Life sciences: general issues Books

In North America, Juniperus woodlands occupy approximately 55 million hectares, an area larger than the state of Texas. This title addresses various aspects of the biology, ecology, and management of Juniperus woodlands and...

The obesity epidemic has generated immense interest in recent years due to the wide-ranging and significant adverse health and economic consequences that surround the problem. Much attention has been focused on behaviors that lead to obesity, in...

Withtherecentlyperceivedincreaseinincidenceofautismandtherealizationthat "autism"mayactuallybe"autisms"withsubsetsofaffectedindividuals,researchers have been pursuing the possibility that there may be multiple etiologies for...

Mathematical Biology has grown at an astonishing rate and has established itself as a distinct discipline. Mathematical modeling is now being applied in every major discipline in the biological sciences. Though the field has...

Ecotoxicology Modeling is a comprehensive and well-documented text providing a collection of computational methods to the ecotoxicologists primarily interested in the study of the adverse effects of chemicals, their mechanisms...

Drug development today needs to balance agility, speed, and risk in defining probability of success for molecules, mechanisms, and therapeutic concepts. New techniques such as fMRI promise to be part of a sequence that could...

""Time And The End Of Time, In Two Discourses: The First On Redemption Of Time, The Second On The Consideration Of Our Latter End"" is a book written by John Fox and published in 1855. The book comprises two discourses that explore the concept of time...

The Zoist V9, March, 1851 To January, 1852: A Journal Of Cerebral Physiology And Mesmerism, And Their Applications To Human Welfare (1852) is a book written by Hippolyte Bailliere. The book is a collection of articles from the Zoist, a journal that...

The Practical Flax Spinner is a book written by Leslie C. Marshall in 1885. It provides a comprehensive guide to the growth, manipulation, and spinning of flax and tow. The book is intended to be a practical guide for those who work with flax, including...

""The Special Kinesiology of Educational Gymnastics"" is a book written by Nils Posse in 1894. It is a comprehensive guide to the science of kinesiology and its application to educational gymnastics. The book is divided into two parts. The first part...

The book titled ""The Origin and Rationale of Colliery Explosions"" is written by Donald McDonald Douglas Stuart and was published in 1895. The book is based on an examination of the explosions that occurred at Timsbury, Albion, Malago Vale, and Llanerch...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

Evolution is a fact. The evidence for it is simply overwhelming. However, the original mechanism that generates the evolutionary process, as first put forth simultaneously by Charles Darwin and Alfred R. Wallace and which became known as Natural...

Providencias Establecidas Para La Conservacion De Montes, Y Nuevos Plantios (1781) es un libro escrito por Navarre que trata sobre la conservaci������n de los bosques y la plantaci������n de nuevos �����rboles. La obra ofrece una serie de medidas y...

""Popery Truly Stated, And Briefly Confuted: In Three Parts"" is a book written by Joseph Trapp and published in 1727. The book is a detailed analysis of the doctrines and practices of the Roman Catholic Church, commonly referred to as ""Popery"" by...

""Belehrungen �����ber gemeinn�����tzige Natur- und Lebenssachen f�����r allerlei Leser"" ist ein Buch von Johann August Donndorf, das erstmals im Jahr 1796 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es handelt sich um ein Werk, das sich mit verschiedenen Themen der...

""Abhandlung �����ber Die Natur Der Luft"" ist ein Buch von Tiberius Cavallo, das im Jahr 1783 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Untersuchung der Eigenschaften und Verhaltensweisen von Luft. Cavallo beschreibt die...

Through a Microscope Something of the Science, Together with many Curious Observations Indoor and Out and Directions for a Home-made Microscope., a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never...

Through a pocket lens, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for...

Coral reefs are complex ecosystems and play an important role in the socio-economy of the coastal communities. However, global climate change and anthropogenic disturbances threatens the existence of these ecosystems. In order to contribute knowledge...

Tourism is one of the main industries in Nepal. Chitwan National Park (CNP) is one of the rich ecological assets and tourist destinations of Nepal. The study showed that the tourism evelopment in CNP has made significant negative social, economic and...

Insects such as grasshoppers and bush-crickets (Orthoptera) are becoming increasingly rare on farmland in eastern England due to the intensification of agriculture since the 1950s. The main aim of the study reported in this book was to examine the...

