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Bioimage Data Analysis Workflows ‒ Advanced Components and Methods
This open access textbook aims at providing detailed explanations on how to design and construct image analysis workflows to successfully conduct bioimage analysis. Addressing the main challenges in image data analysis, where acquisition by powerful imaging devices results in very large amounts of collected image data, the book discusses techniques relying on batch and GPU programming, as w…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-76394-7
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- Learning Materials in Biosciences
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- X, 212
Bioimage Data Analysis Workflows ‒ Advanced Components and Methods
This open access textbook aims at providing detailed explanations on how to design and construct image analysis workflows to successfully conduct bioimage analysis. Addressing the main challenges in image data analysis, where acquisition by powerful imaging devices results in very large amounts of collected image data, the book discusses techniques relying on batch and GPU programming, as w…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-76394-7
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Learning Materials in Biosciences
- Call Number
- X, 212
Organization in Biology
This open access book assesses the prospects of (re)adopting organization as a pivotal concept in biology. It shows how organization can nourish biological thinking and practice, by reconnecting with the idea of biology as the science of organized systems. The book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art picture of the characterizations and uses of the concept of organization in both biologic…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-38968-9
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- VIII, 333
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Vivarium :experimental, quantitative, and theoretical biology at Vienna's Bio…
The scientific achievements and forgotten legacy of a major Austrian research institute, from its founding in 1902 to its wartime destruction in 1945.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262342049
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- 1 online resource.
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Trees of the brain, roots of the mind
"The human brain is often described as the most complex object in the universe. Tens of billions of nerve cells-tiny tree-like structures--make up a massive network with enormous computational power. In this book, Giorgio Ascoli reveals another aspect of the human brain: the stunning beauty of its cellular form. Doing so, he makes a provocative claim about the mind-brain relationship. If each n…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262329026
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages) :illustrations
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Tourism and Conservation-based Development in the Periphery
This open access book applies a social ecological systems (SES) lens to conservation-based development in Patagonia, bringing together authors with historical, contemporary, and future-oriented perspectives in order to increase understanding of the social and environmental implications of nature-based tourism and other forms of conservation-based territorial development. By focusing on Patagoni…
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- 978-3-031-38047-1
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- XXXIV, 468
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Sex in Cetaceans
Sex in Cetaceans provides an up-to-date review of multi-faceted aspects related to mating and reproduction in toothed and baleen whales. This open access book begins with discussions of sexual selection and anatomical traits related to mating and diversity between the sexes. The functions of non-conceptive copulations are reviewed as are different research techniques applied to explore sex in c…
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- 978-3-031-35650-6
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- IX, 619
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Umami
This Open Access book covers the concept of umami, the unique taste imparted by the amino acid glutamate, was first described in 1908 by Dr. Kikunae Ikeda of Tokyo University. Over the past century, hundreds of studies have explored the mechanistic underpinnings of the taste, leading to the characterization of the umami taste receptor in 2002. How this fifth basic taste figures into nutrition a…
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- 978-3-031-32691-2
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- XIII, 198
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Ecosystem Restoration through Managing Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes…
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…
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- 978-981-99-1291-9
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- XXII, 288
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Rangeland Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
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…
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- 978-3-031-34036-9
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- XI, 1023
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