This open access book is a compilation of case studies that provide useful knowledge and lessons that derive from on-the-ground activities and contribute to policy recommendations, focusing on the relevance of social-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS) to ecosystem restoration. Building on the concept of SEPLS, the Satoyama Initiative promotes landscape approaches as integrat…
This open access book reviews the importance of ecological functioning within rangelands considering the complex inter-relationships of production agriculture, ecosystem services, biodiversity, and wildlife habitat. More than half of all lands worldwide, and up to 70% of the western USA, are classified as rangelands—uncultivated lands that often support grazing by domestic livestock. Th…
Outgrowth of a meeting of the "Altenberg 16" at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Altenberg, Austria, in July 2008. Cf. pref.In this volume, 16 leading evolutionary biologists and philosophers of science survey the conceptual changes that have emerged since Huxley's landmark publication, not only in such traditional domains of evolutionary biology as quantitati…
The field of Artificial life (ALife) is now firmly established in the scientific world, but it has yet to achieve one of its original goals: an understanding of the emergence of life on Earth. The new field of artificial chemistries draws from chemistry, biology, computer science, mathematics, and other disciplines to work toward that goal. For if, as it has been argued, life emerged from pirmi…
Over the past few years, computer modeling has become more prevalent in the clinical sciences as an alternative to traditional symbol-processing models. This book provides an introduction to the neural network modeling of complex cognitive and neuropsychological processes. It is intended to make the neural network approach accessible to practicing neuropsychologists, psychologists, neurologists…
As exciting as the new field of genomics is, it has not yet produced a basic conceptual change in biology. The fundamental problems remain: the origin of life, cell organization, the pathways of differentiation, aging, and the molecular and cellular capabilities of the brain. What has occurred is an explosion of molecular information obtained by genomic sequences, which will soon be followed by…
Hubungan mikroba dengan semua bentuk kehidupan dapat berupa kehidupan bebas, simbiosis, atau patogenik. Manusia memiliki sel mikroba 10 kali lebih banyak daripada sel mereka sendiri. Bakteri ditemukan di permukaan kulit, di usus, dan bagian tubuh lainnya. Bakteri penyebab penyakit adalah yang paling mengkhawatirkan. Sebagian besar penyakit menular disebabkan oleh bakteri patogen yang memiliki k…
In this engaging, even lyrical, book, Jan Lauwereyns examines the neural underpinnings of decision-making, using 'bias' as his core concept rather than the more common but noncommittal terms 'selection' and 'attention'.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This text features investigations into the relationship between organism and artifacts from the perspective of functionality.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
'Information and Living Systems' offers a collection of papers in which scientists & philosophers discuss the informational nature of biological organization at levels ranging from the genetic to the cognitive and linguistic.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.