Product Description: Proceedings of a conference held Feb. 2009, Universiteat Basel.

Product Description: Der Band widmet sich einer historischen wie systematischen Betrachtung der Phanomene Musikfernsehen und Videoclips/Musikvideos am Beispiel des international operierenden Senders MTV respektive seines deutschen Pendants VIVA. Zugleich wird der Versuch unternommen, an die durch die Autoren seit den 1990er Jahren kontinuierlich betriebene Forschung zur Musiktelevision anzuknupfen und diese einer Aktualisierung zu unterziehen...read more

Product Description: Achieving operative excellence is an important endeavour for all companies – it is the golden path that leads to increased value over the long term. Through this book you too can achieve operations excellence within your own company.

Product Description: This monograph provides a comprehensive review of the poxvirus family with a particular emphasis on current developments. It includes the latest insights into poxviral molecular biology, diagnosis, therapy, vaccine development and the beneficial exploitation of these viruses in biomedical research...read more

Product Description: -SARS has received much attention and coverage by the media and has a high impact on the public making this a hot research topic for scientists. -

Product Description: Animal testing has a long history, and the resulting knowledge has brought about a significant contribution to the improvement of health and welfare of mankind and animals. Federal regulations concerning the performance of animal testing have become more restrictive worldwide over the last few decades, thus ensuring that only significant tests with a minimum of animal suffering are carried out...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The importance of yeast pathogens causing life-threatening systemic and tenacious superficial infections in humans has been steadily increasing over the last few decades. Species of the genus Candida, as well as dimorphic fungi with a pathogenic yeast phase such as Histoplasma and Cryptococcus species cause systemic mycosis mainly in immunocompromised patients and following long-term therapy with broad-spectrum antibiotics and/or antifungals...read more

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Product Description: Bartonella henselae is a bacterial pathogen that has been observed in sections of clinical specimen from patients with cat scratch disease. The first cultivation of this organism was successful in the early 1990s, and its biology and medical implications are still under extensive investigation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)