There is mounting evidence that the established paradigm of nitric oxide (NO) biochemistry, from formation through NO synthases, over interaction with soluble guanylyl cyclase, to eventual disposal as nitrite/nitrate, represents only part of a richer chemistry through which NO elicits biological signalling. Additional pathways...

This is a pedagogical introduction to the coordinate-free approach in basic finite-dimensional linear algebra. The reader should be already exposed to the array-based formalism of vector and matrix calculations. This book makes extensive use of the exterior (anti-commutative, "wedge") product of vectors. The coordinate-free...

During the past fifty years, thousands of natural products have been isolated from plants, fungi, and bacteria. Apart from intense searches by pharmaceutical companies for medicinals and the concentrated effort mounted by the National Cancer Institute, many of these have not been tested in...

Focuses on new approaches to one of the major cancers of the female reproductive system-cervical cancer. Expounds on the idea that, modulation in various signaling pathways is responsible for cervical cancer pathogenesis, and inhibition of these crucial pathways could be a better therapeutic approach...

The utilization of medicinal plants in the treatment of diabetes mellitus (DM) holds significant promise due to their diverse bioactive compounds. These plants have been historically acknowledged for their potential in managing DM and its complications. They often contain secondary metabolites with inherent hypoglycemic...

This Issue focuses on processes related to the research of natural products dereived from plants (Bauhinia forficata, Placolobium vietnamense, Tamarix chinensis, Peperomia obtusifolia, Cymbidium ensifolium, Dendrobium delacourii, Turnera subulata, Eruca sativa, Miconia chamissois and Persea americana) and microorganisms (Streptomyces tricolor, Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus, Gonatophragmium triuniae,...

Alles, was Sie bei der Planung und Umsetzung eines Projekts in der Kunststoffindustrie beachten müssen, wurde in diesem Band zusammengestellt. - an Fachleute aus allen Industriezweigen gerichtet - enthält Checklisten für alle Projektstadien (Produktentwurf, Vertragsabschlüsse, Materialauswahl, Montage, Herstellung, Ausrüstung, Verpackung/Dekoration und Transport) - zentrale...

Haunted Places and other Stories is a collection of short, queer, horror fiction. Gunnells explores the range of ways people-and places-can be haunted, and uses this theme to challenge assumptions of queerness. He broaches some very real topics that, in themselves, haunting contemporary Americans,...

Sarah, an Asian-American college student moves into Sunnycrest Apartments because it's a rare, affordable place. Strange things show up in her closet that don't belong to her. Stranger still, they seem to come from the past. With the help of her psychiatrist, the girl...

***Includes the prequel novella, I am the Door***Time to Come HomePeter Lange returns to his hometown of White Harbor to visit his estranged mother, Martha, who suffers from Alzheimer's. Unbeknownst to Peter, his return to town will be the catalyst for the emergence of...

When Harriet moves to Bentwood to teach gifted students, her new life doesn't go as planned. Between her haunted rental and her oddball neighbor, Lucy-who literally won't go away-Harriet is left questioning her own sanity. The beautiful Kelsey, whom she meets at the farmers...

One of the Time 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All Time 2019 LOCUS AWARD WINNER, BEST FIRST NOVEL 2019 HUGO AWARD FINALIST, BEST NOVEL Nebula Award Finalist for Best Novel One of Bustle's Top 20 "landmark sci-fi and fantasy novels" of the decade "An...

After suffering a savage assault in a bathroom as a girl, Gertie meets the man of her dreams. Her trauma soon vanishes as they begin to build a life together. However, with the sudden death of her beloved Jack, and the return of her...

The thirteen stories in Rebecca Turkewitz's debut collection, Here in the Night, are engrossing, strange, eerie, and emotionally nuanced. With psychological insight and finely crafted prose, Here in the Night investigates the joys and constraints of womanhood, of queerness, and of intimacy. Preoccupied with...

Young, gay heroin addicts in Urbino, Italy have enough problems but when one of their group connects with a golden stranger who shares a mysterious affliction, a tale about everyday lives riddled with addiction turns into a brutally destructive narrative about sex as a...

A sweeping, psychedelic romance of two men caught in a looping world of artificial realities, edited memories, secretive cabals and conspiracies to push humanity to the next step in its evolution. For fans of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Ubik, The Eternal Sunshine of...

They are the final ones, the last person standing. The offer is cash, and all they have to do is go on film to talk about how it happened. How they made it. In a refurbished Frat House where a tragedy once occurred, eight...

This book introduces major advances of the harmony search algorithm in recent years. Topics cover theory and application and include robotics, visual tracking, web text data mining, power flow planning, fuzzy control system, irrigation, logistics and more.

Marine Drugs is very pleased to host a Special Issue in honour of Prof. Dr. Peter Proksch, who served as Editor in Chief for Marine Drugs from 2005 to 2009, for his excellent research contribution.