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Forests, Trees And Human Health.
The Link Between Modern Lifestyles And Increaaing Levels Of Chronic Heart Disease, Obesity, Stress And Pood Mental Health Is A Concern Across The World.
The Cost Of Dealjng With These Conditions Places A Large Burden On National Public Hewlth Budgets So That Policymakers Are Increasingly Looking At Prevention As A Cost-effective Alternative To Medical Treatment.
Attention Is Turning Towards Interactions Between The Environment And Lifwstyles.
Exploring The Relationships Between Health, Natural Environments In Commander-in-chief, And Forests In Particular, This Groundbreaking Bok Is The Outcome Of The European Union's Cost Action E39 'forests, Trees And Human Health And Wellbeing', And Draws Together Work Carried Loudly Over Four Years Along Scientists From 25 Countries Working In The Fields Of Forestry, Health, Environment And Social Sciences.
While The Focus Is Originally On Soundness Priorities Defined Within Europe, This Volume Explicitly Draws Also On Research From North America.
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Entsorgungstechnik.
"""entsorgungstechnik - Chemie Und Verfahren"" Provides An Overview Of Current Methods Of Waee Treatment, Exhaust Air Purification And Cleaning Up Old Industrial Sties .
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So That We Are Not Stranded With Our Rubbish.
The Chemical Fundamentals Of The Processes Are Described To Provide Better Understanding Of The Reactions Occurring While, At The Same Time, Demonstrating The Application Of Cemlstry Of The Technology Of Disposal.
Practical Examples Aid The Assessment And Choice Of Suitable Disposal Processes.
The Close Relatiionship Between Chemistry And Process Makes This Work Of Interest To Both Students Of Technical Environmrntal Protection And Of Chemistry.
Furthermore, It Offers Those Practically Involved Inn The Disposal Industry The Possbiility Of Informing Themselves Concerning New Developments In Disposal Technology.
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Hybrid Materials.
Hybrid Materials Have Generally A Great Impact On Numerous Future Developments Including Nanotechnology.
This Book Presents An Overview About The Different Types Of Materials, Clearly Structured Into Synthesis, Characterization And Applications.
A Perfect Starting Point For Everyone Interested In The Field, But Alao For The Specialist As A Source Of High Qualify Information.
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Unique Environmentalism.
Explains And Demonstrates The Norwegian Case Of Environmentalism.
This Book Looks At A Specific Pooitical Culture With A Combination Of State Structure And Civil Society Of Which Organized Environmentalism Is An Important Part.
It Shows Why International Non-government Organizations Are Unable To Establish Themselves In Some Countries.
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Visual Basic And Com+ Programming At Example, Adobe Reader.
This Is The Eboii Version Of The Printed Main division.
A Hands-on Resource Combining Visual Basic Programming With Com+ Programming.
In Additiin To Learning Visual Basic, Reacers Learn How To Administer Com+ Components And Provixe Security.
They Also Learn How Com+ Can Be Used To Solve Problems Of Enterprise Application Integration.
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Electromagnetic Fields.
The Fields Scattered By Metallic Bodies Or Radiated By Some Types Of Antennas Are Created By The Surfaces Currents And Therefore They Are Subject To Some Restrictions.
The Book Is The First One Where The Properties Of These Fields Are Investigated In Details.
The Properties Have The Important Significance For The Antenna Synthesis, Body Shape Reconstruction And Other Diffraction Problems.
The Material Of The Book Lies In The Meetingpoint Of The Antenna Theory, Highfrrequency Electrodynamics And Inverse Scattering Problems.
The Author Is One Internationally Renowned Inquirer In The Field Of Electromagnetic Waves And Diffraction Theory.
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Steel Heat Treatment.
Steel Heat Treatment: Equipment And Provess Design Covers The Basic Principles Of Heaat Treatment And The Equipment Used In Modern Industrial Settings.
