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Overview: The complement system is a group of proteins which plays amajor role in the processing and removal of microorganisms and tissuebreakdown products from the circulation and extracellular spaces. Thesystem is activated by a wide range of targets, and activation leadsto the production of opsonins, chemotaxis of granulocytes, cell lysisand other biological activities. Inappropriate overactivation of thesystem contributes to inflammatory tissue damage in the host, whileinadequate activation leads to accumulation of immune complexes andother debris in the circulation, and susceptibility to

Overview: Discusses how to perform traditional and modern equating methods within R, a platform that has grown in popularity over the last decade and which is freely available from the web.Includes the latest iThis book describes how to use test equating methods in practice. The non-commercial software R is used throughout the book to illustrate how to perform different equating methods when scores data are collected under different data collection designs, such as equivalent groups design, single group design, counterbalanced design and non equivalent groups with anchor test design. The R pac

Overview: Presents a unified and competitive approach to compact and noncompact Riemann surfaces.Includes continuing exercises that run throughout the book and lead to generalizations of the main theorems.Will .This textbook presents a unified approach to compact and noncompact Riemann surfaces from the point of view of the so-called L2 $ar{delta}$-method. This method is a powerful technique from the theory of several complex variables, and provides for a unique approach to the fundamentally different characteristics of compact and noncompact Riemann surfaces..The inclusion of continuing exer

Overview: Case histories of teachers in an assessment reform.Written in a lucid and easy-to-read style.Useful as thinking devices for teachers to uncover and clarify their own educational belief and philosophieFairness and Fear ? I was startled at the subtitle of the book when I first heard it! Our series has some imaginative titles but none so evocative as this one. But “fear” and “fairness” capture much of teacher thinking about assessment. Indeed, teachers struggle to be fair with students, certainly c- cerned (and often fearful) of failures to be fair, and repercussions that teachers can f

Overview: Includes recent research on advances in information and communication technology.Presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Applications of Information and Communication Technology (I.This book features papers presented at the International Conference on Advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICTA 2016), which was held in Thai Nguyen city, Vietnam, from December 1 to 13, 2016.  The conference was jointly organized by Thai Nguyen University of Information and Communication Technology (ICTU), the Institute of Information Technology – Vietnam Academy of S

Overview: FDL is the unique yearly European event that focuses on design languages their use.Includes a selection of the best contributions of the 12th FDL.FDL contributions are original works that are intended.More than ever, FDL is the place for researchers, developers, industry designers, academia, and EDA tool companies to present and to learn about the latest scientific achievements, practical applications and users experiences in the domain of specification and design languages. FDL covers the modeling and design methods, and their latest supporting tools, for complex embedded systems, s

Overview: Presents an easy to digest manner of complicated material.Offers numerous activities to practice the reader’s understanding of Rasch techniques.Provides links between the chapters of this and the prev.This volume follows the publication of .Rasch Analysis in the Human Sciences.. This new book presents additional topics not discussed in the previous volume. It examines key topics such as partial credit analysis of data, common person linking, computing equating constants, investigating discrimination, evaluating dimensionality, how to better utilize Wright Maps, how to design tests an

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2008, held in Zakopane, Poland, in June 2008. The 116 revised contributed papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 320 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on neural networks and their applications, fuzzy systems and their applications, evolutionary algorithms and their applications, classification, rule discovery and clustering, image analysis, speech and robotics, bioinformatics and medical applications, vari

Overview: 978-3-322-82927-6978-3-322-82926-9

Overview: Offers an extended review of energy utilization technologies for integrated energy systems.Presents several gaseous pollutant control technologies and design criteria in industry.Illustrates the major.This book focuses specifically on the environmental issues related to the air pollution control and design. It is divided into four parts: (1) Fundamentals of air pollution control, (2) fundamentals of energy utilization, (3) gaseous control and design, and (4) particulate control and design, each consisting of four to six chapters. The topics covered in this book not only introduce the

