Biological Sciences
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-08-20 | Author:Carl Safina [Safina, Carl]

WORLDWIDE, FIFTEEN MILLION PEOPLE FISH COMMERCIALLY. THE MOST dangerous occupation, fishing kills workers at rates eighteen to thirty times higher than national averages of on-the-job deaths. The fish they land ...
( Category: Oceans & Seas August 22,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-23 | Author:Carl Zimmer

The secret to parasitizing ants this way is creating illusions of smell. Ants depend mainly on smells to perceive the world, and they've evolved a complicated vocabulary of airborne chemicals ...
( Category: Biology August 21,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Stephen Macknik [Blakeslee, Sandra]

END OF SPOILER ALERT When our son Iago was two, Steve showed him a magic trick. Steve felt he had gotten pretty good at the trick and wanted to show ...
( Category: Neurology August 21,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-09 | Author:Nessa Carey

Learning from the epigenetic cat Not just any old cats, but specifically tortoiseshell ones. You probably know how to recognise a classic tortoiseshell cat. It’s the one that’s a mixture ...
( Category: Cell Biology August 20,2015 )
epub, pdf |rus | 2011-10-13 | Author:Rätsch, Christian [Rätsch, Christian]

The majority of the artifacts associated with kava are those used in its preparation and consumption (shells, bowls, mortars, drinking vessels). The large, round wooden bowls used in preparing kava ...
( Category: Dictionaries August 20,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1971-01-01 | Author:Patricia Highsmith [Highsmith, Patricia]

18 The following morning, Mrs. Sneezum telephoned Sydney and said that she and her husband would like to drop in and see him in the afternoon. Just that, brief and ...
( Category: Suspense August 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-17 | Author:Robert Melillo;Gerry Leisman [Leisman, Robert Melillo;Gerry]

CORTICAL-SUBCORTICAL CIRCUITS AND AFFECTIVE DISORDERS In considering how cerebellar, thalamic, or basal ganglionic dysfunction may lead to depression or mania, it has been proposed that it is the result of ...
( Category: Neurology August 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-04 | Author:King, Michael W.

Iron is inserted into protoporphyrin IX by ferrochelatase. Defects in enzymes of porphyrin synthesis result in a family of disorders called the porphyrias. The porphyrias can be divided into erythroid ...
( Category: Biochemistry August 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-10 | Author:V S Ramachandran [Ramachandran, V S]

RECALL THE SIMPLE bouba-kiki experiment. Could it hold the key to understanding how the first words evolved among a band of ancestral hominins in the African savanna between one and ...
( Category: Biology August 4,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-16 | Author:Ramachandran, V. S. [Ramachandran, V. S.]

RECALL THE SIMPLE bouba-kiki experiment. Could it hold the key to understanding how the first words evolved among a band of ancestral hominins in the African savanna between one and ...
( Category: Biology August 4,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-24 | Author:Wang, Sam & Sandra Aamodt [Wang, Sam]

—E. B. White Chapter 17 Did I Pack Everything? Anxiety We’re not trying to make you nervous, but the truth is that being too relaxed can kill you. In a ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology July 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Nathaneal Johnson [Johnson, Nathaneal]

( Category: Ecology July 29,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-04-10 | Author:David S. Goodsell [Goodsell, David S.]

These types of cell-to-cell connections are fine for small regions of tissue, but to build large structures like muscles and organs, stronger materials are needed. These structures are built outside ...
( Category: Cell Biology July 28,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Sharona Muir [Muir, Sharona]

TO FIND A FOSTER FOWL in the greenwood wasn’t easy, because only in pursuit of a blue creature does one appreciate how much blue there is in green. Where eyes ...
( Category: Animals July 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-12 | Author:J. Patrick Reilly [Reilly, J. Patrick]

8.3 Fundamental Principles of Skeletal Muscle Electrical Stimulation Strength-D u ration (S-D) Relations for Neuromuscular Excitation The most basic requirement for electrical stimulation of a skeletal muscle fiber is that ...
( Category: Biotechnology July 27,2015 )