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  • Progress in Biomass Conversion

    Volume 3
    • 1st Edition
    • October 22, 2013
    • Kyosti V. Sarkanen + 2 more
    • English
    Progress in Biomass Conversion, Volume 3, attempts to reflect and consider the current status of knowledge and development in the biomass energy and chemicals field. It covers topics such as combustion, gasification, alcohol fuels, liquefaction, whole tree chipping, baling, and fuel consumption. It deals not only with wood but also with agricultural wastes such as rice hulls, cotton gin trash, and other crop residuals. This book begins with a review of biomass energy development. This is followed by discussions of the integration of biomass into the total fuels community; the growth in understanding of biomass combustion; the use of European technology. Subsequent chapters present a review of supply issues; a technical evaluation of cogeneration; and a thoughtful, future-oriented, position paper in biomass fuels for energy security.

  • The Voluntary Food Intake of Farm Animals

    • 1st Edition
    • October 22, 2013
    • J. M. Forbes
    • English
    The Voluntary Food Intake of Farm Animals offers a wide discussion on food intake among farm animals. The book presents various studies, facts, details, and theories that are relevant to the subject. The first chapter begins by explaining the basic definition and significance of voluntary food intake. This topic is followed by discussions on meal patterns, the main features of eating, and the similarities between species. The next chapter explores theories about the food intake control, which are divided into two types: single-factor theories and multiple-factor theories. In Chapter 3, the discussion is on the food’s pathway, including elaborations on the various receptors. Chapter 4 considers the central nervous system’s involvement in the voluntary food intake and the energy balance regulation. The next couple of chapters highlight the possible reasons that affect food intake; among them are pregnancy, fattening, physical growths, and the environment. In the book’s remaining chapters, the discussion revolves around grass intake and the prediction and manipulation of voluntary food intake. The book serves as a valuable reference for undergraduates and postgraduates of biology and its related fields.

  • How Life Began

    A Speculative Study in Modern Biology
    • 1st Edition
    • October 22, 2013
    • David Forsyth
    • English
    How Life Began: A Speculative Study in Modern Biology is a seven-chapter text that covers some broad and wide conceptions about biological life origin. The opening chapters deal with the significant biological research on comprehensive interpretation of the human body and the beginning of primal germinal existence of Homo sapiens. These chapters also look into the influence of heredity and environment on human origin. These topics are followed by a presentation of the idea that biological life is a universal phenomenon. The discussion then shifts to the evolutionary aspect of human life existence. The concluding chapters describe the concept of life struggle for existence and the associated idea of the species survival of the fittest. Biologists, evolutionists, and research workers who are interested in the issue of life beginning and existence will find this book invaluable.

  • The Chemistry and Technology of Edible Oils and Fats and Their High Fat Products

    • 1st Edition
    • October 22, 2013
    • G. Hoffmann
    • Steve L Taylor
    • English
    The Chemistry and Technology of Edible Oils and Fats and their High Fat Products covers the theoretical and practical aspects associated with the chemistry and technology of oils and fats. The book discusses the chemistry of edible fats; vegetable-oil separation technology; and water- and heat-promoted fat separation from animal and plant "fatty tissues". The text also describes the refining process; the fat-modification processes; and the production of edible-fat products of high fat content. The technologies applied to speciality fats; the storage and transport of oils and fats; and energy demands of the oil-milling and edible-fat processing operations. People involved in the processing of edible oils and fats will find the book useful.

  • Recent Progress in Hormone Research

    Proceedings of the 1984 Laurentian Hormone Conference
    • 1st Edition
    • October 22, 2013
    • Roy O. Greep
    • English
    Recent Progress in Hormone Research, Volume 41 covers the proceedings of a Laurentian Hormone Conference held in late August 1984 at the Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia. The book presents papers on the hormone-receptor interactions; the biosynthesis, secretion, metabolism, and mechanism of action of the steroid hormones; and the mechanisms of action of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and TRH. The text also includes papers on the molecular characterization of a brain specific mRNA; and the factors affecting changes in frequency and amplitude of GnRH pulses and the resulting functional consequences in various mammals including humans with disorders of fertility. Papers on the biological heritage of mammalian endocrinology, such as the actions of urotensin I in mammals and fishes; and the clinical implications of the glycosylation and posttranslational processing of the TSH are also encompassed. Endocrinologists, neuroscientists, biochemists, biophysicists, and scientists involved in hormone research will find the book invaluable.

