Springer imprint: 58640 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
This book provides critical reviews of the role of neurotrophins and their receptors in a wide variety of diseases including neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington’s syndrome, cognitive function, psychiatric disorders such as clinical depression, Rett syndrome, motoneurone disease, spinal cord...
Classification, Disease and Evidence
New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health? (b) How do we (causally) explain diseases? (c) And how do we distinguish diseases, i.e....
by G.J. van Mill, A. Moulaert, E. Harinck
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In a relatively short period of time two-dimensional echocardiography has become the most important non-invasive diagnostic tool in the daily practice of a pediatric cardiologist who predominantly deals with congenital structural heart disease in neonates and infants. Consequently, one-dimensional...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Based on sequence analyses of many different genes, the past decade has provided us with a profound knowledge of fungal systematics and phylogeny. In addition, a number of sequences of complete fungal genomes have been identified and several others will soon follow. In this volume, leading experts...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
This new edition offers detailed overviews covering a wide area of fungal growth and reproduction on the mechanistic and molecular level. It includes 18 chapters by eminent scientists in the field and is – like the previous edition – divided into the three sections: Vegetative Processes and Growth,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
These chapters provide up-to-date information on nematophagous fungi, particularly those of the Orbiliaceae in Ascomycota, whose asexual states produce nematode-trapping devices. The authors consider fungal-nematode interactions, fossil fungi, the biodiversity, ecology and geographical distribution...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Marine biology has always played an important role in biological research, being at the origin of many key advances. To a certain extent, the influence of marine biology on the biological sciences was overshadowed over a period of several years by the remarkable advances that were made using powerful...
Dictyostelids
Evolution, Genomics and Cell Biology
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Since their discovery in 1869, the dictyostelids have attracted the attention of scientists in a wide variety of fields. This interest has stemmed from their peculiar lifestyle and developmental properties, which were shaped by the evolutionary forces that generated multicellularity during eukaryotic...
The Intensivist's Challenge
Aging and Career Growth in a High-Stress Medical Specialty
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
This book brings together personal narratives from critical care medicine specialists around the world. Most of these physicians started in critical care at or before the exponential increase in technological modalities to reverse or sustain organ function, have seen patient care both ways, and have...
The Best Medicine
A Physician’s Guide to Effective Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
This volume provides a theoretical framework for visionary leadership as well as specific management techniques to achieve success. The authors focus on maintaining a consistent set of behavioral characteristics for both the leader and the organization as a whole. The text is written in a conversational...
by Jeffrey Howard
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This book is a state-of-the-art review of the physical, chemical and mineralogical properties of anthropogenic soils, their genesis morphology and classification, geocultural setting, and strategies for reclamation, revitalization, use and management.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The potassium solubilizing microorganisms (KSMs) are a rhizospheric microorganism which solubilizes the insoluble potassium (K) to soluble forms of K for plant growth and yield. K-solubilization is carried out by a large number of saprophytic bacteria (Bacillus mucilaginosus, B. edaphicus, B. circulans,...
Precision in Crop Farming
Site Specific Concepts and Sensing Methods: Applications and Results
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
High yields and environmental control in crop farming call for precise adaptations to local growing conditions. Treating large fields in a uniform way by high capacity machinery cannot be regarded as a sustainable method for many situations. Because differences existing within single fields must be...
Birds as Useful Indicators of High Nature Value Farmlands
Using Species Distribution Models as a Tool for Monitoring the Health of Agro-ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
This book helps to establish a simple framework to identify and use bird species as a bioindicator for high nature value (HNV) farmlands.
This book focuses on suitable methods for monitoring the HNV areas, and presents the results of several case studies. The chapters put forward ways to integrate...