Genetically Modified Crops: Their Development, Uses and Risks

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Gain state-of-the-art knowledge of new research and developments in transgenic technology!

Genetically Modified Crops: Their Development, Uses, and Risks provides groundbreaking information on the integration of foreign DNA into the nucleus of a plant cell to produce a positive transformation. This volume details methods of gene delivery, laboratory tools and techniques to increase success rates, and the benefits, risks, and limitations of these methods. Authors at the forefront of this developing technology provide a comprehensive overview of transgenic crops and vital research on specific plant genera that have undergone transgenic transformation.

Agricultural biotechnology has become a national and necessary mainstay of farming and food production, and this book is an important scientific tool to keep you informed of the latest protocols of genetic transformation. This book also outlines the goals that scientists are striving to reach, such as targeted gene expression where the gene only expresses itself at a certain time in the plant's life cycle, but disappear before human consumption. One of the greatest concerns is maintaining the welfare of the consumer, and in this volume the authors repeatedly discuss their findings in terms of safety for human consumption.

With Genetically Modified Crops: Their Development, Uses, and Risks, you'll explore:

the history of crop transformation and the techniques most commonly used for gene delivery, including biolistic bombardment and Agrobacterium-mediated transformation
various methods of determining successful gene transfer in putative transgenic plants, such as blotting, functional assaying, and progeny testing
the utilization of recombinase-directed plant transformation to improve faithful and consistent gene delivery and transference
the successful reproduction of an insecticidal protein from chicken eggs in transgenic corn—and its benefits to society
the current status of risk assessment and examples of incidents that have raised the level of concern about genetically modified plants outside the lab

This book also contains several chapters about current methods of transformation involving specific crops such as:

cotton
wheat
alfalfa
sorghum
rice
and more!

Genetically Modified Crops: Their Development, Uses, and Risks is an indispensable guidebook for agronomists, plant and molecular geneticists, and students in agronomy, genetics, entomology, horticulture, and plant pathology. This manual is also useful to concerned consumers who wish to know the latest scientific findings on genetically modified crops. Complete with references, figures, and photographs, this book is a must-read to keep up to date with science and technology.

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The study of capillarity is in the midst of a veritable explosion. Hence the temptation to write a new book, aiming at an audience of students. What is offered here is not a comprehensive review of the latest research but rather a compendium of principles. How does one turn a hydrophilic surface into one that is hydrophobic, and vice versa? We will describe a few solutions. Some rely on chemical treatments, such as coating a surface with a molecular layer. Others are based on physics, for instance by controlling the roughness of a surface. We will also examine the dynamics of wetting. Drops that spread spontaneously do so at a rate that slows down with time. They can be tricked into covering large areas by spreading them suddenly. We will describe a few of the many facets of their dynamical properties. Special additives are required for water to foam. Foams are desirable in a shampoo but can be a nightmare in a dishwasher detergent. Antifoam agents have been developed and are well known, but how do they work? It is also possible to generate bubbles and foams without special additives, for example in pure and viscous liquids such as glycerin, molten glass, and polymers. As we will see, the laws of draining and bursting then turn out to be quite different from the conventional ones. This book will enable the reader to understand in simple terms such questions that affect every day life -- questions that also come up during in industry. The aim is to view systems that often prove quite complex in a way that isolates a particular physical phenomenon, often avoiding descriptions requiring advanced numerical techniques will oftentimes in favor of qualitative arguments. This strategy may at times jeopardize scientific rigor, but it makes it possible to grasp things efficiently and to invent novel situations.

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Very useful and easy to read!.......2006-03-04

This is a great book for anyone interested in capillarity and wetting phenomena. What I like about it is that it gives the reader a grasp of how things work and it goes through a lot of practical examples. The equations are voluntarily simplified (constants often omitted) to only leave the important variables and reveal the "mechanics of how things work". However, although the equations look simple, they do capture the essence of the problem and they are always perfectly sound. This is an approach that de Gennes uses a lot and which I believe makes things easier to understand. Moreover, the 3 authors of the book are, like the previous reviewer said, very well known and respected scientist in their field, which adds to the scientific soundness of their approach. In summary, I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the physics of wetting.

