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This book explains the formation of biofilm on materials surfaces in an industrial setting. The authors describe new developments in understanding of biofilm formation, detection, and control from the viewpoint of materials science and engineering. The book details the...
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Springer
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2015-04-09
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Professor Bryan Sykes, the world's leading expert on human genetics, set a goal to locate and analyse as many DNA samples as possible with links to the yeti. In doing so, he found himself entering a strange world of mystery and sensationalism, fraud and obsession and...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2015-04-09
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This comprehensive treatise provides a systemic and insightful overview of current advances in the biosynthetic genomics/genetics and preventive dietetics of carotenoids, flavonoids and betalains, from a general perspective, and in specific fruits and vegetables as...
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Springer
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2015-04-08
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This book examines how biotechnology can improve livestock breeding and farming, and thereby also animal products. In the first chapters the reader will discover which techniques and approaches are currently used to improve animal breeding, animal health and the value...
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Springer
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2015-04-07
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?The study of origin and domestication of legumes described in this book emerged when it became apparent that while this kind of information is adequate for cereals, the pulses lagged behind. At the end of the 1960s the senior author initiated a study on the chickpea's...
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Springer
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2015-04-07
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Winner of the IENE Project Award 2016.This authoritative volume brings together some of the world’s leading researchers, academics, practitioners and transportation agency personnel to present the current status of the ecological sustainability of the linear...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-04-02
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Taurine 9 contains original articles and critical reviews based on the oral and poster presentations of XIX InternationalTaurine Meeting held in Kraków, Poland in May 2014. The purpose of the book is to present current ideas, new avenues and research regarding...
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Springer
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2015-04-01
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Principles of Stem Cell Biology and Cancer: Future Applications and Therapeutics Tarik Regad, The John van Geest Cancer Research Centre, Nottingham Trent University, UK, Thomas J. Sayers, Centre for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, USA and Robert...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-04-01
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This text formally appraises the innovative ways new media artists engage urban ecology. Highlighting the role of artists as agents of technological change, the work reviews new modes of seeing, representing and connecting within the urban setting. The book describes...
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Springer
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2015-04-01
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This book provides an up-to-date review of the biology of myxozoans, which represent a divergent clade of endoparasitic cnidarians. Myxozoans are of fundamental interest in understanding how early diverging metazoans have adopted parasitic lifestyles, and are also of...
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Springer
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2015-04-01
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Gene steuern Pflanze, Tier und Mensch. Das Gen ist das Atom der Biologie. Wie kam es zu diesem Modell, das 1953 mit dem Nobelpreis gekrönt wurde? Welche Einwände gibt es gegen das Modell? Dieses Buch verfolgt erstmalig in den Originaltexten der beteiligten Forscher die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-31
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science's report on Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education suggests that instructors "can no longer rely solely on trying to cover a syllabus packed with topics" but rather should "introduce fewer concepts...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-03-31
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The second edition of a highly acclaimed handbook and ready reference. Unmatched in its breadth and quality, around 100 specialists from all over the world share their up-to-date expertise and experiences, including hundreds of protocols, complete with explanations,...
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Wiley-VCH
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2015-03-31
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This new book is the first to make logical and important connections between trapping and foraging ecology. It develops and describes—both verbally and mathematically--the underlying principles that determine and define trap-organism interactions. More important, it...
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Springer
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2015-03-31
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Nanoparticles are the building blocks for nanotechnology; they are better built, long lasting, cleaner, safer, and smarter products for use across industries, including communications, medicine, transportation, agriculture and other industries. Controlled size, shape,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-03-30
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This volume includes treatments of systematics and related topics for both fungi and fungus-like organisms in four eukaryotic supergroups, as well as specialized chapters on nomenclature, techniques and evolution. These organisms are of great interest to mycologists,...
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Springer
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2015-03-30
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The Mycota
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The volume focuses on the genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and bioinformatics of a single cell, especially lymphocytes and on understanding the molecular mechanisms of systems immunology. Based on the author’s personal experience, it provides revealing insights into...
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Springer
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2015-03-27
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The book integrates our understanding of the factors and processes underlying the evolution of multicellularity by providing several complementary perspectives (both theoretical and experimental) and using examples from various lineages in which multicellularity...
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Springer
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2015-03-27
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Wie es ist ein Vogel zu sein – ein bahnbrechender Blick auf die Sinneswelt der VögelDas Buch des britischen Ornithologen Tim Birkhead hat die englische Leserwelt im Sturm erobert –und begeistert nun auch das deutschsprachige Publikum.Fliegen wie ein Vogel – das ist für...
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Springer
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2015-03-26
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This volume examines fish sounds that have a proven signal function, as well as sounds assumed to have evolved for communication purposes. It provides an overview of the mechanisms, evolution and neurobiology behind sound production in fishes, and discusses the role of...
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Springer
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2015-03-26
Collection :
Animal Signals and Communication
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