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The rapid advances made in the study of the synthesis, structure and function of biological macromolecules in the last fifteen years have enabled scientists concerned with antimicrobial agents to achieve a considerable measure of understanding of how these substances inhibit cell growth and division.

Our aim in writing this book has been to present for R&D Managers at all levels the type of quantitative methods that have been developed in recent years for the more efficient management of R&D.

Biotechnology and Pharmacy offers a unique overview of the principles of biotechnology and their applications in the pharmaceutical sciences. The first part of the book describes the basic elements of biotechnology, such as recombinant DNA and monoclonal antibody technology;

This book differs from most parasitology texts in concentrating in detail on one group- the symbiotic platyhelminths. The book adopts an organismal systematic approach setting the biology of parasitic platyhelminthes in an evolutionary context.

It should also be noted that the chemical industry's activities have an influence on all other industries, either in terms of providing raw materials or chemicals for quality control analyses and to improve operation, and to treat boiler water, cooling water and effiuents.

Designed principally for food technologists in the baking industry, this reference work examines ingredients and progress in basic bread production, such as microwave baking, extrusion, the freezing of doughs and other baked products, and test methods.

Even the most recent texts lines, based on the classification of igneous rocks, place very little emphasis on the geochemistry of descriptive petrography, volcanic landforms, types magmas erupted in different tectonic settings, of igneous intrusions and regional petrology .

US and European quality awards both contain business effectiveness measures that assess the success of organizations against financial and non-financial attributes. This text addresses the rapidly growing need for assistance to organizations in their self-application of the measures.

The appearance of the second edition of Miles and Huberman (1994) indicates the growing importance attached to qualitative analysis by many management researchers, and I have mentioned some of the techniques they advocate at relevant points in Part Three of this book, without attempting, or indeed being able, to replicate their magnificent work.

I am pleased to present this volume of invited reviews and research case studies, produced to mark the retirement of Professor A. He then researched and taught at Queen's University, Belfast, from 1954, leading the Nuffield Quaternary Research Unit there, becoming Co-Director of the Palaeoecology Laboratory from 1964.

Most health professionals have to use computers - at least some of the time. It has been my experience - as a health care lecturer and as a regular com puter user - that you need to develop a certain baseline of confidence in working with them.

This text considers the types of problems that can be tackled by qualitative approaches. Methods of participant observation, interviewing techniques and case studies are described in detail and the authors have expanded the section on how to report the research findings more effectively.

Sometime in the 1980s, Norbert Singer, the then Director of Thames Polytechnic, became interested in the idea of becoming involved in nurse educa tion. In those days, there were three qualified nurses in the Polytechnic: all in the School of Post Compulsory Education and Training, and all involved in the training of nurse tutors.

No amount of talking, on its own, can really make a difference if people do not end up doing something as a result of counselling. Counselling Skills for Health Professionals is not just a 'how to do it' book: people are probably too complicated for that approach to be of much use.

Air pollution has historically been viewed as a local or regional scale problem with attention focused on acute episodes such as the sulphur dioxide and smoke smogs of London in the 1950s and 1960s and the photochemical smogs of southern California first recognized by Haagen Smit in the early 1950s.

valuable way of presenting information within the book and purposely sought. Instead the reader will find the book a valuable source of information that can be dipped into when required, a book where the sampling of arguments put forward by various contributors can be considered.

There are many books on the care of the sick infant and some are excellent. Additionally, much neonatal care overlaps and were a framework to be used in its entirety for each nursing care chapter we feit that there could be some repeti tion;

This book gives disabled people and their carers the information required to make informed decisions about their health care.

Half of the nation's population is at work, generating the income to provide the social infrastructure to support the whole nation. Yet the workplace has not featured as a major area of concern in relation to health.

This texts illuminates the percieved faliure of 'community care'. The authors' approach offers a practical alternative to the current system.

The second edition of this work continues the tradition of offering a highly practical approach to working with people with problem behaviour. In practice the coverage of how to help reduce problem behaviour has been expanded and there is in addition a new chapter on staff support.

The rapid advances made in the study of the synthesis, structure and function of biological macromole cules in the last fifteen years have enabled scientists concerned with antimicrobial agents to achieve a considerable measure of understanding of how these substances inhibit cell growth and division.