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Feathers are one of the most unique characteristics of modern birds and represent the most complex and colourful type of skin derivate within vertebrates, while also fulfilling various biological roles, including flight, thermal insulation, display, and sensory...
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Springer
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2020-03-11
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A Harvard researcher investigates the human eye in this insightful account of what vision reveals about intelligence, learning, and the greatest mysteries of neuroscience.Spotting a face in a crowd is so easy, you take it for granted. But how you do it is one of...
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Basic Books
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2020-03-10
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This book discusses the natural classification and biosystematics of Triticeae, and presents the most significant findings of comprehensive studies on the Triticeae, an important tribe in the grass family (Poaceae) that includes major crops such as wheat, barley, rye...
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Springer
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2020-03-09
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Agronomic crops have been a source of foods, beverages, fodders, fuels, medicines and industrial raw materials since the dawn of human civilization. Over time, these crops have come to be cultivated using scientific methods instead of traditional methods. However, in...
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Springer
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2020-03-09
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Nukleinsäuren und Proteine sind die Moleküle, auf denen sich jede Art von Leben gründet - vom einzelligen Bakterium bis zum ausgewachsenen Elefanten. Dieses Buch gibt Ihnen einen umfassenden Überblick über den Wissenschaftsbereich, der sich mit diesen Molekülen...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2020-03-06
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Für Dummies
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This book summarizes the taxonomic details of selected fossil angiosperm pollen genera and species along with their affinity and occurrences in space and time. It provides information about the historical background of palynology from Palaeogene and Neogene sediments in...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-03-06
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Society of Earth Scientists Series
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This book encompasses the current knowledge of plant microbiomes and their potential biotechnological application for plant growth, crop yield and soil health for sustainable agriculture. The plant microbiomes (rhizospheric, endophytic and epiphytic) play an important...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-03-06
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This book provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the recent developments in cotton production and processing, including a number of genetic approaches, such as GM cotton for pest resistance, which have been hotly debated in recent decades. In the era of...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-03-05
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From your dividing cells to your beating heart, this book takes a comprehensive look at the human body and reveals the extraordinary way your anatomy and physiology intertwine.In 13 illustrated chapters, Cracking Anatomy makes sense of all the body's systems, explains...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2020-03-05
Collection :
Cracking Series
ePub
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The way a cell undergoes malignant transformation should meet their capacity of surviving in the microenvironment of the organ where the cancer will develop. Metabolic adaptation is for sure one of the criteria that must be accomplished, driven by metabolic plasticity...
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Springer
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2020-03-04
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This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the experience of economic vulnerability among older adults. Drawing on various fields ranging from happiness, economics to stress research, it integrates assessments from objective and subjective measurement...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-03-04
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This book reviews modern strategies in the breeding of vegetables in the era of global warming. Agriculture is facing numerous challenges in the 21st century, as it has to address food, nutritional, energy and environmental security. Future vegetable varieties must be...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-03-02
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This book contributes to a deeper understanding of landscape and regional modelling in general, and its broad range of facets with respect to various landscape parameters. It presents model approaches for a number of ecological and socio-economic landscape indicators,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-03-02
Collection :
Innovations in Landscape Research
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Architects of Structural Biology is an amalgam of memoirs, biography, and intellectual history of the personalities and single-minded devotion of four scientists who are among the greatest in modern times. These three chemists and one physicist, all Nobel laureates,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-28
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This book highlights modern methods and strategies to improve cereal crops in the era of climate change, presenting the latest advances in plant molecular mapping and genome sequencing. Spectacular achievements in the fields of molecular breeding, transgenics and...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-02-28
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This book highlights international efforts to better understand the role of individual differences in healthy aging by exploring new directions, methods, and questions within the field. The book considers how to measure personality and personality change during...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-02-28
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This open access book addresses the current debate on extended working life policy by considering the influence of gender and health on the experiences of older workers. Bringing together an international team of scholars, it tackles issues as gender, health status and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-02-28
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The oceans are our planet's most distinctive and imposing natural habitat. They cover 71 per cent of its surface; support a remarkably diverse and exquisitely adapted array of life forms, from microscopic viruses, bacteria, and plankton to the largest existing animals;...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-27
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The oceans are our planet's most distinctive and imposing natural habitat. They cover 71 per cent of its surface; support a remarkably diverse and exquisitely adapted array of life forms, from microscopic viruses, bacteria, and plankton to the largest existing animals;...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-27
ePub
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By providing multiple economic goods and ecosystem services, Latin American forests play a key role in the environmental, social and economic welfare of the region’s countries. From the tropical forests of Central America to the Mediterranean and temperate vegetation of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-02-26
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