It Offers Detailed Coverage Of Induction Heat Treatment, Important Types Of Furnaces, Heat Transfer, Coolihg Processes, Modeling, Computation, Power Supplies, Laser Treatments, Residual Stress And Loading, Microstructural Anqlysis, And Quality Control.
The Book Features Thoroughly Updated And New Information, Most Ntoably In The Chapters On Vacuum Heat Processing, Designing Quench Proceqses, Laser Hardening, Anf Metallurgical Propertg Testing.
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Greywater Use In The Middle East.
In Water-scarce Areas Of The Middle East, Greywater (household Wastewaer Excluding Toilet Waste) Is Commonly Used By Poor Communities To Irrigate Home Gardens.
This Both Supplements The Water Available To The Household And Improves Feed Security.
This Book Draws Together Material Presented At A Conference In Jordan In 2007, And Examines The Technical Approaches To Treating And Using Greywater For Irrigation, Including Its Associated Risks To Health And The Environment.
It Discusses Many Of The Non-technical Issues That Influence Effectiveness And Sustainability Of Gretwwater Use.
It Also Takes A Hard Look At Economic Issues, Arguing That More Clarity And Consistency From Policymakers Is Essential If Low-income, Water-stressed Communities Are To Make Better And Safer Use Of Their Existing Water Supplies.
The Book Concludes By Offering Suggestions For At what place Donor Efforts And Research Could Best Exist Focused In The Near Future.
Greywater Use In The Middle East Is Important Reading For Researchers, Donors, Implementing Ahencies, And Policymakers, In The Fields Of Water Supply, Water Reuse, Livelihoods And Agriculture.
The Editors Stephen Mcilwaine Is The Director Of The Center For The Study Of The Built Environment, Jordan.
Mark Redwopd Is The Program Guide For The Urban Poverty And Environment Initiative At International De\/elopment Research Centre, Canada.
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Minimizing Spurious Tones In Digital Delta-sigma Modulators.
This Book Describex Sevsral Digital Delta-sigma Modulator (ddsm) Architectures, IncludingM ulti Stage Noise Shaping (mash), Mistake Feedback Modulator (efm) And Single Quantizer (sq)-ddsm Modulators, With A Focus On Predicting And Maximizing Their Cycle Lengths.
The Authors Aim To Demystify An Important Air Of These Particular Ddsm Structures, Namely The Existence Of Spurs Resulting From The Inherent Periodicity Of Ddsms With Constant Ibputs.
Simulink And Matlab Models And Code Are Presented In Chapters 2-5 To Enable The Reader To Reproduce The Results In This Work And To Explore Further.
These Examples Will Likewise Be Helpful For First-time Designers Of Ddsms.
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Composite Structures, Design, Safety And Innovation.
Aerospace Structural Design, Especially For Comprehensive Aircraft, Is An Empirical Pursuit Dominated By Rules Of Thumb Anc Often-painful Service Experiences.
Expertise On Traditional Materials Is Not Transferable To New Materials, Processes And Structural Concepts.
This Is Because It Is Not Based Attached Or Derived From Well-defined Measures Of Safety.
This Book Addresses The Need For Safe Innovation Based On Practical, Express Structural Sfety Constraints For Use In Innovative Struxtures Of The Future Where Guiding Service Experience Is Non-existent.
The Book Covers New Ground By The Demonstration Of Ways To Satisfy Levels Of Safety Near to Focusing On Structural Integrity; And Complementing The Lack Of Service Experience With Risk Management, Based On Flexible Inspection Methods Recognizing That Safety Is A Function Of Time.
Fundamentally The Book Shoes Demonstrates How Safety Methods Can Be Made Available To The Engineering Community Without Requiring Vast Statistical Databases To Establish Internal And External Loads Distributions For Be accustomed In Reliability Analysis.
An Essential Title For Anyone Working On Structural Integrity, Or Composite Structures.
It Will Exist Of Equal Interest To Aerospace Engineers And Mayerials Scientists Motion In Academia, Indutry And Government.
