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The fundamental principles that explain the heretofore mysterious phenomena of consciousness are: (1) Consciousness is energies of the environment, and energies developed in intrafusal muscle spindles are conscious experience, and (2) the experience occurring as the developed energies, depending on purpose and intensity, are detected by muscle receptors. The conscious experience occurs as perception (the experience of the environment), imagery (imagination,...
63) Bio Lab Basics
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A bio lab might be host to a number of dangerous lifeforms and substances, including diseases and other biological threats. Even when it is not, good sanitation and a thorough understand of lab safety is an essential part of keeping the lab in good working order. For a new biology student, getting the right understanding of lab safety procedures is something that can make a huge difference to how smoothly they work in the lab and how they can protect...
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This is a hands-on, practical guide covering seedling screening for disease response in oil palm for pathology, breeding and genetics. Oil palm is the top oil crop in the world and Ganoderma is the most devastating disease of oil palm. The authors are all actively engaged in oil palm seed production and breeding and bring together the many aspects of seedling disease testing in to one integrated manual.
Presenting sound practices based on scientific...
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"Neuron" is a part of the college-level Principles of Biology course series and the Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the anatomy and physiology of the neurons in the brain.
It is a study guide with in-depth explanations. Each section is a modular unit that is self-contained for easy reading. The principles and concepts are introduced systematically so students can...
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One could think of The Mineral Eaters as a mosaic of the information in other books that separately portray the evolutions of the universe, the planet, life, and our species.
Early on, the book brings attention to major mysteries. The first of them is the formation of a universe seed from the seeming emptiness that is something other than the universe. The book suggests that the non-universe existence is the 'God' of religionists, the 'Absolute'...
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Lección magistral leída en el solemne acto de apertura del curso 2017-2018. Santiago Mas-Coma, director de la Unidad de Parasitología Sanitaria (Centro Colaborador de la OMS) y catedrático del Departamento de Farmacia, Tecnología Farmacéutica y Parasitología de la Facultad de Farmacia de la Universitat de València, ha sido el encargado de la lección magistral leída en el solemne acto de apertura del curso 2017-2018 bajo el título «Enfermedades...
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An ancient animal whose ancestors have roamed the earth since the time of the dinosaurs, the crocodile has survived continental drift, ice ages and the loss of once-prolific species. Today, the Australian saltie, the Chinese alligator, the Indian gharial and the black caiman are just some of the twenty-three species of crocodilian descendants found across the world. Human interaction with these dangerous yet intriguing animals has been reflected...
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The "Encyclopedia of Scientific and Technic.al Terms", the first of its kind in India, aims at being of service to Science, Engineering and Biological students. This set includes 14 volumes and covers commonly encountered terms in Science, Biology, Mathematics, Computer, Earth sciences and Engineering Sciences. An effort has been made- to bring together in the various volumes not only commonly used terms but also the more specialized and less frequently...
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Nervous System" is a part of the college-level Principles of Biology course series and the Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system, including the brain and spinal cord.
It is a study guide with in-depth explanations. Each section is a modular unit that is self-contained for easy reading. The principles and concepts are introduced...
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Clear and penetrating presentation of the basic principles of scientific research from the great French physiologist whose contributions in the 19th century included the discovery of vasomotor nerves; nature of curare and other poisons in human body; functions of pancreatic juice in digestion; elucidation of glycogenic function of the liver.
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Known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his impassioned defense of evolutionary theory, Huxley published this, his most famous book, just a few years after Darwin's The Origin of Species. Unlike Origin, this book focuses on human ancestry and offers a concise, nontechnical survey of mid-19th-century knowledge about primate and human paleontology and ethology.
74) Stolen Rain
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Two centuries of World deforestation have warmed cleared coastal soils that stole the rain, once borrowed by their trees, to further wet their land and raise their run-off. Roads and roofs and runways have sealed more land and drained more stolen rain into our rising seas. Rain stolen from our lowest inland falls so even less is left to feed our inland rivers as they dry.
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La verdadera historia de cómo nuestro cerebro y nuestro sistema nervioso cambian a lo largo de nuestra vida, con o sin "entrenamiento cerebral".
Hace cincuenta años, los neurocientíficos pensaban que un cerebro maduro era algo fijo como una mosca atrapada en ámbar, incapaz de cambiar. Hoy sabemos que nuestro cerebro y nuestro sistema nervioso cambian a lo largo de nuestra vida. Este concepto de neuroplasticidad ha capturado la imaginación de...
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On a back road in Saranac Lake, New York, is Petrova Avenue, where a small rock shop owned by the Bristol family was located. As a young boy, I remember going to that rock shop every summer when my family traveled to visit my grandparents in Lake Placid. That rock shop had treasures, lots of treasures. There were fossils that were millions of years old and geodes that you could buy and have cut open. The geodes were my favorite. It would take half...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 We had a very ancient ancestor that was very similar to a modern-day amphioxus. They inhabited the oceans about 550 million years ago. They had no brains, but they had senses like yours and could sense changes in light.
#2 The emergence of predators during the Cambrian period transformed the planet into a more competitive and dangerous place. Creatures that could...
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"Scientific Methods" is a part of the college-level Principles of Biology course series and the Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the methods for investigating and studying biological and natural science.
It is a study guide with in-depth explanations. Each section is a modular unit that is self-contained for easy reading. The principles and concepts are introduced...
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This is a hands-on practical guide to the use of Trichoderma as a biocontrol, as part of sustainable disease control measures for Ganoderma disease in oil palm plantations. The manual provides background information on Ganoderma (basal stem rot), the most devastating disease of oil palm in Southeast Asia, as well as on the benefits of Trichoderma fungi in safe guarding yields. The disease is caused by soil-borne fungi, Ganoderma spp, which are found...
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Michael C. Corballis (1936–2021) was professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Auckland. His books include The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization (Princeton) and A Very Short Tour of the Mind: 21 Short Walks around the Human Brain.
A groundbreaking theory of how language arose from primate gestures
It is often said that speech is what distinguishes us from other animals. But are we all talk? What...
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