Leo E. Verhaeghe. May 26, 1955. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and Ordered to be Printed
Title | Leo E. Verhaeghe. May 26, 1955. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and Ordered to be Printed PDF eBook |
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Author | United States. Congress. House |
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Pages | 2536 |
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Leo E. Verhaeghe. July 30, 1955. -- Ordered to be Printed
Title | Leo E. Verhaeghe. July 30, 1955. -- Ordered to be Printed PDF eBook |
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Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Schizophrenia
Title | Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Schizophrenia PDF eBook |
Author | American Psychiatric Association |
Publisher | American Psychiatric Publishing |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Schizophrenia |
ISBN | 9780890423097 |
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.
Walled Towns and the Shaping of France
Title | Walled Towns and the Shaping of France PDF eBook |
Author | M. Wolfe |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2009-08-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0230101127 |
This book focuses on the development of towns in France, taking into account military technology, physical geography, shifting regional networks tying urban communities together, and the emergence of new forms of public authority and civic life.
Adventures among Ants
Title | Adventures among Ants PDF eBook |
Author | Mark W. Moffett |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2010-05-05 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0520945417 |
Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, "the Indiana Jones of entomology," takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere, Moffett recounts his entomological exploits and provides fascinating details on how ants live and how they dominate their ecosystems through strikingly human behaviors, yet at a different scale and a faster tempo. Moffett’s spectacular close-up photographs shrink us down to size, so that we can observe ants in familiar roles; warriors, builders, big-game hunters, and slave owners. We find them creating marketplaces and assembly lines and dealing with issues we think of as uniquely human—including hygiene, recycling, and warfare. Adventures among Ants introduces some of the world’s most awe-inspiring species and offers a startling new perspective on the limits of our own perception. • Ants are world-class road builders, handling traffic problems on thoroughfares that dwarf our highway systems in their complexity • Ants with the largest societies often deploy complicated military tactics • Some ants have evolved from hunter-gatherers into farmers, domesticating other insects and growing crops for food
Désiré Collen - Biotech Pioneer
Title | Désiré Collen - Biotech Pioneer PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Huybrechts |
Publisher | Désiré Collen |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2020-08-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 164999608X |
Désiré Collen, Biotech Pioneer relates the fascinating story of scientific discovery in a time when biotechnology was not yet a science. Although the cultivation and cross fertilization of plants were, strictly speaking, biotechnological techniques, modern biotechnology dates from the early 1970s, when pioneers such as biochemist Herbert Boyer from the university of California managed to transfer genetic material into a bacterium. Together with venture capitalist Robert Swanson, Boyer set up Genentech, one of the first genetic engineering companies. Just a few years later, on the other side of the Atlantic, in Leuven, Désiré Collen discovered t-PA, the enzyme responsible for fibrinolysis, or the dissolving of blood clots. Clogged arteries were then still one of the major causes of death. The ensuing cooperation between Collen and Genentech was the beginning of a long-lasting success story, from which not only Collen but also scientific research and the University of Leuven benefitted greatly for many years. According to a Reuters ranking, KU Leuven has been, from 2016 onwards, the most innovative university in Europe. Flanders and Belgium served as the cradle of several highly successful biotech companies. t-PA was a relatively expensive medicine, and Collen went on to develop a much cheaper clot-dissolving remedy to benefit patients in less affluent countries. He failed, however, to find the necessary finances for Phase 3 trials. Meanwhile, he had set up ThromboGenics, a company which later specialized in ophthalmology. Collen continued to stimulate and finance research in other fields, such as the cardiovascular research of Peter Carmeliet. In 2013 he left ThromboGenics, following a difference in views on the company’s focus, and in 2015 he set up Fund+, a biotech-oriented investment firm. Fund+ has meanwhile acquired a prominent place among European biotech investment funds and has scored some astonishing early successes. In June 2020, Fund+ had 13 companies in its portfolio, with several more waiting to come on board.