الصفحة 8
الصفحة 8
Structure of Enteric Neurons
The plexuses of Auerbach and Meissner are peculiar to the gut; they extend from the beginning of the unstriated portion of the oesophagus to the end of the rectum. They have usually been considered to belong to the sympathetic system, but it appears to me preferable to place them in a class by themselves. We may speak of them as forming the enteric nervous system. (Langley 1900) In this context,itislessimportant that Langleyexcludedthe striated part of the oesophagus from his de?nition of the enteric nervous system (ENS). Much more remarkable seems to be that for Langley, a physiologist, structural reasons were the most decisive for taking the nervous system within the wall of the gastrointestinal tract as an entity unto itself.
Structural Information and Communication Complexity ; Vol. 4056 ; 13th International Colloquium, SIROCCO 2006, Chester, UK, July 2-5, 2006, Proceedings
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2006, held in Chester, UK, in July 2006. The 24 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The papers address issues such as topics in distributed and parallel computing, information dissemination, communication complexity, interconnection networks, high speed networks, wireless and sensor networks, mobile computing, optical computing, autonomous robots, and related areas. The papers are organized in topical sections on robots, routing, distributed algorithms, fault tolerance, radio networks, and self-stabilizing alorgithms.
Structural Information and Communication Complexity ; 14th International Colloquium, SIROCCO 2007, Castiglioncello, Italy, June 5-8, 2007, Proceedings
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2007, held in Castiglioncello, Italy in June 2007. This book presents 23 revised full papers together with 4 invited talks that were reviewed and selected from 66 submissions.
Streptozotocin : Uses, mechanism of action and side effects
treptozotocin (STZ), an antibiotic and anticancer agent, is the most prominent diabetogenic chemical agent in diabetes research due to its cytotoxicity in pancreatic beta-cells. The selective toxicity of STZ due to beta cells occurs because of its preferential accumulation in beta cells through uptake via GLUT2 glucose transporter. Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus can be induced by either single high dose or multiple low- dose STZ injections. At low dose, STZ induces pancreatic beta-cell apoptosis and at high dose it causes necrosis. Though STZ itself can cause carcinogenesis and renal, hepatic and muscle myoblast toxicity, these side effects can be minimized or completely avoided by using lower doses.
Strategy and Organization of Corporate Banking
The impressive development of the finance literature with its emphasis on asset pricing and the formal modeling of incentive systems during the past three decades, has largely relegated the business and operational aspects of banking as an industry from the agenda of academic research. Though this is understandable, it is especially regrettable in view of the dynamic dev- opments in the banking industry which have started about a decade ago and are currently in full swing. Fortunately, there are now signs of a change to the effect that banking is back on the research agenda. The p- sent book by Professor De Laurentis and his co-authors is a highly inno- tive and interesting manifestation of this reorientation. Banking is an important part of any financial system, and it is especially important in the financial systems of the countries of Continental Europe, such as Italy, France, and Germany, which have been bank-based for d- ades and which are, in my view, likely to remain bank-based for the fo- seeable future. There are many reasons, based on empirical and theoretical considerations, to believe that strong banks are not only important for the banking industry itself, but also for the respective national economies.
Storie di cose semplici = Stories of simple things
The nut, the thread, the key, the ring, the mirror, the button and the sphere are simple things that we encounter every day, but of which we often forget, because contemporary culture is more and more bewitched by the complexity of the systems and the lightness of virtual realities. This essay, countering Italo Calvino's five American Lectures, examines how "simple things" in fact often demonstrate their importance in simplicity, slowness, heaviness, singularity, in invisibility itself. But their "consistency" - this precisely should have been the sixth Lesson - lies precisely in the fact that their symbolic and real strength lies precisely in the fact that they are concrete things, which we can all touch, even when they take on a metaphorical meaning. The seven simple objects could have been accompanied by many other examples, but this book must remain above all a stimulus so that we can recover greater attention to the concreteness of things, which is not only important when they are placed in the windows of a museum of material culture, but because they are part of us. Literature and technique, art and philosophy, music and news, every day show how these "things" are the real protagonists of what the French call civilization: the Ring of the Nibelung, Pushkin's Button, and the "Brunelleschi's nut" are just a few examples of how these "things" have found a place of honor in history. And this is a book in which many stories are told, like fairy tales that introduce our things, to let us enter their world accompanied by fantasy.
