Birkhauser Basel

Clinical issues.- Long-term course, comorbidity and long-term outcome in depressive disorders.- Do antidepressants really take several weeks to show effect?.- Commentary on the limitation of...

1. Epidemiology of Asthma Mortality.- 2. Epidemiology of Childhood Asthma.- 3. Is Chronic Use of ?2-Agonists Detrimental in the Treatment of Asthma ?.- 4. Assessment of Airway Inflammation in Asthma...

I Motile Dynamics at the Cellular Level - Cytoplasmic Motion and Cell Shape -.- I.1 Embryonic Mesoderm Cells and Larval Keratocytes from Xenopus: Structure and Motility of Single Cells.- I.2...

1. Elliptic problems.- 1.1 The Dirichlet problem for the Laplace equation in an annulus.- 1.2 Examples of Dirichlet problems in an annulus.- 1.3 The interior and exterior Dirichlet problems.- 1.4 The...

Biosynthesis of Fatty Acids in the Skin and their Role in Epidermal Barrier function.- Arachidonic Acid Metabolism in Skin.- Role of Eicosanoids in Psoriasis and Atopic Skin Diseases.- Cutaneous...

Reactive oxygen/nitrogen species and acute inflammation: A physiological process.- Free radicals and pathology: current concepts.- The NADPH oxidase of neutrophile and other cells.- Nitric oxide - a...

The development of glucocorticoids as therapeutic agents.- Glucocorticoid biology - a molecular maze and clinical challenge..- Glucocorticoid biology - a historical perspective.- The development of...

1.- I Hilbert Spaces.- II Bounded Linear Operators on a Hilbert Space.- III Unbounded Linear Operators on a Hilbert Space.- 2.- IV Regular Linear Hamiltonian Systems.- V Atkinson's Theory for...

Skin immune system (SIS).- Immunological aspects of allergic inflammation: IgE regulation.- The role of T cells in the pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis.- Immunological aspects of allergic...

Search for potent immunostimulating agents from plants and other natural sources.- Chemistry, analysis and immunological investigations of Echinacea phytopharmaceuticals.- Immunologically active...

New opportunities for stroke prevention and therapeutics: a hope from anti-inflammatory drugs?.- Inflammation in stroke and CNS trauma - experimental and clinical evidence.- Clinical evidence of...

Contents. List of Contributors. Preface. T.J. Mitchell and T.J. Williams: The role of eotaxin and related CC-chemokines in asthma and allergy. Roger J. Davis: Signal transduction by the JNK group of...

Circuit Simulation.- A new efficient numerical integration scheme for highly oscillatory electric circuits.- Numerische L?sung von hierarchisch strukturierten Systemen von...

1 Rawa trees.- 2 The height and width of simple trees.- 3 On the node structure of binary search trees.- 4 The saturation level in binary search tree.- 5 Smoothness and decay properties of the...

Methotrexate: historical aspects.- Methotrexate, its mechanisms of action in malignant disease and mechanisms of resistance by malignant cells.- Current use of methotrexate in the treatment of...

1. Gene Therapy.- Asthma.- 2. Genetics of Asthma.- 3. Transcription Factors and Inflammatory Lung Disease.- 4. Regulation of the Cytokine Gene Cluster on Chromosome 5q.- 5. Cytokine Expression in...

1 Basic Principles and Facts.- 2 Gegenbauer Polynomials.- 3 Multivariate Polynomials.- 4 Polynomials on Sphere and Ball.- 5 Approximation Methods.- 6 Approximation on the Sphere.- 7 Approximation on...

From the book reviews: "This is the softcover reprint of a monograph that was awarded the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer prize in 1996. It is devoted to a recurring theme in number theory, namely that the...

Contents. List of Contributors. Brian Henderson and Gerry Higgs: Targets for modulating cytokine responses in inflammatory and infectious diseases. Mary Lee MacKichan and Anthony L. DeFranco: Cell...

Reduced Order Based Compensator Control of Thin Film Growth in a CVD Reactor.- On Modeling and Design Problems in Micro Diffractive Optics.- A Linearized Model for Boundary Layer Equations.-...

Recent advances in prevention and treatment of hepatitis C virus infections.- The effects of morphine on cell proliferation.- Glucosamine and chondroitin sulfates in the treatment of osteoarthritis:...

Overview of COX-2 in inflammation: from the biology to the clinic.- Inducible nitric oxide synthase and inflammation.- Overview of HO-I in inflammatory pathologies.- Inducible enzymes in the...

Jochen W. Schmidt in Memoriam.- Best Approximation of Polynomials on the Sphere and on the Ball.- The Sign of a Harmonic Function Near a Zero.- Radial Basis Functions for the Sphere.- Cubature...

1 The Hierarchy of Climate Models.- A gallery of simple models from climate physics.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Fluid dynamics and thermodynamics.- 3 Reduced physics equations.- 4 Integrated models.- 5...

The Constraint Equations.- The Penrose Inequality.- The Global Existence Problem in General Relativity.- Smoothness at Null Infinity and the Structure of Initial Data.- Status Quo and Open Problems...

I Finite Rank Operators.- 1 Trace and determinant for finite rank operators.- 2 Properties of the trace and determinant.- 3 Representations of the trace and determinant.- 4 Uniqueness of the trace...

A Model for Mixtures of Micromagnetic Materials allowing Existence and Regularity.- Variational Properties of a Model for Image Segmentation with Overlapping Regions.- Variational Theory of Weak...

How early studies of inflammation led to our current views on the roles of vascular adhesion molecules.- Adhesion of leukocytes from flow: The selectins and their ligands.- Co-operative signaling...