Revolutionary hydroponic/soilless advances are being achieved by efficiently improving results with the application of new concepts, methods, and equipment.
This book presents a compelling exploration of the five fundamental elements-soil, air, heat, water, and space-that constitute all animate and inanimate entities on Earth.
Ancestry determination in the identification of unknown remains can be a challenge for forensic scientists and anthropologists, especially when the remains available for testing are limited.
Completely revised and updated, Nutrition Support for the Critically Ill Patient: A Guide to Practice, Second Edition presents an unbiased, evidence-based examination of critical nutrition across the life cycle.
In today's world, food scarcity and food security are significant global concerns, with 811 million people suffering from hunger and 3 billion individuals unable to afford healthy diets.
With the continued implementation of new equipment and new concepts and methods, such as hydroponics and soilless practices, crop growth has improved and become more efficient.
When all you need is a basic understanding of the human nervous system, look to Cram Session in Functional Neuroanatomy: A Handbook for Students & Clinicians.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a complicated science that combines philosophy, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, mathematics and logic (logicism), economics, computer science, computability, and software.
The impact of invasive species is second only to that of human population growth and associated activities as a cause of the loss of biodiversity throughout the world.
The preparation of sterile products using aseptic processing is considered perhaps the most critical process in the pharmaceutical industry and has witnessed continual improvement over the last half century.
Nature, with its unassuming yet prodigious character, unfolds its assembly and adaptability guided by the principles of thermodynamics and supramolecular chemistry.
We cannot control how every chef, packer, and food handler might safeguard or compromise the purity of our food, but thanks to the tools developed through physics and nanotech and the scientific rigor of modern chemistry, food industry and government safety regulators should never need to plead ignorance when it comes to safety assurance.
Better Understand the Relationship between Powertrain System Design and Its Control IntegrationWhile powertrain system design and its control integration are traditionally divided into two different functional groups, a growing trend introduces the integration of more electronics (sensors, actuators, and controls) into the powertrain system.
PCR's simplicity as a molecular technique is, in some ways, responsible for the huge amount of innovation that surrounds it, as researchers continually think of new ways to tweak, adapt, and re-formulate concepts and applications.
The use of the chemical modification of proteins has evolved over the past 80 years, benefiting from advances in analytical, physical, and organic chemistry.
With the rapid development of robotics and communication technologies, maritime unmanned systems (MUSs) have emerged as a critical research domain due to their unprecedented capabilities in oceanographic data collection, environmental monitoring, and marine ecosystem studies.
With the rapid development of robotics and communication technologies, maritime unmanned systems (MUSs) have emerged as a critical research domain due to their unprecedented capabilities in oceanographic data collection, environmental monitoring, and marine ecosystem studies.
Silicon as a Sustainable Solution for Mitigating Abiotic and Biotic Stress in Plants, Volume 118 in the Advances in Botanical Research series, presents interesting chapters on a variety of topics, including Silicon in Soil and Plant, Silicon Transporters in Agronomic Crops, The Role of Silicon in Sustainable Disease Management of Monocot Plants, Silicon in the Management of Diseases in Dicot Crops, Silicon and Biocontrol Agents for Plant Growth and Control of Diseases in Rice, Silicon for the Control of Insect Herbivores in Agronomic Crops, Silicon-Driven Phenotypic Induction Enhances Physiological Tolerance to Water Deficit and Waterlogging in Agronomic Crops, and much more.
Step-by-step Approach in the Radiological Evaluation of Arthritis is a concise, practical reference source for the evaluation and interpretation of arthritis images.
In today's world, food scarcity and food security are significant global concerns, with 811 million people suffering from hunger and 3 billion individuals unable to afford healthy diets.
This new book, Plant Diseases and Their Management: A Sustainable Approach, studies the most modern methods in control and management of plant diseases.
Neurological Assessment Made Easy: A Step-by-Step Guide for Physiotherapists delves into the intricacies of neurological assessment, covering a wide range of topics such as sensory and motor function, reflexes, coordination, balance, and cognition.
The field of forensic DNA analysis has grown immensely in the past two decades and genotyping of biological samples is now routinely performed in human identification (HID) laboratories.
Cholinergic Drugs for Alzheimer's Disease: From Central Cholinergic Neurotransmission to Drug Therapies and Natural Products with Multitarget Actions addresses the urgent need for advanced resources in neuropharmacology.
Bayesian Analysis of Capture-Recapture Data with Hidden Markov Models: Theory and Case Studies in R and NIMBLE introduces ecologists and statisticians to a powerful and unifying framework for analyzing capture-recapture data.
Human Placental Trophoblasts: Impact of Maternal Nutrition explores the vital roles of trophoblasts play in fetal growth and pregnancy, giving you new insight into the modulation of placental trophoblast functions by nutrients.
How a fascination with animal consciousness, perception, and intelligence shaped American fiction in the twentieth centuryAnimal Minds, Other Minds upends a common assumption: that the minds encountered in fiction are always in some sense fundamentally human.
Rodent Models of Neurodegenerative Disease explores neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia, Lewy body disease, and prion disease which represent some of the most complex and devastating challenges in neuroscience.
The first 90 years of vitamin E research has produced prolific and notable discoveries, but until the last few decades, attention has been given mostly to the biological activities and underlying mechanisms of alpha-tocopherol, which we now know is one of more than eight vitamin E isomers.