applications of differential equations in life sciences and in engineering sciences

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... pleasure, as in eating and drinking, and in the propagation of the species, &c.; or by both means combined, as in the search for food. But pain or suffering of any kind, if long continued, causes ... half-provoked, half-admiring way of the ingenuity of the leaf of a Sensitive Plant in screwing itself out of a basin of water in which he had tried to fix it. One might see the same spirit in his way of speaking of ... beauty of flowers for instance, in the mass of Azaleas which generally stood in the drawing-room. I think he sometimes fused together his admiration of the structure of a flower and of its intrinsic...

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... Microscopy - Principles and Applications in Medicine, Biology, and the Food Sciences 36 Confocal Laser Microscopy - Principles and Applications in Medicine, Biology, and the Food Sciences http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/50821 Edited ... of retinal increase of cytokines and growth factors produced in ischemic conditions. Proliferative retinopathy appears in approximately 50% of patients with type 1 diabetes and in about 15% of ... rapidly growing method in ophthalmology for in vivo examination of the eye, and an emerging modality in the areas of dentistry, endoscopy, and in the food sciences. Also, it is certain that the...

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... understanding a network of reactions of such complexity. But this level of complexity does not, in principle, seem unreach- ably beyond our understanding. A cellular network of a thousand proteins ... Pauling noticed, liquid water’s statis- tical structure is akin to that of ice, and not just a single form of close packing. The temperature change in the equilibrium of two types of packing ... Haldane’s own entry into the discussion came in his earliest book on the debate, Mechanism, Life and Personality: An Examination of the Mechanistic Theory of Life and Mind, published in 1913, the same...

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... for breaking treaties, for activity in all intrigues, participating in and [pg ix]inciting to civil and foreign wars, encouraging and sanctioning assassinations and massacres, championing the ... Whether her signing of the Edict of Saint-Germain, admitting the Protestants to all employments and granting them the privilege of Calvinistic worship in two cities of every province, and her refusal, ... captivity in Spain, and his moral fall. Spain, Italy, and France were victims of the infamous plotting and disastrous intrigues of this one woman whose death, in 1531, was a blessing to the...

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... under King Agamemnon, of ten years of siege and struggle and innumerable wars, of the hurling of many valiant souls to Hades, of the fall of Troy, and of the varied wanderings and dire fortunes of ... Owing to their pursuit of the higher learning of the times and their cultivation of all the feminine arts and graces, the hetæræ constituted a most interesting phenomenon in the social life of ... paintings of the Greeks illustrate every phase of private life, and abound in representations of the maiden and the matron, in the home, at the loom, in the bridal procession, at the wedding. And...

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... measure. Karlheinz Brandenburg received M.S. (Diplom) degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1980 and in Mathematics in 1982 from Erlangen University. In 1989 he earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, ... Lecturer in Signal Processing at the Engineering Department in Cambridge. Current research topics include: Bayesian and statistical methods in signal processing, modelling and enhancement of speech and ... taught courses in Computer Architecture, Digital Signal Processing and Audio Engineering. In 1993 he was General Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics...

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... costs and benefits of adhering to the rule, and in the end elects to abide by it. The potential costs of ignoring it might include getting hit by an oncoming automobile, being fined, or being shamed ... understanding of situa- tional analysis, in part by placing it within the broader framework of Popper’s thought. The second is to dispel common misunderstandings of situational analysis and of Popperian ... belief in the reality of collective “spirits” would lead to injustice and suf- fering on the part of individuals in the name of the “interests” of states or nations or tribes. This was his moral indictment...

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... important applications in tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and cell- and gene therapy. There is however much to be investigated about the specific characteristics of effi- cacy and saf ety of ... recipients of contamination or other adverse effects of cells or sample processing; iv) specific and detailed determination of the type of cells forming the product and what are their exact purity and ... 8:131 http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/8/1/131 Page 8 of 15 Competing interests The author declares that he has no competing interests. The author is Principal Investigator of a preclinical project (not clinical...

