Review of Ralph Turek, Theory for Today's Musician (McGraw-Hill, 2007)

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In all cellular organisms from bacteria to humans, genetic information is locked within a double helix formed by the two antiparallel deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) strands. Although double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) is the form most suitable for secure information storage, hydrogen bonds formed between complementary bases (Watson-Crick base pairing) impair readout of this information by the cellular ma...

Ralph Byers 1955 – 2007

After a long and hard fight against cancer, Ralph Byers passed away on Saturday December 15, 2007. He is survived by his wife Margaret Bayer and his daughters Ruth and Nora. Ralph received his bachelors degree in Mathematics from McGill University in 1977, his masters degree in 1980 and his doctorate in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University in 1983 under the supervision of Charles Van Loa...

The McGraw - Hill Companies “ Solitons in Electrical Networks ”

Solitons are a unique class of pulse-shaped waves that propagate in nonlinear dispersive media. In the course of propagation, they maintain spatial confinement of wave energy within the pulse shape without dispersion and exhibit remarkable nonlinear dynamics. Solitons are found throughout nature where fine balance between nonlinearity and dispersion is achieved. Dispersion alone would flatten o...

2007 Ralph R. Tompsett Writing Award winners.

Volume 20, Number 1 12 Dr. William C. Roberts, editor in chief, announced the cowinners of the sixth Ralph R. Tompsett Writing Award. Bertrand J. Brown, MD, who was a fellow in transplant anesthesiology until July 2006, published the article, “Use of dexmedetomidine versus general anesthesia for endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms,” in the July 2006 issue. Coauthors of the article...

Classical and Object-Oriented Software Engineering with UML and C++, Stephen R. Schach, McGraw-Hill, 1998 (Book Review)