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Sketching Theoretical Biology

Toward a Theoretical Biology, Volume 2

by Wilhelmina A. Leigh
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017

The purpose of this volume is to bring together a number of elements that would be useful in the construction of a coherent and comprehensive theory of biology. Based on the assumption that living systems represent some kind of "organized complexity," the collection discusses meaningful...
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by Staffan Müller-Wille, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012

It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger offer a succinct cultural history of the scientific concept...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014

This book is devoted to the fascinating superfamily of plant ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters and their variety of transported substrates. It highlights their exciting biological functions, covering aspects ranging from cellular detoxification, through development, to symbiosis and defense....
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by Odo Diekmann, Hans Heesterbeek, Tom Britton
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2012

Mathematical modeling is critical to our understanding of how infectious diseases spread at the individual and population levels. This book gives readers the necessary skills to correctly formulate and analyze mathematical models in infectious disease epidemiology, and is the first treatment of the...
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Comparative Biomechanics

Life's Physical World

by Steven Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011

Why do you shift from walking to running at a particular speed? How can we predict transition speeds for animals of different sizes? Why must the flexible elastic of arterial walls behave differently than a rubber tube or balloon? How do leaves manage to expose a broad expanse of surface while suffering...
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by Bud Stark
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015

This book is an attempt to reestablish a hope that the universe is somehow directed, among students of evolution who have turned to atheism. To do that, one must confront Richard Dawkins of Oxford University. He holds the atheistic command in the battle between random biological evolution and biological...
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Interpreting Biomedical Science

Experiment, Evidence, and Belief

by Ülo Maiväli
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015

Interpreting Biomedical Science: Experiment, Evidence, and Belief discusses what can go wrong in biological science, providing an unbiased view and cohesive understanding of scientific methods, statistics, data interpretation, and scientific ethics that are illustrated with practical examples and...
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by W. Tecumseh Fitch, Björn Merker, Iain Morley
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018

Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music. Research shows that all humans have a predisposition for music, just as they do for language. All of us can perceive and enjoy music, even if we can't carry a tune and consider ourselves “unmusical.”...
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The Brain Supremacy

Notes from the frontiers of neuroscience

by Kathleen Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012

In a world full of science, the balance of power between sciences is changing. Advances in physics, chemistry, and other natural sciences have given us extraordinary control over our world. Now the younger sciences of brain and mind are applying the scientific method not only to our environments,...
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by Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman, Jack A. Tuszynski
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012

Physics, mathematics and chemistry all play a vital role in understanding the true nature and functioning of biological membranes, key elements of living processes. Besides simple spectroscopic observations and electrical measurements of membranes we address in this book the phenomena of coexistence...
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by José Juan Colás
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017

This highly interdisciplinary thesis reports on two innovative photonic biosensors that combine multiple simultaneous measurements to provide unique insights into the activity and structure of surface immobilized biological molecules. In addition, it presents a new silicon photonic biosensor that...
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Protein NMR Spectroscopy

Principles and Practice

by Wayne J. Fairbrother, Nicholas J. Skelton, Mark Rance
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010

Protein NMR Spectroscopy, Second Edition combines a comprehensive theoretical treatment of NMR spectroscopy with an extensive exposition of the experimental techniques applicable to proteins and other biological macromolecules in solution. Beginning with simple theoretical models and experimental...
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by Chaim T. Horovitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Biochemistry of Scandium and Yttrium gathers together existing knowledge about scandium and yttrium from a wide variety of disciplines. Part 1 will present a comparative study of the physical and chemical properties of scandium and yttrium, looking at both their similarities and their differences....
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The Photosynthetic Membrane

Molecular Mechanisms and Biophysics of Light Harvesting

by Alexander V. Ruban
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012

The proteins that gather light for plant photosynthesis are embedded within cell membranes in a site called the thylakoid membrane (or the "photosynthetic membrane"). These proteins form the light harvesting antenna that feeds with energy a number of vital photosynthetic processes such as water oxidation...
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