Note: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology Volume 166 -- Transcription Factors -- Copyright -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- List of Contents -- Part I An Introduction to Transcription Factors -- Mechanisms of Transcriptional Activation in Eukaryotes -- Multiple Mechanisms of Transcriptional Repression in Eukaryotes -- Genomic Approaches to the Study of Transcription Factors -- Part II Transcription Factors in Pathophysiology -- Biological Roles of the STAT Family in Cytokine Signaling -- Members of the T-Cell Factor Family of DNA-Binding Proteins and Their Roles in Tumorigenesis -- Transcription Factors in the Control of Tumor Development and Progression by TGF-β Signaling -- The p53 Transcription Factor as Therapeutic Target in Cancer -- The Role of Ets Transcription Factors in Mediating Cellular Transformation -- Function of the E2F Transcription Factor Family During Normal and Pathological Growth -- c-Myc in Cellular Transformation and Cancer -- NF-kB: Critical Regulator of Inflammation and the Immune Response -- Hepatitis B Virus X Protein: Structure-Function Relationships and Role in Viral Pathogenesis -- Regulation of Xenobiotic Detoxification by PXR, CAR, GR, VDR and SHP Receptors: Consequences in Physiology -- Part III Exogenous Control of Transcription Factor Activity -- Potential of Transcription Factor Decoy Oligonucleotides as Therapeutic Approach -- Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators as Therapeutic Agents in Breast Cancer Treatment -- Artificial Zinc Finger Peptides: A Promising Tool in Biotechnology and Medicine -- Tetracycline-Controlled Transactivators and Their Potential Use in Gene Therapy Applications -- Modulating Transcription with Artificial Regulators -- Subject Index.

