Life sciences: general issues

This book summarizes the advanced computational methods for mapping high-density linkages and quantitative trait loci in the rice genome.

"e;Volume 38 covers band dispersion in chromatography; structural stochastic concepts, applications to peak shape analysis, and the characteristic function method in the stochastic theory of chromatography; the capabilities and applications of solvating gas chromatography; and more.

Advances in Imaging Devices and Image processing stem from cross-fertilization between many fields of research such as Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Computer Sciences.

Genomic selection (GS) is a promising tool in the field of breeding especially in the era where genomic data is becoming cheaper.

The book reviews photosynthetic water oxidation and proton-coupled electron transfer in photosystem, focusing on the molecular vibrations of amino acid residues and water molecules.

This book focuses on the conventional breeding approach, and on the latest high-throughput genomics tools and genetic engineering / biotechnological interventions used to improve rice quality.

The workshop "e;Genes and their products for tolerance to physical stresses in plants"e; was held in Maratea, Italy, from 24-27 September 1995.

This second edition book provides complete coverage of the computational approaches currently used in Synthetic Biology.

Ten years after the Human Genome Project's completion the life sciences stand in a moment of uncertainty, transition, and contestation.

Warum sind sportliche Kinder besser in der Schule?

Gene Therapy for Viral Infections provides a comprehensive review of the broader field of nucleic acid and its use in treating viral infections.

This volume explores the latest techniques used to study the human brain towards understanding Alzheimer's Disease and related neurodegenerative disorders.

This books explains a strategy that a country can meet its CO2 emission reduction targets (e.

This book is a biography of a scientist who pioneered the development of plant pathology in Australia in the 19th and early 20th century, and was internationally acclaimed.

The field of encapsulation, especially microencapsulation, is a rapidly growing area of research and product development.

This book is unique as it will cover the latest technological advancements in the field of biorefinery and how it is a major futuristic component of global biofuel research.

This is the first book to provide a molecular level explanation of how the senses work, linking molecular biology with sensory physiology to deduce the molecular mechanism of a key step in sensory signal generation.

The proposed volume provides both fundamental and detailed information about the computational and computational-experimental studies which improve our knowledge of how leaving matter functions, the different properties of drugs (including the calculation and the design of new ones), and the creation of completely new ways of treating numerical diseases.

Smart materials are the way of the future in a variety of fields, from biomedical engineering and chemistry to nanoscience, nanotechnology, and robotics.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview on developmental origins of health and disease regarding various factors related to the origins of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) from early life.

This book will help beekeepers understand the fundamentals of beekeeping science.

Dieser Praxisleitfaden ist für Menschen geschrieben, die in Deutschland eine (kreditfinanzierte) Immobilie kaufen oder selbst bauen wollen.

This book introduces what sclerotia grains are, and where and how they exist in soils, by compiling the results obtained from the studies on fungal sclerotia formed by Cenococcum geophilum (Cg) and related species, the visible black small grains persistent for a few thousand to ten thousands of years in forest soils and sediments.

This book proposes strategies for improving the resilience and conservation of temperate forests in South America, such that these forests can provide ecosystem services in a sustainable way.

Written by an industry-leading scientist, Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells explains the theoretical foundations of PEM fuel cells in relation to practical design and operation to not only help beginners grasp the essentials, but also guide industry professionals in tackling technical challenges.

While the volumes hitherto published in the Springer Series in Synergetics have been devoted almost exclusively to the self-organized formation of structures in physics, chemistry and biology, the present monograph by Weidlich and Haag deals with the formation of "e;structures"e; (or "e;patterns"e;) in society.

The European Russian forests are described within the boreal, hemiboreal and nemoral forest regions; floodplain forests are also characterized.

At the end of the first international Symposium on Rotifers diately accepted to do this, and kindly made an entire in Lunz, Austria, September 1976, entousiastic pleas were special volume of its Journal 'Hydrobiologia' available made for a second gathering of possibly the same format for this purpose.

This book puts hydrogen sulfide in context with other gaseous mediators such as nitric oxide and carbon monoxide, reviews the available mechanisms for its biosynthesis and describes its physiological and pathophysiological roles in a wide variety of disease states.

This volume provides comprehensive protocols on experimental and computational methods that are used to study probe protein folding reactions and mechanisms.

Nature learned long ago how useful proteins are as a diverse set of building blocks to make materials with very diverse properties.

This book seeks to build bridges between neuroscience and social science empirical researchers and theorists working around the world, integrating perspectives from both fields, separating real from spurious divides between them and delineating new challenges for future investigation.

The Oosterschelde estuary is one of the estuaries in the Netherlands which remained after the Delta scheme was completed in 1986.

Rapidly increasing interest in the problems of air pollution and source-receptor relationships has led to a significant expansion of knowledge in the field of atmospheric chemistry.

Cybernetics, a science concerned with understanding how systems are regulated, has reflected the preoccupations of the century in which it was born.

Das Thema der gentechnisch veränderten Lebensmittel wird vor allem in Europa zur Zeit intensiv diskutiert.

Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins.

Für die Biologie ist die Mehrschichtigkeit ihrer Probleme be­ zeichnend.

In a world where natural selection has shaped adaptations of astonishing ingenuity, what is the scope and unique power of rational thinking?

Clinical Neurophysiology: Basis and Technical Aspects, the latest release in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology series, is organized into sections on basic physiological concepts, on the function and limitations of modern instrumentation, and on other fundamental or methodologic aspects related to the recording of various bioelectric signals from the nervous system for clinical or investigative purposes.

This book provides an overview of the induction mechanism of imposex caused by organotin compounds in gastropods, as well as fundamental information on the physiology and biochemistry of reproduction in mollusks.

This book takes a new approach to the debate on causal pluralism in the philosophy of biology by asking how useful pluralism is instead of debating its truth.

It had been difficult to find appropriate teaching material for students and newcomers to this field of brain electromagnetic topography.

This issue of Progress in Brain Research is split over 2 volumes, bringing together cutting-edge research on functional neural transplantation.

This second edition of Protein Purification provides a guide to the major chromatographic techniques, including non-affinity absorption techniques, affinity procedures, non-absorption techniques and methods for monitoring protein purity.

This book offers the first, comprehensive guide to planning and conducting intracranial EEG studies, and analyzing intracranial EEG data.

This pioneering book focuses on Neotropical endophytic fungi, providing a comprehensive overview of their diversity, ecology, and biotechnological applications in medicine, agriculture, and industry.