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Posted: October 2nd, 2007, 6:14am CEST by Swat
The Biology of Temporary Waters
Oxford University Press, USA | 0198528124 | Edition - 2006-01-07 | PDF | 352 pages | 5.5 MB | rapidshare
Temporary waters are found throughout the world, and include intermittent streams and ponds, episodic rain puddles, seasonal limestone lakes, the water-retaining structures of plants, such as bromeliads and pitcher plants, and a variety of man-made container habitats. They are probably populated by various plant, animal, and microscopic communities ranging from the very simple to the highly complex. Temporary waters therefore represent fascinating and significant arenas in which to study the properties of species, as the latter deal with the rigours of living in highly variable environments. Obligate temporary water species display a remarkable array of adaptations to the periodic loss of their primary medium that largely set them apart from the inhabitants of permanent water bodies. Survival of individuals frequently depends upon exceptional physiological tolerance or effective migrational abilities that are timed to appropriate habitat phases. Quite apart from their inherent biological interest, temporary waters are now in the limelight from a conservation perspective as these habitats come more and more into conflict with human activities. Traditionally, many temporary waters (be they ponds, pools, streams, or wetlands) have been considered to be ‘wasted’ areas of land, potentially convertible to agriculture once drained. In reality, they are natural features of the global landscape that represent distinct and unique habitats for many species, some that are found nowhere else and others that reach their maximum abundance and/or genetic diversity there. Temporary waters are also very important from a human health perspective since they function as breeding places for the vectors of many disease organisms, including those that spread malaria, schistosomiasis, yellow fever, and dengue. Most of these exact a high toll in terms of global human suffering and reduced regional economies. This book collates and synthesises the highly scattered and diverse global literature on pure and applied aspects of these habitats and their biota. It examines the ecology of temporary waters in both natural and human environments, and seeks to identify common evolutionary themes. It will be of particular interest to aquatic ecologists, invertebrate and vertebrate biologists, environmental biologists, wetland managers and conservationists, those charged with controlling water-associated diseases, entomologists, educators, and natural historians.
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Posted: October 2nd, 2007, 6:12am CEST by Swat
The Biology of the Eye (Advances in Organ Biology: Volume 10)
Elsevier Science | 0444509259 | Edition - 2006-01-12 | PDF | 406 pages | 1.2 MB | rapidshare
This book is the result of a collective effort. Due to an oversight, mention of three of the contributors who played an especially decisive role in bringing the work to fruition was omitted from the book. They should share fully in the intellectual credits accruing from this publication. I would therefore like to acknowledge and thank the following for their outstanding contributions to editing the work:
Dr. Morten Dornonville la Cour (MD, Dr. Med. Sci.) solicited and edited the chapters on retina, RPE, choroid, vitreous, immunology, and sclera. Dr. la Cour is a Lecturer, Eye Department, Copenhagen University Hospital, specializes in vitreoretinal surgery, and frequently lectures in the international scene. A trained mathematician, he has done research in retinal pigment epithelial physiology in the laboratories of Drs. Thomas Zeuthen and Sheldon Miller.
Dr. Friedrich P.J. Diecke and Dr. Elliott M. Kanner also provided invaluable editorial assistance. Dr Diecke, who was formerly Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physiology, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, is a Professor Emeritus at that institution. His research has concentrated on membrane transport mechanisms in lens epithelial cells, corneal endothelial cells and peripheral nerve and on the regulation of vascular smooth muscle contraction. Dr. Elliott M. Kanner was born in Canada in 1970. He graduated from Yale University in 1992 with a BS/MS degree in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. He received his PhD degree from the Rockefeller University in 1999 and his MD degree from Weill/Cornell in 2001. He is currently an Ophthalmology resident at Columbia University.
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Posted: October 2nd, 2007, 6:09am CEST by Swat
Adam Machanic, Hugo Kornelis, Lara Rubbelke«Mastering Perl (OReilly)»
O’Reilly Media | ISBN 0596527241 | Edition: Ist - July 16, 2007 | PDF | 5.72 Mb
This is the third in O’Reilly’s series of landmark Perl tutorials, which started with Learning Perl, the bestselling introduction that taught you the basics of Perl syntax, and Intermediate Perl, which taught you how to create re-usable Perl software. Mastering Perl pulls everything together to show you how to bend Perl to your will. It convey’s Perl’s special models and programming idioms. This book isn’t a collection of clever tricks, but a way of thinking about Perl programming so you can integrate the real-life problems of debugging, maintenance, configuration, and other tasks you encounter as a working programmer.
