Biology
epub |eng | | Author:Jesse J. Prinz

THINKING HOLISTICALLY Hunters and Farmers One of the first to explore this proposal systematically was Herman Witkin, who argued that people from different cultures have different ‘cognitive styles’.2 Suppose you ...
( Category: Cognitive January 24,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-03-28 | Author:Gerald E. Schneider [Schneider, Gerald E.]

Readings Altman, J., & Das, G. D. (1965). Post-natal origin of microneurones in the rat brain. Nature, 207, 953–956. See also the Altman papers listed in the Intermission after chapter ...
( Category: Neurology January 24,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sam Keen [SAM KEEN]

In addition, there is the everyday cacophony of automobile horns, airplanes, cell phones ringing, fire engines, ambulances, police sirens, boom boxes, jackhammers, and occasional bombs bursting in air. For anyone ...
( Category: Birdwatching January 21,2016 )
epub, azw, pdf |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:Joseph Henrich [Henrich, Joseph]

Sonority A successful communicator is one who can most effectively be understood, given the local social, environmental, or ecological conditions. As young or naïve learners focus on and learn from ...
( Category: General January 18,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Michael S. Gazzaniga

How to Rile a Neuroscientist Modern neuroscience is happy to accept that human behavior is the product of a probabilistically determined system, which is guided by experience. But how is ...
( Category: Neurology January 17,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Mladenov, Philip V. [Mladenov, Philip V.]

20. Aerial view of coral reefs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia Physical requirements Notwithstanding their importance, coral reefs occupy a very small proportion of the planet’s surface—about 284,000 ...
( Category: Marine Biology January 10,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-24 | Author:Wolpert, Lewis [Wolpert, Lewis]

How reversible is cell differentiation? To what extent can the pattern of gene activity in differentiated cells revert to that found in the fertilized egg? One way of finding out ...
( Category: Developmental Biology January 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-29 | Author:Amyes, Sebastian G.B. [Amyes, Sebastian G.B.]

Chapter 8 The future The past history of bacteria has been difficult enough to uncover, let alone making valid predictions for the future. The benefits of research into the molecular ...
( Category: Microbiology January 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-26 | Author:Catling, David C. [Catling, David C.]

An inside view of terrestrial life: the cell We have just considered biology on a global scale but under the microscope all organisms are composed of cells of different types ...
( Category: Astronomy January 10,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-22 | Author:Slack, Jonathan [Slack, Jonathan]

So, although the technological problems of cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease are largely solved, the risk-benefit ratio in favour of this treatment as compared to others is not overwhelming at ...
( Category: Cell Biology January 6,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:Allen, Terence & Cowling, Graham [Allen, Terence]

Movement, an emergent property? René Dutrochet, one of the pioneers of cell biology, remarked in 1824 that ‘life, as far as physical order is concerned, is nothing more than movement; ...
( Category: Biology January 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-27 | Author:Mina Lebitz

Chapter 3: States of Matter 91. (A) Gold (Au) is a metal, a lattice of cations bathing in a sea of electrons. (See Answer 92 to contrast metal and ionic ...
( Category: Advanced Placement December 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-20 | Author:Shah, Sonia [Shah, Sonia]

Manson and Ross, neither of whom ever achieved much financial success, constantly fretted over securing a living. Manson’s tactic was to try to shame the British government into supporting his ...
( Category: Microbiology December 22,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-11-26 | Author:Ball, Philip [Ball, Philip]

This process is conducted in mitochondria, sausage-shaped compartments distributed many hundred to each human cell (Fig. 21). The first thing a mitochondrion does is convert pyruvate enzymatically to a molecule ...
( Category: Molecular Biology December 22,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Mesler

J. B. S. Haldane in 1941. During his college years at Eton, Haldane so distinguished himself in the sciences that many of his fellow students felt as if he was ...
( Category: Biology December 21,2015 )