Cognitive Science and the Reconceptualization of Social Theory explores how core social science ideas can be naturalized and reconceptualized through the lens of cognitive science.
People have been long-fascinated with birds, and their scientific study has been central to advances in evolution, animal behavior, biogeography, population dynamics, and community ecology.
Perception and Cognition of Music: The Sorbonne Lectures presents revised and updated materials delivered in four distinguished lectures at the Universite Paris-Sorbonne and the Universite de Montreal, originally published in French.
The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience brings together the leading developmental cognitive neuroscientists in the field that work on understanding human development, and the complex interplay of genetic, environmental, and brain maturational factors that shape social and cognitive functioning in development.
This book examines breeding approaches for plantation, spice, medicinal, and aromatic crops including coconut, arecanut, oil palm, cashew, coffee, tea, cocoa, rubber, cardamom, black pepper, turmeric, ginger, ashwagandha, lavender, and mint.
Computational neuroscience is the theoretical study of the brain to uncover the principles and mechanisms that guide the development, organization, information processing, and mental functions of the nervous system.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Medicine is a guide to areas of current activity and change, not only in philosophy of medicine, but also in medical science and practice.
Bioethicist Mark Navin and policy scholar Katie Attwell explore the evolution of American childhood vaccination policy through the prism of political history, contemporary parenthood, and diverse governance strategies.
Eleven chapters present a concise description of the soils of Israel, including their distribution, chemical, physical mineralogical characteristics and agricultural attributes.
Ob Klimawandel, Doping oder Bildungspolitik: Wissen hoch 12 bietet einen fundierten, aber leicht verständlichen Überblick über aktuelle Entwicklungen aus Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technik.
In an age of increasing environmental problems, ecology has had to grow up fast from a discipline dealing with relatively simple interactions between species to one that tries to explain changes in global patterns of diversity and richness.
The particular behavior of trace metals in the environment is determined by their specific physico-chemical form rather than by their total concentration.
The purpose of this book is to analyse and discuss a seriesof topics related with environmental conservation, land-useplanning and management and impact prevention as seen fromthe perspective of the Earth Sciences, but with an inte-grated, interdisciplinary approach.
Sediments are increasingly recognized as both a carrier and a possible source of contaminants in aquatic systems, and they may also affect groundwater quality and agricultural products when disposed on land.
This book is more than a standard proceedings volume, although it is an almost direct result of the workshop on "e;Nonlinear Analysis of Physiologi- cal Time Series"e; held in Freital near Dresden, Germany, in October 1995.
The development of powerful new techniques and refmements of tech- niques in molecular genetics in recent years, and the surge in interest in biotechnology based on genetic methods, have heralded a new golden age in molecular genetics, and stimulated in diverse disciplines much interest in the technologies themselves and their potential uses in basic and applied biomedical sciences.
The accompanying ecological research for using wind energy in the German North and Baltic Seas is part of a series of research projects in the German Government's Investment Programme for the Future.
This monograph offers a comprehensive review of present knowledge of the structure and connections of the trigeminal nuclei in humans, and compares it to laboratory animal findings.
For centuries biologists have been extremely interested in the structure of desert plants as examples of natural selection to harsh environmental conditions.
The exigencies of life in the desert environment have resulted in the se- lection of a diversity of adaptations, both morphological and physiologi- cal, in the flora and fauna.
The European Forest Institute (EFI) has five Research and Development priority ar- eas: forest sustainability, forestry and possible climate change, structural changes in markets for forest products and services, policy analysis, and forest sector informa- tion services and research methodology.
The soil is the medium through which pollutants originating from human activities, both in agriculture and industry, move from the land surfaces to groundwater.
Deserts, whether hot or cold, are considered to be one of the most difficult environments for living systems, lacking the essential free water which ac- counts for approximately 60-70% of their body mass and more than 98% of their constituent atoms {Macfarlane 1978}.