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... Analysis of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment,” “Environmental Fate and Transformations of Veterinary Pharmaceuticals,” and “Treatment of Pharmaceuti- cal sinDrinkingWaterandWastewater.”Thepurposeofthisintroductoryoverview chapteristooutlinecurrent(2004–2006)knowledgeaboutthepresenceandcon- ce ntrationofPPCPsasdescribedinthepublishedliterature.Previousreviews 1,71–73 shouldbeconsultedfordiscussionsonpre-2004publications.Thosereviewswill providethereaderwithacomprehensiveintroductiontothetopicofPPCPsinthe environment. ... community and has prompted interest in sponsoring research that denes the composition and concentrations of PPCPs in potential sources and their fate and effects following release into the environment. Independent ... biologically active classes will offer insight into their effects. Deployment of integrating samplers into environments likely to resultinhumanorecosystemexposure,suchasdrinking-watersourcesoraquatic habitatsknownorsuspectedtocontainspeciessensitivetoPPCPs,maybethemoni - toring...

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... DRUGS OF ABUSE Althoughmanysubstancesareincludedinthisgroup(heroin,tetrahydrocannabinol, cocaine, phencyclidine, LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline), only one study about the occurrenceofcocaineintheaquaticenvironmenthasbeenpublished.Zuccatoet al. 16 developedamethodtoanalyzecocaineanditsmainhumanmetabolite,ben- zoylecgonine, ... 6-mL glasscartridgeswiththesamepackingmaterialasinOasisHLBcartridges.Limits ofquanticationfortheentiremethodwereintherangeof0.07to0.69ng/Lfor GC-MS,andtherecoverieswerebetween7 0and1 00%.Aninterestingresultofthis work 34 wasthequanticationofibuprofenanditstwometabolitesinthetwotypesof water showing characteristic ... al. 24 reportedamethodusingSPE(C 18 )andLC-(-)-ESI-MS/MSforthe simultaneousdetectionofnineacidicpharmaceuticaldrugs(bezabrate,clobric acid, diclofenac, fenoprofen, gembrozil, ibuprofen, indomethacin, ketoprofen, and naproxen) in WWTP efuents. The recoveries ranged from 59% (indomethacin) to 92%(fenoprofen)intheWWTPefuent.Thespecicityofthemethodwaschecked spiking...

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... Systems removedfromdifferentwatersusinganMIPwithrecoveriesof103to104%for drinking water, pond water, and well water. 48 ThebindingofestrogenstoanMIP developedtoaidintheanalysisofestrogensinnaturalwaterswaslowerthanthe binding of ... solvent andplacedinanoventoincreasethetemperature.Highertemperaturesincrease solubility of analytes in the solvent and decrease viscosity of the solvent, leading to betterpenetrationintointerstitialspacespresentinthesample.Additionally,raising the ... preparation in the determination of estrogens and progesto- ge ns in sediment and water. Journal of Chromatography A 9 38(1–2): 145–153. 28. Antonic, J. and Heath, E., 2007. Determination of NSAIDs in...

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... Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems 4.1 INTRODUCTION Mainlyduetoprogressinanalyticalinstrumentation,therehasbeenanincreased awareness of the presence of pharmaceutical ... trophic level of producers. Thegrowthinhibitiontestofdimegluminegadopentetatewasconductedin agreement with the standard DIN 38 412 L8. 27 It was incubated in an aqueous solu- tion including nutrients, ... of gadoxeticaciddisodiumafter72hoursexposuretime,includingcellnumbers. Noadverseeffectswereobservedinthegrowthinhibitiontestofdimeglu - mi negadopentetateuptoaconcentrationof100mg/Landinthegrowthinhibition testofgadofosvesettrisodiumuptoaconcentrationof80mg/L.TheNOECand EC 50 -values are summarized in Table 4.3. 4.3.5 GROWTH INHIBITION TEST OF DIMEGLUMINE GADOPENTETATE AND ...

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... Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems reviewsourunderstandingoftheinputsoflivestockmedicinestotheenvironment andsynthesizestheavailableinformationonthefateandtransportofveterinary pharmaceuticalsinmanureandsoils.Towardtheendofthischapter,gapsinthecur - re nt ... behave inthesoilenvironment.Thereare,however,stillgapsinthedataandinourunder - st anding.Thosegapsareoutlinedinthefollowingparagraphs. Researchersarestillfocusingononlyasmallproportionofthemedicinesin use (including the avermectins, tetracyclines, sulfonamides, ... environmental concentration of the residues of veterinary medicines in soil. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 1 6, 1977, 1997. 57.DeLiguoro,M.etal.Useofoxytetracyclineandtylosininintensivecalffarming: evaluationoftransfertomanureandsoil. Chemosphere 5 2,...

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