Note: SPRINGER PROCEEDINGS IN PHYSICS 92 -- Beyond the Desert 2003 -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I SUSY /SUGRA Phenomenology and Early Universe -- Twenty Years of SUGRA -- Dark Matter, Muon g-2 and Other SUSY Constraints -- On CPT Symmetry: Cosmological, Quantum-Gravitational and Other Possible Violations and Their Phenomenology -- Part II Cosmic Microwave Background -- Determination of Cosmological Parameters from Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations -- Neutrino Physics From Cosmological Observations -- Can Planck See Transplanck? -- Part III Superstrings and Symmetries -- Superstring Phenomenology in Light of LEP, KamLAND, and WMAP -- CP-Violating Electron-Nucleon Interactions and CP-Violation Beyond the Standard Model -- Lorentz-Violating Supergravity -- The Lorentz-Violating Extension of the Standard Model -- A Time Variation of the QCD Scale -- Unification in Higher Dimensions -- Preon Prophecies by the Standard Model -- Part IV Cosmology and Neutrino Oscillations -- Cosmoparticle Physics - The Challenge for the Millenium -- Leptogenesis in a Prompt Decay Scenario -- Supernova Neutrino Oscillations: An Analytical Approach -- Neutrino Data, CP Violation, and Cosmological Implications -- Solar Neutrino Measurements at the SUDBURY Neutrino Observatory -- Indications of Neutrino Oscillation in a 250 km Long-Baseline Experiment -- Part V Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay -- The HEIDELBERG-MOSCOW 76Ge Double Beta Experiment in Gran Sasso 1990-2003 and Status of Absolute Neutrino Mass -- The Search For Rare Processes with DAMA/LXe -- Towards a Background-Free ββ-Decay Experiment Using the EDELWEISS Cryogenic Ge Detectors -- XMASS Experiment -- Contributions to Fundamental Physics and Constants Using Penning Traps -- The Neutrino Mass Matrix - New Developments -- Single β and Double 0νββ Decays with Majorana Spinors. , Part VI Fundamental Symmetries and Tests of General Relativity -- Application of Neutron Interferometry for Tests of Fundamental Physics Questions -- Gravitational Energy Loss and Binary Pulsars in the Scalar Ether-Theory of Gravitation -- Cosmological Term, Mass, and Space-Time Symmetry -- Fermions, Bosons, and Locality in Special Relativity with Two Invariant Scales -- New Perspectives in Testing the General Relativistic Lense-Thirring Effect -- Λμν Geometries from the Point of View of Different Observers -- Part VII Dark Matter Search - Experiments -- Results from DAMA/NaI and Perspectives for DAMA/LIBRA -- GENIUS-Test-Facility Started Operation in GRAN SASSO - with First Ten kg of Naked Germanium Detectors in Liquid Nitrogen -- Latest Results from the EDELWEISS WIMP Search -- Direct Search for Dark Matter Particles with Very Large Detectors -- Part VIII Dark Matter Search - Theory -- Why a Ring of Stars at r = 20 kpc? -- The Distribution of Dark Matter in Galaxies: The Core Radius Issue -- The Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way -- Dark Matter at the Center and in the Halo of the Galaxy -- Light Relic Neutralinos -- QCD Axion and Quintessential Axion -- Conformal Bulk Fields, Dark Energy, and Brane Dynamics -- Part IX Supernova, Relic and Solar Neutrinos -- SN 1987 A - Historical View About Registration of the Neutrino Signal with BAKSAN, Kamiokande II, and IMB Detectors -- Relic Supernova Neutrinos in Super - Kamiokande -- Supernova Relic Neutrinos and Observational Implications for Neutrino Oscillation -- The Structure of the Solar Core -- Nuclear Reactions in the Sun after SNO and KamLAND -- Part X Gamma-Ray Astronomy, Highest Energy Cosmic Rays and GKZ -- Ground-Based Gamma-Ray Astronomy, Status and Perspectives -- Observations of Gamma Ray Bursts with BeppoSAX. , The Physics Potential of AMS: Astrophysics and Astroparticle Physics -- Status and Perspectives of the Pierre Auger Observatory -- Status of an Atmospheric Cherenkov Imaging Camera for the CANGAROO-III Experiment and Perspective of the Field -- Tau Neutrino Astronomy -- Strongly Interacting Neutrinos as the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays -- Part XI Neutrino Factories, Underwater and Underground Experiments -- Neutrino Factory and Muon Factory -- Results from the AMANDA Neutrino Telescope -- The Baikal Neutrino Project: Status and Perspectives -- Status of the ANTARES Experiment -- Final Results of the MACRO Experiment -- ICARUS: A Second-Generation Proton Decay Experiment and Neutrino Observatory at the Gran Sasso Laboratory -- Part XII Search for New Physics at Colliders -- Towards Final Results on the Search for R-Parity Violation at LEP -- Status and Perspectives of MECO, the Muon to Electron COnversion Experiment -- Recent DØ Results at Run II -- Heavy Ion Collisions -- Search for Exotic Couplings at DELPHI -- Searches for Leptoquarks with the OPAL Detector at LEP -- Part XIII Gravitational Waves -- The Search for Gravitational Waves - Status and Perspectives -- Part XIV Superheavy Elements -- Achievements and Perspectives in the Search for Super Heavy Elements -- Superheavy Elements - Status of Research in Dubna -- Author Index -- List of Participants.

Note: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3303 -- Knowledge Exploration in Life Science Informatics -- Copyright -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- A Pen-and-Paper Notation for Teaching Biosciences -- An Exploration of Some Factors Affecting the Correlation of mRNA and Proteomic Data -- Improving Rule Induction Precision for Automated Annotation by Balancing Skewed Data Sets -- A Randomized Algorithm for Distance Matrix Calculations in Multiple Sequence Alignment* -- Extracting Sequential Patterns for Gene Regulatory Expressions Profiles -- Data Analysis of Microarrays Using SciCraft -- Functional Data Analysis of the Dynamics of Gene Regulatory Networks -- Text Mining of Full Text Articles and Creation of a Knowledge Base for Analysis of Microarray Data -- Analysis of Protein/Protein Interactions Through Biomedical Literature: Text Mining of Abstracts vs. Text Mining of Full Text Articles -- Ranking for Medical Annotation: Investigating Performance, Local Search and Homonymy Recognition -- A New Artificial Life Formalization Model: A Worm with a Bayesian Brain★ -- Teaching Grasping to a Humanoid Hand as a Generalization of Human Grasping Data -- JavaSpaces - An Affordable Technology for the Simple Implementation of Reusable Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms -- Detecting and Adapting to Concept in Bioinformatics Drift -- Feature Extraction and Classification of the Auditory Brainstem Response Using Wavelet Analysis -- Evaluation of Outcome Prediction for a Clinical Diabetes Database -- Cytochrome P450 Classification of Drugs with Support Vector Machines Implementing the Nearest Point Algorithm -- Multiple-Instance Case-Based Learning for Predictive Toxicology -- Modelling and Prediction of Toxicity of Environmental Pollutants -- Modelling Aquatic Toxicity with Advanced Computational Techniques: Procedures to Standardize Data and Compare Models. , Author Index.

