Physiology category: 1850 books
Information Processing in Cells and Tissues
10th International Conference, IPCAT 2015, San Diego, CA, USA, September 14-16, 2015, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues, IPCAT 2015, held in San Diego, CA, USA, in September 2015. The 19 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They were organized...
by B. F. Skinner, C. B. Ferster
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
The contingent relationship between actions and their consequences lies at the heart of Skinner’s experimental analysis of behavior. Particular patterns of behavior emerge depending upon the contingencies established. Ferster and Skinner examined the effects of different schedules of reinforcement...
Arterial Stiffness
Implications and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Arterial stiffness is an emerging risk factor with important implications for cardiovascular disease risk. Herein, we concisely summarize the physiological and pathophysiological aspects of arterial stiffening, and highlight the importance of increased arterial stiffness for future cardiovascular...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
This book will cover the cutting-edge developments in molecular and cellular mechanobiology to date. Readers will have a clear understanding of mechanobiology at the molecular and cellular levels, encompassing the mechanosensors, transducers, and transcription. An integrative approach across different...
Fatal Evidence
Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor & the Dawn of Forensic Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
A surgeon and chemist at Guy’s Hospital in London, Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor used new techniques to search the human body for evidence that once had been unseen. As well as tracing poisons, he could identify blood on clothing and weapons, and used hair and fiber analysis to catch killers.
Taylor...
Aqua Soil
Our Evolution, Biological and Cultural
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
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Big Brain
The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Our big brains, our language ability, and our intelligence make us uniquely human.
But barely 10,000 years ago (a mere blip in evolutionary time) human-like creatures called "Boskops" flourished in South Africa. They possessed extraordinary features: forebrains roughly 50% larger...
Bioinformatics for Evolutionary Biologists
A Problems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
This self-contained textbook covers fundamental aspects of sequence analysis in evolutionary biology, including sequence alignment, phylogeny reconstruction, and coalescent simulation. It addresses these aspects through a series of over 400 computer problems, ranging from elementary to research level...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Phosphatases, such as TNAP are fundamental in regulating the roles of cellular, and consequently numerous body functions. TNAP is a ubiquitous enzyme with a wide spectrum of substrates and specificity. Regulation at the cellular level and the lack of TNAP activity is a lethal condition. Recent findings...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
The Guide to Investigation of Mouse Pregnancy is the first publication to cover the mouse placenta or the angiogenic tree the mother develops to support the placenta. This much-needed resource covers monitoring of the cardiovascular system, gestational programming of chronic adult disease, epigenetic...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
A superb compilation of reviews from leading experts in the field of Wnt signaling (signaling molecules that regulate cell-to-cell interactions during embryogenesis), volume 17 in the Advances in Developmental Biology series offers 7 chapters, each devoted to a separate area of research on Wnt signaling....
by Louis Agassiz
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book contains six classic articles on the subject of structure in animal life, being a selection of essays exploring the relationship between natural history and the idea of God. Although old and largely scientifically out-dated, the information contained within these essays will be of considerable...
by Robin and the Honey Badger
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Robin and the Honey Badger’s mission is to re-charge biology with originality for you, the non-specialist reader. Here we interview the human ear lobe, noting that no other primate has yet proven to possess a cartilage-free auricular lobule. We speculate on the real reasons why Homo sapiens –...
The Gut-Brain Axis
Dietary, Probiotic, and Prebiotic Interventions on the Microbiota
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The Gut-Brain Axis: Dietary, Probiotic, and Prebiotic Interventions on the Microbiota examines the potential for microbial manipulation as a therapeutic avenue in central nervous system disorders in which an altered microbiota has been implicated, and explores the mechanisms, sometimes common, by...