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This volume provides the reader with an overview of an intriguing and interdisciplinary field of research. For the first time the mammalian pineal gland, its mode of action and its physiological effects are discussed in a comprehensive, single-authored work.

Provides a treatment of the construction and analysis of models for age- and stage-classified populations. This book covers methods based on projection matrices, delay-differential equations, and partial-differential equations.

This volume, which explores the topic of muscle contraction across the diverse fields of physiology, biochemistry and biophysics, has been revised and updated in order to include material on recent advances in such areas as in vitro motility assays and molecular genetic approaches.

Microwave and millimeter-wave non-destructive testing and evaluation (NDT&E) is generally understood to mean using high-frequency electromagnetic energy to inspect and characterize materials and structures.

Fatigue failure is a multi-stage process. Because of the urgent need to design against fatigue failure, early investiga tors focused on prototype testing and proposed failure criteria similar to design formulae.

This book is about the behaviour of teleosts, a well-defined, highly successful taxonomic group of vertebrate animals sharing a common body plan and forming the vast majority of living bony fishes.

This book is intended as a practical manual for chemists, biologists and others whose work requires the use of pH or metal-ion buffers. In recent years there has been a significant expansion in the range of available buffers, particularly for biological studies, largely in conse quence of the development of many zwiUerionic buffers by Good et al.

It is now known that over 90 percent of all plants have established integrative plant-fungal processes in their root systems, and it may well turn out to be the case that virtually all plants have mycorrhizae.

Agricultural Biochemistry will provide an introduction to the subject of biochemistry from a perspective that will be particularly applicable to agricultural scientists.

The Nature and Dynamics of Forest-Savanna Boundaries addresses many themes and links with a great number of the interest groups concerned with current ecological and environmental research in the humid tropics. It should form part of the reading of all concerned with the fate of tropical forest and savanna regions of the world.

To humans, cold has a distinctly positive quality. Probably the richness of descriptive English in this area stems from the early experiences of a group of essentially tropical apes, making their living on a cold and windswept island group half way between the Equator and the Arctic.

This book provides aquatic biologists with a concise text on the biology, temporal and spatial distribution patterns, and the functional role of planktonic protozoa in fresh, brackish and marine waters.

To reach this objective it is necessary for companies to evaluate their performances and to combine modelling, business process re-engineering and benchmarking techniques. This book demonstrates the successful combination and implementation of these various techniques.

The second edition of this popular work provides a comprehensive account of all aspects of stomatal biology. The theory of gaseous diffusion through stomata is reviewed in a new chapter and sections on signal perception and transduction, guard cell ionic relations and guard cell metabolism have been added.

Drawing together the diffuse body of information available on the organization and dynamics of ecological communities, this text attempts a synthesis of the main issues, aims to reconcile apparent conflict or contradiction and offers a simple overview of the major concepts and principles.

Beverages provides thorough and integrated coverage in a user-friendly way, and is the second of an important series dealing with major food product groups. It is an invaluable learning and teaching aid and is also of great use to the food industry and regulatory personnel.

Part of a series which examines business as a dynamic force, influencing and influenced by managerial, organizational and environmental factors, this text focuses on accounting information within this context. The book is largely intended for students on business studies courses.

Aims to present the results of investigations into the history of the world's plant cover over the last 65 million years, not the methods by which these results have been obtained, and to document a selection of published accounts, both specific and general, for further reading.

This text provides an introductory account of the physiology of insects, intelligible to any reader with an elementary knowledge of biology. It should be of interest to undergraduate students of biology, entomology and agriculture.

Provides a pragmatic approach to the development of successful commercial immunodiagnostic products based on enzyme immunoessay technology. Presenting both the basic and applied principles, this work gathers information on various aspects of this process, from the initial conceptualization to the introduction of the product to the market.

Extremely diverse and complicated bacterial and protozoan populations inhabit the rumen and intestinal tract of animals, and there is a delicate balance among the individual populations within this complex microbial community.

Leading experts on the field of biodiversity examine examples from a wide range of organism groups. Their approaches include the latest molecular and phylogenetic techniques through to the selection of indicator data and aspects of sampling. This paperback edition has been published for students on 'biodiversity' related courses.

Soil geomorphology is the accurate assessment of the genetic relationship of soils and landforms, which is possible only if their interdependence is recognized. This book provides an integration of geomorphology and pedology. Students and scientists in many disciplines should find this book highly relevant to their interests.

In the decade since the first edition of this book was published advances have been made in our knowledge of the fresh waters of the world, espe cially in understanding many of the processes involved in their functioning as systems and in countering the problems created by human activities.

Today, cheesemaking remains a blend of'art and science' for, while much cheese is made in computer-controlled factories relying on strict standard ization to handle the large volumes of milk involved, the production oftop quality cheese still relies on the innate skill of the cheesemaker.

The seashore has long been the subject of fascination and study - the Ancient Greek scholar Aristotle made observations and wrote about Mediterranean sea urchins.

This monograph covers various aspects of the mathematical description of enzymatic systems, such as stoichiometric analysis, enzyme kinetics, dynamical simulation, metabolic control analysis, and evolutionary optimization.

Insect Chemical Ecology provides a comprehensive view of how natural selection acts upon interacting organisms and how particular physical and biological properties of chemical compounds act as constraints upon which natural selection may act.

Investigation of secondary metabolism began with curiosity about the structures of compounds isolated from natural sources, i.e. Coeval with structure determination there has been a curiosity about the origins and mechanism of formation of secondary metabolites (or natural products as they have been called).

The author, Bob Ross, has been working at the forefront of failure investigation and materials problem solving for many years. He has established an international reputation for being able to solve mechanical problems very rapidly and has produced reports which are clear and concise and which have a firm, meaningful conclusion.