Life sciences: general issues Books

Plants are sessile, highly sensitive organisms that actively compete for environmental resources both above and below the ground. They assess their surroundings, estimate how much energy they need for particular goals, and then realise the optimum...

Das Buch gibt einen Einblick in systemische Verknüpfungen, denen der Anbau von gentechnisch veränderten Pflanzen in Deutschland unterliegen würde. Es thematisiert Verknüpfungen, die sich zwischen ökologischen und sozialen Systemzusammenhängen herstellen...

Diplomatic Theory and Practice.- International Funding for Animal Protection.- International Conferences and Delegation Management.- Protocol.- The Media as a Tool for Diplomacy.- Important Associations and International Organizations.- Epilogue.

The growth in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology fields over the last few years has been remarkable and the trend is to increase its pace. In fact, the need for computational techniques that can efficiently handle the...

Data fusion problems arise frequently in many different fields.  This book provides a specific introduction to data fusion problems using support vector machines. In the first part, this book begins with a brief survey of...

Homeostasis involves a delicate interplay between generative and degenerative processes to maintain a stable internal environment. In biological systems, equilibrium is established and controlled through a series of negative...

Communication is defined as an interaction between at least two living agents which share a repertoire of signs. These are combined according to syntactic, semantic and context-dependent, pragmatic rules in order to coordinate...

Epigenetics is a rapidly expanding field in medical and biological research which concerns heritable traits that are not attributable to changes in the DNA sequence. Epigenetic mechanisms play key roles in many biological...

Despite major efforts by the scientific community over the years, our understanding of the pathogenesis or the mechanisms of injury of multiple sclerosis is still limited. Consequently, the current strategies for treatment and...

This book describes the state-of-the-art of treatment of schizophrenia and reflects its development in 22 chapters written by leading authorities in the field

Mangrove ecosystems are being increasingly threatened by human activities. Their biotic productivity supplies food and other resources to the human populations that inhabit or make use of them. This volume highlights the...

Radiations, or Evolution in Action We have just celebrated the "Darwin Year" with the double anniversary of his 200th birthday and 150th year of his masterpiece, "On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection". In this...

1. The Thar of Rajasthan (India): Ecology and Conservation of Desert Ecosystem K.K. Sharma & Satya P. Mehra 2. Climate and micro climate changes influencing the fauna of the hot Indian Arid ZoneA S Rao 3. Dung Beetle (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae :...

Our image of plants is changing dramatically away from passive entities merely subject to environmental forces and organisms that are designed solely for the accumulation of photosynthate. Plants are revealing themselves to be...

Wolfgang Pauli's Philosophical Ideas Viewed from the Perspective of His Correspondence.- Concepts of Symmetry in the Work of Wolfgang Pauli.- A New Idea of Reality: Pauli on the Unity of Mind and Matter.- Extending the Philosophical Significance of the...

and Aim.- Effect-Load-Sensitivity Analyses Basic - Concepts.- Coastal Classifications and Key Abiotic Variables Regulating Target Bioindicators.- Nutrients and Representativity of Data.- Operational Bioindicators for Coastal Management.- Case-Studies.

1 Secondary Metabolites in Soil Ecology .................................................... 1 Petr Karlovsky Part I Detection and Analysis 2 Detection of Antibiotics Produced by Soil and Rhizosphere Microbes In Situ ......... 23 Linda S. Thomashow,...

Permanence of the synapse and molecular instability.- Cellular biology of AMPA receptor trafficking and synaptic plasticity.- Imaging of experience-dependent structural plasticity in the mouse neocortex in vivo.- Synapse loss, synaptic plasticity and the...

Genetics and Genomics of Sulfate Respiration in Desulfovibrio.- Living on Sulfate: Three-Dimensional Structure and Spectroscopy of Adenosine 5´-Phosphosulfate Reductase and Dissimilatory Sulfite Reductase.- Respiratory Membrane Complexes of Desulfovibrio...

Coastal and marine ecosystems, some severely degraded, other still pristine, control rich resources of inshore environments and coastal seas of Latin America's Pacific and Atlantic margins. Conflicts between the needs of the...

Sense organs serve as a kind of biological interface between the environment and the organism. Therefore, the relationship between sensory systems and ecology is very close and its knowledge of fundamental importance for an...

Methane is an important greenhouse gas that can cause global warming. The present concentrations of methane are nearly three times higher than several hundred years ago. Today, more than 60% of the atmospheric methane comes...

