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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the first part, the authors introduce the progress of researches on nitrogen metabolism of soybean nodules and roots. They investigate the fate of nitrogen fixed in soybean nodules by tracer experiment with 15N2 gas. The results indicate that major part of fixed N in bacteroids (a symbiotic state of rhizobia) is excreted rapidly to cytosol of infected cells in the form of ammonia, then the ammonia is assimilated into amino acids via GS/GOGAT pathway. Then the fixed nitrogen is assimilated into ureides, allantoin and allantoic acid, and then transported to the shoots via xylem. A small portion of fixed N was assimilated in the bacteroids directly into glutamate and alanine. On the other hand, nitrate absorbed from the roots are mainly assimilated into asparagine. The characteristics of nitrate absorption and metabolism was studied. It is well known that nitrate is a potent inhibitor to nodulation and nitrogen fixation, although the inhibitory mechanism is not fully understood. The authors recently found that nitrate depresses individual nodule growth and nitrogen fixation activity rapidly and reversibly when nodules were in direct contact with nitrate.The indirect effects of nitrate on nodule growth and nitrogen fixation activity were different among treatment concentration and period of supply. The continuous supply of low levels of nitrate from the lower part of roots promoted the nodulation and nitrogen fixation of the upper part of the roots. Hypernodulation mutant lines of soybean were isolated which have profuse nodulation compared with parents. They also exhibit partial-nitrate tolerant to nodulation. The characteristics of hypernodulation mutant lines were studied in relation to nitrate inhibition. The results suggest that lower nitrate absorption and assimilation activity in hypernodulation mutants may be one reason to milder inhibition by nitrate on hypernodulation mutant lines. Introduces the progress of researches on nitrogen metabolism of soybean nodules and roots. This title investigates the fate of nitrogen fixed in soybean nodules by tracer experiment with 15N2 gas. It studies the characteristics of nitrate absorption and metabolism, as well as of hypernodulation mutant lines in relation to nitrate inhibition. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. This book contains seven chapters that detail the future of smart cities. Chapter One focuses mainly on the practical barriers encountered by the author during the design and implementation of three Smart City projects as a project management consultants (PMC) team leader. Chapter Two argues for a greater focus on enabling and enhancing the growth of third places within smart city(ies), through closer business to municipal government collaboration to ensure that these human aspects are taken into consideration by urban planners. Chapter Three argues that current technocentric approach(es) to smart city(ies) design and implementation may create unforeseen negative externalities arising from inequitable access to the promises of digitisation. Chapter Four discusses current developments and future research trends in smart technology(ies) within urban environment(s). Chapter Five includes insights from a robust literature review about inclusive transformation and an empirical study on inclusiveness in 21 smart cities in India along with a deeper qualitative study of Nagpur smart city. Chapter Six establishes that the formation and development of City Smart potential depends on a number of conditions and factors, which the authors divide into external and internal ones. Lastly, Chapter Seven provides a generalization of existing approaches to the definition of design and determinants of the smart awareness development among the youth of Ukraine, and describes the current state of perception of the Smart City Concept. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. At the request of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, the U.S. International Trade Commission undertook an investigation to better understand the role of digital trade--domestic commerce and international trade conducted via the Internet -- in the U.S. and global economies, as well as the effects of barriers and impediments to digital trade that impede U.S. access to global markets. This book shows that digital trade contributes to economic output by improving productivity and reducing trade costs. Digital trade also contributes to the economy as a whole as it facilitates communication, expedites business transactions, improves access to information, and improves market opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. . . . . [1st edition.] 4to, hardcover. No dj. Vg condition. Non-circulating ex-lib copy w/ stamping to endpapers & text-block edges; spine ends lightly bumped, contents bright & clean. 195 p.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 0.71 x 10.16 x 7.17 Inches; 184 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Text clean & bright; binding tight; very minor wear to covers. 412 pages. Size: 7" x 10".

