Other Sciences category: 9579 books
by Blaine Readler
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
If you think that electricity is some kind of juice that burns in your lamp like a candle, or if you worry about violating Ohm’s law, then this book is for you. On the other hand, if you know that a complete circuit is required for current to flow, but wonder whether higher voltage or higher current...
The EPICA-DML Deep Ice Core
A Visual Record
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
The line-scan images collected in this book represent the most accurate optical record of Antarctic ice cores ever presented, providing an invaluable resource for glaciologists and climate modellers, as well as a fascinating compilation of ice core images for Antarctica enthusiasts.
Global...
by Virginia García-Cañas, Alejandro Cifuentes, Carolina Simó
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
The book contains contributions concerning the application of the new instrumental and methodological developments in omics technologies, including those related to Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Peptidomics and Metabolomics, Lipidomics and Foodomics. The16 chapters discuss in detail: innovative...
Explanation in the Special Sciences
The Case of Biology and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Biology and history are often viewed as closely related disciplines, with biology informed by history, especially in its task of charting our evolutionary past. Maximizing the opportunities for cross-fertilization in these two fields requires an accurate reckoning of their commonalities and differences—precisely...
by Ena Ray Banerjee
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
The information given in this book tries to capture the essence of the sheer dynamicity of the cell along with useful tips on how to address critical rate limiting steps in the process of exploration and investigation of its capacity to regenerate, rebuild and replenish from within. The definitions...
Structure and Action of Molecular Chaperones
Machines that Assist Protein Folding in the Cell
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
This unique volume reviews the beautiful architectures and varying mechanical actions of the set of specialized cellular proteins called molecular chaperones, which provide essential kinetic assistance to processes of protein folding and unfolding in the cell. Ranging from multisubunit ring-shaped...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Protein degradation has been identified as a major mechanism for the regulation of cellular functions. Not surprisingly, its deregulation is implied in almost any pathological condition. This book describes how aged proteins are eliminated during cell metabolism, how cell proliferation is regulated...
Information and the World Stage
From Philosophy to Science, the World of Forms and Communications
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Modern science is at a tipping point. A new page in the history of knowledge opens with the “information paradigm”, a notion which is gradually supplanting the old mechanistic vision inherited from Galileo and Newton.
The author presents an overview of the place of information and communications...
Repeat Photography
Methods and Applications in the Natural Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
First developed in the 1880s as a way to monitor glaciers in Europe, repeat photography —the practice of taking photographs at differpoints in times from the same physical vantage point—remains an essential and cost-effective technique for scientists and researchers working to track and study...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Emphasis is placed on the elaborate cuticular matrices in insects and crustaceans, spider and insect silks, sialomes of phytophagous and blood-feeding arthropods as well as on secretions of male and female accessory glands. Focus is placed largely on insects, due to the extensive body of published...
by Congbin Fu, Huiting Mao
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
The continued aridity trend occurring in many regions worldwide is a manifestation of the response of the earth system to global change. It hinders severely the sustainable development of these regions. Northern China is one of the largest and most affected regions in the world. This book documents...
by W. E. Balch, Channing J. Der, Alan Hall
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
The critically acclaimed laboratory standard for more than forty years, Methods in Enzymology is one of the most highly respected publications in the field of biochemistry. Since 1955, each volume has been eagerly awaited, frequently consulted, and praised by researchers and reviewers alike. Now with...
New Solutions for Challenges in Applications of New Materials and Geotechnical Issues
Proceedings of the 5th GeoChina International Conference 2018 – Civil Infrastructures Confronting Severe Weathers and Climate Changes: From Failure to Sustainability, held on July 23 to 25, 2018 in HangZhou, China
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This book include research studies which deal with the attempts to address new solutions for challenges in geotechnical engineering such as characterization of new materials, application of glass fibre, geotextile fabric and permeable concrete, new numerical methods for traditional problems and some...
Nature, Experiment, and the Sciences
Essays on Galileo and the History of Science in Honour of Stillman Drake
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This collection of essays is a tribute to Stillman Drake by some of his friends and colleagues, and by others on whom his work has had a formative influence. It is difficult to know him without succumbing to his combination of discipline and enthusiasm, even in fields remote from Renaissance physics...