Reviewing the most current research in this rapidly expanding yet resource-limited field, Lipid-Mediated Signaling provides a much needed examination of a decade’s worth of research tying pathologic disorders such as cancer and autoimmunity to aberrant or deregulated signal transduction processes. It considers particular cells, tissues, and organ systems, and discusses recent efforts to identify the various signaling proteins that govern their behavior. The book divides its material into five sections: fatty acid metabolism, eicosanoid formation, acyl hydrolase activity, phospholipids and nuclear signaling, and gene expression. It includes contributions from a number of pioneering experts in this emerging field.
• Methods in Signal Transduction Series
Cell Biology
Biochemistry
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Following in the tradition of its popular predecessor, the Manual of Geospatial Science and Technology, Second Edition continues to be the authoritative guide for setting up and managing GIS projects. Significantly updated and expanded to reflectsthe latest advances in the technology, applications, and usage of the geospatial sciences, the text introduces the fundamentals in mathematics and physics needed to perform area-wide mapping, inventory, data conversion, and analysis. An expanded index, new and revised figures, a color insert, and an easier to read format are among the many improvements to this edition.
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There’s been a lot of buzz recently about social responsibility among organizational leaders in the public and private sector. Although many books cover market response and interest to this global concern, this is the first book to focus on methods for assessing an organizations process towards its social responsibility performance through failure mode and risk assessment. The text defines social responsibility, explains how the new ISO 26000 standard will affect the market place, and provides practical problem solving methods that can be put to use immediately in any organization to improve overall social responsibility.
• Industrial Innovation
Business & Management
Plant Engineering
Production Systems
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Through numerous illustrative examples and comments, this best-selling textbook demonstrates the rigor of logic and systematic, mathematical thinking. It presents the mathematical foundations that lead to classical results in functional analysis. This second edition includes revisions of many original examples, along with new examples that often reflect the authors’ own vast research experiences and perspectives. It also provides many more exercises as well as a solutions manual for qualifying instructors. New discussions cover Bayesian statistical inference, multilinear algebra and determinants, the singular value decomposition theorem, Hadamard finite part integrals, and more.
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Mathematical Analysis
Mathematics & Statistics for Engineers
Mathematical Physics
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This work describes the impacts of measurement errors on naive analyses that ignore them and presents ways to correct for them across a variety of statistical models, from simple one-sample problems and misclassification in categorical models to regression models to more complex mixed and time series models. It covers correction methods based on known measurement error parameters, replication, internal or external validation data, and instrumental variables. The author includes examples using real-world data from epidemiology, ecology, and other disciplines and employs SAS-IML and Stata to implement many of the techniques in the examples.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Interdisciplinary Statistics
Statistics for the Biological Sciences
Statistical Theory & Methods
Epidemiology
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Thanks to advances in mathematical methods and computer technology, labor productivity during the analysis and development of electrotechnical devices has increased. This book explores the possibilities of the Mathematica and PSpice program for analyzing processes in power electronic systems. The authors discuss the formulation of problems and the steps in their solution. They focus on the analysis of transient, steady-state processes and their stability in nonstationary and nonlinear systems with DC and AC converters. All problems are solved by Mathematica and program codes are presented. The PSpice program is used for comparison of results obtained with Mathematica and shows the peculiarities of its utilization.
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Power Electronics
Circuits & Devices
Power Engineering
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Several severe and high-profile outbreaks of food-borne illness linked to the consumption of ready-to-eat (RTE) foods have prompted the USDA and FDA to issue stringent rules and regulations governing the manufacturing or RTE foods. This book comprehensively reviews individual common RTE food and their specific safety-related aspects since RTE foods are normally consumed without prior cooking, a step that kills pathogenic microorganisms that may be present in the food products. This text also provides an overview of the microorganisms of concern, the effect of processing on the survival of pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms, food safety, practical control measures, and intervention strategies.
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Food Packaging
Food Microbiology
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Thoroughly updated, the third edition of this bestseller presents a comprehensive engineering basis for photovoltaic (PV) system design and presents the "what, why, and how" associated with electrical, mechanical, economic, and aesthetic aspects of PV system design. Nearly all examples have been updated and are significantly more detailed than prior editions. The chapters have been rearranged to place an earlier focus on design, and the latest technology is reflected in design examples and homework problems. This edition includes additional material on incentives, structural design and the use of ASCE 7 and added emphasis on array layout, wind loading, and shade analysis.
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Power Engineering
Energy
Electrical & Electronic Engineering
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The advent of relational data basing and data storage capacity, coupled with revolutionary advances in molecular sequencing technology and specimen imaging, have led to a taxonomic renaissance. This volume maps the origins of this renaissance, beginning with Linnaeus, through his "apostles", via the great unsung hero Charles Davies Sherbon – arguably the father of bioinformatics – up to the present day with the Planetary Biodiversity Inventories and into the future with the Encyclopedia of Life and web-based taxonomy. It provides scientific, historical, and cultural documentation of the evolution of taxonomy and the successful adaptation of the Linnean nomenclature system to that evolution.
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Natural History
Zoology
Biodiversity
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Offering a unique balance between applications and calculations, this book incorporates the application background of finance and insurance with the theory and applications of Monte Carlo methods. It presents recent methods and algorithms, including the multilevel Monte Carlo method, the statistical Romberg method, and the Heath–Platen estimator, as well as recent financial and actuarial models, such as the Cheyette and dynamic mortality models. The book enables readers to find the right algorithm for a desired application and illustrates complicated methods and algorithms with simple applications to provide an easy understanding of key properties.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Financial Mathematics Series
Statistics
Finance
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