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The use of herbal medicines, their preparation and application in human therapy, was described for the first time in history by the Sumerians approximately 5000 years ago. Even earlier in India and...

Die Wahrnehmung der nat?rlichen Umwelt ist durch kulturell vermittelte Naturbilder bestimmt, deren Kenntnis f?r ein umweltgerechtes Denken und Handeln von Bedeutung ist. Naturbilder sind zentrale...

Das Buch beschreibt Quellen und gezielte Nutzung passiver Erw?rmung und K?hlung von Geb?uden. Es ist zugleich Lehrgangsunterlage f?r Weiterbildungsveranstaltungen der Akademie der Architektenkammer...

Naturwissenschaft Und Geschichte: Vorträge Und AufsätzeAuthor: FierzPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Mar 01, 1988Number of Pages: 228 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Die Entdeckung der Neandertaler vor rund 150 Jahren hat immer wieder f?r aufgeregte Diskussionen in Arch?ologie und Anthropologie gesorgt. Die Fragen, welchen genetischen Beitrag sie zur Entwicklung...

Dedicated to the Russian mathematician Albert Shiryaev on his 70th birthday, this is a collection of papers written by his former students, co-authors and colleagues. The book represents the...

This contributed volume offers a collection of papers presented at the 2016 Network Games, Control, and Optimization conference (NETGCOOP), held at the University of Avignon in France, November...

Diese Publikation entstammt dem Forum f?r Umweltfragen der Eidgen?ssischen Technischen Hochschule Z?rich. Dieses war die Plattform f?r eine kritische Evaluation der Erkenntnisse der Autoren, welche...

MuB das sein? Wenn das schiefgeht! Was haben Sie sich dabei gedacht? Das muBte ich mir -nicht nur von Mannern -anhoren, als ich die Genehmigung fUr ein Unternehmen gab, das bisher einmalig in der...

The theoretical foundations of Neural Networks and Analog Computation conceptualize neural networks as a particular type of computer consisting of multiple assemblies of basic processors...

I received my first introduction to the brain sciences in 1936 and 1937, for me the second and third years of the 7-year medical school curriculum at the University of Leiden. During those years my...

Neurobiology of Cingulate Cortex and Limbic Thalamus: A Comprehensive HandbookAuthor: VogtPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Oct 25, 2013Number of Pages: 639 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

It was Oscar Wilde who defined the tragedy of old age by saying that " . . . as soon as you are old enough to know better, you don't know anything at all. " As improvements in the quality of health...

Neuroembryology: The Selected PapersAuthor: HamburgerPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Oct 05, 2013Number of Pages: 420 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1489967451ISBN-13:...

Basic Research Overview.- Cellular and molecular mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease inflammation.- Clinical Research Overview.- Anti-inflammatory agents as possible protective factors for Alzheimer's...

Research into inflammatory mechanisms that may cause damage to the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain has now been ongoing for nearly two decades. Some two dozen clinical studies have strongly suggested...

Neuropharmacology of Ethanol: New ApproachesAuthor: KoobPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Aug 28, 2012Number of Pages: 271 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 147571307XISBN-13:...

and made insignificant in practice, by selecting for study simple kinds of ex- periences which are devoid of emotional content and which can be tested for reliability. A simple somatosensory ''raw...

Neuroscience Year: Supplement 2 to the Encyclopedia of NeuroscienceAuthor: AdelmanPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Oct 18, 2013Number of Pages: 158 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Special lectures.- A tale of protein kinase C and membrane lipid signaling.- Complement, neuroinflammation and neuronal degeneration in Alzheimer disease.- Memory and its impairment.- Neurobiological...

Neurotransmitter Interactions and Cognitive FunctionAuthor: Edward D. LevinPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Sep 15, 2006Number of Pages: 284 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

JAMES L. MCGAUGH Understanding of the nature and functions of neurotransmitter systems in the brain has increased enormously in recent decades. Lack of knowledge required us, not too long ago, to use...

Die Neutronen-Personendosimetrie als Teilgebiet der Strahlenschutzphysik hat durch den zunehmenden Einsatz von Neutronenstrahlung auf den verschiedensten Gebieten von Wissenschaft, Technik und...

The idea of organising a colloquium on turbulence emerged during the sabbatical leave of Prof. Arkady Tsinober in Zurich. New experimental observations and the insight gained through direct numerical...

New Approaches for Antifungal DrugsAuthor: FernandesPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Oct 11, 2013Number of Pages: 201 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1489967311ISBN-13: 9781489967312

The tangential trigonometric moment problem on an interval and related topics.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Some lemmas on matrix-valued rational functions.- 3. The main result.- 4. The Nevanlinna-Pick...

Recent publications on the fate of our limited earth have stirred up vivid worldwide discussions, during which it became clear that our knowledge of the complex ecosystem is far from sufficient today...

Our major objective for this book is to profile cytokines that have been recently identified. The therapeutic potential of these cytokines based on their known properties will be discussed by the...

Feller Semigroups, Bernstein type Operators and Generalized Convexity Associated with Positive Projections.- Gregory's Rational Cubic Splines in Interpolation Subject to Derivative Obstacles.-...

A collection of papers by international contributors describing new developments in the fields of univariate and multivariate approximation theory. This research has applications in areas such as...