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 7 1/4". x, 161pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The research projects presented in this book are the most recent studies of intelligence. They will improve our understanding of the human's ability to learn, understand or deal with new or trying situations and how people apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (as tests). Understanding intelligence is important because it improves our understanding of how the brain works and could potentially be a gateway to improving education on all levels from individual teaching methods to widely used curriculums.(Publisher).

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Even though our knowledge of wellness has increased, the health habits of many people have become worse over the last decade. This book can serve as a road map. It defines the ten leading causes of deaths, and tells how one can decrease the risk factors. It also gives invaluable information on where to obtain help in breaking bad health habits.and best of all, the book motivates the reader to look at body and mind in a new light. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ex-lib w/usual markings, VERY GOOD+ hardcover, no marks in text; a very clean copy; appears to be unread. Ex-Library.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Grace and self-control. Anyone who has been on the inside of my sporting effort know for the most part those words do not exist. They may accidentally present themselves on occasion, but for the most part, when humans and physical challenges come together in the same arena, everything but grace and self-control results. It seems the harder we strive for perfection the more our human side takes control, bringing with it blunders, mishaps and confusions. The martial arts is by no means an exception. This book is commemoration to this effort by way of a collection of light-hearted cartoons honouring the attempts by human beings living to imitate the ways of nature. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. With the next millennium nearly upon us, believers are under attack on every front. Leading the attack is the media which slashes from every direction possible and some which are not even possible. This well-thought out book delineates faith as being the only answer to the woes which are upon the world. With the next millennium nearly upon us, believers are under attack on every front. Leading the attack is the media which slashes from every direction possible and some which are not even possible. This book delineates faith as being the only answer to the woes which are upon the world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. ix, 143 p., very good in wraps.

Hardcover. 4to. Condition: Very Good. 601pp. Pages are clean and unmarked. Violet boards with printed imagery. Cover has light wear.

xviii, 314p., b/w illus., original stiff printed boards (First men, America's Presidents series).

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. It is widely held that foreign affairs, and more particularly issues of war and peace, lie beyond the scope of judicial scrutiny. In the recent case of Campbell v. Clinton, Judges Silberman and Tatel took diametrically opposite positions on the issue. A concurrence by Judge Silberman contended that war power disputes may not be decided by federal courts, while Judge Tatel insisted that the record demonstrates that federal courts have always felt comfortable and competent to adjudicate a number of war/ power issues. Resorting to one or more of the various threshold tests at their disposal, including the political question doctrine, federal courts may decline adjudication on sensitive and discretionary matters. To avoid placing their oar in murky waters, the courts, it is commonly believed, decline to pass on the validity of war/power issues, thus failing by the same token to perform their role as an independent check on the political branches. Moreover, when they do adjudicate such issues, they are said to usually uphold the actions of the executive branch. A closer scrutiny of case law, however, reveals the record to be more complex.It is by no means a foregone conclusion that courts lie back or shy away from war/power disputes. A number of private citizens and private corporations have taken war/power issues into the courts and had their disputes adjudicated, often decided against the President. Lawsuits brought by Members of Congress, are less likely to succeed. They reveal a fairly constant and consistent trend on the part of the judiciary: the courts will perform their traditional constitutional role as a n independent check if the political branches defend their own prerogatives. Lawsuits brought by individual members of Congress are likely to be adjudicated by the courts unless Congress, as an institution, ahs confronted the President. The focus of this book is on cases involving presidential and congressional use of military force in armed conflicts. Several cases dealing with private parties and insurance companies are included because life insurance policies may require courts to decide when the nation is 'at war', or when there is an 'act of war', and when the country is 'engaged' in war.The courts have addressed the issue of war in various contexts and a variety of issues, some more significant than others, for two centuries. This book summarises this ongoing judicial record. