Life sciences: general issues

An up-to-date portrait of the giraffe, summarising current knowledge on their biology and behaviour along with current conservation efforts.

This book will address the importance of the soil management concept, vis-a-vis chemical fertilizer use on soil.

Through use of the models Professor Horn has devised, plant ecologists, foresters, and botanists will be able to predict the growth and productivity of a forest, the invading and senile species in a forest, the effect of shade tolerance on forest succession, and similar questions.

Some 29 scientists from the fields of neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, neu- rophysiology, neuropharmacology, and behavior have contributed their ef- forts to this testimonial on behalf of the contributions made by Dr.

A plain-English guide to genetics Want to know more about genetics?

5-HT Interaction with Other Neurotransmitters: Experimental Evidence and Therapeutic Relevance, Part B, Volume 260 in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of topics, including Serotonin-noradrenalin interactions, Electrophysiological and neurochemical evidence for an interaction of serotonin on noradrenergic neurons, Serotonin and cannabinoid system, 5-HT/CB interaction in the CNS in health and disease, Serotonin2A receptors and Cannabinoids, CB1/5-HT/GABA in food intake, A close interaction between serotonergic system and BDNF in the mechanism of action of antidepressant, 5-HT/ Ach, Interaction of 5-HT2A/2C ligands and nicotine, and more.

Intelligence allows people to understand events and to shape their surrounding environment.

This book reports on the development and assessment of a novel framework for studying neural interactions (the connectome) and their dynamics (the chronnectome).

Coxiella burnetii is the etiological agent of Q fever, a zoonotic disease found worldwide.

An Emerging Tool for Pioneering Engineers Co-published by the International Federation of Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering.

Contains questions and exercises which examine all aspects of communication disorders and give readers practice at analysing clinical linguistic data.

Information is a core concept in animal communication: individuals routinely produce, acquire, process and store information, which provides the basis for their social life.

Forest Resources Resilience and Conflicts presents modern remote sensing and GIS techniques for Sustainable Livelihood.

Concepts and Techniques in OMICS and Systems Biology provides a concise and lucid account on the technical aspects of omics, system biology and their application in fields of different life science.

This book is a contribution to the history of ethology-not a definitive history, but the personal view of a major figure in that story.

Recently, there has been, and continues to be, a tremendous interest on Lake Victoria and its environs, both locally and internationally.

Insect Colonization and Mass Production reviews the great strides that have been made in the colonization and mass production of insects, including the methods used in rearing representative species and the general principles of nutrition and management that can be applied to the colonization of other species.

This monograph reports on advances in the measurement and study of autonomic nervous system (ANS) dynamics as a source of reliable and effective markers for mood state recognition and assessment of emotional responses.

Coral disease is quickly becoming a crisis to the health and management of the world s coral reefs.

This volume explores the latest techniques in inner ear development, analysis of its sensory cells, and characterization and manipulation of the central auditory and vestibular pathways.

In the past decade, the global efforts in the control of HIV disease were basically concentrated on the search for anti-retroviral agents.

Will the genetic design of athletes destroy sport .

This volume explains the recent findings on the mutualistic plant-microbe interactions and how they can be utilized for sustainable agriculture practices including land reclamation.

Yeast is one of the most studied laboratory organisms and represents one of the most central models to understand how any eukaryote cell works.

Die Themen der Sucht und des Alter(n)s sind in unserer heutigen, nach Jugend und Gesundheit strebenden Gesellschaft weitgehend tabuisiert.

Bioethics is a discipline still not fully explored in spite of its rather remark- able expansion and sophistication during the past two decades.

Biophysical Basis of Physiology and Calcium Signaling Mechanism in Cardiac and Smooth Muscle acts as a bridge between physiology and physics by discussing the physiology and calcium signaling mechanism in cardiac and smooth muscle.

The enduring changes in the aquatic environment and the increasing influx of contaminants call for novel conceptual and methodological approaches to relating chemical pollution and ecological alterations in ecosystems.

In this book, you and your children will discover the amazing wonders of nature through simple experiments.

Die vorliegende Studie wurde im Juli 2000 von den Philosophischen Fakultäten I und II und von der Erziehungswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg als Habilitationsschrift angenommen.

This edited volume summarizes information about the situational context, threats, problems, challenges and solutions for sustainable pastoralism at a global scale.

The aim of this book is not to encourage defensive medical practice, but to help provide better, optimum care to patients and to be forth right and honest to our dear customers about our inevitable mistakes.

The Handbook of Communication Science and Biology charts the state of the art in the field, describing relevant areas of communication studies where a biological approach has been successfully applied.

My original intention was to write a history of medical statistics, used in its prewar sense, expanding the writings on the subject by Major Greenwood, from which I formed many of my ideas in the early days immediately after the Second World War.

Principles and Practice of Clinical Research, Fourth Edition has been thoroughly revised to provide a comprehensive look at both the fundamental principles and expanding practice of clinical research.

An understanding of mechanisms underlying seizure disorders depends critically on the insights provided by model systems.

This book reviews key recent advances and new frontiers within psychiatric research and clinical practice.

This book discusses the emergence of diverse functional organizations in the visual pathway which could be spontaneously and solely initiated by the random feedforward wiring of neural circuits.

This book centers around a dialogue between Roger Penrose and Emanuele Severino about one of most intriguing topics of our times, the comparison of artificial intelligence and natural intelligence, as well as its extension to the notions of human and machine consciousness.

The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) has caused a serious global pandemic in just one year.

The basic goal of the volume is to compile the most up to date research on the effect of ecotourism on Indonesia's primates.

This fully updated second edition of The Physics of Phonons remains the most comprehensive theoretical discussion devoted to the study of phonons, a major area of condensed matter physics.

The scientific reproducibility crisis is a crisis of character.

In this powerful study the distinguished social anthropologist Alan Barnard addresses the fundamental questions surrounding the evolution of human society.

The book integrates our understanding of the factors and processes underlying the evolution of multicellularity by providing several complementary perspectives (both theoretical and experimental) and using examples from various lineages in which multicellularity evolved.