Life sciences: general issues

This updated and expanded second edition textbook, describes all main aspects of soil management, to address the serious problems of soil erosion and the attendant environmental pollution.

Microplastics are tiny plastic particles measuring less than 5 millimeters.

This book is a comprehensive guide for industrial bioprocess development, covering major aspects of microbial processes and their role in biotechnology.

This book provides an insight into the growth of the Indian seed industry in the past 60 years.

This volume explores various aspects of reversible acetylation of histone and non-histone proteins, focusing on their roles in development, ageing and disease progression.

In this book, leading researchers from this field systematically explain the latest research results on anaerobic responses in plants.

For readers of Michio Kaku and Stephen Hawking, the book readers have acclaimed asA mega-comprehensive outlook at intelligence as convincing as it is surprising and Atruly breathtaking forecast on the future of intelligence.

Foraminifera are single-celled marine organisms, usually less than a millimeter in size, and their fossil records extend back in geological time some 500 million years.

The fundamental ecological, cultural and economic roles of insects give them central importance in functioning of terrestrial and inland water ecosystems worldwide.

Mathematical modeling can be a useful tool for researchers in the biological scientists.

Biological and biomedical studies have entered a new era over the past two decades thanks to the wide use of mathematical models and computational approaches.

Comparative genomics is a new and emerging ?

Block-oriented Nonlinear System Identification deals with an area of research that has been very active since the turn of the millennium.

The emerging, multi-disciplinary field of systems biology is devoted to the study of the relationships between various parts of a biological system, and computer modeling plays a vital role in the drive to understand the processes of life from an holistic viewpoint.

Grassland covers 26% of the world's total land area.

Imagine algebra class meets The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Aims and Scope This book is both an introductory textbook and a research monograph on modeling the statistical structure of natural images.

Robots have evolved impressively since the 3-D manipulator built by C.

Stabilization, Optimal and Robust Control develops robust control of infinite-dimensional dynamical systems derived from time-dependent coupled PDEs associated with boundary-value problems.

Overview and Goals This book describes how to visualize and compare bacterial genomes.

Overview The objective of this book is to provide an introduction into some of the key topics in the history of computing.

Numbers have fascinated people for centuries.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

Semi-active Suspension Control provides an overview of vehicle ride control employing smart semi-active damping systems.

Integrates different approaches from bioinformatics, biochemistry, computational analysis and systems biology to offer the reader a global view of the diverse data on protein-protein interactions and protein interaction networksProtein-protein interactions and networks: identification, analysis and prediction brings together the descriptions of experimental techniques and expounds on different computational algorithms for protein network analysis and prediction of protein and domain interactions Each chapter contains a description of the problem, a review of methods and algorithms, a list of online resources, conclusions and future directionsOffering broad coverage on the topic, this book will be of interest to researchers from academia and the bioinformatics industry; will also be of use to graduate students studying the topic

Biomolecular sequence comparison is the origin of bioinformatics.

Presented in an interesting, historical and philosophical way, this book describes the current state of play in brain imaging, showing the differences among the different imaging modalities, and reviewing the knowledge about the chemical reactions in the brain, and their relationship to thinking, feeling and acting.

Recent advances in genetics and brain biochemistry point to the Abeta peptide as the major culprit in causing neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

A few years ago, in the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, I came across a remarkable but then little-known album of pencil and watercolour portraits.

After over a century of research, we still do not understand the principle by which a stimulus, such as an odour or a sound, is represented by distributed neural ensembles within the brain; by which an individual is developed by the control of gene networks.

JavaScript is widely used for simple online applications.

People naturally identify the rhythm of music as they tap their feet and sway in time with the beat.

This book is an introduction to game theory from a mathematical perspective.

This monograph studies the design of robust, monotonically-convergent it- ative learning controllers for discrete-time systems.

This book is about the ontology of anatomy.

The 15th International Workshop on Conceptual Structures ICCS 2007 brings together numerous discussions between international groups of researchers from the field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT).

Probabilistic Modelling in Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics has been written for researchers and students in statistics, machine learning, and the biological sciences.

Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale focuses on perceptions ofconsonance and dissonance, and how these are dependent on timbre.

Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of sensors in the non-visible bands.

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This book provides background knowledge on sustainable bioeconomy development in the Global South and documents its status.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the transformative field of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and neurotechnology.

Every cell, tissue, organ and organism is competent to use signs to exchange information reaching common coordinations and organisations of both single cell and group behavior.

This book addresses the ongoing need to explore the implications of the ‘Anthropocene’ rupture for the field of International Relations (IR).

The book provides a self-contained and complete description of the long time evolution of the solutions to a class of one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations, in which the diffusion is given by an integral operator.

Individual-based models (IBM) describe a population as a collection of different organisms whose local interactions determine the behaviour of the entire population.

Marine biorefineries of macroalgal (seaweed) feedstock are sustainable sources of food, materials, and energy, and can alleviate the growing pressure on land and freshwater resources.