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in very good condition. No jacket. HCW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Ten percent of the Texas population is 65 and older. The state has a large, rapidly growing elderly population, estimated to reach 4.4 million, or 16.1% of the state's total population in 2025. Medicaid spending for long-term care in FY2001 was $3.3 billion -- 28.5% of all Medicaid spending. Medicaid spending for institutions was more than 70% of Medicaid long-term care spending and more than 20% of all Medicaid spending in F Y2001. Spending for home and community-based services has increased rapidly in recent years and represented 29.2% of Texas long-term care spending in FY2001, primarily due to increased use of the Medicaid Section 1915(c) home and community based waiver program. From FY1990 to FY2001 spending for this program increased from less than 1% to over 21% of all Medicaid long-term care spending in Texas. Texas provides a wide range of services in the home and community to about 100,000 adults with disabilities. Despite this, the state has significant overcapacity in its nursing home industry. As a result, the nursing home occupancy rate is quite low -- 68.5% in 2000.The state continues to serve many persons with developmental disabilities in large state institutions and has no plans to close any facilities in the foreseeable future. Interviews with state officials and a review of state reports highlighted a number of issues including: an imbalance in Medicaid financing favoring institutional care, rather than home and community-based care; a shortage of frontline long-term care workers; and waiting lists for home and community-based services. Ten percent of the Texas population is 65 and older. The state has a large, rapidly growing elderly population, estimated to reach 4.4 million, or 16.1% of the state's total population in 2025. Medicaid spending for long-term care in FY2001 was $3.3 billion -- 28.5% of all Medicaid spending. Medicaid spending for institutions was more than 70% of Medicaid long-term care spending and more than 20% of all Medicaid spending in F Y2001. Spending for home and community-based services has increased rapidly in recent years and represented 29.2% of Texas long-term care spending in FY2001, primarily due to increased use of the Medicaid Section 1915(c) home and community based waiver program. From FY1990 to FY2001 spending for this program increased from less than 1% to over 21% of all Medicaid long-term care spending in Texas. Texas provides a wide range of services in the home and community to about 100,000 adults with disabilities. Despite this, the state has significant overcapacity in its nursing home industry. As a result, the nursing home occupancy rate is quite low -- 68.5% in 2000. The state continues to serve many persons with developmental disabilities in large state institutions and has no plans to close any facilities in the foreseeable future. Interviews with state officials and a review of state reports highlighted a number of issues including: an imbalance in Medicaid financing favoring institutional care, rather than home and community-based care; a shortage of frontline long-term care workers; and waiting lists for home and community-based services. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Bush Administration has pursued several avenues to attempt to contain or end the potential threat posed by Iran, at times pursuing limited engagement, and at other times leaning toward pursuing efforts to change Iran's regime. Some experts believe a potential crisis is looming over Iran's nuclear program because the Bush Administration is sceptical that efforts by several European allies to prevent a nuclear breakout by Iran will succeed, although the Administration announced steps in March 2005 to support those talks. U.S. concerns have been heightened by the victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an admitted hardliner, in Iran's presidential election on June 24, 2005. Some advocate military action against Iran's nuclear infrastructure, but others believe that a combination of diplomatic and economic rewards and punishment are the only viable options on the nuclear issue. U.S. sanctions currently in effect ban or strictly limit U.S. trade, aid, and investment in Iran and penalise foreign firms that invest in Iran's energy sector, but unilateral U.S. sanctions do not appear to have materially slowed Iran's WMD programs to date. Other major U.S. concerns include Iran's policy in the Near East region, particularly Iran's material support to groups that use violence against the U.S.