Stem cell therapy for infertility
Globally, infertility affects 8-12% of couples of reproductive age and has become a common problem. There are several ways to treat infertility, including medication, intrauterine insemination, and in vitro fertilization. In recent years, stem cells are looked at as a promising tool for improving infertility treatments in women and men.. Stem cells are self-renewing, self-replicating undifferentiated cells that are capable of producing specialized cells under appropriate conditions. They exist throughout a human’s embryo, fetal, and adult stages and can proliferate into different cells. While many issues remain to be addressed concerning stem cells, stem cells have undeniably opened up new ways to treat infertility. In this review, we describe past, present, and future strategies for the use of stem cells in reproductive medicine.
Statistical Network Analysis : Models, Issues, and New Directions; ICML 2006 Workshop on Statistical Network Analysis, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 29, 2006, Revised Selected Papers
This volume was prepared to share with a larger audience the exciting ideas and work presented at an ICML 2006 workshop of the same title. Network models have a long history. Sociologists and statisticians made major advances in the 1970s and 1980s, culminating in part with a number of substantial databases and the class of exponential random graph models and related methods in the early 1990s. Physicists and computer scientists came to this domain cons- erably later, but they enriched the array of models and approaches and began to tackle much larger networks and more complex forms of data.
Statistical Decision Theory : Estimation, Testing, and Selection
This monograph is written for advanced graduate students, Ph.D. students, and researchers in mathematical statistics and decision theory. All major topics are introduced on a fairly elementary level and then developed gradually to higher levels. The book is self-contained as it provides full proofs, worked-out examples, and problems. It can be used as a basis for graduate courses, seminars, Ph.D. programs, self-studies, and as a reference book.
Statistical Analysis of Extreme Values : With Applications to Insurance, Finance, Hydrology and Other Fields
Provides a self-contained introduction to the parametric modeling, exploratory analysis and statistical interference for extreme values.The entire text of this third edition has been thoroughly updated and rearranged to meet the new requirements. Additional sections and chapters, elaborated on more than 100 pages, are particularly concerned with topics like dependencies, the conditional analysis and the multivariate modeling of extreme data.
Stand Out : How to Build Your Leadership Presence
Stand Out explains that the goal of leadership presence is to align other people's impression of you with your best authentic self. Body language expert and executive coach Carol Kinsey Goman teaches the five essential skills needed: composure, connection, confidence, credibility and charisma. She also explains how leadership presence is different for women, how nonverbal communication builds or destroys presence and why self-promotion is essential. This book shows aspiring and experienced leaders alike how to more positively influence the impression they make on others.
Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems ; 9th International Symposium, SSS 2007 Paris, France, November 14-16, 2007 Proceedings
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, SSS 2007, held in Paris, France, November 14-16, 2007. The 27 regular papers presented together with the extended abstracts of 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The papers address all aspects of self-stabilization, safety and security, recovery oriented systems and programing, from theoretical contributions, to reports of the actual experience of applying the principles of self-stabilization to static and dynamic systems.
Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems ; 8th International Symposium, SSS 2006, Dallas, TX, USA, November 17-19, 2006, Proceedings
Contains the proceedings of the 8th International Symposium, SSS 2006, held in Dallas, TX, USA, November 17-19, 2006. Proceedings symposium has been the main forum for presentation of research results in the area of self-* for 17 years. This year,we extended the scope of the symposium to cover all safety and - curity related aspects of self-* systems. The title of the symposium was changed to the International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of D- tributed Systems (SSS) to re?ect this expansion.
Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems ; 10th International Symposium, SSS 2008, Detroit, MI, USA, November 21-23, 2008. Proceedings
Addresses all safety and security-related aspects of self-stabilizing systems in various areas of distributed computing including peer-to-peer networks, wireless sensor networks, mobile ad-hoc networks, and robotic networks. The book is organized in topical sections on MAC layer protocols, wireless networks, stabilizing algorithms, as well as security and system models.
Stability of Nonautonomous Differential Equations
Main theme of this volume is the stability of nonautonomous differential equations, with emphasis on the Lyapunov stability of solutions, the existence and smoothness of invariant manifolds, the construction and regularity of topological conjugacies, the study of center manifolds, as well as their reversibility and equivariance properties. Most results are obtained in the infinite-dimensional setting of Banach spaces. Furthermore, the linear variational equations are always assumed to possess a nonuniform exponential behavior, given either by the existence of a nonuniform exponential contraction or a nonuniform exponential dichotomy. The presentation is self-contained and has unified character. The volume contributes towards a rigorous mathematical foundation of the theory in the infinite-dimension setting, and may lead to further developments in the field. The exposition is directed to researchers as well as graduate students interested in differential equations and dynamical systems, particularly in stability theory.
Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology
Since 2004 the Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology has established itself as the definitive reference in the Nanoscience field. It integrates the knowledge from nanofabrication, nanomechanics, materials science, and reliability engineering in just one volume. Reflecting further developments, the new edition has grown from six to eight parts and from 38 to 58 chapters. Existing chapters have been thoroughly updated and new material has been added to cover developing fields such as bionanotechnology, nanorobotics, and NEMS/MEMS reliability. This classic reference book addresses mechanical and electrical engineers, materials scientists, physicists and chemists who work either in the nano area or in a field that is or will be influenced by this new key technology.
Speaking English as a second language : Learners' problems and coping strategies
Focuses on understanding the process of problem construction in oral communication in foreign language contexts, examining how speakers of English as a second language approach issues in oral communication, as well as the strategies they employ to overcome these difficulties.
Songs generator
Songs generator app is a tool to generate lyrics, musi,and voice based on the given selected choices of users using Deep learning models. This app has multiple aims to achieve, the first aim is to generate lyrics to help a computer program capable of generating lyrics for given melodies, the deep learning model goal in this phase is to generate lyrics of the chosen mood say (happy, sad, etc. ), by training itself based on the given datasets of lyrics of various artists, but not identical to existing lyrics, it takes a sequence of words as an input and output a continuation of that sequence using our model. For the second phase, The goal of this model is to generate music by using a deep learning model that takes tokenized MIDI files as input and predicts the notes as an output the output of this model would be a midi file. For the last phase, we used a library to generate a voice that takes the output of the first model and the second model to generate a voice that is consistent with the lyrics and the music.
Solidarity and Prosocial Behavior : An Integration of Sociological and Psychological Perspectives
It is now a well-accepted fact in all human sciences that human behavior is not always governed by egotism and selfish motives. Unfortunately, this does not explain why humans also act blatantly selfish and are blind to the suffering of others.This book is a response to the quandary. It brings together leading researchers in sociology and psychology to explain human egotism and altruism using not only their area of study but also bringing in research from economics and biology. Since this work brings together the research of many different disciplines, a complete account of solidarity and prosocial behavior is presented.
Solid self micro emulsifying drug delivery system
Explores the formulation of Solid Self-Microemulsifying Drug Delivery Systems (SSMEDDS) as a strategy to enhance oral bioavailability and reduce GI side effects of NSAIDs. Tiaprofenic acid, a poorly soluble acidic NSAID, was selected as a model drug to develop and evaluate the delivery system. Excipients were selected using Hansen solubility parameters. While castor oil showed optimal solubility, it was excluded due to known irritancy. Olive oil was chosen for its adequate solubilization capacity and documented gastric protective effects. The optimized SMEDDS formulation was solidified via adsorption on Aerosil.
