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move away from ketamine to more selective NMDA antagonists and competitive antagonists. One hopes that the publication of this book signals a serious interest on the part of pharmaceutical companies to provide clinical researchers with the tools to advance this area of research. Together, these two books will provide the student or junior resident with much of what they will need to know to obt...

this collection of essays uses the lens of rational expectations theory to examine how governments anticipate and plan for inflation, and provides insight into the pioneering research for which thomas sargent was awarded the 2011 nobel prize in economics. rational expectations theory is based on the simple premise that people will use all the information available to them in making economic dec...

In this third edition of his popular undergraduate-level textbook, Desmond Nicholl recognises that a sound grasp of basic principles is vital in any introduction to genetic engineering. Therefore, as well as being thoroughly updated, the book also retains its focus on the fundamental principles used in gene manipulation. The text is divided into three sections: Part I provides an introduction t...

BACKGROUND The third edition of the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O-3), which was published in 2000, introduced major changes in coding and classification of neoplasms, notably for leukemias and lymphomas, which are important groups of cancer types that occur in childhood. This necessitated a third revision of the 1996 International Classification of Childhood Cance...

The authors of An Introduction to Genetic Analysis have turned a very good introductory textbook into an even better one. Beside undergoing a change in size and shape (300 pages shorter with a larger page size), the third edition presents a more balanced view of modern genetic analysis. The addition of a new co-author, Jeffrey H. Miller, provides an emphasis on the present-day explosion of mole...