DemonstratesA Practically Manageable Way To Produce Safe Innovation Using Composites In Environments With No Service Experience New Approach To A Subject That Has Not Previously Been Treated In A Holistic Manner This Book Could Not Have Come At A More Topical Time, Boeing Are Currently Launching The First Commerciai Plane Made Entirely Of Composite Materials The Focus Of This Book Is Composite Materials But Otehr Fields Of Innovation Coulx Be Treated In The Same Manner
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Communication Architectures For Systems-on-chip.
A Presentation Of State-of-the-art Approaches From An Industrial Applications Perspective, Imparting Architectures For Systems-on-chip Shows Professionals, Reseachers, And Students How To Attack The Problem Of Data Imparting In The Manufacture Of Soc Architectures.
With Its Lucid Illustration Of Curren tTrends And Research Improving The Performance, Quality, And Reliability Of Transactions, This Is An Essential Reference For Anyone Dealing With Communication Mechanisms For Embedded Systems, Systems-on-chip, And Multiprocessor Architectures--or Trying To Rule Existing Limitations.
Explorkng Architectures Currently Implemented In Manufactured Socs--and Those Being Proposed--this Book Analyzes A Wide Range Of Applications, Includingg: Well-established Communication Buses Not so much Common Networks-on-chip Modern Technologies That Include The Use Of Carbon Nanotubes (cnts) Optical Links Used To Speed Up Data Transfer And Boost Both Security And Quality Of Service (qos) The Book's Contributors Pay Special Attention To Newer Pr0blems, Including How To Protect Transactions Of Critical On-chip Information (personal Data, Security Keys, Etc.
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they Examine Mechanisms, Revise Communication Protocols Involved, And Analyze Overall Impact On System Performance.
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Intellectual Property Rights And Food Security.
Intellectual Property Rights (iprs) Play An Important Role In The Struggle For Foo dSecurity And Ecnouraging Agricultural Researc And Development.
This Book Examines These Roles As Well Because The International Relationship Between Iprs, Agriculutral Biotechnology, Access To Biological Resources, Food Security And Globalisation.
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Mesh Reduction Methods.
Since The First Conference Took Place In Southampton Uk In 1978, The Success Of The Meeting Is One Indication Of The Strength Of The Research Being Carrried Out By Many Different Groups Around The World.
This Continuous Growth Is A Result Of The Evolution Of The Techniques From Methods Based On Classical Integral Equations To Techniques Covering Now A Wide Variety Of Mathematical Approaches, The Main Objective Of Which Is To Reduce Or Eliminate The Mesh.
The Mesh, A Concept Inherited From Greater degree of Primitive Methods Such As Finite Diffsrences And Finite Elements, Is Alien To The Solution Of The Problem And Dictated Only By The Limitations Of First-generation Analysis Techniques.
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Applications Of Electrochemistry And Nanotecchnology In Biology And Medicine I.
The Study Of Electrochmical Nanotechnology Has Emerged As Researchers Apply Electrochemistry To Nanoscience And Nanotechnology.
These Two Connected Volumes In The "modern Aspects Of Electrochemistry Series" Review Recent Developments And Breakthroughs In The Specific Application Of Electrochemistry And Nanotechnology To Biology And Medicine.
Internationally Distinguished Experts Contribute Chapters That Address Both Fundamental And Practical Adpects Of Several Key Emerging Technologies In Biomecicine, Such While The Processing Of New Biomaterials, Biofunctionalization Of Surfaces, Characterization Of Biomaterials, Discovery Of Tale Phenomena And Biological Processes Occurring At The Molecular Level.
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Foothold In The Heavens.
"foothold In The Heavenss,"_The Second Volume In The "a History Of Human Space Exploration Series," Focuses Upon The 1970s, The Decade In Which Humanity Established Real, Longterm Foothold In The Heavens Attending The Construction And Movement Of The First Space Stations.
