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This doctoral thesis treats the membership law of churches and religious communities. It discusses the questions of which framework is given by national law, in which cases the rights of religious communities diverges from that law and if membership must strictly be voluntary. Following a historical as well as legal classification, this thesis considers the legal relationship of members with Christian, Jewish and Islamic communities in Germany.

• Esta obra proporciona una orientación exhaustiva sobre todos los aspectos del cáncer de piel, desde la biología del proceso hasta las manifestaciones clínicas, el diagnóstico y el tratamiento. Se trata de un recurso fundamental para el especialista, ya que el cáncer de piel ha experimentado un crecimiento enorme en los últimos años hasta adquirir dimensiones de “epidemia”, pero es al mismo tiempo una enfermedad fácilmente tratable si se detecta de forma precoz.
• Una de las principales aportaciones es su enfoque multidisciplinar, al estar escrita por un equipo de expertos internacionales en dermatología, cirugía dermatológica, cirugía plástica y reconstructiva, cirugía general, radiología, oncología y ciencias básicas afines.
• Recoge los grandes progresos alcanzados en esta enfermedad a distintos niveles, tanto clínicos y terapéuticos como epidemiológicos, genéticos e histológicos, y en todos los niveles de las ciencias básicas, especialmente en la biología celular neoplásica. Incluye una amplia variedad de cánceres de piel, destacando los tumores cutáneos más prevalentes y los que son responsables del mayor número de muertes.
• Se centra de manera especial en en diagnóstico y el tratamiento, por lo que se incluyen las medidas diagnósticas y terapéuticas más avanzadas en cada tipo de cáncer de piel. Para ello, se explican no solo los enfoques más habituales, sino aquellas modalidades que se consideran de máxima actualidad en el arsenal terapéutico actual. Las directrices terapéuticas son un valioso atractivo para médicos y para todos los que participan en la asistencia multidisciplinaria de estos pacientes. Entre las novedades cabe reseñar los últimos avances en el tratamiento del cáncer de piel no melanoma mediante fármacos tópicos, tratamiento fotodinámico y fármacos inmunomoduladores
• Destaca el diseño equilibrado de su formato, a caballo entre el atlas y el libro de texto, con más de 600 imágenes de gran calidad a todo color, que reflejan una amplia variedad de afectaciones y que ayudan a comprender los conceptos más difíciles.
• El CD-ROM que acompaña al libro contiene todas las imágenes del libro, que pueden utilizarse para presentaciones.

There have been tremendous strides in cellular transplantation in recent years, leading to accepted practice for the treatment of certain diseases, and use for many others in trial phases. The long history of cellular transplantation, or the transfer of cells from one organism or region of the body to another, has been revolutionized by advances in stem cell research, as well as developments in gene therapy.

Cellular Transplants: From Lab to Clinic provides a thorough foundation of the basic science underpinning this exciting field, expert overviews of the state-of-the-art, and detailed description of clinical success stories to date, as well as insights into the road ahead. As highlighted by this timely and authoritative survey, scale-up technologies and whole organ transplantation are among the hurdles representing the next frontier.

The contents are organized into four main sections, with the first covering basic biology, including transplant immunology, the use of immunosuppressive drugs, stem cell biology, and the development of donor animals for transplantation. The next part looks at peripheral and reconstructive applications, followed by a section devoted to transplantation for diseases of the central nervous system. The last part presents efforts to address the key challenges ahead, such as identifying novel transplantable cells and integrating biomaterials and nanotechnology with cell matrices.

· Provides detailed description of clinical trials in cell transplantation
· Review of current therapeutic approaches
· Coverage of the broad range of diseases addressed by cell therapeutics
· Discussion of stem cell biology and its role in transplantation

China: Twenty Years of Reform outlines the experiences of China over the past two decades. It highlights the processes of reform, successes achieved, and problems faced during the economic transition. “China, and its relations with the international community, have been transformed. China’s economy has expanded five times, and its foreign trade by twelve. It has greatly increased consumption levels of what had been about half of the world’s people in poverty.” - Ross Garnaut “Tremendous progress has been made over the past twenty years, but much more needs to be done in setting up a more open, efficient and transparent trade system, in line with the requirements of the WTO.” - Ligang Song “Radical reform is neither in China’s tradition, nor is it an easy task. Given the difficulties of the reform task and the structure of the political economy, it will probably take a few more years for China to accomplish SOE reform and reforms in other areas.” - Yiping Huang “The most remarkable aspect of China’s agricultural reform was it’s “spillover” effect. Non-agricultural activities in rural China sprang up immediately after the reforms began—the gross output value of TVEs grew at 24 per cent per annum from 1978 to 1995 and employment grew at 9 per cent per annum.” - Yongzheng Yang