Subject(s): Cell interaction | Membrane proteins | Cellular signal transduction Summary: "Cell signaling, which is also often referred to as signal transduction or, in more specialized cases, transmembrane signaling, is the process by which cells communicate with their environment and respond temporally to external cues that they sense ther

Subject(s): Plant metabolites -- Separation | Extraction (Chemistry) | Food -- Biotechnology Scope and content: Extraction of one or more components from a complex mixture is a requirement for many operations in the food engineering and biotechnology industries. This book reviews the extraction methods such as conventional solvent extraction, s

Subject(s): Facebook (Electronic resource) | Online social networks | Social networks -- Computer network resources Summary: Facebook keeps you in touch with the important people in your life, and this book shows you how to get the most out of your Facebook experience. Contents:Getting started with Facebook -- Connecting with friends on Fac

Subject(s): Parasites -- Ecology | Parasites -- Behavior | Host-parasite relationships | Parasitology | Biotic communities Summary: "Interactions between competitors, predators and their prey have traditionally been viewed as the foundation of community structure. Parasites - long ignored in community ecology - are now recognized as playing

Subject(s): Evidence, Expert | Forensic psychiatry | Report writing | Medical writing Summary: "The written report is central to the practice of psychiatry in legal settings. It is required of mental health professionals acting as expert witnesses in criminal cases, civil litigation situations, child custody proceedings and risk assessments

Subject(s): Public health -- Moral and ethical aspects Summary: "John Coggon argues that the important question for analysts in the fields of public health law and ethics is 'what makes health public?' He offers a conceptual and analytic scrutiny of the salient issues raised by this question, outlines the concepts entailed in, or de

Subject(s): Ultrasonic waves -- Industrial applications | Ultrasonics Summary: "The book provides a unique and comprehensive treatment of the science, technology, and applications for industrial and medical ultrasonics, including low and high power implementations. The discussion of applications is combined with the fundamental physics, the

Subject(s): Data mining | Medical informatics | Bioinformatics Summary: "Data mining has rapidly emerged as an enabling, robust, and scalable technique to analyze data for novel patterns, trends, anomalies, structures, and features that can be employed for a variety of biomedical and clinical domains. Approaching the techniques and challeng

Subject(s): Diagnostic imaging -- Statistical methods Summary: "Statistical investigation into technology not only provides a better understanding of the intrinsic features of the technology (analysis), but also leads to an improved design of the technology (synthesis). Physical principles and mathematical procedures of medical imaging tec

Subject(s): Diagnostic imaging Summary: "Given the rapid evolution of radiological imaging in the past four decades, medical image processing nowadays is an essential tool for clinical research. Applications range from research in neuroscience, biomechanics and biomedical engineering to clinical routine tasks such as the visualization of hu