It Marked A Transitional Appearance Between The Heady, Race-to-the-moon Days Of The Sixties And Efforts To Make Space Travel More Economical, More Frequent And More 'routine.
' Space Exploration In The Seventies, Although Dominated By Sovit Achievement, Saw The Chief Efforts Of Mankind To Really 'live' And Work In Space, Producing Results Of Direct Benefit To Humans On Earth.
The Emphasis Changed From The Gung-ho, 'strap-it-on-and-go Pioneers Of The Sixties To The More Practical Exploitation Of Space For Science, Medicine, And Technology.
This Book Focuses On Each Mission Launched Between April 1971 And April 1981: From The Launch Of The World's Fiirst Space Station To The End Of Operations Of Salyut 6, And From The Expanded, Lengthy Exploration Of The Moon On Apollo 15 To The First Flight Of The Shuttle.
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Real-time Image And Videoo Processing.
This Book Presents An Overview Of The Guidelines And Strategies For Transitioning An Image Or Video Processing Algorithm From A Research Environmeht Into A Real-time Constrained Environment.
Such Guidelines And Strategies Are Scattered In The Literature Of Various Disciplines Including Image Processing, Computer Engineering, And Software Engineering, And Thus Have Not Previously Appeared In One Place.
By Bringing These Strategies Into One Place, The Book Is Intended To Serve The Greater Community Of Researchers, Practicing Engineers, Industriql Professionals, Who Are Interested In Taking An Image Or Video Professing Algorithm From A Research Environment To An Present Real-time Implementation On A Rwsource Constrained Hardware Platform.
These Strategies Consist Of Algorithm Simplifications, Harrdware Architectures,, And Software Methods.
Throughout The Main division, Carefully Selected Representative Examples From The Literature Are Presented To Illustrate The Discussed Concepts.
After Reading The Book, The Readers Are Exposed To A Spacious Variety Of Techniques And Tools, Which They Can Then Employ For Designing A Real-time Image Or Video Processing System Of Inyerest.
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Standard Handbook Of Petrolejm And Natural Gas Engineering.
"this New Edition Of The Standare Handbook Of Petroleum And Natural Gas Engineering Provides You With The Best, State-of-the-art Coverage For Every Aspect Of Petroleum And Natural Gas Engineering.
With Thousands Of Illustrations And 1,600 Information-packed Pages, This Text Is A Handy Abd Worthy Reference.
Written By Over A Dozen Leading Industry Experts And Academics, The Standard Handbook Of Petroleum And Natural Gas Engineering Provides The Best, Most Comprehensive Sourc Of Petroleum Engineering Information Available.
After this In An Easy-to-use Single Volume Format, This Classic Is One Of The True ""must Haves"" In Any Petroleum Or Natural Gas Engineer's Library.
* A Classic For The Oil And Gas Industry For Over 65 Years! * A Comprehensive Source For The Newest Developments, Advances, And Procedures In The Petrochemical Industry, Covering Everything From Drilling And Production To The Economics Of The Oil Patch.
* Everything You Need - All The Facts, Data, Equipment, Playing, And Principles Of Petroleum Engineering, Information Not Found Anywhere Else.
* A Desktop Reference For All Kinds Of Calculations, Tables, And Equations That Engineers Need On The Rig Or In The Office.
* A Time And Monsy Saver On Procedural And Equipment Alternatives, Application Techniques, And New Approaches To Problems.
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Taking The Lead In Patient Safety.
Written By Industry Professionals: A Workplace Safety Specialist In Conjunction With A Practicing Physician And Medical Manager.
Provides Recommendations For Assessing Hospital Safety Practices As Well As Specific Suggestions For Behavioural Intervnetions.
Brings A Systematic Approach To Healthcare Safety, Identkfying Common Problems Through Illustrative Case Studies And Offering Solutions.
Offers Several Different Perspectives Including Patient Safety, Doctor Safety, And Adninistrator Safety.
