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Metabolomics

Practical Guide to Design and Analysis

Bewerkt door Ron Wehrens, Reza Salek ...

Serie series Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Biology Series
Metabolomics is the scientific study of the chemical processes in a living system, environment and nutrition. It is a relatively new omics science, but the potential applications are wide, including medicine, personalized medicine and intervention studies, food and nutrition, plants, agriculture and environmental science. The topics presented and discussed in this book are based on the European ... Meer lezen

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Metabolomics is the scientific study of the chemical processes in a living system, environment and nutrition. It is a relatively new omics science, but the potential applications are wide, including medicine, personalized medicine and intervention studies, food and nutrition, plants, agriculture and environmental science. The topics presented and discussed in this book are based on the European
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The Demon-Haunted World

Science as a Candle in the Dark

door Carl Sagan ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the renowned astronomer and author of Cosmos comes a “powerful [and] stirring defense of informed rationality” (The Washington Post Book World) in a world where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace.LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER • “Glorious . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to ... Meer lezen

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The Art of Explanation

How to Communicate with Clarity and Confidence

door Ros Atkins ...

**From BBC presenter and journalist Ros Atkins, creator of the viral 'Ros Atkins on...' explainer videos and host of the forthcoming BBC Radio 4 podcast 'Communicating with Ros Atkins'**'A great read for polishing your communication skills' FORBES'For all those who want their audiences to listen and understand' JEREMY BOWEN'Precision, deftness and a calming expertise' THE TIMESDo you worry about ... Meer lezen

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Calling Bullshit

The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World

door Jevin D. West, Carl T. Bergstrom ...

'A necessary book for our times. But also just great fun' Saul Perlmutter, Nobel LaureateThe world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Start-up culture elevates hype to high art. These days, calling bullshit is a noble act.Based on a popular course at the University of Washington, Calling Bullshit gives us ... Meer lezen

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Bad Science

door Ben Goldacre ...

Ben Goldacre’s wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations.Since 2003 Dr Ben Goldacre has been exposing dodgy medical data in his popular Guardian column. In this eye-opening book he takes on the MMR hoax and misleading cosmetics ads, acupuncture and homeopathy ... Meer lezen

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How Innovation Works

And Why It Flourishes in Freedom

door Matt Ridley ...

Building on his national bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject.Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit, it is ... Meer lezen

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Building on his national bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject.Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit, it is
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Balistique des armes à feu de poing et d’épaule

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door Jean-Loup Pecqueux ...

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Ebola

The Natural and Human History

door David Quammen ...

In 1976 a deadly virus emerged from the Congo forest. As swiftly as it came, it disappeared, leaving no trace.Over the four decades since, Ebola has emerged sporadically, each time to devastating effect. It can kill up to 90% of its victims. In between these outbreaks, it is untraceable, hiding deep in the jungle. The search is on to find Ebola’s elusive host animal. And until we find it, Ebola ... Meer lezen

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Immunity

The Science of Staying Well

door Dr Jenna Macciochi ...

Start strengthening your immunity for good.In this ground-breaking book, expert immunologist Dr Jenna Macciochi unravels the new science around immunity.Immunity decodes exactly what it takes to be well in the modern day and reveals tips and tricks you can start putting into practice immediately, including chapters on:· Immunity-nourishing nutrition and the best foods to eat· The importance of ... Meer lezen

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Start strengthening your immunity for good.In this ground-breaking book, expert immunologist Dr Jenna Macciochi unravels the new science around immunity.Immunity decodes exactly what it takes to be well in the modern day and reveals tips and tricks you can start putting into practice immediately, including chapters on:· Immunity-nourishing nutrition and the best foods to eat· The importance of
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Graphene 101 An Inventor's Guide to Making Graphene

door Robert Murray-Smith ...

Graphene is a two dimensional material consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb or chicken wire structure. It is the thinnest material known to man and yet is also one of the strongest materials there is. It conducts electricity as well as copper and is better than all other materials as a conductor of heat. Graphene is almost completely transparent, yet so dense that ... Meer lezen

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The Cancer Code

A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery

door Dr Jason Fung ...

Our understanding of cancer is slowly undergoing a revolution, allowing for the development of more effective treatments. For the first time ever, the death rate from cancer is showing a steady decline … but the ‘War on Cancer’ has hardly been won.In The Cancer Code, Dr Jason Fung offers a revolutionary new understanding of this invasive, often fatal disease – what it is, how it manifests and why ... Meer lezen

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The Wuhan Cover-Up

And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race

door Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ...

Serie series Children’s Health Defense
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Heart Rate Variability

Science and Strategies for Peak Performance

door Sylvain Laborde, Marco Altini, Emma Mosley, Dan Plews ...

