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This volume reviews the techniques Forster Resonance Energy
Transfer (FRET) and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM)
providing researchers with step by step protocols and handy hints
and tips. Both have become staple techniques in many biological and
biophysical fields.
Living systems exhibit a fundamental contradiction: they are highly
stable and reliable, yet they have the capacity to adapt to
changing environmental conditions. This paradoxical behavior arises
from the complexity of life--a high degree of order and cooperation
that emerges from relatively simple interactions among cellular
components. The Complexity Paradox proposes inventive,
interdisciplinary approaches to maintaining health and managing and
preventing disease by considering the totality of human biology,
from the cellular level on up to entire populations of individuals.
From the perspective of complexity, which acknowledges that there
are limits to what we can know, Kenneth L. Mossman opens the door
to understanding essential life processes in new and extraordinary
ways. By tying together evolution, functional dynamics, and
investigations into how the body processes energy and uses genetic
information, Mossman's analysis expresses a unified theory of
biology that fills a critical niche for future research in biology,
medicine, and public health.
In this volume, the largest to be published on the geometrid moths
of Europe, 268 species of the subfamily Larentiinae are examined.
Many of the genera have caused serious problems in identification,
but based on the large number of specimens illustrated on the 25
color plates, the species can now be identified much more easily.
In the additional black and white photos for species which are
difficult to identify, differential characteristics are pointed out
with arrows. As in previously published volumes, maps with the
European distribution are given, with dots for verified specimens.
There are photographs of male and female genitalia of all species,
and this volume also contains a systematic catalogue of the
European species, including those of the neighboring regions of
North Africa, Macaronesia, Turkey, and the Middle East. This is the
first volume to include genetic information from DNA barcoding,
which has proven to be an additional useful tool in identification,
taxonomy, and species delimitation. (Series: Geometrid Moths of
Europe - Vol. 3)
This book presents recent research results relating to applications
of nonlinear dynamics, focusing specifically on four topics of wide
interest: heart dynamics, DNA/RNA, cell mobility, and proteins. The
book derives from the First BCAM Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics in
Biological Systems, held in June 2014 at the Basque Center of
Applied Mathematics (BCAM). At this international meeting,
researchers from different but complementary backgrounds, including
molecular dynamics, physical chemistry, bio-informatics and
biophysics, presented their most recent results and discussed the
future direction of their studies using theoretical, mathematical
modeling and experimental approaches. Such was the level of
interest stimulated that the decision was taken to produce this
publication, with the organizers of the event acting as editors.
All of the contributing authors are researchers working on diverse
biological problems that can be approached using nonlinear
dynamics. The book will appeal especially to applied
mathematicians, biophysicists, and computational biologists.
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For animal behavior, ethology, and behavioral ecology courses, this
laboratory manual is the first of its kind in this subject area
that guides students through the diverse and fascinating fields of
behavioral and ethological studies, employing a wide array of
organisms as model systems for the study of behavior. Students
participate in the development of hypothesis and turn the
recording, analysis, and interpretation of data into an active and
engaging process.
A teacher-friendly companion website provides extensive teaching
notes on the background to each lab project, tips and hints for
successful project presentation, sources for studying organisms,
ideas for variations in labs, and alternate study organisms. With
fresh new ideas, Field and Laboratory Exercises in Animal Behavior
brings this field to life for students!
* Provides fully developed and tested laboraty exercises
* Offers both field and lab experiences- adaptable for fall,
spring, or summer courses
* Laboratories emphasize student thought and involvement in
experimental design
* Includes an online supplement to the manual for teachers
On the Origin of Species, published in 1859, is widely accepted as
the seminal work in modern biology. Through careful observation,
Charles Darwin explains how traits can be selected for within a
population. This is easily observed in the artificial selection of
farm animals, for instance. Darwin's theory caused an uproar that
can still be heard today by refuting the Christian doctrine of
created breeds, in which all species that exist now have always
existed just as they are. It is the very publication of this work
that gave Charles Darwin his place of prominence in the history of
the theory of evolution, because while he was not the first to
suggest such a mechanism, his book and its exhaustive studies made
the information widely available. English scientist, naturalist,
and geologist CHARLES DARWIN (1809-1882) revolutionized science,
especially biology, with his theory of evolution through natural
selection. As a passenger aboard the Beagle, Darwin became
intrigued by the existence of different species in different
geographical locations, which aided in the development of his
theory. In addition to The Origin of Species, he is also remembered
for The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex and The
Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.
With a claim to be the first work to document in detail the
history of allelopathy, Willis s text provides an account of the
concept of allelopathy as it has occurred through the course of
botanical literature from the earliest recorded writings to the
modern era. A great deal of information is presented here in a
consolidated and accessible form for the first time. The book
offers a unique insight into the historical factors which have
influenced the popularity of allelopathy.
The advent of powerful processing technologies and the advances
in software development tools have drastically changed the approach
and implementation of computational research in fundamental
properties of living systems through simulating and synthesizing
biological entities and processes in artificial media. Nowadays
realistic physical and physiological simulation of natural and
would-be creatures, worlds and societies becomes a low-cost task
for ordinary home computers. The progress in technology has
dramatically reshaped the structure of the software, the execution
of a code, and visualization fundamentals. This has led to the
emergence of novel breeds of artificial life software models,
including three-dimensional programmable simulation environment,
distributed discrete events platforms and multi-agent systems. This
second edition reflects the technological and research
advancements, and presents the best examples of artificial life
software models developed in the World and available for users.
