Common to all DNA and protein array-based technologies is the necessity to analyze digital images of the scanned DNA array. The focus of Kamberova and Shah book is microarray image analysis-from theoretical and application perspective. The topic of microarray image processing is usually neglected due to the availability of various software tools for image processing. The focus of today microarray bioinformatics is data analysis. However, how can one be certain that the data obtained from a microarray experiment through the image analysis is of high quality? How can one perform data mining on data derived from different microarray technologies, where microarray images were analyzed with different image analysis softwares? This book addresses various questions related to microarray image processing.

DNA Array Image Analysis: Nuts and Bolts

Science & Math

Kamberova, Gerda, Ed.

Biological Sciences

DNA Press

Co-written by a professor of business management and a mountaineering equipment manurfacturer, this book uses the backdrop of the evolution of polar exploration and mountain climbing (beyond just Mt. Everest expeditions) to explore how innovation among equipment manufacturers helped change the face of outdoor sports. They also explore how the concerns of explorers fed back into innovation strategies by equipment providers, and they are further concerned with why some approaches to clothing or equipment are favored at different times and among different sporting populations and not others. Published in Association with Cheyne Books. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Invisible on Everest: Innovation and the Gear Makers

Parsons, Mike

Rose, Mary B.

Technology

"Climb a mountain and prove to yourself you’re really alive— if you don’t kill yourself in the process!" How do you organise a first ascent of an unclimbed mountain peak? Join Angela Benham on her first climbing expedition to the Indian Himalayas—that so nearly ended in tragedy—and find out. Share the conflicts and the fears, the frustrations and the pain. Revel in the humour and the joy, the excitement and the thrills—not to mention the innumerable meetings! Pick your way through the maze of moraine and with her reach the vir-gin summit of Shambhu Ka Qilla – the Fortress of Shiva. In reading Lucky To Be Alive: A First Expedition to the Himalayas you will discover the meaning of ‘good luck’.

Lucky To Be Alive: A First Expedition To The Himalayas

Sports & Outdoors

Benham, Angela

Mountaineering

Rifts in time during the Middle Ages allow humans to summon powerful prehistoric beasts and future technologies in this fantastic novel about the influence of perception on reality and the role of political power on the conversion of knowledge into ideology. Under the auspices of the hominids, dragon king Drekkenoth has attempted to use knowledge to corrupt the minds of all the dragons in his kingdom but is stymied by the existence of a single source of uncorrupt knowledge: a tome of omniscience known as the Lexicon. Dennagon, a lowly dragon sentry, takes it upon himself to discover this lexicon, an act that leads to his expulsion from the mainstream world of worms and humans and the creation of a band of dissident dragons who wage war on the corruption of Drekkenoth and his human masters. During his seemingly endless quest to find the Lexicon, battles with cyborg technodragons and bewildering encounters with the enigmatic forces of time provide Dennagon with insight into the ephemerality of omniscience and the instability of the temporal as he discovers that there is more to life than the lore he has so desperately been searching for.

Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate

Kenneth Che-Tew Eng

Teen & Young Adult

Someone tosses firebombs late at night at adult bookstores and bars in the Philadelphia area, leading to the grizzly deaths of some bar patrons. Also at night, young Billy and Lori neck behind a tombstone in a suburban Philadelphia cemetery—a graveyard that abuts the property of a reclusive old man who lives in Mason House, an aging Victorian structure.  These two seemingly unrelated events collide in an unlikely twist of fate due to the suspicions conjured up in the minds of the teenagers. They spy on the old man and wonder about the strange rantings emanating from behind boarded up windows on the second floor of Mason House.  Teenage bravado and curiosity compel Billy to climb a cherry tree outside of Mason House in an effort to snoop. Later, his surveillance becomes an obsession that ultimately binds Billy and the old man.  Their improbable relationship prompts a probe by the boy’s father, a police officer, who for years concealed his own ties to Mason House’s sole occupant. The policeman’s long-held secret, coupled with his son’s peculiar relationship with the old man, pushes Billy’s father into following a trail of questions. What ties bind the old man and Billy? Does the old man’s odd behavior have any connection to the heinous bombings? And, can the father and son mend their own fractured relationship before it dissolves?  The search leads not only to an analysis of father-son conflict. It leads to journeys in time and space–first to the gardens of Cornell University, then back 25 years to the Korean War.  Lee Carl’s third novel is an intriguing blend of mystery and family drama played out in the suburbs and streets of Philadelphia during the late 1970s. Carl also is the author of The White Squirrel and Under the Burdock Weed.

The Cherry Tree

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Carl, Lee

Mystery

Microarrays are glass slides containing thousands of pieces of DNA or other proteins, images of which are analyzed and experimented with in molecular biology laboratories across the country. This classic reference addresses microarray analysis and answers key questions about how to manipulate images, improve the quality of images, and use images created by several different software programs. All information in this new edition has been updated to keep pace with new technologies.

DNA Array Image Analysis: Nuts & Bolts (Nuts & Bolts series)

Computers & Technology

Web Development & Design

Greed, prestige, and violence all play a part in this gripping novel of suspense about a secret fantasy football league whose games begin to dangerously affect reality. The league’s bankers, brokers, and lawyers have grown potential winnings to massive proportions, and someone in the league has discovered a way to control the $30 million pool—by murdering key NFL players each week. Local police are mystified by the murders. The FBI is clueless. All the while, one participant continues to win the fantasy games, creeping closer to the lottery-sized trophy with each calculated death.

The League

Literature & Fiction

Barnes, Mark

Genre Fiction

Integrating research findings and clinical experience with philosophical principles and spiritual concepts, this humorous handbook illustrates how to replace toxic thinking habits and feelings of anger, anxiety, depression, and guilt with more positive habits and beliefs. The various tools provided can be applied in a variety of settings to rapidly solve or avoid common mental health pitfalls. By learning to substitute conscious decisions for automatic responses, anyone can learn to make use of the resources inherently available to them.

How to Take Charge: Of Your Feelings, Your Actions, Your Life (THE NUTS & BOLTS SERIES)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Philip Roos

Mental Health

Young adults will explore the meaning of the universe in this futuristic story of one humanoid's valiant attempt to revive the human race 600 years after its extinction. When the 100,000 survivors of a disastrous asteroid collision die from a deadly virus in AD 2305, humankind's only hope of survival is the parting instructions from Joe, a human master, to Samuel, one of the early humanoids (human-like robots). The story opens 600 years later, when Samuel is both smart and technologically advanced enough to attempt re-inception—the ignition of the spark of life into his former human masters' bodies. While Samuel and the humanoids strive to fulfill Joe's last wishes, underlying themes consider the makeup of human life, the possibilities of biotechnology, and whether humans are the creators or the victims of their universe.

Vigil's End: Book One of the Ninth Day of Man

Children's Books

Macaw, Grant

Science Fiction & Fantasy

The Brainiacs, a group of six extraordinarily gifted children, save humankind from a world-ending virus in this futuristic adventure that encourages young adults to think about such controversial issues as euthanasia, human cloning, and genetic manipulation. Most people in AD 8012 die when their "term of life" chip expires, so when the government begins to notice a series of inexplicable deaths, Feebie and the other Brainiacs are enlisted to find out the cause. Their discovery of a genetically manipulated virus—and the man who ordered its creation—leads the Brainiacs to Patmos, the island of no return, where they wage the battle of their lifetime to save the planet from the deadly virus and the man who planned to take over the world. Creative wordplays and themes of trust, teamwork, and honesty thread this thought-provoking adventure.

Feebie Brainiac and the Lysis Virus

Dutcher, David

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