Stem Cell Biology and Tissue Engineering in Dental Sciences bridges the gap left by many tissue engineering and stem cell biology titles to highlight the importance of research in this field in the dental sciences. It compiles basic embryology and developmental biology with keen focus on stem cells, basic cell and matrix biology with relevance to tissue regeneration and repair, biomaterials (including nanotechnology) and current applications in various disciplines of dental science. Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary field of biomedical research—which combines life, engineering, and materials sciences—to further the maintenance, repair, and replacement of diseased and damaged tissues. This emerging area of research applies an understanding of normal tissue physiology to develop novel biomaterial, acellular, and cell-based therapies for clinical application. These strategies are being developed and evaluated as potential treatments of dental conditions, particularly periodontology, endodontics, dental implantology, and oral-maxillofacial surgery.

• Covers all aspects related to stem cell biology and tissue engineering in dental sciences: basic science, research, clinical application and commercialization
• Describes stem cell biology with details focused on dental stem cells and their potential research application throughout medicine
• Describes new technologies and fabrication techniques in the fields of stem cells and biomaterial and tissue engineering research, including the latest advances in nanotechnology

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications, BIC-TA 2014, held in Wuhan, China, in October 2014. The 109 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 204 submissions. The papers focus on four main topics, namely evolutionary computing, neural computing, DNA computing, and membrane computing.

All'interno del libro seguiamo Paul, il protagonista, da Brooklyn fino in Taiwan, dove lo scrittore newyorkese è costretto a confrontarsi con le proprie radici. Lo vediamo passare freneticamente da un rapporto all'altro, da una droga all'altra, da un social network all'altro. Tra reading letterari, taccheggi, party disastrosi e registrazioni di video erotici amatoriali, Paul ed Erin, la sua sposa improvvisata, finiscono per comprendere cosa significa darsi completamente l'uno all'altra ed essere grati per la propria vita. Il risultato è un'ode - o un lamento - allo stile di vita contemporaneo, e la storia di formazione di un ragazzo cinico che impara, attraverso l'amore, come la vita sappia offrire più felicità e ricchezza di quanto credesse possibile.

Since the publication of the first Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes in 1967 the continuous compilation of mammalian karyotypes has become a useful instrument in cytologic and taxonomic studies. Technical advances in preparing mitotic cells from nonmammalian vertebrates have since allowed a better comparison of taxa in fishes, amphibia, reptiles, and birds. In these fields the literature is also widely scat­ tered; and it has become difficult to survey such information, published as well as unpublished, by nonspecialists. These were among the reasons for the new endeavor of compiling a chromosome atlas for nonmammalian vertebrates. An annual publication is planned with presentation of between 10 and 15 karyotypes from each class. In this second volume, 52 species are presented. For convenience in future colation, the numbering system employs class abbreviations, viz. , P-Pisces, Am-Amphibia, R-Reptilia, and Av-Aves. Within each class, the numbers are necessarily consecutive. In general the karyotypes are laid out following the format employed in An Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes. Whenever possible both sexes are represented, even though sexual chromosomal dimorphism is not (currently) evident. When the sex chromosomes are known, they are so indicated by conventional nomenclature (XX/XY or ZW /ZZ). In the karyotypes of birds the so-called microchromosomes are grouped together at the end without an attempt at complete enumeration, which is presently impossible. They are usually considered as acrocentrics, but a few are distinctly biarmed.

From one of this generation's most talked about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal, powerful, and moving novel about family, relationships, accelerating drug use, and the lingering possibility of death.

Taipei by Tao Lin is an ode--or lament--to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates Manhattan's art and literary scenes, to Taipei, Taiwan, where he confronts his family's roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born on the internet and blooms into an unexpected wedding in Las Vegas. Along the way—whether on all night drives up the East Coast, shoplifting excursions in the South, book readings on the West Coast, or ill advised grocery runs in Ohio—movies are made with laptop cameras, massive amounts of drugs are ingested, and two young lovers come to learn what it means to share themselves completely. The result is a suspenseful meditation on memory, love, and what it means to be alive, young, and on the fringe in America, or anywhere else for that matter.

