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The completion of the first draft of the human genome has led to an explosion of interest in genetics and molecular biology.The view of the genome as a network of interacting computational components is well-established, but researchers are now trying to reverse the analogy, by using living organisms to construct logic circuits.The potential applications for such technologies is huge, ranging from bio-sensors, through industrial applications to drug delivery and diagnostics.This book would be the first to deal with the implementation of this technology, describing several working experimental demonstrations using cells as components of logic circuits, building toward computers incorporating biological components in their functioning. ... Read more

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Part I: Theoretical and Engineering Principles

1.An Introduction to Cellular Computing
Martyn Amos and Gerald Owenson

2.Proteins and Information Processing
Ray Paton, Michael Fisher, Grant Malcolm and Koichiro Matsuno

3.Enzyme Genetic Programming
Michael Lones and Andy Tyrell

4.Genetic Process Engineering
Ron Weiss, Thomas F. Knight Jr. and Gerald Sussman

5.The Device Science of Whole Cells as Components in Microscaleand Nanoscale Systems
Michael L. Simpson, Gary S. Sayler, et al.

Part II: Laboratory Experiments

6.The Enterococcus faecilis Information Gate
Kenichi Wakabayashi and Masayuki Yamamura

7.Cellular Computation and Communication Using Engineered Genetic Regulatory Networks
Ron Weiss, Thomas F. Knight Jr. and Gerald Sussman

8.The Biology of Integration of Cells in Microscale and Nanoscale Systems
Michael L. Simpson, Timothy E. McKnight, et al.

Part III: Computation in Ciliates

9.Encrypted Genes and Their Assembly in Ciliates
David M. Prescott and Grzegorz Rozenberg

10. Biocomputation in Ciliates
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If you are a semiconductor engineer or a magnetics physicist developing magnetic memory, get the information you need with this, the first book on magnetic memory. From magnetics to the engineering design of memory, this practical book explains key magnetic properties and how they are related to memory performance, characterization methods of magnetic films, and tunneling magnetoresistance effect devices. It also covers memory cell options, array architecture, circuit models, and read-write engineering issues. You'll understand the soft fail nature of magnetic memory, which is very different from that of semiconductor memory, as well as methods to deal with the issue. You'll also get invaluable problem-solving insights from real-world memory case studies. This is an essential book for semiconductor engineers who need to understand magnetics, and for magnetics physicists who work with MRAM. It is also a valuable reference for graduate students working in electronic/magnetic device research. ... Read more

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This summary contains complete trends chapters excerpted from Plunkett's Nanotechnology & MEMS Industry Almanac.Wield this tool for strategic planning, business development, or industry analysis.It includes our analysis of the major trends affecting the nanotechnology and MEMS industry today. In addition, we provide a comprehensive profile of BASF SE (BASFY), including company contact information, financials, geographical locations, executive contacts and a detailed research analysis.

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Title: Nanotechnology and PCBs: could nano PCB miniaturization allow the IC world to finally merge with SMT?(NANOTECHNOLOGY)
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Trends and statistics excerpted from our market research in the nanotechnology industry - a tool for competitive intelligence and strategic planning. Trends analyzed include nanotech applications in energy, apparel, biotech, and IT systems, nanotech funding, and a brief history of nanotech R&D.

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This exciting new industry will enhance technologies of all types.Nanotechology has applications within biotechnology, manufacturing, aerospace, information systems and many other fields.This book covers such nanotechnology business topics as micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), microengineering, microsystems, microsensors, carbon tubes and much more.This is a young field with tremendous ground floor opportunities. Our terrific new reference tool includes a thorough market analysis as well as our highly respected trends analysis, all written from a business person’s point of view.You’ll find a complete overview, industry analysis and market research report in one superb, value-priced package. It contains thousands of contacts for business and industry leaders, industry associations, Internet sites and other resources. This book also includes statistical tables, an industry glossary and thorough indexes. The corporate profiles section of the book includes our proprietary, in-depth profiles of the 300 leading companies in all facets of the nanotechnology and microengineering industry.

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This summary contains complete trends chapters excerpted from Plunkett's Nanotechnology & MEMS Industry Almanac.Wield this tool for strategic planning, business development, or industry analysis.It includes our analysis of the major trends affecting the nanotechnology & MEMS industry today. In addition, we provide a comprehensive profile of NEC Corporation (NIPNY), including company contact information, financials, geographical locations, executive contacts and a detailed research analysis.

