Other Sciences category: 9579 books
PAKs, RAC/CDC42 (p21)-activated Kinases
Towards the Cure of Cancer and Other PAK-dependent Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
This book covers a variety of cutting-edge basic and clinical PAK research ranging from laboratory benches to hospital beds. The goal of this book is to inspire not only biomedical research scientists and university students, but also a variety of patients who suffer from PAK-dependent diseases and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
DNA is the central repository of genetic information in the cell, yet it is under constant attack by chemical mutagens, radiation and other processes. Cells therefore put a great deal of resources into repairing any damage to this precious store. Mechanisms of DNA repair vary greatly in their level...
by Stephane P.A. Bordas, Daniel S. Balint
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Advances in Applied Mechanics, Volume 50, draws together recent, significant advances in various topics in applied mechanics. Published since 1948, the book aims to provide authoritative review articles on topics in the mechanical sciences. While the book is ideal for scientists and engineers working...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Methods of Enzymatic Analysis, Volume 4 reviews developments in the use of enzymes as tools in analytical biochemistry, including advances in assay techniques. It discusses the principles and methods for the elucidation of structures of enzymes, such as peptides, proteins, amino acids, fatty acid...
Wörterbuch der Biologie Dictionary of Biology
Deutsch/Englisch English/German
Language: German
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Das Wörterbuch der Biologie ... kompetent, zuverlässig, bewährt! Das Standardwerk Wörterbuch der Biologie nun in 4. aktualisierter und erweiterter Auflage, mit ca. 60.000 Begriffen.
Das führende deutsch-englische Fachwörterbuch in den Life Sciences – die essenzielle Sprach- und Übersetzungshilfe.
Thematische...
Le zéro et le un
Histoire de la notion d'information au XXe siècle, Vol. 1
Language: French
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Etude approfondie de la notion scientifique d'information.
La notion d’information est particulièrement polymorphe, luxuriante même. Ses définitions prolifèrent, son domaine lexical est si vaste que la probabilité que deux spécialistes de l’information (sans plus de précision) évoquant...
by Alistair B Forbes, Nien-Fan Zhang, Anna Chunovkina
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
This volume contains original, refereed contributions by researchers from institutions and laboratories across the world that are involved in metrology and testing. They were adapted from presentations made at the eleventh edition of the Advanced Mathematical and Computational Tools in Metrology and...
The Science of Materials: from Materials Discovered by Chance to Customized Materials
Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 17 January 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Throughout the ages, humans have applied knowledge and know-how to master materials. They have gone from materials encountered by chance available in their environment to customized materials designed to meet multi-criteria specifications. Today, owing particularly to digital modelling on different...
The Courtiers' Anatomists
Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
The Courtiers' Anatomists is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris--and the surprising links between them. Examining the practice of seventeenth-century anatomy, Anita Guerrini reveals how anatomy and natural history were connected through animal dissection and vivisection. Driven...
The Antarctic Dictionary
A Complete Guide to Antarctic English
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2000
The world’s most isolated continent has spawned some of the most unusual words in the English language. In the space of a mere century, a remarkable vocabulary has evolved to deal with the extraordinary environment and living organisms of the Antarctic and subantarctic. Here, for the first time, is...
How Many People Are There In My Head? And In Hers?
An Exploration of Single Cell Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Makes the proposal that the only possible solution to the 'mind-brain' problem is that each nerve cell is conscious separately and that we have no other 'global' consciousness. This book explores the idea in an accessible way, while attempting to address fundamental issues of cell membrane biology and the nature of the observer.
Reflexive Epistemology
The Philosophical Legacy of Otto Neurath
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Professor Danilo Zolo has written an account of Otto Neurath's epistemology which deserves careful reading by all who have studied the development of 20th century philosophy of science. Here we see the philosophical Neurath in his mature states of mind, the vigorous critic, the scientific Utopian,...
Nothing but the Tooth
A Dental Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
While most books on dentistry describe the clinical and medical procedures involved, this book expands the field to examine the role of dentistry and teeth in everything from biology to biography. This book offers facts and figures regarding famous historical figures, such as John Hunter, Dr Crippen,...
The Mosaic Theory of Natural Complexity
A scientific and philosophical approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
What is complexity? The present work will offer a description of complex systems based on two general principles: juxtaposition of similar units and then integration of these units, once modified, into structures at a higher level of which they become parts. As in a mosaic, however, these parts within...