloys
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Featuring the contributions of industrial and academic experts, this volume discusses the fundamental and practical aspects of industrial water treatment. After an overview of water chemistry and the characteristics of mineral scales, the book addresses the formation and control of different scales in various systems. It covers membrane-based separation processes, reverse osmosis systems, and scale control in thermal distillation processes. It also discusses corrosion control and the interactions of polyelectrolytes with suspended matter. Lastly, the book examines bacteria in water supplies, analytical techniques for identifying mineral scales and deposits, polymer use, and the monitoring of parameters and chemicals used to treat industrial water systems.
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Physical Chemistry
Industrial Chemistry
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This handbook presents a quantitative physical description of all aspects of cellular and organ performance and methods used to measure these functions. Moreover, it covers the physics necessary to understand the theoretical and practical basis for development of diagnostic and therapeutic tools. It offers readers a foundation in relevant physical principles and technology critical to understanding biological functioning for application to biomedical research and healthcare. Throughout, expert contributors emphasize aspects of diagnostic and therapeutic modalities in relation to normal physiological functions.
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Biomedical Engineering
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