Biochemie & Biophysik

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

Everyday Practice of Science

Frederick Grinnell

Marine Biodiversity of Costa Rica, Central America

Life began in the sea, and even today most of the deep diversity of the planet is marine. This is often forgotten, especially in tropical countries like Costa Rica, renowned for their rain forests...

Ecology of Riparian Forests in Japan

<P>Riparian forests along streams and rivers are diverse in species, structure, and regeneration processes, and have important ecological functions in maintaining landscape and biodiversity....

Voltage-Sensitive Ion Channels

H. Richard Leuchtag

<P>Voltage-sensitive ion channels are macromolecules embedded in the membranes of nerve and muscle fibers of animals. Despite decades of intensive research under the traditional approach of ...

Spawning Migration of the European Eel

Freshwater eels are almost infinitely improbable creatures. They spawn and die in the middle of the ocean, often associated with undersea mountains. Their tra- parent, leaf-like larvae move with o...

Fundamentals of Cryobiology

Alexander I. Zhmakin

cGMP: Generators, Effectors and Therapeutic Implications

<P>After the discovery of endogenous NO formation in the late '80s and the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, many researchers and physicians again became interested in the NO/s...

Management of Invasive Weeds

<P>Biological invasions are one of the major threats to our native biodiversity. The magnitude of biodiversity losses, land degradation and productivity losses of managed and natural ecosyst...

Lateral Flow Immunoassay

Due to the simplicity, relative accuracy, fast result reporting, and user-friendliness of lateral flow immunoassay, its use has undergone tremendous growth in the diagnostic industry in the last f...

Dioxygen Binding and Sensing Proteins

<P>Following their own brilliant careers in haeme protein research, the outstanding scientists Jonathan and Beatrice Wittenberg continue to provide inspiration to the research community in t...

State of the World's Oceans

Stefan E. Pambuccian / David Santillo / Paul Johnston / Michelle Allsopp

The world’s oceans cover 70% of the earth’s surface and are home to a myriad of amazing and beautiful creatures. However, the biodiversity of the oceans is incre- ingly coming under serious th...

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 196

<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...

Bioluminescence And Chemiluminescence - Light Emission: Biology And Scientific Applications - Proceedings Of The 15th International Symposium

Principles of Environmental Sciences

International experts provide a comprehensive picture of the principles, concepts and methods that are applicable to problems originating from the interaction between the living/non-living environ...

Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions

<P><EM>Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions</EM> is about a specific ‘promise’ that participation holds for environmental decision-making. Many of the argu...

VEGF in Development