Author: Italy) NATO Advanced Study Institute on Molecular
Publisher: IOS Press
Keywords: series, nato, life, sciences, molecular, science, advances, ecology
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 1998-11
List price: $137.00
ISBN-10: 9051994400
ISBN-13: 9789051994407
In this volume researchers across the fields of animals, plants and microbial communities present a thematic approach, with emphasis on the integration of concepts independently of taxon. Each author was asked to examine how molecular genetic tools have contributed to their specific area of consideration, identifying novel insights, controversies and future priorities. The coverage is not intended to be comprehensive across all contemporary fields in molecular ecology, but rather illustrative of the diversity of approach and application, and with emphasis on the genetic and evolutionary charac
Author: Italy) NATO Advanced Study Institute on Methods in
Publisher: IOS Pre
Keywords: life, behavioural, sciences, volume, series, science, macromolecular, crystallography, nato, methods
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 1586030809
ISBN-13: 9781586030803
The main theme of the book will be on the interactions of macromolecules and the consequences for biological function; lessons learned from the detailed study of the individual components will also be included. To bring together contributions of leading structural scientists who are addressing even more challenging problems, such as crystallization of membrane proteins, the structures of large assemblies of proteins, proteins and RNA, and proteins and DNA, and the structures of large viruses is also one of the aims of the book. In addition, advances in macromolecular crystallography have given
Author: Germany) NATO Advanced Study Institute on Calculat
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Keywords: series, sciences, systems, nato, computer, iii, calculational, design, science, system, computers
Number of Pages: 510
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $173.00
ISBN-10: 9051994591
ISBN-13: 9789051994599
Computer Science has made considerable progress in making complex software and hardware systems more reliable. This is a result of practical experience and continuous process improvement on one side and of a better and deeper understanding of the fundamentals of software and system engineering on the other side. Recent encouraging trends are a strong integration of formal techniques with practical industrial development methods and more advanced support tools such as modelling, verification, and model-checking support systems. This active area of research has a relatively short term horizon wi
Author: Germany) NATO Advanced Study Institute on Engineer
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Keywords: series, iii, computer, systems, sciences, science, theories, software, construction, nato, engineering
Number of Pages: 357
Published: 2001-06
List price: $116.00
ISBN-10: 1586031724
ISBN-13: 9781586031725
The state of the art of software engineering techniques - being used in or required for current industrial tasks - shall be examined by world leading experts on the basis of sound mathematical foundations. Over the last thirty years the scientific foundation of programming has been developed for a broad spectrum of programming aspects. At the same time practical software engineering has entered many additional applications ranging from telecommunications to embedded systems in car and aircraft industry as well as in production engineering, and further to computer networks distr
Author: M. Di RienzoFrance) NATO Advanced Study Institute
Publisher: IOS Press
Keywords: series, life, sciences, nato, processes, biology, hydration
Number of Pages: 430
Published: 1999-01
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 9051994397
ISBN-13: 9789051994391
The interaction of water at organic surfaces or interfaces is of fundamental and technological interest and importance in chemistry, physics and biology. Progress towards an in-depth, molecular interpretation of the structure and dynamics of interfacial water needs a range of novel experimental and simulation techniques. We are now reaching the stage at which we understand, at the molecular level, the mutual perturbation at a macromolecule/water interface. The aims of this book are to provide with a comprehensive background to the properties of bulk water at the microscopic level and with a su
Author: Greece) NATO Advanced Study Institute on Targeting
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Keywords: series, life, sciences, nato, drugs, targeting
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $143.00
ISBN-10: 1586030094
ISBN-13: 9781586030094
Gene therapy, developed as an alternative to the use of therapeutic proteins, can be hampered by nuclease degradation of the plasmid DNA, its inability to access target cells, or - when within cells - to enter the nucleus and transfect these efficiently. This text deals with developments in circumventing the problems of direct plasmid administration by the use of viral or non-viral vectors, Representatives from both camps of therapy discuss the challenges and opportunities of the two approaches and present late-20th-century progress with a variety of constructs. These include viruses such as r
Author: Italy) NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Thiol Me
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Keywords: nato, life, behavioural, sciences, functions, cellular, metabolism, redox, regulation, thiol
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2002-10
List price: $116.00
ISBN-10: 1586032828
ISBN-13: 9781586032821
The volume includes contributions by some of the leading scientists in the field of thiol oxidation/reduction (redox) biochemistry, focused on the biological/pathophysiological implications of newly discovered functions of cellular thiols, such as glutathione in the first place. Recent research has shown that thiols - besides their well established role in cell defense against prooxidant damage - can mediate physiological functions of free radicals and other prooxidants, e.g. in modulation of protein synthesis and folding, signal transduction, cell proliferation. The volume is timely addressin
