Biology, life sciences

Babies are not simply born they are made through cultural and social practices.

This book develops and applies an integrated socio-economic assessment of multi-use offshore platforms in European marine locations.

Comprising some 28,000 different species, orchids are by far the largest flowering plant family on Earth.

Macrophomina Phaseolina: Ecobiology, Pathology and Management provides insights into the sustainable prevention and treatment of this wide-spread challenge to plant health.

This volume highlights the latest developments and trends in advanced polyblends and their structures.

This volume details methods of identifying synthetic lethal, genetic interactions by various approaches in different model systems including human cancer cells.

Measuring the abundance of individuals and the diversity of species are core components of most ecological research projects and conservation monitoring.

This edited volume summarizes the recent advancements made in plant science including molecular biology and genome editing , particularly in the development of novel pathways tolerant to climate change-induced stresses such as drought, extreme temperatures, cold, salinity, flooding, etc.

This book presents a complete overview of the main EEG-based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) paradigms and the related practical solutions for their design, prototyping, and testing.

Providing a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge research on Omics applications in plant sciences field,"e;Plant Stress Tolerance"e; focuses on different approaches towards plant stress tolerance including both biotic stresses and abiotic stresses.

Published since 1953, Advances in Virus Research covers a diverse range of in-depth reviews providing a valuable overview of the current field of virology.

A practice-oriented guide to assaying more than 100 of the most important enzymes, complete with the theoretical background and specific protocols for immediate use in the biochemical laboratory.

Microarrays play an increasingly significant role in drug discovery.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

The phenomenon of consciousness has long been one of the great mysteries of life, perhaps because it is inexplicable in terms of the deterministic theories of classical science.

Causal Inference in Pharmaceutical Statistics introduces the basic concepts and fundamental methods of causal inference relevant to pharmaceutical statistics.

International Review of Cytology presents current advances and comprehensive reviews in cell biology--both plant and animal.

This book describes current understandings and recent progress into a varied group of natural products.

Since the publication of the bestselling first edition of CRC Desk Reference of Clinical Pharmacology, dramatic discoveries in molecular medicine along with rapid technological advances have revolutionized the diagnosis and resulted in new medications to be used in the treatment of a broad range of human diseases.

RSPB Spotlight: Hedgehogs is packed with eye-catching, informative colour photos, and features succinct and detailed text written by a knowledgeable naturalist.

New materials hold the key to fundamental advances in energy conversion and storage, both of which are vital in order to meet the challenge of global warming and the finite nature of fossil fuels.

The first book devoted exclusively to quantitative graph theory, Quantitative Graph Theory: Mathematical Foundations and Applications presents and demonstrates existing and novel methods for analyzing graphs quantitatively.

Wastewater Treatment: Cutting-Edge Molecular Tools, Techniques and Applied Aspects reports new findings in existing molecular biology strategies, including their limitations, challenges and potential application to remove environmental pollutants through advancements made in cutting edge tools.

This book addresses pertinent issues relating to microplastic pollution including its sources and sink of the microplastics and their environmental fate.

'The most important work on the birds of Scotland ever published' - British BirdsThis comprehensive study and review of the birds in Scotland follows on from where the celebrated two volumes of The Birds of Scotland (1953), by Dr Baxter and Miss Rintoul, left off.

Preeminent Experts Update a Well-Respected BookTaking into account the regulatory and scientific developments that have occurred since the second edition, Design and Analysis of Bioavailability and Bioequivalence Studies, Third Edition provides a complete presentation of the latest progress of activities and results in bioavailability and bioequiva

Tissue engineering aims to develop biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve damaged tissue and organ functionality.

Global food security is a challenging issue.

Paxinos and Ashwell's Atlas of the Developing Rat Nervous System, Fourth Edition, builds on the many excellent features of previous editions that have made this book the most cited atlas of the developing rat brain.

Bring your learning to life through the mindful art of colouring.

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

Essential Medical Physiology, Third Edition, deals with the principal subjects covered in a modern medical school physiology course.

This book is the first to explore in detail the systematics and taxonomy of the digenean fauna of fish in Indian marine waters.

This book collates, reviews and synthesizes information on how soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks differ among major terrestrial biomes of the U.

Gregarines, Haemogregarines, Coccidia, Plasmodia, and Haemoproteids

Microbial biosurfactant compounds are a group of structurally diverse molecules produced by microorganisms, and are mainly categorized according to their chemical structure.

This reference is a volume in the Handbook of Physiology, co-published with The American Physiological Society.

A comprehensive, authoritative look at an emergent area in post-genomic science, Evolutionary genomics is an up-and-coming, complex field that attempts to explain the biocomplexity of the living world.

Advances in Cancer Research provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research.

Plant Macronutrient Use Efficiency presents an up-to-date overview of the latest research on the molecular and genetic basis of macro-nutrient use efficiency (NUE) in plants, and strategies that can be used to improve NUE and nutrient-associated stress tolerance in crop plants.

A new social history of botany in Britain and France, 1760–1815, demonstrating the significance of commerce, horticulture and amateur scholarship.

This work evolved over thirty combined years of teaching general chemistry to a variety of student demographics.

Bioactive ingredients, including both bioactive compounds and bioactive live organisms, are present in small amounts in natural sources such as fruits and vegetables.

This second edition details new and updated methods used for studying prokaryotic non-coding RNAs and their protein accomplices.

In this volume the author by no means attempted to give a comprehensive view of the myriad of recent developments in immunology.

Steroid Biochemistry, Volume 688 in the Methods of Enzymology series, highlights new advances in the field, containing chapters on a variety of timely topics, including Cytochrome P450 Enzyme, Steroidogenic P450s (CYP11A1, 17A1, 21A2, 11B1, and 11B5), Steroid 17 alpha-hydroxylase/17,20-lyase (Cytochrome P450 17A1), Enzymes of Estrogen Biosynthesis, Aromatase and Steroid Sulfatase, Estrogenic 17b-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase, Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenases (HSD), 3a-Hydroxyssteroid Dehydrogenase, Approaches to Measuring 3b-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type 1, 3b-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type 2, and much more.

An explosive increase in the knowledge of the effects of chemical and physical agents on biological systems has led to an increased understanding of normal cellular functions and the consequences of their perturbations.

While the vast majority of our food supplies are nutritious and safe, foodborne pathogen-related illness still affects millions of people each year.