Download or read book Bioenergetics and Growth by Samuel Brody written by Herbert Oliver Elftman and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bioenergetics and Growth written by Samuel Brody and published by Hafner Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bioenergetics and Growth Etc written by Samuel BRODY and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growth written by Vaclav Smil and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Smil takes readers from bacterial invasions through animal metabolisms to megacities and the global economy. He begins with organisms whose mature sizes range from microscopic to enormous, looking at disease-causing microbes, the cultivation of staple crops, and human growth from infancy to adulthood. He examines the growth of energy conversions and man-made objects that enable economic activities—developments that have been essential to civilization. Finally, he looks at growth in complex systems, beginning with the growth of human populations and proceeding to the growth of cities. He considers the challenges of tracing the growth of empires and civilizations, explaining that we can chart the growth of organisms across individual and evolutionary time, but that the progress of societies and economies, not so linear, encompasses both decline and renewal. The trajectory of modern civilization, driven by competing imperatives of material growth and biospheric limits, Smil tells us, remains uncertain.
Download or read book The Design of Mammals written by John William Prothero and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite an astonishing 100 million-fold range in adult body mass from bumblebee bat to blue whale, all mammals are formed of the same kinds of molecules, cells, tissues and organs and to the same overall body plan. A scaling approach investigates the principles of mammal design by examining the ways in which mammals of diverse size and taxonomy are quantitatively comparable. This book presents an extensive reanalysis of scaling data collected over a quarter of a century, including many rarely or never-cited sources. The result is an unparalleled contribution to understanding scaling in mammals, addressing a uniquely extensive range of mammal attributes and using substantially larger and more rigorously screened samples than in any prior works. An invaluable resource for all those interested in the 'design' of mammals, this is an ideal resource for postgraduates and researchers in a range of fields from comparative physiology to ecology.
Download or read book Biology in Transition written by Martin Luck and published by Pelagic Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Milnes Marshall was a 19th-century scientist who gave lectures addressing the biological debates of his time. They covered topics including evolution, embryology, development and inheritance, with Charles Darwin’s name and those of other important biologists distributed liberally throughout. Marshall was a zoologist, embryologist, anatomist and Darwin enthusiast, as well as an accomplished mountaineer and sportsman. He was a humanist, an admired academic teacher and brilliant public educator. The lectures reveal his passion for communicating his subject, to his students and to the working men and women of Manchester, and they provide a remarkable snapshot of the state of biological science at the close of the 19th century. His death in 1893 aged only 41, on a climbing expedition in the Lake District, left a fascinating time capsule in the form of lectures from a critical transitional period in the history of biology. Evolution by natural selection was the established doctrine but genes were undefined, with Mendel’s work yet to be recognised. Embryology was suggesting recapitulation but ancestry, genetics and missing links awaited liberation from theoreticians and the stones of palaeontology. Microscopy was flourishing and cell science was finding its feet, but DNA and molecular science were far in the future. Had Marshall lived and worked into the 20th century, these lectures would undoubtedly have been superseded and forgotten. Instead, they reveal biology’s transformation from a descriptive exercise to an experimental science, its rejection of purpose and design in evolution, and the shift of its axis from continental Europe to Britain and the United States. Professor Martin Luck discovered these lectures (published by CF Marshall in two volumes shortly after his brother’s death) languishing in a university corridor. His careful curation, introductions to each lecture and copious annotations on the organisms, theories and scientists discussed, illuminate their significance as prequels to modern biology. Marshall’s own story brings the lectures and their social context into sharp relief. Biology in Transition will interest anyone curious about the history of science, especially biology, evolution, genetics and its 19th-century pioneers.
Download or read book Mammalian Energetics written by Thomas Edward Tomasi and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the costs and benefits of the various ways mammals allocate energy and time to reproduction, as part of investigating the relationship between physiological and evolutionary processes. Some of the ten chapters are revised from presentations at the 1988 meeting of the American Society of Mam
Download or read book Growth of Farm Animals 3rd Edition written by Tony Leonard John Lawrence and published by CABI. This book was released on 2012 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An understanding of the processes that change the shape and composition of farm animals is fundamental to all aspects of production. Updated to include new chapters on avian growth and global warming, and citing new research throughout, this comprehensive textbook provides key information on how animals grow and change in shape and composition, and the factors that affect these processes. Presented in a larger format with new photographs and focus boxes, this third edition continues to fill the important role of helping to understand how the basics of growth must be thoroughly understood if farm animals are to be used efficiently and humanely in producing food for mankind.
