Biochemie & Biophysik

Chemosensory Systems in Mammals, Fishes, and Insects

The sense of smell has an essential role in locating food, detecting predators, navigating, and communicating social information. Accordingly, the olfactory system has evolved complex repertoires ...

Spectroscopic Data of Steroid Glycosides

<P>This book is an essential reference guide to spectroscopic, physical and biological activity data of over 3500 steroid glycosides, offering the structures and the data of the naturally oc...

The History, Use, Disposition and Environmental Fate of Agent Orange

Alvin Lee Young

<P>For almost four decades, controversy has surrounded the tactical use of herbicides in Southeast Asia by the United States military. Few environmental or occupational health issues have re...

Fundamental Concepts in Biophysics

<P>In the first volume, <EM>Fundamental Concepts in Biophysics</EM>, the authors lay down a foundation for biophysics study. Rajiv Singh opens the book by pointing to the central...

Microwave Assisted Proteomics

Jennie R Lill

Since the conceptualization of the electromagnetic spectrum and development of the magnetron, microwave energy has been utilized in many aspects and disciplines of science. Although adopted by mul...

The Machinery of Life

David S. Goodsell

Imagine that we had some way to look directly at the molecules in a living organism. An x-ray microscope would do the trick, or since we’re dreaming, perhaps an Asimov-style nanosubmarine (unfor...

Ecotoxicological Characterization of Waste

R. Wagner The European list of wastes (LOW) (Commission Decision 2000/532/EC and updates) is the basic foundation for the implementation of waste legislation in Europe. It contains a harmonized li...

Systems Biology and Biotechnology of Escherichia coli

<P>Systems biology is changing the way biological systems are studied by allowing us to examine the cell and organism as a whole. Systems biotechnology allows optimal design and development ...

Experimental Glycoscience

<P>The aim of this book is to provide experimental protocols covering many aspects of glycobiology, glycotechnology, and chemistry: biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, genetics, ph...

Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R

Alain Zuur / Elena N. Ieno / Neil Walker / Anatoly A. Saveliev / Graham M. Smith

This book discusses advanced statistical methods that can be used to analyse ecological data. Most environmental collected data are measured repeatedly over time, or space and this requires the us...

Experimental Glycoscience

<P>The aim of this book is to provide experimental protocols covering many aspects of glycobiology, glycotechnology, and chemistry: biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, genetics, ph...

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 198

<P>Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor...

Recovery of Gray Wolves in the Great Lakes Region of the United States

In this book, we document and evaluate the recovery of gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the Great Lakes region of the United States. The Great Lakes region is unique in that it was the only portion of...

Cell Stress Proteins

<P>This book surveys the current knowledge concerning the expression and function of stress proteins in different organisms, ranging from prokaryotes to humans. It provides an overview of th...

Arbeitsheft Biochemie

Timo Brandenburger

Training von aktivem Lernen und Fragenbeantwortung- kein reines Auswendiglernen- Wechselnde Aufgaben (Lückentexte, offene Fragen, Rechenaufgaben, Diagramme und vieles mehr)- Antworten und Lösung...

Essentials of Sports Nutrition and Supplements

<P>This volume is a comprehensive textbook for the undergraduate course in sports nutrition. Focusing on exercise physiology, this text is to be used in a certification course sponsored by t...

Physical Biochemistry

David Sheehan

<i>"As will be seen, there is not much missing here. I thought that the sections were well balanced, with rarely too much or too little on a given topic...This is a text to be welcomed b...

A Primer for the Exercise and Nutrition Sciences

Christopher B. Scott

What a journey writing this text has been. The lengthy voyage started well before the idea hatched of authoring a text that contained the word “thermodynamics”! I was informed by my good frien...

Bioelectronic Vision: Retina Models, Evaluation Metrics And System Design

Martins Joao Carlos Martins

Everyday Practice of Science

Frederick Grinnell