Transductions

Author: Adrian MacKenzie
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826481696
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
Part of the Technologies: Studies in Culture and Theory series. Through a critical analysis of the widely accepted notion that technology speeds everything up, this book argues that there are only ever differences in speed. The question for us is how can such differences be represented?

Energy Transduction in Biological Membranes

Author: William A. Cramer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461232201
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 553

Book Description
Energy Transduction in Biological Membranes was primarily designed for graduate courses in bioenergetics. Not only does it discuss basic principles and concepts central to modern membrane biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology, but also (1) the components and pathways for electron transport and hydrogen ion translocation, and (2) the utilization of electrochemical ion gradients. The book is unique in presenting a comparative treatment of respiratory and photosynthetic energy transduction, and in using protein sequence data coupled with physical concepts to discuss the mechanisms of energy transducing proteins.

Keywords in Sound

Author: David Novak
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822375494
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
In twenty essays on subjects such as noise, acoustics, music, and silence, Keywords in Sound presents a definitive resource for sound studies, and a compelling argument for why studying sound matters. Each contributor details their keyword's intellectual history, outlines its role in cultural, social and political discourses, and suggests possibilities for further research. Keywords in Sound charts the philosophical debates and core problems in defining, classifying and conceptualizing sound, and sets new challenges for the development of sound studies. Contributors. Andrew Eisenberg, Veit Erlmann, Patrick Feaster, Steven Feld, Daniel Fisher, Stefan Helmreich, Charles Hirschkind, Deborah Kapchan, Mara Mills, John Mowitt, David Novak, Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier, Thomas Porcello, Tom Rice, Tara Rodgers, Matt Sakakeeny, David Samuels, Mark M. Smith, Benjamin Steege, Jonathan Sterne, Amanda Weidman

Words, Semigroups & Transductions

Author: Masami It?
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9810247397
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 455

Book Description
This is an excellent collection of papers dealing with combinatorics on words, codes, semigroups, automata, languages, molecular computing, transducers, logics, etc., related to the impressive work of Gabriel Thierrin. This volume is in honor of Professor Thierrin on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

Oxidative Stress and Signal Transduction

Author: H.J. Forman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461559812
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Book Description
In the past few years there has been the increased recognition that the effects of oxidative stress are not limited to the damage of cellular constituents. There is now evidence that reactive oxygen species (ROS) can alter cell function by acting upon the intermediates, or second messengers, in signal transductions. Such effects on signaling mechanisms probably account for the role of oxidative stress in inflammation, aging, and cancer. This volume brings together internationally recognized researchers in both the major areas covered by the book, oxidative stress and signal transduction. The work is organized in three sections. The first deals with the immediate cellular responses to oxidative stress and the production of second messengers. The second details the connection between second messengers and the gene. The third part looks more closely at the level of the gene.

Principles of Bioenergetics

Author: Vladimir P. Skulachev
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 364233430X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 435

Book Description
Principles of Bioenergetics summarizes one of the quickly growing branches of modern biochemistry. Bioenergetics concerns energy transductions occurring in living systems and this book pays special attention to molecular mechanisms of these processes. The main subject of the book is the "energy coupling membrane" which refers to inner membranes of intracellular organelles, for example, mitochondria and chloroplasts. Cellular cytoplasmic membranes where respiratory and photosynthetic energy transducers, as well as ion-transporting ATP-synthases (ATPases) are also part of this membrane. Significant attention is paid to the alternative function of mitochondria as generators of reactive oxygen species (ROS) that mediate programmed death of cells (apoptosis and necrosis) and organisms (phenoptosis). The latter process is considered as a key mechanism of aging which may be suppressed by mitochondria-targeted antioxidants.

Graph Structure and Monadic Second-Order Logic

Author: Bruno Courcelle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139644009
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 743

Book Description
The study of graph structure has advanced in recent years with great strides: finite graphs can be described algebraically, enabling them to be constructed out of more basic elements. Separately the properties of graphs can be studied in a logical language called monadic second-order logic. In this book, these two features of graph structure are brought together for the first time in a presentation that unifies and synthesizes research over the last 25 years. The authors not only provide a thorough description of the theory, but also detail its applications, on the one hand to the construction of graph algorithms, and, on the other to the extension of formal language theory to finite graphs. Consequently the book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in graph theory, finite model theory, formal language theory, and complexity theory.

Graph Structure and Monadic Second-Order Logic

Author: Bruno Courcelle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521898331
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 743

Half a Century of Inspirational Research

Author: Wojciech Penczek
Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 9781586038052
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
Honors Professor Antoni Mazurkiewicz, who during his long scientific career made fundamental contributions to theoretical computer science. This book includes contributions, which span a range of research areas, including the theory of programming, models of concurrent and distributed systems, and (de)composition methods for Pietri nets.

Developments in Language Theory

Author: Cristian S. Calude
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540240144
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 440

Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory, DLT 2004, held in Auckland, New Zealand in December 2004. The 30 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The main subjects are formal languages, automata, conventional and unconventional computation theory, and applications of automata theory. Among the topics addressed are grammars and acceptors for strings, graphs, and arrays; efficient text algorithms, combinatorial and algebraic properties of languages; decision problems; relations to complexity theory and logic; picture description and analysis; cryptography; concurrency; DNA computing; and quantum computing.