Practical Experiment Designs : for Engineers and Scientists, 3rd Edition

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Most books cover the subject from a statistical or theoretical point of view. Ideal for working engineers, this book uses real-world examples and boils statistical theory and analysis down to its simplest form.
* Features new and updated material, including cases and a larger focus on multivariate analysis.
* Uses simple analysis tools for practical implementation on the job.
* Targets experiment planning as the groundwork for quality experiments.

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Title says it all.......2001-08-03

This book is a great introduction to ballanced orthogonal experimental designs. The so-called Scientific Method (tweak one parameter while holding the other variables fixed) is not used that much where there are complicated interactions between variables. This Designed Experimental (DOX) approach is used more frequently in the Semiconductor industry. This approach envolves a series of experiments where all the variables are potentially changed form one trial to another, but in such a way that one can resolved the effects of one variable from another AND understand interactions and non-linear effects. It is simply the best way to optimize a complicated system.

OK, if you have SAS or RS/1 or ...packages you may ask yourself "why bother learning the theory." I would say for 2 reasons - if you need to manually intervene or supplement an existing experiment AND seeing some more designs that are very effecient (John's 3/4 designs and Plackett-Burman designs) for initial screening that is not ususally part of the packages.

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There is an ever-increasing number of genes that have been sequenced but are of completely unknown function. The ability to determine the location of such gene products within the cell, either by the use of antibodies or by the production of chimeras with green fluorescent protein, is a vital step towards understanding what they do. This is one major reason why fluorescence microscopy is enjoying a revival. This no-nonsense guide provides detailed, practical advice on all aspects of the subject: from choosing the right equipment, to interpreting results. It balances the advantages of a wide range of techniques - including live cell work - against the potential pitfalls, offering invaluable "tricks of the trade" along the way. Protein Localization by Fluorescence Light Microscopy: A Practical Approach has something to offer all microscopists, giving a solid grounding to the novice whilst extending the range of the experienced user.

Gel Electrophoresis of Nucleic Acids: A Practical Approach (Practical Approach Series)

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Gel Electrophoresis of Nucleic Acids: A Practical Approach (Practical Approach Series)

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Now in a new second edition, this popular book includes a wealth of practical information on the much-used techniques of gel electrophoresis. Authoritative and completely current, the volume provides readers with an up-to-date, "how-to" guide to this growing field.

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The definitive work on Laboratory Andrology

Practical Laboratory Andrology
David Mortimer
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ASIN: 0195065956

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This practical manual on sperm analysis presents the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures that are used in andrology laboratories to analyze and assess male infertility. Diagnostic areas include: semen analysis and the biochemical, immunological and microbiological examination of human semen and spermatozoa; computer-aided sperm motility analysis; sperm ultrastructure; and assessment of sperm transport through the female tract and sperm fertilizing ability. The clinical relevance of various diagnostic procedures is also discussed. Therapeutic topics include sperm washing techniques, semen cryopreservation, and insemination procedures. The volume also covers safety in the andrology laboratory, technician training, and quality control. The text is extensively illustrated and will be an invaluable resource to all scientists and technicians who diagnose male infertility. It will also be of interest to researchers working in human gamete biology and reproductive physiology. The detailed methods described in the book are relevant to all hospital, commercial, and university laboratories involved in infertility diagnosis and treatment.

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The definitive work on Laboratory Andrology.......1999-05-25

This is the definitive work on human Laboratory Andrology. Not only does Dr. Mortimer give detailed protocols for performing laboratory testing of male fertility, but he also provides the scientific background for each test and clinical significance of the results. In addition, he discusses quality control and laboratory management issues. Each section is clearly written with straightforward explanations. There are excellent illustrations throughout. As a practicing Andrologist, who directs an Andrology Laboratory, I can not imagine getting by without this reference. I highly recommend this text to anyone who performs semen analysis. The text would also be of interest to sperm biologist working with domestic, exotic and research species.