Understand heart rate variability and its role in athletic performance.Heart rate variability (HRV) is a valuable tool used to assess cardiac function, evaluate mental and emotional well-being, and—when used by athletes and coaches—optimize training based on each athlete’s unique data.Written by a world-renowned author team, Heart Rate Variability: Science and Strategies for Peak Performance ... Meer lezen

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Understand heart rate variability and its role in athletic performance.Heart rate variability (HRV) is a valuable tool used to assess cardiac function, evaluate mental and emotional well-being, and—when used by athletes and coaches—optimize training based on each athlete’s unique data.Written by a world-renowned author team, Heart Rate Variability: Science and Strategies for Peak Performance
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À l’école de la biologie

door Claude Lafon ...

Dans un monde où la biologie révolutionne la médecine et les biotechnologies, des innovations comme la thérapie génique, la fécondation in vitro, les OGM ou encore le clonage soulèvent des questions éthiques cruciales. Pourtant, ces débats sont trop souvent obscurcis par un manque de culture scientifique et l’héritage de tabous idéologiques persistants. Cet ouvrage, à la fois accessible et ... Meer lezen

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Dans un monde où la biologie révolutionne la médecine et les biotechnologies, des innovations comme la thérapie génique, la fécondation in vitro, les OGM ou encore le clonage soulèvent des questions éthiques cruciales. Pourtant, ces débats sont trop souvent obscurcis par un manque de culture scientifique et l’héritage de tabous idéologiques persistants. Cet ouvrage, à la fois accessible et
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Petrified Embryology Volume 2: The Frozen Baby Dinosaurs - Acrocanthosaurus atokensis

door CheeEng Goo ...

"The Frozen Baby Dinosaur", is a series of scientific research that study of prehistoric dinosaur embryo through searching of mummified specimens. Each series discuss one specimen of dinosaur embryo with high resolution graphic attachment. Throughout this article, you will see a lot of extraordinary well-preserved baby dinosaurs that should be rotten away long before human being is evolve. Yes, ... Meer lezen

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"The Frozen Baby Dinosaur", is a series of scientific research that study of prehistoric dinosaur embryo through searching of mummified specimens. Each series discuss one specimen of dinosaur embryo with high resolution graphic attachment. Throughout this article, you will see a lot of extraordinary well-preserved baby dinosaurs that should be rotten away long before human being is evolve. Yes,
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Fundamental

How quantum and particle physics explain absolutely everything (except gravity)

door Tim James ...

Fundamental does for physics what Tim's first book, Elemental, does for chemistry: it demystifies the topic in his trademark humorous, engaging style, including the most recent developments in the field.At the start of the twentieth century, science appeared complete and the laws of nature were almost all discovered, but then we woke a sleeping giant - we discovered quantum mechanics.In the ... Meer lezen

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Fundamental does for physics what Tim's first book, Elemental, does for chemistry: it demystifies the topic in his trademark humorous, engaging style, including the most recent developments in the field.At the start of the twentieth century, science appeared complete and the laws of nature were almost all discovered, but then we woke a sleeping giant - we discovered quantum mechanics.In the
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Accidental Medical Discoveries

How Tenacity and Pure Dumb Luck Changed the World

door Robert W. Winters ...

Many of the world’s most important and life-saving devices and techniques were often discovered purely by accident. Serendipity, timing, and luck played a part in the discovery of unintentional cures and breakthroughs:A plastic shard in an RAF pilot’s eye leads to the use of plastic for contact lenses.The inability to remove a titanium chamber from rabbit’s bone leads to dental implants.Viagra was ... Meer lezen

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Many of the world’s most important and life-saving devices and techniques were often discovered purely by accident. Serendipity, timing, and luck played a part in the discovery of unintentional cures and breakthroughs:A plastic shard in an RAF pilot’s eye leads to the use of plastic for contact lenses.The inability to remove a titanium chamber from rabbit’s bone leads to dental implants.Viagra was
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Fermat's Enigma

The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

door Simon Singh ...

xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution"I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet to future generations. What came to be known as Fermat's Last Theorem looked simple; proving it, however, became the Holy ... Meer lezen

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xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution"I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet to future generations. What came to be known as Fermat's Last Theorem looked simple; proving it, however, became the Holy
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Fundamentals of Neuromechanics

door Francisco J. Valero-Cuevas ...

