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Note: Front Cover -- Advances in Protein Chemistry, Volume I -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1. Lipoproteins -- I. Introductory Remarks -- II. Definition of Term and Classification -- III. Modes of Linkage between Lipid and Protein -- IV. Chemical Properties of Lipoproteins -- V. Remarks on Methods -- References -- Chapter 2. Structural Proteins of Cells and Tissues -- Introduction -- I. Intracellular Fibers -- II. Nerve Proteins -- III. Collagen -- IV. Myosin -- V. Fibrin -- VI. General Considerations of Protein Fiber Structure -- References -- Chapter 3. Some Contributions of Immunology to the Study of Proteins -- I. Definitions and Methods -- II. The Specificity of Proteins -- III. The Properties of Antibodies -- IV. Bacterial Antigens -- V. Some Virus Proteins -- VI. Bacteriophages and Their Antibodies -- VII. Anti-enaymes -- VIII. Complement -- IX. Other Applications of Serological Methods -- X. Some Conclusions, and Summary -- References -- Chapter 4. The Interaction between the Alkali Earth Cations, Particularly Calcium, and Proteins -- I. Introduction -- II. Experimental Method for Studying the Physical- Chemical States of Metal -- III. Application of the Law of Mass Action to the Combination between Calcium and Protein -- IV. Structural and Physical-chemical Evidence of the Nature of the Combination between thc Alkali Earth Cations and Proteins -- V. Biological Significance -- References -- Chapter 5. The Purification and Properties of Certain Protein Hormones -- A. Introduction -- B. How Is the Purity of a Protein Established? -- C. Pituitary Hormones -- D. Hormones Not of Pituitary Origin -- E. Summary -- References -- Chapter 6. Soybean Protein in Human Nutrition -- I. Introduction -- II. History of the Soybean -- III. Economics of Production and Processing -- IV. Composition of the Soybean. , V. The Soybean in the Wartime Economy of Nations -- VI. Processing Soybeans for Human Food -- VII. Soybean Proteins -- VIII. Amino Acid Content of Soybean Proteins -- IX. Digestibility of Soybean Proteins -- X. Nutritional Values of Soybean Proteins -- XI. Use of Soybean Flour and Grits in Human Food -- References -- Chapter 7. Nucleoproteins -- I. Foreword -- II. Nucleic Acids -- III. The Interaction of Nucleic Acids with Proteins, Amino Acids, and Salts -- IV. Free Nucleotides and Quasi-Nucleotideproteins -- V. The Simpler Proteins in Natural Association with Nucleic Acid -- VI. The More Complex Proteins in Natural Association with Nucleic Acid -- VII. Nucleoprotcins-General Considerations -- VIII. Distribution of the Nucleoproteins-Cytochemical Evidence -- References -- Chapter 8. The Proteins of Skeletal Muscle -- I. Introduction -- II. Preparation of Muscle Proteins -- III. The Quantitative Determination of Proteins in Muscle -- IV. Properties of Myosin -- V. Muscle Proteins in Relation to Structure and Contractility -- VI. References.

Note: Cover -- Preface to Third Edition -- Preface to Second Edition -- Preface to First Edition -- I. INTRODUCTION: PROPERTIES OF METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS -- 1. General properties of scientific instruments -- 2. Special characteristics of meteorological instruments -- 3. Characteristics of recording instruments in general -- 4. Control of recording instruments by eye readings of non-recording instruments -- II. THE MEASUREMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE -- 1. General principles and methods -- 2. Discussion of units of pressure -- 3. General errors of pressure measurements -- 4. The mercury barometer -- 5. Elastic barometers -- 6. The hypsometer -- 7. Pressure variographs and variometers -- III. THE MEASUREMENT OF TEMPERATURE IN METEOROLOGY -- 1. Scope of the chapter. Definition of temperature. Units -- 2. Exposure of thermometers -- 3. The lag coefficients of meteorological thermometers -- 4. Classification of meteorological thermometers -- 5. Liquid-in-glass thermometers -- 6. Deformation thermometers -- 7. Liquid-in-metal thermometers -- 8. Electrical thermometers -- 9. The testing of thermometers and thermographs -- 10. Checking thermographs against thermometers in the screen -- IV. THE MEASUREMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY -- 1. Introduction: Units of measurement -- 2. Classification of methods of humidity measurement -- 3. The psychrometer -- 4. The hair hygrometer -- 5. The dew-point hygrometer -- 6. Absorption hygrometry -- 7. Diffusion hygrometers -- 8. Optical Hygrometers -- 9. Hygrometer calibration techniques -- V. THE MEASUREMENT OF PRECIPITATION AND EVAPORATION -- 1. General considerations -- 2. The ordinary rain gauge -- 3. Recording rain gauges -- 4. Totalizers -- 5. Rate-of-rainfall recorders -- 6. Measurement of snow -- 7. Exposure of rain and snow gauges -- 8. Rainfall measurements by radar -- 9. Measurement of dew: Drosometers. , 10. Measurement of evaporation -- VI. THE MEASUREMENT OF WIND NEAR THE SURFACE -- 1. General considerations: Units -- 2. Wind vanes -- 3. The measurement of wind speed: Classification of Anemometers -- 4. Rotation anemometers -- 5. Pressure-plate anemometers -- 6. Bridled anemometers -- 7. Pressure-tube anemometers -- 8. Anemometers making use of the cooling powers of the air -- 9. Exposure of wind instruments -- VII. THE MEASUREMENT OF UPPER WINDS BY MEANS OF PILOT BALLOONS -- 1. General remarks -- 2. Balloons -- 3. Theodolites for following balloons -- 4. Methods of observation and computation -- 5. General accuracy of pilot-balloon results -- 6. Upper winds by radio and radar -- 7. Controlled-altitude free balloons -- VIII. INSTRUMENTS FOR INVESTIGATING CLOUDS -- 1. The measurable attributes of clouds -- 2. Cloud amount -- 3. Cloud direction -- 4. Speed of motion -- 5. Measurement of cloud height -- 6. The structure of clouds -- 7. Cloud photography -- 8. Sferics -- 9. Radar meteorology -- IX. SUNSHINE RECORDERS -- 1. General considerations -- 2. The Campbell-Stokes recorder -- 3. The Jordan sunshine recorder -- 4. The Pers sunshine recorder -- 5. The Marvin sunshine recorder -- 6. Sunshine intensity recorders -- X. INSTRUMENTS FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF THE UPPER AIR -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sounding balloons -- 3. Sounding-balloon meteorographs (without radio) -- 4. Special applications of sounding balloons -- 5. Aircraft observations -- 6. Radiosondes: General remarks and classification -- 7. The time-interval radiosonde -- 8. Code-type radiosonde -- 9. The variable-radio-frequency-type radiosonde -- 10. Variable-audio-frequency radiosonde -- 11. The errors of radiosondes -- 12. Constant-level-balloon radiosondes -- 13. Special uses of radiosondes -- 14. Calibration apparatus -- 15. Radio wave soundings. , XI. SPECIAL METEOROLOGICAL ASSEMBLIES AND SYSTEMS -- 1. General -- 2. Portable packaged weather stations -- 3. Mobile meteorological stations -- 4. Automatic weather stations -- 5. The complete weather instrument - an atmospheric intelligence system.

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