Asthma is a familiar and growing disease today, but its story goes back to the ancient world, as we know from accounts in ancient texts from China, In ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Australian Conference on Artificial Life, ACAL 2009, held in Melbourne, Australia, in Decemb ...
Annelids offer a diversity of experimentally accessible features making them a rich experimental subject across the biological sciences, including evo ...
The increasing cost of research means that scientists are in more urgent need of optimal design theory to increase the efficiency of parameter estimat ...
Biomedical Science in Professional and Clinical Practice is essential reading for all trainee biomedical scientists looking for an introduction to the ...
Quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping is used to discover the genetic and molecular architecture underlying complex quantitative traits. It has impor ...
Considers the ethics and challenges of biotechnology.
* The first book to provide a simple and practical means of valuing biotech companies* The book begins with a short history of the biotechnology indus ...
In recent years, biotechnology research and development (R&D) in China has been receiving increasing attention from the world. With the open-door poli ...
Biotechnology is the major technology of the 21st century, yet few people realise how much it impacts on many aspects of human society. The defining a ...
Lake Baikal is the oldest, deepest and most voluminous lake on Earth, comprising one fifth of the World’s unfrozen fresh water. It hosts the highest n ...
The editors of this special volume would first like to thank all authors for their excellent contributions. We would also like to thank Prof. Dr. Thom ...
Biochemical engineering is the application of engineering principles to conceive, design, develop, operate, and/or use processes and products based on ...
Reflecting the versatility of the author’s science and the depth of his experience, Application of Solution Protein Chemistry to Biotechnology explore ...
After being widely rejected in the late 20th century the work of Karl Marx is now being reassessed by many theorists and activists. Karl Marx, Anthrop ...
This book examines Japanese tourism and travel, both today and in the past, showing how over hundreds of years a distinct culture of travel developed, ...
In recent years an interest in applying the principles of evolution to the study of culture emerged in the social sciences. Archaeologists and anthrop ...
Why do Jaws, Field of Dreams, The Big Lebowski, and The Godfather remain strikingly popular in this age of fragmented audiences and ever-faster spin c ...
