Snake bites are a major health concern, especially in tropical countries. Understanding the pathology of envenomation and chemical composition of ...

Social behaviour has broad implications for the survival and reproduction of an organism. Social behaviours often reflect rather complex mechanisms...

Social insects are among the most diverse and ecologically important organisms on Earth. This book presents current research in the study of social...

Twentieth century social learning theories radically challenged the popular ideas about the role of nature and nurture in animal existence, particu...

New transdisciplinary studies have been appearing not only in such established areas as biochemistry or social psychology; there are presently emer...

Soil ecology is the study of the interactions among soil organisms, and between biotic and abiotic aspects of the soil environment. It is particula...

In Solanaceae: Cultivation, Nutrition and Health, the authors first set out to demonstrate how utilization of soil amendments in agricultural syste...

The Solanum genus is the largest and most representative from the Solanaceae family, which includes approximately 2000 species distributed througho...

The worldwide market of medicinal mushrooms is constantly increasing considering the improvement of the level of life of population and the concern...

Stop pouring beer on your wood! Take your spalting time from years to hours in this detailed DIY guide to spalting wood. No more beer, mayonnaise, ...

A fundamental requirement of everyday life is that of encoding and remembering successfully the locations of objects, landmarks or buildings in spa...

Memory is one of the earliest cognitive functions to show decline during aging and some neurodegenerative diseases and this decline has a social an...

This book describes the reproductive strategies and tactics employed by bivalve and gastropod molluscs to exploit and take advantage of different e...

The origin of species, or speciation, the "mystery of mysteries", as Charles Darwin called it, is an issue at the very heart of evolutionary biolog...

Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) cameras have revolutionarily changed nuclear imaging techniques and given us new diagnostic poss...

In somatic cells, DNA is normally wrapped around the histones octamer to forms nucleosomes that eventually give rise to a solenoid DNA structure. U...

This book presents an overview of sphingolipids: biology, synthesis and functions. The topics analysed in this book cover a broad spectrum of funct...

Sphingolipids are involved in a wide range of physiological and pathological processes none only as signalling molecules but also as key structural...

This book presents current research in the study of the morphology, behaviour and geographic distribution of spiders. Topics discussed include plas...

Spiders colonized the Earth long before Gondwanaland began to drift into separate continents. New Zealand spiders have links with spiders worldwide...

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is home to the spot cheddar cheese market, which impacts the prices of virtually all cheese traded in the Uni...

The book covers updated topics on the genus Staphylococcus, including the latest discoveries. In each chapter, the author discusses the results obt...

Past, present, and future research of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs; also called vitamin A-storing cells, lipocytes, interstitial cells, fat-storing...

Of the estimated trillion cells that build up our bodies, only a little number can self-renew and give rise to many different cell types. These uns...

Stem cells are the building blocks of the body. They can develop into any of the cells that make up our bodies. Stem cells carry a lot of hope for ...

CD34+ pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are generally involved in all aspects of the human system as well as in the stem cell therapeutic...

The two broad categories of mammalian stem cells exist: embryonic stem cells, derived from blastocysts, and adult stem cells, which are found in ad...

Stem cells of varying potencies originating from the organ generating totipotent embryonic stem cells (ESCs) to terminally differented cells such a...

Stereochemistry is an important facet of chemistry. The study of stereochemical problems spans the entire range of organic, inorganic, biological, ...

Sterols: Types, Classification and Structure describes the methodology used to determine sterol content in coral reef food webs, and how sterol dat...

Chronic diseases and microbial infections are increasing threats for human health. There are numerous natural compounds that can contribute to cont...

Although rangelands are one of the most important ecological-economic systems on our planet, researchers thus far have paid scant attention to the ...

Strontium (Sr) is one of the most extensively investigated alkaline earth metals and has received much attention for biomedical applications since ...

The BCL-2 family proteins are crucial regulators of the apoptotic process. This book covers recent structure-based insights into the mechanisms of ...

Science can do much good for mankind or can cause a catastrophe for mankind if it is handled by terrorists, (even aircraft can be turned into weapo...

Structural and functional organization in living organisms relies on their communication systems, which permanently carry information to the cells ...

In presenting this volume, the author is aware that there are several excellent books, dealing with one phase or another of tree life. It is believ...

Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) can be classified as spontaneous or traumatic bleeding into the subarachnoid space. It is usually followed by a head ...

The given compilation is devoted to the anniversary of Professor Gennady E Zaikov. The compilation itself has been prepared by those scientists wit...

After decades of research, monitoring, and analysis, we still have so much to learn about sea turtles. As reptiles, they are environmentally sensit...

Sucrose is the organic compound commonly known as table sugar and sometimes called saccharose. The molecule is a disaccharide composed of glucose a...

Sugarcane: Production, Properties and Uses provides details on new industrial technologies of the ethanol extraction process through mathematical m...

In the post-genomic era, science is still challenged to explain the biosynthesis of complex polysaccharides and glycoconjugates. Unlike nucleic aci...

This book examines the cultivation, food and nutrition uses and biodiesel application of sunflowers and sunflower oil. This book presents current r...

This book presents a broad number of recent discoveries, advances and important results concerning sunflower (Helianthus annus) crops and its relat...

Sunflower: Cultivation, Uses and Ecological Significance is a work that brings together renowned researchers from four different countries with exp...

During the past few decades, the increased incidence of solar UV radiations (280-400 nm) and its harmful impacts, particularly on human skin have f...

As one of the biological factors that most powerfully impacted history, infectious diseases continue to be a leading cause of global morbidity and ...