Biology, life sciences

Membrane bioenergetics is one of the most rapidly growing areas within physico-chemical biology.

The development of the breast-shoulder apparatus in the Marsupialia was inves- tigated and compared with the conditions in Monotremata and Placentalia.

Im September 1987 fand zum sechsten Mal das Aachener Symposium für Signaltheorie statt.

In the past decade a most interesting story of the role played by the small nuclear RNPs, catalysts in RNA processing, has unfolded.

The idea of Professors Bolis and Gilles to gather together for a 3 days' meeting in the splendid environment of Crans-Montana in Switzerland a limited number of people around the subject of calcium and calcium bind- ing proteins seemed at first particularly attractive, and when they asked me to take charge of the scientific organization of the symposium, I accepted with enthusiasm.

This monograph has been written in the hope that it will prove of value to medical students and clinicians, to Honours undergradu- ates in appropriate branches of the natural sciences, and to repro- ductive biologists in general.

Competitive binding techniques such as radioimmunoassay (RIA) are widely used to measure an enormous variety of compounds in biological fluids.

Dieses Buch gibt dem Labor- und Verwaltungsleiter im Bereich der Labororganisation für die Personalbedarfsberechnung, die Kostenstellenrechnung und Kosten-Nutzen-Beurteilung und die Führung einer Laborstatistik wertvolle Hilfestellung und Anregung.

At least since the 1940s neo-Darwinism has prevailed as the consensus view in the study of evolution.

th th On June 17 and 18 1987 the fourth workshop on "e;Azospi- rillum: Genetics, Physiology, Ecology"e; took place at the Uni ver- sity of Bayreuth, West Germany, organized by the Genetics depart- ment.

Why a Book on Paramecium?

At last geochemists are offered one comprehensive reference book which gives the Eh-pH diagrams for 75 elements found in the earth's surface environment, including transuranic and other radioactive species.

Low temperature represents, together with drought and salt stress, one of the most important environmental constraints limiting the pro- ductivity and the distribution of plants on the Earth.

I have for a number of years taught a course in population genetics for students interested in plant and animal breeding.

M.

This is a collection of papers presented and discussed at the first EBSA workshop held at Saltsj6baden outside stockholm in Sweden, July 6-10, 1986.

The recent symposium and the appearance of this new book on Drugs Affecting Lipid Metabolism take place at a very unusual time for the development of this area.

M.

This volume comprises the lectures of the speakers at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop held at the Congress Centre The Flevohof at Biddinghuizen, The Netherlands, May 11-16, 1986.

The identification of inputs and outputs is the first and probably most important step in testing and analyzing complex systems.

Forest inventory may be defined as the technique of collecting, evaluating and presenting specified information on forest areas.

The impacts of specifically experienced external and internal environments upon phylogenetically established pathways of ontogenetic development seem to be responsible for the intra-species variation of organisms.

Recently another book on insect physiology was published.

This volume is the third of a series on Membrane Proteins and, like the pre- ceding manuals, is the result of an International Advanced Course entitled Isolation and Characterization of Membrane Proteins: Biochemical and Bio- physical Aspects sponsored by the Federation of European Biochemical So- cieties (FEBS) and the Italian Research Council (CNR).

The ability to use tools skillfully is generally regarded as one of the major achievements in the evolutionary development of the human nervous system.

Much of the recent spectacular progress in the biological sciences can be at- tributed ot the ability to isolate, analyze, and structurally characterize proteins and peptides which are present in cells and cellular organelles in only very small amounts.

In neurophysiology, the emphasis has been on single-unit studies for a quarter century, since the sensory work by Lettwin and coworkers and by Hubel and Wiesel, the cen- tral work by Mountcastle, the motor work by the late Evarts, and so on.

This book is a result of a Symposium* organized by the Editors in October 1984 at San Diego.

At the beginning of the century, Karl von Frisch inaugurated the experimental analysis of bee behavior with his studies on form and color vision.

This book the second volume in the "e;Springer Series in Biophysics"e; col- lects together contributions to the conference on "e;Biophysics and Syn- chrotron Radiation"e; held in July 86 at Frascati.

The present book has two origins, one very remote, the other nearer and more contingent.

"e;Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnisning mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light"e;.

Readers of my books, students and scientists, often ask for spe- cial references not commonly found in introductory or interme- diate books on statistics.

This comprehensive volume is a contribution to a new se ries initiated by the NATO Panel on "e;Gell to Gell Signals in Plants and Animals"e;.

During the past few decades we have witnessed an era of remarkable growth in the field of molecular biology.

As a result of the green revolution, the use of yield-increasing inputs such as fer- tilizer and pesticides became a matter of course in irrigated rice farming in Southeast Asia.