This fully revised and expanded edition of Marine Geology closely examines the interrelationship between water and its life forms and geologic structures. It looks at several ideas for the origin of the Earth, continents and oceans, and how these processes fit into the origin of the universe. From gigantic submarine canyons to ocean volcanoes, ...
This is the second volume to emerge from the cell signaling meeting in Luxembourg (see Part A) to discuss therapeutic applications in the field of signal transduction, transcription, and translation. These meetings and the volumes comprising their proceedings have brought forward new insights in this rapidly moving field. These volumes focus on ...
Clearly written and well illustrated with black-and-white photographs, illustrations, and helpful tables, Asteroids, Comets, and Meteorites provides students, researchers, and general readers with the most up-to-date information on this fascinating field. From the days of the dinosaurs to our modern environment, this book explores all aspects of ...
For the last 40 years, biogerontology - the study of the biological basis of aging - has progressed tremendously, and it has now become an independent and respected field of study and research. This volume brings together contributions by biogerontologists, bioethicists, biodemographers, researchers, students, clinicians, and dieticians. The main ...
Encyclopedia of Earth Science provides a broad scope of important subjects in the field of Earth science - hydrology, structural geology, petrology, isotope geology, geochemistry, geomorphology, and oceanography. Containing approximately 700 entries, 19 prose essays, 110 line illustrations, and 100 black-and-white photographs, this comprehensive ...
The need to protect biodiversity places great constraints on the use of natural spaces such as forests and preserves and often conflicts with the need for sustainable intensification of agricultural and animal production. Human, domestic animal, and wildlife habitats have increasingly overlapped and have resulted in modified patterns of ...
The potential for the development of therapeutic oligonucleotides into clinical medicines and their use as basic research tools are explored in this volume, which is the proceedings of the 7th NIH Symposium on Therapeutic Oligonucleotides. The focus is on antisense, RNAi, triple-helix, gene repair, DNA chips, and CpG immune modulatory ...
This volume discusses the rationale for active specific immunotherapy with vaccines; the immune mechanisms important for vaccine effectiveness; the nature of tumour antigens relevant for vaccine construction; current methods to construct cancer vaccines and results of clinical trials; and strategies to potentiate the immunogenicity of vaccines.
This volume brings together contributions from basic scientists, epidemiologists, and practicing clinicians whose expertise or clinical practice involves the study or administration of gonadal hormones. Our current knowledge of the biology of gonadal hormones is assessed, and the question is explored of the gaps in knowledge that need to be ...
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Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Bruce Chandler, New York Academy of Sciences, New York (City). City College. Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
An introduction to the scientific principles behind various geological processes to explain how and why they can sometimes be dangerous to humans, this sourcebook contains numerous examples of famous or recent geological disasters. The text provides contemporary scientific information on all major types of geological disasters, such as volcanoes, ...
Aging is an inevitable consequence of life for nearly all organisms. It mostly reflects the outcome of complicated interactions between genetic factors along with the accumulation of a variety of deleterious stochastic changes over time. Thus, aging is an adaptive process, not caused by a single factor or process, but it is rather a multifactorial ...
Virtually every aspect of mitochondrial research and medicine is addressed in this volume, including mitochondrial function and dysfunction, free radical biology relevant to mitochondrial dysfunction, the role of mitochondria in apoptosis, and abnormal signaling processes and disease mechanisms associated with aging, mtDNA mutations, or ...
This volume discusses the molecular basis for age-dependent changes in DHEA levels with the aim of determining the potential value of DHEA as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool in age-related disorders. It provides an overview of the biosynthesis and metabolic physiology of DHEA as well as of its biochemical modes of action and possible roles in ...
The question of health care in the United States has propelled a demand for reform, and sparked a frenzied debate as to the structure of that reform. This volume addresses the possible consequences of too-hasty and ill-advised changes, and dicusses what characterises a truly excellent practice of medicine. It also addresses the place of basic ...
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