Pay, Politics and Economic Performance in Ireland, 1970-87
by Niamh Hardiman
This book illuminates the central aspects of Ireland's experience with collective bargaining during the 1970s and 1980s. Hardiman explores the reasons for the agreements, their function, and their consequences for all concerned, providing an important contribution to the general literature on the political economy of wage regulation.
Outline of Genetics (Schaum's Outlines)
by Emeritus Professor William Stansfield
The text brings together the evidence for the fundamental significance of ultradian rhythms at all levels of organization. In lower eukaryotes, short-period rhythms (30-70 minutes) are coupled to an ultradian clock which serves as a central time-keeper. In metazoans, similar rhythms are necessary for inter-cell communication, and temporal coupling for the co-ordination of integrated functions of tissues and organs in order to provide the "homodynamics" of the whole organism. Electrical, endocrin...
Genes and the Environment in Obesity
his publication pulls together work from more than a dozen leading obesity, energetics, and nutrition researchers working on genetic and genomic aspects of obesity. Their contributions present the latest findings from randomized controlled trials and other ongoing investigations, and direct our focus toward future genetics and epigenetic targets in our struggle with the obesity epidemic in the USA and across the globe. The topics considered range from ancestral admixture to assortative mating, f...
Nucleic Acid Nanotechnology (Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology, #29)
This volume on nucleic acid nanotechnology offers authoritative, up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of nanotechnological studies and applications of nucleic acids. It provides reviews of various aspects of nucleic acid nanotechnology, each written by an internationally leading expert in the field, and presents state-of-the-art and recent advances in nucleic acid synthetic modifications, nanoscale design, manipulation and current and future applications in bioengineering, medicine, electronics...
Human Cloning
Is human cloning a science fiction nightmare come true? Or is it a practical avenue toward beneficial new medical treatments and techniques? In this concise volume, experts on all sides of the debate make arguments for why we should either pursue, regulate, or ban the cloning of human beings. From this collection, readers will gain a clearer picture of the history of cloning in agriculture and animal science, the various biological procedures that are encompassed by the term "cloning," the p...
The comprehemsive Demystified book on genetics, covering DNA, heredity, mutations, disease, evolution, and including discussion on the Human Genome Project and evolution.Genetics Demystified will be an up-to-date and readable explanation of the basic principles of genetics, providing a solid grounding in the topics generally included in introductory genetics classes in universities, colleges, and secondary schools.
To Test or Not to Test
by Doris Teichler-Zallen and Professor Doris Teichler Zallen
Tests are a standard part of modern medicine. We willingly screen our blood, urine, vision, and hearing, and submit to a host of other exams with names so complicated that we can only refer to them by their initials: PET, ECG, CT, and MRI. Genetic tests of our risks for disease are the latest trend in medicine, touted as an approach to informed and targeted treatment. They offer hope for some, but also raise medical, ethical, and psychological concerns for many including when genetic information...
This book explores the prospects for political consensus in Ireland and asks why it has proved so hard to achieve. It offers historical, legal, sociological and political approaches to the issue and examines the consequences of political initiatives and constitutional changes over the last 15 years in Northern Ireland. Included are a major survey of interpretations of the Northern Ireland problem, essays on the communities' perceptions of the conflict and its possible resolution, analysis of the...
The impetus for this book arose out of my previous book, The Evolution of Life Histories (Roff, 1992). In that book I presented a single chapter on quanti tative genetic theory. However, as the book was concerned with the evolution of life histories and traits connected to this, the presence of quantitative genetic variation was an underlying theme throughout. Much of the focus was placed on optimality theory, for it is this approach that has proven to be extremely successful in the analysis of...
Human Mitochondrial DNA and the Evolution of Homo Sapiens (Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology, #18)
Mitochondrial DNA is one of the most closely explored genetic systems, because it can tell us so much about the human past. This book takes a unique perspective, presenting the disparate strands that must be tied together to exploit this system. From molecular biology to anthropology, statistics to ancient DNA, this first volume of three presents a comprehensive global picture and a critical appraisal of human mitochondrial DNA variation.
Die Biologie erlebt zurzeit die groesste Revolution seit 30 Jahren. Der Ausloeser: die molekulare Schere CRIPSR/Cas. Mit ihr ist es moeglich, einfach und effizient die genetische Information eines Organismus zu verandern. Das hat weitreichende Konsequenzen fur unser aller Leben. In der Landwirtschaft wie in der Medizin werden Dinge machbar, die vor wenigen Jahren noch fur unmoeglich erachtet wurden: Weizen und Tomaten, die resistent gegen Mehltaubefall sind, und Patienten, die nun die Aussicht h...
Problems of Bioethics (Theologisch-Philosophische Beitrage Zu Gegenwartsfragen, #12) (Theologisch-Philosophische Beitraege Zu Gegenwartsfragen, #12)
by Lukas Ohly
Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA
by Frederic Lawrence Holmes
In 1957 two young scientists, Matthew Meselson and Frank Stahl, produced a landmark experiment confirming that DNA replicates as predicted by the double helix structure Watson and Crick had recently proposed. It also gained immediate renown as a "most beautiful" experiment whose beauty was tied to its simplicity. Yet the investigative path that led to the experiment was anything but simple, Frederic L. Holmes shows in this masterful account of Meselson and Stahl's quest. This book vividly recon...
Forensic DNA Analysis
Forensic DNA Analysis: Technological Development and Innovative Applications provides a fascinating overview of new and innovative technologies and current applications in forensic genetics. Edited by two forensic experts with many years of forensic crime experience with the Italian police and with prestigious academic universities, the volume takes an interdisciplinary perspective, the volume presents an introduction to genome polymorphisms, discusses, forensic genetic markers, presents a varie...
This book explores the way in which speciation occurs and the theory behind why it occurs. The Genetics of Speciation offers an overview of how molecular techniques and methods of analysis are being used today to investigate the important issues of speciation in new and exciting ways. The book is designed for the advanced undergraduate student or researcher who is interested in evolutionary topics and who wishes to study speciation in more depth. It highlights the important questions being addre...
Mitochondrial Diseases (Life Science Research Fundamentals)
Genome analysis has been the single most significant advance in biomedicine in the last decade. A complete mapping of the genomes of selected model organisms should revolutionize our understanding of biology. Major developments are anticipated that will impact on the diagnosis and treatment of human disease. This short guide to the discipline provides a step-by-step outline of the techniques of gene mapping. It should be useful to students of molecular genetics, and to researchers seeking to use...
Under the leadership of Dr. Jeffrey C. Hall and Dr. Jay C. Dunlap, Advances in Genetics covers all genetic systems-from prokaryotic to human-with an eye toward identifying emerging problems as they coalesce. Volumes present both synoptic and topical reviews in a comprehensible, informative, and insightful manner. Articles range from detailed and discursive to brief and sharply focused, as benefits the problem under study. Founded in 1946 by Dr. Miloslav Demerc, this serial publication continues...
The Genetic Basis of Human Cancer
by Bert Vogelstein and Kenneth W Kinzler