Authors:Pei-ji Chen, Yuan Wang, Yuan-qing Wang, Mee-Mann Chan
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: birds, flowering, plants, beaked, dinosaurs, fossils, emergence, feathered, jehol
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-03-07
List price: $72.95
ISBN-10: 0123741734
ISBN-13: 9780123741738

No other single volume reference to the Jehol site and its fossils exists and nowhere is there such a collection of fine photos of the fossils concerned. This book has pieced together the most up-to-date information on the Jehol Biota, a place that has shown the world some of the most astonishing fossil finds including the first complete skeleton of Archaeopteryx in 1861, four-winged dinosaurs- many feathered ones, the first beaked bird, the first plants with flowers and fruits, and thousands of species of invertebrates. Authors shed new light on a number of interesting theoretical issues in e

Author: Yuan Gao
Publisher: Idea Group Publishing
Keywords: consumer, behavior, online, design, systems, web
Number of Pages: 346
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1591403278
ISBN-13: 9781591403272

Web Systems Design and Online Consumer Behavior takes and interdisciplinary approach toward systems design in the online environment by providing an understanding of how consumers behave while shopping online and how certain system design elements may impact consumers’ perceptions, attitude, intentions, and actual behavior. This book contains theoretical and empirical research from expert scholars in a number of areas including communications, psychology, marketing and advertising, and information systems. This book provides an integrated look at the subject area as described above to fu

Author: Bo-Yuan Hou
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: physical, science, vol, theoretical, series, geometry, physicists, advanced, differential
Number of Pages: 546
Published: 1997-04
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 9810231059
ISBN-13: 9789810231057

This book provides an introduction to prerequisite topological and algebraic knowledge. The first seven chapters, focusing on local analysis, can be used as a fundamental textbook for graduate students of theoretical physics. The later chapters discuss geometry in fibre bundles, and deal with the Atiyah-Singer index theorem, its generalization and its application, quantum anomaly, cohomology field theory and noncommutative geometry. The text aims to provide coverage of current research in theoretical physics.

Author: Lee Yuan Kun
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: applications, principles, biotechnology, microbial
Number of Pages: 808
Published: 2006-08-24
List price: $148.00
ISBN-10: 9812566767
ISBN-13: 9789812566768

In the second edition of this bestselling textbook, new materials have been added, including a new chapter on real time polymerase chain reaction (RTPCR) and a chapter on fungal solid state cultivation. There already exist a number of excellent general textbooks on microbiology and biotechnology that deal with the basic principles of microbial biotechnology. To complement them, this book focuses on the various applications of microbial-biotechnological principles. A teaching-based format is adopted, whereby working problems, as well as answers to frequently asked questions, supplement the main

Author: Yuan Gao
Publisher: IGI Global
Keywords: consumer, behavior, online, design, systems, web
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 2004-10
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 1591403286
ISBN-13: 9781591403289

Web Systems Design and Online Consumer Behavior takes and interdisciplinary approach toward systems design in the online environment by providing an understanding of how consumers behave while shopping online and how certain system design elements may impact consumers’ perceptions, attitude, intentions, and actual behavior. This book contains theoretical and empirical research from expert scholars in a number of areas including communications, psychology, marketing and advertising, and information systems. This book provides an integrated look at the subject area as described above to

Author: Yuan-Hui Li
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: geochemistry, compendium
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2000-11-15
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0691009384
ISBN-13: 9780691009384

An ever-increasing concern over environmental degradation, together with recent technological advances, has spawned an explosion of chemical data for a wide variety of matter found on earth and in the solar system. Yuan-Hui Li’s book offers professionals and students alike an indispensable up-to-date guide to geochemistry, bringing together new information on topics ranging from nucleosynthesis to crystal chemistry, from the systematics of chemical variation in the earth’s core to the composition of complex organics. The objective is to illustrate the physicochemical principles and

Author: Yuan Luo
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: oxidative, stress, disease, related, neurodegeneration
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2005-11-21
List price: $199.95
ISBN-10: 0849337259
ISBN-13: 9780849337253

Despite the progress being made by researchers, Alzheimer’s disease, along with other age-related neurodegenerative disorders, continues to exact a tremendous toll on our society. However, we are beginning to see a relationship that ties degenerative disorders to oxidative stress and lifestyle, suggesting the possibility for prevention and intervention through changes of individual habits, especially with regard to diet. Oxidative Stress and Age-Related Neurodegeneration brings together expert researchers involved with recent developments across a variety of fields. In looking at causation,