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Download or read book Bulletin written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Physiology of Physical Stress written by Carleton B. Chapman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 2,800 citations indexed by author and by subject comprise this bibliography of studies on the physiology of exercise. Selected from a vast literature on physical stress, the majority of works in this listing concern basic physiology. The emphasis is on studies representing the origin and development of fundamental concepts, although some clinical studies with implications for basic physiology are included. The bibliography includes references from a period, 1500 to 1964, not available through the computerized retrieval system (MEDLARS) of the National Library of Medicine. Most entries were published in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and thus reflect the growth of the field.
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Download or read book Econophysics and Financial Economics written by Franck Jovanovic and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first extensive analytic comparison between models and results from econophysics and financial economics in an accessible and common vocabulary. Unlike other publications dedicated to econophysics, it situates this field in the evolution of financial economics by laying the foundations for common theoretical framework and models.
Download or read book Bioenergetics and Growth written by Samuel Brody and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 1023 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biological Science written by Jon (Emeritus Professor of Bioscience Education Scott, Emeritus Professor of Bioscience Education University of Leicester) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biological Science: Exploring the Science of Life responds to the key needs of lecturers and their students by placing a clear central narrative, carefully-structured active learning, and confidence with quantitative concepts and scientific enquiry central to its approach.Written by a team of dedicated and passionate academics, and shaped by feedback from over 55 institutions, its straightforward narrative, reinforced by key concept overview videos for every chapter, communicate key ideas clearly: the right information is provided at the right time, and at the rightdepth.Its pause and think features, self-check quizzes, and graded end of chapter questions, augmented by flashcards of key terms, directly support active learning. The combination of narrative text and learning features promote a rich, active learning experience: read, watch, and do.Its combination of Quantitative Toolkits, Scientific Process panels, and the Life and its Exploration chapters provide more insight and support than any other general biology text; they prepare students to engage with this quantitative and experimental discipline with confidence, and set them on apath for success throughout their future studies.With coverage that spans the full scale of biological science - from molecule to ecosystem - and with an approach that fully supports flexible, self-paced learning, Biological Science: Exploring the Science of Life will set you on a path towards a deeper understanding of the key concepts inbiology, and a greater appreciation of biology as a dynamic experimental science.Digital formats and resourcesBiological Science: Exploring the Science of Life is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats.The enhanced ebook is enriched with features that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks- Key concepts videos support students from the start of every chapter and as they make their way through every Module.- Self-check questions at the end of each chapter section give students quick and formative feedback, building their confidence and comprehension as they study and revise.- Quantitative skills video screencasts help students to master the foundational skills required by this discipline.- Interactive figures give students the control they need to step through, and gain mastery over, key concepts.- Per-chapter flashcard glossaries help students to recall the key terms and concepts on which further study can be built.
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Download or read book Probability and Statistics for Cereals and Grains written by Terry C Nelsen and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Association of American Publishers (AAP) PROSE Award Finalist in Mathematics and Statistics, 2024* Probability and Statistics for Cereals and Grains: A Guide to Measurement and Analysis is a guide to help technical people be more efficient users of statistics. Author Terry C. Nelsen uses examples from his 35-plus years of experience in the field and presents the appropriate statistics and graphics to use when evaluating data. Researchers, academicians, students, technicians, processors, laboratory personnel, and those working in QA/QC will benefit from this much needed reference. Contains examples from actual experience in the field to illustrate approaches to problem- solving Features recommendations on which tests and graphs to use and what to look for in the results Presents considerations to direct readers to effective tools and practices and suggests ways to streamline their own evaluation and decision-making Includes an appendix that provides readers with datasets and graphs that relate to specific content in chapters