Predation, one of the most dramatic interactions in animals' lives, has long fascinated ecologists. This volume presents carnivores, raptors and their prey in the complicated net of interrelationships, and shows them against...

The general interest and attention paid to the use of the renewable natural resources of the world have increased greatly during the last decades. This is due to the environmental dilemma into which mankind has got itself by...

The Water Research Institute at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) is proud to have initiated and sponsored the International Workshop "Soil and Aquifer Pollution: Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids - Contamination and Recla-...

Usually authors write introductions for their books, although they know that not many readers will read it. Despite this, authors insist on writing an introduction and no publisher will publish a book without one. I would like...

People have always asked what distinguishes the living from the inanimate world and what uni?es the two. The ?elds of biology and physics have a long history of exchange. Milestones at the molecular level were the discoveries...

The Road to Hydrogenosomes.- Mitochondria: Key to Complexity.- Origin, Function, and Transmission of Mitochondria.- Mitochondria and Their Host: Morphology to Molecular Phylogeny.- Anaerobic Mitochondria: Properties and Origins.- Iron-Sulfur Proteins and...

This richly illustrated book presents the most recent up-to-date knowledge on Clusia with a wealth of data in tables and figures and comprehensive referencing. Clusia's unique features as well as its extreme flexibility have...

Analysis of Fish.- Analysis of Invertebrates.- Analysis of Water Plant Life, Zooplankton and Phytoplankton.- Pollution Levels in The Aqueous Environment.- Qualitative Toxicity Data of Cations, Fish and Invertebrates.- Qualitative Toxicity Data of Organic...

Ecology as a Modern Science.- Physiologically Structured Population Models: Towards a General Mathematical Theory.- A Survey of Indirect Reciprocity.- The Effects of Migration on Persistence and Extinction.- Sexual Reproduction Process on One-Dimensional...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Biologie - Genetik / Gentechnologie, Note: 1,9, Universität Bremen (Zentrum für Humangenetik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das HMGA2-Protein gehört zur Familie der HMG-Proteine (High Mobility Group-Proteine),...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Biologie - Evolution, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Mit den bisher im weißblauen Freistaat nachgewiesenen Gattungen der „Schreckensechsen" befasst sich das Taschenbuch „Dinosaurier in Bayern": Dabei handelt es...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Biologie - Evolution, Note: 11,28, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Seminararbeit gibt einen historischen Rückblick über die Entstehung des Evolutionsgedankens, von den Anfängen in der Antike bis hin zur...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Biologie - Genetik / Gentechnologie, Note: 1,0, Universität zu Köln (Institut für Genetik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit wurden durch eine VAPSE (variants affecting protein structure or...

Projektarbeit aus dem Jahr 1997 im Fachbereich Biologie - Ökologie, Note: 1.8, Universität zu Köln (Erziehungswissenschaftliche Fakultät), Veranstaltung: Meeresbiologie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese kleine Bestimmungshilfe ist während mehrerer...

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Biologie - Evolution, Note: 1,3, Universität Bremen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Mit dem Begriff der Evolutionstheorie (und als Teil davon der Selektionstheorie) verbinden die meisten von uns unweigerlich...

Humic Substances color all waters more or less brown. Their concentrations exceed all carbon of living organisms by at least one order of magnitude. Opposite to former paradigms, they participate in almost any metabolic pathway...

North and South America share similar human and ecological histories and, increasingly, economic and social linkages. As such, issues of ecosystem functions and disruptions form a common thread among these cultures. This volume...

Vegetation, soil and climate are the most important components of ecological systems. This long-awaited fourth edition of the well-established textbook by Heinrich Walter summarizes our knowledge of the earth's ecology and...

1 Introduction.- 1.1 The Intellectual Debate Until 1990.- 1.2 Progress During the Last Decade.- 1.3 Consequences for the Structure of the Book.- References.- 2 Competition in Well-Mixed Habitats: From Competitive Exclusion to Competitive Chaos.- 2.1...

Molecular Methods of Plant Analysis Concept of the Series The powerful recombinant DNA technology and related developments have had an enormous impact on molecular biology. Any treatment of plant analy­ sis must make use of...

The knowledge on the ecology of ungulates (orders Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla) inhabiting eastern Europe and northern and central Asia is of special importance for those interested in zoology, ecology, nature conservation,...