The second edition of this valuable textbook highlights a dynamic specialty that integrates many disciplines. Edited by 5 internationally renowned leaders in travel medicine, the book assembles a fi ne group of authors and chapters. The print version is hard cover and comes with online access that is easy to use and fully searchable. Both versions include useful maps, tables, and fi gures, whic...

Practical gastroenterology offers brief but expert coverage of gastrointestinal, biliary, hepatic, and pancreatic diseases. The chapters stated by nationally recognized lecturers and field authorities selected for their vast clinical and teaching experience. With its consistent formatting chapter by chapter, this text makes it simple to locate the practical information you need on diagnosis, te...

2 Sinusoids 9 2-1 Tuning-Fork Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2-2 Review of Sine and Cosine Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2-3 Sinusoidal Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2-3.1 Relation of Frequency to Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2-3.2 Phase and Time Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Proof. We will calculate the integral closure of A inside K. We begin with a more general discussion. Suppose C is an irreducible, affine curve, that is, C is some irreducible affine variety of dimension 1. Let A be the ring of regular functions on C, so that A is a noetherian domain of Krull dimension 1. Localization preserves the noetherian condition, as well as the domain condition. Thus, th...

The field of cellular microbiology is relatively new and incorporates aspects of microbiology and host cellular biology. The first edition of this text, published in 2000, was novel and well received. In general, this new edition is also well written and includes many of the most important recent advances in the field (e.g., microarrays and genome sequencing). The text deals almost exclusively ...

The text consists of 22 chapters on various aspects of the human nervous system. After introductory chapters on the evolutionary development of the human nervous system and on basic neural elements and mechanisms, the authors move on to more specific areas such as the visual system, the trigeminal system, and the cerebellum. The book concludes with a chapter on clinical applications, a topic wh...

Basic Properties and Clinical Applications of Transfer Factor, held during October, 1975. The Academic Press Rapid Manuscript Reproduction series brings us such symposia in book form while the information is still fresh and not dated even to the specialist. Certainly in the case of this volume it is an admirable achievement, for this is truly the most recent information on nearly all aspects of...

As an undergraduate in search of a definitive text for my introductory biochemistry courses, I had no choice but to acquire the third edition of this book, since Dr. Stryer was not only an instructor for several of my classes, but his text was also the required text for the most popular biology course! But even if I had not been pressured to acquire the text, I would have sold all my other book...

Many of these cytokines, among other capabilities, have the property of pyrogenicity, (i.e., they cause fever). Interleukin 1 in particular is now known to have at least three major effects on the body. It stimulates the proliferation of the immunocompetent cells such as the T and B lymphocytes. It also stimulates the so-called "acute phase" response to injury, which mobilizes circulating amino...