Antibiotics: Their chemistry and non-medical uses (Goldberg, Herbert S., ed.)

Non - medical uses of antibacterial compounds ( antibiotics ) : time to restrict their use ?

Antibiotics for non-human uses.

Antibiotics are often associated with medicinal uses only; still, 30 to 40 per cent of the total production of antibiotics are intended for non-human applications. The first and most important non-medical use is in animal production for disease prevention and growth promotion. Another important application is in plant protection to control various bacterial and fungal diseases. Antibiotics are ...

Clustering Methods and Their Uses in Computational Chemistry

Clustering is a data analysis technique that, when applied to a set of heterogeneous items, identifies homogeneous subgroups as defined by a given model or measure of similarity. Of the many uses of clustering, a prime motivation for the increasing interest in clustering methods is their use in the selection and design of combinatorial libraries of chemical structures pertinent to pharmaceutica...

Extending preimplantation genetic diagnosis: medical and non-medical uses.

New uses of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to screen embryos prior to transfer raise ethical, legal, and policy issues that deserve close attention. Extensions for medical purposes, such as to identify susceptibility genes, late onset disease, and human leukocyte antigen (HLA) matching, are usually ethically acceptable. Whether embryo screening for gender, perfect pitch, or other non-m...

Non-discriminating Arguments and Their Uses

We present a technique for identifying predicate arguments that play no role in determining the control flow of a logic program with respect to goals satisfying given mode and sharing restrictions. We call such arguments non-discriminating arguments. We show that such arguments can be detected by an automatic analysis. Following this, we define a transformation procedure, called discriminator s...