  • Marijuana

    Effects on Human Behavior
    • 1st Edition
    • October 22, 2013
    • Loren L. Miller
    • English
    Marijuana: Effects on Human Behavior attempts to synthesize much of the existing experimentation concerning the acute and chronic effects of marijuana and its derivatives on human behavior. The book opens with a chapter on the strategies for conducting research on marijuana. It also describes a clinical study at the University of British Columbia. The next chapter discusses the issues that have beclouded the question of legalization of marijuana in the United States. This is followed by separate chapters on the effects of marijuana on motor and mental performance; marijuana-memory research; a model of attention which can be used to describe the effects of marijuana use on cognition; and the effects of marijuana on neuropsychological functioning and learning. Subsequent chapters examine the behavioral actions of cannabis in man; compare the behavioral actions of cannabinoids in humans with those found in infrahumans, with special reference to acquisition and retention processes, timing behavior, state-dependent learning, and attention; and investigate the long-term effects of cannabis use.

  • The Origins of Agriculture

    An Evolutionary Perspective
    • 1st Edition
    • October 22, 2013
    • David Rindos
    • English
    The Origins of Agriculture: An Evolutionary Perspective presents an alternative approach to understanding cultural variation and change. It aims to demonstrate that domestication and the origin of agricultural systems are best understood by attempting to explicate the evolutionary forces that affected that development of domesticates and agricultural systems. The book begins by discussing cultural change, the domestication of plants, and the origin of agricultural systems in the most general of terms. It considers Darwinism in some depth, concentrating on the relationship between natural selection and cultural change. Subsequent chapters examine the world of domestication and agriculture and present a series of concepts that may permit a more natural explanation for these processes. These include concepts such as incidental domestication, specialized domestication, and agricultural domestication. The final two chapters present models for the origin and spread of agricultural systems based upon Darwinian evolutionary theory.

  • Water Relations in Membrane Transport in Plants and Animals

    • 1st Edition
    • October 22, 2013
    • Arthur M. Jungreis + 2 more
    • English
    Water Relations in Membrane Transport in Plants and Animals contains the presentations in a symposium dealing with Water Relations in Membranes in Plants and Animals, during the 27th Annual Fall Meeting of the American Physiological Society held at The University of Pennsylvania, 17-19 August 1976. The purpose of the symposium was to explore the common modes of water regulation in plants and animals. In these proceedings, the mechanisms employed to restrict water flow across plant and metazoan animal cells are described. Putative differences in mechanisms of water regulation retained by plant versus animal cells become inconsequential in the light of the numerous similarities: dependence upon bioelectric potentials maintained across cell membranes, energy dependence of uphill water movement, and solute coupling during water transport. The presentations can be organized into four. The first takes up specific mechanisms of water transport in plants. The second and third parts deal with specific mechanisms in invertebrates and vertebrates, respectively. The fourth part covers generalized mechanisms common to plants and animals.

  • Advances in Smoking of Foods

    Plenary Lectures Presented at the International Symposium on Advances in Smoking of Foods, Warsaw, Poland, 8 - 10 September, 1976
    • 1st Edition
    • October 22, 2013
    • A. Rutkowski
    • English
    Advances in Smoking of Foods covers the plenary lectures presented at the International Symposium on Advances in Smoking of Foods, held in Warsaw, Poland, on September 8-10, 1976. The book focuses on the processes involved in the smoke curing of foods, as well as on the analysis of the production of smoke and compounds found in it. The compilation first offers information on the phenomena of quality in the smoke curing process, including the history, reviews, and advances of the process. The book then evaluates the physical and chemical processes involved in the production and application of smoke. The processes considered in the production of smoke from wooden materials are underscored. The text presents an analysis of smoke and smoked food, wherein it is posed that wood smoke is composed of compounds formed by the pyrolysis of wood constituents such as cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. Polycyclic hydrocarbons and phenolic compounds are discussed. The book also explains the contributions of smoke compounds to sensory, bacteriostatic, and antioxidative effects in smoked foods; facts and legislation regarding polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in smoked foods; and concepts in technology and design of machinery for production and application of smoke in the food industry. The selection is a vital source of information for readers wanting to study the smoke curing of foods.

  • The Physiology of Earthworms

    International Series of Monographs on Pure and Applied Biology: Zoology
    • 1st Edition
    • October 22, 2013
    • M. S. Laverack
    • G. A. Kerkut
    • English
    The Physiology of Earthworms focuses on the three species of earthworms — Liimbricus terrestris, Eisenta foetida, and Allolobophora longa. Other earthworms or oligochaetes such as the fresh-water species are briefly mentioned. The topics covered include the biochemical architecture; digestion and metabolism; calciferous glands; axial field; nitrogenous excretion; water relations; respiration; physiology of regeneration; neurosecretion; nervous system; and behavior of oligochaetes. This book is a good source of information for biology students and researchers conducting work on earthworms and its different species.

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