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Plant biotechnology has become a priority area for technology transfer in developing countries where production of food, feed, and fiber is of vital concern. Many programs now have sufficient experience to permit anin-depth examination of approaches, achievements, controversies, and anticipated benefits. Developing countries are showcased for leading-edge advances, as represented by contributions from South Africa, Kenya, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, China, ...
"There has been a dramatic increase in the perception of the value of animal cell biotechnology to the research and manufacturing communities in recent years. This volume seeks to keep the reader up-to-date with this progress. This sixth and final volume in the series concentrates on the biology of animal cells in culture, giving special attention to the relationship between biology and the ability to use such cells productively. As the search continues for ...
Fruits are botanically diverse, perishable, seasonal and predominantly regional in production. They come in many varieties, shapes and size, colors, flavor and textures and are important part of a healthy diet and the global economy. The book entited "Tropical Fruit Processing" covers the latest fruit processing technology of four tropical fruits, guva, mango, papaya and panion fruit. The book is designed to be a valuable source of reference book for ...
The irradiation of food is a low cost, highly effective method of ensuring food safety, and extending shelf life. Public acceptance of irradiation, despite its benefits, however, has been a significant challenge. Irradiation of Food Commodities is the first holistic book that looks not only at the techniques, application and legislation of this method, but also addresses the concern of public opinion.
Organized into logical themes and written by experts from ...
Digital controllers are part of nearly all modern personal, industrial, and transportation sytems. Every senior or graduate student of electrical, chemical or mechanical engineering should therefore be familiar with the basic theory of digital controllers. This new text covers the fundamental principles and applications of digital control engineering, with emphasis on engineering design. Extensive Use of computational tools: Matlab sections at end of each ...
Materials Science for Engineering Students offers students of introductory materials science and engineering, and their instructors, a fresh perspective on the rapidly evolving world of advanced engineering materials. This new, concise text takes a more contemporary approach to materials science than the more traditional books in this subject, with a special emphasis on using an inductive method to first introduce materials and their particular properties and ...
This edition incorporates a new trend in drug discovery, namely the consideration of pharmacokinetics and ADME properties of drugs (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion) early in the process. As prospective new drugs are tested in more complex systems (with concomitantly more complex dependent variable values), the trend in screening is to test fewer compounds of higher (druglike) quality. Finally, this edition also hopefully fills a previous void ...
Contents: Vol. I. Preface. Rheology/Alfred N. Martin, Gilbert S. Banker and A.H.C. Chun: 1. Theoretical considerations. 2. Instrumentation. 3. Applications and practice. References. Solubility in systems containing surface-active agents/B.A. Mulley: 1. Introduction. 2. Micelle formation and physical methods of investigation of micellar solutions. 3. Theory and Mechanism of solubilization. 4. Measurement of solubility and methods of representing solubility data. ...
Unlike many other available references, this book is written specifically with practicality in mind. It has over 60 practical examples to help the reader learn how very high-speed integrated hardware description language (VHDL) coding and synthesis can be performed. Starting from simple VHDL coding, the book progresses to complicated, real-world designs. Synthesis results and tweaks are also shown to help the reader gain more insight into how experienced design ...
This book assembles most of the methods for screening substances for pharmacological activity and includes discussions of the organization of screening programs. While screening is widely practiced in pharmacology laboratories, a definition of its meaning is perhaps worthy of attention. The term screening indicates the use of a combination of tests for the purpose of making a decision. The results of the tests provide information on the presence of certain ...
The positive responses to the previous volumes of Drug Design and the rapid development in this field have encouraged and stimulated us to continue this series.
The first two chapters examine procedures as a applied in the practice of drug design. Chapter 3, "Bridging the gap between bioactive peptides and nonpeptides," opens promising perspectives in the highly actual field of bioactive peptides. A new physiological approach to drug design, i.e. ...