Physiology category: 1850 books
Immuno Systems Biology
A macroscopic approach for immune cell signaling
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Immuno Systems Biology aims to study the immune system in the more integrated manner on how cells and molecules participate at different system levels to the immune function. Through this book Kumar Selvarajoo introduces to physicists, chemists, computer scientists, biologists and immunologists...
Beautiful Flesh
A Body of Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Selected from the country’s leading literary journals and publications—Colorado Review, Creative Nonfiction, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, The Normal School, and others—Beautiful Flesh gathers eighteen essays on the body, essentially building a multi-gender, multi-ethnic...
Scaling
Why is Animal Size so Important?
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1984
This book is about the importance of animal size. We tend to think of animal function in chemical terms and talk of water, salts, proteins, enzymes, oxygen, energy, and so on. We should not forget, however, that physical laws are equally important, for they determine rates of diffusion and heat transfer,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Starting in the late nineteenth century, scholars and activists all over the world suddenly began to insist that understandings of sex be based on science. As Japanese and Indian sexologists influenced their German, British, and American counterparts and vice versa, sexuality, modernity, and imaginings...
The Longevity Project
Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade S tudy
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
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This landmark study--which Dr. Andrew Weil calls "a remarkable achievement with surprising conclusions"--upends the advice we have been told about how to live to a healthy old age.
We have been told that the key to longevity...
Introduction to Sports Biomechanics
Analysing Human Movement Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Introduction to Sports Biomechanics provides a genuinely accessible and comprehensive guide to all of the biomechanics topics covered in an undergraduate sports and exercise science degree.
Now revised and in its second edition, Introduction to Sports Biomechanics is full of visual aids to...
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...
Poissons
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Jusqu'à la fin du XIXe siècle, l'accord était général pour considérer les Poissons comme une vaste classe de Vertébrés au même titre et sur le même plan que les Amphibiens, les Reptiles, les Oiseaux et les Mammifères. Mais, depuis que les progrès de la paléontologie ont montré le ...
by Leslie Klenerman
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
A vast subject that includes a strange vocabulary and an apparent mass of facts, human anatomy can at first appear confusing and off-putting. But the basic construction of the human body - the skeleton, the organs of the chest and abdomen, the nervous system, the head and neck with its sensory systems...
by Leslie Aiello, Christopher Dean
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 1990
An anthropologist and an anatomist have combined their skills in this book to provide students and research workers with the essentials of anatomy and the means to apply these to investigations into hominid form and function. Using basic principles and relevant bones, conclusions can be reached regarding...
by Waliza Ansar, Shyamasree Ghosh
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive study of C-reactive protein (CRP) belonging to the pentraxin family, including a brief history of CRP, its structure, synthesis and evolution. Focusing on the emerging role of CRP and its clinical application in the field of disease biology, it details the pathophysiological...
Progress in Motor Control
Skill Learning, Performance, Health, and Injury
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
This volume is the most recent installment of the Progress in Motor Control series. It contains contributions based on presentations by invited speakers at the Progress in Motor Control IX meeting held in at McGill University, Montreal, in July, 2013. Progress in Motor Control is the official scientific...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This volume focuses on modern computational and statistical tools for translational gene expression and regulation research to improve prognosis, diagnostics, prediction of severity, and therapies for human diseases. It introduces some of state of the art technologies as well as computational and...
GeNeDis 2014
Geriatrics
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
The 1st World Congress on Geriatrics and Neurodegenerative Disease Research (GeNeDis 2014), will focus on recent advances in geriatrics and neurodegeneration, ranging from basic science to clinical and pharmaceutical developments and will provide an international forum for the latest scientific discoveries,...