Complement and Kidney Disease

Peter F Zipfel

It is evident that a defective or deregulated complement system results in kidney diseases. An important role of complement effector and regulatory proteins in pathological settings of the kidney has been demonstrated. A large panel of distinct human kidney diseases is...

Quantum-Statistical Models of Hot Dense Matter

Andrei Iacob , Arnold F. Nikiforov , Vladimir G. Novikov , Vasili B. Uvarov

In the processes studied in contemporary physics one encounters the most diverse conditions: temperatures ranging from absolute zero to those found in the cores of stars, and densities ranging from those of gases to densities tens of times larger than those of a solid...

Classical Geometries in Modern Contexts

Walter Benz

Invasive Plants: Ecological and Agricultural Aspects

S. Inderjit

Invasive plants have an impact on global biodiversity and ecosystem function, and their management is a complex task. The aim of this book is to discuss fundamental questions of invasion ecology, such as why particular communities become more invasible than others, what...

Berichte zur Lebensmittelsicherheit 2013

N.C.

Nationale Berichterstattung an die EU. Berichte über (a) die Veterinärkontrollen von aus Drittländern eingeführten Erzeugnissen an den Grenzkontrollstellen der Gemeinschaft, (b) die verstärkten amtlichen Kontrollen bei der Einfuhr bestimmter Futtermittel und...

Andrej Sacharow

Gennady Gorelik , Helmut Rotter

Wie und weshalb wurde aus dem eigentlich politikfernen theoretischen Physiker Andrej Sacharow (1921–1989), allgemein anerkannter Vater der sowjetischen Wasserstoffbombe, ein Vorkämpfer für Menschenrechte und der erste Friedensnobelpreisträger Russlands? Dies ist die...