Molecular Genetic Analysis of Populations: A Practical Approach (Practical Approach Series)

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Molecular Genetic Analysis of Populations: A Practical Approach (Practical Approach Series)

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Methods enabling the direct study of genetic variation in natural populations have improved considerably. The new edition explores these updated techniques in DNA analysis and provides a revised and refined laboratory guide to investigating variation in DNA molecules.

Bloodstain Pattern Analysis: With an Introduction to Crime Scene Reconstruction (Practical Aspects of Criminal & Forensic Investigation)

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Bloodstain Pattern Analysis: With an Introduction to Crime Scene Reconstruction (Practical Aspects of Criminal & Forensic Investigation)
Virgil Thomas Bevel , and Ross M. Gardner
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ASIN: 0849381592

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This in-depth reference covers the analysis of bloodstain patterns found at violent crime scenes and outlines a logical, effective method for crime scene reconstruction. The book first explains the history and evolution of bloodstain analysis and defines standard terminology. It then draws on the authors own extensive field experience to establish a working model for crime scene analysis and reconstruction. The authors cover key areas such as defining motion, finding the point of origin, identifying impact spatter, and spotting characteristic patterns. The text concludes with practical information on documenting and collecting bloodstain pattern evidence, presenting evidence in court, and contending with bloodborne pathogens.

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Exceptional.......1998-10-01

I was a student in one of Ross Gardner's bloodstain pattern analysis classes using these principles. Very informative and quite interesting.

Crystallization of Nucleic Acids and Proteins: A Practical Approach

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Protein Crystallization (Iul Biotechnology Series)

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In the last decade, crystallography has emerged as a key tool for understanding the structures of biological macromolecules, yet the crystallization techniques themselves have been perceived as difficult to perform. This book provides the first detailed and rational guide to producing crystals
of proteins and nucleic acids for diffraction studies. Standard crystallization methods are given, along with procedures for the preparation and handling of macromolecules. Other topics covered include: seeding procedures; crystallization in gels under microgravity and supergravity; crystallization
of nucleic acids, nucleic acid-protein complexes and membrane proteins; introduction to X-ray crystallography; and automated processes. Detailed laboratory protocols and the underlying theoretical background are brought together, providing researchers with the conceptual and methodological tools
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Fluorescent and Luminescent Probes for Biological Activity: A Practical Guide to Technology for Quantitative Real-Time Analysis (Biological Techniqu)

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Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy

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The use of fluorescent and luminescent probes to measure biological function has increased dramatically since publication of the First Edition due to their improved speed, safety, and power of analytical approach. This eagerly awaited Second Edition, also edited by Bill Mason, contains 19 new chapters and over two thirds new material, and is a must for all life scientists using optical probes.
The contents include discussion of new optical methodologies for detection of proteins, DNA and other molecules, as well as probes for ions, receptors, cellular components, and gene expression. Emerging and advanced technologies for probe detection such as confocal laser scanning microscopy are also covered. This book will be essential for those embarking on work in the field or using new methods to enhance their research.

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* Single and multiphoton confocal microscopy
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* Probes and detection technologies for imaging membrane potential in live cells
* Use of optical probes to detect microorganisms
* Raman and confocal raman microspectroscopy
* Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy
* Digital CCD cameras and their application in biological microscopy

Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy: Techniques Using Fourier Tranform Interferometry (Vol. 3) (Practical Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy: Industrial & Laboratory Analysis)

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Gel Electrophoresis of Proteins: A Practical Approach (Practical Approach Series)

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Gel Electrophoresis of Proteins: A Practical Approach (Practical Approach Series)

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Here is a newly updated and expanded edition of a useful and popular guide. In addition to providing new information on topics covered in the first edition, this volume covers a number of major techniques which must be mastered by molecular biologists and biochemists. All the main aspects of
polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis are described, while valuable appendix materials bring the reader useful listings of suppliers' addresses, detection methods, and more.

