ICoRD'13

ICoRD'13
Author: Amaresh Chakrabarti
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1404
Release: 2013-01-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 8132210506

This book showcases over 100 cutting-edge research papers from the 4th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD’13) – the largest in India in this area – written by eminent researchers from over 20 countries, on the design process, methods and tools, for supporting global product development (GPD). The special features of the book are the variety of insights into the GPD process, and the host of methods and tools at the cutting edge of all major areas of design research for its support. The main benefit of this book for researchers in engineering design and GPD are access to the latest quality research in this area; for practitioners and educators, it is exposure to an empirically validated suite of methods and tools that can be taught and practiced.

The Red Thread

The Red Thread
Author: Jacob A. Zumoff
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2021-07-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1978809913

This book tells the story of 15,000 wool workers who went on strike for more than a year, defying police violence and hunger. The strikers were mainly immigrants and half were women. The Passaic textile strike, the first time that the Communist Party led a mass workers’ struggle in the United States, captured the nation’s imagination and came to symbolize the struggle of workers throughout the country when the labor movement as a whole was in decline during the conservative, pro-business 1920s. Although the strike was defeated, many of the methods and tactics of the Passaic strike presaged the struggles for industrial unions a decade later in the Great Depression.

Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation

Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation
Author: Niranjan Bhattacharya
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2013-02-26
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1447141717

Many diseases earlier considered to be incurable are now being treated with modern innovations involving fetal tissue transplants and stem cells derived from fetal tissues. Fetal tissues are the richest source of fetal stem cells as well as other varying states of differentiated cells and support or stromal cells. The activity of such stem cells is at their peak provided they are given the correct niche. Stem cells, as we know, are immortal cells with the capacity to regenerate into any kind of differentiated cell as per niche-guidance. As such, fetal tissues have the potential capacity to mend, regenerate and repair damaged cells or tissues in adults, when directly transplanted to the site of injury, or even when transplanted in some other site, because it may have a homing capacity to migrate to the site of the specific injured organ. This is a new area of translational research and needs to be highlighted because of its immense potential. This book will bring together the new work of prominent medical scientists and clinicians who are conducting pioneering research in human fetal tissue transplantation. This will include direct transplant of healthy fetal tissue into mature patients as well as in hosts with genetic diseases. Transplant techniques, donor-host interaction, cell and tissue storage, ethical and legal issues, are some of the many matters which the book will deal with.

Sierra Stories

Sierra Stories
Author: Gary Noy
Publisher: Heyday Books
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781597142656

Stories of characters who enlivened the SIERRA NEVADA and created the basis of many legends and tales. Features names and places of the formidable high country and lands adjoining