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Dictionary of DNA and Genome Technology
Dictionary of DNA and Genome Technology
DNA technology has a vital role in diverse fields such as criminal investigation and gene therapy – dynamic areas involving many specialized terms and techniques. This unique dictionary offers current, detailed, accessible information to lecturers, researchers, students and technicians throughout the biomedical sciences.
Technology: A World History (New Oxford World History)
Technology: A World History (New Oxford World History)
Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings...
Water Management in 2020 and Beyond (Water Resources Development and Management)
Water Management in 2020 and Beyond (Water Resources Development and Management)
Water is intertwined in the daily life of humans in countless ways. The importance of water as a driver for health, food security, and quality of life and as a pillar for economic development is unique. As water affects human lives, the mankind also effects the hydrological cycle, in all dimensions from the local to the global scale. Food...
The Handy Weather Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series)
The Handy Weather Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series)
It is no exaggeration to say that weather affects everything we do in our lives. Weather influences how we dress, changes our plans for outdoor activities, cancels sporting events, closes airports, changes the course of wars, erodes mountains, destroys entire towns and cities, and has even been blamed for the death of U.S. President William Henry...
An Introduction To Optoelectronic Sensors (Series in Optics and Photonics)
An Introduction To Optoelectronic Sensors (Series in Optics and Photonics)
This invaluable book offers a comprehensive overview of the technologies and applications of optoelectronic sensors. Based on the R&D experience of more than 70 engineers and scientists, highly representative of the Italian academic and industrial community in this area, this book provides a broad and accurate description of the...
Inductive Learning Algorithms for Complex System Modeling
Inductive Learning Algorithms for Complex System Modeling
Inductive Learning Algorithms for Complex Systems Modeling is a professional monograph that surveys new types of learning algorithms for modeling complex scientific systems in science and engineering. The book features discussions of algorithm development, structure, and behavior; comprehensive coverage of all types of algorithms useful for this...
Coping with Water Scarcity: Addressing the Challenges
Coping with Water Scarcity: Addressing the Challenges

One of the main problems confronting the world of the 21st Century is a shortage of water. There is already severe scarcity in many regions of the world, causing tremendous problems for local populations and indeed entire societies. There is insufficient water available for the production of food to alleviate poverty and starvation; the lack of...

Ecdysone: Structures and Functions
Ecdysone: Structures and Functions

Ecdysone is the steroidal prohormone of the major insect moulting hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone. It groups with its homologues the steroidal molting hormones in arthropods, but they also occur in other phyla where they can play different roles. Besides ecdysteroids appear in many plants mostly as protection agents (toxins or antifeedants) against...

Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance (Food, Health, and the Environment)
Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance (Food, Health, and the Environment)

In today's globally integrated food system, events in one part of the world can have multiple and wide-ranging effects, as has been shown by the recent and rapid global rise in food prices. Transnational corporations (TNCs) have been central to the development of this global food system, dominating production, international trade, processing,...

Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses (Handbook of Plant Breeding)
Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses (Handbook of Plant Breeding)

The main role of grasses, clovers and alfalfa in temperate agriculture is still to provide forage for ruminant animals but, in the last decades, the importance of amenity grasses increased markedly and, in the near future, new developments in the areas of energy and biomass use can be envisaged. Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses, fifth volume in...

Long-term Perspective in Coastal Zone Development: Multifunctional Coastal Protection Zones
Long-term Perspective in Coastal Zone Development: Multifunctional Coastal Protection Zones

The southern coast of the North Sea is mainly protected by a single line of defence against flooding. The traditional means for heightening and strengthening the existing coastal barriers are limited due to the increased enormous resource costs, i.e. building materials, funding and space. On the other hand, further interests and needs such as...

Agricultural Biotechnology in International Development (Biotechnology in Agriculture Series)
Agricultural Biotechnology in International Development (Biotechnology in Agriculture Series)

Obtaining world food security and food self-reliance for the developing nations is a complex and difficult task, but with increased research and education, agricultural production in developing countries can be improved. Biotechnology applications, integrated into traditional systems, hold much promise in this respect. Realizing the positive...

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