The book explains how to:
- Use advanced regular expressions, including global matches,
lookarounds, readable regexes, and regex debugging
- Avoid common programing problems with secure programming techniques
- Profile and benchmark Perl to find out where to focus your
improvements
- Wrangle Perl code to make it more presentable and readable
- See how Perl keeps track of package variables and how you can use
that for some powerful tricks
- Define subroutines on the fly and turn the tables on normal
procedural programming.
- Modify and jury rig modules to fix code without editing the original
source
- Let your users configure your programs without touching the code
- Learn how you can detect errors Perl doesn’t report, and how to tell
users about them
- Let your Perl program talk back to you by using Log4perl
- Store data for later use in another program, a later run of the same
program, or to send them over a network
- Write programs as modules to get the benefit of Perl’s distribution
and testing tools Appendices include “brian’s Guide to Solving Any Perl
Problem” to improve your troubleshooting skills, as well as suggested
reading to continue your Perl education. Mastering Perl starts you on
your path to becoming the person with the answers, and, failing that,
the person who knows how to find the answers or discover the problem.
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The Russian Kettlebell Challenge
Dragon Door Publications | ISBN: 0938045326 | 170 pages | 2001-06-01 | PDF | 1.58 Mb
If you are looking for a supreme edge in your chosen sportâ€â€?seek no more! Both the Soviet Special Forces and numerous world-champion Soviet Olympic athletes used the ancient Russian Kettlebell as their secret weapon for xtreme fitness. Thanks to the kettlebells’s astonishing ability to turbocharge physical performance, these Soviet supermen creamed their opponents time-and-time-again, with inhuman displays of raw power and explosive strength.
Now, former Spetznaz trainer, international fitness author and nationally ranked kettlebell lifter, Pavel Tsatsouline, delivers this secret Soviet weapon into your own hands.
You NEVER have to be second best again! Here is the first-ever complete kettlebell training programâ€â€?for Western shock-attack athletes who refuse to be deniedâ€â€?and who’d rather be dead than number two.
-Get really, really nastyâ€â€?with a commando’s wiry strength, the explosive agility of a tiger and the stamina of a world-class ironman
-Own the single best conditioning tool for killer sports like kickboxing, wrestling, and football
-Watch in amazement as high-rep kettlebells let you hack the fat off your meat�without the dishonor of aerobics and dieting
-Kick your fighting system into warp speed�with high-rep snatches and clean-and-jerks
-Develop steel tendons and ligaments�and a whiplash power to match
-Effortlessly absorb ballistic shocks�and laugh as you shrug off the hardest hits your opponent can muster
-Go ape on your enemies�with gorilla shoulders and tree-swinging traps
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Posted: October 2nd, 2007, 5:40am CEST by Swat
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Building Genetic Medicine
The MIT Press | 0262162423 | Edition - April 1, 2007 | PDF | 285 pages | 1.8 MB | 584 pages | rapidshare
In Building Genetic Medicine, Shobita Parthasarathy shows how, even in an era of globalization, national context is playing an important role in the development and use of genetic technologies. Focusing on the development and deployment of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer (known as BRCA testing) in the United States and Britain, Parthasarathy develops a comparative analysis framework in order to investigate how national “toolkits” shape both regulations and the architectures of technologies and uses this framework to assess the implications of new genetic technologies.
BRCA testing was one of the most highly anticipated and publicized technologies of contemporary medicine. Parthasarathy argues that differences in the American and British approaches to health care and commercialization of research led to the establishment of different BRCA services in the two countries. In Britain, the technology was available through the National Health Service as an integrated program of counseling and laboratory analysis, and was viewed as a potentially cost-effective form of preventive care. In the United States, although BRCA testing was initially offered by a number of providers, one company eventually became the sole provider of a test available to consumers on demand.
Parthasarathy also reports on an unsuccessful attempt by the American provider of BRCA testing to market its services in Britain. British scientists, health-care providers, and patients rejected the American technology, she argues, because it was part of a social, economic, and political system to which they were not accustomed. Parthasarathy draws lessons for the future of genetic medicine from these cross-national differences, and discusses the ways in which comparative case studies can inform policy-making efforts in science and technology.
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