Biology, life sciences

For old and new studies in decision making and risk analysis, this book should stand at tlle watershed.

The "e;functional"e; in the title of this book not only reflects my personal bias about neuroanatomy in brain research, it is also the gist of many chapters which describe sophisticated ways to resolve structures and interpret them as dynamic entities.

Chance Favors Only the Prepared Mind How does a scientist go about the task of pushing back the curtains of the unknown?

Substantial relief of discomfort may be anticipated by most patients suffering from pelvic and lower-extremity pain who are treated by arterial infusion of nitrogen mustard.

Mutation breeding has been introduced into modern plant breeding in the early 1940's.

When trying to solicit authors for this book it became apparent that the causal factors for heterosis at the physiological and biochemical level are today almost as obscure as they were 30 years ago.

The intention of this book is to offer a comprehensive description and discussion of autonomic nerve function in the vertebrates from several points of view.

The first summer study at IIASA brought together a cross-section of individ- uals from different disciplines and nationalities.

You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step in it.

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 techniques of plant organ, tissue, and cell culture concentrated on reproducibility, simplicity and accu- are now established in many research laboratories racy with sufficient illustration to make all mani- throughout the world and are being used in numerous pulations clear.

Enzymes perform the executive role in growth, energy conversion, and repair of a living organism.

Neurophysiologists are often accused by colleagues in the physical sci- ences of designing experiments without any underlying hypothesis.

Band 8 ist den Neuentwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der Herbizide gewidmet.

Eukaryotic cells contain a plurality of organelles distinguished by their specific membranes and contents.

Dieser Band zeigt die sensationell anmutenden Fortschritte der Pyrethrum­ Chemie, die für Forschung, Industrie und Anwender neue Aspekte eröffnet.

The last 10 years have seen an enormous growth in our understanding of the molecular organisation of biological membranes.

This is a timely opus.

In late 1971 we were involved in a study of the interaction of radiation with matter and were trying to use measurements of radiation fluorescence in biological molecules to indicate how radiation affected living cells.

Studies of chemical recognition in biology were initiated about half a century ago with the flrst kinetic data obtained on enzyme catalysis and inhibition.

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Since the Russian edition of this book was published in 1975 many new research works have appeared which have made necessary some additions for the English edition, to reflect progress in molecular developmental genetics.

The cytochemical bioassay system was described in a short abstract in 1971, and more fully, in the cytochemical bioassay of corticotrophin, in 1972.

The building of conceptual models is an inherent part of our interaction with the world, and the foundation of scientific investigation.

The brain functions like a computer composed of subsystems which in- teract in a hierarchical manner.

Fish are extremely successful vertebrates.

This book deals with energetics of transport processes, largely expressed in terms of the thermodynamics of irreversible pro- cesses.

Verhandlungsberichte wissenschaftlicher Symposien sind nicht in al­ len Fällen eine Publikation wert.

The aim of this monograph is to summarize the essential features which characterize the behavior of regulatory systems.

The topic of this years' ~osbach Colloquium was DNA integration.

The original intent of the series Studies of Brain Function was to offer a forum to neurobiologists working in different fields to present some of their recent results in a more extensive way.