-led Middle East peace process, including Hizballah in Lebanon and the Palestinian groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Some senior Al Qaeda activists are in Iran as well, although Iran claims they are "in custody" and will be tried. Iran did not obstruct the U.S. effort to oust Iraq's Saddam Hussein, a long-time Tehran adversary, at least partly in the expectation that pro-Iranian Shiite Islamic factions would come to power in Iraq in the aftermath. That result occurred as a product of 30 January 2005 elections there. Iran is also assisting pro-Iranian local leaders in Afghanistan, although that support does not appear to be materially hindering the stabilisation and development of Afghanistan. Iran's human rights practices and strict limits on democracy have been consistently criticised by official U.S. and U.N. reports, particularly for Iran's suppression of political dissidents and religious and ethnic minorities. New limits on personal freedoms could be imposed by Ahmadinejad, who has consistently advocated a return to many of the original principles of the Islamic revolution as set down by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.However, Iran does hold elections for some positions, including that of president, suggesting to some experts that there might be benefits to engaging Iranian officials. According to this view, new sanctions or military action could harden Iran's positions without necessarily easing the potential threat posed by Iran. The Bush Administration has pursued several avenues to attempt to contain or end the potential threat posed by Iran, at times pursuing limited engagement, and at other times leaning toward pursuing efforts to change Iran's regime. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the western social structures the number permanently increases sleep more disturbedly. So already suffer more than 10% of the population from sleep awake disturbances which has to be treated urgently; 800,000 patients suffer under Sleep apnea and 25,000 under Narcolepsy (PETER 1995, PETER et al. 1995). Not diagnosed and untreatedly among others they cause on the one hand frequently subjective sorrow in the persons affected and on the other hand accident danger also increased one due to the increased daytime sleepiness or doziness in the traffic and at work (PETER et al. 1995, GERDESMEYER et al. 1997, RANDERATH et al. 1997, 1998, BUTTNER et al. 2000a and b).One can therefore hold tight that sleeplessnesses and/or sleep diseases are complex syndromes summarizing these, be able to impair in his whole personality the person as a whole. You can therefore influence all physical, spiritual and mental processes. Vigilance can make you reduce the physical and mental efficiency to reduce attention and concentration. You can affect the quality of life, reduce, limit and/or prevent social contacts and competences as well as cause further psychiatric, neurological and organic illnesses.Therefore a detailed sleep diagnostics is indispensable and if necessary therapy of the till now known sleeplessnesses and/or sleep diseases in order to bend a therapy resistance forward concerning further physical and mental illnesses and to make an effective medical treatment possible to prevent subsequent illnesses. A huge population in western social structures suffer from sleep awake disturbances. Not diagnosed and untreateded among others they cause on the one hand frequently subjective sorrow in the persons affected and on the other hand accident danger also increased one due to the increased daytime sleepiness or doziness in the traffic and at work. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This self-contained book provides the reader with a comprehensive presentation of recent investigations on operator theory over non-Archimedean Banach and Hilbert spaces. This includes, non-archimedean valued fields, bounded and unbounded linear operators, bilinear forms, functions of linear operators and one-paramter families of bounded linear operators on free branch spaces. Presents investigations on operator theory over non-Archimedean Banach and Hilbert spaces. This book includes, non-archimedean valued fields, bounded and unbounded linear operators, bilinear forms, functions of linear operators and one-paramter families of bounded linear operators on free branch spaces. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Migraine has evolved into a giant puzzle and its literature comprises a vast loosely-linked enterprise challenging human problem-solving capacity. There is no central idea in migraine to elaborate a general theory which in turn could ultimately lead to creation of a unifying hypothesis that collects the various strands of evidences into a coherent and logically defensible intelligible synthesis. Current pathogenetic concepts of migraine, in particular cortical spreading depression (CSD), do not focus on the precise onset of the attack. Neither the aura nor the headache represents the true beginning of a migraine attack. The primary or causal physiological alteration underlying migraine lies in the 'pre-prodromal' phase, the variable interim between exposure to the headache-provoking stimulus or situation and the onset of the migraine prodrome. The migraine prodrome itself can last several hours to a few days. Since CSD is believed to underlie both the migrainous scintillating scotoma as well as the headache, it cannot be regarded as an early or initial 'pre-prodromal' physiological event.The biology of migraine is not the study of laboratory 'markers' but the elucidation of physiological forces (trait and/or state factors) that