Product Description: Univ. of Florida, Gainesville. Topics include the changing epidemiology and natural history of Hepatitis C virus infection; the economics of Hepatitis C virus; chronic Hepatitis C and screening for hepatocellular carcinoma; HCV immunopathogenesis; and more. For clinicians.

Product Description: This invaluable book explores the delicate interplay between geometry and statistical mechanics in materials such as microemulsions, wetting and growth interfaces, bulk lyotropic liquid crystals, chalcogenide glasses and sheet polymers, using tools from the fields of polymer physics, differential geometry, field theory and critical phenomena...read more

Product Description: Explores the interplay between geometry and statistical mechanics in materials such as microemulsions, liquid crystals, and sheet polymers. Includes three new chapters covering the effects of anisotropy and heterogeneity, fixed connectivity membranes, and triangulated surface models of fluctuating membranes...read more

Product Description: Defects and geometrical patterns embedded in orderly arrays of atoms and molecules explain important everyday phenomena such as why soap is slippery, why steel is strong, and how a liquid crystal display device works. An understanding of how to pin vortex defects in superconductors is essential for applications such as magnetic levitation and improved magnetic resonance imaging devised for medical diagnosis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)