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This searchable CD-ROM collection contains original research papers first presented at the 23rd technical conference of the American Society for Composites, held in conjunction with the SAMPE meeting, September 2008, in Memphis, TN, USA The contents are grouped under the following headings: Manufacturing ? Textile Fibers and Preforms ? Numerical Modeling ? Testing and Smart Structures ? Damage and Failure ? Laminate Mechanics ? Design ? Nanocomposites ? Nanocomposites Fabrication ? Construction with Composites ? Infrastructure ? J. N. Reddy Symposium The CD-ROM displays figures and illustrations in articles in full color along with a title screen and main menu screen. Each user can link to all papers from the Table of Contents and Author Index and also link to papers and front matter by using the global bookmarks which allow navigation of the entire CD-ROM from every article. Each paper has internal links from figure and table references to view the actual figures and tables and links to all e-mail addresses and URLs mentioned in any paper. Search features on the CD-ROM can be by full text including all key words, article title, author name, and session title. The CD-ROM has Autorun feature for Windows 2000 or higher products along with the program for Adobe Acrobat Reader with Search 5.0. One year of technical support is included with your purchase of the CD-ROM. ... Read more

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This summary contains selected trends and statistics chapters excerpted from Plunkett's Nanotechnology & MEMS Industry Almanac 2007 that focus on the technological developments of the nanotech industry. It includes our analysis of the major trends from Innovations in Bucky Balls, Nanotubes and Single Wall Nanotubes (SWNTs) Make Commercial Production a Reality, to Nanotechnology & MEMS Applications in Optics and Displays Lead to a Breakthrough in Wireless Device Screens, to Nanotech and Smart Fabrics Proliferate. In addition, we provide a statistical table such that gives an overview of the nanotech industry as a whole. As a finishing touch, individual company profiles are provided for ten of the leading nanotechnology companies in the world. Wield this tool for strategic planning, business development, or industry analysis. ... Read more

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Incorporating recent dramatic advances, this textbook presents a fresh and timely introduction to modern biophysical methods. An array of new, faster and higher-power biophysical methods now enables scientists to examine the mysteries of life at a molecular level. This innovative text surveys and explains the ten key biophysical methods, including those related to biophysical nanotechnology, scanning probe microscopy, X-ray crystallography, ion mobility spectrometry, mass spectrometry, proteomics, and protein folding and structure. Incorporating much information previously unavailable in tutorial form, Nölting employs worked examples and about 270 illustrations to fully detail the techniques and their underlying mechanisms. Methods in Modern Biophysics is written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, researchers, lecturers, and professors in biophysics, biochemistry and related fields.

Special features in the 3rd edition: Introduces rapid partial protein ladder sequencing - an important method for fast and highly sensitive identification of proteins, describes the determination of interaction surfaces in protein complexes by mass spectrometric mapping of binding of chemical linkers - a method to support the high-resolution structural analysis of large macromolecular assemblies.

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Excellent source for latest biophysical methods
This book presents a review of various biophysical methods, most of them developed or significantly revised in recent years, for the use of studying biomolecules. The author illustrates each technique with lots of figures (makes me to remember the old phrase "one figure is worth more than thousand words") and also provides a good bibliography for each technique. The book also assembles the information that is hard to find from a single source. I enjoyed reading the book and recommend it for beginners as well as advanced users.

Highly recommended
I highly evaluate this book as an important contribution to biophysics. There are many students interested in this book.

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A fantastic textbook for Biophysics
This is a fantastic textbook on biophysics methods and techniques. I found it particularly useful for those who are theoreticians and computer modelers. As a theoretical biophysicist, I work on protein folding, protein structure prediction and ligand-receptor binding studies, and I was constantly looking for a book which contains all important and up-to-date experimental methods and techniques to better understand our experimental colleagues' work. Now I found it! If you are also looking for a book for introductory as well as advanced topics in biophysics methods, this book might be the one you are looking for. It essentially covers all the new and important subjects of this field. I found the chapters about proteomics, ion mobility spectrometry, and mass spectrometry, particularly interesting. I will try to include some of the material in the course "Biophysical Chemistry"(a graduate level course) that I am co-teaching, and I will strongly recommend this book to those who are interested in biophysics. ... Read more

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The “Gale Encyclopedia of Science” is written at a level somewhere between the introductory sources and the highly technical texts currently available. This six-volume set covers all major areas of science and engineering, as well as mathematics and the medical and health sciences, while providing a comprehensive overview of current scientific knowledge and technology. Alphabetically arranged entries provide a user-friendly format that makes the broad scope of information easy to access and decipher. Entries typically describe scientific concepts, provide overviews of scientific areas and, in some cases, define terms.

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One of the grand challenges in the nano-scopic computing era is guarantees of robustness. Robust computing system design is confronted with quantum physical, probabilistic, and even biological phenomena, and guaranteeing high reliability is much more difficult than ever before. Scaling devices down to the level of single electron operation will bring forth new challenges due to probabilistic effects and uncertainty in guaranteeing 'zero-one' based computing. Minuscule devices imply billions of devices on a single chip, which may help mitigate the challenge of uncertainty by replication and redundancy. However, such device densities will create a design and validation nightmare with the shear scale.
The questions that confront computer engineers regarding the current status of nanocomputing material and the reliability of systems built from such miniscule devices, are difficult to articulate and answer. We have found a lack of resources in the confines of a single volume that at least partially attempts to answer these questions.
We believe that this volume contains a large amount of research material as well as new ideas that will be very useful for some one starting research in the arena of nanocomputing, not at the device level, but the problems one would face at system level design and validation when nanoscopic physicality will be present at the device level. ... Read more