push (precipitate) or pull (predispose) patients towards aura/headache or aura/headache-free state. The pathophysiology of migraine has been hitherto confined to analyses of diverse precipitating and remitting factors and uncertain postulations about recorded laboratory aberrations into presumptive causal algorithms. The key cranial physiological system involved in migraine remains unidentified. Migraine attacks occur during stress and, more commonly, after cessation of stress. The author has earlier proposed that a physiological neuroendocrine 'system' comprised of well-regulated parallel activation of the vasopressinergic, intrinsic brain serotonergic, and intrinsic brain noradrenergic systems constitutes an important adaptive mechanism that governs vascular integrity, antinociception, behaviour and overall function during stressful occasions, including migraine attacks.Such a conceptual template can be used to segregate the vast phenomenology of migraine into primary pathogenetic or secondary non-pathogenetic divisions; non-pathogenetic migrainous phenomena can be further subdivided into adaptive and concomitant (epiphenomenal) physiological events. Nausea and/or vomiting, facial pallor, Raynaud's phenomenon, episodic daytime sleepiness, and relative hypotension (both spontaneous as well as induced by prophylactic anti-migraine pharmacologic agents) likely reflect the non-pathogenetic (adaptive or epiphenomenal) clinical components of migraine. The pathophysiological basis of aura/headache and nausea/vomiting of migraine is very unlikely to be identical. Exogenous magnesium does not readily cross the intact blood-brain barrier and decreases the permeability of the blood-brain barrier. Magnesium depletion appears to serve an important adaptive function; its utility in migraine management is not convincing.Magnesium depletion, platelet activation, peripheral alterations in serotonin and catecholamine metabolism, hyper-responsiveness of brain noradrenergic, serotonergic, vasopressinergic, and dopaminergic systems, parasympathetic nevous system activation, pupillary miosis, and cutaneous allodynia probably represent some of the secondary adaptive physiological mechanisms operative in migraine. A critical or central role for brain neuronal involvement in migraine pathogenesis appears unikely as established migraine preventive agents like atenolol, nadolol, and verapamil do not readily cross the intact blood-brain barrier or influence brain neuronal function. Antidepressants, including amitriptyline, induce brain noradrenergic and serotonergic hyperfunction, rendering highly unlikely that such brain Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Octavo, viii, 190 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in the publisher's dark blue and yellow pictorial cloth with white lettering to the spine. Boards have very mild wear with minor bumping to the spine edges. Text block has minimal wear and ex-library name stamped to the head edge. Ex-library marking to the title page and sticker to the rear pastedown. Illustrated. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column H, ND-H. 1379763. FP New Rockville Stock.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Very Good condition. Large format, bump to head of spine on front cover edge. No Jacket. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 137pp. Teal boards, no jacket if issued. Foreword by Bernard Einstein. Signed and inscribed by the author, Mih, on the front free endpaper. Some light rubbing to edges of the boards.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Non-linear optical phenomena are easily observable in high-power fibre-optic communication systems. The generation of new frequencies due to these phenomena may be used to design different applications. Four wave mixing, which is conventionally viewed as a deterrent to multi-channel wavelength-division-multiplexed propagation of signals in communication systems, can be used favourably to design optical sources with special characteristics such as multi-wavelength, frequency comb output and supercontinuum. These have applications in widely different fields like communication and medicine. Non-linear optical phenomena are easily observable in high-power fiber-optic communication systems. The generation of fresh frequencies due to these phenomena may be used to design different applications. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Usual ex-library features. The interior is clean and tight. Binding is good. Cover shows slight wear. 183. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Octavo, ix, 159 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in the publisher's cloth bearing black lettering to light green spine. Boards show minimal wear with ex-library sticker to the spine and rear. Mildly splayed fore edges. Text block has ex-library stamp to the head edge. Ex-library stamp to the title page and sticker to the rear pastedown. Illustrated. NITE: Shelved in Netdesk Column D, ND-D. 1377517. FP New Rockville Stock.

Original Boards. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Edition. 404 pages. With tables. Bottom corner front cover bumped & lightly damaged. Slight wear to spine & corners. ; Hardcover; Quarto.