Biology, life sciences

This book comprehensively covers critically investigated information on medicinal plants prioritized for their anti-allergy properties.

Grassland covers 26% of the world's total land area.

This book describes transcription factors in the context of hematopoietic development and reveal mechanistic insights how they orchestrate specific gene expression patterns.

Imagine algebra class meets The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Aims and Scope This book is both an introductory textbook and a research monograph on modeling the statistical structure of natural images.

Robots have evolved impressively since the 3-D manipulator built by C.

Stabilization, Optimal and Robust Control develops robust control of infinite-dimensional dynamical systems derived from time-dependent coupled PDEs associated with boundary-value problems.

Overview and Goals This book describes how to visualize and compare bacterial genomes.

Overview The objective of this book is to provide an introduction into some of the key topics in the history of computing.

Numbers have fascinated people for centuries.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

Semi-active Suspension Control provides an overview of vehicle ride control employing smart semi-active damping systems.

Integrates different approaches from bioinformatics, biochemistry, computational analysis and systems biology to offer the reader a global view of the diverse data on protein-protein interactions and protein interaction networksProtein-protein interactions and networks: identification, analysis and prediction brings together the descriptions of experimental techniques and expounds on different computational algorithms for protein network analysis and prediction of protein and domain interactions Each chapter contains a description of the problem, a review of methods and algorithms, a list of online resources, conclusions and future directionsOffering broad coverage on the topic, this book will be of interest to researchers from academia and the bioinformatics industry; will also be of use to graduate students studying the topic

Biomolecular sequence comparison is the origin of bioinformatics.

Presented in an interesting, historical and philosophical way, this book describes the current state of play in brain imaging, showing the differences among the different imaging modalities, and reviewing the knowledge about the chemical reactions in the brain, and their relationship to thinking, feeling and acting.

This edited book is a comprehensive collection of information on microplastics and their existence within the environment.

This book provides comprehensive information on tropane alkaloids, from their discovery to their pharmacological applications and biotechnological production.

Research in environmental education (EE) is a growing field of inquiry and should be seen as respondent to a variety of program developments around the world.

Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, Second Edition, focuses on a variety of key areas surrounding inland waters, from the distribution of water on Earth to the properties of water, including the hydrologic cycle, the physics of water movement in lakes and rivers; it includes topics such as waterborne diseases, the metabolism of aquatic ecosystems, pollution conservation, biodiversity, pollution and cycling of chemicals.

Recent advances in genetics and brain biochemistry point to the Abeta peptide as the major culprit in causing neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

A few years ago, in the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, I came across a remarkable but then little-known album of pencil and watercolour portraits.

After over a century of research, we still do not understand the principle by which a stimulus, such as an odour or a sound, is represented by distributed neural ensembles within the brain; by which an individual is developed by the control of gene networks.

JavaScript is widely used for simple online applications.

People naturally identify the rhythm of music as they tap their feet and sway in time with the beat.

This book is an introduction to game theory from a mathematical perspective.

This monograph studies the design of robust, monotonically-convergent it- ative learning controllers for discrete-time systems.

This book is about the ontology of anatomy.

The 15th International Workshop on Conceptual Structures ICCS 2007 brings together numerous discussions between international groups of researchers from the field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT).

Probabilistic Modelling in Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics has been written for researchers and students in statistics, machine learning, and the biological sciences.

Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale focuses on perceptions ofconsonance and dissonance, and how these are dependent on timbre.

Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of sensors in the non-visible bands.

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This book provides background knowledge on sustainable bioeconomy development in the Global South and documents its status.

This book provides new insight and a better understanding of nanotechnology in mitigating crop biotic stresses.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the transformative field of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and neurotechnology.

This book focuses on the fundamental principles and applications of several modern biochemical and biophysical techniques employed in molecular and cellular biology.

Every cell, tissue, organ and organism is competent to use signs to exchange information reaching common coordinations and organisations of both single cell and group behavior.

The book "e;Biochemical Mechanisms for Metabolic Syndrome"e; delves into the intricate biochemistry underlying the complex condition known as Metabolic Syndrome.

The book "e;Biochemical Mechanisms for Metabolic Syndrome"e; delves into the intricate biochemistry underlying the complex condition known as Metabolic Syndrome.

This book addresses the ongoing need to explore the implications of the ‘Anthropocene’ rupture for the field of International Relations (IR).

The book provides a self-contained and complete description of the long time evolution of the solutions to a class of one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations, in which the diffusion is given by an integral operator.

This is a book about biolubricants.

Individual-based models (IBM) describe a population as a collection of different organisms whose local interactions determine the behaviour of the entire population.

Marine biorefineries of macroalgal (seaweed) feedstock are sustainable sources of food, materials, and energy, and can alleviate the growing pressure on land and freshwater resources.

This book compiles the latest advancements in vegetable crop growth, development, and quality improvement with potential implications for sustainable crop production.

The emerging field of lipidomics has been made possible because of advances in mass spectrometry, and in particular tandem mass spectrometry of lipid ions generated by electrospray ionization.

Modern biology is moving away from reductionist approaches towards holistic studies that encompass whole genomes, transcriptomes, proteomes, and metabolomes.