Albumin is playing an increasing role as a versatile, biodegradable drug carrier in clinical theranostics. By applying different techniques, smart drug-delivery systems can be developed from albumin in order to improve drug delivery of different active pharmaceutical ingredients, even small-molecule drugs, peptides or enzymes. Principally, three drug delivery technologies can be distinguished f…
pressure effect; slow magnetic relaxation; n/a; graphene oxide; mixed metal Co/Ln clusters; X-ray diffraction; magnetism; AC susceptibility; two-dimensional (2D) ferrimagnets; cobalt; coordination clusters; lanthanides; DFT calculation; long-range magnetic ordering; iron complex; single-molecule magnets; lanthanide complex; coordination polymers; octacyanidoniobate(IV); ferromagnetism; nickel(I…
This title investigates an often overlooked factor in the development of today's interoperable world - the evolution of copyright law. The book examines the debates surrounding the use of copyright law to prevent competition and interoperability in the global software industry in the last 15 years.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Annotation Japan's financial institutions and policy underwent remarkable change in the past decade. The country began the 1990s with a heavily regulated financial system managed by an unchallenged Ministry of Finance and ended the decade with a Big Bang financial market reform, a complete restructuring of its regulatory financial institutions, and an independent central bank. These reforms hav…
The contributions in this book provide a unique view of its emergence and growth in a number of different national settings in an area of the Third World where the industry is most advanced. The motor vehicle industry has had a dramatic impact on industrialized societies, shaping the structure and productive processes of capitalist economies and defining consumer life styles. The industry's imp…
The debate over the use of copyright law to prevent competition and interoperability in the global software industry. We live in an interoperable world. Computer hardware and software products from different manufacturers can exchange data within local networks and around the world using the Internet. The competition enabled by this compatibility between devices has led to fast-paced innovat…
This volume explores the concept of Japanese reproductive rights and liberties in light of recent developments in disability studies. Masae Kato asks important questions about what constitutes personhood and how, in the twenty-first century, we come to understand eugenic abortion and other bioethical arguments. Tracing the origin and influence of the concept of a "right," the author places the …