Numerous studies of the mammalian immune system have begun to uncover profound
interrelationships, as well as fundamental differences, between the adaptive and innate systems …

Comparative analysis of the sea urchin genome has broad implications for the primitive state
of deuterostome host defense and the genetic underpinnings of immunity in vertebrates. …

Adaptive immunity is mediated through numerous genetic and cellular processes that generate
favourable somatic variants of antigen-binding receptors under evolutionary selection …

In many ultrasonic applications frictional effects play an important role (eg ultrasonic
machining, ultrasonic motors). For optimising the applications in terms of quality, efficiency and …

This book covers all aspects of polymer flooding, an enhanced oil recovery method using
water soluble polymers to increase the viscosity of flood water, for the displacement of crude oil …

It was often observed that friction forces can be reduced significantly if ultrasonic oscillations
are superposed to the macroscopic sliding velocity. This phenomenon can be used to …

… This mode of failure was observed by Otterbein [22] on cylindrical roller bearings run in
Mil-L-7808 and in SAE 10-W mineral oil in the same group of tests. The description by Gustafson […

The discovery of a living coelacanth specimen in 1938 was remarkable, as this lineage of
lobe-finned fish was thought to have become extinct 70 million years ago. The modern …

To connect human biology to fish biomedical models, we sequenced the genome of spotted
gar (Lepisosteus oculatus), whose lineage diverged from teleosts before teleost genome …

Cephalochordates, urochordates, and vertebrates evolved from a common ancestor over
520 million years ago. To improve our understanding of chordate evolution and the origin of …