Se ofrece al estudiante conceptos teoricos y practicos aplicados directamente a la practica optometrica, a la morfologia y a la identificacion de los microorganismos, asi como de las manifestaciones clinicas sistemicas y oculares.
Conocer los efectos del calentamiento global sobre los diferentes tipos de organismos es útil para desarrollar relaciones causa-efecto y para identificar y predecir la gama óptima de hábitats y umbrales de estrés para diferentes tipos organismos que habitan distintos ecosistemas.
Cambio Climático en Chile: Ciencia, Mitigación y Adaptación es el resultado de un curso multidisciplinario sobre cambio climático dictado en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile a lo largo de diez años con la colaboración de veinticuatro investigadores de múltiples disciplinas –ingeniería, agronomía, economía, climatología, biología, geografía, oceanografía, estadística y ciencia política– que aborda diferentes aspectos y temáticas del cambio climático y el ambiente.
This book primarily summarizes the imaging characteristics and theory of parasitic disease, offering a clinical guide and practical approach to understanding, preventing and diagnosing parasitic disease.
This book provides up-to-date information on the characteristics of each species of intestinal fluke found in humans and on the management of infections caused by these trematodes.
This volume is based on a multidisciplinary approach towards biological and chemical threats that can, and have been previously used in bioterrorism attacks around the globe.
This compendium reviews different processes acting on bacterial groups that evolved one or more relationships with members of the most important invertebrate Phyla.
Pseudomonas volume 7 collects some of the most relevant and emerging issues in the biology of these microorganisms, and a number of otherimportant issues that were not collected in the previous volumes.
The book will cover the most important zoonoses with a public health impact and debate actual developments in this field from a One Health perspective.
Synthetic Biology (SB) is a revolutionary discipline with a vast range of practical applications, but is SB research really based on engineering principles?
This volume covers both the basic concepts and theory of bio-macromolecules under pressure and the various frontiers in high-pressure bioscience and biotechnology.
Harnessing the sun's energy via photosynthesis is at the core of sustainable production of food, fuel, and materials by plants, algae, and cyanobacteria.
This condensed volume summarizes updated knowledge on the warm-monomictic subtropical Lake Kinneret, including its geophysical setting, the dynamics of physical, chemical and biological processes and the major natural and anthropogenic factors that affect this unique aquatic ecosystem.
These chapters provide up-to-date information on nematophagous fungi, particularly those of the Orbiliaceae in Ascomycota, whose asexual states produce nematode-trapping devices.
This book presents research into chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) defense and environmental security, exploring practical implications of the research.
The Twelfth International Diatom Symposium stressed how diatoms can be used to assess the human impact on natural waters, without neglecting other important fields of research.
The book is a new compendium in which leading termite scientists review the advances of the last 30 years in our understanding of phylogeny, fossil records, relationships with cockroaches, social evolution, nesting, behaviour, mutualisms with archaea, protists, bacteria and fungi, nutrition, energy metabolism,population and community ecology, soil conditioning, greenhouse gas production and pest status.
The importance of mycorrhiza for the improvement of plant growth is increasingly being realised in Agriculture and Forestry and several mycorrhizal fungi have been commercially recognised for the purpose.
Reviews: Methods and Technology in Fish Biology and Fisheries published by Kluwer Academic Publishers is a book series dedicated to the publication of information on advanced, forward-looking methodologies, technologies, or perspectives in fish and fisheries.
Light-Harvesting Antennas in Photosynthesis is concerned with the most important process on earth - the harvesting of light energy by photosynthetic organisms.
Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus is characterized by the destruction of the host immune system as also reflected by a progressive loss of CD4-positive T-cells.
Biological aging as the time-depending general decline of biological systems associated with a progressively increasing mortality risk is a general phenomenom of great significance.