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Linear and Generalized Linear Mixed Models and Their Applications
Springer 2007; US$ 99.99This book covers two major classes of mixed effects models, linear mixed models and generalized linear mixed models, and it presents an up-to-date account of theory and methods in analysis of these models as well as their applications in various fields. The book offers a systematic approach to inference about non-Gaussian linear mixed models. Furthermore,... more...
Regulatory T Cells and Clinical Application
Springer 2008; US$ 139.99The immune system reacts vigorously to foreign invaders such as viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and parasites, and yet shows unresponsiveness to our own proteins. In the past decade, several types of T lymphocytes in the immune system have been discovered to function as regulatory cells to suppress unwanted immune responses to self-proteins, leading to... more...
Acquisition of Word Order in Chinese as a Foreign Language
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 168.00In this book, linguistic achievements of word order studies in Chinese have been applied to Chinese second language acquisition research. By analyzing a great number of word order errors made by learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL), this book has developed a method for describing and explaining Chinese word order errors. With this method,... more...
ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA?S INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY
Elsevier Science 2009; US$ 75.95In the early 1980?s, Jiang Zemin, then Minister of Electronics Ministry of China, assessed the IT industry as ?the strategic high ground in international competition.? He "perceived the discrepancy between China?s level and the world's advanced level was so great that we had to do our utmost to catch up." Since then through numerous articles and frequent... more...
RESEARCH ON ENERGY ISSUES IN CHINA
Elsevier Science 2009; US$ 63.95China?s rapid economic expansion raises questions internally and externally about how it will acquire the energy it needs to sustain growth. Currently it is the largest producer and consumer of coal; how much will it continue to rely on its abundant natural resource in the face of increasing environmental concerns? Will it embrace new clean coal technologies... more...
A Practical Guide to Error-Control Coding Using MATLAB
Artech House 2010; US$ 119.00This practical resource provides you with a comprehensive understanding of error control coding, an essential and widely applied area in modern digital communications. The goal of error control coding is to encode information in such a way that even if the channel (or storage medium) introduces errors, the receiver can correct the errors and recover... more...
Diffuse Optical Tomography
CRC Press 2010; US$ 135.95Written by an authority involved in the field since its nascent stages, Diffuse Optical Tomography: Principles and Applications is a long-awaited profile of a revolutionary imaging method. Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT) provides spatial distributions of intrinsic tissue optical properties or molecular contrast agents through model-based reconstruction... more...
Burden or Legacy
Hong Kong University Press 2007; US$ 60.00This book consists of six papers by the scholars and the artists in China and in the UK, discussing contemporary Chinese art with the influence from the Chinese Cultural Revolution. more...
Computed Tomography
SPIE 2009; US$ 89.25X-ray computed tomography (CT) continues to experience rapid growth, both in basic technology and new clinical applications. Seven years after its first edition, Computed Tomography: Principles, Design, Artifacts, and Recent Advancements, Second Edition, provides an overview of the evolution of CT, the mathematical and physical aspects of the technology,... more...
TH17 Cells in Health and Disease
Springer 2011; US$ 149.99"About 25 years ago, Mosmann & Coffman introduced the TH1 / TH2 paradigm of T helper cell differentiation which helped explain many aspects of adaptive immunity from eliminating intracellular versus extracellular pathogens to induction of different types of tissue inflammation. However, TH1 / TH2 paradigm could not adequately explain development... more...









