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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...

Questions of national identity have long dominated China’s political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nationhood came to the fore. In Unearthing the Nation,...

“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 The...

The Advanced Chemistry Series: Bonding of Alkanes and Alkenes Do you love Chemistry? Do you love to learn about the many different types of bonding in Alkanes and Alkenes and the many different types of reactions they have. If you do; this is the e book is for you. This e book contains information...

Helpful for college, high school, and homeschooled students, this book is for those who struggle with math in science. Scientific notation, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and vector concepts are addressed as used in the sciences, with examples and exercises. Readers will gain proficiency with using math as the language of science.

This lighthearted work uses a variety of practical applications and puzzles to take a look at today's mathematical trends. In nine chapters, Professor Pedoe covers mathematical games, chance and choice, automatic thinking, and more.

天擇也許能解釋「適者生存」，但無法解釋「適存者的到來」。 大師級科學家華格納提出「創新力法則」，揭開演化令人震驚的隱藏結構！ ▍《金融時報》2015年度選書 ▍清華大學生命科學系助理教授黃貞祥＿策劃、審訂、導讀 ▍臺灣大學生命科學系副教授丁照棣＿專文推薦 達爾文發表《物種起源》的百餘年後，始終存在耐人尋味的一道難題： 自然界中的「創新」究竟是如何發生的？ 一八五九年，達爾文發表《物種起源》，他的天擇理論解釋了有用的適應性如何隨時間被保存下來，但同時也製造了演化的最大疑問：「生物的適應性是怎麼出現的？」 地球上第一個生命誕生至今，三十八億年間發生的隨機突變，真的可以為翅膀、眼球、偽裝、乳糖消化、光合作用，以及其他自然創造的驚奇負責嗎？假若答案是否定的，那麼演化的速度和相對效率背後的機制又是什麼呢？ 當年達爾文不知道什麼是突變、基因、DNA雙螺旋、轉錄與轉譯作用、DNA定序，也缺乏遺傳學、生物化學、分子生物學甚至處理大量資訊的知識和技術，但他早在一百六十年前提出的遠大洞見開啟了生物學百家爭鳴般的精采發現——如今，我們終於有能力朝「生物適應性的出現」這個巨大謎團靠近了！ 全球知名的演化生物學家安德里亞斯．華格納憑藉超過十五年的研究，呈現出達爾文理論遺失的拼圖。利用早期科學家意想不到的實驗性及計算性技術，他發現驅動適應的不只是偶然，而是一套法則，允許大自然在隨機變異上花費的小部分時間裡，發現新的分子與運作機制。 一絲不苟地研究、仔細地論證、充滿感召力地寫作，並列舉了五花八門又迷人的實例，《生命如何創新》獻上生命豐富多樣性謎團的最後一片拼圖。 ▍同聲推薦 李文雄（中央研究院院士，生物多樣性研究中心特聘研究員） 林仲平（國立台灣師範大學生命科學系教授） 李壽先（國立台灣師範大學生命科學系教授） 蔡怡陞（生物多樣性研究中心助研究員） 鄭國威（PanSci泛科學總編輯） 顏聖紘（國立中山大學生物科學系副教授） ▍媒體書評 ★...

Entrepreneurial science is not new; business interests have strongly influenced science since the Scientific Revolution. In Commercial Visions, Dániel Margócsy illustrates that product marketing, patent litigation, and even ghostwriting pervaded natural history and medicine—the “big sciences”...

This thesis presents original research on how to seamlessly integrate electronics with living biological systems. Jia Liu has used silicon nanowires as active sensors to investigate biological signals at the cellular level. He has also designed nanoelectronic networks into flexible, three-dimensional...

Designed for easy use by both beginning and experienced protein crystallographers, the second edition of Practical Protein Crystallography is an essential handbook for any scientist interested in solving a protein structure. The book includes examples of actual experiments and data, electron density...

Dynamic Single-Use Bioreactors Used in Modern Liter- and m3- Scale Biotechnological Processes: Engineering Characteristics and Scaling Up, by Christian Löffelholz, Stephan C. Kaiser, Matthias Kraume, Regine Eibl , Dieter Eibl. Orbitally Shaken Single-Use Bioreactors, by Wolf Klöckner, Sylvia Diederichs,...

Published since 1959, Advances in Applied Microbiology continues to be one of the most widely read and authoritative review sources in microbiology. The series contains comprehensive reviews of the most current research in applied microbiology. Recent areas covered include bacterial diversity...

Recent advances in large scale DNA sequencing technology have made it possible to sequence the entire genome of an organism. Attention is now turning to the analysis of the product of the genome, the proteome, which is the set of proteins being expressed by a cell. Mass spectrometry is the method...

This dictionary is for the students and teacher of Botany. The detailed definitions are followed by appropriate examples and suitable references. A must have book for the students of Science!