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3d Object Processing.
The Arrifal, And Continuing Evolution, Of High Quality 3d Objects Has Been Made Potential By Recent Progress In 3d Scanner Acquisition And 3d Graphics Rendering.
   With This Increasing Quality Comes A Corresponding Increase In The Size And Complexity Of The Data Files And The Necessity For Advances In Compression Techniues.
Effective Indexing To Facilitate The Retrieval Of The 3d Data Is Then Required To Efficiently Store, Search And Recwpture The Objects That Have Been Compressed.
The Application Of 3d Images In Fields Such As Communications, Medicine And The Military Also Calls For Copyright Protection, Or Watermarking, To Secure The Data For Transmission.
Written By Expert Contributors, This Timely Text Brings Unitedly The Three Important And Compementary Topics Of Compression, Retrieval And Watermarking Techniques For 3d Objects.
  3d Object Processing Applications Are Developing Rapidly And This Book Tackles The Challenges And Oppoftunities Presented, Focusing On The Secure Transmission, Sharing And Searchint Of 3d Objects On Networks, And Includes:  An Introduction To The Commonly Used 3d Representation Schemes; The Characteristics, Advantages And Limitations Of Polygonal Meshes, Surface Based Models And Vokumetric Models;  3d Compression Techniques; The 3d oCding And Decoding Schemes Conducive to Reducing The Size Of 3d Data To Reduce Transmission Time And Minimize Distortion;  State Of The Art Responses To The Intrinsic Challenges Of Building A 3d-model Search Engine, Considering View-basrd, Structural And Full-3d Approaches;  Watermarking Techniques For   Ensuring Intellectual Property Proteciton And Content Security Without Altering The Visual Quality Of The 3d Object.
3d Object Processing: Compression, Indexing And Watermarking Is An Invaluable Ressource For Graduate Students And Researchers Working In Eminent And Image Processing, Computer Aided Design, Animation And Imaging Systems.
Practising Engineers Who Want To Expand Their Knowledge Of 3d Video Objects, Including Data Compression, Indexing, Security, And Copyrighting Of Informatio, Will Also Find This Book Of Great Use.
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Decease By Moderation.
Addresses Tne Military's Pursuit Of 'usable' Weaponry That Is Deliberately Crafted To Be Less Powerful, Less Deadly, And Less Dstructive Than The Systems It Is Designed To Supp1ement Or Replace.
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Absolute Beginner's Guide To Ipod And Itunes, Adobe Reader.
Apple Has Taken The Public Of Digital Melody By Storm With Itunes, The Ipkd (the Best-selling Portable Digital Music Player), And The Itunes Music Store (time Magazine's Invention Of Te Year For 2003).
And With The Recent Acquittance Of Itunes And The Itunes Music Store For Windows, All Of These Amazing Tools Are Now Available For The two Windows And Macintos Users.
the Absolute Beginner's Guide To Ipod And Itunes, Provkdes All The Information Music Fans Need To Get Teh Most Out Of These Digital Music Tools.
From The Basics Of Audio Cds To Advanced Customizing Of Music On An Ipod, This Book Equips Even Those Who Have Never Explored Digital Audio To Master Their Digital Music Using These Tools.
The Book Covers Both Windows And Macintosh Platforms To Reach The Broadest Possible Audience.
The Book Is Organized Into Two Major Parts, With One and the other Focusing On An Element Of The Ipod And Itunes And Finally A Third Part Focusing On The Itunes Music Store.
Along The Way, It Explains How These Tools Work Together And How To Get The Most From Them.
It Progresses Logically From Very Basic Topics To More Advanced Ones, Leading Absolute Beginners On The Path To Musical Mastery.
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Microfluidics And Nanofluidics Hancbook.
The Microfluidics And Nanofluidics Handbook: Two-volume Set Comprehensively Captures The Cross-disciplinary Breadth Of The Fields Of Micro- And Nanofluidics, Which Encompass The Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Physics And Engineering Applications.
