Catálogo de libros Biologia, Ciencias De La Vida

Adaptive Control for Robotic Manipulators

This book focuses on the adaptive control of robotic manipulators to address the changed conditions. It’s aim is to summarise and introduce the state-of-the-art technologies in the field of adaptive control of robotic manipulators in order to improve the methodologies on the adaptive control of robotic manipulators. Advances made in the past decades are described in the book, i...

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321,21 €

Hepatocyte Transplantation

This volume features up-to-date protocols for the isolation, preservation, and validation of various cell sources comprising large and small animal models, examining the impact of cell transplantation on acute and chronic liver diseases. Hepatocyte Transplantation: Methods and Protocols guides readers through laboratory protocols for the generation of humanized livers for the a...

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149,65 €

3rd International Multidisciplinary Microscopy and Microanalysis Congress (InterM)

The 3rd International Multidisciplinary Microscopy Congress (InterM2015), held from 19 to 23 October 2015, focused on the latest developments concerning applications of microscopy in the biological, physical and chemical sciences at all dimensional scales, advances in instrumentation, techniques in and educational materials on microscopy. These proceedings gather 17 peer-review...

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208,64 €

Topics in Biomedical Gerontology

This book presents a collection of articles on various aspects of current research on aging. These include model systems, cellular, biochemical and molecular aspects of experimental aging research, as well as selected intervention studies on age-related diseases.Aging is a global challenge to human society. Children are always in a hurry to become adults, while adults produce o...

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206,16 €

Translational Biomedical Informatics

This book introduces readers to essential methods and applications in translational biomedical informatics, which include biomedical big data, cloud computing and algorithms for understanding omics data, imaging data, electronic health records and public health data. The storage, retrieval, mining and knowledge discovery of biomedical big data will be among the key challenges f...

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47,61 €

The Mitotic Exit Network

This detailed book collects the main methodologies used for the analysis of the activity, localization, and regulation of the components of the Mitotic Exit Network (MEN) pathway during mitotic exit in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, as well as for the evaluation of the roles of these proteins in other cellular processes, such as the condensation of the rDNA, the functionality of the...

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146,31 €

Enantioselection in Asymmetric Catalysis

Ilya D. Gridnev / Pavel A. Dub

The field of asymmetric catalysis is currently one of the hottest areas in chemistry. This unique book focuses on the mechanism of enantioselectivity in asymmetric catalysis, rather than asymmetric catalysis from the synthetic view. It describes reliable, experimentally and computationally supported mechanisms, and discusses the danger of so-called 'plausible' or 'accepted' mec...

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310,62 €

Cell Cycle Synchronization

Gaspar Banfalvi

This second edition volume provides detailed protocols on the theoretical background of cell cycle synchronization procedures and instructions on how to implement these techniques. The chapters in Cell Cycle Synchronization: Methods and Protocols, Second Edition cover subjects such as: physical fractionations including centrifugal elutriation of healthy and apoptotic cells, and...

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223,19 €

Phagocytosis and Phagosomes

Roberto Botelho

This volume details experimental approaches used to investigate phagocytosis and phagosome maturation. Chapters present methods and protocols on quantifying uptake and phagosome maturation using biophysical and biochemical approaches, proteomics, microscopy, and flow cytometry. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introdu...

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235,50 €

Telocytes

This book elucidates the genetic, biological, morphological and functional aspects of telocytes. Telocytes are a recently defined type of interstitial (stromal) cells, with very long (tens to hundreds of micrometres) and very thin prolongations (mostly below the resolving power of light microscopy). The book describes the presence of telocytes in various organs and tissues, det...

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47,07 €

Ecological Monitoring, Assessment, and Management in Freshwater Systems

Today, sustainability of a healthy freshwater ecosystem and its associated ecosystem services are hot issues with ever-growing attention placed upon them. We are increasingly recognizing that they are crucial for the survival of the aquatic biota and human beings on our planet.The efficient monitoring of water resources is fundamental for effective management of water quality a...

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99,05 €

Translational Research in Audiology, Neurotology, and the Hearing Sciences

Translational Research is the interface between basic science and human clinical application, including the entire process from animal studies to human clinical trials (phases I, II, and III). Translational Research moves promising basic science results from the laboratory to bedside application. Yet, this transition is often the least-defined, least-understood part of the rese...

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196,37 €

Statistical Causal Inferences and Their Applications in Public Health Research

This book compiles and presents new developments in statistical causal inference. The accompanying data and computer programs are publicly available so readers may replicate the model development and data analysis presented in each chapter. In this way, methodology is taught so that readers may implement it directly. The book brings together experts engaged in causal inference ...

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196,55 €

Neurology Equations Made Simple

Dr Nadeem Akhtar

There are lots of books available in the market that do not necessarily simplify the challenging concepts of neurological disorders and in a user-friendly and attractive manner. During a busy hospital working environment or during a stressful outpatient clinic session, physicians are looking for quick and concise answers. They want to be efficient, quick, and safe. With the hel...

