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Chapter 9 Laser Pulses Characterization with Pyroelectric Sensors
(2010)
There are many industrial and medical applications of CO2 (λ=10.6 μm) and Nd:YAG (λ=1.06 μm) infrared lasers for which the quality of the process are tightly connected to the
characteristic of the laser pulse. These two ...
Seismic Waves - Research and Analysis
(2012)
The importance of seismic wave research lies not only in our ability to understand and predict earthquakes and tsunamis, it also reveals information on the Earth's composition and features in much the same way as it led ...
The Continuum of Health Risk Assessments
(2012)
This book presents a collection of health risk assessments for known and emerging hazards that span a continuum. Case studies for existing health risks include psychoactive drug usage in delivery truck drivers and using ...
Progress in Molecular and Environmental Bioengineering - From Analysis and Modeling to Technology Applications
(2011)
This book provides an example of the successful and rapid expansion of bioengineering within the world of the science. It includes a core of studies on bioengineering technology applications so important that their progress ...
Laser Pulse Phenomena and Applications
(2010)
Pulsed lasers are available in the gas, liquid, and the solid state. These lasers are also enormously versatile in their output characteristics yielding emission from very large energy pulses to very high peak-power pulses. ...
Wavelet Transforms and Their Recent Applications in Biology and Geoscience
(2012)
This book reports on recent applications in biology and geoscience. Among them we mention the application of wavelet transforms in the treatment of EEG signals, the dimensionality reduction of the gait recognition framework, ...
Alloy Steel - Properties and Use
(2011)
The sections in this book are devoted to new approaches and usages of stainless steels, the influence of the environments on the behavior of certain classes of steels, new structural concepts to understand some fatigue ...
Protein Phosphorylation in Human Health
(2012)
15 chapters on protein phosphorylation and human health written by expert scientists. Covers most important research hot points, such as Akt, AMPK and mTOR. Bridges the basic protein phosphorylation pathways with human ...
Chapter 13 Targeting Tumor Perfusion and Oxygenation Modulates Hypoxia and Cancer Sensitivity to Radiotherapy and Systemic Therapies
(2011)
Hypoxia, a partial pressure of oxygen (pO2) below physiological needs, is a limiting factor affecting the efficiency of radiotherapy. Indeed, the reaction of reactive oxygen species
(ROS, produced by water radiolysis) ...
Chapter 2 Exploring the Components of the Universe Through Higher-Order Weak Lensing Statistics Higher-Order Weak Lensing Statistics
(2012)
Our current cosmological model, backed by a large body of evidence from a variety of different cosmological probes (for example, see [1, 2]), describes a Universe comprised of
around 5% normal baryonic matter, 22% cold ...
Chapter 15 Brain Tumors and the Lynch Syndrome
(2011)
Lynch syndrome (LS) (MIM No. 120435-6), previously known as hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) (Boland, 2005), is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by
germline mutation in one of the DNA mismatch ...
Chapter 4 Numerical Modelling of Industrial Induction
(2011)
Induction heating is a physical process extensively used in the metallurgical industry for different applications involving metal melting. The main components of an induction heating
system are an induction coil connected ...
Chapter 7 Aptamer-Nanoparticle Bioconjugates for Drug Delivery
(2012)
Drug delivery systems traditionally relied on passive diffusion mechanisms for targeting and releasing of therapeutically active molecules. The major problems associated with
traditional delivery are poor specificity ...
Open Questions in Cosmology
(2012)
In the last years we have witnessed how the field of Cosmology has experienced a metamorphosis. From being essentially the search for three numbers (the expansion rate, the deceleration parameter, and the cosmological ...
The Delivery of Nanoparticles
(2012)
Nanoparticle is a general challenge for today's technology and the near future observations of science. Nanoparticles cover mostly all types of sciences and manufacturing technologies. The properties of this particle are ...
Advances in Cancer Therapy
(2011)
The book "Advances in Cancer Therapy" is a new addition to the Intech collection of books and aims at providing scientists and clinicians with a comprehensive overview of the state of current knowledge and latest research ...
Management of CNS Tumors
(2011)
Management of CNS Tumors is a selected review of Central Nervous System (CNS) tumors with particular emphasis on pathological classification and complex treatment algorithms for each common tumor type. Additional detailed ...
Chapter 8 Computational Modelling of the Steps Involved in Photodynamic Therapy
(2012)
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a branch of phototherapy that has seen a surge of interest in the last few decades, due to its potential in the treatment of various cancers, infections and
heart disease.(Bonnett, 2000) ...
Chapter 10 Pathogen and Toxin Entry - How Pathogens and Toxins Induce and Harness Endocytotic Mechanisms
(2012)
Humans have been exposed to a plethora of pathogens (bacteria, viruses) ever since. Infectious diseases are among the leading causes of death worldwide. For example, in 2011, 1.34 million people died of tuberculosis, which ...
Chapter 3 Wavelet Analysis for the Extraction of Morphological Features for Orthopaedic Bearing Surfaces
(2011)
Surface texture is one of the most critical factors and important functionality indicators in the performance of high precision and nanoscale devices and components. The functions
that have been identified in various ...