Intuitive, elegant, insightful, beautiful!.......2005-05-08

Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena, like every text and paper bearing the name of de Gennes is intuitive, insightful, elegant, beautiful and extremely useful text. The names de Gennes, Brochard and David Quere are well known to the researchers in this area, and this book basically brings together their deep insight about a host of different phenomena in very simple words and equations. The described physics of wetting, surface tension, droplet spreading, instabilities, bubbles, etc. is developed in a style where qualitative arguments, dimensional arguments and experimental observations are used to describe a variety of complex phenomena. The apparent lack of mathematical rigor is a blessing to everyone interested in developing a taste and temperament for this extremely important field. While one can find several related texts in the field, none other is written in this delightfully insightful way. This is one of the rare gems that everyone from a high school student to most advanced researcher in the field can read, enjoy, learn from and be delighted to possess.

Bubbles, Drops, and Particles in Non-Newtonian Fluids, Second Edition (Chemical Industries Series)

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Bubbles, Drops, and Particles in Non-Newtonian Fluids, Second Edition (Chemical Industries Series)
R.P. Chhabra
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ASIN: 0824723295

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Bubbles, Drops, and Particles in Non-Newtonian Fluids, Second Edition continues to provide thorough coverage of the scientific foundations and the latest advances in particle motion in non-Newtonian media. The book demonstrates how dynamic behavior of single particles can yield useful information for modeling transport processes in complex multiphase flows. Completely revised and expanded, this second edition covers macroscopic momentum and heat/mass transfer from a single rigid or fluid particle or ensembles of particles involving strong inter-particle interactions including packed beds, fluidized beds, and porous media with different types of non-Newtonian fluids. It reflects advances made since the publication of the previous, bestselling edition with new material on topics such as extensional flow; time-independent, time-dependent and visco-elastic fluids; free settling behavior of non-spherical particles; and particle motion in visco-elastic and visco-plastic fluids, boundary layer flows, flows in porous media, and falling object rheometry. An excellent reference and handbook dealing with the technological aspects of non-Newtonian materials encountered in nature and in technology, this book highlights qualitative differences between the response of a Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids in the complex flows encountered in processing applications.

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Just an Overview of the Important Equations
nice book
Basic engineering reference

Bubbles, Drops, and Particles
R. Clift , J. R. Grace , and M. E. Weber
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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ASIN: 0486445801

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Geared toward students and professionals in the fields of engineering, physics, chemistry, geophysics, and applied mathematics, this volume offers a unified treatment and critical review of the literature related to the fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and mass transfer of single bubbles, drops, and particles. 1978 edition.

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Just an Overview of the Important Equations.......2007-08-20

I didnt find any useful information in this book. The whole book just seems to review other peoples work. I found it very frustrating to read and I dont feel that I can use any of the information presented.

nice book.......2006-09-28

I bought this book two days ago, it is the new version, quite useful for the research of fluid-structure interaction .

Basic engineering reference.......2006-08-31

A Dover reprint of an overvoew some 30 years old,
this is a handy and well organized review of the state
of knowledge about bubbly flows of various kind at
the time of writing. Recent experimental and modeling
efforts must be consulted about elsewhere. There are
no application examples, but the breadth of coverage
and usefulness of selected data and correlations is
impressive. Balances between competing effects are
nicely quantified, including e.g. the selective infuence
of turbulent stress at different length and time scales.

Transport Phenomena with Drops and Bubbles (Mechanical Engineering Series)

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Transport Phenomena with Drops and Bubbles (Mechanical Engineering Series)
Satwindar S. Sadhal , Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy , and Jacob N. Chung
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ASIN: 0387946780

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Fluid flows that transfer heat and mass often involve drops and bubbles, particularly if there are changes of phase in the fluid in the formation or condensation of steam, for example. Such flows pose problems for the chemical and mechanical engineer significantly different from those posed by single-phase flows. This book reviews the current state of the field and will serve as a reference for researchers, engineers, teachers, and students concerned with transport phenomena. It begins with a review of the basics of fluid flow and a discussion of the shapes and sizes of fluid particles and the factors that determine these. The discussion then turns to flows at low Reynolds numbers, including effects due to phase changes or to large radial inertia. Flows at intermediate and high Reynolds numbers are treated from a numerical perspective, with reference to experimental results. The next chapter considers the effects of solid walls on fluid particles, treating both the statics and dynamics of the particle-wall interaction and the effects of phase changes at a solid wall. This is followed by a discussion of the formation and breakup of drops and bubbles, both with and without phase changes. The last two chapters discuss compound drops and bubbles, primarily in three-phase systems, and special topics, such as transport in an electric field.