'Vi è stato un tempo in cui mi nutrivo di cose futili, cercando, nelle avventure di tutti i giorni, le esperienze che avrebbero dovuto riempire il vuoto della mia vita. Momenti di pura follia sommati ad ideali di ribellione erano gli unici ingredienti che avevano formato la mia personalità. Quegli stessi ideali che ad ogni mia esperienza mi portava a mettere un 'marchio' ad ogni ragazza facile, che mi capitava, incurante di ogni conseguenza, più ottenevo ciò, più mi sentivo vuoto, sprofondando nel baratro senza che me ne rendessi nemmeno conto, la mia vita perdeva valore. Vivevo una vita di deliri, non mi bastava la normalità, avevo bisogno degli eccessi. Ogni esagerazione era come un piccolo mostriciattolo dentro me che si nutriva di questo, e più io lo nutrivo, più il mostro aveva fame; diventavo dipendente dei miei eccessi.'

In a startling change of direction, cult favorite Tao Lin presents a dark and brooding tale of illicit love that is his most sophisticated and mesmerizing writing yet.

Richard Yates is named after real-life writer Richard Yates, but it has nothing to do with him. Instead, it tracks the rise and fall of an illicit affair between a very young writer and his even younger--in fact, under-aged--lover. As he seeks to balance work and love, she becomes more and more self-destructive in a play for his undivided attention. His guilt and anger builds in response until they find themselves hurtling out of control and afraid to let go.

Lin's trademark minimalism takes on a new, sharp-edged suspense here, zeroing in on a lacerating narrative like never before --until it is almost, in fact, too late.

Set mostly in Manhattan - although also featuring Atlantic City, Brooklyn, GMail Chat, and Gainsville, Florida - this autobiographical novella, spanning two years in the life of a young writer with a cultish following, has been described by the author as 'A shoplifting book about vague relationships,' '2 parts shoplifting arrest, 5 parts vague relationship issues,' and 'An ultimately life-affirming book about how the unidirectional nature of time renders everything beautiful and sad.'
From VIP rooms in 'hip' New York City clubs to central booking in Chinatown, from New York University's Bobst Library to a bus in someone's backyard in a college-town in Florida, from Bret Easton Ellis to Lorrie Moore, and from Moby to Ghost Mice, it explores class, culture, and the arts in all their American forms through the funny, journalistic, and existentially-minded narrative of someone trying to both 'not be a bad person' and 'find some kind of happiness or something,' while he is driven by his failures and successes at managing his art, morals, finances, relationships, loneliness, confusion, boredom, future, and depression.

College students, recent graduates, and their parents work at Denny's, volunteer at a public library in suburban Florida, attend satanic ska/punk concerts, eat Chinese food with the homeless of New York City, and go to the same Japanese restaurant in Manhattan three times in two sleepless days, all while yearning constantly for love, a better kind of love, or something better than love, things which—much like the Loch Ness Monster—they know probably do not exist, but are rumored to exist and therefore “good enough.”

Poetry. Asian American Studies. Winner of the 2005 December Prize. Reading Tao Lin is like looking the wrong way down Frank O'Hara's ear trumpet at a 21st century Mayakovski IM-ing Lili Brik. This book is fun, smart, manic and ecstatic; it puts on a clean shirt before it loads the gun. 'YOU ARE A LITTLE BIT HAPPIER THAN I AM has the energy and oddness of a thing that is rising very fast that is not supposed to be rising, or that is supposed to be rising but for a moment you forget that, and for a moment this ordinary thing looks very strange and exciting'--Deb Olin Unferth. Tao Lin is 23 and lives in New York City. Visit his blog reader-of-depressing-books.blogspot.com.