Life sciences: general issues

Introduction.

Industry and academia remain fascinated with the diverse properties and applications of polymers.

Modern thermodynamics is a unique but still not a logically self-consistent field of knowledge.

This book outlines the latest trends in the use of multicriteria analysis in agriculture by highlighting recent applications for modeling agricultural decision-making.

This book provides an accessible introduction to an exciting new field of life science in which the focus is on small numbers of molecules and minorities within cell populations and their significance for the understanding of biological phenomena.

This book reports on fundamental research, cutting-edge technologies and industrially-relevant applications in biomedical engineering.

Freshwater and Marine Ecology is an introduction to the field of aquatic ecology, integrating the conceptually and methodologically widely overlapping fields of limnology and biological oceanography.

Inflammation and Immunity in Depression: Basic Science and Clinical Applications is the first book to move beyond the established theory of cytokine-induced depression and explore the broader role the immune system plays in this devastating mood disorder.

Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology, Fourth Edition, is the only up-to-date textbook on the market that focuses on the molecular and cellular physiology of neurons and synapses.

This volume addresses oxidant-reduction or redox and antioxidant sensitive molecular mechanisms and how they are implicated in different disease processes.

The editors and contributors to this volume should be justifiably proud of their participation in the tenth triennial meeting of the Chemical Signals in Vertebrates International Symposium.

This edited volume examines the multiple dimensions of sustainability in the Circumpolar North, a territory facing unprecedented environmental and social challenges at the start of the 21st century.

The purpose of this module is to provide a survey of the rapidly expanding field of developmental biology and to introduce it to the student in a unifying way.

This book provides detailed information on the Northwestern Himalayas in India.

Sustainability is part of every aspect of our life, with climate concerns shaping the future.

This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of seven international workshops held in conjunction with the 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2008, in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2008.

This is a unique compilation, by experts worldwide, addressing how diabetes impacts the nervous system.

Defense-related Proteins in Plants presents detailed information on the identification, characterization, mechanism of action, and application in crop improvement programs of these mechanisms in a single, cohesive volume.

Data from neuropsychological and animal research suggest that the hippocampus plays a pivotal role in two relatively different areas: active navigation, as well as episodic learning and memory.

This monograph offers a comprehensive overview of diverse quantization phenomena in layered materials, covering current mainstream experimental and theoretical research studies, and presenting essential properties of layered materials along with a wealth of figures.

The 3Y2-inch floppy disk which accompanies this booklet is a standard DSIHD 1.

Ecologists increasingly recognize the importance of scale in our understanding of nature.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues, IPCAT 2015, held in San Diego, CA, USA, in September 2015.

The book deeply focuses on the epidemiology, diagnostics, therapy and molecular basis of canine and feline dementia or cognitive dysfunction syndrome.

The concept of Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) is often difficult to grasp, even for Magnetic Resonance physicists.

This new volume presents leading-edge research in the rapidly changing and evolving field of polymer science as well as on chemical processing.

In this thesis two variants of the fast variable elimination method are developed.

Brain, Decision Making, and Mental Health acknowledges that thinking is not a constant phenomenon but varies considerably across cultures.

Emery and Rimoin's Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics and Genomics: Hematologic, Renal, and Immunologic Disorders, Seventh Edition thoroughly examines medical genetics and genomics as applied to hematologic, immunologic and endocrinologic disorders, with an emphasis on understanding the genetic mechanisms underlying these conditions, diagnostic approaches, and treatment methods.

This book is the fifth volume of the "e;Marine Algal Flora of China-Rhodophyta.

The purpose of this and future volumes of the Handbook of Genetics is to bring together a collection of relatively short, authoritative essays or annotated compilations of data on topics of significance to geneticists.

CiE 2008: Logic and Theory of Algorithms Athens, Greece, June 15-20, 2008 Computability in Europe (CiE) is an informal network of European scientists working on computability theory, including its foundations, technical devel- ment, and applications.

In the past two decades, pain research has become one of the most rapidly growing areas of neuroscience activity.

This compilation focuses on the CRISPR/Cas9 system, a genome editing tool that has been hailed as the most profound molecular biology discovery in the past decade.

This book on mathematical modeling of biological processes includes a wide selection of biological topics that demonstrate the power of mathematics and computational codes in setting up biological processes with a rigorous and predictive framework.

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Memory is essential for the retention of learning.

Any list of the most influential figures of the second half of the twentieth century would arguably have to begin with the name of Pope John Paul II.

Polyphenols: Mechanisms of Action in Human Health and Disease, Second Edition describes the mechanisms of polyphenol antioxidant activities and their use in disease prevention.

This volume is a collection of the contributions presented at the 42nd Erice Crystallographic Course whose main objective was to train the younger generation on advanced methods and techniques for examining structural and dynamic aspects of biological macromolecules.

Published since 1959, International Review of Neurobiology is a well-known series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists.

The Karl Fischer titration is used in many different ways following its publication in 1935 and further applications are continually being explored.

This monograph sketches out a broad spectrum of problems (from evolution and metabolism to morphogenesis and biogeographical dynamics) whose solution has been impacted by mathematical models.

The book deepens understanding of biomass sources and technologies used for cooking worldwide.

Origin(s) of Design in Nature is a collection of over 40 articles from prominent researchers in the life, physical, and social sciences, medicine, and the philosophy of science that all address the philosophical and scientific question of how design emerged in the natural world.

This book provides a comprehensive summary of the recent advances in the biofortification of plants under climate change and how it affects food security globally.

Other animals are driven to spend essentially their whole lives just trying to get fed, stay alive, and get laid.