Author: Carlo Musio
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: biophysics, napoli, italy, october, casamicciola, biocybernetics, international, approach, neurosciences, proceedings, vision, school
Number of Pages: 508
Published: 2001-07-01
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 9810246471
ISBN-13: 9789810246471

The light sense is conceivably the key sense in both the animal and the plant kingdom. Vision research, undoubtedly a fast-growing field, is providing impressive results - thanks to modern theoretical and methodological advances. The approach of biophysics and neuroscience seems to be of great benefit and, for this reason, the present book gives an outline of recent acquisitions and updated advanced methods concerning this approach. Visual mechanisms and processes are analysed at several (molecular, cellular, integrative, computational and cognitive) levels by different methodologies (from mol

Author: Napoli, Italy) International School of Biophysics
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Keywords: biophysics, napoli, casamicciola, italy, october, biocybernetics, series, school, cells, effects, integrated, systems, international, proceedings, dilution
Number of Pages: 381
Published: 1998-06
List price: $104.00
ISBN-10: 9810232160
ISBN-13: 9789810232160

High dillution effects constitute a major problem on the frontier of biophysics. The reported effects on simple and complex biological systems range from "in vitro" and "in vivo" models to cellular metabolism regulation, the immune system, the nervous system, intoxicated organs and organisms, and developmental models. The physical properties of high dillutions have been considered, such as the organization properties of water molecules in the presence and after the presence of water molecules, the energy characteristics of empty and full water clusters, and their dynamical interactions with pr

Author: Thomas Jue
Publisher: Humana Press
Keywords: biophysics, modern, handbook, volume, fundamental, concepts
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2009-04-01
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 1588299732
ISBN-13: 9781588299734

Over the past several years, I have organized and taught a core course in Modern Biophysics Techniques at the University of California Davis. Graduate students in biophysics, chemistry, physics, and engineering enroll in the class to survey the physical techniques that scientists use to study biology. Introducing the diverse and complex field of biophysics in an academically rigorous but in-teresting way poses daunting challenges. Indeed, the course has undergone many transforma-tions and has tried on many styles: seminar/journal club, lecture/lab, and just plain didactic lec-ture formats. T

Author: Thomas Jue
Publisher: Humana Press
Keywords: biophysics, modern, handbook, biomedical, applications
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2010-09-02
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 1603272321
ISBN-13: 9781603272322

In keeping with goal and style of the Handbook in Modern Biophysics series, the proposed book will maintain a chapter structure that contains two parts: concepts and biological application. The book also integrates all the chapters into a smooth, continuous discourse. The first and second chapters establish the mathematical methods and theoretical framework underpinning the different topics in the rest if the book. Other chapters will use the theoretical framework as a basis to discuss optical and NMR approaches. Each chapter will contain innovative didactic elements that facilitate teaching,

Author: Thomas Heimburg
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Keywords: biophysics, tutorials, membranes, thermal
Number of Pages: 378
Published: 2007-09-18
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 3527404716
ISBN-13: 9783527404711

An overview of recent experimental and theoretical developments in the field of the physics of membranes, including new insights from the past decade. The author uses classical thermal physics and physical chemistry to explain our current understanding of the membrane. He looks at domain and ’raft’ formation, and discusses it in the context of thermal fluctuations that express themselves in heat capacity and elastic constants. Further topics are lipid-protein interactions, protein binding, and the effect of sterols and anesthetics. Many seemingly unrelated properties of memb

Authors:José Luis R. Arrondo, Alicia Alonso,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: biophysics, series, springer, advanced, techniques
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2006-10-05
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 3540307001
ISBN-13: 9783540307006

Technical advancements are basic elements in our life. In biophysical studies, new applications and improvements in well-established techniques are being implemented every day. This book deals with advancements produced not only from a technical point of view, but also from new approaches that are being taken in the study of biophysical samples, such as nanotechniques or single-cell measurements. This book constitutes a privileged observatory for reviewing novel applications of biophysical techniques that can help the reader enter an area where the technology is progressing quickly and where a

Authors:V. Pattabhi, N. Gautham,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: biophysics
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-03-31
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 1402002181
ISBN-13: 9781402002182

(Narosa Publishing House) Univ. of Madras, Chennai, India. Addresses the needs of biologists, biochemists, and medical biophysicists as an introduction to the subject. Based on a graduate one-semester course. Covers topics from quantum mechanics to pre-biotic evolution.