Published November, 2012
By Gerald H. Pollack and H.L. Granzier
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Elastic filaments refer mainly to titin, the largest of all known proteins. Titin forms a molecular spring that is responsible for maintaining the structural integrity of contracting muscle, ensuring efficient muscle contraction. More recently, it has become clear that titin is not restricted to muscle cells alone.

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Published November, 2012
By R. Hoffman
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This book is about compressing data to make digital systems work more effi ciently. Many different things can be compressed, including the data in computers, communications links, consumer-electronics gear, and all sizes and shapes of digital systems.

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Published November, 2012
By Naranjan S. Dhalla, Nobuakira Takeda, Manjeet Singh and Anton Lukas
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Progress in Experimental Cardiology
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Current evidence suggests that the ischemic preconditioning response is a multi-factorial process consisting of an initial early trigger, an intermediate mediator, and an end effector.

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Published November, 2012
By Ellen L. Bassuk and Alan J. Gelenberg
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Students and trainees will appreciate the handbook's well-organized and readable style, and practicing clinicans should be satisified with its balanced consideration of older, standard treatments as well as the latest medicines and trends in clinical psychopharmacology, with glimpses into future developments.

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Published November, 2012
By Richard L. Sweet and Daniel V. Landers
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Pelvic Inflammatory Disease is an in-depth, thorough guide for the clinician on the most common complication of sexually transmitted pathogens. In addition, the myriad clinical complications and challenges are discussed in chapters on tuboovarian abscess, PID and HIV infection, sequelae of PID, PID in adolescence, and PID in pregnancy.

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Published October, 2012
By Jerry Suls and Ladd Wheeler
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
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After four decades of research, the topic of social comparison is more popular than ever. In this timely handbook a distinguished roster of researchers and theoreticians describe where the field has been since its development in the early 1950s and where it is likely to go next.

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Published October, 2012
By Herbert M. Lefcourt
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
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In this new book he places humor firmly within the literatures of coping processes, the moderation of stressful experiences, and health by showing how humor can help create and encourage feelings of community, closeness, and control.

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Published October, 2012
By Paul C. Howard, Stephen S. Hecht and Frederick A. Beland
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Environmental Science Research
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Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on N-Substituted Aryl Compounds, held in Cleveland, Ohio, July 15-19, 1989

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Published October, 2012
By William L. Lowe Jr.
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Endocrine Updates
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Type 1 diabetes is addressed in chapters exploring genetic determinants that affect the autoimmune process characteristic of type 1 diabetes, the role of the insulin gene in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes and additional genes that may impact upon the risk of type 1 diabetes.

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Published October, 2012
By Angela D. Friederici, Evelin Witruk and Thomas Lachmann
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Neuropsychology and Cognition
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This highly interdisciplinary project presents new results and the state of the art of knowledge in the psychology and neurophysiology of language, reading and dyslexia. The book grew out of the Basic Mechanisms of Language and Language Disorders conference (Leipzig, Sept.

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