Published November, 2014
By Pascal Laugier and Guillaume Haiat
Publisher: Springer
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Comprehensive in scope and thoroughly up-to-date, this volume presents the most recent experimental results and theoretical concepts in the quantitative ultrasound of bone. The text gives readers an extensive view of the mathematical and numerical models in order to characterize bone strength.

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Published November, 2014
By Judit Varkonyi
Publisher: Springer
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Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are the most common hematological malignancies involving mostly the elderly population. This volume provides and updated overview of important clinical aspects of the disease.

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Published November, 2014
By Siegfried Mense and Robert D. Gerwin
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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This edition of the companion volumes Muscle Pain: Understanding the Mech- isms and Muscle Pain: Diagnosis and Treatment is essential reading for those interested in clinical approaches to acute and chronic pain conditions involving muscle tissues and in the mechanisms underlying these conditions.

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Published November, 2014
By Jose Luis Perez Velazquez, Richard P. Wennberg and Richard Wennberg
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience
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Increasing interest in the study of coordinated activity of brain cell ensembles reflects the current conceptualization of brain information processing and cognition.

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Published November, 2014
By Mark P. Mattson and Edward J. Calabrese
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
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Hormesis is a poorly understood phenomenon affecting all forms of life on earth. This groundbreaking book summarizes and analyzes the various positives of hormesis in an attempt to reveal hormesis as a fundamental principle of biomedical sciences as a whole.

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Published November, 2014
By Roger G. Lentle, Patrick W.M. Janssen and Patrick W M Janssen
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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While researchers and product developers have made great strides in food engineering, there needs to be increased focus on what happens when the food is actually digested. Digestion is a complex topic, and this will be the first book aimed at food researchers.

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Published November, 2014
By William D. Figg, Judah Folkman and William Figg
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Dr. Judah Folkman is considered the "father of angiogenesis." Angiogenesis: An Integrative Approach from Science to Medicine is a comprehensive, concise summary of tumor angiogenesis. Folkman has authored nearly 400 original papers and more than 100 book chapters.

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Published November, 2014
By David P Finn, Bradley K Taylor and David Finn
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
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Pain is an integrative, whole-systems (patho)physiological phenomenon and behavioural neuroscience plays a key role in advancing our understanding of pain.

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Published November, 2014
By Undurti N. Das
Publisher: Springer
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The book describes how the balance between pro- and anti-inflammatory molecules is related to health and disease.

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Published November, 2014
By Gerald S. Berenson
Publisher: Springer
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That precursors of adult coronary artery disease, hypertension, and type II diabetes begin in childhood have been clearly established by the Bogalusa Heart Study.

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