Category: Biology Life Sciences

By Hans Ruthenberg

In early 1961 the Ho-Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung (Ho-Institute for fiscal study) tested an "African experiences Centre" with the aid of the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation to behavior study into the commercial and political difficulties of constructing international locations, with spe cial connection with the African international locations. by way of investigations into thestructure and customers of improvement within the constructing international locations, the reviews Centre will goal at contributing in the direction of the production of a real foundation, at the foundation of which the Federal Republic's boost ment coverage could be performed successfully. during this "age of improvement" the social and fiscal sciences are faced with manifold projects. In fixing those, interdisciplinary co operation will turn out helpful or even crucial, if unsuitable and slender decisions are to be refrained from. Co-operation among scientists and institutes engaged in numerous branches of analysis will make attainable a greater und er status of the complicated sensible dating which verify fiscal occasions and their mutations open air Western commercial society than may be commonly completed via an remoted strategy. clever total financial making plans, for instance, calls for technological research simply up to an exact wisdom of social constitution or actual context. At this aspect the economist needs to co-operate heavily with the engineer if he needs to prevent wasting his manner typically styles of progress. For, "des lors que nous parions (du developpement) en quantites globales, nous ne parions de rien" (LoUIs ]OSEPH LEBRET).

By Charles Blinderman

The vocabulary of biology is made more straightforward via understanding the meanings of parts that make up complete phrases. English keeps to undertake phrases from overseas languages and to construct its vocabulary through inventing new phrases from outdated parts. lots of the phrases coming into English each year dwell in technical vocabularies and realizing what the weather suggest prepares scientific scholars and physicians, the practitioner of any organic technological know-how, and an individual else to decipher those new phrases that would identify a newly came upon microbe or mastodon, a disorder, or a surgical procedure.  Read more...

By Alastair Hay

The Chemical Scythe is the 1st booklet in a projected sequence to be released by means of Plenum Press in organization with the overseas catastrophe Institute. the purpose of the sequence, catastrophe learn in perform, is to supply medical and readable money owed at the so much pressing parts of catastrophe examine. it really is becoming, hence, that Dr. Hay's research into the character and results of dioxins heralds the hot sequence. the matter of chemical dangers is one who we are going to need to discover ways to dwell with in destiny a long time. Dr. Hay's publication is an authoritative account of the chemistry and confirmed and capability results of dioxins, and of the impli­ cations for protection making plans. He concludes with a wary, but positive note-that certainly we will discover ways to stay with such dangers, supplying that we're ready to appreciate and plan for the unforeseen. The coincidence at Seveso in 1976 alerted the area to an imperfectly un­ derstood yet immensely alarming environmental threat. Public debate and argument as to the results of dioxins and, certainly, using herbicides as competitive guns in Vietnam, rage on. And but it is just in the course of the painstaking study exemplified during this booklet that it'll ultimately be pos­ sible to advertise the important responsibility at the a part of industrialists and governments.

By Curt Elze (auth.)

By Patricia de Winter, Peter M. B. Cahusac

To shape a robust grounding in human-related sciences it really is crucial for college kids to know the elemental recommendations of statistical research, instead of easily studying to exploit statistical software program. even if the software program turns out to be useful, it doesn't arm a scholar with the abilities essential to formulate the experimental layout and research of a study undertaking in later years of analysis or certainly, if operating in research.

This textbook deftly covers an issue that many scholars locate tough. With a fascinating and obtainable kind it offers the mandatory historical past and instruments for college students to exploit facts optimistically and creatively of their reports and destiny career.

Key features:

• Up-to-date method, strategies and present examples correct to the research of enormous facts units, placing facts in context
• Strong emphasis on experimental design
• Clear illustrations all through that aid and make clear the text
• A spouse web site with reasons on how one can practice studying to similar software program packages

This is an introductory e-book written for undergraduate biomedical and social technology scholars with a spotlight on human wellbeing and fitness, interactions, and affliction. it's also necessary for graduate scholars in those parts, and for practitioners requiring a contemporary refresher.

