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The genetic information being unlocked by advances in genomic and high throughput technologies is rapidly revolutionizing our understanding of developmental processes in bovine species. This information is allowing researchers unprecedented insight into the genetic basis of key traits. Bovine Genomics is the first book to bring together and synthesize the information learned through the bovine genome sequencing project and look at its practical application to cattle and dairy production. Bovine Genomics opens with foundational chapters on the domestication of cattle and traditional Mendelian genetics. Building on these chapters, coverage rapidly moves to quantitative genetics and the advances of whole genome technologies. Significant coverage is given to such topics as epigenetics, mapping quantitative trail loci, genome-wide association studies and genomic selection in cattle breeding. The book is a valuable synthesis of the field written by a global team of leading researchers. Providing wide-ranging coverage of the topic, Bovine Genomic, is an essential guide to the field. The basic and applied science will be of use to researchers, breeders, and advanced students.
Dinosaur Paleobiology
The study of dinosaurs has been experiencing a remarkable renaissance over the past few decades. Scientific understanding of dinosaur anatomy, biology, and evolution has advanced to such a degree that paleontologists often know more about 100-million-year-old dinosaurs than many species of living organisms. This book provides a contemporary review of dinosaur science intended for students, researchers, and dinosaur enthusiasts. It reviews the latest knowledge on dinosaur anatomy and phylogeny, how dinosaurs functioned as living animals, and the grand narrative of dinosaur evolution across the Mesozoic. A particular focus is on the fossil evidence and explicit methods that allow paleontologists to study dinosaurs in rigorous detail. Scientific knowledge of dinosaur biology and evolution is shifting fast, and this book aims to summarize current understanding of dinosaur science in a technical, but accessible, style, supplemented with vivid photographs and illustrations. The Topics in Paleobiology Series is published in collaboration with the Palaeontological Association, and is edited by Professor Mike Benton, University of Bristol. Books in the series provide a summary of the current state of knowledge, a trusted route into the primary literature, and will act as pointers for future directions for research. As well as volumes on individual groups, the series will also deal with topics that have a cross-cutting relevance, such as the evolution of significant ecosystems, particular key times and events in the history of life, climate change, and the application of a new techniques such as molecular palaeontology. The books are written by leading international experts and will be pitched at a level suitable for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers in both the paleontological and biological sciences. Additional resources for this book can be found at: http://www.wiley.com/go/brusatte/dinosaurpaleobiology.
Cellular Domains
Cellular domains play vital roles in a wide range of cellular functions. Defining cellular domains and understanding the molecular basis of their formation is essential to the study of cell functionality. This authoritative reference provides the most comprehensive analysis available on cellular domains, with emphasis on the definition and molecular composition of the domain as well as the functional implications of domain organization.
Europe Entrapped
Today Europe finds itself in a crisis that casts a dark shadow over an entire generation. The seriousness of the crisis stems from one core political contradiction at the heart of the European project: namely, that what urgently needs to be done is also extremely unpopular and therefore virtually impossible to do democratically. What must be done – and almost everyone agrees in principle on the measures that would be needed to deal with the financial crisis – cannot be sold to the voting public of the core member states, which so far have been less affected by the crisis than those on the periphery, nor can the conditions that core members try to impose be easily sold to voters in the deficit countries. The European Union is therefore becoming increasingly disunited, with deepening divides between the German-dominated ‘core’ and the southern ‘periphery’, between the winners and the losers of the common currency, between the advocates of greater integration and the anti-Europeans, between the technocrats and the populists. Europe finds itself trapped by the deepening divisions that are opening up across the Continent, obstructing its ability to deal with a crisis that has already caused massive social suffering in the countries of the European periphery and is threatening to derail the very project of the European Union. In this short book, Claus Offe brings into sharp focus the central political problem that lies at the heart of the EU and shackles its ability to deal with the most serious crisis of its short history.
Why Philosophize?
Why Philosophize? is a series of lectures given by Jean-François Lyotard to students at the Sorbonne embarking on their university studies. The circumstances obliged him to be both clear and concise: at the same time, his lectures offer a profound and far-reaching meditation on how essential it is to philosophize in a world where philosophy often seems irrelevant, outdated, or inconclusive. Lyotard begins by drawing on Plato, Proust and Lacan to show that philosophy is a never-ending desire – for wisdom, for the ‘other’. In the second lecture he draws on Heraclitus and Hegel to explore the close relation between philosophy and history: the same restlessness, the same longing for a precarious unity, drives both. In his third lecture, Lyotard examines how philosophy is a form of utterance, both communicative and indirect. Finally, he turns to Marx, exploring the extent to which philosophy can be a transformative action within the world. These wonderfully accessible lectures by one of the most influential philosophers of the last 50 years will attract a wide readership, since, as Lyotard says, ‘How can one not philosophize?’ They are also an excellent introduction to Lyotard’s mature thought, with its emphasis on the need for philosophy to bear witness, however obliquely, to a recalcitrant reality.