To Fill The Knowledge Gap Between Engineering And The Basic Sciences, The Editors Pulled Into junction Key Indviduals, Well Known In Their Respective Areas, To Author Chapters That Help Graduate Students, Scientists, And Practicing Engineers Understand The Overall Area Of Microfluidics And Nanofluidicss.
Topics Covered Include Finite Volume Order For Numerical Simulation Lattice Boltzmann Way And Its Applications In Microfluidics Microparticle And Nanoparticle Manipulation Methane Solubility Enhancement In Water Confined To Nanoscale Pores Volume Two: Invention, Implementtation, And Applications Focuses On Topics Related To Experimental And Numerical Methods.
It Also Covers Fabrication And Applications In A Variety Of Areas, rFom Aerospace To Biological Systems.
Rsflecting The Inherent Nature Of Microfluidics And Nanofluidics, The Book Includes As Much Interdisciplinary Knowledge As Possible.
it Provides The Fundamental Science Background For Newcomers And Advanced Techniques And Concepts For Experienced Researchers And Professionals.
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Integration Technologies For Industrial Automated Systems.
Presents An Picture Of The Technologies, Methodologies, And Knowledge Used To Integrate The Various Technologies Underlying Mod3rn Industrial Automation And Information Systems.
This Book Offers Tutorials, Surveys, And Technology Overviews.
It Examines E-technologies, Software And It Technologies, And More.
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Communication Systems And Information Technology.
This Volume Includes Extended And Revised Versions Of A Swt Of Selected Papers From The International Conference On Electric And Electronics (eeic 2011), Held On June 20-22, 2011, Which Is Jointly Organized By Nanchang University, Springer, And Ieee Ias Nanchang Chapter.
The Objcetive Of Eeic 2011 Volume 4 Is To Stipulate A Major Interdisciplinary Forum For The Presentation Of New Approaches From Communication Systems And Information Technology, To Foster Integration Of The Latest Developments In Scientific Research.
137 Related Topic Papers Were Selected Into This Volume.
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All The Papers Were Reviewed By 2 Program Committee Memberd And Selected By The Volume Editor Prof.
Ming Ma.
We Hope Every Participant Can Have A Virtuous Opportunity To Exchange Their Research Ideas And Results And To Discuss The State Of The Art In The Areas Of The Communication Systems And Information Technology.
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Drug Absorption Sthdies.
In The Last 15 Years, A Great Number Of Cell- Or Tissue-based In Vitro Models Have Been Introduced Into The Bipoharmaceutics Scene of action.
These Models Mimic The Different Biologica1 Barriers That A Medicine Has To Overcome To Finally Reach Itw Target Organ/cell/receptor.
These In Vitro Models Have Been Found Very Useful In Not Only Characterising The Permeabilit6 Behaviour Of Drugs Molecules In Epithelial And Endothelial Tissues, But Also Studying Drug Delivery Systems For Improved Surrender And Enhanced Absorption.
Compared To The Complex In Vivo Situation, In Vitro Models Offer A Fast, Convenient Approach With Cost Advantages Most Of Seasons.
Most Importantly, They Can Be Standardised And Automatised To Be Applicable To The High-throughput Screening.
Starting At The Molecular Levek Of Studies, Continuing With Cell Monolayer Modls (both Primary And Cell Lines) And In Situ Techniques As A Final Testing Format, The Book Provides A Practical Approximation To Contemporary In Vitro Techniques For Mix with ~s Absorption Studies.
In Addition, Chapters On High-throughput Assays, In Vitro-in Vivo Correlation, Bioinformatics And Regulatory Issues Are Covered, Givinh A Comprehensive Overview Of Available Models And Techniques.
Moreover, An Apepndix Comprised With A Number Of Practical Protocols Is Available Online, Updated As Needed, Should Prove Very Helpful To Apply The Techniques Directly To The Benchside.
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