By National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements

By Colleen Belk, Virginia Borden Maier

The 3rd variation of Biology: technology for all times maintains to attract scholars into biology via attractive tales that make tough subject matters extra obtainable and comprehensible. Colleen Belk and Virginia Borden try to make educating and studying biology a greater adventure from either side of the table. The authors draw from their instructing stories to create a textual content with a flowing narrative and cutting edge good points that require scholars to turn into extra energetic individuals of their studying. every one bankruptcy offers the fabric via a narrative that attracts from actual existence examples, making the studying extra attractive and available to present day scholars. those tales attempt to demystify themes present in biology. The 3rd version of this ebook contains a thoroughly re-designed paintings software and makes use of the authors' instructing reviews to create student-centered good points similar to the hot Savvy Reader, Visualize This, and forestall and Stretch to encourage and inspire pupil studying. the hot a more in-depth glance permits teachers the chance to extend on convinced vital organic subject matters. For teachers who want to conceal Animal constitution and serve as and Plant Biology, an alternative version of this ebook, Biology: technological know-how for all times with body structure, is usually to be had.

By James Bobick

Existence itself and todays most popular technological know-how are tested within the convenient Biology resolution ebook. From the newsworthy (What are stem cells? what's genetically transformed nutrition and why is it so controversial?) to the sensible (Does antibiotic cleaning soap relatively aid decrease an infection? How does caffeine impact cells? what number varieties of mushrooms are edible?) and the curious (What is the main risky poison produced via a plant?), convenient Biology solutions 1,600 questions about human, animal, and plant biology. You’ll locate solutions to such exciting questions as: what's cellphone cloning? what's DNA and RNA? while and the way did cells first evolve? Can blue-eyed humans have a brown-eyed baby? How severe a disorder is influenza? Do obese little ones have a better chance of being obese adults? what's an atom? Why are a few fat “good”? and others “bad”? Why do people desire ldl cholesterol? How do birds be aware of to fly south in wintry weather? Can the surroundings confirm the intercourse of an animal? whilst was once the 1st microscope constructed?

By Ernst Mayr

Not anyone during this century can communicate with higher authority at the growth of principles in biology than Ernst Mayr. And no publication has ever verified the lifestyles sciences so firmly within the mainstream of Western highbrow background as "The development of organic Thought." Ten years in guidance, this can be a paintings of epic proportions, tracing the advance of the main difficulties of biology from the earliest makes an attempt to discover order within the variety of existence, to trendy learn into the mechanisms of gene transmission.

By Prof. Dr. Herbert Hensel (auth.)

Die Grundlagen der allgemeinen oder theoretischen Sinnesphysiologie be­ finden sich gegenwärtig in einem entscheidenden Umbruch. Hatte guy bislang, gemäß der Denkweise eines traditionellen Naturalismus, das theoretische Funda­ ment der allgemeinen Sinnesphysiologie in den objektiven Wissenschaften ge­ sucht, so beginnt die Sinnestheorie sich heute aus dieser Abhängigkeit zu befreien und eigenständige methodische Ansätze zu entwickeln .. Die vorliegende Darstellung soll ein Beitrag zu dieser neuen Richtung sein. used to be uns die Sinne zeigen, ist originär und nicht aus anderen Gegebenheiten ab­ leitbar. Die Wahrnehmung als autonome Erkenntnisquelle stellt der Sinneslehre die Aufgabe einer Selbstbegründung und einer primären Strukturanalyse der Sinnenwelt, ohne sich von vornherein auf die von den exakten Wissenschaften angebotenen Begriffe festzulegen. Erst in zweiter Linie wäre dann zu fragen, welche Beziehungen zwischen den Sinnesphänomenen und den Begriffssystemen oder Sachverhalten der positiven Wissenschaften bestehen. Im zweiten Teil des Buches werden die Physiologie der Hautsinne, des Ge­ schmacks und des Geruchs als in sich geschlossene Abschnitte erörtert. Ich habe auch hier versucht, einige in der allgemeinen Sinnesphysiologie entwickelte Ge­ dankengänge einzuführen und so einen inneren Zusammenhang mit dem ersten Teil herzustellen. Manches mußte freilich noch recht heterogen bleiben, nicht zu­ letzt deshalb, weil ein großer Teil der heute bekannten sinnesphysiologischen Tatsachen das Resultat von Fragestellungen ist, die den Denkgewohnheiten der naturalistischen Sinneslehre entspringen. Neue Gesichtspunkte erscheinen mir besonders dort notwendig, wo Einzelfragen - wie etwa das challenge der "Spezi­ fität" der Hautsinne - zugleich Brennpunkte allgemein sinnesphysiologischer Auseinandersetzungen sind.