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Enzyme Kinetics and Mechanisms takes the reader through the experimental techniques and the logic by which the mechanisms of enzyme-catalyzed reactions can be elucidated by the results of steady-state kinetics and related experiments. It is meant to make these investigations both satisfying and effective. In distinction to other available descriptions, the descriptions in enzyme Kinetics and Mechanisms are limited to more commonly utilized and...

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An examination of the philosophical issues surrounding prudential value: what it is for something to be good for a person, and well-being: what it is for someone's life to go well. It critically analyses competing approaches, and proposes a new subjective account that addresses key weaknesses of existing theories.

Essential Medical Facts presents selected literature-based information clinicians need to know to provide informed patient care and avoid medical misadventures. Facts that can help make us better and safer clinicians include knowing the usefulness of palmar crease pallor in detecting anemia (not reliable), antibiotics that can cause a false positive opiate urine drug screen (fluoroquinolones), and an occasional early clue to testicular cancer ...

Immunosuppression involves an act that reduces the activation or efficacy of the immune system. Some portions of the immune system itself have immuno-suppressive effects on other parts of the immune system, and immunosuppression may occur as an adverse reaction to treatment of other conditions. Deliberately induced immunosuppression is generally done to prevent the body from rejecting an organ transplant, treating graft-versus-host disease aft...

Scientific Workflow has seen massive growth in recent years as science becomes increasingly reliant on the analysis of massive data sets and the use of distributed resources. The workflow programming paradigm is seen as a means of managing the complexity in defining the analysis, executing the necessary computations on distributed resources, collecting information about the analysis results, and providing means to record and reproduce the scie...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

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1967 through 1969: The United States is embroiled in an unjust and illegal war. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy are assassinated. College campuses explode in riots and rebellions. Cultural and religious norms are challenged. Out of this tangled thicket of national chaos, comes a story told through the poetic voice of Sylver Smith who, after surviving a near-fatal accident, examines her life to find it lacking and without purpose. At ...

This book explores the forms of credit which have historically been associated with the British working class. Taylor seeks to assess the effect of credit on working class communities, and relates this to the debate about community. This work is the first comprehensive examination of the history of these forms of credit to make comparisons between the periods before and after 1945. Based on extensive archival research and oral history intervie...

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When B.J. Taylor first read about rescue dog Charlie Bear, she gazed at his photograph and knew right away he was the dog for her. She just hoped her husband, Roger, would agree. Thankfully, he did, and in the subsequent year, both B.J. and Roger soon discovered that Charlie Bear was brought into their world for a very special reason-to teach them about life, love, and second chances. Charlie Bear shares an intimate look at the first year in t...

Back in print for the first time in thirty years and thoroughly updated, Texas Furniture is the definitive guide to the state's rich heritage of locally made nineteenth-century furniture and the craftsmen who produced it

With over 150 additional pieces of furniture that were not included in Volume One, color photographs, and a new introduction, Texas Furniture, Volume Two completes the definitive guide to the state's rich heritage of locally made nineteenthcentury furniture and the craftsmen who produced it

Recovering a neglected chapter of reception history, this unique volume gathers select writings by thirty-five nineteenth-century women on the stories of several women in Joshua and Judges, including Rahab, Deborah, Jael, and Delilah.

Excerpt from Initial Priming Substances for High Explosives The course that an explosive reaction may take is in¿uenced by the character of the initial impulse imparted to the explosive and also by the nature of the explosive itself. In other words, the effect produced by an explosive in practice depends not only on the explo sive, but also on the primer 0 used to set it off. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousan...

Excerpt from The Primary Volatile Products of the Carbonization of Coal: A Sequel to Bulletin 1, the Volatile Matter of Coal It has been the object of this investigation to study the primary volatile products liberated from coal by heat, avoiding secondary reactions as far as practicable in obtaining these primary products, and the apparatus and methods used have been planned with this end in View. Secondary reactions have been largely preven...

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Sworn in as head of the U.S. Treasury Department's international finance division just three months prior to 9/11, John B. Taylor soon found himself at the center of the war on terror. Global Financial Warriors takes you inside the White House Situation Room, to the meetings of the G7 finance ministers, and to cities worldwide as Taylor assembles a coalition to freeze terrorist assets, plans the financial reconstruction in Afghanistan, oversee...