Biology, life sciences

Plants in tropical regions are coping with enormous challenges of physiological stresses owing to changing environmental and climatic conditions.

To produce energy, aerobic organisms transform oxygen molecules into water.

Now more than ever, there is a growing importance for companies to ramp up their focus on social responsibility.

Despite its many origins in agronomic problems, statistics today is often unrecognizable in this context.

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.

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Now more than ever, there is a growing importance for companies to ramp up their focus on social responsibility.

The Handbook of Sex Differences is a four-volume reference work written to assess sex differences, with a primary focus on the human species.

The ability to provide quality juices that contain proper vitamins and nutritional components strongly depends on the processes fruits undergo during the various stages of industrial manufacturing.

Structured into four main parts, this book navigates the intersection between food and functionality of plant-based products and provides insight into the nutritional composition of some key elements of plant-based diets.

The modern synthetic diet, formulated to appeal to our inherent attraction to sugar, salt, fats, and calories at the expense of nutrition, leaves us over-fed and under-nourished.

In today's data-driven world, biology and medicine are being transformed by the power of big data.

Biotechnology, particularly eco-friendly enzyme technologies, has immense potential for the augmentation of diverse food products utilizing vast biodiversity, resolving environmental problems owing to waste disposal from food and beverage industries.

Plants are continuously exposed to different environmental stresses that negatively impact their physiology and morphology, resulting in production reduction.

Biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate due to anthropogenic activities around the world.

Written as a stand-alone textbook for students and a useful reference for professionals in government and private agencies, academic institutions, and consultants, Ecology and Conservation of Fishes provides broad, comprehensive, and systematic coverage of all aquatic systems from the mountains to the oceans.

Many advances have been made in the last decade in the understanding of the computational principles underlying olfactory system functioning.

Timely and updated to reflect the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process, Fourth Edition (OTPF-4), Cases and Concepts in Occupational Adaptation: Translating Theory into Action contains all the pertinent information regarding occupational adaptation theory combined into one easy-to-digest textbook.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a complicated science that combines philosophy, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, mathematics and logic (logicism), economics, computer science, computability, and software.

Timely and updated to reflect the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process, Fourth Edition (OTPF-4), Cases and Concepts in Occupational Adaptation: Translating Theory into Action contains all the pertinent information regarding occupational adaptation theory combined into one easy-to-digest textbook.

Easily Get Started with Biological ExperimentsIntroduction to Experimental Biophysics - A Laboratory Guide presents wet lab methods for courses in biophysics or molecular biology.

Biological and chemical warfare agents, including viruses, bacteria, and explosive and radioactive compounds, can induce illness or death in humans, animals, and plants.

This is an up-to-date and comprehensive handbook that presents a wealth of information on the different aspects of one of the largest dipterous family, Culicidae (Mosquitoes).

In missing and unidentified investigations, an abyss of dissonance seems to exist between law enforcement and the community they serve that all too often creates grating wounds that may never heal.

Despite the potential synergy that can result from basing management applications on results from research, there is a polarization of cultures between wildlife managers and wildlife researchers.

This book provides a systematic presentation of some of the most relevant contemporary major theories of human cognition.

The story of our evolutionary past is told in our genome sequence.

Written by experienced contributors from the renowned Mayo Clinic, the Atlas of Sleep and Sleep Medicine covers the history, humanities, and comparative biological aspects of sleep.

While artificial reefs may have much to offer, they remain an anecdote in the greater scheme of fisheries management, primarily due to the lack of data specific to validating their use.

The use of dietary vegetables and medicinal herbs to improve health is a phenomenon that is taking society by storm.

The Handbook of Laboratory Animal Bacteriology, Second Edition provides comprehensive information on all bacterial phylae found in laboratory rodents and rabbits to assist managers, veterinary pathologists and laboratory animal veterinarians in the management of these organisms.

"e;In the hidden realm beneath our feet, a complex network of interactions unfolds between plant roots and the surrounding soil"e;.

A step-by-step guide to commonly used procedures, Methods in Cellular Immunology addresses both human and murine models, in addition to such topics as PCR and apoptosis.

This book comprehensively reviews the intricate relationship between environmental toxicants and the gut microbiome.

This reference assists scientists in the selection and application of analytical techniques for biopharmaceutical identification, formulation, and assessment-providing a valuable survey of exploratory methods commonly utilized during the preclinical, clinical, and commercial phases of development.

Written by a group of experts affiliated with the prestigious Dictionary of Natural Products, this book provides a concise overview of the key structural types of natural products and their interrelationship.

It was not until recent years that the study of polyamines, their mechanisms of synthesis, and the roles they play in metabolism have flourished, becoming a fertile field of intense research.

Biomaterials have become an integral part of medicine today, helping in healing and restoring functionality in people with injury or disease, especially for bone implants and drug delivery systems.

Personalized Medicine: Promises and Pitfalls broadly explores the tailoring of medical treatment to a patient's characteristics, needs, and preferences during all stages of care, including prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up.

In order to understand drug metabolism at its most fundamental level, pharmaceutical scientists must be able to analyze drug compound structures and predict possible metabolic pathways in order to avoid the risk of adverse reactions that lead to the withdrawal of a drug from the market.

Gain a clear understanding of what effective teachers doand how successful students learnOver the past 20 years, a greater concentration on research aimed at both teaching and learning has revealed that chalk and talk teaching, copying notes, and cookbook practical lessons offer little challenge to students.

Over the last decade, enormous progress in the understanding of T-cell homing has made it possible to identify the multitude of molecules involved, such as cytokines, chemokines, and adhesion molecules, and to unravel their complex interactions resulting in controlled, non-random T-cell recirculation.

Fifteen years have passed since the last major treatise on starch was published.

The development of biofilms and their role in public health - particularly drinking water - is often overlooked.

Discussing the latest processes involved in researching yield generation, Wheat: Ecology and Physiology of Yield Determination will help you design various types of crop production systems for maximum yield.

The value of the canine nose is well-documented, and working dogs are being utilized for their olfactory skills in an increasing number of fields.

This comprehensive reference book covers non-shivering thermogenesis, metabolic rates, and associated diseases.

In forensics, there is often a difficulty conveying critical scientific terms to investigators, attorneys, juries, and even court reporters.

Explores the Newly Discovered Link Between Nutrition and EpigeneticsCurrent research suggests that nutrients are more than just food components and that certain nutrients can impact the expression of genes that lead to the development of chronic diseases.

Tissue stem cells and their medical applications have become a major focus of research over the past decade.