Edited by internationally recognized authorities in the field, this expanded and updated new
edition of the bestselling Handbook, containing many new articles, is aimed at the design …

Soils act as sources and sinks for greenhouse gases (GHG) such as carbon dioxide (CO 2 ),
methane (CH 4 ), and nitrous oxide (N 2 O). Since both storage and emission capacities …

The tet regulatory system in which doxycycline (dox) acts as an inducer of specifically engineered
RNA polymerase II promoters was transferred into transgenic mice. Tight control and a …

Glial cells produce myelin and contribute to axonal morphology in the nervous system. Two
myelin membrane proteolipids, PLP and DM20, were shown to be essential for the integrity …

The arginine residue at position 586 of the GluR-B subunit renders heteromeric α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate
(AMPA)-sensitive glutamate receptor channels …

Purpose To evaluate the time course of therapy-induced changes in tumor glucose use
during chemoradiotherapy of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) and to correlate …

Two proteolipid proteins, PLP and DM20, are the major membrane components of central
nervous system (CNS) myelin. Mutations of the X-linked PLP/DM20 gene cause …

This advanced textbook and reference is the first comprehensive and systematic review of
all methods used for the measurement, correction, and control of the beam dynamics of …

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) is the most common inherited neuropathy in humans and
has been associated with a partial duplication of chromosome 17 (CMT type 1A). We have …

Electrons generated and accumulated inside the beam-pipe form an “electron cloud” that
interacts with a charged particle beam. If the number of electrons is sizable, this beam-cloud …