Early anthropological evidence for plant use as medicine is 60,000 years old as reported from the Neanderthal grave in Iraq. The importance of plants as medicine is further supported by archeological evidence from Asia and the Middle East. Today, around 1.4 billion people in South Asia alone have no access to modern health care, and...
Positive selection is the driving force for the adaptation of organisms to an ever-changing environment, and it leads to adaptive evolution and in some cases to speciation. When selective pressure is applied to individuals based on their phenotype, it ultimately leads to the changes in the underlying genetic content of the...
Focusing on the scientific aspect of network design, Practical Network Design Techniques uses mathematical models to illustrate important networking concepts and show how to solve many common design problems. Taking an inclusive approach, the author examines the cost and performance issues that can also be used by network analysts and designers as...
Standing alone as the first definitive and comprehensive book on the subject, this guide describes the most recent studies on the brain-gut connection and psychosocial issues related to patients experiencing visceral pain. Bringing together leading experts from the top-tiers of the science, this source...
In the context of global efforts to control the production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs, China's treatment of the problem provides an important means of understanding the social, political, and economic limits of national and international policies to regulate drug practices. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, China was...
Swarm Intelligence is a collection of nature-inspired algorithms under the big umbrella
of evolutionary computation. They are population based algorithms. A population
of individuals (potential candidate solutions) cooperating among themselves and
statistically becoming better and better over generations and eventually finding (a)...
Access to water is one of the most pressing global issues of the twenty-first century, particularly when set against the background of a rapidly growing global population. This book provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of the challenges facing water governance and regulatory choices. The recently adopted Sustainable...
One of the most significant areas of advance in clinical medicine over the last 20 years has been in the imaging technologies. It is difficult to point to the single method or application that has benefited most from those advances because nearly all specialities in medicine have been involved. Perhaps the most significant trend, however, has...
In the early 1900s, the population of Southern California exploded, and the cities grew at such a rapid pace that builders could hardly keep up. Among those who settled in the area were ten architects looking to make their marks on the world. Claud Beelman, a man who never received a college degree, would go on to design the Elks Lodge in Los...
Intelligence quotient (IQ) is an age-related measure of intelligence and is defined as 100 times the mental age. The word ‘quotient’ means the result of dividing one quantity by another, and intelligence can be defined as mental ability or quickness of mind.
An intelligence test (IQ test) is, by definition, any test that...
This book is written by three teachers and a guy who teaches Excel. As the latter, I give all of the credit for this book to Adrienne, Bill H. and Colleen – it was their logic of classroom needs that made the book what it is. The population of teachers writing this book mirrors the real population – some know Excel well and some are new...
As the incidence of childhood obesity continues to dramatically increase, the emergence of type 2 and the increasing incidence of type 1 diabetes in young people demonstrate that childhood diabetes, like adult onset diabetes, is a complex and heterogeneous condition presenting new obstacles to the practicing clinician. Epidemiology of...
