Biophysics category: 418 books
Ultrafast Dynamics of Phospholipid-Water Interfaces
Studied by Nonlinear Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
This thesis presents a highly innovative study of the ultrafast structural and vibrational dynamics of hydrated phospholipids, the basic constituents of cell membranes. As a novel approach to the water-phospholipid interface, the author studies phosphate vibrations using the most advanced methods...
by L Veerakumari
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Bioinstrumentation deals with the instrumentation techniques and principles used for measuring physical, physiological, biochemical and biological factors in man or other living organisms. This book provides a comprehensive knowledge about the basic principles and applications of the tools and techniques...
by Gordon G. Hammes, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This book provides an introduction to physical chemistry that is directed toward applications to the biological sciences. Advanced mathematics is not required. This book can be used for either a one semester or two semester course, and as a reference volume by students and faculty in the biological sciences.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This book provides a concise overview of the photophysics and spectroscopy of bio chromophore ions. The book "Photophysics of Ionic Biochromophores" summarizes important recent advances in the spectroscopy of isolated biomolecular ions in vacuo, which has within the last decade become a...
Environmental Radiation Effects on Mammals
A Dynamical Modeling Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Themonographisdevotedtothetheoreticalstudiesofradiationeffectsonmammals. It summarizes the results obtained by the author over the past 30 years, most of them being of high priority. In the course of these studies, a single approach to the modeling of radiation effects on mammals has been elaborated....
Read-Out and Coherent Manipulation of an Isolated Nuclear Spin
Using a Single-Molecule Magnet Spin-Transistor
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This thesis sheds new light on the worldwide first electrical manipulation of a single nuclear spin. Over the last four decades, the size of a bit, the smallest logical unit in a computer, has decreased by more than two orders of magnitude and will soon reach a limit where quantum phenomena become...
Furry Logic
The Physics of Animal Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The animal world is full of mysteries. Why do dogs slurp from their drinking bowls while cats lap up water with a delicate flick of the tongue? How does a tiny turtle hatchling from Florida circle the entire northern Atlantic before returning to the very beach where it hatched? And how can a Komodo...
by Zvi Kelman
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Isotope Labeling of Biomolecules: Applications, the latest in the Methods in Enzymology series, focuses on stable isotope labeling methods and applications for biomolecules. This practical guide to biomolecular labeling looks at new techniques that are becoming widely used.
Continues the legacy...
by Ksenia Guseva
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
With the aim of providing a deeper insight into possible mechanisms of biological self-organization, this thesis presents new approaches to describe the process of self-assembly and the impact of spatial organization on the function of membrane proteins, from a statistical physics point of view. It...
by Karl J. Niklas, Hanns-Christof Spatz
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
From Galileo, who used the hollow stalks of grass to demonstrate the idea that peripherally located construction materials provide most of the resistance to bending forces, to Leonardo da Vinci, whose illustrations of the parachute are alleged to be based on his study of the dandelion’s pappus and...
Discovery of the Life-Organizing Principle
In Search of the Fundamental Laws of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Everything you wanted to know about physics, biology, and the world at large becomes straightforward once you understand the life-organizing principle. Author E.M. Elsheikh, a mathematician and longtime professor, examines what the principle tells us about nature and life in this academic work. He...
The Immense Journey
From the Birth of the Universe to the Rise of Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
This book is an attempt to trace the majestic immense journey from the coming into being of the universe to the emergence and evolution of life. It is intended to complement the many excellent books that cover different aspects of this journey.
The contents have been classified into five parts....
Structure and Functions of Contractile Proteins
Revisions, Additions, and a Foreword to the English-Language Edition Prepared by the Author
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Structure and Functions of Contractile Proteins focuses on the analysis of problems on the structure and functions of contractile proteins in which substantial progress has been achieved.
The book first offers information on the protein constitution of myofibrils and myosin, including adenosinetriphosphatase...
Introduction to Sports Biomechanics
Analysing Human Movement Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Introduction to Sports Biomechanics provides a genuinely accessible and comprehensive guide to all of the biomechanics topics covered in an undergraduate sports and exercise science degree.
Now revised and in its second edition, Introduction to Sports Biomechanics is full of visual aids to...