Note: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2741 -- Automated Deduction - CADE-19 -- Copyright -- Preface -- Conference Organization -- Table of Contents -- Author Index.

Note: Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation 31 -- Vertebrate Eye Development -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Contents -- Vertebrate Eye Development and Refractive Function: An Overview -- Pax6 and the Genetic Control of Early Eye Development -- Early Retinal Development in Drosophila -- Induction of the Lens -- Molecular Control of Cell Diversification in the Vertebrate Retina -- Cell Fate Specification in the Drosophila Retina -- Roles of the Extracellular Matrix in Retinal Development and Maintenance -- Adhesive Events in Retinal Development and Function: The Role of Integrin Receptors -- Connecting the Eye with the Brain: The Formation of the Retinotectal Pathway -- Regeneration of the Lens in Amphibians -- How the Neural Retina Regenerates -- Mouse Mutants for Eye Development -- Genetic Analysis of Eye Development in Zebrafish -- Subject Index.

Note: Intro -- Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Non Commutative Logic: A Survey -- Dynamical Method in Algebra: A Survey -- Automated Theorem Proving in Generation, Verification, and Certification of Safety Critical Code -- Tableaux with Four Signs as a Unified Framework -- A Labelled Sequent-Calculus for Observation Logic -- Bounded Lukasiewicz Logics -- Parallel Dialogue Games and Hypersequents for Intermediate Logics -- Simplification Rules for Constrained Formula Tableaux -- Tableau Calculi for Preference-Based Conditional Logics -- A General Tableau Method for Propositional Interval Temporal Logics -- Universal Variables in Disconnection Tableaux -- A Tableau Algorithm for Reasoning about Concepts and Similarity -- XPath and Modal Logics of Finite DAG's -- Tableaux, Path Dissolution, and Decomposable Negation Normal Form for Knowledge Compilation★ -- A More Efficient Tableaux Procedure for Simultaneous Search for Refutations and Finite Models -- Automatic Abstraction of Equations in a Logic of Equality -- A Free Variable Sequent Calculus with Uniform Variable Splitting -- The Tableaux Work Bench -- Decision Procedures for the Propositional Cases of Second Order Logic and Z Modal Logic Representations of a First Order L-Predicate Nonmonotonic Logic -- Logistica 2.0: A Technology for Implementing Automatic Deduction Systems -- Fair Constraint Merging Tableaux in Lazy Functional Programming Style -- SOLAR: A Consequence Finding System for Advanced Reasoning -- CondLean: A Theorem Prover for Conditional Logics -- Author Index.