Scrum für Dummies
Sie kommen mit den gewohnten Projektmanagementmethoden nicht mehr weiter oder sind einfach neugierig, wie Scrum zur Verbesserung Ihrer Arbeitsabläufe beitragen kann? Dann ist dieses Buch genau das richtige für Sie. Der zertifizierte Scrum-Trainer Michael Franken erklärt Ihnen, was Scrum ist und wie genau es funktioniert. Lernen Sie die verschiedenen Rollen wie Product Owner und Scrum Master kennen, planen Sie Meetings und Sprints, erstellen Sie Scrum-Boards und organisieren Sie Daily Scrums. Außerdem erfahren Sie, wie Sie Scrum auch mit mehreren Teams erfolgreich einsetzen und erhalten viele nützliche Tipps für Ihr erstes Scrum-Projekt. So können Sie schon bald Ihre erste User Story auf «done» setzen und Ihr Projekt erfolgreich abschließen.
Landwirtschaft und Naturschutz
Professor Wolfgang Haber ist Vorkampfer und seit vier Jahrzehnten wichtigster Exponent des Natur- und Landschaftsschutzes in Deutschland. In dieser umfassenden und aktuellen Ubersicht setzt er sich kritisch mit der Wechselbeziehung zwischen landwirtschaftlicher Nutzung und dem Schutz von landlichen Lebensraumen auseinander. Getreu seinem Credo, dass es eine nicht umweltbelastende Landwirtschaft nicht geben kann, entwirft Haber das Leitbild einer multifunktionalen Landwirtschaft – mit einer differenzierten Boden- und Landnutzung, die den Zielen der Erzeugung hochwertiger und sicherer Nahrung ebenso verpflichtet ist wie der Erhaltung der landlichen Kulturlandschaft und ihrer vielfaltigen Biotope. In einem Spannungsbogen vom Beginn der Landwirtschaft im Neolithikum bis hin zur heutigen staatlich gelenkten Agrarindustrie zeichnet er Entwicklungen und Prozesse nach, die unsere heutige Kulturlandschaft geformt haben und analysiert deren Einfluss auf Nachhaltigkeit der Landnutzung, biologische Vielfalt und Leistungsfahigkeit der Okosysteme von Ackerland, Grunland und Sonderkulturen wie Obst- und Weinbau. Zahlreiche Fallbeispiele aus Deutschland, Osterreich und der Schweiz sowie eine Vielzahl von aktuellen Daten runden das Werk ab und liefern wertvolles Material fur eine sachliche Auseinandersetzung mit einem Thema, welches vollig zu Recht immer starker in den offentlichen Diskurs Eingang findet.
Der HPLC-Schrauber
Probe ins Gerat stellen, Knopf drucken, Ergebnis erhalten – so reibungslos verlauft der Laboralltag mit HPLC-Geraten selten. Oft sind es Kleinigkeiten, die zu Storungen fuhren, und nicht immer muss der Kundendienst sofort bestellt werden. Wer wei?, an welchen Teilen geschraubt werden darf und an welchen nicht, kann kleine Probleme selbst beheben – leicht, schnell, ohne gro?en Kostenaufwand. Mit dem gesammelten Wissen aus drei?ig Jahren Serviceerfahrung fuhrt der HPLCSchrauber den Anwender an Aufbau und Funktionsweise seines Gerates heran und verzichtet dabei bewusst auf theoretischen Ballast. Stattdessen zeigen wertvolle Hinweise, die so nicht in den Handbuchern der Hersteller zu fi nden sind, wie man Fehlerquellen aufdeckt und beseitigt. Aus der Praxis fur die Praxis – fur alle Schrauberinnen und Schrauber, die gern selbst zum Werkzeug greifen, wenn das HPLC-Gerat mal wieder nicht so funktioniert, wie es soll.
Fusion Plasma Physics
This revised and enlarged second edition of the popular textbook and reference contains comprehensive treatments of both the established foundations of magnetic fusion plasma physics and of the newly developing areas of active research. It concludes with a look ahead to fusion power reactors of the future. The well-established topics of fusion plasma physics – basic plasma phenomena, Coulomb scattering, drifts of charged particles in magnetic and electric fields, plasma confinement by magnetic fields, kinetic and fluid collective plasma theories, plasma equilibria and flux surface geometry, plasma waves and instabilities, classical and neoclassical transport, plasma-materials interactions, radiation, etc. – are fully developed from first principles through to the computational models employed in modern plasma physics. The new and emerging topics of fusion plasma physics research – fluctuation-driven plasma transport and gyrokinetic/gyrofluid computational methodology, the physics of the divertor, neutral atom recycling and transport, impurity ion transport, the physics of the plasma edge (diffusive and non-diffusive transport, MARFEs, ELMs, the L-H transition, thermal-radiative instabilities, shear suppression of transport, velocity spin-up), etc. – are comprehensively developed and related to the experimental evidence. Operational limits on the performance of future fusion reactors are developed from plasma physics and engineering constraints, and conceptual designs of future fusion power reactors are discussed.
Bewusst oder unbewusst?
What is consciousness? This is the main question asked by the author, Prof Schuster, a specialist in complex adaptive systems and evolution models. From a natural scientific viewpoint he seeks answers to such questions as: How does this process work? How is our consciousness functionally organized as an evolutionary control process? And what is the difference between us and animals? Based on the hypothesis that human consciousness mainly has large evolutionary benefits in social behavior, this book investigates in a fascinating way the anatomical fundamentals, the development of conscious thought in the course of evolution, the creation of the self-image, empathy and language. Further, the possible dangers of artificial consciousness are discussed, a threat posed, for example, by even more intelligent computers.