Dalam buku ini, para ahli terkemuka di bidang dermatologi dan onkologi menjelaskan penggunaan terapi radiasi untuk pengobatan berbagai macam keganasan dermatologi – termasuk karsinoma sel basal, karsinoma sel skuamosa, limfoma kulit, sarkoma Kaposi, melanoma, dan tumor sel Merkel – serta lesi prakanker dan gangguan dermatologi non-ganas yang dapat diobati dengan terapi radiasi. Dalam setiap…
Historians, philosophers, sociologists, and biologists explore the history of the idea that embryological development and evolution are linked.Although we now know that ontogeny (individual development) does not actually recapitulate phylogeny (evolutionary transformation), contrary to Ernst Haeckel's famous dictum, the relationship between embryological development and evolution remains the su…
The cultural history of heredity: scholars from a range of disciplines discuss the evolution of the concept of heredity, from the Early Modern understanding of the act of "generation" to its later nineteenth-century definition as the transmission of characteristics across generations. Until the middle of the eighteenth century, the biological makeup of an organism was ascribed to an individu…
The authors address the assumptions and methods that allow us to turn observations into causal knowledge, and use even incomplete causal knowledge in planning and prediction to influence and control our environment.What assumptions and methods allow us to turn observations into causal knowledge, and how can even incomplete causal knowledge be used in planning and prediction to influence and con…
Recently, cellular automata machines with the size, speed, and flexibility for general experimentation at a moderate cost have become available to the scientific community. These machines provide a laboratory in which the ideas presented in this book can be tested and applied to the synthesis of a great variety of systems. Computer scientists and researchers interested in modeling and simulatio…