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Advanced biotechnologies enable breeders to produce a whole generation of new crops for specialist needs ("designer crops"), including raw materials for the energy, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. This book provides concerns useful to promote an increase of the...
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Springer
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2007-05-16
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The discovery of the plant hormone ethylene was stunning—ethylene is a simple gas! Our expanding knowledge of the multiplicity of ethylene’s roles in plant development, physiology, and metabolism makes the study of this plant hormone increasingly compelling. Elucidation...
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Springer
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2007-05-10
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For the first time world-leading experts in the area of cellular signaling have joined to the production of a book on Smad signal transduction. Smads are the principal intracellular effectors of TGF-b family members that control numerous cellular responses with critical...
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Springer
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2007-05-10
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Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century. Life expectancy in wealthy countries has increased, on average, from 65 years in 1950 to 76 years in 2005. The rise was more spectacular in some countries: the life expectancy for...
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Springer
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2007-03-21
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International Studies in Population
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Branching morphogenesis, the creation of branched structures in the body, is a key feature of animal and plant development. This book brings together, for the first time, expert researchers working on a variety of branching systems to present a state-of-the-art view of...
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Springer
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2007-03-20
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" About this book The Molecular Mechanisms of......
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Springer
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2007-03-06
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Except for one area of gene expression control, plant research has significantly fallen behind studies in insects and vertebrates. The advances made in animal gene expression control have benefited plant research, as we continue to find that much of the machinery and...
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Springer
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2007-02-15
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Levensverhalen voorzien in een steeds grotere maatschappelijke behoefte, getuige de opkomst van weblogs, de talloze autobiografie en therapeutische toepassingen. Reflecteren op het eigen leven kan troost bieden, kan ouderen en jongeren helpen omgaan met beperkingen, en...
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Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
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2006-12-07
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This is an ethnographic account of the transnational caregiving experiences and practices of Australian migrants and refugees, caring for their elderly parents in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and New Zealand. It describes how people respond to unprecedented mobility...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2006-11-28
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After division, plant cells are able to increase their volume enormously by cell expansion, making the expanding cell a crucial player in the production of biomass. The study of plant cell expansion involves many different disciplines and technical approaches, and this...
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Springer
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2006-11-03
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Plant Cell Monographs
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Pensionomics puts forward a portfolio perspective on the combination of funded and unfunded pension arrangements. In a second-best type argument it is formally shown that a Pay-As-You-Go pension system can substitute the tradability of human capital: if risk-averse...
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Springer
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2006-10-06
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The endoplasmic reticulum (ER), called "the mother of all membranes," is spotlighted in this timely new book.The work presented here is especially exciting since GFP-technology has provided new ways of looking at the dynamics of the ER and its relationship to other...
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Springer
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2006-08-15
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Plant Cell Monographs
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A fundamental issue facing the global community is meeting the challenges of population aging and achieving healthy aging to maintain an active older population and reduce the number of disabled people.
The focus of this book is on theoretical issues and...
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Springer
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2006-08-02
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Since publication of the first edition of Volume I in 1994, the field of fungal biology has developed tremendously, mainly through the advancement of various molecular techniques and international fungal genome projects. To accommodate these developments, the second...
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Springer
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2006-07-19
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It is my privilege to contribute the foreword for this unique volume entitled: “Plant Tissue Culture Engineering,” edited by S. Dutta Gupta and Y. Ibaraki. While there have been a number of volumes published regarding the basic methods and applications of plant tissue...
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Springer
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2006-07-10
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Health problems such as hypertension, tendency to diabetes, obesity, blood lipids, vascular disease, bone health, behaviour and learning and longevity may be ‘imprinted’ during early life. This process is defined as ‘programming’ whereby a nutritional stimulus operating...
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Springer
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2006-03-30
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Each and every hair is much more than just the visible shaft—there are also associated complex sheath structures of epidermal and dermal origin. In the hair follicle, cells undergo a variety of differentiation processes, mostly depending on their layers and positions...
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Springer
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2006-03-21
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Recently, policy debate and comparative research on old-age pensions have focused on the financial sustainability of pension systems in the face of demographic change. This study, however, also takes into account distributional effects involved in pension system...
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Physica
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2006-03-08
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The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of compreh- sive and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modern auditory - search.The volumes are aimed at all individuals with interests in hearing research including advanced graduate students,...
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Springer
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2006-03-04
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"Double Fertilization" provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of this central event in the reproduction and development of flowering plants. Written by Val Raghavan, The Ohio State University, an acknowledged expert in plant developmental biology, the book...
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Springer
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2006-01-16
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