Serie series Engineering (R0)
This book provides a conceptual and computational framework to study how the nervous system exploits the anatomical properties of limbs to produce mechanical function. The study of the neural control of limbs has historically emphasized the use of optimization to find solutions to the muscle redundancy problem. That is, how does the nervous system select a specific muscle coordination pattern when ... Meer lezen

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This book provides a conceptual and computational framework to study how the nervous system exploits the anatomical properties of limbs to produce mechanical function. The study of the neural control of limbs has historically emphasized the use of optimization to find solutions to the muscle redundancy problem. That is, how does the nervous system select a specific muscle coordination pattern when
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The Knowledge Machine

How Irrationality Created Modern Science

door Michael Strevens ...

A paradigm-shifting, widely acclaimed work for our generation, The Knowledge Machine revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science.Michael Strevens’s “provocative and fascinating” (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times) investigation of science asks two fundamental questions: Why is science so powerful? And why did it take so long for the human race to start using science to ... Meer lezen

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A paradigm-shifting, widely acclaimed work for our generation, The Knowledge Machine revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science.Michael Strevens’s “provocative and fascinating” (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times) investigation of science asks two fundamental questions: Why is science so powerful? And why did it take so long for the human race to start using science to
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Brilliant Blunders

From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe

door Mario Livio ...

Drawing on the lives of five great scientists, this “scholarly, insightful, and beautifully written book” (Martin Rees, author of From Here to Infinity) illuminates the path to scientific discovery.Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein all made groundbreaking contributions to their fields—but each also stumbled badly. Darwin’s theory of ... Meer lezen

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Drawing on the lives of five great scientists, this “scholarly, insightful, and beautifully written book” (Martin Rees, author of From Here to Infinity) illuminates the path to scientific discovery.Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein all made groundbreaking contributions to their fields—but each also stumbled badly. Darwin’s theory of
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Advice for a Young Investigator

door Santiago Ramon Y Cajal ...

Vertaald door Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson ...

An anecdotal guide for the perplexed new investigator as well as a refreshing resource for the old pro, covering everything from valuable personality traits for an investigator to social factors conducive to scientific work.Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a mythic figure in science. Hailed as the father of modern anatomy and neurobiology, he was largely responsible for the modern conception of the ... Meer lezen

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An anecdotal guide for the perplexed new investigator as well as a refreshing resource for the old pro, covering everything from valuable personality traits for an investigator to social factors conducive to scientific work.Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a mythic figure in science. Hailed as the father of modern anatomy and neurobiology, he was largely responsible for the modern conception of the
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Smoke & Mirrors

How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It

door Gemma Milne ...

'Stop following the news until you've read Gemma Milne's persuasive analysis of the hype and bullshit that distort our understanding of emerging science. As she shows, the starting point to grasping the genuine opportunities of AI, life sciences and climate tech is a healthy dose of critical thinking'David Rowan, founding editor of WIRED UK and author of Non-Bullshit Innovation: Radical Ideas from ... Meer lezen

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'Stop following the news until you've read Gemma Milne's persuasive analysis of the hype and bullshit that distort our understanding of emerging science. As she shows, the starting point to grasping the genuine opportunities of AI, life sciences and climate tech is a healthy dose of critical thinking'David Rowan, founding editor of WIRED UK and author of Non-Bullshit Innovation: Radical Ideas from
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Iniciação científica

aspectos históricos, organizacionais e formativos da atividade no ensino superior brasileiro

door Luciana Massi, Salete Linhares Queiroz ...

"A iniciação científica (IC) pode ser entendida sob duas perspectivas dentro do ensino superior. Na primeira, é um processo que abarca todas as experiências vivenciadas pelo aluno durante a graduação, com o objetivo de promover o seu envolvimento com a pesquisa e, consequentemente, sua formação científica, incluindo programas de treinamento, desenvolvimento de estudos sobre a metodologia ... Meer lezen

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"A iniciação científica (IC) pode ser entendida sob duas perspectivas dentro do ensino superior. Na primeira, é um processo que abarca todas as experiências vivenciadas pelo aluno durante a graduação, com o objetivo de promover o seu envolvimento com a pesquisa e, consequentemente, sua formação científica, incluindo programas de treinamento, desenvolvimento de estudos sobre a metodologia
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eBooks in de categorie Methodologie

Metabolomics

The Demon-Haunted World

The Art of Explanation

Calling Bullshit

Bad Science

How Innovation Works

Balistique des armes à feu de poing et d’épaule

Ebola

Immunity

Graphene 101 An Inventor's Guide to Making Graphene

The Cancer Code

The Wuhan Cover-Up

Heart Rate Variability

À l’école de la biologie

Petrified Embryology Volume 2: The Frozen Baby Dinosaurs - Acrocanthosaurus atokensis

Fundamental

Accidental Medical Discoveries

Fermat's Enigma

Fundamentals of Neuromechanics

The Knowledge Machine

Brilliant Blunders

Advice for a Young Investigator

Smoke & Mirrors

Iniciação científica