Femtosecond Laser Development -- Gigahertz Femtosecond Lasers -- Microstructure Fiber and White-light Generation -- Optical Comb Dynamics and Stabilization -- Femtosecond Noncollinear Parametric Amplification and Carrier-Envelope Phase Control -- Optical Frequency Measurement -- Optical Frequency Measurement Using Frequency Multiplication and Frequency Combs -- Femtosecond Lasers for Optical Cl…
Anorectal Testing -- Anorectal Anatomy: The Contribution of New Technology -- History, Clinical Examination, and Basic Physiology -- Rectoanal Inhibition -- Vectorvolume Manometry -- Clinical Rectal Compliance Measurement -- Impedance Planimetry: Application for Studies of Rectal Function -- Impedance Planimetry: Clinical Impedance Planimetry -- Ambulatory Manometry -- The Use of Colonic Motili…
Cardiac MRI Physics -- Contrast Agents for Cardiac MRI -- Practical Setup -- Cardiac Anatomy -- Cardiovascular MR Imaging Planes and Segmentation -- Cardiac Function -- Myocardial Perfusion -- Ischemic Heart Disease -- Nonischemic Myocardial Disease -- Heart Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension, and Heart Transplantation -- Pericardial Disease -- Cardiac Masses -- Valvular Heart Disease -- Coronary …
Polypeptide chain termination and stop codon readthrough on eukaryotic ribosomes -- Novel roles of aquaporins revealed by phenotype analysis of knockout mice -- Activation of heterotrimeric G-proteins independent of a G-protein coupled receptor and the implications for signal processing.Contents S. Rospert, M. Rakwalska and Y. Dubaquié Polypeptide chain termination and stop codon readthrough o…
1 Introduction: the Heretic Who Survived? -- 2 Leavis: Life, Work and Heritage -- 3. Leavis’s Educational World-View -- 4 Leavis and Pedagogy: Critical ‘Theory’ -- 5 Leavis and Pedagogy: Critical Practice -- 6 Leavis and the Creative University -- 6 Leavis and the Creative University. .This is a critical introduction to the educational thought of F. R. Leavis (1895–1978), the greatest E…
Basic Concepts and Background -- History of Clinical Cytogenetics -- DNA, Chromosomes, and Cell Division -- Human Chromosome Nomenclature -- Examining and Analyzing Chromosomes -- Basic Laboratory Procedures -- The Fundamentals of Microscopy -- Quality Control and Quality Assurance -- Instrumentation in the Cytogenetics Laboratory -- Clinical Cytogenetics -- Autosomal Aneuploidy -- Structural C…
Endothelial Cell-Leukocyte Interactions During CNS Inflammation -- Multiple Sclerosis -- Cytokines and Brain -- Chemokines and Central Nervous System Disorders -- Circulating Cell-Derived Microparticles in Thrombotic and Inflammatory Disorders -- Multiple Sclerosis -- Neuroprotective Effects of Interferon-? in Multiple Sclerosis -- Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis -- Ingested Type I Interfe…
A Brief Introduction to Movement Disorders -- Acute Parkinsonism -- Parkinsonism-Hyperpyrexia Syndrome in Parkinson’s Disease -- Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome -- Malignant Catatonia -- Abductor Paresis in Shy-Drager Disease -- Movement Disorder Emergencies of the Upper Aerodigestive Tract -- Dystonic Storm -- Pseudodystonic Emergencies -- Tardive and Neuroleptic-Induced Emergencies -- Hemiba…
Introduction -- Aging as a Hispanic in a Second or Foreign Language -- Aging among Hispanic immigrants: risks and challenges -- The language effect and immigrant aging well-being -- Applied Linguistics and Contextualizing Older Hispanic Language Acquisition -- Social constructivism and the role of place for immigrant language learners -- Dallas area case study on older immigrant English second …
Chapter 1: Introduction: finding a way in -- Chapter 2: Berlin: city of migrations -- Chapter 3: Berlin: city of multilingualisms -- Chapter 4: Multilingual Mietshaus: language (hi)stories at Mareschstraße 74.This lively and engaging book, set in the historical context of centuries of migration and multilingualism in Berlin, explores the relationship between language and migration. Berlin is a…