This book aims to present some research papers on obtaining and using Salvia compounds in the search for health promotion and valuable products wit...

Chia (Salvia hispanica L.) is an annual herbaceous plant belonging to this taxonomic hierarchy. This book explores a range of topics related to thi...

Saponins are surfactive compounds that are widely distributed in nature, occurring primarily in the plant kingdom. Plants that produce saponins gen...

Saponins are a diverse group of glycosidic compounds widely distributed in the plant kingdom, which are characterised by structures containing trit...

This book concentrates on twenty-three sightings in Alberta and British Columbia. Was it merely an Indian legend told to early explorers, a story c...

A complete reference on sasquatch in BC, from fossilized footprints and petroglyphs to modern-day sightings and current scientific research. The mo...

In this remarkable volume, Dr. Jean-Paul Debenat, a professor of comparative literature (University of Nantes, France) with a flair for anthropolog...

The sciatic nerve is the longest and widest single nerve in the human body. This new book presents current research in the study of the sciatic ner...

In Gobekli Tepe' near Urfa, an ancient city in south-eastern Turkey, stand 11,000 year old concentric rings of old massive T shaped pillars. The ca...

In Gobekli Tepe' near Urfa, an ancient city in south-eastern Turkey, stand 11,000 year old concentric rings of old massive T shaped pillars. The ca...

Modern marine turtles belong to an ancient group of reptiles inhabiting the Earth for over 110 million years, since the Cretaceous. Marine turtles ...

Sea urchins play a key role in marine ecosystems, controlling through its grazing activity the dynamic, structure and composition of seaweed and se...

Humans have altered and created entirely new environments to which animals have either adapted or been extirpated. Urban environments are one of th...

This book tells the fascinating story of New Zealand’s endemic Hutton’s shearwater, a species that breeds only at two remote locations, high in the...

Malaysia has the potential to be a key seaweed production player in the region if proper management and possible interventions take place. Chapter ...

This book aims to report possible applications of seaweeds in agriculture as well as the composing ingredients of nutritional value and therapeutic...

Seeds are a pathway for species survival. They are a fundamental unit for plants spreading, performing a vital biological role. They have been cons...

From infancy, by being in contact with the world, we acquire information regarding living beings and objects that surround us; we use objects and t...

Proteases refer to a group of enzymes whose catalytic function is to hydrolyse (cleavage) peptide bonds of proteins. Proteases occur naturally in a...

The serotonergic and circadian systems constitute two of the main regulatory signalling networks of the brain. Each of them consists of a highly lo...

Serotonin has long been known to have important roles in many systems of the body that have important roles in health and disease. As represented b...

Serpins, a group of proteins with similar structures, were first identified as a set of proteins able to inhibit proteases. The first members of th...

Serum albumin is the most abundant plasma protein in mammals. Albumin is essential for maintaining the osmotic pressure needed for proper distribut...