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16,54 €

Neurology Equations Made Simple

Dr Nadeem Akhtar

There are lots of books available in the market that do not necessarily simplify the challenging concepts of neurological disorders and in a user-friendly and attractive manner. During a busy hospital working environment or during a stressful outpatient clinic session, physicians are looking for quick and concise answers. They want to be efficient, quick, and safe. With the hel...

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26,88 €

Parental Obesity

In this book, leading figures in the field of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease provide up-to-date information from human clinical trials, cohorts, and animal physiology experiments to reveal the interdependence between parental obesity and health of the offspring. Obesity of the mother and father produces obesity in their offspring, so we are caught up in an intergen...

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245,95 €

Defensive (anti-herbivory) Coloration in Land Plants

Simcha Lev-Yadun

This book presents visual plant defenses (camouflage, mimicry and aposematism via coloration, morphology and even movement) against herbivores. It is mainly an ideological monograph, a manifesto representing my current understanding on defensive plant coloration and related issues. The book is not the final word in anything, but rather the beginning of many things. It aims to e...

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209,09 €

Educational School Gardening and Handwork

Plant Cytogenetics

Ram J. Singh

Cytogenetics plays an important role in understanding the chromosomal and genetic architecture of plant species. Plant Cytogenetics, Third Edition follows the tradition of its predecessors presenting theoretical and practical aspects of plant cytogenetics. Chapters describe correct handling of plant chromosomes, methods in plant cytogenetics, cell division, reproduction methods...

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331,96 €

A Study on Antimicrobial Effects of Nanosilver for Drinking Water Disinfection

Xu Yang

This thesis examines the feasibility of using silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) as a viable disinfectant. It explores the opportunities and challenges of using AgNPs as an antimicrobial agent, and includes the latest research findings. It compares three kinds of AgNPs with regard to their antibacterial and antiviral effects; their sustainability in real water matrices; and their ant...

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134,26 €

Drug Discovery from Mother Nature

Second comprehensive volume focuses on anti-inflammatory nutraceuticals and their role in prevention and therapy of various chronic diseases. Food and drug administration (FDA) approved drugs such as steroids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS), statins and metformin have been shown to modulate inflammatory pathways, but their long-term intake has been associated wi...

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209,11 €

Cannabinoid Modulation of Emotion, Memory, and Motivation

The endocannabinoid system consists of cannabinoid receptors, their endogenous lipid ligands (endocannabinoids) and the enzymatic machinery for their synthesis and degradation. In the brain, endocannabinoids regulate ion channel activity and neurotransmitter release and thereby contribute to various aspects of brain function, including memory, reward and emotions. Their ability...

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210,69 €

Stem Cell Transplantation

Organ transplantation has been the most important therapeutic advance in the last third of the 20th century. Its development has revolutionized medicine, as demonstrated by the fact that a large number of researchers in this field have been awarded Nobel Prizes. In the beginning of this century, we are witnessing with great expectations the emergence of a new field of medicine ...

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284,08 €

Functional Ultrastructure

Jürgen Roth / Margit Pavelka

This atlas provides a detailed insight into the complex structure and organization of cells and tissues, and highlights their specific functions as well as the dynamics of diverse intracellular processes. Highly informative electron micrographs are complemented by explanatory texts, selected references and schemes. The concept that subcellular organelles provide the structural ...

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384,42 €

Muscle Contraction and Cell Motility

Haruo Sugi

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current progress in muscle contraction and cell motility research. It discusses structural, mechanical, and biochemical characteristics of skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscles, and cell motility. The experimental objects of the studies described in this volume extend from humans to molecules. A distinct feature of this volume ...

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257,28 €

Microbial Enzymes in Bioconversions of Biomass

Vijai Kumar Gupta

This volume summarizes our current knowledge on different biomass-converting enzymes and their potential use in converting biomass into simple sugar to generate bioenergy and other value added co-/by products. It consists of 13 chapters and is divided into three parts: cellulases; hemicellulases; and lignocellulose oxidoreductases. Written by international experts, the contribu...

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135,14 €

Competitiveness of Global Agriculture

Attila Jambor / Suresh Babu

The book combines food security and agricultural competitiveness issues and treat them together. It starts with definitions and evolution of both concepts, followed by reviews on global and regional food security challenges. The book identifies global agricultural trade and competitiveness patterns and uses it as a basis for analysing global food security. Further, the book als...

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134,66 €

Environmental History in the Making

This book is the product of the 2nd World Conference on Environmental History, held in Guimarães, Portugal, in 2014. It gathers works by authors from the five continents, addressing concerns raised by past events so as to provide information to help manage the present and the future. It reveals how our cultural background and examples of past territorial intervention can help t...

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209,02 €

Catálogo de libros: Biologia, ciencias de la vida

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