OXYGEN profiles the complicated element, its impact on world history, and what it does to the human body. Lane, a biochemist, points out that while oxygen sustains life, it is also directly responsible for age-related disease. Comprehensive in scope, looking back some 500 million years ago to the present, OXYGEN offers readers of all backgrounds a ...
Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all complex living things, and in that sense, they are fundamental for driving complex life on the planet. But there is much more to them than that. Mitochondria have their own DNA, with their own small ...
The archetypal Onetti hero, Medina is at different times of his life a (phoney) doctor, a painter and a police chief. He lives in Lavanda, across the river from Santa Maria, a town he is not allowed to enter and that he, therefore, wishes to destroy. In the end the wind speaks with devastating results.The first novel written in exile in Spain, ...
While it is barely 50 years since the first reliable reports of the recovery of living cells frozen to cryogenic temperatures, there has been tremendous growth in the use of cryobiology in medicine, agriculture, horticulture, forestry, and the conservation of endangered or economically important species.As the first major text on cryobiology in ...
GENSTAT 5 is a flexible computer system for the statistical analysis of data. This volume, which is a sequel to "GENSTAT 5: An Introduction", covers more sophisticated statistical techniques and introduces more advanced applications of the language. Topics covered include regression analysis of grouped data, non-linear regression, contingency ...
A collection of quotations from notable Australians who have suffered major public defeats or setbacks, yet in some manner carried the day. From Ned Kelly's words at his sentencing, to John Howard's famous 'Lazarus act' in the mid-90s, this book is an entertaining reminder that when things look at their bleakest, not all is necessarily lost.
Genstat 5 is a flexible system for statistical analysis. It is the latest redesigned and updated version of the Genstat system which is used worlwide in all areas of application of statistics. Genstat 5 runs both interactively and in batch mode on a wide range of computers, from micros to mainframes. It provides a full programming language for ...
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