"In dreißig Jahren um die Welt" war nicht das ursprüngliche Ziel, sondern ist das Ergebnis von vielen Reisen des Verfassers, und in dieser Zeit waren es mehr als drei Jahre an "Touren", in denen die Geschichten um Länder und Menschen entstanden, manchmal verbunden mit Abenteuern, immer jedoch mit neuen Erkenntnissen und dem Bestreben, Interessantes nicht nur selber zu erleben sondern auch weiter zu geben und dadurch den Leser zu ermuntern, selbst auf den Baum der Erkenntnis zu steigen, das Fernglas der Neugier in die Hand zu nehmen und den ...

Chapter 1: Oxygen and Nitrogen free radicals Chapter 2: Oxidative stress Chapter 3: Oxidative damage of genome DNA: repair mechanisms Chapter 4: Mitochondria: structure, function and relationship with carcinogenesis Chapter 5: Oxidative activation of transcription factor pathways by cigarette smoke oxidants Chapter 6: Cell protection mechanisms from oxidation Chapter 7: Role of DNA adducts in carcinogenesis Chapter 8: Transmolecular reactions of genetic toxicity: alkylation and methylation of DNA Chapter 9: Toxicity and carcinogenicity of hydrocarbons Chapter ...

Australia has a new political, cultural, and economic elite. The class divides of yesteryear have been replaced new divisions between Inners and Outers. This divide is ripping apart our political parties, national debate, and social fabric. Inners are highly educated inner-city progressive cosmopolitans who value change, diversity, and self-actualisation. Inners, despite being a minority, dominate politics on both sides, the bureaucracy, universities, civil society, corporates, and the media. They have created a society ruled by educated elites – ...

Knowledge discovery is an area of computer science that attempts to uncover interesting and useful patterns in data that permit a computer to perform a task autonomously or assist a human in performing a task more efficiently. Soft Computing for Knowledge Discovery provides a self-contained and systematic exposition of the key theory and algorithms that form the core of knowledge discovery from a soft computing perspective. It focuses on knowledge representation, machine learning, and the ...

I woke up one morning sometime in 2001 and in between sleep and wakefulness I was thinking about what I had to get up and do. Actually, I was telling myself to get up and take care of the day's task. Later that evening I started working on a manuscript that began almost two years earlier. I decided quite spontaneously to revise the beginning of the first chapter with what I was saying to myself that morning. I basically started using the book to talk to myself. I went from writing in the first person to writing in dialogue. Not only did the way the book ...

Dai il benvenuto al primo libro scritto da Shannon O'Hara, fondatrice e creatrice di Talk To The Entities ® (Parlare Con le Entità) : una società globale che educa e potenzia le persone nell'area delle entità, utilizzando gli straordinari strumenti di Access Consciousness ®. Accompagna Shannon nel suo fantastico viaggio durante il quale cresce, parla e vede i fantasmi e incontra lotte, difficoltà, gioia e magia. Se l'argomento ti ha da sempre incuriosito, questo libro fa per te. Se vuoi imparare come aprirti ...

In Quantum Dots: Applications in Biology, Second Edition, expert researchers in the field detail consolidated approaches as well as new trends in the field. Organized into five parts, the first part comprises an introduction on Quantum Dots (QDs) as fluorescent probes in Life Sciences. While the second section covers important features about QDs´ preparative processes and characterizations for their successful application as fluorophores. The third part presents main aspects related to QDs methods applied to live cells and tissues. The fourth section ...

Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1844-1916), theologian and church historian, spent the whole of his working life at Cambridge. Appointed lecturer at St. John's College in 1874, he succeeded Mandrel Creighton as Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History in 1891. He was Gifford lecturer in 1903. Gwatkin was a man of wide and deep learning, with an exceptional knowledge of original sources and a singularly keen eye for vital facts and tendencies in difficult and perplexing periods. As a teacher, despite bad sight and a poor delivery, he was outstanding. He was a clear ...

This is a book of practical instruction in all kinds of constructive and decorative work in wood that can be done by the amateur in the home, garden, and farmstead. Complete with concise instructions and profusely illustrated, this timeless text will be of much value to the amateur woodworker, and will also be of considerable interest to those with more experience as a reference book and source of inspiration. The chapters of this book include: 'Fencing for the Farmstead: Fixed and temporary – Movable and Immovable'; 'The Pig: Its Domicile, Courtlage ...

einer der ersten schritte im andersland zu SEIN war für mich die bewusste beobachtung meines atems. nach längerer zeit konnte ich erkennen, wie situationen, die mich emotional betrafen, in der lage waren mir den atem zu stoppen (mich den atem anhalten zu lassen).