Other Sciences category: 9579 books
by Hugues Goosse
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
This textbook presents all aspects of climate system dynamics, on all timescales from the Earth's formation to modern human-induced climate change. It discusses the dominant feedbacks and interactions between all the components of the climate system: atmosphere, ocean, land surface and ice sheets....
by Gaspar Banfalvi
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
This book deals with biological membranes, focuses on permeabilization and pays particular attention to reversible permeabilization to maintain the viability and physiological conditions of the cells.
Selective permeability of biological membranes also known as semipermeability, partial permeability...
by Pierfausto Seneci
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
This book is a neurochemistry-based companion for Protein Misfolding and Neurodegenerative Diseases: Molecular Targets, an Elsevier title by the same author publishing in December 2014. While the first book focuses on biology and molecular targets, this companion book describes how these targets are...
Plant Metabolomics
Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book introduces plant metabolomics, an experimental approach that is important in both functional genomics and systems biology. It can be argued that metabolite data is most closely linked to phenotypes and that changes in metabolite content or metabolic networks can therefore indicate gene function...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Comparative investigations of mineralization and demineralization mechanisms by leading researchers give a general perspective on this interdisciplinary field of the life sciences and an introduction to current research methods and concepts. The studies are concentrated in the areas of calcium phosphate...
North Atlantic Right Whales
From Hunted Leviathan to Conservation Icon
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
In the cold waters of the unforgiving North Atlantic Ocean, some of the heartiest humans of medieval days ventured out in search of whales. Through the centuries, people on both sides of the Atlantic became increasingly dependent on whale oil and other cetacean products. To meet this growing demand,...
by Steven I. Apfelbaum, Alan W. Haney
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land is the first practical guidebook to give restorationists and would-be restorationists with little or no scientific training or background the “how to” information and knowledge they need to plan and implemecological restoration activities. The book sets...
Chembiomolecular Science
At the Frontier of Chemistry and Biology
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
At the forefront of life sciences today is the emerging discipline of chembiomolecular science. This new term describes the integration of the frontier fields of chemical biology, chemistry, and pharmacology. Chembiomolecular science aims to elucidate new biological mechanisms as potential drug targets...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
This book presents the latest findings in the field of research of mechanosensitivity and
mechanotransduction in different cells and tissues. Mechanosensitivity and mechanotransduction
of the heart and vascular cells, in the lung, in bone and joint tissues, in sensor systems and in blood cells are...
Immunity
The Evolution of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Modern immunology traditionally conceives of the immune system as providing defense against pathogens. Alfred I. Tauber criticizes this conception of immunity as too narrow, because it discounts much of the immune system's other normal functions. These include active tolerance of nutritional exchanges...
Above the Gene, Beyond Biology
Toward a Philosophy of Epigenetics
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Epigenetics is currently one of the fastest-growing fields in the sciences. Epigenetic information not only controls DNA expression but links genetic factors with the environmental experiences that influence the traits and characteristics of an individual. What we eat, where we work, and how we live...
Phylogenomic Data Acquisition
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Phylogenomics is a rapidly growing field of study concerned with using genome-wide data—usually in the form of DNA sequence loci—to infer the evolution of genes, genomes, and the Tree of Life. Accordingly, this discipline connects many areas in biology including molecular and genomic evolution,...
Socio-ecological Change in Rural Ethiopia
Understanding Local Dynamics in Environmental Planning and Natural Resource Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Socio-ecological change is characterized by interactions among a wide range of actors with different interests, needs and capabilities. Environmental planning has to contribute to the coalescence of local realities, multi-stakeholder land-use planning and policy making. Contributing to this discourse,...
Activated Sludge Separation Problems
Theory, Control Measures, Practical Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Activated Sludge Separation Problems: Theory, Control Measures, Practical Experiences, Second Edition, describes the most common activated sludge separation problems and explains the main reasons for the growth of the different filamentous microorganisms in activated sludge. The book summarizes the...