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by Kevin Yarema, Xin Zhang, An Xu
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
The book summarizes the emerging topic about the effects of SMF on biological samples ranging from single molecules, subcellular compartments, and cells to whole organisms, as well as the potential application of SMF in clinical treatment of cancer and other diseases. With the development and growing...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This book explores the role calcium signaling plays in cellular responses in almost all types of cells including airway smooth muscle cells. This universal signaling may result from extracellular calcium influx and/or intracellular calcium release, which are precisely controlled and regulated by ion...
New Perspectives on Galileo
Papers Deriving from and Related to a Workshop on Galileo held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The essays in this volume (except for the contribution of Dr. Le Grand) are extremely revised versions of papers originally delivered at a workshop on Galileo held in Blacksburg, Virginia in October, 1975. The meeting was organized by Professor Joseph Pitt and sponsored by the Department of Philosophy...
Foot Steps of the Ancient Great Glacier of North America
A Long Lost Document of a Revolution in 19th Century Geological Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
John K. DeLaski, M.D. practiced medicine in the Penobscot Bay region of Maine and, in addition, was a naturalist with keen powers of observation. His study of the landscape led to the conclusion that a thick glacier had overtopped the highest hills, flooded all of Penobscot Bay, extended far to the...
Naturalistic Epistemology
A Symposium of Two Decades
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
AIMS OF THE INTRODUCTION The systematic assessment of claims to knowledge is the central task of epistemology. According to naturalistic epistemologists, this task cannot be well performed unless proper attention is paid to the place of the knowing subject in nature. All philosophers who can appropriately...
by César J. Pollo
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
The Gulf of Guinea oceanic islands (Príncipe, São Tomé and Annobón) are the result of volcanic activity of the Cameroon Volcanic Line that occurred along this fracture in the earth’s crust during the lower Tertiary and early Quaternary and that continues inland as the Cameroon/Nigerian mountains.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
What things count as individuals, and how do we individuate them? It is a classic philosophical question often tackled from the perspective of analytic metaphysics. This volume proposes that there is another channel by which to approach individuation -- from that of scientific practices. From this...
by Gregory Voth
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Computational Approaches for Studying Enzyme Mechanism, Part B is the first of two volumes in the Methods in Enzymology series that focuses on computational approaches for studying enzyme mechanism. The serial achieves the critically acclaimed gold standard of laboratory practices and remains one...
Communicating Global Change Science to Society
An Assessmand Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2007
National governments and research scientists may be equally concerned with issues of global environmental change, but their interests-and their timelines-are not the same. Governments are often focused on short-term effects and local impacts of global phenomena. Scientists, on the other hand, are...
by Reuven Chen, Vasilis Pagonis
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
In this volume, international leading experts in the study of thermally and optically luminescence give an up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of the theoretical and experimental aspects of these subjects, as well as their applications.
The theory of thermoluminescence (TL) and optically stimulated...
by Christophe Letellier
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
This book is devoted to the history of chaos theory, from celestial mechanics (three-body problem) to electronics and meteorology. Many illustrative examples of chaotic behaviors exist in various contexts found in nature (chemistry, astrophysics, biomedicine). This book includes the most popular systems...
The Origin Of Species
150th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Charles Darwin’s classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world.
Few other books have created such a lasting storm of controversy as The Origin of Species. Darwin’s theory that species derive from other...
Dragons of Eden
Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
“A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday . . . It's a delight.”—The New York Times
Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin...
An Ocean of Air
Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
We don’t just live in the air; we live because of it. It’s the most miraculous substance on earth, responsible for our food, our weather, our water, and our ability to hear. In this exuberant book, gifted science writer Gabrielle Walker peels back the layers of our atmosphere with the stories...