Overview: Ranging from the early modern period to the present day, this edited collection uses biography as a window into the history of the Arab-Islamic Middle East. The contributors reinterpret the lives of the famous such as George Antonius and Doria Shafiq and rediscover the lives of individuals previously consigned to the margins of history, including the notorious individuals of 17th-century Syria and the 20th-century Palestinian activist Kulthum Auda. The book also draws on the biographical tradition of Arab historical writing, including biographical dictionaries, for an understanding o

Overview: 978-94-010-8714-8978-94-009-5000-9Series ISSN 0924-5294

Overview: Survival strategies of arthropods in the Mediterranean-type climate and landscape.G.P. Stamou describes the adaptive strategies that allow arthropods to cope with the severity of Mediterranean environments. After an introduction to the structure and function of Mediterranean-type ecosystems, ecophysiological adaptations to water stress and varying temperature are considered. Further, activity patterns and life cycle tactics are discussed in relation to the peculiarity of Mediterranean environments. Phenological patterns and population dynamics as well as community structures are also

Overview: This book will present three main themes of African women: African feminism, women and work, and women and politics, to inform readers of the current debates, to encourage new thinking on these issues, and to indicate areas for needed research.978-1-349-29034-5978-0-230-11432-6

Overview: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 18th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2014, held in Ohrid, Macedonia, in September 2014. The 26 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk were carefully selected and reviewed from 82 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data models and query languages; data warehousing; query and data-flow optimization; information extraction and integration; spatial, temporal and streaming data; data mining and knowledge discovery; data organizat

Overview: Presents a key feature of Pierre L’Ecuyer’s research that he always has a keen interest to make it be useful.Is the contributions that will carry over this feature in honor of Pierre‘s work.Provides cThis book celebrates the career of Pierre L’Ecuyer on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Pierre has made significant contributions to the fields of simulation, modeling, and operations research over the last 40 years. This book contains 20 chapters written by collaborators and experts in the field who, by sharing their latest results, want to recognize the lasting impact of Pierre’s work

Overview: Illustrates the use of plants and plant-derived products to combat fungal diseases.Describes their usage in traditional systems such as Ayurveda.Useful source of information for researchers in the fie.The goal of this book is to provide essential information on the use of different medicinal plants and their secondary metabolites for the treatment of various fungal diseases affecting human beings, animals and plants.  It is divided in four parts: Part I examines the global distribution of plant-derived antifungal compounds, Part II deals with antifungal activities of plant metabolite

Overview: Only book on the market that advises trainers on how to teach in the unique environment that security awareness presents.Authored by a well-recognized Security Expert, with a background in Training anGain greater compliance with corporate training by addressing the heart of the very awareness vs. compliance problem: people are human. People have incredible strengths and incredible weaknesses, and as a Information Security professional, you need to recognize and devise training strategies that take advantage of both. This concise book introduces two such strategies, which combined, ca

Overview: Akute Nierenschädigung - plötzliche, potentiell lebensbedrohliche Verschlechterung der Nierenfunktion..Frühzeitige Diagnose.Konsil-Checkliste.Risikopatienten identifizieren.Bei welchen Patienten müsse.Akute Nierenschädigung.Dieses Springer-Buch bietet alles Erforderliche für das optimale Management der akuten Nierenschädigung. Frühzeitige Diagnose, rasche Therapie, kompetente Nachbetreuung sind bei der plötzlichen Verschlechterung der Nierenfunktion entscheidend für Überleben, Krankheitsverlauf und Prognose..Für Nephrologen, Intensivmediziner, Internisten und Chirurgen: Personelle un

Overview: This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP ‘96), held at Paderborn, Germany, in July 1996. ICALP is an annual conference sponsored by the European Association on Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)..The proceedings contain 52 refereed papers selected from 172 submissions and 4 invited papers. The papers cover the whole range of theoretical computer science; they are organized in sections on: Process Theory; Fairness, Domination, and the u-Calculus; Logic and Algebra; Languages and Processes; Alg