Life sciences: general issues

Rice is the most important cereal crop which feeds more than half the population of the world.

Pre-Mesozoic Geology of Iberia is a major reference for current understanding of the overall tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Iberian Massif.

In contrast to animals, plants are immobile and, thus, cannot leave a drastically changed environment.

Dieser Band enthält die überarbeiteten Beiträge zum 2.

It has been my privilege and pleasure during the past half century to participate in the unfolding of present-day concepts of the mammalian female reproductive cycles.

Food webs hold a central place in ecology.

Attention to viral infections and pathology previously focussed on diseases of economically important fish.

This volume contains papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on "e;Sensors and Sensory Systems for Advanced Robots"e;, which was held in Maratea, Italy, during the week Apri I 28 - May 3, 1986.

The aim of this study is twofold: to provide a theoreti- cal and an applied analysis of multispecies fisheries.

Modem Methods of Plant Analysis When the handbook Modern Methods of Plant Analysis was first introduced in 1954 the considerations were: 1.

Modern Methods of Plant Analysis When the handbook Modern Methods of Plant Analysis was first introduced in 1954 the considerations were: 1.

Dem nach der Tschernobyl-Katastrophe stark angewachsenen Informationsbedürfnis über die Möglichkeiten und Risiken der Kernkraft-Ausnutzung trägt diese Neuauflage Rechnung.

Medical imaging is an important and rapidly expanding area in medical science.

Der routinemäßige Einsatz des EEG zur Überwachung des Intensivpatienten hat sich als entscheidende Hilfe für die aktuelle Beurteilung der zerebralen Situation im Verlauf einer Intensivtherapie erwiesen.

From the Meeting on "Advanced Technology in Neurosurgery", held in Milan on May, 29 - June, 1, 1985

The brain of an echo locating bat is devoted, in large part, to analyzing sound and conducting behavior in a world of sounds and echoes.

Activation by and desensitization to signals originating from the environment is common in all organisms, ranging from prokaryotes to higher eukaryotes.

Reptiles and birds have highly diverse hearing organs.

This book is not a conventional review of diving physiology.

Das Buch behandelt die jüngste Entwicklung der Schizophrenieforschung.

In addition to the more or less static properties of the environ- ment, plants and animals must cope with its temporal variations.

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Modem Methods of Plant Analysis When the handbook Modern Methods of Plant Analysis was fIrst introduced in 1954 the considerations were: 1.

This book is a collection of papers presented at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "e;Biology and Molecular Biology of Plant-Pathogen Interactions"e; which was held at Dillington College, Ilminster, UK, 1-6 September 1985.

Dieser Band befaßt sich mit dem Einfluß von aminergen Neuronensystemen auf die Hypophysenvorderlappen-Hormonsekretion sowie die Wirkung von Psychopharmaka auf die aminergen Neuronensysteme im Zentralnervensystem.

Here for the first time in one book is a comprehensive and systematic approach to the dynamic modeling and control of biped locomotion robots.

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The NATO workshop on Disordered Systems and Biological Organization was attended, in march 1985, by 65 scientists representing a large variety of fields: Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics and Biology.

Cybernetics, a science concerned with understanding how systems are regulated, has reflected the preoccupations of the century in which it was born.

This volume contains the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Pictorial Information Systems in Medicine"e; held August 27-September 7, 1984 in Hotel Maritim, Braunlage/Harz, Federal Republic of Germany.

For old and new studies in decision making and risk analysis, this book should stand at tlle watershed.

The "e;functional"e; in the title of this book not only reflects my personal bias about neuroanatomy in brain research, it is also the gist of many chapters which describe sophisticated ways to resolve structures and interpret them as dynamic entities.

Chance Favors Only the Prepared Mind How does a scientist go about the task of pushing back the curtains of the unknown?

When trying to solicit authors for this book it became apparent that the causal factors for heterosis at the physiological and biochemical level are today almost as obscure as they were 30 years ago.

The first summer study at IIASA brought together a cross-section of individ- uals from different disciplines and nationalities.

You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step in it.

While the volumes hitherto published in the Springer Series in Synergetics have been devoted almost exclusively to the self-organized formation of structures in physics, chemistry and biology, the present monograph by Weidlich and Haag deals with the formation of "e;structures"e; (or "e;patterns"e;) in society.

Neurophysiologists are often accused by colleagues in the physical sci- ences of designing experiments without any underlying hypothesis.

Band 8 ist den Neuentwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der Herbizide gewidmet.

Dieser Band zeigt die sensationell anmutenden Fortschritte der Pyrethrum­ Chemie, die für Forschung, Industrie und Anwender neue Aspekte eröffnet.

This is a timely opus.

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The building of conceptual models is an inherent part of our interaction with the world, and the foundation of scientific investigation.

The brain functions like a computer composed of subsystems which in- teract in a hierarchical manner.