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a great resource book.......2000-06-26

Although there has been many books on gel electophroresis, this book seems to stand out the most. Being a novice in this field, I greatly appreciated Hames' and Rickwoods' practical procedures and methods. I srtongly recommend this book to all scientists and upcoming scientists.

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Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs were destroyed in a mass extinction that remains unexplained. Out of that devastation, new life developed and the world regained its equilibrium. Until now. Employing radically new perspectives on the science of life, scientists are beginning to uncover signs of a similar event on the horizon: the end of man.

In telling the story of the last sixty-five million years, Michael Boulter reveals extraordinary new insights that scientists are only now beginning to understand about the fossil record, the rise and fall of species, and the nature of life. According to Boulter, nature is a self-organizing system in which the whole is more important than its parts. The system is self-correcting, and one of its tools is extinction. If the system is disrupted, it will do what it must to restore balance.

This book is a thoroughly researched introduction to the new developments in the science of life and a chilling account of the effects that humans have had on the planet. The world will adapt and survive; humanity most probably will not.

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Editors where are you?.......2007-06-03

An excellent set of materials, which has really generated a lot of thought on my part. Some of the other reviewers summarize it excellently and I have little to add except a plea for a return to the art of effective editing. This book reads like a great draft from a subject matter expert BEFORE a good editor/sub-editor has done their job. So the narrative of ideas is far less coherent than it quite easily could be. Also, given the focus suggested by the title, there is too little on the subject of the last stage of the argument: human extinction. That was what grabbed me to buy the book and I felt somewhat let down by his failure to align the time scales of geological time and human historical time which is critical to understanding the practical implications of his argument. He seemed to have run out of steam, and again a good editor would have sent him scurrying back to flesh out the last chapter or two. So great work author; must try harder: editor.

A great scientific review.......2006-05-17

Contrarily to the publisher's description, this book is not an alarmist and chilling vision of the end of the human race (also, the p. has it wrong: the extinction event that took place 65 millions years ago is perfectly explained - the meteor; it's the one that dates back to 245 millions years ago whose cause is unclear.)

In this book, Boulter touches upon the increasing complexity of the world (a big object hitting the earth started it all, by crooking the planet's axe... and therefore giving us seasons). He also explain the patterns of evolution and extinction one can deduce from the study of fossils (and help our understanding by, among other things, explaining with lifelike descriptions how one would feel in such a warm world with lots of CO2 as the earth was back then). He then presents the different theories of evolution from Darwin to Gould's Punctuated equilibrium and to the theory he favors : power law in a self-organized system.

A self-organized system is like a pile of sand whose shifting grains within the structure causes lots of small avalanche and a few big ones. The earth is a self-organized systems like these piles of sand and throughout history, avalanches (most caused by internal changes and some by external changes) causes species to disappears or adjust. Even in the best of case, a specie cannot lasts forever; its pattern of rapid evolution and diversification and slow extinction follows the spindle curve of a power law, unless there is an external intervention. Humans are just such an external intervention, and not a recent one either. Since the beginning of human history, we could not help but change the dynamics of the worlds around us, from big-games hunts to Industrialization. As a result, the slow extinction curves of many species has taken a faster downward curve... as well as bringing the next ice age much closer.

Nothing in "Evolution" goes for sensationalism or wild theories. Everything is well-documented and lots of graphs illustrates Boulter's explication. Although this is no light reading, it is not a book for expert I think. Also, and I don't know if in feeling this I'm strange or not, this book gave me... well... hope. Because whatever happens, the earth will survive, and something else will happen or evolve on it... and I really wonder what.

It'd be better if it went straight to the point.......2005-11-28

With all my respect towards Mr. Boulter, who I can see has endeavoured to write an interesting book, I think it is not accomplished.

The main idea about the way the life-extinction cycle can be put in mathematical models etc. is very interesting and I think Mr. Boulten would have done better had he stuck to that. Instead he goes around hitting too much around the bush, going into pseudo-literary anecdotes and offering glimpses of ideas which are necessary to understand his message (for non experts, as I am) and that should be right, but you cannot do all these things in two hundreds pages without it becoming a mess (or you can, but perhaps it requires some sort of talent that Mr. boulter seems to lack).

