M Biofilms provides an overview of the formation, structure/architecture, cell-to-cell interactions, and dispersal of fungal and bacterial biofilms. The target audience is biofilm researchers, but this second edition of the book should also be useful for healthcare practitioners seeking a better understanding of microbial biofilms in healthcare delivery. The number of published papers pertainin...

A model for the probabilistic function followed in Wikipedia edition is presented and compared with simulations and real data. It is argued that the probability to edit is proportional to the editor's number of previous editions (preferential attachment), to the editor's fitness and to an ageing factor. Using these simple ingredients, it is possible to reproduce the results obtained for Wikiped...

If you want to learn about the physiology of the cardiovascular system, and learn it really well, you will want to use this book. In its seventh edition, this book is a clear, understandable treatment of a potentially overwhelming topic. Throughout, the book maintains its focus on fundamental concepts and never loses the reader in esoterica (if a formula is derived it is usually highlighted in ...

Bacteria owe much of their evolutionary success to the development of mechanisms that enable survival under harsh conditions; despite their importance, however, we have only recently begun to understand these survival strategies. Several of these mechanisms have been shown to target ribosomes, robustly blocking their ability to translate mRNAs into proteins and preserving their integrity in res...

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disciplines of the physical sciences, and the precision of the law to the practice of clinical medicine and the interpretation of clinical evidence. His purpose is to cultivate "common sense" so students of medicine can develop appropriate "rules of evidence" for clinical problems. Although the book is ostensibly written for medical students, and first year students at that, the lessons taught ...

The ninth edition of Gaddum's Pharmacology by A.S.V. Burgen and J.F. Mitchell is a review well-suited to the medical or pharmacology student. This new edition covers the essentials of pharmacology and incorporates recent advances in areas such as the mechanism of drug receptors and neuropharmacological agents. The chapters are very brief and begin with a general description of the class of phar...

Selective Toxicity is an exposition of the many chemical and biological principles that allow drugs to act selectively. To incorporate both pharmacodynamics and chemotherapy into the discussion, a rather broad definition of "selective toxicity" is adopted ..."the injury of one kind of living matter without harming another kind...."); thus propranolol is viewed as a reversible antagonist (injure...