Life Sciences: General Issues

In Measuring the Immeasurable Mind: Where Contemporary Neuroscience Meets the Aristotelian Tradition, Matthew Owen argues that despite its nonphysi...

We are pleased to present the proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI 2010) which took place in Liverpool, UK, Sept-...

This volume contains the accepted full papers and extended abstracts of the 5th Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics held in Bu 'zios, Rio de Jane...

Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of t...

The 2010 International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation (LSMS 2010) and the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Computing...

What does it mean to say that mutation is random? How does mutation influence evolution? Are mutations merely the raw material for selection to sha...

As the age of childbearing increases, reduced female gamete (egg) quality has emerged as the primaery cause of infertility in women. This book addr...

Radiomics and Radiogenomics: Technical Basis and Clinical Applications provides a first summary of the overlapping fields of radiomics and radiogen...

This practical handbook provides a clearly structured, concise and comprehensive account of the huge variety of atmospheric and related measurement...

The recent advances in Programming Somatic Cell (PSC) including induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPS) and Induced Neuronal phenotypes (iN), has chan...

A comprehensive pocket guide to dinosaurs and prehistoric animals and the world they inhabited millions of years ago. Packed with more than 700 ful...

What does it mean to say that mutation is random? How does mutation influence evolution? Are mutations merely the raw material for selection to sha...

This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social ...

The 2010 International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation (LSMS 2010) and the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Computing...

La microbiologia predittiva si occupa dello sviluppo di modelli matematici per la crescita, la sopravvivenza e linattivazione dei microrganismi neg...

This volume, the tenth in the series, comprises modern treatments for the families and genera of the eudicot orders Sapindales and Cucurbitales. Th...

The commodification of scienceoften identified with commercialization, or the selling of expertise and research results and the capitalization of k...

For some time, medicine has been an important driver for the development of data processing and visualization techniques. Improved technology offer...

How, when, and why has the Pacific been a locus for imagining different futures by those living there as well as passing through? What does that te...

'A big-picture forecast of how medicine stands on the threshold of a revolution that will radically change all of our lives' The TimesWelcome to a ...

Alone in the known universe the Earth glows bright with life, a unique cosmic oasis of biodiversity which is now under threat from our own actions....