Life sciences: general issues

A thorough update of Arnett's The Beetles of the United States, American Beetles, Volumes I and II cover the genera of beetles that occur in Alaska, Canada, and the contiguous United States.

This book revaluates Carl Jung's ideas in the context of contemporary research in the evolutionary sciences.

Autism Autonomy: In Search of Our Human Dignity provides a new and unifying methodological framework and discusses machine learning and biometrics techniques to diagnose, characterize, and treat patterns of sensory motor control underlying autism symptoms.

Autism Autonomy: In Search of Our Human Dignity provides a new and unifying methodological framework and discusses machine learning and biometrics techniques to diagnose, characterize, and treat patterns of sensory motor control underlying autism symptoms.

This collection of original essays by scientists, theologians, religious studies scholars, and ethicists offers an authoritative, illuminating, and thought-provoking overview of the CRISPR controversy.

Neurophysiology of Silence: Consciousness and Self Awareness, Volume 284 in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.

This volume looks at the latest methodological developments used in the field to investigate the synaptic organization of the brain from different viewpoints including structural, structural/functional, molecular, and computational methods.

This volume explores the latest advancements in the high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies and its uses in our understanding of complex biological processes and human diseases.

This volume explores the latest advancements in the high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies and its uses in our understanding of complex biological processes and human diseases.

Neurophysiology of Silence: Consciousness and Self Awareness, Volume 284 in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.

This book provides a detailed description of fluvial processes and their influence on urban sites.

This book reviews the evolving field of epigenetics and its implications for drug discovery and precision medicine.

The fourth volume in the Atlas of Human Central Nervous System Development series, The Human Brain During the Late First Trimester provides new information about features of the perinatal brain.

Every researcher in genomics and proteomics now has access to public domain databases containing literally billions of data entries.

Can an evolutionary perspective be integrated in day-to-day practice and is it of value in medical education and training?

This detailed volume gathers methods essential for investigating the multifaceted roles of astrocytes in both physiology and pathological conditions.

Wang and Hirai draw on their extensive experience to introduce recent technological advances in soft robotics for food manipulation and discuss their practical applications in the food preparation industry.

Humanoid robots are highly sophisticated machines equipped with human-like sensory and motor capabilities.

This book shows how to plan trajectories (i.

This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the natural history of the Japanese Archipelago (Yaponesia), employing cutting-edge genomic research to provide insights into the prehistory in this region.

This volume comprehensively covers soil microbial processes that regulate the flux of greenhouse gasses (GHG) from agricultural soils, in an effort to address how GHG regulating microbes can be used to mitigate harmful climate change impacts on agriculture.

This volume comprehensively covers soil microbial processes that regulate the flux of greenhouse gasses (GHG) from agricultural soils, in an effort to address how GHG regulating microbes can be used to mitigate harmful climate change impacts on agriculture.

In his new book, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley looks to the peculiar mating rituals of birds to better understand the rich origins and ongoing significance of Darwin's sexual selection theory.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of green nanotechnology covering principles, applications, and ethical considerations.

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the advances in biology and conservation research on Chinese sturgeon in the Yangtze Estuary.

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the advances in biology and conservation research on Chinese sturgeon in the Yangtze Estuary.

What significance do gendered discourse structures have for the state identity of India and the EU when it comes to their respective climate policies?

What significance do gendered discourse structures have for the state identity of India and the EU when it comes to their respective climate policies?

This book presents a historico-logical study of vitalism.

Learn to integrate molecular genetic techniques with traditional plant breeding methods!

This book presents a historico-logical study of vitalism.

This fully revised and updated seventh edition provides a thorough overview and introduction to hearing science.

The Brazilian coral reefs form structures significantly different from the well-known reef models, as follows: they have a growth form of mushroom-shaped coral pinnacles called "e;chapeiroes"e;; they are built by a low diversity coral fauna rich in endemic species, with most of them relic forms dating back to the Miocene; and the nearshore bank reefs are surrounded by siliciclastic sediments.

This book elucidates the diagnostic criteria and concept of asthma-COPD overlap (ACO) and provides the latest information on its epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnostic criteria, and treatment options.

Shortlisted for the 2018 TWS Wildlife Publication Awards in the edited book categoryLesser Prairie-Chickens have experienced substantial declines in terms of population and the extent of area that they occupy.

To document the world's diversity of species and reconstruct the tree of life we need to undertake some simple but mountainous tasks.

This volume looks at the latest methodological developments used in the field to investigate the synaptic organization of the brain from different viewpoints including structural, structural/functional, molecular, and computational methods.

Originally published in 1998, the aim of Developing a Social Psychology of Monkeys and Apes was to draw attention to the exciting progress of studies of the social psychology of monkeys and apes happening at the time.