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Elsevier's Life Sciences collection helps researchers get comprehensive coverage and up-to-date information on the study of living organisms, their processes, and interrelationships, spanning disciplines like biology, genetics, and biochemistry, and addressing emerging trends such as genomics, biotechnology, and sustainability, essential for advancing knowledge and driving innovation in the field.

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    • Fertility, Biology, and Behavior

      • 1st Edition
      • April 28, 1983
      • John Bongaarts + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Fertility, Biology, and Behavior: An Analysis of the Proximate Determinants presents the proximate determinants of natural fertility. This book discusses the biological and behavioral dimensions of human fertility that are linked to intermediate fertility variables. Organized into nine chapters, this book begins with an overview of the mechanisms through which socioeconomic variables influence fertility. This text then examines the absolute and relative age-specific marital fertility rates of selected populations. Other chapters consider the trends in total fertility rates of selected countries, including Colombia, Kenya, Korea, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, France, and United States. This book discusses as well the effects of deliberate marital fertility control through contraception and induced abortion. The final chapter deals with the management of sex composition and implications for birth spacing. This book is a valuable resource for reproductive physiologists, social scientists, demographers, statisticians, biologists, and graduate students with an interest in the biological and behavioral control of human fertility.

    • CNS Regulation of Carbohydrate Metabolism

      • 1st Edition
      • January 1, 1983
      • Andrew J. Szabo
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Advances in Metabolic Disorders, Volume 10: CNS Regulation of Carbohydrate Metabolism provides information pertinent to the study of neural regulation of carbohydrate metabolism. This book covers a variety of topics, including morphological correlations, the role of glucose in CNS function, and hormone effects on CNS structures. Organized into 20 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the possible physiological correlates of anatomical findings in the context of metabolic regulatory functions. This text then examines the results that link glucose-responsive neurons to feeding-related behavior, the morphology of these neurons, and their localization in the hypothalamus. Other chapters consider the development of Kety–Schmidt technique for the measurement of cerebral blood flow in man. This book discusses as well the regulation of insulin secretion by the CNS. The final chapter deals with the physiology of conditioned hypoglycemia. This book is a valuable resource for physicians and students of the biological sciences.

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