Biogas is a product of the anaerobic digestion of solid organic biomaterials. Resulting gaseous mixture contains mostly methane and carbon dioxide ...

This book will introduce the reader to the fundamentals of biogas production, properties, and uses. The chapters focus on biogas as a renewable ene...

In Chapter One, Antonio Colmenar-Santos, Enrique Rosales-Asensio, David Borge-Diez, and Manuel Castro-Gil present an overview of current research o...

Biogenic amines are naturally occurring amines that are derived by enzymic decarboxylation of the natural amino acids. They belong to a class of ne...

Biogenic amines are nitrogenous organic bases of low molecular weight with biological functions in animals, plants, microorganisms and humans. Thei...

Wetlands have generally been viewed in the past as areas of little value, and have even been considered as a threat to human health. This idea, whi...

Soils have various functions in all ecosystems, particularly for environmental quality and human health. The parent materials of serpentine soils a...

This book described the current status and possible future changes of the thermokarst (thaw) lakes of western Siberia as dominant forms of landscap...

Over the past few decades, tremendous progress in analytical facilities allowed for the decreasing detection limits of trace element (TE) analysis ...

Biogeography is the study of the geographic distribution of taxa and their attributes in space and time. Investigating biogeographic patterns and p...

The critical appraisal of deforestation and the methods for such investigations have recently become important issues internationally. This book ex...

This book discusses properties, functions and applications of bioglass. Chapter One provides an overview and compares some glasses and glass cerami...

Though there exist many biographical dictionaries of the achievements of Chinese people throughout history, few women feature. Since the mid-1980s,...

This comprehensive directory contains more than 2,000 biographical entries for individuals involved in American ceramic art from 1870 to 1970. It i...

Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henr...

From self-help books and nootropics, to self-tracking and home health tests, to the tinkering with technology and biological particles – biohacking...

In this book, the potential biofuel biohydrogen is studied in terms of its generation, applications, and technology. In the first chapter, Caroline...

The genomic revolution that has spawned microarrays and high throughput technologies has produced vast amounts of complex biological data that requ...

Bioinformatics is the field of science in which computer science, information technology and biology, merge to form a single discipline. It is the ...

Biomedicine is one of the most important fields for the prospective applications of the information from human genome studies. However, there are m...

This book presents new developments in the study of bioinformatics research. Topics discussed in this compilation include natural selection, molecu...