Note: Rapid Cycle Real-Time PCR -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Rapid Cycle Real-Time PCR: Methods and Applications -- Methods I -- Mutation Detection by Fluorescent Hybridization Probe Melting Curves -- Quantification on the LightCycler -- Selection of Hybridization Probes for Real-Time Quantification and Genetic Analysis -- Using the Nearest Neighbor Model for the Estimation of Matched and Mismatched Hybridization Probe Melting Points and Selection of Optimal Probes on the LightCycler -- Quantification of Human Papilloma Virus Type 16 Using Quantitative Competitive PCR on the LightCycler -- Use of TaqStart Antibody to Increase the Sensitivity of Herpesvirus Quantitative PCR on the LightCycler -- Genotyping of Human Germline Variations II -- High-Speed Detection of α1-Antitrypsin Deficiency Alleles Pi*S and Pi*Z on the LightCycler -- High-Speed Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase C→ T 677 Mutation Detection on the LiqhtCycler -- Dual Color Detection of Splice Variants of the c-erbA α (Thyroid Hormone Receptor α) Gene -- Detection of Three Major Polymorphisms in the N-Acetyltransferase 2 Gene by Melting Peak Analysis Using Fluorogenic Hybridization Probes -- Genotyping of Cytochrome P450 206*4 Mutation with Fluorescent Hybridization Probes Using LightCycler -- Fluorescent Hybridization Probe Detection of the F508del Cystic Fibrosis Allele on the LightCycler -- Genotyping β-globin Mutations (Hb S, Hb C, Hb E) by Multiplexing Probe Color and Melting Temperature -- Simultaneous Detection of C282Y and H63D Hemochromatosis Mutations Using LCRed 640 and LCRed 705 Labeled Hybridization Probes -- Genotyping of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme and Angiotensinogen Polymorphisms with the LightCycler System -- Genotyping of the Most Common Thiopurine Methyltransferase Mutations with the LightCycler. , Detection of the Mitochondrial DNA Mutation MELAS3243 Using Hybridization Probes -- Acquired Genetic Alterations in Human Diseases III -- Detection of p53 Allele Deletions in Human Cancer by Quantification of Genomic Copy Number -- Monitoring of Residual Disease in Patients with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Using Specific Fluorescent Hybridization Probes for Real-Time Quantitative RT-PCR -- Development of Quantitative RT-PCR for the Expression of Wilms' Tumor WT1 Suppressor Gene in Leukemia on the LightCycler -- Real-Time Detection of Minimal Residual Disease by Amplifying Immunoglobulin Genes in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia on the LightCycler -- HER2/neu Gene Amplification Quantified by PCR and Melting Peak Analysis Using a Single Base Alteration Competitor as an Internal Standard -- Quantification of Residual Tumor Cells in Monoclonal B-cell Lymphoma -- Development of PCR-Based Assays for the Detection of Chromosomal Translocations Using SYBR Green I -- Relative Quantification of the HER2/neu Oncogene Using SYBR Green I -- Receptors and Mediators IV -- Development of Quantitative RT-PCR Tests for the Expression of Cytokine Genes on the LightCycler -- Quantitative RT-PCR for the Detection of T Cell Receptor Transcripts in T Lymphocytes Populations Using LightCycler Technology -- Rapid, Homogeneous Genotyping of Human Platelet Antigen 1 by Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer and Probe Melting Curves -- Development and Validation of an Externally Standardised Quantitative Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 RT-PCR Using LightCycler SYBR Green I Technology -- An Application of Melting Curve Analysis to Large-Scale Genetic Analysis in Atherosclerotic Disease: Two Linked Polymorphisms of Glycoprotein la Gene and Myocardial Infarction in Japanese -- Infectious Organisms V -- Genotype-Specific Analysis of Hepatitis B Virus DNA on the LightCycler. , Rapid and Specific Detection of Bordetella pertussis in Clinical Specimens by LightCycler PCR -- Rapid and Specific Detection of Helicobacter pylori by LightCycler PCR -- Qualitative Detection of Herpes Simplex Virus DNA on the LightCycler -- Quantitative Detection of Cryptosporidium parvum after In Vitro Excystation by LightCycler PCR -- Quantitative Analysis of CMV in Infected Mice on the LightCycler System -- Detection and Differentiation of Equine Herpes Virus Type 1 and Type 4 on the LightCycler -- Rapid and Quantitative Detection of Toxoplasma gondii by PCR - A LightCycler Application in Prenatal Diagnosis -- Development of Quantitative PCR Tests for the Detection of the Orthopox Virus Adsorption Protein Gene (ORF D8L) on the LightCycler -- Plant Gene Products and Miscellaneous VI -- Quantification of Genetically Modified Soybeans in Food with the LightCycler System -- Real-Time PCR Monitoring of Estuarine Water Samples for Pfiesteria piscicida: A Dinoflagellate Associated with Fish Kills and Human Illness -- Quantification of Retrotransposon XIR-2.5 Copy Number in Genomes of Poeciliidae Species.

Note: Intro -- Multiagent System Technologies -- Copyright -- Preface -- Members of the International Program Committee -- Table of Contents.