Biophysics category: 418 books
High Pressure Bioscience
Basic Concepts, Applications and Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
This volume covers both the basic concepts and theory of bio-macromolecules under pressure and the various frontiers in high-pressure bioscience and biotechnology. A century has passed since Bridgman discovered the irreversible coagulation of egg white by applying pressure at 700 atmospheres in 1914....
Long Hops
Making Sense of Bird Migration
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
In Long Hops, physicist Mark Denny explains, in a clear, conversational style, the science of bird migration—from the intricacies of bird aeronautics to the newly unraveled mysteries of their magnetic compasses. While providing wherever possible examples of indigenous Hawaiian species, the book...
Modelling Protocells
The Emergent Synchronization of Reproduction and Molecular Replication
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
The monograph discusses models of synthetic protocells, which are cell-like structures obtained from non-living matter endowed with some rudimentary kind of metabolism and genetics, but much simpler than biological cells. They should grow and proliferate, generating offsprings that resemble in some...
The Dynamic Architecture of a Developing Organism
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Development of Organisms
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
For anybody capable of an emotional response to it, any view of a developing organism should give birth to a feeling of amazement and even admiration, whether this development is seen directly, or in the form of a time lapse film, or even if mentally reconstructed from a series of static images. We...
by Jens Karschau
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
DNA replication is arguably the most crucial process at work in living cells. It is the mechanism by which organisms pass their genetic information from one generation to the next and life on Earth would be unthinkable without it. Despite the discovery of DNA structure in the 1950s, the mechanism...
Enthalpy and Internal Energy
Liquids, Solutions and Vapours
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Containing the very latest information on all aspects of enthalpy and internal energy as related to fluids, this book brings all the information into one authoritative survey in this well-defined field of chemical thermodynamics. Written by acknowledged experts in their respective fields, each of...
Fundamentals of Membrane Bioreactors
Materials, Systems and Membrane Fouling
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
This book provides a critical, carefully researched, up-to-date summary of membranes for membrane bioreactors. It presents a comprehensive and self-contained outline of the fundamentals of membrane bioreactors, especially their relevance as an advanced water treatment technology. This outline helps...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Geobiology is an exciting and rapidly developing research discipline that opens new perspectives in understanding Earth as a system. To determine and to exploit its possibilities, this promising scientific field will benefit from a discussion of its definition as a research discipline, its objectives,...
by Martin Beckerman
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This unique text introduces students and researchers to the world of misfolded proteins, toxic oligomers, and amyloid assemblages, and the diseases of the brain that result. During the past few years the connections between failures in protein quality control and neurological disorders have been reinforced...
by David D. Nolte
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2011
This book presents the fundamental physics of optical interferometry as applied to biophysical, biological and medical research. Interference is at the core of many types of optical detection and is a powerful probe of cellular and tissue structure in interfererence microscopy and in optical coherence...
Kinanthropometry X
Proceedings of the 10th International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry Conference, Held in Conjunction with the 13th Commonwealth International Sport Conference
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
This book provides an up-to-date review of research and scientific knowledge in the field of kinanthropometry. This subject area is defined as the relationship between human structure and function and is exemplified in studies of growth and development, ergonomics, nutrition, human performance and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
The proceeding is a collection of research papers presented at the International Colloquium on Sports Science, Exercise, Engineering and Technology (ICoSSEET2014), a conference dedicated to address the challenges in the areas of sports science, exercise, sports engineering and technology including...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
This book provides a comprehensive up-to-date review of optical approaches used in brain imaging and therapy. It covers a variety of imaging approaches including diffuse optical imaging, laser speckle imaging, photoacoustic imaging and optical coherence tomography. A number of laser-based therapeutic...
by Rossen Donev
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Therapeutic Proteins and Peptides, Volume 112 in an ongoing series promotes further research in the discovery of new therapeutic targets that can be affected by therapeutic proteins and peptides to cure or manage symptoms of human diseases, with this release focusing on the Rational Design of Stable...