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Product Description
"Tutorials for the Biomedical Sciences" is an exciting new book and computer disk package designed to aid researchers, instructors, and undergraduate students in achieving a greater understanding of the basic chemical and physicochemical processes as related to drug action, drug discovery, and biomedical science in general. The Tutorials utilize Mathematica software as an instructional tool to display, animate, and calculate various complex physical phenomena in a highly understandable manner. No programming by the instructor or the reader is required to activate these functions. The Tutorials are "interactive" in that the user not only enters but may also change the values of parameters within the code in order to better comprehend difficult concepts.
As the programs may be used on real data, the computer disk will continue to serve the researcher as a computational "toolbox" for the common calculations needed to perform basic statistical analyses, calculate pH, formulate buffers, do acid–base titrations, balance redox reactions, analysis results of ELISA of HIV, measure HIV viral load by PCR, generate plots of enzyme kinetics with and without inhibitors, understand and apply Smoluchowski kinetics to protein aggregation, and understand and measure membrane permeability. While the Mathematica software is necessary to run the Tutorials, it can also be applied to any number of additional mathematical or scientific applications.
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Tutorials for the Biomedical Sciences Animations, Simulations, and Calculations Using Mathematica® Edited by Charles Pidgeon This unique book and computer disk package will help students and researchers in the biomedical sciences reach a deeper understanding of chemical and physicochemical processes as they relate to drug action, drug discovery and biomedical science in general. Mathematica software permits rapid numerical, symbolic, and graphic calculations that allow complex concepts to be disolayed, animated, and discussed in the same document. Tutorials for the Biomedical Sciences has been written using Mathematica as a tool to display, animate, and calculate various physical phenomena: No programming by the instructor or the reader is needed. The Tutorials are interactive in that the user not only enters, but also may change the values of parameters within the code in order to better understand difficult concepts. Mathematica software is required to execute the code in each tutorial and to save or edit the files, but the MathReader software included on each computer disk allows the user to view the tutorials and animate the graphics without Mathematica. The code written in each chapter may be used on real experimental data, so that the Tutorials serve not only as an interactive learning method, but also as a data analysis method after the lesson is learned. The computer disks included in Tutorials for the Biomedical Sciences thus continue to serve the researcher as a computational "toolbox" for the common calculations needed to do basic statistical analyses, calculate pH, formulate buffers, do acid–base titrations, balance redox reactions,analyze results of ELISA of HIV, measure HIV virals load by PCR, generate plots of enzyme kinetics with and without inhibitors, and understand and apply Smoluchowski kinetios to protein aggregation. Tutorials for the Biomedical Sciences is intended for students and researchers in the fields of pharmacology, chemistry, biochemistry, biology, or other biomedical sciences. Instructors in schools of pharmacy will find it a superb tool for teaching complex physical principles in the classroom, as well a supplement for instruction outside the classroom to make learning relatively difficult material more enjoyable. Minimum system requirements: Intended for use primarily with 60 MHz Macintosh computers with at least 8 Mbytes of memory (16 Mbytes preferred). Requires separate purchase of Mathematica software, available from Wolfram Research inc., 100 Trade Center Dr., Champaign, IL 61820, USA; Woltram Research Europe, Ltd., 10 Bienheim Office Park, Lower Rd., Long Hemooreugh, Oxfordshire, OX8 8LN UK; Wolfram Research Asia Ltd., Izumi Bldg 8F, 3–2–15 Misaki–cho, Chiyodo–Ku, Tokyo 101, Japan Also available Advanced Tutorials for the Biomedical Sciences Animations, Simulations, and Applications Using Mathematica® Charles Pidgeon, ed.
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