Biology, life sciences

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This booklet, together with the following two,-which are well under way and will succeed it at intervals of, we hope, no more than six months, sets the stage for a new editorial enterprise in the field of brain science.

With the increasing numbers of research workers and groups of investigators devoting themselves to the ecology of carabids I felt that the time had come to take stock of the existing knowledge in this field and to endeavour to weld my personal results and those of other workers into a comprehensive picture.

Transition metal ions in biological systems are of interest in biology, biochemistry, chemistry, medicine, and physics.

The development of an area of scientific research is a dynamic process with its own kinetic equations and its own physical mech- anism.

Writers on arthropod water relationships range from bio- physicists and biochemists to population ecologists-a fact that gives cause to wonder whether the field is already too heterogeneous to be written about in a single book by a single author.

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The cells of the immune system generate a large variety of binding sites which differ in their binding specificities and can therefore react specifically with a large variety of ligands.

Since the first observations of Busch in 1866, the possible use of heat as a therapeutic agent in the cure of cancer has been repeatedly subject to bursts of interest, almost invariably followed by periods of neglect and skepticism.

The invitation to contribute a volume to the series Studies in Brain Func- tion offers me a welcome opportunity for a comprehensive presentation of my research on the eye movements of the rabbit, and for a review of the older results in the perspectives offered by the progress of my own work, but even more of the field in general.

This book has been written mostly within sight of wild African ungulates, at the research center in Tsavo East National Park, V oi, Kenya.

view than its own proper males should fecundate each blossom.

Predation is an ecological factor of almost universal importance for the biol- ogist who aims at an understanding of the habits and structures of animals.

Enzyme kinetics has undergone very rapid growth and development during the past fifteen years and has been well received by the biochemical community.

The aim of the monographs is to foster effective intra- and interdisciplinary communication between geneticists, and plant and animal breeders.

In the few years since the first edition of this book made its appearance, under- takings in the area of protein sequence determination have increased at an almost logarithmic pace.

The term Fennoscandia is used to denote Finland and the Scandinavian peninsula, which comprises Norway and Sweden and sometimes also neigh- bouring districts of the USSR.

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Our knowledge of the biochemistry and biophysics of dinitrogen fixa- tion has developed rapidly in the 15 years since the first N2-fixing enzyme system was successfully extracted from a bacterium.

The contents of this volume involve selection, emendation and up-dating of papers presented at the NATO Conference "e;Mathe- matical Analysis of Decision problems in Ecology"e; in Istanbul, Turkey, July 9-13, 1973.

When I was asked by the Cancer Teaching Committee of the University of Chicago to set up a Symposium on Brain Tumors, I welcomed the opportunity to do so.

The period since World War II, and especially the last decade influenced by the International Biological Program, has seen enormous growth in research on the function of ecosystems.

Mention the words 'arthropod cuticle' to most biologists and they usually provoke a glazed expression.

This book deals primarily with the principal extracellular macromole- cules of animal connective tissues.

The purpose of this monograph is to describe theoretical aspects of the interpretation of data obtained from experiments performed with labeled hormones.

This volume is the record and product of the Summer School on the Physics and Mathematics of the Nervous System, held at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste from August 21-31, 1973, and jointly organized by the Institute for Information Sciences, University of Tlibingen and by the Centre.

During the last decade physical and chemical methods have improved rapidly - a fact which allowed the mode of action of antibiotics to be studied - and many biochemically-oriented scientists have devoted their research to the following questions: 1.

In the continuing quest to explore structure and to relate struc- tural organization to functional significance, the scientist has developed a vast array of microscopes.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book presents a distillation of many years of investigation by the author and his associates on the problem of sensory reception.

The First International Symposium on the Metabolic Interconversion of Enzymes was held in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, in May, 1970, under the direction of Professor G.

In recent years, molecular biology has infiltrated into all branches of botany.

As the title indicates, the theme of this book is the functions of biochromes in animals.

This book is based on practical experience and is therefore written as a prac- tical manual.

This book was written at the invitation of Dr.

Soon after the discovery of insulin in 1922, it became clear that the use of this hormone in the treatment of diabetics is often accom- panied by allergy.

Für die Biologie ist die Mehrschichtigkeit ihrer Probleme be­ zeichnend.

Text und Bilder der folgenden Seiten sollen einen kleinen Einblick in die vielseitigen Lebensvorgänge der Pflanzen im tropischen Regenwald vermitteln.