Life sciences: general issues

This book is a compilation of diverse, yet homogenic, research papers that discuss current advances in Earth Observation and Geospatial Information Technologies to tackle new horizons concerning the digitization and information management in smart cities' infrastructures.

Since research on meiobenthos was last compiled in a textbook (2008/2009), the number of theoretical and applied studies has been growing rapidly.

This book sheds new light on the history of exercise physiology and how it essentially grew, thanks to the work of a few major Schools.

This book examines animal research conducted with the goal of medical translation to humans.

Tissues, Cultures, Art narrates the twenty-five years of collaborative and sometimes provocative artistic practice and scholarly thought of Catts & Zurr, who pioneered the use of regenerative biology techniques to create Semi-Living art using living cells, tissues, and technological surrogate bodies.

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Rainbows have been a source of fascination since time immemorial.

This book provides an overview of the tropical marine environments of Brazil and a multi-disciplinary assessment of the impact of ongoing climate change in these environments.

This book is a focussed and up-to-date review about the key challenges, trends, implications, strategies, and ways of overcoming, that dynamic and competitive organizations are facing now and increasingly in future by climate change.

Das ausschließlich auf den Menschen bezogene Weltbild in den Gesellschaften Europas und Nordamerikas begünstigt bis heute eine exklusive und un-ökologische Sichtweise auf die natürliche Umwelt.

A lo largo del texto, siguiendo las teorías de sistemas, sondearemos la siguiente hipótesis: La Economía es un subsistema de redes de los sistemas antroposfera y tecnosfera, que tiene como deber-ser optimizar la coexistencia armónica y articulada de estos dos sistemas con la geosfera y la biosfera, agregando valor (riqueza) cuantificable en el mercado de bienes y servicios.

This book facilitates both the theoretical background and applications of fuzzy, intuitionistic fuzzy and rough, fuzzy rough sets in the area of data science.

The running boom that started in the 1970s saw millions of people begin to experience the benefits of improved physical fitness, sound sleep and a sense of mental wellbeing.

The study of organism evolution and diversity has long drawn the attention of scientists, particularly those working in the various branches of botany.

This edited book provides a comprehensive and a reliable source of information on all major areas of diatom research.

The genetic improvement of fish for aquaculture and related fisheries has seen huge advances over recent years.

Game-Based Learning in Education and Health, Volume 276 in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Math computerized games in the classroom: a Number Line Training in Primary School Children, Digital games for learning basic arithmetic at home, Game-Based Assessment of Cognitive Function among Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Different aspects of fraction understanding are associated selectively with performance on a fraction learning game, and more.

Computational Methods and Deep Learning for Ophthalmology presents readers with the concepts and methods needed to design and use advanced computer-aided diagnosis systems for ophthalmologic abnormalities in the human eye.

This volume contains data on multiple immunomodulators, many of which are also the products of hypothalamic brain cell neurosecretion.

The brain is the organ that collects information from the environment, processes and stores the information, and generates behavior as and when needed.

This thorough volume presents a wide range of existing methods, from the very popular to the more exotic, in the area of plant genotyping.

This volume provides comprehensive dry and wet experiments, methods, and applications on nanopore sequencing.

This third volume provides comprehensive protocols on pre-analytical, analytical, plasma, and serum proteomics.

This book explores Kierkegaard's significance for bioethics and discusses how Kierkegaard's existential thinking can enrich and advance current bioethical debates.

This book explores Kierkegaard's significance for bioethics and discusses how Kierkegaard's existential thinking can enrich and advance current bioethical debates.

The Murray cod is Australia's largest and most iconic freshwater fish.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT), a significant cognitive-behavioural approach to counselling and psychotherapy originating from the pioneering work of Dr Albert Ellis.

This textbook is aimed at students of non-specialist courses with computer science components.

This book shows that evolutionary game theory can unravel how mutual cooperation, trust, and credit in a group emerge in organizations and institutions.

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1859 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

This Element provides an integrative approach to understanding light sensation in humans.

Nature-based solutions (NbS) are solutions inspired or supported by nature.

This book brings together chapters related to sustainable utilization of biological resources, including in situ and ex situ conservation of rare, endangered, and threatened plants.

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Secretory Proteins, Volume 133 in the Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology series highlights new advances in the field, including chapters on Proprotein Convertases regulate trafficking and maturation of key proteins within the secretory pathway, Secretory Proteins in Cancer Diagnosis, Senescent Cells and SASP in Cancer Microenvironment: new approaches in cancer therapy, Autophagy for secretory protein: Therapeutic targets in cancer, Secretory proteins and pathways of secretion of osteosarcoma, Monocyte secretory proteins as drug targets for arresting progression of atherosclerosis, The secretory phenotypes of envenomed cells: insights into venom cytotoxicity, Macromolecules for secretory pathway in SARS-CoV-2 infection, and much more.

This accessible guide introduces neuroscience, demystifying terminology and language and increasing the knowledge, skills and, importantly, confidence of anyone interested in brain development in early childhood.

Letters from 1882, the year of Darwin''s death, and a supplement of nearly 400 earlier letters.

This Element highlights the pervasive nature of ensemble encoding as a basic, inherent component of human perception.

This accessible guide introduces neuroscience, demystifying terminology and language and increasing the knowledge, skills and, importantly, confidence of anyone interested in brain development in early childhood.

This comprehensive guide describes the 447 species of wild orchids that occur in Victoria, Australia.

Decapod crustaceans, shrimps, crabs, prawns and their allies are highly visible and important members of marine environments.

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This book covers the understanding on relationship between climate change, urban development, and environment sustainability with emphasis on relevant issues and challenges of urban environment sustainability.

Meso and Microplastic Risk Assessment in Marine Environment: New Threat and Challenges in Marine Environment presents an interdisciplinary approach, offering key techniques and management of microplastic contamination in the disciplines of environmental science, fisheries, oceanography, geology, chemistry, biology and ocean science.

This book explores urban environments and their impact on resilience, livability, climate adaptation, health, and societal well-being.

Ecostacking is a new concept and approach which aims to maximize the benefits of ecosystem service providers in cropping systems to help achieve the goal of long-term sustainable agriculture and food production.

An accessible introduction to genetic engineering, including recent developments in bioethics, sequencing technology and genome editing.