Biological Sciences
epub |eng | | Author:Alice Robb

WHILE DREAMING ABOUT stressful events can help us process them, replaying traumatic events is counterproductive. In the 1970s, psychologist Joseph De Koninck devised an experiment to see how dreaming about ...
( Category: Diseases & Physical Ailments November 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-09 | Author:David Suzuki & Wayne Grady

Douglas-fir forest The mature fern disperses thousands of spores. Those that fall on moist, shaded ground immediately begin to grow, but not into discernible ferns; they grow into low, flat ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 19,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eeva S. M. Tuppurainen, Shawn Babiuk & Eyal Klement

13.6 Seasonality The occurrence of LSD outbreaks is characterized by marked seasonality both in tropical and temperate regions. Usually it is associated with periods of high rainfall accompanied by warm ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 19,2018 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Martin Rees [Rees, Martin]

3.2. BEYOND OUR SOLAR SYSTEM To find promising ‘real estate’ on which life can exist, we must extend our gaze beyond our solar system—beyond the reach of any probe we ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-17 | Author:Michael J. Everhart

9.8. A cast of the reconstructed skull (length 38 cm; 15 in) of Selmasaurus johnsoni (FHSM VP-13910) in the collection of the Sternberg Museum of Natural History. This specimen was ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tze Loon Neoh, Shuji Adachi & Takeshi Furuta

(2) Trap (condenser): A refrigerator with a capacity to cool below −40 °C is required in order to capture the generated vapor. (3) Evacuation system: A vacuum pump and evacuation ...
( Category: Engineering November 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2000-11-14 | Author:Mayor, Adrienne;

Evidence of Giant Populations of the Past Not all fabulous creatures of myth were inspired by fossils, of course; some were imaginary. And it’s impossible to know which came first, ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-31 | Author:Monica Gagliano

Two weeks passed. I was in my lab, monitoring peas and setting up mazes, lights, and fans, every single day from the early hours of the morning till late in ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-14 | Author:Jane Eastoe [Eastoe, Jane]

Leave cockles for 24 hours to purify in salt water, as detailed on page 49. Cook for four minutes in salted water and separate from their shells. Put some olive ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 15,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chang-Hwan Im

Model-based approaches, on the other hand, are founded upon the development of realistic models of the biological and physical factors that give rise to the detected BOLD and EEG signals ...
( Category: Physics November 14,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-06-10 | Author:Gary G. Matthews [Matthews, Gary G.]

Summary Hodgkin and Huxley made the fundamental observations on which our current understanding of the ionic basis of the action potential is based. In their experiments, they measured the ionic ...
( Category: Medicine November 14,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Virginia Sole-Smith

Six Bypassing Hunger I’m in a dietitian’s office, located within a bariatric surgical suite, housed on a quiet floor of a large hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. The room is tiny, ...
( Category: Nutrition November 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Kaplan [Kaplan]

( Category: Pathology Clinical Chemistry November 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-05 | Author:Charles Graeber

This was a particularly thrilling time for Chen and Mellman. They were cancer immunologists who actually got to make a cancer immunotherapy drug they believed would work, and they knew ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-30 | Author:Ross D E MacPhee

Since Kruuk’s original work, a number of additional investigations of surplus killing have been conducted that tend to support and extend his ideas. For example, a study on introduced predators ...
( Category: Earth Sciences November 13,2018 )