Biological Sciences category: 21088 books
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Release Date: September 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Delivery of therapeutic proteomics and genomics represent an important area of drug delivery research. Genomics and proteomics approaches could be used to direct drug development processes by unearthing pathways involved in disease pathogenesis where intervention may be most successful.
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Release Date: January 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
As the US National Park Service marks its centennial in 2016, parks and protected areas worldwide are under increasing threat from a variety of factors, including storms and fires of greater severity, plant and animal extinctions, the changing attitudes of a public that has become more urbanized,...
Cotton, Water, Salts and Soums
Economic and Ecological Restructuring in Khorezm, Uzbekistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
This book summarizes a long-term research project addressing land and water use in the irrigated areas of the Aral Sea basin. In an interdisciplinary approach, natural and human sciences are combined to elucidate the challenges of economic transition that affect the use of land, water and biological...
The Global Water System in the Anthropocene
Challenges for Science and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
The Global Water System in the Anthropocene provides the platform to present global and regional perspectives of world-wide experiences on the responses of water management to global change in order to address issues such as variability in supply, increasing demands for water, environmental flows...
The Inner Workings of Life
Vignettes in Systems Biology
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Living systems are dynamic and extremely complex and their behaviour is often hard to predict by studying their individual parts. Systems biology promises to reveal and analyse these highly connected, regulated and adaptable systems, using mathematical modelling and computational analysis. This new...
Mind Wars
Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
One of the most important thinkers describes the literally mind-boggling possibilities that modern brain science could present for national security.” -LAWRENCE J. KORB, former US Assistant Secretary of Defense
Fascinating and frightening.” -Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Systems Biology
Constraint-based Reconstruction and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Recent technological advances have enabled comprehensive determination of the molecular composition of living cells. The chemical interactions between many of these molecules are known, giving rise to genome-scale reconstructed biochemical reaction networks underlying cellular functions. Mathematical...
by Baishnab Charan Tripathy, Jaya Prakash, Manjistha Sengupta
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
This book explores the journey of biotechnology, searching for new avenues and noting the impressive accomplishments to date. It has harmonious blend of facts, applications and new ideas. Fast-paced biotechnologies are broadly applied and are being continuously explored in areas like the environmental,...
Advances in Applied Biotechnology
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Biotechnology (ICAB 2014)-Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
At the ICAB 2014, researchers from around the world will gather to discuss the latest scientific research, findings and technologies concerning Microbial Genetics and Breeding, Optimization and Control of Biological Processes, Biological Separation and Biological Purification, and Advances in Biotechnology.
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Origins
The Scientific Story of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? How and why do we think? What does it mean to be human? How do we know? There are many different versions of our creation story. This book...
Lives of a Cell
Notes of a Biology Watcher
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 1978
Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships, this provocative...
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Release Date: December 5, 2012
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Release Date: December 5, 2012
The volume dwells on the major issues of mechanical stress influencing the ion channels and intracellular signaling pathways. This book is a unique collection of reviews outlining current knowledge and future developments in this rapidly growing field. In our opinion the book presents not only the...
by Charles Sheppard
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Coral reefs have been long regarded with awe by the millions of people who have encountered them over the centuries. Early seafarers were wary of them, naturalists were confused by them, yet many coastal people benefited greatly from these mysterious rocky structures that grew up to the surface of...
by Janick Artiola, Ian L. Pepper, Mark L. Brusseau
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2004
Environmental Monitoring and Characterization is an integrated, hands-on resource for monitoring all aspects of the environment. Sample collection methods and relevant physical, chemical and biological processes necessary to characterize the environment are brought together in twenty chapters which...