Dynamics of Bubbles, Drops and Rigid Particles (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications)

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Perfect!

Dynamics of Bubbles, Drops and Rigid Particles (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications)
Z. Zapryanov , and S. Tabakova
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ASIN: 0792353471

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This book considers the main hydrodynamic aspects of the dynamics of bubbles, drops and rigid particles with a special emphasis on the deformations and hydrodynamic interactions between fluid particles in uniform or shear flows and hydrodynamic interactions between rigid spherical particles in an oscillatory flow. There is no other published book to date which reveals these topics in the described manner.
Readers should have a basic understanding of introductory fluid mechanics, real analysis and numerical methods. The book provides the basis for quantitative description of the phenomena that occur in the dynamics of bubbles, drops and rigid particles.
The book is intended to serve both as a graduate textbook for students in chemical engineering, physics and applied mathematics, and as a reference monograph for academic and industrial researchers.

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Perfect!.......2001-03-06

I've used this book as a basic of my Ph. D. work. It's written in very intelligible style but also has a very good scientific value! I'm recommending the book to those who has been interested in fluid dynamics!

Particles, Bubbles & Drops: Their Motion, Heat And Mass Transfer

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Particles, Bubbles & Drops: Their Motion, Heat And Mass Transfer
E. E. Michaelides
Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company
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General Overview.......2007-09-25

This book just presents lots of general information about research topics. There is no useful information for anyone carrying out postgraduate research.

A Drop of Water A Book of Science and Wonder

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A Drop of Water A Book of Science and Wonder

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ASIN: 0590023195

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Beautiful photographs of water, ice, snowflakes, bubbles and more. Teaches about the water cycle, surface tension, capillary attraction, evaporation, condensation and more.

Transport Processes in Bubbles, Drops and Particles

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Transport Processes in Bubbles, Drops and Particles
Daniel DeKee
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ASIN: 1560329068

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This second edition attests to the impact of the subject matter in a variety of scientific and engineering disciplines. There has been tremendous growth in areas such as transport phenomena/materials science and processing. This book builds on and updates the editor's earlier work. It highlights recent advances in the motion of particles, drops and bubbles in complex fluids and represents a timely and needed addition to the literature on real (non-linear) materials. In particluar, it contains state-of-the-art contributions from leading experts in areas such as particle deposition in membranes, flow of granular mixtures, food suspensions, foams, electrokinetic and thermocapillary driven flows, and two-phase flows.

The Motion of Bubbles and Drops in Reduced Gravity

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The Motion of Bubbles and Drops in Reduced Gravity
R. Shankar Subramanian , and R. Balasubramaniam
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ASIN: 0521019486

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Orbiting spacecraft provide a valuable laboratory for experiments on physical and biological systems in a reduced gravity environment. In these experiments, fluid masses containing bubbles and drops are encountered routinely. This original work provides a clear, thorough review of the motion of bubbles and drops in reduced gravity, particularly motion caused by variations in interfacial tension arising from temperature gradients on their surfaces. The emphasis is on theoretical analysis from first principles; experimental results are discussed and compared with predictions where appropriate. Students and researchers interested in fluid mechanics in reduced gravity will welcome this state-of-the-art reference.

Controlled Particle, Droplet and Bubble Formation (Colloid and Surface Engineering)

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Controlled Particle, Droplet and Bubble Formation (Colloid and Surface Engineering)
D J Wedlock
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ASIN: 0750614943

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The ability to control particle size distributions and to characterize them once formed is an increasingly important topic in the processing industry. Many standard processing techniques are looked at in this book, but from new and innovative
perspectives. Well established techniques such as crystallization and precipitation are covered alongside newer technologies such as sol-gel processing. Formation of products using emulsions, aerosols and polymers covered in this book are used across a wide variety of processing industries and all those involved in the processing of chemicals, food, minerals bioproducts and many other products will find this book an informative reference source.

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