Transcendental phenomenology presumed to have overcome the
classic mind-body dichotomy in terms of consciousness, yet,
according to progress in scientific studies, the biological
functions of the brain seem to appropriate significant functions
attributed traditionally to consciousness. Should we indeed
dissolve the specificity of human consciousness by explaining human
experience in its multiple sense-giving modalities through the
physiological functions of the brain? The present collection of
studies addresses this crucial question challenging such
"naturalizing" reductionism from multiple angles. In search for the
roots of "The Specifically Human Experience" (Bombala), moving
along the line of "Animality and Intellection"(Gosetti-Ferencei),
"Naturalistic Attitude and Personalistic Attitude"(Villela-Petit),
and numerous other perspectives, we arrive at a novel proposal to
explain the scholar functional differentiation of conscious
modalities. We reach their source in the ontopoietic thread
conducting the Logos of Life in its stepwise "Evolutive
Unfolding"(Carmen Cozma), and in "sentience" as its quintessential
core of further irreducible continuity (Tymieniecka) dispelling
dichotomies and reductionisms.
Papers by:
Grahame Lock, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Daniela Verducci, Ted
Toadvine, Mary Trachsel, Martin Holt, Mary Jeanne Larrabee, Leszek
Pyra, Bronislaw Bombala, Konrad Rokstad, Ilja Maso, Nancy Mardas,
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, Maria Villela-Petit, Mara Stafecka,
Carmen Cozma, Francesco Totaro, Andreas Brenner, Sinan Kadir Celik,
Osvaldo Rossi, Maria Manuela Brinto Martins, Elga Freiberga, Klymet
Selvi, J.C. Couciero-Bueno, Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Walter Lammi,
Ljudmila Molodkina, Martin Nkafu Nkemnkia.
A man awakens one day in a land of brilliant light. Unsure of his
surroundings, he sees another man, woman, and their child
surrounded by a pure crimson energy of love. He soon realizes that
the Divine Beings intend to use their energy of love to give birth
to new beings. And so begins an expanding Universe, fueled by
diverse particles woven by gravity's power into a massive web.
The Divine Beings empower atoms to be agents of creativity. The
first beings, Quarkie and Photie, join twelve atom friends and
quadrillions of other atoms who manage to create billions of suns
in billions of galaxies. After the Divine Beings take the atom pals
on journeys back to the past to visit other atom families, the atom
friends living in the Milky Way Galaxy are jolted by an exploding
supernova and land on planet Earth where they eventually create the
first living beings.
During the next two billion years, they engage in a crucial
mission-the conception of the eukaryote cell-which will determine
all future creativity on Earth. But just as they are certain of
their success, a momentous catastrophe threatens to end their
creative journey.
This is a strongly revised new edition of the authors' An
illustrated Key to European Sesiidae published in 1995 published in
a very limited edition and out of print within three months. The
present book contains comprehensive information on all European
species of this Lepidoptera family of day flying moths. All the
many taxonomical, biological and distributional changes of the last
years are included. Introductory chapters comprise a short
historical outline, brief information on the morphology, biology,
phylogeny and distribution as well as collecting and rearing
methods, and lists of European Sesiidae and their hostplants. Keys
to all European genera and species are provided. The main part of
the book presents a systematic survey of all European species.
Diagnostic morphological characters, bionomics and distribution in
each species are shortly described. For each species line drawings
of male and female genitalia are given, for some species also other
diagnostic characters. The distribution is illustrated on maps. The
book is concluded with 9 excellent colour plates with all European
species illustrated. 9 colour plates depicting all European species
of glasswings.
The first book entirely devoted to this topic, Ecosystem Engineers
begins with the history of the concept, presenting opposing
definitions of ecosystem engineeing. These varied definitions
advance the debate and move past trivial difficulties to
crystallize key issues such as the value of process-based vs.
outcome-based. Authors include case studies spanning a wide
spectrum of species and habitats, including above and below-ground,
aquatic and terrestrial, and extant and paleontological examples.
These studies enable readers to understand how the categorization
of species as ecosystem engineers allows scientists to forge new
explanatory generalizations. Key for all ecologists and
environmentalists, this book ultimately illustrates how to inform
and manage natural resources.
* The only consolidated treatment available
* Provides definitions, case studies, and examples of ecological
models
* Discusses how ecosystem engineering can inform and improve the
management of natural resources
* Includes contributions from Clive Jones, the leading figure in
the development of the ecosystem engineer concept, and many other
eminent ecologists, such as Alan Hastings
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Philosophy of Biology
(Hardcover, New)
Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard, John Woods; Volume editing by Mohan Matthen, Christopher Stephens
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Philosophy of Biology is a rapidly expanding field. It is concerned
with explanatory concepts in evolution, genetics, and ecology. This
collection of 25 essays by leading researchers provides an overview
of the state of the field. These essays are wholly new; none of
them could have been written even ten years ago. They demonstrate
how philosophical analysis has been able to contribute to sometimes
contested areas of scientific theory making.
-Written by internationally acknowledged leaders in the field
- Entries make original contributions as well as summarizing state
of the art discoveries in the field
- Easy to read and understand
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