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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...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-22
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This book reviews the structure of different biological adhesives and the mechanisms by which they achieve interfacial adhesion, cohesive strength, and fracture toughness. These adhesives include cements, strongly adherent fibrous holdfasts, tough and flexible adhesive...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-22
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This comprehensive book discusses the ecophysiological features of trees affected by the two most prominent factors of climate change: atmospheric CO2 concentration and temperature. It starts with the introduction of experimental methods at the leaf, branch, the...
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Springer
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2016-10-22
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This book is the product of the 2nd World Conference on Environmental History, held in Guimarães, Portugal, in 2014. It gathers works by authors from the five continents, addressing concerns raised by past events so as to provide information to help manage the present...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-21
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This book presents visual plant defenses (camouflage, mimicry and aposematism via coloration, morphology and even movement) against herbivores. It is mainly an ideological monograph, a manifesto representing my current understanding on defensive plant coloration and...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-20
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Arthropods are invertebrates that constitute over 90% of the animal kingdom, and their bio-ecology is closely linked with global functioning and survival.Arthropods play an important role in maintaining the health of ecosystems, provide livelihoods and nutrition to...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-20
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This book addresses microinsects, their structure and their differences from larger relatives. Moreover, it discusses structural changes that accompany extreme diminution in living organisms, evolutionary inventions that help insects to live in the microworld, and...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-20
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Recent work has begun to elucidate at the molecular level how albumin is handled by the kidney and how albuminuria develops in various proteinuric diseases including minimal change disease and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. This volume provides a comprehensive...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-19
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This book provides a useful text for research students and scientists on the latest knowledge about the immune system of fish, cutting edge technologies and the step required to develop, test and commercialise fish vaccines. It brings together information that is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-10-19
Collection :
Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases
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This invaluable resource delineates procedures for development and use of stem cells in the laboratory and explores the potential for clinical applications. The text discusses mesenchymal stem cell isolation, isolation of adipose derived stem cells, new trends of...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-18
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This Brief is based on a research study of aging adults' perceptions and fear of crime in their community of Ferguson, Missouri. The study, which was conducted by coincidence just prior to the death of Michael Brown, presents unique insights into the community...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-18
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This book discusses several recent theoretic advancements in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary integration in the field of evolution. While exploring novel views, the text maintains a close link with one of the most broadly held views on evolution, namely...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-18
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This book is about tropical biology in action- how biologists grapple with the ecology and evolution of the great species diversity in tropical rainforests and coral reefs. Tropical rainforests are home to 50% of all the plant and animal species on earth, though they...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-18
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This book gives an in-depth overview on nuclear structure and function. It clearly shows that the epigenome and the three-dimensional organization of the nucleus are not independent properties. The intimate relationship between the location and the epigenetic...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-17
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Wer die Biologie in ihrer Vielfalt einmal von einer ganz anderen Seite entdecken möchte, findet in dieser Sammlung 52 spannende und kuriose Rätsel für Zwischendurch. Wie heißt doch gleich dieser Schmetterling, was ist ein Revolvergebiss und wie flirtet man eigentlich...
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Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2016-10-14
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This book is the product of the 2nd World Conference on Environmental History, held in Guimarães, Portugal, in 2014. It gathers works by authors from the five continents, addressing concerns raised by past events so as to provide information to help manage the present...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-10-13
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This book highlights the implications of nanotechnology in plant sciences, particularly its potential to improve food and agricultural systems, through innovative, eco-friendly approaches, and as a result to increase plant productivity. Topics include various aspects of...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-13
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Mimicry is a classic example of adaptation through natural selection. The traditional focus of mimicry research has been on defence in animals, but there is now also a highly-developed and rapidly-growing body of research on floral mimicry in plants. This has coincided...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-10-13
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This essential
volume comprehensively discusses redox-active therapeutics, focusing
particularly on their molecular design, mechanistic, pharmacological and
medicinal aspects. The first section of the book describes the basic
aspects of the chemistry and biology...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-13
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This book explores the major cytokines, such as IL-1 and IFN-?, with respect to the regulation of their gene expression and protein production in specific immune cell types. It discusses both healthy physiological settings and in pathological situations in which the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-10-12
Collection :
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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