Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chichester, UK ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : J. Wiley, 2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (301 p.)
Disciplina	612.1/71 612.17
Altri autori (Persone)	ChadwickDerek GoodeJamie
Collana	Novartis Foundation symposium
Soggetto topico	Heart conduction system Heart - Growth
ISBN	1-280-27213-9 9786610272136 0-470-66781-8 0-470-86803-1 0-470-86806-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	DEVELOPMENT OF THE CARDIAC CONDUCTION SYSTEM; Contents; Participants; Chair's introduction; The morphology of the cardiac conduction system; Discussion; Development of the cardiac conduction system: a matter of chamber development; Discussion; Mouse models for cardiac conduction system development; Discussion; Developmental transitions in cardiac conduction; Discussion; Gap junctional connexins in developing mouse cardiac conduction system; Discussion; His-Purkinje lineages and development; Discussion; The role of neural crest and epicardium-derived cells in conduction system formation DiscussionInduction and patterning of the Purkinje fibre network; Discussion; The oldest, toughest cells in the heart; Discussion; Transcriptional regulation in the mouse atrioventricular conduction system; Discussion; Patterning of the mouse conduction system; Discussion; Clinical pathology of the cardiac conduction system; Discussion; Cardiac conduction and arrhythmia: insights from Nkx2.5 mutations in mouse and humans; Discussion; The genetic origin of atrioventricular conduction disturbance in humans; Discussion Defects in cardiac conduction system lineages and malignant arrhythmias: developmental pathways and diseaseDiscussion; Final general discussion; Index of contributors; Subject index
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chichester ; ; New York, : J. Wiley, 1995
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (348 p.)
Disciplina	599.0188 612.8 612.825
Altri autori (Persone)	BockGregory CardewGail
Collana	Ciba Foundation symposium
Soggetto topico	Cerebral cortex - Growth Developmental neurobiology
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-34792-6 9786612347924 0-470-51479-5 0-470-51481-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	DEVELOPMENT OF THE CEREBRAL CORTEX; Contents; Participants; Introduction: mysteries in the making of the cerebral cortex; Cell lineage and patterns of migration in the developing cortex; The cel lineage of neuronal subtypes in the mammalian cerebral cortex; General discussion I; The generation of cellular diversity in the cerebral cortex; Factors regulating the differentiation of neural precursors in the forebrain; Emx and Otx gene expression in the deveIoping mouse brain; General discussion II; Guidance of thalamocortical innervation Subplate neurons and the patterning of thalamocortial connectionsThe specificity of interactions between the cortex and the thalamus; General discussion Ill; Molecular contributions to cerebral cortical specification; Plasticity in the development of neocortical areas; The roles of growth factors and neural activity in the development of the neocortex; General discussion IV; Factors that are critical for plasticity in the visual cortex; Cortical development and neuropathology in schizophrenia; Pathology of cortical development and neuropsychiatric disorders; Final discussion Index of contributorsSubject index
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : J. Wiley, c2004
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (381 p.)
Disciplina	547.84
Altri autori (Persone)	HamleyIan W
Soggetto topico	Block copolymers
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-54160-1 9786610541607 0-470-09393-5 0-470-09394-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Developments in Block Copolymer Science and Technology; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction to Block Copolymers; 2 Recent Developments in Synthesis of Model Block Copolymers using Ionic Polymerisation; 3 Syntheses and Characterizations of Block Copolymers Prepared via Controlled Radical Polymerization Methods; 4 Melt Behaviour of Block Copolymers; 5 Phase Behavior of Block Copolymer Blends; 6 Crystallization within Block Copolymer Mesophases; 7 Dynamical Microphase Modelling with Mesodyn; 8 Self-consistent Field Theory of Block Copolymers 9 Lithography with Self-assembled Block Copolymer Microdomains10 Applications of Block Copolymer Surfactants; 11 The Development of Elastomers Based on Fully Hydrogenated Styrene-Diene Block Copolymers; Index
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Autore	Tatham Mark
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chichester, West Sussex, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ : , : J. Wiley, , c2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource [358 pages]
Disciplina	006.54
Soggetto topico	Speech processing systems
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-24170-5 9786610241705 0-470-01260-9 0-470-01259-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	DEVELOPMENTS IN SPEECH SYNTHESIS; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; How Good is Synthetic Speech?; Improvements Beyond Intelligibility; Continuous Adaptation; Data Structure Characterisation; Shared Input Properties; Intelligibility: Some Beliefs and Some Myths; Naturalness; Variability; The Introduction of Style; Expressive Content; Final Introductory Remarks; Part I Current Work; 1 High-Level and Low-Level Synthesis; 1.1 Differentiating Between Low-Level and High-Level Synthesis; 1.2 Two Types of Text; 1.3 The Context of High-Level Synthesis; 1.4 Textual Rendering; 2 Low-Level Synthesisers: Current Status2.1 The Range of Low-Level Synthesisers Available; 2.1.1 Articulatory Synthesis; 2.1.2 Formant Synthesis; 2.1.3 Concatenative Synthesis; Units for Concatenative Synthesis; Representation of Speech in the Database; Unit Selection Systems: the Data-Driven Approach; Unit Joining; Cost Evaluation in Unit Selection Systems; Prosody and Concatenative Systems; Prosody Implementation in Unit Concatenation Systems; 2.1.4 Hybrid System Approaches to Speech Synthesis; 3 Text-To-Speech; 3.1 Methods; 3.2 The Syntactic Parse; 4 Different Low-Level Synthesisers: What Can Be Expected?4.1 The Competing Types; 4.2 The Theoretical Limits; 4.3 Upcoming Approaches; 5 Low-Level Synthesis Potential; 5.1 The Input to Low-Level Synthesis; 5.2 Text Marking; 5.2.1 Unmarked Text; 5.2.2 Marked Text: the Basics; 5.2.3 Waveforms and Segment Boundaries; 5.2.4 Marking Boundaries on Waveforms: the Alignment Problem; 5.2.5 Labelling the Database: Segments; 5.2.6 Labelling the Database: Endpointing and Alignment; Part II A New Direction for Speech Synthesis; 6 A View of Naturalness; 6.1 The Naturalness Concept; 6.2 Switchable Databases for Concatenative Synthesis6.3 Prosodic Modifications; 7 Physical Parameters and Abstract Information Channels; 7.1 Limitations in the Theory and Scope of Speech Synthesis; 7.1.1 Distinguishing Between Physical and Cognitive Processes; 7.1.2 Relationship Between Physical and Cognitive Objects; 7.1.3 Implications; 7.2 Intonation Contours from the Original Database; 7.3 Boundaries in Intonation; 8 Variability and System Integrity; 8.1 Accent Variation; 8.2 Voicing; 8.3 The Festival System; 8.4 Syllable Duration; 8.5 Changes of Approach in Speech Synthesis; 9 Automatic Speech Recognition9.1 Advantages of the Statistical Approach; 9.2 Disadvantages of the Statistical Approach; 9.3 Unit Selection Synthesis Compared with Automatic Speech Recognition; Part III High-Level Control; 10 The Need for High-Level Control; 10.1 What is High-Level Control?; 10.2 Generalisation in Linguistics; 10.3 Units in the Signal; 10.4 Achievements of a Separate High-Level Control; 10.5 Advantages of Identifying High-Level Control; 11 The Input to High-Level Control; 11.1 Segmental Linguistic Input; 11.2 The Underlying Linguistics Model; 11.3 Prosody; 11.4 Expression; 12 Problems for Automatic Text Markup
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