Biological Sciences category: 21088 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
This edited volume is intended to help close this gap and provide the necessary backdrop for thinking strategically about biology in defense planning and policymaking.
This volume is about applications of the biological sciences, here called "biologically inspired innovations," to...
Research in Medical and Biological Sciences
From Planning and Preparation to Grant Application and Publication
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Research in Medical and Biological Sciences covers the wide range of topics that a researcher must be familiar with in order to become a successful biomedical scientist. Perfect for aspiring as well as practicing professionals in the medical and biological sciences, this publication discusses a broad...
by Gordon G. Hammes, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This book provides an introduction to physical chemistry that is directed toward applications to the biological sciences. Advanced mathematics is not required. This book can be used for either a one semester or two semester course, and as a reference volume by students and faculty in the biological sciences.
by Boran Altincicek
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Many scientists and students are asking for advice in statistical analyses during preparation of their publications or theses. This book aims to address these needs by representing a “recipe book” for statistical analysis in biological sciences. More importantly, limited knowledge in statistical...
Biological Individuality
Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Individuals are things that everybody knows—or thinks they do. Yet even scholars who practice or analyze the biological sciences often cannot agree on what an individual is and why. One reason for this disagreement is that the many important biological individuality concepts serve very different...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
The advancement of high-throughput technologies that generate large scale biological data, as well as the development of related computational tools, has united global efforts and brought revolutionary changes to the research of biology during the last decade. Nowadays, biologists work with scientists...
Hazardous Pollutants in Biological Treatment Systems
Fundamentals and a Guide to Experimental Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Hazardous pollutants are a growing concern in treatment engineering. In the past, biological treatment was mainly used for the removal of bulk organic matter and the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus. However, relatively recently the issue of hazardous pollutants, which are present at very low concentrations...
Bioelectronic Nose
Integration of Biotechnology and Nanotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
The “bioelectronic nose”, the device which has a similar function to the human smell sensing system, can be realized by combining the olfactory cells or receptors with nanotechnology. In the last two decades, much has been learned about the smell sensing mechanism in biological systems. With knowledge...
Mathematics for the Life Sciences
Calculus, Modeling, Probability, and Dynamical Systems
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Mathematics for the Life Sciences provides present and future biologists with the mathematical concepts and tools needed to understand and use mathematical models and read advanced mathematical biology books. It presents mathematics in biological contexts, focusing on the central...
Hanging on to the Edges
Essays on Science, Society and the Academic Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
What does it mean to be a scientist working today; specifically, a scientist whose subject matter is human life? Scientists often overstate their claim to certainty, sorting the world into categorical distinctions that obstruct rather than clarify its complexities. In this book Daniel Nettle urges...
Biological Robustness
Emerging Perspectives from within the Life Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
This volume reviews examples and notions of robustness at several levels of biological organization. It tackles many philosophical and conceptual issues and casts an outlook on the future challenges of robustness studies in the context of a practice-oriented philosophy of science. The focus of discussion...
Metallomics
A Primer of Integrated Biometal Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Metallomics is an integrated biometal science as it unifies different disciplines into a mainstream subject that can be taught to students of the biological and biomedical sciences. Metallomics bridges chemistry and the biological sciences from a global and quantitative systems approach, while the...
by Jacques Ricard
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
The exponential increase in computing power in the late twentieth century has allowed researchers to gather, process and analyze large volumes of information and construct rational paradigms of systems. Life sciences are no exception and computing advances have led to the birth of fields such as functional...
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...