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 Nuclear Medicine in Pharmaceutical Research
Huge sums of money are invested annually by the pharmaceutical industry into
improved treatments for diseases including cancer, arthritis and AIDS. In the
United Kingdom alone, almost one fifth of all industrial research and development
is performed by the pharmaceutical industry, which in turn puts back more than
one fifth of... | | | | Deductive Databases and Their ApplicationsDeductive Databases and their Applications is an introductory text aimed at undergraduate students with some knowledge of database and information systems. The text comes complete with exercises and solutions to encourage students to tackle problems practically as well as theoretically. The author presents the origins of deductive databases in... |
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Object-Oriented Design for Temporal GIS (Research Monographs in GIS)
A wide spectrum of research areas have contributed to the development of objectoriented
analysis and design methods. Within computing sciences objectorientation
has been developed in the fields of databases, programming languages, and system
engineering. Some indications of this development include the proliferation of objectoriented... | | Geocomputation
GeoComputation (GC) is a follow-on revolution that is occurring after the
introduction of geographical information systems (GIS). It is expected to gather
speed and momentum in the first decade of the 21st century. The rationale
behind this latest revolution is quite simple. When we have finished creating our
GIS databases, set up our... | | Professional Issues in Software Engineering
It is widely recognized that a professional engineer needs to be aware of a range of issues
much wider than the mere technical knowledge necessary to practice the chosen
engineering discipline. The Engineering Council, for example, requires that the formation
of a professional engineer should include, amongst other things,
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Organic Pollutants: An Ecotoxicological Perspective, Second EditionA companion to he much praised Principles of Ecotoxicology the book covers organic pollutants in greater depth and detail than has been covered in a textbook before. The first part of the book covers issues such as chemical warfare; metabolism of pollutants in animals and plants; environmental fate; and effects within ecosystems. This is followed... | | Minds and Computers: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Artificial IntelligenceThis is a book about minds. It is also about computers. Centrally, we will be interested in examining the relation between minds and computers.
The idea that we might one day be able to construct some artefact which has a mind in the same sense that we have minds is not a new one. It has featured in entertaining and frightening fictions... | | Get Set for Computer Science (Get Set for University)This book is aimed at students who are thinking of studying Computer Science or a related topic at university. Part One is a brief introduction to the topics that make up Computer Science, some of which you would expect to find as course modules in a Computer Science programme. These descriptions should help you to tell the difference between... |
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Spinoza's Ethics (Edinburgh Philosophical Guides)
This is a guidebook to the Ethics, the major work of the seventeenthcentury philosopher Baruch Spinoza. This book differs from other introductory books on Spinoza in a number of ways. First, it does not assume that you have any philosophical background. I do not presume that you know (or remember) Descartes’ theory of substance, that... | | Telecommunications Engineering
Since the publication of the second edition of this highly acclaimed textbook, telecommunications has progressed at a rapid rate. Major advances continue to occur in mobile communications and broadband digital networks and services, sophisticated signal processing techniques are prevalent at increasingly higher bit rates, and digital systems... | | Gene CloningIn November 1973, a five-page paper was published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA by Stanley Cohen, Annie Chang, Herb Boyer and Robert Helling from Stanford University in California. The title of the paper was “Construction of biologically functional plasmids in vitro”, and it described for... |
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