Biological category: 21163 books
The Weaponizing of Biology
Bioterrorism, Biocrime and Biohacking
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Focusing on three forms of biological threat—bioterrorism, biocrime and biohacking—the author examines the history of biowarfare and terrorism. Groups drawn to biological aggression are discussed, along with the array of viruses, bacteria and toxins they might use in their attacks. The phenomenon...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2002
In this book, the progress during the last ten years is reviewed and future plans outlined to realize and establish the concept of design in the biological sciences.
Design is a leading concept as well as the principal motivation for the creation of artificial systems. A successful design generally...
Big Mechanisms in Systems Biology
Big Data Mining, Network Modeling, and Genome-Wide Data Identification
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Big Mechanisms in Systems Biology: Big Data Mining, Network Modeling, and Genome-Wide Data Identification explains big mechanisms of systems biology by system identification and big data mining methods using models of biological systems. Systems biology is currently undergoing revolutionary changes...
by James Mark Baldwin, Jaan Valsiner
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
James Mark Baldwin left a legacy that has yet to be fully examined, one with profound implications for science and the humanities. In some sense it paralleled that of his friend Charles Sanders Peirce, whose semiotics became understood only a century later. Baldwin was trying to make sense of complex...
by Carol Lalli, Timothy R. Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 1997
This popular undergraduate textbook offers students a firm grounding in the fundamentals of biological oceanography. As well as a clear and accessible text, learning is enhanced with numerous illustrations including a colour section, thorough chapter summaries, and questions with answers and comments...
Biogeochemistry of Global Change
Radiatively Active Trace Gases Selected Papers from the Tenth International Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry, San Francisco, August 19–24, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Certain trace gases in the atmosphere are able to absorb electromagnetic energy from the reflection of solar radiation from the Earth's surface. These gases have been increasing steadily and there is concern that they will change global climatic conditions by warming the atmosphere--the so-called...
The Biological Action of Physical Medicine
Controlling the Human Body's Information System
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
The Biological Action of Physical Medicine: Controlling the Human Body's Information System challenges the contemporary way of thinking of diagnostics and therapy "from the outside." Drawing on 30 years of independent comprehensive research, this reference provides a universal and scientifically...
The Value of Life
Biological Diversity And Human Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
The Value of Life is an exploration of the actual and perceived importance of biological diversity for human beings and society. Stephen R. Kellert identifies ten basic values, which he describes as biologically based, inherhuman tendencies that are greatly influenced and moderated by culture, learning,...
Signal-Switchable Electrochemical Systems
Materials, Methods, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
A guide to the biological control over electronic systems that lead the way to wearable electronics and improved drug delivery
In recent years, this area of electrochemical systems has developed rapidly and achieved significant progress. Signal-Switchable Electrochemical Systems offers an overview...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
The combination of biological elements with electronics is of great interest for many research areas. Inspired by biological signal processes, scientists and engineers are exploring ways of manipulating, assembling, and applying biomolecules and cells on integrated circuits, joining biology with electronic...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
This volume provides an overview of the development and scope of molecular biophysics and in-depth discussions of the major experimental methods that enable biological macromolecules to be studied at atomic resolution. It also reviews the physical chemical concepts that are needed to interpret...
by Pradip Kumar Ghosh
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Introduction to Protein Mass Spectrometry provides a comprehensive overview of this increasingly important, yet complex, analytical technique. Unlike many other methods which automatically yield an absolutely unique protein name as output, protein mass spectrometry generally requires a deduction of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Engineering Interventions in Agricultural Processing presents recent advanced research on biological engineering, bioprocessing technologies, and their applications in agricultural food processing, and their applications in agriculture science and agricultural engineering, focusing on biological science,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
This book addresses the possibilities and challenges in mimicking biological membranes and creating membrane-based sensor and separation devices. Recent advances in developing biomimetic membranes for technological applications will be presented with focus on the use of integral membrane protein mediated...