I very much coincide with another reviewer that suggested the book be cut down to half its extension.

And the title is a bit misleading, though it is probably the editors to blame for that.

And a word to the sexist language complaining reviewer: respect towards women is something else than a reductionist approach to language. Extreme attitudes will only lead to preposterous and hypocondrical language like repeating 'men and women' instead of simply 'men' a thousand times in a book. It's not in here that this battle has to be fought.

A nice book about a bad ending........2005-04-15

First off, let me point out that the author, Michael Boulter, likes what he does and you can feel his enjoyment through the book as he explains, in great detail, about evolution and extinction, what it is, how it comes about and how scientists have tried to understand it. So when it comes to explaining just how long mankind may, or may not, live you can't help but believe him. You've followed his logic, his examples, his stories from the first chapter to the last. You trust him, even when you sometimes get lost a little, you end up following him thru the maze of data. So when he gets to the point where you realize that he is going to be laying bad news on you, you can't help but believe him. It's like St. Nick telling you that you're pet is going to be hit by a car. Jolly St. Nick wouldn't lie to you, so it must be true.
Whether the answers to mankind's fate in the final chapter is true or not, it is a interesting book, with lots of ideas to chew on. And websites to visit too!

Difficult, but Interesting Treatise on the Earth's Future........2004-02-28

Paleobiolgist Boulter utilizes several academic disciplines to discuss the history and causes of mass extinction events. He uses such events as the basis for his argument that the natural systems controlling the earth are in a constant state of balance and equalibrium. Humans, particularly since the dawn of industrial societies are effecting the natural system earth to such an extent that the planet must respond. The natural system will adjust itself to maintain this equalibrium.

The scope of Boulter's book is impressive. He combines numerous scientific fields and principles (paleobiology, geology, ecology, physics, biology and evolution, computer modeling, and chaos theory just to name a few) to created an integrated, mostly coherent scientific treatise. Using this integrated approach, Boulter describes in detail all previous mass extinction events. He explains that planet earth is a complex, self-stabilizing natural system, and mass-extinctions are one of the ways the system maintains equalibrium. Despite the scope of his suject, Boulter manages to make his argument concisely (about 220 pages).

After explaining how the system functions for the first 2/3 of "Extinction", Boulter takes the natural step of discussing how the system will respond to human activities. He focuses on the last century since significant human disruption began with the industrial revolution in the early 1900s. He explains how human activities related to pollution and climate change are becoming progressively more disruptive, and explains how he thinks earth will respond. Ultimately, the system will maintain it's equalibrium, regardless of how the individual components are effected (or destroyed).

While Boulter's argument seems generally well reasoned, I agree with the previous reviewer that it's sometime difficult for the reader (me at least) to connect all the diffuse elements of his scientific argument. Readers with a strong background in natural science will likely find the book fascinating, but many (myself included) will find some aspects of "Extinction" somewhat technical. There were many instances where I had to re-read previous sections in order to understand his complex, multi-faceted explanations. Additionally, Boulter doesn't really seem to consider if humans have altered how the system operates. Has human technology and food production made it possible for the system to be disrupted or become more flexible than previously? He doesn't really discuss this issue, but perhaps this argument is petty and irrelevant to the larger issues raised.

Despite it's potential difficulties for readers with limited knowledge of natural science, the scope and importance of "Extinction" make it fascinating for anyone intereted in the future of humanity and life on this planet. It's difficult to dispute his conclusion that the system (earth) will maintain itself at the expense of one of it's components: the planet will survive, but ultimately humans will not.

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Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man.(Book Review): An article from: The Historian
Michael R. Rose
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Date: September 22, 2004
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Extinction: Evolution And The End Of Man

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Extinction: Evolution And The End Of Man
Michael Boulter
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