Saffron is a traditional crop from the geographic area of La Mancha, known to be one of the most expensive spices in the world, and very appreciated for its colouring and flavouring characteristics, and medical properties. It is a monocot, triploid...

Many people argue that we are in a deepeningenvironmental crisis. To develop adequate responsesto these growing problems, we need to find the mostcomplete ways to think about the world, and our placein it. While it seems odd at first: if the body is...

Rice is the major and most important staple food crop for the people of Nepal. It is grown in diverseagro environments ranging from foot hill (100m) to high mountains (>2600m). Jumli Marshi, a unique high-altitude rice variety is cultivated at the...

Tandem mass spectrometry is one of the most important tools for protein analysis. This work is focused on the development of new methods and algorithms for tandem mass spectrometry data analysis. A database search engine, MassMatrix, has also been...

For reasons having to do with the Soviet resource allocation model, many Russian forest sector enterprises were miserably unfit to meet the market competition that started to emerge after the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. To...

Dear Colleagues, Cancer survival rates and successful organ transplantation in patients continues to increase due to improvements in early diagnosis and treatments. Since immuno-suppressive therapies are frequently used, the mortality rate due to...

Symmetry has a central role in the study of vision. The concept of symmetry has an ancient origin in considerations of visual appearance; in modern times, abstracted and formalized into Group Theory, it has found spectacular applications, far beyond the...

This book explores relationships to change in agroecological transitions, based on two contrasting and ideal-typical stances, the determinist perspective and the open-ended perspective. at different scales such as agricultural systems, food systems,...

El relato, como explica Hermano Adam en su propia presentación, recoge en el orden cronológico los viajes y artículos publicados en revistas en momentos diferentes (para una bibliografía completa es interesante recurrir a la página web: https://perso...

A comprehensive guide to get started with Java and gain insights into major concepts such as object-oriented, functional, and reactive programmingKey Features:Strengthen your knowledge of important programming concepts and the latest features in...

The world is facing an existential crisis. Looming climate breakdown and ecological collapse could lead to the "sixth extinction" event in Earth's history, this time by our own hand, and the massive loss of human life and of many other life-forms with...

The current renewed interest in mystical experience, which stems in part from the neuroscience claim that there is a spiritual doorway in the brain, provides the grounds for placing the spiritual legacy of Thomas Merton in the context of natural...

Environmental science is an interdisciplinary field which studies the environment. It seeks to find solutions to environmental problems by integrating physical, biological and information sciences. The components of environmental science are geosciences,...

The use of ecology and engineering to predict, design, construct or restore, and manage ecosystems is known as ecological engineering. It is aimed at integrating human society with its natural environment. The applications in ecological engineering can...

Pollination biology or anthecology is the science concerned with the study of pollination and the association between flowers and pollinators. Pollination is an important process in plant reproduction that is essential to the production of fruits and...

Pollination is the process by which pollen is transferred from the male part of a plant to the female part. This enables fertilization and the production of seeds. Usually, pollination occurs within a species, but in cases where it occurs between two...

Plant breeding is the practice of growing plants with improved traits for achieving nutritional and economic advantage, and food security. Genes are the determiners of the qualitative and quantitative traits that a plant exhibits. While desirable...

The biosphere is a closed system which includes all the other ecosystems. It is a self-regulating system. It encompasses all living beings and their interaction with the elements of the lithosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere and atmosphere. The main...

The branch of ecology which studies the interactions between various organisms which dwell in water bodies, and their surroundings, is known as aquatic ecology. The different aquatic environments which fall under the domain of aquatic ecology are...

The study of genes, genetic variation and heredity in plants is referred to as plant genetics. It is a field of biology and botany that encompasses various life sciences. Plant genetics is primarily applied to the genetic modification of plants for...

Proximate DNA sequences on a chromosome are inherited together during sexual reproduction. This tendency of DNA sequences is called genetic linkage. On a chromosome, the closer two genes are, the higher are their chances of being inherited together and...

The field of biology which focuses on the interactions between the biophysical environment and the organisms which dwell in it is known as ecology. It is closely related to the sciences of genetics, ethology and evolutionary biology. This field of...