R. Fuller - Böcker

Humans are highly mobile but at a price: over a million people are killed annually on the road, at least 30 times as many are injured, of whom one in ten may be permanently disabled. How can we design a road or highway or transport system so as to provide both a high level of mobility and a high level of safety? For too long, from the perspective of the road user, highway engineers have had to employ their intuitions, personal experiences, shared "know-how" and a "suck-it-and-see" approach in many elements of highway design. Now the science of human behaviour can provide both fundamental knowledge and principles to enable matching roadway and transport system design to human strengths, limitations and variability in performance; an understanding of human contributory factors in accidents; and the undertaking of informed safety audits and reviews. This book aims to help you ask the right questions about the issues raised.

This book should be of interest to microbiologists, food microbiologists, animal scientists, Public Health Laboratory Service personnel, zoologists, Environmental Health Officers, personnel in industry.

This second volume on probiotics builds on the first volume which explained the scientific basis, covering practical aspects and the beneficial and therapeutic effects of positive manipulation of an individual's gut flora. It provides recent information for microbiologists, nutritionists and dieticians, food scientists, gastroenterologists and physicians.

The two previous books "Probiotics, The Scientific Basics" and "Probiotics 2, Applications and Practical Aspects" covered the general area of probiotics and their uses. The present volume focuses on the important and rapidly expanding subject of immunomodulation by intestinal micro-organisms and brings together the results and opinions of leading researchers from all over the world. They bring to the compilation a depth of knowledge and analysis, which assures the book of serious consideration by all workers in probiotics and related disciplines.

The two previous books Probiotics, The Scientific Basics and Probiotics 2, Applications and Practical Aspects covered the general area of probiotics and their uses. The present volume focuses on the important and rapidly expanding subject of immunomodulation by intestinal microorganisms and brings together the results and opinions of leading researchers from all over the world. >Roy Fuller has a long experience in probiotics research and is widely acclaimed for his contribution to this subject. Gabriela Perdigon is a highly regarded research scientist specializing in the gut immune system and its stimulation by microbial food supplements. They bring to the compilation a depth of knowledge and analysis, which assures the book of serious consideration by all workers in probiotics and related disciplines. Probiotics 3 is required reading for microbiologists, clinicians, food scientists, dieticians and nutritionists. It should be present on the shelves of libraries at all universities and biological research establishments.