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  • Using Eye Movements as an Experimental Probe of Brain Function

    A Symposium in Honor of Jean Büttner-Ennever
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 171
    • R. John Leigh + 1 more
    • English
    This volume of Progress in Brain Research is based on the proceedings of a conference, "Using Eye Movements as an Experimental Probe of Brain Function," held at the Charing Cross Hospital Campus of Imperial College London, UK on 5th -6th December, 2007 to honor Professor Jean Büttner-Ennever. With 87 contributions from international experts – both basic scientists and clinicians – the volume provides many examples of how eye movements can be used to address a broad range of research questions. Section 1 focuses on extraocular muscle, highlighting new concepts of proprioceptive control that involve even the cerebral cortex. Section 2 comprises structural, physiological, pharmacological, and computational aspects of brainstem mechanisms, and illustrates implications for disorders as diverse as opsoclonus, and congenital scoliosis with gaze palsy. Section 3 addresses how the cerebellum transforms neural signals into motor commands, and how disease of such mechanisms may lead to ataxia and disorders such as oculopalatal tremor. Section 4 deals with sensory-motor processing of visual, vestibular, somatosensory, and auditory inputs, such as are required for navigation, and gait. Section 5 illustrates how eye movements, used in conjunction with single-unit electrophysiology, functional imaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and lesion studies have illuminated cognitive processes, including memory, prediction, and even free will. Section 6 includes 18 papers dealing with disorders ranging from congenital to acquired forms of nystagmus, genetic and degenerative neurological disorders, and treatments for nystagmus and motion sickness.

  • Protein Mass Spectrometry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 52
    • Julian Whitelegge
    • English
    This book is designed to be a central text for young graduate students interested in mass spectrometry as it relates to the study of protein structure and function as well as proteomics. It is a definite must-have work for:- libraries at academic institutions with Master and Graduate programs in biochemistry, molecular biology, structural biology and proteomics- individual laboratories with interests covering these areas - libraries and individual laboratories in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

  • The Pearl Oyster

    • 1st Edition
    • Paul Southgate + 1 more
    • English
    Contrary to a generally held view that pearls are found by chance in oysters, almost all are now produced from farms. This book is a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the biology of pearl oysters, their anatomy, reproduction, genetics, diseases, etc. It considers how they are farmed from spawning and culturing larvae in hatcheries to adults in the ocean; how various environmental factors, including pollution affect them; and how modern techniques are successfully producing large numbers of cultured pearls. This is the ultimate reference source on pearl oysters and the culture of pearls, written and edited by a number of scientists who are world experts in their fields.

  • Encyclopedia of Environmental Health

    • 1st Edition
    • Jerome O. Nriagu
    • English
    Environmental health has evolved over time into a complex, multidisciplinary field. Many of the key determinants and solutions to environmental health problems lie outside the direct realm of health and are strongly dependent on environmental changes, water and sanitation, industrial development, education, employment, trade, tourism, agriculture, urbanization, energy, housing and national security. Environmental risks, vulnerability and variability manifest themselves in different ways and at different time scales. While there are shared global and transnational problems, each community, country or region faces its own unique environmental health problems, the solution of which depends on circumstances surrounding the resources, customs, institutions, values and environmental vulnerability. This work contains critical reviews and assessments of environmental health practices and research that have worked in places and thus can guide programs and economic development in other countries or regions. The Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, Five Volume Set seeks to conceptualize the subject more clearly, to describe the best available scientific methods that can be used in characterizing and managing environmental health risks, to extend the field of environmental health through new theoretical perspectives and heightened appreciation of social, economic and political contexts, and to encourage a richer analysis in the field through examples of diverse experiences in dealing with the health-environment interface.

  • Electricity for HVACR Technicians: Series Circuits, Parallel Circuits and Power

    • 1st Edition
    • RSES
    • English

  • Refrigerant Usage Certification Preparation (EPA Section 608): Type III- Low-Pressure Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • RSES
    • English

  • Safety for HVACR Technicians: Fire Safety

    • 1st Edition
    • RSES
    • English

  • Electricity for HVACR Technicians: Transformers

    • 1st Edition
    • RSES
    • English

  • Electricity for HVACR Technicians: Fundamentals of Alternating Current

    • 1st Edition
    • RSES
    • English

  • Refrigerant Usage Certification Preparation (EPA Section 608)

    • 1st Edition
    • RSES
    • English

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