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This book examines the contents, influence, and potential of a personal selection of modern books published over the last fifty years that have been relevant to improving welfare. The works selected comprise three earlier classics that mainly deal with animal...
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Springer
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2012-10-01
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This innovative textbook provides a readable, contemporary and fully integrated introduction to endocrine glands, their hormones and how their function relates to homeostasis. It explores the pathology of endocrine disease by relating the underpinning science through a...
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Wiley
Parution :
2012-10-01
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This Brief offers a concise, handy overview of the main concepts related to Embryology, revisited through the novel concepts that are applied daily in stem cell research and cell therapy oriented investigations. It is based on three main areas: -The process involved...
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Springer
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2012-09-30
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Blood vessels of tumors display many structural and functional abnormalities. Their unusual leakiness, potential for rapid growth and remodeling, and expression of distinctive surface molecules mediate the dissemination of tumor cells in the bloodstream and maintain the...
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Springer
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2012-09-28
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Population ecology has matured to a sophisticated science with astonishing potential for contributing solutions to wildlife conservation and management challenges. And yet, much of the applied power of wildlife population ecology remains untapped because its broad...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-09-27
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NMR is one of the most powerful methods for imaging of biomolecules. This book is the ultimateNMR guide for researchers in the biomedical community and gives not only background and practical tips but also a forward looking view on the future ofNMR in systems biology....
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-09-27
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Molecular Markers in Plants surveys an array of technologies used in the molecular analysis of plants. The role molecular markers play in plant improvement has grown significantly as DNA sequencing and high-throughput technologies have matured. This timely review of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-09-27
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Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survival. Understanding dispersal has become key to...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-09-27
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Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survival. Understanding dispersal has become key to...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-09-27
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This volume investigates how the mitochondrial genome is transmitted, segregated, and inherited. It starts by describing mtDNA mutations and deletions and how these impact on the offspring’s well-being. It progresses to discuss how mutations to the mtDNA-nuclear-encoded...
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Humana
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2012-09-26
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Advances in technological and analytical methods have fostered rapid growth of systems biology and synthetic biology. There continues to be rapid changes and discoveries in both fields with a small number of recent peer-reviewed reviews indicating some of the...
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Springer
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2012-09-25
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African Ethnobotany in the Americas provides the first comprehensive examination of ethnobotanical knowledge and skills among theAfrican Diaspora in the Americas. Leading scholars on the subject explore the complex relationship between plant use and meaning among the...
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Springer
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2012-09-25
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Written by one of the most consulted authorities on the subject, Atlas of Developmental Field Anomalies of the Human Skeleton is the pre-eminent resource for developmental defects of the skeleton. This guide focuses on localized bone structures utilizing the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-09-25
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Tropical rain forests are increasingly expected to serve for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation amid global climate change and increasing human demands for land. Natural production forests that are legally designated to produce timber occur widely...
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Springer
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2012-09-24
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Der Naturstoff Palmerolid A wurde im Jahr 2006 erstmals isoliert und zeigte in zellbiologischen Untersuchungen eine sehr starke und außergewöhnlich selektive cytotoxische Aktivität gegenüber ausgewählten Krebszelllinien. Als 20-gliedriges Makrolacton mit fünf...
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Springer Vieweg
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2012-09-21
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The research results point to the need of sustaining plant protein sources to large populations in sub-Saharan Africa that have no access to meat. Proteins are essential components of the human body and therefore indispensable for human life. Malnutrition and diseases...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-21
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Developmental biology is at the core of biological science, integrating molecular biology, genetics and anatomy. The past 15 years has seen revolutionary advances not only in our understanding of the processes by which an egg develops into an adult, but also in the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-09-21
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This book provides a premier resource on understanding the ribosome's essential nature and how it interacts with other proteins and nucleic acids to control protein synthesis. As one of the central foundations in our understanding of the biology at the molecular level,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-09-20
Collection :
Biophysics for the Life Sciences
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The aim of this book is to describe what is currently occurring in the Mongolian grasslands, to analyze how various factors creating environmental problems interact, and to suggest solutions for sustainable management of the grasslands.The book has three parts. Part I...
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Springer
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2012-09-20
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Wer Biotope wirksam schützen will, muss deren Funktion verstehen. Auch wenn der der hohe Wert von natürlichen Lebensräumen für das ökologische Gleichgewicht der Erde lange bekannt ist, hat es die Natur nach wie vor schwer, sich angesichts des immer größeren...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2012-09-19
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