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Gastric acid plays a primary role in digestion as well as in the sterilization of food and water.Gastric juice contains the most concentrated physiological acid solution (pH~1) as a result + – of H and Cl ion secretion [hydrochloric acid (HCl) production] by parietal...
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Springer
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2007-05-23
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South Asia is home to a diverse range of prehistoric and contemporary cultures that include foragers, pastoralists, and farmers. In this book, archaeologists, biological anthropologists, geneticists and linguists are brought together in order to provide a comprehensive...
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Springer
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2007-05-22
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Forest conservation has become one of the most important environmental issues currently facing humanity, as a result of widespread deforestation and forest degradation. Pressures on remaining natural forests continue to intensify, leading to high rates of biodiversity...
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OUP Oxford
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2007-05-17
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Contents E.I. Christensen and R. Nielsen: Role of Megalin and Cubilin in Renal Physiology and Pathophysiology G. Zifarelli and M. Pusch: CLC Chloride Channels and Transporters: A Biophysical and Physiological Perspective S.F.J. van de Graaf, R.J.M. Bindels and J.G.J....
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Springer
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2007-05-17
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Wheat researchers have made unique contributions and excellent progress to the production increase over the past several decades, mainly in the less developed countries; however, there are many challenges that still lie ahead to make food more accessible than ever...
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Springer
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2007-05-16
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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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Seagrasses are unique plants; the only group of flowering plants to recolonise the sea. They occur on every continental margin, except Antarctica, and form ecosystems which have important roles in fisheries, fish nursery grounds, prawn fisheries, habitat diversity and...
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Springer
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2007-05-16
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As employed here the term grass applies only to species included in the Poaceae, one of the largest families of flowering plants. However, the word is often applied to any herbaceous plant with long, narrow leaves. A similar view was adopted by the Ancients. The Greeks...
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Springer
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2007-05-16
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A comprehensive guide to the revolutionary area of systems biology and its application in cell culture engineering, this volume presents an overall picture of the current topics central to structural and functional genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and bioinformatics,...
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Springer
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2007-05-15
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Cell Engineering
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Emerging from decades of intensive research into alpine timberlines, Trees at their Upper Limit presents a complete modern synthesis of current knowledge on the ecophysiology of tree growth and survival on high mountains in Europe.
Including chapters on soil properties...
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Springer
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2007-05-15
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Plant Ecophysiology
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Troponin is a central subject in biochemical, biophysical, and physiological research. The discovery of this protein initiated a new era in research into the molecular biology of the regulation of contraction in striated muscle. This volume covers the entire spectrum of...
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Springer
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2007-05-14
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Principles and Standards for Measuring Net Primary Production in Long-Term Ecological Studies is the first book to establish a standardized method for measuring net primary productivity (NPP) in ecological research. Primary productivity is the rate at which energy is...
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Oxford University Press
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2007-05-14
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Genome Exploitation: Data Mining theGenome is developed from the 23rd Stadler Genetic Symposium. This volume discusses and illustrates how scientists are going to characterize and make use of the massive amount of information being accumulated about the plant and animal...
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Springer
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2007-05-11
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The application of microbiological methods to the extraction of metals from minerals has definitely gained a prominent role and is supported by the several bioleaching and biooxidation processes operating in different sites over the world. In recent years new techniques...
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Springer
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2007-05-11
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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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Fluctuations in the environmental conditions impacting life are ubiquitous. These fluctuations induce changes in the vital processes occurring within individual organisms (such as cellular metabolism) and the ecological processes occurring among individuals (such as...
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Springer
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2007-05-08
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Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants presents the current status of the elucidation and improvement of plant genomes of economic interest. The focus is on genetic and physical mapping, positioning, cloning, monitoring of desirable genes by molecular breeding...
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Springer
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2007-05-05
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Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants
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For centuries people have been puzzled by the inevitability of human aging.For most of the second half of the twentieth century aging remained a mystery, or an unsolved biological problem. At the end of the 20th century a remarkable scientific discovery emerged. It was...
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Springer
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2007-05-04
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The Eternal Frontier leads the reader on a 65-million-year quest to understand the formation of North America. From the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period to the present day, Flannery explores America's history with keen...
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Penguin
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2007-05-03
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