Springer Verlag

Twenty-seven chapters deal with the regeneration of plants from protoplasts and genetic transformation in various species of Arachis, Buplerum, Capsella, Dendrobium, Dianthus, Diospyros, Fagopyrum, Festuca, Gentiana, Glycyrrhiza, Gossypium, Hemerocallis, Levisticum, Lonicera, Musa, Physalis, Platanus, Prunus, Saposhikovia, Solanum, Spinacia,...

The States of Strongly Interacting Matter.- Lattice QCD and the Phase Diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics Theory of Strongly Interacting Matter.- The Quest for the Nuclear Equation of State.- Hadron Production in Heavy Ion Collisions.- The Chiral Restoration Transition of QCD and Low Mass Dileptons.- Electromagnetic Probes.- The QCD Confinement...

This practical guide offers a comprehensive summary of the most important and most immediate therapeutic approaches in the assessment and treatment of burn injuries. Taking into account age-specific needs in pediatric, adult, and elderly burn patients, the book discusses key issues such as pre-hospital treatment, wound care and infection control,...

The subject of the book is application of multi-antenna radiolocation to the environment of fast, ubiquitous wireless communication among portable devices. It is a systematic presentation of the author's research and development in the field, within the 802.11b standard, while explaining the general principles and exploring applications to other...

This volume 1 and its companion volume 2 present the results of new investigations into the geology, paleontology and paleoecology of the early hominin site of Laetoli in northern Tanzania. The site is one of the most important paleontological and paleoanthropological sites in Africa, worldrenowned for the discovery of fossils of the early hominin...

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks, held in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, in September 2009. The 62 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed. Ad hoc networks refer to the wireless networking paradigm that covers a variety of network forms for specific purposes,...