Life Sciences: General Issues

The human brain is perhaps the most intricate and fascinating object in the known universe. Through a mysterious process, the activity of billions ...

The need to understand and address large-scale environmental problems that are difficult to study in controlled environments - issues ranging from ...

With the Collaboration of Cotter LiThe process of decrypting innovation and creation, as a lurking nondescript so far, is theorized and operational...

Going beyond the hype of recent fMRI 'findings', thisinterdisciplinary collection examines such questions as: Do women and men have significantly d...

This history of one of the most contentious educational issues in America examines bilingual instruction in the United States from the common schoo...

Although their vocabularies differ, biologists, biblical authors, and playwrights describe the paradox that Charles Darwin outlines in The Origin o...

This book is an introduction to mathematical biology for students with no experience in biology, but who have some mathematical background. The wor...

Adaptive radiation, which results when a single ancestral species gives rise to many descendants, each adapted to a different part of the environme...

While much has been written about the impact of Darwins theories on U.S. culture, and countless scholarly collections have been devoted to the scie...

Organism and Environment performs an examination into the way the contemporary life sciences are heralding a revolution of the most basic philosoph...

It is with great pleasure that we present the proceedings of the 6th Inter- tional, Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2010), which was held in La...

Auf dieser DVD-ROM finden Sie die Grafiken und Fotos der 5. Auflage, die Sie als jpg-, PDF- oder PowerPoint Dateien für Ihre Vorlesungen nutzen kön...

The complexity of genome evolution has given birth to exciting challenges for computational biologists. A various range of algorithmic, statistical...

The development and increasingly widespread deployment of high-throughput experimental methods in the life sciences is giving rise to numerous larg...

Phytoplankton, or algae, are the engines of the Earth. They form the base of the aquatic food web and, although microscopic, they produce 50% of th...

Wetlands serve many important functions and provide numerous ecological services such as clean water, wildlife habitat, nutrient reduction, and flo...

Each year wild Pacific salmon leave their oceanic feeding grounds and swim hundreds of miles back to their home rivers. The salmons annual return i...

Health Science Statistics using R and R Commander has been written for students, researchers and professionals who need a practical guide to the su...

Take a world tour between the covers of a book! Environments of Our Earth guides children through six types of regions that are shaped by rainfallo...

Metagenomics has taken off as one of the major cutting-edge fields of research. The field has broad implications for human health and disease, anim...

This book celebrates binocular vision by presenting illustrations that require two eyes to see the effects of cooperation and competition between t...