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Intended for advanced readers, this is a review of all relevant techniques for structure analysis in one handy volume. As such, it provides the latest knowledge on spectroscopic and related techniques for chemical structure analysis, such as NMR, optical spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and X-ray crystallography, including the scope and limitation of each method. As a result, readers not only becom…
Written in a style that breaks the barriers between the disciplines, this monograph enables researchers from life science, physics, engineering, or chemistry to access the most recent results in a common language. The resulting review character of this project sets it apart from specialized journals, and allows each volume to respond quickly to new developments. This third volume contains new topi…
This is the fourth of five books in the Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins in Organic Synthesis series. Closing a gap in the literature, this is the only series to cover this important topic in organic and biochemistry. Drawing upon the combined expertise of the international «who's who» in amino acid research, these volumes represent a real benchmark for amino acid chemistry, providing a comprehe…
This is the last of five books in the Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins in Organic Synthesis series. Closing a gap in the literature, this is the only series to cover this important topic in organic and biochemistry. Drawing upon the combined expertise of the international «who's who» in amino acid research, these volumes represent a real benchmark for amino acid chemistry, providing a comprehens…
Over the years, millions of school children must have written out their address in the same way – their house number and street, their town, their country, their continent, planet Earth, the universe… Following this simplest of patterns, taking each line of the address as a starting point, Tim Radford explores our place in the scheme of things – why we are attached to a particular geographical pla…
Ложные сведения и дезинформация, которой так часто подвержены врачи, могут стоить пациентам здоровья, а возможно, и жизни. Мясо вызывает рак? Высокий холестерин вреден для здоровья? Молоко полезно, а хлеб – страшное зло? Вы удивитесь, как многое из того, что нам сегодня кажется очевидным и правдивым, давно опровергнуто современной медициной.
Для лечения подагры средневековые медики рекомендовали в течение нескольких часов кипятить в воде муравейник вместе с его обитателями, а затем в этом отваре купаться. Некоторые, узнав об этом, вздрогнут, в красках представив такую ванну, а другие спросят: откуда об этом известно и какие еще дикие методы лечения существовали в прошлом? Эта книга – для последних. Немецкий врач Юрген Братер собрал са…
«Живые всегда учатся у мертвых, начиная с самых ранних познаний в анатомии человека и заканчивая сегодняшней судебной медициной и патологией». Клаус Пюшель, судмедэксперт с 40-летним опытом, убежден, что мертвые не только учат живых, но и спасают их. Так, благодаря вскрытию мертвых судмедэксперты раскрывают преступления и разрабатывают более эффективные методы лечения болезней. Эта книга приглашае…
Практически у всех народов мира существовали мифологические представления об окружающем мире. Об этом говорят исследования ученых в самых разных областях науки: истории, антропологии, религиоведения. Где бы ни жили люди, в Европе или Африке, Америке или Азии, Австралии или Океании, везде рано или поздно складывалась примерно одна и та же система мировоззрения, позже получившая название мифологичес…
Speckle metrology includes various optical techniques that are based on the speckle fields generated by reflection from a rough surface or by transmission through a rough diffuser. These techniques have proven to be very useful in testing different materials in a non-destructive way. They have changed dramatically during the last years due to the development of modern optical components, with fast…
By way of its clear and logical structure, as well as abundant highresolution illustrations, this is a systematic survey of the players and pathways that control genome function in the mammalian cell nucleus. As such, this handbook and reference ties together recently gained knowledge from a variety of scientific disciplines and approaches, dissecting all major genomic events: transcription, repli…
From a leading researcher in optical spectroscopy and electronic properties of novel semiconductors comes this much-needed toolbox title to understand the concepts behind the spectroscopy of advanced organic materials and how they work. The book thus provides basic and practical knowledge on material photophysics for planning, carrying out and understanding experiments in spectroscopy. It contains…
This volume represents one of the two edited by inviting a selection of young researchers participating to the European Young Chemist Award 2010. The other volume concerns the area of Nanotechnology/Material Science and is titled: Molecules at Work. This book contains the contributions of selected young chemists from the field of synthetic chemistry. The contributions are grouped under the three f…
A one-stop, concise guide on determining and measuring thin film thickness by optical methods. This practical book covers the laws of electromagnetic radiation and interaction of light with matter, as well as the theory and practice of thickness measurement, and modern applications. In so doing, it shows the capabilities and opportunities of optical thickness determination and discusses the streng…
The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum CryptographyFrom the best-selling author of Fermat’s Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of man’s urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer encryptions.As in Fermat’s Last Theorem, Simon Singh brings life to an anstonishing story of puzzles, codes, languages and riddles that reveals man’s continual p…