Chapter 1 Ten Principles of Economics Chapter 2 Thinking Like an Economist Chapter 3 Interdependence and the Gains from Trade Chapter 4 The Market Forces of Supply and Demand Chapter 5 Elasticity and Its Application Chapter 6 Supply, Demand and Government Policies Chapter 7 Consumers, Producers, and the Efficiency of Markets Chapter 8 Application: The Costs of Taxation Chapter 9 Application: International Trade Chapter 10 Externalities Chapter 11 Public Goods and Common Resources Chapter 12 The Design of the Tax System Chapter 13 The Costs of Production Chapter 14 Firms in Competitive Markets Chapter 15 Monopoly Chapter 16 Oligopoly Chapter 17 Monopolistic Competition Chapter 18 The Economics of Labor Markets Chapter 19 Earnings and Discrimination Chapter 20 Income Inequality and Poverty Chapter 21 The Theory of Consumer Choice Chapter 22 Frontiers of Microeconomics

The diffusion of new products and new processes of production within and between business enterprises is clearly one of the fundamental aspects of the process of growth and transformation of contemporary economies It is well known that the diffusion of new products and processes takes varying lengths of time: some economic agents adopt very early after the development of an innovation while others sometimes do it only after decades

Authorand ExecutiveEditor Robert B.Dunn, Ph.D. Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Medicine Loyola University Medical Center Chicago, IL Contributors Susan DeMesquita, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Physiology Marshall School of Medicine Huntington, WV Directorof MedicalIllustration ChristineSchaar Directorof PublishingandMedia Michelle Covello Stanley S. Passo, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Physiology New York Medical College Valhalla, NY MedicalIllustrators Rich LaRocco and Christine Schaar James Porter, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Physiology University of Louisville Louisville, KY ProductionEditors Kathlyn McGreevy Ruthie Nussbaum Kenneth H. Ibsen, Ph.D. Director of Academic Development Kaplan Medical Professor Emeritus Biochemistry University of California Irvine, CA ProductionArtist Michael Wolff CoverDesign Joanna Myllo Mary Ruebush, Ph.D. Adjunct Professor of Microbiology Montana State University Bozeman, MT CoverArt Rich LaRocco

1. The development of the term apoptosis 2. The significance of apoptosis 3. Morphological features of apoptosis 4. Molecular mechanisms of apoptosis signalling pathways 4.1 Various death signals activate common signalling 4.2 Caspases are central initiators and executioners of apoptosis 4.3 Extrinsic apoptosis pathways of type I and type II 4.4 Mitochondria as central regulators of intrinsic apoptosis 5. Regulatory mechanisms in apoptosis signalling 5.1 The Bcl-2 family 5.2 Regulation of apoptosis by IAPs 6. Disease as a consequence of dysregulated apoptosis 7. References

Part I Molecular Components of Cells 1 The Facts of Life: Chemistry Is the Logic of Biological Phenomena 2 Water: The Medium of Life 3 Thermodynamics of Biological Systems 4 Amino Acids and the Peptide Bond 5 Proteins: Their Primary Structure and Biological Functions 6 Proteins: Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary Structure 7 Carbohydrates and the Glycoconjugates of Cell Surfaces 8 Lipids 9 Membranes and Membrane Transport 10 Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids 11 Structure of Nucleic Acids 12 Recombinant DNA, Cloning, Chimeric Genes, and Synthetic Biology Part II Protein Dynamics 13 Enzymes—Kinetics and Specificity 14 Mechanisms of Enzyme Action 15 Enzyme Regulation 16 Molecular Motors Part III Metabolism and Its Regulation Part IV Information Transfer

The difference betWeen the systems of CaO-SiO2-H2O and CaO-SiO2-Al(OH)3-H2O, was studied,especially the effect of Al3+ on the crystallinity of tobermorite was focussed. As a result, in the system of CaO-SiO2-H2O, tobermorite formed early, howevey, with reaction time forward, tobermorite was replaced by xonotlite. So far as CaO-SiO2-Al(OH)3-H2O was concemed, hydrothermal reaction was carried out under the same condition as CaO-SiO2-H2O to study the morphological changes of tobermorite crystals. It was found that Al3+ accelerated the crystal growth of tobermorite to some extent and was in favor of platy crystals. Moreover, with the Al3+ content increasing in the starting material, the morphology of tobermorite did not change magnificently, but platy crystals became more and more eminent. As soon as the Al2O3