Biological Sciences category: 21088 books
Biogeochemistry of Global Change
Radiatively Active Trace Gases Selected Papers from the Tenth International Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry, San Francisco, August 19–24, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Certain trace gases in the atmosphere are able to absorb electromagnetic energy from the reflection of solar radiation from the Earth's surface. These gases have been increasing steadily and there is concern that they will change global climatic conditions by warming the atmosphere--the so-called...
Measuring Behaviour
An Introductory Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2007
Measuring Behaviour has established itself as a standard text. Largely rewritten, updated and reorganised, this third edition is, as before, a guide to the principles and methods of quantitative studies of behaviour, with an emphasis on techniques of observation, recording and analysis. It provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 1997
Plant Biochemistry provides students and researchers in plant sciences with a concise general account of plant biochemistry. The edited format allows recognized experts in plant biochemistry to contribute chapters on their special topics. Up-to-date surveys are divided into four sections: the cell,...
The Tree Habit in Land Plants
A Functional Comparison of Trunk Constructions with a Brief Introduction into the Biomechanics of Trees
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
The present study will help answer questions of tree type evolution, function, optimum, and tree construction types, using the approach of constructional morphology which to date has been widely neglected in palaeobotany and botany. First, the evolution pattern of the earliest Devonian trees is analyzed...
The Biological Action of Physical Medicine
Controlling the Human Body's Information System
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
The Biological Action of Physical Medicine: Controlling the Human Body's Information System challenges the contemporary way of thinking of diagnostics and therapy "from the outside." Drawing on 30 years of independent comprehensive research, this reference provides a universal and scientifically...
Sediments and Toxic Substances
Environmental Effects and Ecotoxicity
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In modern sediment research on contaminants five aspects are discussed which, in an overlapping succession, also reflect develop ment of knowledge on particle-associated pollutants during the past twenty-five years: (1) identification of sources and their distribution; (2) evaluation of solid/solution...
The Vertebrate IntegumentVolume 1
Origin and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
The vertebrate integument arose about 450 million years ago as an ‘armour’ of dermal bony plates in small, jawless fish-like creatures, informally known as the ostracoderms. This book reviews the major changes that have occurred in the vertebrate integument from its beginnings to the present day....
The Value of Life
Biological Diversity And Human Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
The Value of Life is an exploration of the actual and perceived importance of biological diversity for human beings and society. Stephen R. Kellert identifies ten basic values, which he describes as biologically based, inherhuman tendencies that are greatly influenced and moderated by culture, learning,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Today more than 5 million chemicals are known and roughly 100,000 of them are frequently used, with both numbers rising. Many of these chemicals are ultimately released into the environment and may cause adverse effects to ecosystems and human health. Effect-directed analysis (EDA) is a promising...
Signal-Switchable Electrochemical Systems
Materials, Methods, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
A guide to the biological control over electronic systems that lead the way to wearable electronics and improved drug delivery
In recent years, this area of electrochemical systems has developed rapidly and achieved significant progress. Signal-Switchable Electrochemical Systems offers an overview...
Long Island Sound
Prospects for the Urban Sea
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
The U.S. Ocean Commission Report identified the need for regional ecosystem assessments to support coastal and ocean management. These assessments must provide greater understanding of physical and biological dynamics than assessments at global and national scales can provide but transcend state and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
This book gives physical chemists a broader view of potential biological applications of their techniques for the study of nucleic acids in the gas phase. It provides organic chemists, biophysicists, and pharmacologists with an introduction to new techniques they can use to find the answers to yet...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
The combination of biological elements with electronics is of great interest for many research areas. Inspired by biological signal processes, scientists and engineers are exploring ways of manipulating, assembling, and applying biomolecules and cells on integrated circuits, joining biology with electronic...
Optical Fluorescence Microscopy
From the Spectral to the Nano Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
In the last decade, fluorescence microscopy has evolved from a classical “retrospective” microscopy approach into an advanced imaging technique that allows the observation of cellular activities in living cells with increased resolution and dimensions. A bright new future has arrived as the nano...